If this is true then what about this?

Exodus from an Alaskan village

Everyone in Adak is leaving. The village cannot afford to pay its gas bill, and they have been cut off. Their numbers have already been cut in half in recent years, but gas prices will force them all to leave.

I have also heard some terribly cold comments - so what, it's only 130 people? So what, it's a "newly incorporated" village - they should have known better? Palin shouldn't be responsible for their "irresponsibility."

I ask these people to look at the history of Adak - the real history. Aleut/Unungax people have lived there for thousands of years. They have prevailed through enslavement, relocation and disease during the Russian "discovery." They have prevailed during the further massive deaths after Alaska was bought by America. The Aleut people of the Aleutian chain were forcibly removed from their homes during World War II by the American government when the Japanese invaded and occupied two of the islands. They came back. They stayed after the military base shut down in the 90's, incorporated as a village to be able to stay, and they stayed through a winter of frequent blackouts.

They are finally undone by energy costs.

So what about small town values?

Full post here

http://alaskareal.blogspot.com/2008/09/exodus-from-alaskan-village.html

Republican senators won't attend their own convention in St. Paul,  Republican representatives are told it is okay to run against the party, YES the BRAND is poison.  So why hasn't this point been made on the presidential level?  Obama hinted at this with "they can win elections but they can not govern."  I am ready to say  about McCain,  Who cares about him?  
Who cares what he did, what he says, what he believes?  He is going to be, if elected, the new (irony) face on the same old failed policies, foreign and domestic.  He needs to be made  irrelevant as a candidate, the GOP's version of the  empty suit.  Each GOP candidate running this cycle is interchangeable with the other regardless of the office, be it Senate, House, or President, i.e. they are Republicans.    
Therefore it doesn't matter that McCain was a POW years ago, what matters is that he he is a Republican NOW.