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“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.” - Benjamin Franklin
The MLK you don’t see on TV
The San Francisco Bay Guardian has a great article on MLK’s activism in the years before his murder, and why you don’t hear about it. Dr. King was very vocal against the war, and was organizing a Poor People’s Campaign, creating “a multiracial army of the poor.” His words and actions are still [...]
Treasure Valley finally noticing the lack of affordable housing options.
An article in today’s Statesman reports on a meeting held yesterday where developers of high-end housing talked about the lack of affordable housing in the valley.
If you are in the market for a high-end house, you’re in luck.
If you’re in the market for a low-priced house, take a number and stand in line.
Huh. [...]
We’ve been sick.
Sorry El Vez and I (Galumphix) have been incommunicado lately - we’ve been sick. Quite sick. Okay, not Malaria-sick, but I’m pretty sure Vez hacked up a lung over the last week and a half, piece by peice. Anyhoo, I hope we’ll be better at posting - and breathing - in the next [...]
30th Street Extension proposal caters to the yuppies and promotes gentrification of one of the most diverse neighborhoods in Boise
The City of Boise and ACHD are holding public meetings on the 30th Street extension this week. The clock is clicking as there are only two days left to participate. Thursday from 9-5pm at 2201 Woodlawn and Friday from 5:30-7:30pm at Madison Elementary School located at 2215 Madison.
What exactly is the 30th Street [...]
Ada County Comp Plan public hearing tonight
Go! Tell ‘em what you think. The last time the plan was updated was 10 years ago.
Bill Sali for President!
Yesterday, Slate commentator Bruce Reed offered for the Republican presidential nod Rep. Sali, who he calls the Great Right Hope. According to Reed, the conservatives are in need of a Republican messiah, and Sali’s their man. In a massive Goldwater-style landslide loss, Sali could invigorate the conservative base left gasping after the recent [...]
ID Legislators: It’s not just that they lack vision…they’re BLIND.
The Community College Bill is dead. God forbid there’s ever a scent of taxes anywhere near a conservative Idaho legislator. The Revenue and Taxation Committee wouldn’t even let the bill - Butch Otter’s bill - to help local governments raise funds to reduce the supermajority for local taxation districts to 60% out of [...]
Canyon County Still Run By Assholes
What a suprise! Canyon County legislators are STILL against emission inspections! From the Statesman: “On one side of the divide lie Ada residents, whose cars have had to meet emission standards with annual testing since 1984. Many resent the Canyon County cars that drive into Ada County each day, untested.” “”It’s just another [...]
Plot the future of the Treasure Valley
Saturday, February 24 there will be transportation planning fair (whtever that is) at the Best Western Vista Inn, 10 AM to 5 PM, sponsored by Communities in Motion.
Lycos SUCKS: they held my emails for ransom for $19.95, then deleted them
I’ve had a Lycos mail account since 2000. In the last year or two, it became horrifically spammy and was often down, so I phased over to other email providers with better spam filters and more reliability. I also noticed that most of my earlier email was gone - the email only went back to [...]
We Love You Molly Ivins
If only Idaho had a voice as charming, insightful, thought-provoking as yours! Our thoughts are with you.
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
ART
> 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 [...]
friday: beat blogging
while others post pics of cats and other random goodies on friday . . . i’m kicking off “friday: beat blogging” with a submission from belgium, fresh from the other side of the world via the series of tubes, making late friday afternoon all sorts of urban sexy . . .
LISTEN: fhex {magnetik_bass} dubstep [...]
cheney is going down: i’m squishing your head
so, by way of Crooks And Liars, who got it from an inside source at Comedy Central . . . they heard that Cheney is going to step down and Condosleeza Rice is going to take his position. which, i have to confess, had secretly calculated in the back of my mind because of [...]
canyon county: anti-surge??
the mountain goat report has been watching an online poll from Idaho Press Tribune, asking whether or not readers support bush’s “surge” plan . . . and shockingly, the results speak to the state of the presidents approval numbers.
go idaho!! we’re starting to see thru the b.s. one neighborhood at a time!!
the sun gets in your eyes
the sun had several outbursts in the last few days, watch the most mind-blowing SOHO stop-frame animation cam HERE. (let it load fully once and then on the second time around . . . wa wa weee woo!)
also, there is a new “theory of the universe” which suggests that we live in a plasma-based, not [...]
virgin birth, dragon style!
the baby komodo dragons hatched!! the baby komodo dragons hatched!! and their mom, flora, made them all by herself. now this is a miraculous feature of nature.
unlike mr sali, who also recently did something all by himself, which also involved features of nature, Bubblehead of The Stupid Shall Be Punished notes that [...]
