Alaska Air has a nifty new paint job on one of their airplanes. At federal taxpayer expense.

Alaska. Isn't that the state where residents get a negative income tax as a result of their oil revenues? But hey, if your Senator is chairman of the Appropriations Committee, why pay for things out of your own pocket?

It is amazing what you can get when you throw government money at it. Found a picture here. They're calling it the "Salmon-thirty-Salmon".

Ah, they stole the idea...

Isn't that the state where residents get a negative income tax as a result of their oil revenues?

That's the one. A whopping ~$800 this year, after several years of over $1,000.

When my wife and I lived up there, it offset maybe two months of federal income tax for us. This year, it might have been a few weeks.

And in initially trying to post the above, I tried to use the plural of "tax" and got this error message (edited to get past the filter):

Your comment could not be submitted due to questionable content: . a x e

Why is it reading a dot where there was a T?

It's not really reading a dot, a dot is used in Regular Expressions as an "any character" You could write "t a xes, f a xes", etc, and still run into problems..

And, what I forgot to say was, it's telling you the rule that it's erroring out on, rather than the actual content that's questionable. That's why you see the ". a xe" in the violation statement.

Telling you the actual questionable content woud be too easy ;)

(no, Rand, I know it's not your fault, it's MT)

Well, I think they should paint a control tower to look like a giant grizzly bear, heh.