Archive for November, 2010
by problembear http://ravallirepublic.com/news/local/article_c5a31582-fc35-11df-8736-001cc4c03286.html so long bud, next time i give a peanut to a camp robber jay on the trail, i will think of you….
By Duganz (Above photo courtesy of Alisia Duganz) I’m heartbroken, and feeling at a loss for words right now. Finnegan’s was the first place in Missoula that I took ownership of. My friends and I spent sophomore year of college reclined in booths drinking coffee, perusing the spinning glass tank of pie, and telling jokes [...]
By Duganz I remember sitting in my high school computer lab when we started shocking and awing Iraqi civilians, and soldiers into oblivion. Some of my classmates were cheering. I was 18 so I could only think of Johnson, Nixon, and the story my Dad’s plan to run to Canada when he got his draft [...]
by jhwygirl Call me crazy, but extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich…the top 2% of income earners in the U.S. while adding an additional $700 billion to the deficit and not extending unemployment benefits is the sheer definition of lack of common sense, no? Ignorance? The Bush Tax Cuts didn’t create jobs and [...]
by problembear this is one of the best posts i have seen on the top 5% of our wealthiest citizens fighting to renew their bush tax cuts in spite of the fact that they are actually prospering in this recession while the rest of us are losing ground.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2r4eriN9as&feature=related by problembear rather than debating about how america and the world should be run politically, i now feel that my time is better spent in revealing positive things people are doing to try to make the world a better place. Darrell Kipp is one such person who deserves recognition for his work with [...]
By JC I don’t know why. For whatever reason, tonight I found myself revisiting the same old rubbish from the Tea Party and Rush Limbaugh about “The Great Thanksgiving Day Hoax” (via Mises) about how the original Pilgrim Thanksgiving is all about how socialism failed. I’m not going to dredge up a bunch of links [...]
by problembear discovered this drink while stranded in a snowbound cabin many years ago… 12 ozs boiling hot water one packet of swiss miss one ounce baileys one stick of cinnamon to stir lightly and enjoy. p/s when you aren’t feeling like alcohol it is hard to beat a cup of evening in missoula tea. [...]
By Duganz Just seven months after 9/11 I attempted to board a flight for Washington, D.C. I was 17, a junior in high school. Oh, and I was this huge punk rock geek boy who had blue hair, wore (embarrassingly enough) several sets of studs and spikes, about three feet of chain on my wallet, [...]
by Pete Talbot Despite temperatures in the teens and a nasty Hellgate wind, Missoula was Montana’s hot spot this weekend. Lots of folks out-and-about, and here’s what I gleaned, politically, from overheard conversations (sources, unbeknownst to them, include Sen. Jon Tester, state senators John Brueggeman and Ron Erickson, state house members Sue Malek and Bryce [...]
by lizard Usually when I hear the term “above the law” I think of a person or corporate entity who has the money to circumvent our judicial process. But after following the news reports about a woman who has been reeking havoc in our community since last March, it appears I need to broaden my [...]
by Pete Talbot Thanks for making the world a more dangerous place to live. A special “thank you” to Arizona Senator Jon Kyl (R) for blocking a vote on slashing U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals. Not voting for the treaty is a lose-lose proposition. There will be no reduction of warheads (by about one-third) and [...]
by lizard A punch to the gut and kick to the balls. That is what this administration has done by signaling yet another unbelievably spineless cave-in by continuing to use the deficit nuclear option with tax cuts to the rich (who are doing just fine) and the Debt Commission reporting their suggested slashes to the [...]
by Pete Talbot The death of the political blog Left in The West has been greatly exaggerated. While it’s hard to do to justice to the writings of Jay Stevens and Matt Singer, there are some new posts up that deserve your attention. Matt Koehler, someone named Rustin (who follows Bozeman issues) and 4&2O’s own [...]
by lizard Ed Lahey was born in Butte in 1936. A man of the mines, one might think Ed would make an unlikely poet. Luckily Ed had a supportive father who, according to the author’s note, saw his son writing a poem at the age of 15, asked to see it, read it, and kept [...]
by problembear http://missoularedtape.com/?p=3481
by jhwygirl Montana’s GOP is shoring up for a showdown for Speaker of the House. Every Tea Partier’s favorite Krayton Kerns – truly on the extreme edges of tea partyism – is expressing a desire to hold the seat. Mike Milburn of Cascade was the favorite. Here’s his voting record. Kerns, by comparison, is billing [...]
By Duganz Politico reports that millionaire, excuse me, Republican, Steve Daines will be the first pachyderm to throw his hat into the ring against Sen. Jon Tester in 2012. This of course stands against the logical idea most people had that Rep. Dennis “You drive the boat” Rehberg would be going after the seat (He’s [...]
“It was an accident… I’ll leave it at that.” –Montana State Senator Greg Barkus on his drunken and near fatal escapade last year By JC With his November 29th trial pending on three felony counts for “piloting” his boat with Denny Rehberg and staff to a near fatal crash on a rocky outcropping on Flathead [...]
By JC Well, it was just a matter of time until our Governor’s hollow words took a turn to the right. In a little noticed story tucked back inside the B Section of last Sunday’s Missoulian, we find out that Exxon–the world’s richest corporation–is protesting nearly a million dollars in taxes in the small Montana [...]
by lizard When I hear Republicans talking about Government spending, my eyes glaze over and my brain recoils. As far as messaging goes, the persistent depiction of Democrats as the main offenders in Government largesse has been wildly successful. As far as reality goes, our national GDP is over 14 trillion dollars, and our national [...]
by jhwygirl I’ve been hampered in my blogging since Tuesday when I (feebly) installed a new wireless router and ended up with a laptop that won’t connect. Tonight I cave and plug in the damned ethernet. In between that time I got one of those neat ereaders. Fun. All of that being said, Jay, the [...]
Photo of curly bear wagner -courtesy Montana PBS by problembear time for an open thread discussion about something that has nothing to do with politics….. what bothers you in general? i will kick it off with my own personal two conundrums: bears don’t understand two things about humans………….. 1. why rake leaves? i mean, you don’t [...]
by problembear last tuesday, the super-majority of montana voters of all political parties gave our verdict on payday lenders 71% to 29%. it was a whitewash which included overwhelming support by both democrats and republicans. now i am getting indications that out of state slime devils/vampires are gearing up to bribe our state legislature to [...]
by problembear i never met either matt singer or jay stevens but i am sure they are perfectly good guys. we differed to say the least on many occasions about many things which are not important to rehash here. but the fact that they pioneered this venture for montana back in 2006 leads me inevitably [...]
by Pete Talbot It appears you can buy the Montana Constitution. Witness CI-105. Here’s how it’s done: select your special interest initiative; make sure there isn’t an organized, moneyed constituency to oppose it; spend a ton on TV, radio and mailings; threaten a loss of equity in your home and a tax increase, and do [...]
By Duganz Ronald Smith is set to die on January 31, 2011. That’s 88 days. His final sentence came down yesterday in Deer Lodge, Montana, two days after a Helena judge imposed an injunction staying Smith’s execution. But there are many more issues behind this: the state doesn’t have any sodium thiopental on hand to kill [...]
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