Okay now this jerk has gone too far!

Charlee Lockwood has never heard of Rush Limbaugh or listened to his radio program, and perhaps it's just as well.

Monday, the talk radio king told listeners that Democrats were exploiting the 18-year-old Yup'ik Eskimo, and that her emotional testimony earlier in the day in front of a U.S. House committee on global warming made him "really want to puke. I just want to throw up."

"It's the Democrats exploiting a young child, ladies and gentlemen, for the advancement of a political issue that will grow the size of government and increase their control over everyone," Limbaugh told listeners of the 600 stations nationwide that carry his show.

Lockwood didn't let Limbaugh's comments faze her. Her upbringing in the community of St. Michael included learning "about respect and treating people the way you want to be treated," Lockwood said, during a brief interview just before she got on a plane to return to her village on Alaska's west coast.

Lockwood was among 5,000 teens and young adults who descended on Washington Monday in what may have been the biggest lobbying day ever on energy and climate issues. Ten other young people from Alaska attended the event, through Alaska Youth for Environmental Action.

Lockwood, who hopes to study to be a health aide in rural Alaska, has already become something of a veteran environmental activist. She traveled to Washington, D.C., two years ago to deliver 5,000 signatures from fellow Alaska high school students who sought to draw attention to the effects of global warming in the state.

You know I am sure it is easy for the pompous, drug addled, corpulent Rush Limbaugh to pass judgement on a situation that he will never have to experience. I mean let's face it Limbaugh's trans fat soaked, cigar smoke stained, tiny little heart cannot hope to keep him upright long enough for the climate change that will affect all of our lives to impact him. He will pass from this damaged orb too soon to understand just how evil his kowtowing to the energy giants truly has been.

But for Alaskans, climate change has been a reality for many decades. They have changed how, and if, they hunt for the foods that have sustained their people for thousands of years to accommodate the diminishing food supplies and the different migration patterns, as well as the loss of sea ice which allowed them to hunt far from land.

They have had to rely on store bought food much more then in years past. Which is a huge strain on a budget that often barely covers heating expenses during our long winters.

Our native population have been tailing about he changes in their environment since the sixties. Even the scientists are behind the curve compared to our indigenous native population.

Who better to bring this issue to our politicians, then the next generation of people who will be the most affected by our continued ignorance?