I think I will start off today with some rare Alaska blogging.

Our favorite collapsing elephant is getting some celebrity support from Bob Barker.

If the Alaska Zoo sends Maggie the elephant to a sanctuary in Northern California, retired game show host Bob Barker says he'll kick in $750,000 to help take care of her.

You know I don't know where Bob Barker gets the idea that Alaskans can be bought off like this.

Oh yeah, I forgot about these guys.

In other news it seems that as a state we have not gained any weight. (Oooh look, accidental poetry!)

Alaska didn't have to loosen its belt for this year's national ranking of fat states, but neither did it trim down from what experts call epidemic rates of obesity.

The state's adults held steady with a 25.8 percent obesity rate, while 31 other states got fatter. Alaska is now ranked 16th for the percentage of adults who are obese, defined as having a body mass index reading of 30 or higher, according to the Trust for America's Health.

As every Alaskan will tell you they are starting their diet tomorrow. And this is just the "Holiday weight", or the "winter weight", or the "too busy to exercise weight", or the "I just had a baby during the holiday in the winter and am much too busy to exercise weight". It is really hard to argue against that last one.

And last, as well as least, we had an honest to goodness visit from a current Presidential candidate. That is unheard of in Alaska due our three measly electoral votes. But if loony Mike Gravel wants them then he may as well go ahead and get them. I mean really, when was the last time that our three votes had an impact on anything anyway? Besides they ALWAYS go to the Republican.

And that is the rare Immoral Minority Alaska news update for today. Fascinating wasn't it?