Archive for January, 2011
By Duganz Well, here in a few short weeks the first of three final planned Space Shuttle missions will take place. This, admittedly, has little to do with Montana, but it is very much a part of all of us. After all, for 34 years the Shuttles have been bringing satellites into space, and pulling [...]
by JC By now it has become painfully obvious that the American media doesn’t have a clue how to cover what is unfolding in Egypt and the rest of the middle east. Even watching Rachel Maddow’s extensive coverage last night didn’t get into the depth of the issue. So I poked around and found Al [...]
by lizard A billion and a half dollars a year. That is how much cash our government feeds the Mubarak dictatorship in Egypt. Why? Because he’s provided, as Hilary Clinton recently stated, a “stable” government. What does that mean? It means he keeps the domestic rabble pacified while taking our money and fucking over Palestinians. [...]
By JC Look what stunk up my Inbox this morning. I don’t think this needs any further prologue… 30-Second Survey Starts now… The State of the Union called for more government: While some politicians want to talk about where they were sitting at President Obama’s second State of the Union Address on Tuesday, Montanans care [...]
By Ross (jhwygirl – I’m moving this post back on top as the issue is extremely important to City of Missoula residents. We b’birders went on a roll last night and today it seems, and I don’t want this one to pass by without proper viewing) There are not a lot of details yet, other [...]
by problembear stuff like this is going to keep on happening until we come up with a way to deal with these criminal parasites and charlatans. you just can’t ever trust a weasel. or the politicians who work for them. and it looks like MT’s state legislature, just like our congress, is useless when it [...]
by jhwygirl Capital reporter Mike Dennison is up with a story tonight on the Missoulian State Bureau’s request for a list of all legislators who have signed up for medical benefits – you know, those benefits paid for by state government? For three weeks now he’s been waiting for a reply from Senate leadership (GOP) [...]
by lizard It was very encouraging to read the passionate responses here, rushing to defend our dear Denny Rehberg and his of-course-not-hypocritical use of employer provided health care. but I’m not sure if those defenders are capable of extending their cheerleading to other public workers, who are in the crosshairs (too early?) of the right’s [...]
by Pete Talbot I was chatting with a friend who’d just returned from Helena. On behalf of Planned Parenthood, she’d gone up there to meet with Missoula’s legislative delegation. It’s a constant battle at the Montana Legislature — allowing Montanans access to sex education and health care and birth control, and maintaining a woman’s right [...]
by Pete Talbot Bob Brown is a moderate Republican. He ran against Gov. Brian Schweitzer in 2004 but on the heels of Gov. Judy Martz’ abysmal Republican administration, he lost. Before that he served as Montana Secretary of State, and in the state legislature for close to 26 years. He has a reasoned guest column [...]
By CFS As the Montana legislator considers multiple bills concerning Montana’s most notorious cultural trait I’m sure that a lot of people around Montana are happy that this state might be getting a little more serious about DUIs. Most of the proposed bills simply concern minor tweaks to existing DUI laws, such as HB 12 [...]
By Duganz Good god folks. I didn’t actually think this was going to happen, but it is. I can’t believe that. I mean, one night I went out for a drink with some coworkers, came home, tweeted an idea, and… Anyway, MissoulaMoth is finally here. So… what now? Nerves. A sack of them. If you’re [...]
by problembear is that a powerful whiff of phony coming off of MT rep denny rehberg lately? the blatant in your face hypocrisy of denny rehberg helping himself to government provided health insurance while opposing the choice of government provided health insurance for the rest of us is just too pungent an odor to ignore. c’mon [...]
by lizard Before I take another foray into the fringe (or as Pogo un-originally stated, down “the rabbit hole”) I should explain what the term blowback is suppose to mean: BLOWBACK is the espionage term for the violent, unintended consequences of a covert operation that are suffered by the civil population of the aggressor government. [...]
by jhwygirl Hydraulic fracturing gas extraction? While I’ve written a little (and what the hell do I know other than what I read) about it – but one excellent Montana blog research is The Editor at to get some background on why you should be concerned about fracking here in Montana (and beyond, actually). Because [...]
By CFS Its been official knowledge for some time that Michelle Obama hates America, but now she is taking matters into her own hands and is singlehandedly killing Americans… pedestrians that is. The big news today flying around cantservative “news” sites and blogs is that Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign – a campaign aimed at [...]
By Jamee Greer Montana’s future is at risk – TAKE ACTION! It has only taken three weeks for legislators to make over 200 harmful cuts to our schools, higher education, drug courts, foster care, and prescription drug assistance for seniors – to services that make our communities healthier and safer. Montana’s future depends on maintaining [...]
By Ross The Montana PSC is making available salary information today for the parent company of Mountain Water, Park Water Company. I received an advance copy from PSC staff (Copy now available here). The raw numbers are staggering for any business, but when put in the perspective of the risk-neutral business of pumping water, can [...]
by problembear while the bold and the heartless continue to shamelessly show us peasants that they have no bounds when it comes to downright arrogance…. and while our somewhat reading challenged and temporarily stunned gop led legislature tries to bone up on the law upon discovering to their amazement that montana has a constitution…. (bet [...]
by Pete Talbot There’s a reason why we have two sets of laws for criminal activity: one for adults and one for kids. As I understand it, adults have a better understanding of right and wrong, and need to be held accountable for their actions. Kids, on the other hand, don’t have quite as developed [...]
By Duganz My aunt died yesterday after more than three decades of various illness. She was 64. Alice Marie was a paraplegic who underwent two separate mastectomies and enough chemotherapy to kill a rhino; a woman who faced more illness than seven average people ever will. And she did it without ever losing her hope, or her faith. She [...]
by problembear replace the word vietnam with iraq and afhanistan and the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ring true today. it is truly time to stop the madness. “…..Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I [...]
by lizard William Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, in 1914. He spent four years during World War II in a conscientious objector camp. Later he taught at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and was poet laureate of that state for several years. He died in 1993 The poem I’ve selected is one [...]
by problembear “For it is a strange thing, but apparently true, that those who speak speak rather for the pleasure of speaking against than for the pleasure of speaking with, and the reason for that is perhaps this, that in agreement the voice cannot be raised quite so high as it can in disagreement.” — [...]
By CFS I just wanted to say thank you to all the courteous Missoula drivers out on the road this winter. So often the only time people discuss roads or traffic is to complain about how bad drivers, rude behavior, or idiotic design. Almost everyday this winter I have been out there cycling in the [...]
by jhwygirl Looks like it’s official – State Senator Verdell Jackson whipped up a tale to suite his agenda – or, as Pete posed, perhaps Gary Marbut, leader, lobbyist, and one-man-band of the Montana Shooting Sports Association. For all the criticism all kinds of people on both sides of the aisle took on, most of [...]
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