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Ridenbaugh Press: The nature of the protest

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:37:55 -0500

The Idaho House this morning passed 52-18 House Bill 391, which isstructured essentially as a protest to whatever the federal government might do by way of health care policy. (Several of the supporting legislators acknowledged, accurately enough, that they don’t yet know what that might be.) The bill “codifies as [...]

Huckleberries Online: HBO's Inland Northwest -- 2.9.10

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:30:52 -0500

Steve DeBerry shows some of the "hen houses" an Oregon chapter of Delta Waterfowl is installing along wetlands to provide ground-nesting mallards with protection from predators during the upcoming nesting season. (Medford Mail Tribune photo)

Fellow Baptist has faith in detainee Silsby/Statesman, APSculptors carve art work out of spam/Melissa [...]

NW Republican: Chip Shields, criminals and Randy Ray Richardson

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:02:00 -0500

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So OK folks who have been following Oregon politics for a while probably know who Democrat State Sen. Chip Shields is by now. He is the young fellow who is the brains behind the "get out of jail"... [...]

Strange Bedfellows: Inslee, kitchens and the health care debate

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:54:00 -0500

Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., is the star of this E.J. Dionne Washington Post column which exhorts Democrats to ultimately pass health care legislation. [...]

Huckleberries Online: Comics Surprise Super Bowl Watchers

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:52:00 -0500

In an file photo from video provided by CBS, David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey and Jay Leno, from right, record a promo for CBS' "Late Show" that aired during the broadcast of the NFL football Super Bowl on Sunday. Jay Leno said that "whatever happened in the last 18 years disappeared"' [...]

Ridenbaugh Press: Truck, meet loophole

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:44:47 -0500

The idea is to increase security around the act of ballot casting – ensuring that only actual Idahoans who are legally qualified to vote actually do so. (The political point here doubtless has to do with the unlikely prospect of votes by people in the country illegally, but it would [...]

HorsesAss.Org: Constitutional brinksmanship

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:28:23 -0500

Number of comments: 4

Over on Crosscut, Daniel Jack Chasan asks the question: “Are super-majorities in the legislature unconstitutional?”

Simple answer: of course they are… except for, you know, those super-majorities specifically prescribed within the constitution.

Think about it. Washington state’s constitution mandates a two-thirds legislative super-majority to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot, [...]

Huckleberries Online: HBO Poll: Skeptical Of CHRG

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:24:11 -0500

HBO Poll: 44 of 60 (73%) of the respondents said they're "skeptical" of the new City Hall watchdog group Citizens for Honest and Responsible Government, which is led by some of the key players from OpenCDA.com. 8 of 60 each marked "more power to 'em" and "who?" The HBO Poll was [...]

Upper Left: Almost…

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:18:00 -0500

…what Digby said. I ran across this while trying to find my own words to remember John Murtha... He was a complicated political figure, but he will be remembered for something very brave: it's impossible to overestimate how important it was to have this conservative, ex-marine, super patriot Democrat [...]

Democracy for Vancouver: Truth is Evaporating

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:16:44 -0500

Corporatocracy, Joe Bageant and why President Obama cannot fix anything until things get more broken. Here is some white trash talk:

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Truth is Evaporating

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Huckleberries Online: AM Scanner Traffic -- 2.9.10

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:04:57 -0500

11:24 a.m. A 7YO student in the special education classes at Betty Kiefer School is hitting his computer monitor.11:08 a.m. A woman is concerned that someone with a key was trying to open her door while her elderly mother was home alone Monday in Emerald Estates/Hayden.10:45 a.m. Motorist saw a [...]

Huckleberries Online: Bill Would Require Idaho Voter ID

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:54:55 -0500

Idaho voters will be required to provide photo identification or sign an affidavit that they are who they before they are given a ballot at polling places under a proposal introduced Tuesday by House Majority Leader Mike Moyle, R-Star. The bill, which was printed by the House State Affairs Committee, [...]

Huckleberries Online: Wild Card/Tuesday -- 2.9.10

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:41:56 -0500

That hard-boiled egg and piece of toast that I had for breakfast doesn't seem to be as filling now that I realize this is Denney's Free Grand Slam Breakfast Day. I could take a break for 90 minutes or so to get re-filled. But I don't know if you'd put' [...]

Huckleberries Online: Hand Writing

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:37:42 -0500

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin addresses attendees at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville on Saturday. On her hand appears to be handwritten notes. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)

Question: What do you use to stay on track when you're giving a speech or presentation -- teleprompter, cue cards, writing on your' [...]

Huckleberries Online: CdA Crime Victim Tim Wolfe Honored

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:30:51 -0500

The halftime remembrance ceremony was put together by the NIC American Indian Student Alliance and the coaching staff. The Rose Creek Drummers did an Honor Song before Stensgar spoke of Tim Wolfe and what a remarkable young man he was. Tim Clark, AISA vice president and longtime [...]

Slog: How Sarah Palin is Helping Women

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:25:23 -0500

It is difficult, as a reasonably intelligent female, to see an unreasonably unintelligent female—Sarah Palin— skyrocketed to a national platform and be taken somewhat seriously. Especially when reading articles like this, via TPM:

Citing a column by Pat Buchanan that clearly argues against conflict with Iran, Sarah Palin on Sunday [...]

Huckleberries Online: Free Denney's Meals Packs Lots

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:24:46 -0500

After feeding two million grateful Americans who took advantage of the offer, Denny's is doing it again. That's today-- Tuesday, February 9th from 6 a.m. through 2 p.m. at participating restaurants. We already checked in with a Denny's restaurant in Spokane Valley and it was jam-packed! Our reporter [...]

Slog: While We're Buying Up Property on Capitol Hill...

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:20:50 -0500

...to build new urban parks, can we please start making plans to build—and then actually build—a skatepark in one of these new parks? People who live on Capitol Hill who skateboard—and people who live on Capitol Hill whose, ahem, children skateboard—don't have a goddamn skatepark. Capitol Hill is the' [...]

Huckleberries Online: AM Headlines -- 2.9.10

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:54:41 -0500

Steve McMullin, 56, of Twin Falls, Idaho, one of the 10 Americans who were arrested while trying to bus children out of Haiti without proper documents or government permission, is escorted by a Haitian police officer upon his arrival to the court building in Port-au-Prince, Monday. Five of the ten [...]

HorsesAss.Org: Health care reform, GOP style

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:54:07 -0500

Number of comments: 10

WellPoint pays its CEO $10 million a year, and spent over $9.5 million last year lobbying against health care reform. And now with reform all but dead, the company is intent on enjoying the fruit of its labors, hiking premiums on its 800,000 individual policy holders in California by [...]

Huckleberries Online: Souza: SRO For Brannon Fund-Raiser

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:43:53 -0500

According to Phaedrus, Mary Souza of OpenCDA.com/CHRG has declared as successful the fund-raising effort for losing candidate Jim Brannon last night at the Greenbriar Inn. In the comments section, Phaedrus quotes Souza from 9:07 last night on Coeur d'Alene Press online comment section as saying that the' [...]

Slog: Straight Up

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:37:55 -0500

So... it turns out that the federal judge overseeing the Prop 8 trial in San Francisco is... gay. The haters at NOM aren't happy because as everyone knows only straight people can be impartial when it comes to issues like gay marriage because straight people are scrupulously fair at' [...]

Huckleberries Online: APhoto Of The Day -- 2.9.10

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:32:37 -0500

Toyota Motor Corp. Managing Officer Hiroyuki Yokoyama, right, bows after submitting the company's formal recall notice for its 2010 Prius gas-electric hybrid and two other hybrid models to Ryuji Masuno, director general of the Road Transport Bureau of the Transport Ministry, at the ministry in Tokyo Tuesday. Toyota is recalling [...]

Slog: For Those Who Know Nothing About String Theory

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:30:56 -0500

This is an antidote to the Super Bowl:

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Slog: Today in Global Capitalism

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:21:23 -0500

Bloomberg:
Feb. 9 — South African construction stocks were raised to “neutral” from “underweight” at JPMorgan Chase & Co., which cited “compelling” valuations.

“The South Africa construction sector has significantly underperformed the equity-market recovery since March 2009 and we believe that the cycle for the sector is at, or [...]

Huckleberries Online: HBO Grub Club: Nosworthy

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:19:13 -0500

Don Sausser returned with the first review of the new HBO Grub Club pick: Nosworthy. Here's the start to Don's review: "With the cook out of town this week and the Nalley's Chili cans running low what a wonderful time to fulfill the HBO requirement to dine at" [...]

Huckleberries Online: EWU's 'Red Field' Gains Attention

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:15:53 -0500

The initial hype has subsided, but Eastern Washington University’s decision to replace the natural grass in Woodward Field with a red synthetic playing surface continues to stir interest and conversations across the country. Since the school first announced late last month that former Eagle Michael Roos and his wife, [...]

Kirkland Views: Kirkland Police ask public for help in solving murder case

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:13:13 -0500

A call has gone out asking for assistance in solving a 2006 murder case. The Kirkland Police Department is seeking help with the unsolved murder case of 23 year old John Schuloler which took place in September 2006. Detectives believe the victim was killed by blunt force trauma to the head, [...]

Huckleberries Online: Anderson: To Each His Own 'Messiah'

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:12:52 -0500

Nick Anderson/Houston Chronicle

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Slog: The Morning News

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:09:44 -0500

A Month in Rubble: Haitian man rescued four weeks after earthquake.

Fatal Pain at the Pump: 50-something Seattle man shot dead behind the wheel of his truck at a First Hill gas station.

Mystery Fumes: Wenatchee woman left disabled after weird U.S. Airways flight.

Oy Vey: Mumps outbreak hits [...]

Slog: Pablo Picasso Was Never Called an Asshole

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:29 -0500

Except, probably, by Gertrude Stein...and actually maybe many others. And yet.

Picasso is coming to SAM. In the fall.

That's fine.

It's no big deal.

JK! Whenever Picasso paintings travel in groups of 75, it counts. However, this is all coming from the Paris Picasso Museum, which doesn't have the ones you can't think [...]

Silenced Majority Portal: Tea Party Karaoke

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:58:00 -0500

On Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, audience members set the words of Tom Tancredo and Joseph Farah to beautiful music. One of the participants is from Minneapolis. Listen to Toncredo's racist notion of a "civics literacy test" put to music....' [...]

The Pajamahadin: Docs Cut John Murtha's Gut

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:32:00 -0500

I didn't know he had guts.

Rep. Bob Brady said an infection developed and that Murtha had a fever when he was admitted to the Virginia hospital.

Brady called Murtha his "buddy" and says he'll remember him forever. "There will never be another Jack Murtha," Brady said. [...]

The Pajamahadin: The Black Panther Coverup Continues

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:29:00 -0500

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Eric Holder has already punished one of those who initially brought charges against the New Black Panthers who were "standing guard" outside a Philadelphia voting place. Now he is promoting the person heading the investigation of the Justice Department out of that position.

Hat tip: [...]

Clark County Politics: The Family Policy Institute weighs in on Jaime Herrera's betrayal.

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:22:00 -0500

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As I pointed out here, Jaime Herrera co-sponsored and then twice voted for a nefarious, SEIU-supported piece of work that will, effectively, make it practically impossible for low-income parents to get child care for their children while they work; and at the same time, enables further union and [...]

Slog: In Search for New Police Chief, Mayor Will Hold—You Guessed It—a Cavalcade of Town Halls!

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:49:47 -0500

We supported the mayor with gusto, and despite some howls of criticism that he's botched this or that, he's only been in office for 39 days. Judging his performance as mayor after this blip of time would be absurd. That said, Jesus hominy in my pozole this man holds a [...]

The Pajamahadin: Criticizing Obama Equals Support For Terrorism

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:42:00 -0500

Number of comments: 0
Jeez! Could these people possibly get any weaker? These people actually do everything they accuse Republicans of doing.

In an oped in USA Today, John Brennan -- Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism -- responds to critics of the Obama [...]

Silenced Majority Portal: Olbermann Gives Senate Committee on Native American Affairs Bad Mark

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:40:00 -0500

Three reservations have been without power, buried under snow, for two weeks - and we sure haven't heard much from this "Native American Affairs" Committee. Their website is blank.' [...]

The Pajamahadin: Fox Trying To Undermine MSM's Credibility?

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:14:00 -0500

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The MSM has credibility?

Fox News has a business strategy of seeking to "undermine" the MSM by alleging that it has a liberal bias. That was the allegation that Chuck Todd made on Morning Joe today.

Todd, NBC's political director and chief White House correspondent, was reacting' [...]

The Pajamahadin: Take A Pain Pill

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:11:00 -0500

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Cancer treatment rejected in the patient's paradise.

A drug to treat advanced kidney cancer has been rejected for use on the NHS in draft guidance, a health watchdog has announced.

While evidence shows everolimus (Afinitor) is clinically effective, it is "expensive" and there is limited data on [...]

The Pajamahadin: Global Warming Empire Strikes Back

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:08:00 -0500

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In the face of a blizzard of news that anthropogenic global warming is a hoax, the Obama Administration creates a new bureaucracy - dedicated to global warming.

It's reinventing-the-wheel time. The Obama administration has announced intentions to create a big, fat, shiny, new federal office called the "Climate" [...]

Slog: Second Round of First Hill Street Streetcar Meetings Start Today!

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:07:08 -0500

One of six First Hill streetcar alignments, click to enlarge

Posted by news intern Sarah Anne Lloyd

The First Hill Streetcar is coming, and the first of three community open houses this year is today at 4:00 p.m. Just in time, the [...]

The Pajamahadin: Obama Grasps For Credibility

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:04:00 -0500

Number of comments: 0

By comparing himself to Bush.

This weekend, Americans were treated to something new: Barack Obama defending his war policies by suggesting they merely continue his predecessor's practices. The defense is illuminating, not least for its implicit recognition that George W. Bush has more credibility [...]

Slog: Good Morning, America

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:00:38 -0500

From right now until 2 p.m., Denny's is giving a free Grand Slam breakfast to everyone in America patient enough to wait in a very long line for a free Grand Slam breakfast at Denny's.

David Schmader went and experienced the bounty last February:

Flowing past slowly but steadily was a [...]

Dianasaur: Thousand Island Dressing Recipe

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:44:58 -0500

A great use for boiled eggs that people don’t always think of is salad dressing. I often put boiled eggs in my salad, but the other day I realized they’re and ingredient in thousand island dressing, and decided I needed to try making my own. This dressing is tangy and [...]

Leaning Straight Up: Me? A photo terrorist?

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:32:51 -0500

Apparently… Tonight I went to work out at my apartment complex’s gym. As I was walking home, I noticed some light fog had rolled in, and the street lights were all haloed and pretty. I also noticed a tree in front of the office that had a back light that made really [...]

Mr. Blog's Left Turn: Latest tech from Populist Science Magazine - Introducing The PalmReader 2012XL Speechifying Facilitator!!!

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:10:00 -0500

Latest in speaker-friendly teleprompter technology... [...]

Upper Left: Jay Inslee's right.

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:39:00 -0500

It's time to finish the kitchen.

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Strange Bedfellows: Author: A "Secret Empire" kept Secret from Americans

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:41:00 -0500

World War II gave us the bomb, and the bomb created an enduring "secret empire" -- a national security apparatus that has shielded its operations from the American people while waging war in their name, argues Pulitzer Prize-winning author-scholar Garry Wills. [...]

Hominid Views: Missin’ Shrub

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:39:19 -0500

And then there is the billboard with George Bush saying , “Miss me yet?” Apparently, the group behind this is not known.

Obviously it’s a liberal/progressive/Democratic group.

Isn’t it?

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The Crosscut Blog: Election day: Still time to replace a ballot

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:00:00 -0500

It's election day: do you know where your ballot is? Did it go out with the recycling? Replacing it might be a whole lot easier than you think.

It turns out that our shift to all-mail voting also includes an element of email convenience. For anyone who has lost his or [...]

Slog: RuPaul's Drag Race Episode 2

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:40:54 -0500

This is your Stranger Slog Absolut Interior Illusions Joanna Fabrics Olive Garden open thread, people! And may the best commenter... WIN! My only comment this week: we spend so much time with the girls as boys in the workroom that I can't tell who's who when they're girls.

Discuss.

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