Headed to the big city…
- Go figure, Idaho voters vote against their own interests. “We may lose our house ’cause I ain’t gotta a job, but I’ll be damned if them gays can get married!”
- Rep. Steve Kren, R-Nampa was the sole representative in the Environment, Energy, and Technology Committee to vote against the quagga mussel bill. Don’t really know if that is good or bad, just thought it was interesting.
- Thank God! “The chief of police in Idaho Falls wants to repeal an 85-year-old city ordinance prohibiting dancing on the Sabbath at businesses that sell liquor, beer or wine.”
- Gov. Otter’s quota system bill for issuing liquor licenses to get full hearing in Idaho Legislature. Baby steps, but this is a step to get us away from Idaho’s government controlled liquor industry. Free market is bad, mmmmkay? Here is Betsy Russell’s story. It’ll be interesting to see if another pseudo-grassroots movement gets involved to bring down this legislation.
- lol. “Step 1: Repeatedly edit Obama’s Wikipedia article to cast doubt on his citizenship. Step 2: Get banned from Wikipedia. Step 3: Fox News”. Hey, if there isn’t a controversy, why not just manufacture one? It’s the Fox News way.
- On it’s surface, yes this story about Rep. Pelosi sounds bad. But, in line with generating controversy where there is none, the group leaves out that Pelosi is 2rd in line to the presidency should something happen to the President. Just a tad higher up on the pecking order than your average Joe Congressperson.
- In case you didn’t know; Doug Martsch’s “Dream” (3:30 into the clip) is one of the most beautiful songs ever written, top 20 ever anyway.
Nate Silver's map is very useful. Or at least I've been looking for something graphic like that to make a point. Now if I can just summon the eloquence.
The most confusing thing about the quagga mussel story is that the Western Whitewater Assoc. is at odds with the Idaho Whitewater Assoc.. Has this sort of thing passed in other states? So, I guess its still "big government" when you try to find a solution to something that shouldn't have happened naturally and that threatens your native environment. I'm sure his vote was to support the Idaho Guides and Outfitters (he's a sportsman, don'tcha know). But, that's what lobbyists are for — cuts both ways, just thought that was interesting. He's completely owned.