February 18, 2007
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Cheaters sometimes win.
I just caught the news on the local public radio station. This year’s Iron Dog snowmachine race is over. Governor Sarah Palin’s husband and his partner won, even though they violated rules by doing repair work “off the clock.”
Grrr. That’s for the judges who let the cheaters win.
Grrrrr. That’s for everyone involved, who thus expend resources and pollute the atmosphere while frightening and endangering moose, caribou, and other rightful inhabitants of the tundra. There are no emission standards for those engines, and a typical one pollutes more than hundreds of automobiles. Grrrr, again.
Comments (4)
yes, they should stick to dogs and sleds…..
Interesting!
What a shame! I only started to look at recreational vehicles that way during the past 3 years or so. I hadn’t thought of it, really, until a gf of mine (a shaman and a naturalist) made a comment about speedboats. Living right on the water, boats are more common than snowmobiles here. When I asked why, she gave a similar answer to your comment about the snowmobiles. At the place where she was living at the time, they had (have) an ATV, however, they used it for hauling things and for getting into spaces not accessible in other ways so I guess that’s different.
i hate snowmobiles…they are noisy…. too loud… noisy…did i mention that they are noisy!