Archive for October, 2010
by problembear for most of us there is no need to go into long explanations about why we need to vote for capping the interest rate for payday lenders. it is kind of a natural gut reaction for most people to hate sharks. but if you feel that it’s ok to charge 300 to 650% [...]
by problembear just in time for halloween! this is an easy post to make. i raised some hackles of fellow progressive friendlies in my last post about the elections by supporting MT I-105 but the grey falling off flesh and stinking corrupt and gruesomely decayed nature of the zombies in charge of the Montana republican [...]
By Duganz With that wholesome, folksy nature, the Coal Cowboy – our state’s fearless appearance maker, the man who shakes a thousand hands, introduces himself as “Brian,” and gets rootin’ tootin’ mad at the legislature – is gearing up to help kill a man. Following the failure of his most recent appeal, all that stands [...]
by jhwygirl That’s because the state’s low income health insurance plan for children through the age of 19 covers prenatal care, delivery and postnatal care for teen moms. The cost? $720,000. Yesterday, Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against the State of Montana for its selective policies regarding denial of birth [...]
by jhwygirl …but are they all from the GOP? I wrote a post the other day about HD63 GOP challenger Tom Burnett making robo calls in the Bozeman area. Thing is, not only are the calls automated and recorded, they’re recorded by Tom Burnett. Pogo Possum had a comment in that post that suggested Bryce [...]
by Pete Talbot Commercial irony Challenger Dennis McDonald’s latest TV commercial has drawn the ire of Congressman Denny Rehberg. Jhwygirl has a post up on it. Rehberg’s outrage is hypocritical. He and the Republican party having been running negative hit ads for ages. Two wrongs don’t make a right, though. I hate this kind of [...]
by jhwygirl Suing the City of Billings and its fire department isn’t enough, Dennis Rehberg’s gotta set to serving papers on his opponent for Montana’s lone congressional seat – Dennis McDonald. First – You have to see the ad: You know, I really have no problem with this ad – Rehberg did do “all of [...]
By Duganz Rather than gab about consequential things (taxes), or ongoing gripes (the Russell Street Bridge) I thought I’d promote some scary flicks to watch this weekend. If you’re not into scary movies, may I suggest just turning on FoxNews and watching them continue their debate about NPR firing Juan Williams? It’s not exactly scary [...]
by jhwygirl I know I’ve come across his name recently and I know he’s been back in the state for some time now – but when I read this comment from Left in the West’s Matt Singer, I got pretty pissed. In a just world, election fraud of the sort perpetrated by Eaton wouldn’t result [...]
by jhwygirl problembear got to Sunday’s Missoulian editorial endorsing I-164, the citizen’s initiative working at reigning in the payday loan lending industry. Thought I’d mention that yesterday we had the Billings Gazette with a guest opinion from Linda Reed, president and CEO of the Montana Community Foundation and Uriah King, vice president of state policy [...]
by jhwygirl This post has been corrected. Political campaign robo-calls are illegal in Montana, per Montana Code Annotated 45-8-216. Maybe someone needs to tell Tom Burnett, Republican candidate for Bozeman House District 63…..or the marketing firm making the calls, Marketplace One, with a phone number of 319-294-7021. That would be CHICAGO IOWA, folks. Yep – [...]
by jhwygirl A worthy project – I’m just gonna reprint the press release: Montana Innocence Project is dedicated to exonerating the innocent, preventing wrongful convictions, and educating the next generation of attorneys and journalists. The Montana Innocence Project will host a free open house from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 28, at the [...]
by jhywgirl I’m voting no on CI-105, the constitutional initiative to amend the state’s guiding document to prohibit a real estate transfer tax. Montana is one of 13 states that don’t tax the sale of property. Get that? We DON’T tax the sale of property. I don’t think that we need to amend our constitution [...]
by lizard When I read the comment suggesting “parasites” (homeless transients) should be “put into a mass grave” on a Missoulian.com comment thread about the Poverello Center, I wondered what kind of comment would NOT be allowed. It appears tonight I have my answer. In today’s edition of the Missoulian, there is an article about [...]
by problembear thanks to the missoulian editorial board for recognizing the importance of capping the interest rate on payday lenders and for supporting citizen’s ballot initiative 164 in the upcoming Nov 2 election. it is so well written that i want to provide some excerpts…. “While Montana law does prohibit borrowers from taking out more [...]
by jhwygirl Where’s the money? That seems to be the question – and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has gone through great pains to defend itself against accusations that the U.S. Chamber is spending a documented well-over $20,000,000 a weeks almost exclusively attacking Democratic candidates across the U.S. Attacks funded with foreign money. It goes [...]
by lizard Well, foreclosures will be picking up again. Is anyone surprised? But don’t worry, BoA checked out their records, and everything is legit, so they’ll be booting 100,000 households to the streets. Hopefully none of these newly homeless folks will come to Missoula, where some in our community would prefer exterminating them like rodents [...]
by Pete Talbot This is just FYI but I’m curious to see other bloggers’ opinions on this story from the Montana Associated Press. Montana Cowgirl is receiving some attention on a post written about the Van Dyk/Brown Montana Senate race taking place in Billings. Ms. Cowgirl is taking heat from the right and the left [...]
by lizard I just got done with a free energy audit on our home courtesy Missoula’s Green Blocks Program. Go check out the website for more information. From what I’ve gathered, this is a pilot program that began in 2008, with the hope more municipalities in the state will be able to participate as results [...]
by lizard The title of this post was taken from a comment found at the Missoulian’s website. Who do you think this anonymous asshole is referring to? bank execs who gobble up our tax dollars? private mercenaries who kill with impunity? Health insurers who profit by denying coverage? Nope, the parasites this commenter thinks should [...]
By Duganz This is the kind of thing our President should be recording. And, about that… Sorry Mrs. Clinton. And if that weren’t inspiring enough (again, sorry about 2008, Mrs. Former Senator), the military is accepting gay recruits. Apparently they think U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips had a point with her decision last week ruling [...]
by lizard Everyone has a birthing story because each and every one of us entered this world at a particular time in a particular location on this earth. My second son was born this morning at 6:34am, at Community hospital. And while Community is a great place to deliver a baby, it’s not the only [...]
by problembear http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/editorial/gazette-opinion/article_9f50f1bc-da5a-11df-b173-001cc4c03286.html bon appetit to cleanse the pallet the chef suggests …… http://www.youtube.com/v/aqeDaN0OSCw?hl=en&fs=1%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cparam the billings gazette editorial kinda makes me wonder just how much the white shirts know about how tough it is out there for montana’s working poor. not very much if you read their vapid endorsement of an industry which is bleeding [...]
by problembear http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/business-groups-distance-chamber-commerce/ excerpt: “They’ve abandoned the interests of smaller chambers like mine for their larger corporate members,” Stan Kosciuszko of the Butler County, Pennsylvania, Chamber told Washington Monthly. The Butler County chamber has also severed its formal links with the US Chamber. “In 2008, a third of [the US Chamber's] revenues came from just [...]
by problembear gonna paint a target on my backside for my stances on some of these citizens initiatives from folks in the progressive community but here goes; CI-105 which would prevent any entity in montana from assessing a transfer tax on property sold in montana. i have the most trouble coming up with a stand [...]
by problembear commentary by guests - i want to listen and learn….if you would prefer that your comment be part of this post just email it to me at problembear@vzw.blackberry.net and i will cut and paste it into the pro and con portions of this post …. to start this off i have included a [...]
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