Archive for ‘politics’
Bryan Fischer will use any source, even students, if it promotes the hate.
Never mind the Iraq debacle or the governor’s slush fund, good bad ole Bryan Fischer is all atwitter over the latest misuse of tax dollars: transgendered bathrooms at Boise State University! Yep, right here on our hometown campus: state-funded sexual perversity! “Yes, BSU is planning to use public dollars to build restrooms reserved [...]
BYU Dems more active than BSU’s.
Last week, 400 (by their count) BYU students protested the selection of Dick Cheney to be their commencement speaker. They have a very active website and organization, apparently. In comparison, where the heck are the BSU College Democrats? There were conspicuously absent when the College Republicans threw their insulting and infantile anti-immigration [...]
Legislature to Boise: Screw you, city dwellin’ Democrats.
Wow, so public transportation unfairly benefits the more urban areas, so we should shoot that down, and this section of I-84 is in a democratic district, so that’s a no-go, too. Forward thinkers, these republicans.
From Eye on Boise:
House GOP leaders pulled one of the six highway projects – the Orchard to Isaacs Canyon project [...]
Can’t wait to hear what Sali and Swindell have to say about THIS!
There’s a renewed effort afoot to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, which would - gasp - enshrine gender equality in the constitution. First introduced in the 1920’s (!), it passed 35 states in the 1980’s before it was killed by schmucks like Phyllis Schlafley.
Corporate media consolidation, free speech and internet radio.
Have you heard? The organization in charge of setting royalty rates for broadcasting music online raised them so high that a great many internet radio stations will be put out of business. Guess who will be left standing? Big, corporate stations who can afford the fees. Sound familiar? Bigass corporations [...]
In Boise, who cares about affordable housing?
In Boise, you’ve got your advocates for the rivers, for human rights, for immigrants, for health care, against nukes. But who advocates for affordable housing and the housing needs of the poor - or even moderate-income Idahoans?
Today’s article on condo conversions in the Statesman makes this plain. Apparently, in the 12 month period [...]
Christian Parenti @ BSU on March 1
Nation correspondent and author Christian Parenti will talk about what is happening in Afghanistan and Iraq - and more importantly - why.
7 pm in the Jordan Ballroom A/B in the Student Union at BSU. Free.
photos from the march on washington
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln
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> bush and condi kiss | another view
> red sculpture puppet thing
> bush, cheney puppet [...]
craig, crapo: no minimum wage required
bob geiger has a roundup of senators who voted for the Wayne Allard (R-CO) amendment to COMPLETELY ELIMINATE THE MINIMUM WAGE. it failed, but both Craig and Crapo signed it. now, i’m all for libertarian perspectives, but seriously, how can they justify billions of dollars of corporate tax subsidies, and billions of dollars [...]
otter: against wolves, for marijuana
google is great. in an article in Reason Magazine, circa 1978, butch muses:
“if a person, of his own free will, wants to use marijuana, I question whether the government has any propriety in telling him he can’t.†By limiting freedom, he said, “the government, in effect, is taking away the only real gift the [...]
Branden Durst marches with extremists
Newly minted representative Branden Durst (D-18) was at the so-called March for Life this month. Yet Rep Durst chose not to mention that on his website, blog or newsletter (I picked it up from a right-to-lifer’s poorly formatted blatherings). Could it be because he recognizes that his constituency would howl if they found out? Okay, I’ll [...]
“It also didn’t hurt that I married Mr. Simplot’s daughter”
Betsy Russell, of Eye on Boise, caught this admission by Gov. Butchy-Boy Otter.
“I wouldn’t have been able to get into a college any place because I didn’t have very good grades,” Otter said. “But at Boise Junior College they had to take me.” Boise Junior College is now Boise State University.
Otter said the chance to [...]
Cost of Iraq war = Universal health care, preschool and immunizations + cancer research + 9/11 Commission recommendations
The NY Times has a nifty graphic illustrating what the price of the war in Iraq could buy (besides, you know, body bags).
Mad Bronco syndrome.
When will it stop? Congress has got Bronco Fever, as does the Postal Service. Just once I’d like to see someone go nutty for, say, the BSU accounting department.
Rev. Jesse Jackson Speaks in Boise
his keynote address @ Boise State’s MLK Celebration
7:30 p.m. Wed. Jan. 17. Taco Bell Arena
Jesse Jackson is one of the United States’ foremost civil rights, religious and political figures. During the past 40 years he has played a pivotal role in countless movements. His speech is titled “With Justice for All: Human Rights [...]
Craig on Bush’s New Iraq Plan
“President Lincoln and President Bush understand one thing very clearly. President Lincoln said, “With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.” …more
listen to larry HERE
MLK Audio & Video
today, in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr., take a few moments and listen to a few clips of his actual speeches or you can listen to his entire address “Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam” given April 30, 1967.
do not dispair the future . . . the past is [...]
mansfield on sali, new improved 20×20 tubes
Yep, but you can only make an initial first impression. Hmmm…..let’s move on to things that hit hard.
Humor is best relegated to comics, don’t you really think?
Den
ahh . . . nothing like hindsight to make things all clear and stuff:
Bill Sali does not have the quality of character required to serve Idaho voters. There are [...]
otter kills wolf, sali defies gravity
in a bad case of reverse rock-paper-scisors, newly elected Republican Gov. Butchy-Boy Otter says he’s first in line to shoot him some Wolves. yeeehhhaa! what a tough guy! someone should invite Darth Cheney on that hunt - Otter obviously needs the Harry Whittington behavioral-correction treatment.
and Bill Sali, well on the way to proving he’s [...]
