Archive for May, 2011
by problembear http://www.achieveglendale.org/blog/2011/05/ending-veteran-homelessness-in-glendale/ i see no reason we cannot make this happen for those who fight for us. seems the least we can do is provide homes for our veterans. anything less is shameful.
by lizard I’m going to have a little fun with this week’s LWPS and position a poetic dialogue between myself and Missoula poet Mark Gibbons, a fine poet who i have had the pleasure of listening to around town a few times. Mark’s been kind enough to offer the much appreciated support ofcomments and verse [...]
by problembear ….but it will be tweeted. word tonight that Gil Scott Heron has passed away at the age of 62. this is one of my favorite riffs…… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGaRtqrlGy8
By CFS And the Fuax News Achievement Award goes to… The Missoulian. I’m not sure if its possible for the Missoulian to have their collective heads farther up the ass of new Bresnan owner Cablevision. I know the Missoulian is a loca paper, and as such carries some pretty worthless ‘news’ items from time to time, [...]
by lizard I can’t help myself. After reading Rob Natelson’s masculine appreciation of the Tea Queen, Michele Bachman, I was overwhelmingly compelled to break my once-a-week blog diet. Like Pogie, I was immediately struck by this line in Mr. Natelson’s BIG PIC/small content post: On the practical level in the TV age: Bachmann easily pulls [...]
by jhwygirl Oh boy…what? A new union? Those crazy liberals! Yeah…no. Dairgold Creamery in Bozeman is laying off 2/3 of its workforce – 35 to 40 people. It’s cheaper to send raw milk to Salt Lake City (which is, incidentally, hiring) for pasteurization and will save Dairgold trucking miles and costs. My heart goes out [...]
by jhwygirl I didn’t catch the evening news on the idiot box, and I’m not seeing a flashing red “Breaking” notice across the Missoulian page, so here goes. The National Weather Service has put out a Flood Warning for Missoula – in the area where the city lies (from East Missoula to past the city). [...]
By JC Open thread for this glorious, rapturous spring day!
by lizard It’s rare for poetry to become pundit fodder, but when president Obama got a little cultural on the 11th of this month, a ridiculous controversy only the right could conjure emerged. Here is the performance (which is not the controversy) No, what lit the controversy up were these rather bland rhymes Common penned [...]
By CFS Oh Newt, you’ve given us so much entertainment this week, mostly from your mis-steps, tax-evasion, and being ripped apart by your own base. For this I thank you Newt, its nice to know the Republicans have their own version of Biden running for president. Keep up the quality work.
By CFS Since the Republicans showed their true communist colors and adopted the slogan “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need,” with the passage of SB 423 ridding the fledgling medical marijuana industry of the profit motive patients will inevitably suffer and the black market will invariably fill the void [...]
by Lesley Lotto So Newt Gingrich has announced he’s running for President in 2012. Whoop dee doodle. Really? Has there ever been a more hypocritical run for higher office? Well, ya, probably. The overly bloated, egotastical Newt made the announcement via Twitter last week to which his 14 followers all bellowed from the Internets, yahoo, [...]
By CFS So… My better half is contemplating purchasing a new vehicle, which means that I get to have some fun doing internet research and reading car magazines on possible options. She decided that she wanted better gas mileage than her current Subaru provides (28 mpg), and I convinced her that she if she wanted a [...]
by problembear tonight’s segment of CBS 60 minutes dealing with the sovereign citizen’s movement should alert us all to the dangers of a fanatical movement which encourages people to believe themselves above the law. many of these sovereign citizens openly brag that they will shoot to kill any law enforcement officers, government officials, politicians, judges [...]
by Pete Talbot This is insider stuff. About three weeks ago 4&20 notched one million hits. I was hoping jhwygirl or maybe even founding father Jay Stevens would announce this and also add some pithy commentary. Didn’t happen, though, so I guess it’s up to me. First, I’m not sure what a hit is versus [...]
by lizard This is the first in what will be a once-a-week poetry selection. * PLEASE for James Broughton Oh god, let’s go. This is a poem for Kenneth Patchen. Everywhere they are shooting people. People people people people. This is a poem for Allen Ginsberg. I want to be elsewhere, elsewhere. This is a [...]
By Duganz Oh man. I love me some nutty Christians. I do. I love them because every time a nutty Christian makes a big fuss I get to do a little atheist jig (which, by the way, looks like this). And after my jig I get to write snarky blog posts gently mocking the wee [...]
by problembear and why is this important to us ? because oil and gas industry subsidies prevent the private market from setting real oil prices. congress is pretending to debate this issue but the subsidies will remain in place listening to the main stream media you would think that this is a partisan issue but, [...]
by lizard I’m going to try and pull back a bit from my political commentary. There is too much noise that serves no purpose, and I am a part of it. Not to mention it’s sucking too much of my personal energy from more important things. I’ll still post poetry related material, and chime in [...]
by lizard Pittsburgh Steeler’s running back Rashard Mendenhall has learned an expensive lesson about what being “under contract” means in corporate America. Mendenhall was quickly dropped from representing Champion sports apparel after making some controversial tweets about OBL and 9-11. Here are the two offending tweets: What kind of person celebrates death? It’s amazing how [...]
by jhwygirl HB198, the eminent domain bill, is ugly folks. Governor Schweitzer knows it, having promised the day a majority in the Senate was fooled (having been heavily lobbied by not only NWE and Tonbridge, but by the Governor’s office) into voting for the thing. This is a bill that was pushed through the legislature [...]
by lizard As I mentioned in CFS’s post, I dj’d at KBGA for years. So to continue the fun from the previous thread, I’m going to be building a playlist and adding to it through out the night.
By CFS The now infamous famous photo of Obama and his peeps in the Situation Room watching our favorite terrorist get one in the head has become a viral meme. Over @ Wired.com they have a great gallery of Photoshoped pics for your enjoyment. Happy Friday!
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Wilderness: the Third Rail of Montana Politics
May 28, 2011 in 2012 Election, Democrats, Editorial Commentary, Jon Tester, Montana, wilderness
By JC You know, Democrats really hate people who put policy before politics. Principles before compromises. Issues before elections. Especially when you’re talking about wilderness. Seems that criticizing policy that seeks to release lands protected by the late Senator Lee Metcalf’s Montana Wilderness Study Act and other roadless and protected areas, in exchange for the [...]