Archive for August, 2011
by jhwygirl Every year, the Montana Pride Network puts on a gathering somewhere in Montana to celebrate diversity and equality. This year’s celebration was held in Bozeman, which rolled out a gracious welcome to all who attended this state-level event held June 17th, 18th and 19th. In the video below you’ll see starting around the [...]
by lizard Martin Luther King was connecting some important dots before he was assassinated. In his speech about Vietnam, A Time To Break Silence, he expanded the sphere of oppression, putting the war in the context of US Imperialism. In 1957 a sensitive American official overseas said that it seemed to him that our nation [...]
by problembear i would like to know what in the hell is up with the US postal service lately? at least here in missoula. a very important piece of correspondence was mailed to my address last week on wednesday from seattle. now usually, in the past (maybe even the dim past- since i have rarely [...]
by problembear “True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. “ — Martin Luther King Jr. 48 years ago today…… http://www.mlkmemorial.org/ (excerpt) … I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day [...]
by jhwygirl I know I have at least a few readers from the Bozeman area, and since hunting season is coming up I’m hoping that this may be an opportunity to clear out that freezer to help out a well-deserving entity that could use that game meat. From today’s Missoulian comes a call for game [...]
by lizard (posted a day early because tomorrow I’m heading up to Glacier) Leonard Shlain’s The Alphabet Versus The Goddess is one of the most intriguing books I’ve ever read. His premise feels right. Below the fold you will find a long but worthwhile synopsis by the author. But before we get to that, I’d [...]
by jhwygirl JC had a post a while back – “You Can’t Have Compromise Without Intransigence”; A Shout-Out to the Left – which is one of my more favorite b’bird posts of late due to the subject of messaging. My writing focus varies over time just as much as, probably, my writing signature. It’s just [...]
by lizard With Gadaffi in hiding, or on the run, and his compound thoroughly looted of its gold-plated AK-47′s, the administration can breathe a short sigh of relief. Those nags on the left and right won’t have this hostility-free, not-really-a-war war to harp on anymore, right? And really, what would be the point of repeating [...]
By JC Tea Party takes it as a sign from god to cut spending! Nevermind. (But read the comments–they’re hilarious!) The Free Republic claims that Obama said the earthquake happened somewhere along “Bush’s Fault”.
“This is a question of whether American democracy itself can beat back a corporate takeover” – Rep. Ellie Hill, D-Missoula By JC I’ll let the voices of a few of Missoula’s leaders in support of amending the U.S. Constitution to restrict corporate “personhood” tell the story (from behind the paywall at a local chapter [...]
by problembear had a talk with a friend of mine who is very non political friday afternoon. the topic came up that the country seems to be paralyzed politically. this friend who runs his own business and tends to mind his own business said something very profound: “if everybody just took care of what they [...]
by lizard This week I’m glad to see end for various reasons included the birthday of the notorious Charles Bukowski (August 16th), so naturally I figured if nothing else came up, a celebration of this grit-driven poet would be fun to put together. I could start by describing my introduction to the dirty old man [...]
by jhwygirl Americans for Prosperity got some national attention on their “Drill Baby Drill” tour, but not exactly the kind that they probably wanted. MSNBC has Billings NBC station KULR’s report- with video – of Koch Industries-funded “Running on Empty” tour as it made its stop in Billings Montana championing maintaining tax subsidies and eliminating [...]
“Corporations are not human beings and do not have the same rights as human beings” – Cynthia Wolken, Missoula City Councilwoman By JC Hot on the heals of the “Running on Empty” corporate push to consolidate power in the states, Missoula’s newest Councilwoman, Cynthia Wolken, has introduced a Resolution in Missoula City Council to [...]
by jhwygirl Does the oil industry know how much she wants to cut their record-making profits? $2 gasoline? How does she plan on doing this? Bowing publicly with press in tow to kiss the feet of every oil sheik in the Middle East? Praying to God? Or did he already tell her he’d give her [...]
by jhwygirl Well, since yesterday’s post on Koch Industries-funded Americans for Prosperity’s “Running on Empty” Tour coming to Missoula without a location, they’ve since announced they’ll be at Bonner Park. I’m sure we can thank AFP’s Montana state director Scott Sales for finally getting that critical piece of information up for this very popular Tea [...]
by jhwygirl Koch Industries-funded Americans For Prosperity’s Running on Empty Tour is coming to town, and they’re clearly afraid of Missoula. They’re so afraid of the liberals here in this little ol’ university town of Missoula Montana that they’ve removed Karl Tyler Chevrolet from its event’s calendar for the tour, replacing it with “TBD”. Missoula [...]
by jhwygirl we can all come together for good causes. In this case, while I’m none-too-happy with the Osprey/City of Missoula/stadium boondoggle, it’s a no-brainer to help out Missoula resident and conserva-blogger Dave Budge when he asked if I could give a fundraiser for the Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre a plug. This Saturday’s Osprey game [...]
by lizard I was a sophomore in high school when I read The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac. Ken Kesey followed, then Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Throw in a little Fear and Loathing, and I felt like I established a nice little literary platform to launch myself from. The Beats and their hippie [...]
by lizard Who remembers how post-9/11 Clear Channel decided lots of songs shouldn’t be played, including John Lennon’s Imagine? that’s a sort of crappy lead in to this week’s LWPS theme, imagination. * Fools have big wombs. For the rest?—here is penny-royal if one knows to use it. But time is only another liar, so [...]
by lizard I was reminded recently that I’m a conspiracy theorist, and then I read a post by Pogie about the unhinged right or, more specifically, a site called PolyMontana that uses an article from a site called “Global Research” to spin an insinuation that (Pogie’s words): “the Obama Administration murdered the Special Forces members [...]
By CFS After attending the public meeting last night focusing on the future of Missoula’s Poverello Center I came away very impressed with the format of the meeting and the positive feeling that most people came away with. The amount of information provided to attendees that had previously not entered into the debate was substantial. [...]
By JC Max Baucus, after his recently appointed role to the super committee saddled with finding 1.2 to 1.5 trillion dollars in deficit reduction, conducted an interview with the Helena IR (Google cache) editorial board and revealed some thoughts about how he’s likely to proceed: [Baucus] noted that the Bush tax cuts also are set to expire [...]
by jhwygirl Siding with industry, Montana’s Board of Oil & Gas unanimously approved rules which permit industry to keep secret fluids used in fracking wells. Montana’s Board of Oil & Gas has regulatory and rule-making oversight. By law, 50% of its 6 members are from the oil & gas industry, two must be property owners [...]
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Baucus & Fellow Dems on Super Committee Threaten us with “The Results Americans Deserve”
August 17, 2011 in Economy & Business, Editorial Commentary, Max Baucus, Politics, Regressives
By JC In a dark opinion piece in today’s Wall Street Journal, Senators Max Baucus, Patty Murray and John Kerry invoked the specter of a failing America in their opening salvo as the next chapter of right wing hostage taking shapes up: “…No one has ever gone into a debate pledging that China and India should [...]