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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 [...]
Southwestern Idaho: Land of Creative Joyriders?
Remember how back in November, some kids got canned from the Idaho Ice World for taking a zamboni to the local fast-food drive-thru? Then there were the reports of a January 11 drunken joyride on a fire truck in Canyon County. The following week came the case of two dudes who hotwired six [...]
cheney is going down
political wager: the revelations that are coming out in the “Scooter” Libby CIA Leak Investigation trial will force Cheney to resign.
watch today’s report from MSNBC (click launch under the pic of Cheney on the MSN page), revealing that the identity of Valerie Plame was first disclosed to Libby by Cheney and all the back-door political [...]
automatons read news : bronco football, bigger ‘n jesus
Randy Stapilus, of Ridenbaugh Press, uncovers an interesting angle on the current state of Television News Anchors
“You can’t confuse reading the news with being a reporter.†-Channel 7’s General Manager, Doug Armstrong
You can read the full backstory in this Statesman report from Heath Druzin.
We have our own question about the current state of local news: [...]
“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 [...]
o’reilly : colbert
Bill O’Reilly (The O’Reilly Factor) and Steven Colbert (The Colbert Report) go on each others shows . . . and the results are hillarious.
WATCH: The O’Reilly Factor hosts Steven Colbert
WATCH: The Colbert Report hosts Bill O’Reilly
Warming, Schwarming! Uh…wait! Where’s my framed certificate?!?!?!
The Weather Channel’s most prominent climatologist is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification if they express skepticism about predictions of manmade catastrophic global warming. This latest call to silence skeptics follows a year (2006) in which skeptics were compared to “Holocaust Deniers” and Nuremberg-style war crimes trials were advocated by several [...]
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 [...]
IM in UR fieldz, eatin your sheepz!
In yet another thought-provoking and level-headed article, Idaho’s own Brian Fischer of the Idaho Values Alliance blames record wolf/livestock conflicts on the fact that we (We?) are turning our backs on him (Him?). citing Leviticus 26:3, 6, 14, and 22:
“If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands . . . [...]
Otter’s trying to raise the dead?
Spotted this in today’s Statesman article on Otter’s priorities for the coming year (emphasis mine):
In the galler[y] were First Lady Lori Otter and family members of Idaho State Police Trooper Chris Glenn, who was paralyzed from being shot by an armed robbery suspect last month, and Idaho Commission on the Arts Director Dan Harpole, who [...]
The Shrub wants to open your mail.
From the NY Daily Post:
President Bush has quietly claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans’ mail without a judge’s warrant, the Daily News has learned. The President asserted his new authority when he signed a postal reform bill into law on Dec. 20. Bush then issued a “signing statement” that declared his right to open [...]
geeking out
this year, as the holiday season rolls around, one niggling question i have is: what would be a surprising gift for the nerds in my life?
in a recent cosmic log post, an idaho correspondent suggests Build Your Own Robots. personally, i am equally horrified and intrigued with something called a “nuclear spinthariscope“. eek!
These small [...]
Snake River Alliance Peace Fair this Saturday
From the SRA’s website:
Alliance Peace Fair!
Join the Alliance for our 23rd Annual Peace Fair on Saturday, December 2, at the Basque Center (601 Grove Street, Boise). We will have a pasta dinner, music, dancing, and a raffle. Dinner starts at 6pm and the dance around 7:30pm. Adults $10; children free! Environmental and social justice nonprofits [...]
