Archive for June, 2008
by Rebecca Schmitz Imagine being Rep. Roger Koopman for a moment. No, really. Go drink a quadruple shot of espresso, yell at your kids, kick a fawn–whatever it takes to get that angry and aggressive. Imagine yourself wanting to purge your political party of people you feel are “socialists”. Imagine finding like minded individuals to [...]
by Pete Talbot Although I’m trying to do some serious political writing this week, I keep running across these humorous news nuggets. Here’s another reason to love San Franciscans. (Tip o’ the hat to Andy Hammond for bringing this piece to my attention.)
by jhwygirl It’s been what? 3+ years since approval? Talk about the wheels of government! This, from Jaffe’s listserve: In other news we heard today that the Higgins Hill Beckwith project may be delayed until next summer. I can’t tell you how frustrating this is. At this point it is likely that construction cannot start [...]
by Pete Talbot (The above headline is to be sung to the tune of “These Are a Few of My Favorite Things” from the Sound of Music.) I love it when someone actually researches the claims from the right that global warming isn’t happening. Dick Barrett shreds a recent global warming denier’s guest column. Shane [...]
by Pete Talbot While doing some research for a pithy political piece, I came across this story. What I found most amusing was the strict AP writing style applied to the piece. It’s written in true police blotter fashion. While DUI’s, in general, aren’t very funny, this story cracked me up. I hope this guy [...]
by jhwygirl Just wondering…..
by jhwygirl May 25, 1961: I believe we possess all the resources and talents necessary. But the facts of the matter are that we have never made the national decisions or marshalled the national resources required for such leadership. We have never specified long-range goals on an urgent time schedule, or managed our resources and [...]
by Rebecca Schmitz It looks like there’s not enough wingnuts in Montana after all. According to NARAL Pro-Choice Montana, Rick Jore couldn’t find enough people with an overwhelming interest in controlling the genitalia of others; the “Montana Personhood Amendment”, aka CI-100, won’t appear on the ballot this November. I can’t say that I’m surprised, but [...]
by jhwygirl Just going to throw out some thoughts here – – I’ve noticed for the last few weeks, since gas start hovering at $3.90+, that there has been quite a reduction in traffic. Even during commuter hours…at the very least, commuter times when traffic is usually higher (say 4:30 to 6) have been reduced [...]
by jhwygirl Most of you know what a fan I am of Keith Olbermann. The latest issue of The New Yorker has a profile, titled One Angry Man: Is Keith Olbermann Changing TV News?. I know the answer, but of course I read it anyway. A rare male seadragon is pregnant. Apparently this is normal. [...]
by Pete Talbot It’s a gorgeous sunset to the west from the Holiday Garden Inn parking lot. I’ve donned another clean oxford shirt and I’m back at the Montana Republican state convention, as promised. Just in time for keynote speaker Ron Paul. I’ve heard his rap before in Missoula and the crowd at UM was [...]
by Pete Talbot Over at Dark Acres, writer Bill Vaughn takes 4&20 to task on a few different subjects — some of them valid and some of them not. First, though, I admire Vaughn’s take-no-prisoners writing style, and his oft times dark and twisted posts. It’s a different format over there. There are no other [...]
by jhwygirl I marked my calendar a little over a week ago for Scott McClellan’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, which will be looking into the leak which exposed CIA agent Valerie Plame. Valerie Plame was undercover investigating the trafficking of yellowcake uranium in Niger, and trying to keep the stuff out of Iraq. [...]
by jhwygirl A bicyclist was killed Thursday afternoon when he was struck by a truck, just north of Costco, near the exit to West Broadway. City police officer Sgt. Shawn Paul is still investigating – but the bicyclist didn’t have any identification, and the department may end up seeking help in identifying the man. The [...]
by jhwygirl Prompted by a Great Falls Tribune article titled Audit digs up problems with gravel pit program, written, incidentally, by former Missoula Independent write and newspaper reporter extraordinaire John S. Adams, I went searching for the legislative audit referred to in the article. Boy, if you were pissed off about DPHSS employees playing solitaire [...]
by Pete Talbot Since I couldn’t get in to see my dentist about a wicked toothache, I threw on my best khakis, popped a hydrocodone and headed over to the Montana Republican state convention. My Datsun pick up with ‘Buy Back the Dams’ and ‘Jon Tester’ bumper stickers was conspicuous in the Hilton Garden Inn [...]
by jhwygirl Frequent commenter problembear wrote a piece detailing his (or her) experience in ‘experiencing’ the payday loan industry. It was good. It illustrated the desperate situation many people are in when they go there and the lack of understanding some people have in obtaining the loans. He laid out the math on these loans, [...]
by Pete Talbot Jim Messina isn’t a native Missoulian but he spent many of his formative years in the Garden City. Messina, former chief of staff to Montana’s Sen. Max Baucus, has just accepted the chief of staff position for presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama. I first met Jim back in 1990 93. He was [...]
by jhwygirl My father is a WWII veteran, who served as a Marine in the Pacific theater. He earned a purple heart there, and his service has never been something he’s been able (or willing) to talk much about. The deaths of his fellow Marines – some during the event which earned him his purple [...]
by jhwygirl Personable, banjo bass -playin’ and loved by evangelicals, Huckabee has been the odds-on favorite for McCain’s VP pick – especially given McCain’s woes with Pastor Hagee and Pastor Parsley. So why is he taking a job as a Fox News commentator? In Texas this weekend, at the Texas Republican Convention, evangelicals were reluctant [...]
by Jay Stevens John McCain and his wife racked up $100K in credit card debt! Ouch! Boy, I hate to see those interest payments: But not all credit card debts are created equal. In fact, according to a prior disclosure form filed in May that was provided to The Huffington Post, a significant amount of [...]
by Pete Talbot Someday in this great country of ours, people in news stories will be referred to by their names only — “John Doe” or “Jane Smith” — without modifiers like: “African American” or “Latina.” Until that day, however, the media tend to give titles to folks (except for Caucasian or white, you rarely [...]
by jhwygirl Art Burns, owner of the cow which recently tested positive for brucellosis told the Bozeman Chronicle that his cattle had never been near any bison, though elk are frequently in the area. Burns runs a small operation – about 50 head of Corriente cattle – out there in the middle of heaven, near [...]
by jhwygirl Kucinich was just warming us up – on June 20th, former Bush Whitehouse press secretary Scott McClellan will be testifying before the House Judiciary Committee regarding what he knows about the leaking of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame, who was working to prevent the underground trade in yellowcake uranium. It’s my belief that [...]
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