this is the result of a project that my friend Jonathan Womack created. he sent out ~ 8 pages of black & white copies of cut-out pieces of graphic novel / comic-style pictures he liked. he asked that we create something with them. i made this recipe book, which is pretty much all you need to know about “the war on terror”. build in 2003/4
That's right, the guy with the KILL sign is our very own Representative Mike Simpson. Nice going Mike, way to represent Idaho in the best light possible. Of course, both Minnick and Simpson voted NO on the bill . . . more info
fantastic article by Tara Morgan of the Boise Weekly about the Boise Flash Mob scene.
> Read "Playing With Strangers" Flash Mobs expose Boise to the perks of play.
Enormous Undulating
brought to you by Jim Risch, US Senator from Idaho
Sen Risch hopes by Thanksgiving, we'll be able to identify improvement with either the "enormous" spending package or the vagaries of an "undulating" world economy, or some other way - like with better policy - he said today in his first speech in the Senate, where they were debating the Stimulus Package. It passed, 61-36.
Afterward, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell gives him some love, as does Sen. Max Baucus - Democratic Senator from Montana. Baucus explains that although he strongly disagrees with Risch, he hopes to work together in the future on Western Issues.
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ABOUT THE IMAGE: One of Santiago Calatrava's finest works is the Bodegas Ysios in Laguardia, Alva, Spain. Its undulating roof and silvery
edges are equisitely articulated.
from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
WASHINGTON - Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo will for the third time head the team that parcels out two-year committee assignments to fellow
Republican senators. via The Idaho Statesman
Interesting, only one comment:
rita wrote on November, 20 6:24 PM:
So how many times / different ways are you going to post the same story?
Rita, maybe the point is that no one seems to care about the power that Crapo now holds. During a Republican "shake-up", where all the seats are being re-shuffled (or not) as the party re-thinks itself, our remaining Idaho Senator will be "the decider" for who gets to appoint the Minority Chair on each of these Committees.
We will keep and eye out for any announcements so we can all better understand who or what will be leading the republican party going forward. or will it be just the same? only time will tell.
MIKE CRAPO, a famous mormon in politics
photo via buddy stone's fickr
what happens in washington
photo via idahohum
Dig if you will the picture:
It costs 1.5B to build Atlantis, The Palm.
The USA recently "approved" a 700B dollar bailout for generalized mortgage backed banking and now a 300B dollar bailout for Citi.
But what did we get for our money?
What we do know is that, at market value, we could have purchased 466 Atlantis, The Palm's resorts.
Imagine 466 Luxury Resorts, available for every American, on a timeshare-like schedule. 466.
The Interior Department has taken disciplinary action against more than a half dozen workers who accepted lavish gifts, partied and in some cases had sex with employees from the energy companies they regulated.
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Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne had vowed to take swift action to squelch what he called an "ethics storm." But disciplinary procedures for civil servants prevented him from taking action for at least a month.
Speaking of Libertarian Idaho values, back in 1978, Butch Otter said this when interviewed by Reason Magazine:
“if a person, of his own free will, wants to use marijuana, I question whether the government has any propriety in telling him he can’t.” By limiting freedom, he said, “the government, in effect, is taking away the only real gift the Lord gave us.”
Let's get that law worked out, Gov.
Obviously, Governor Otter and the Undisclosed Kid in this picture are planning Jihad on reading.