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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endosymbiont
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
Since that time, Idaho Reports taped it's weekly show, which featured Wayne Hammond! Betsy Russel asks "If the 'enhancement' fund is not going to be spent on bike paths, it's going to be spent on landscaping."
on background: On Fairview Ave near Maple Grove. The Freedom From Religion Foundation, with more than 13,000 members, is the largest association of freethinkers (atheists and agnostics) in the United States. FFRF has been working since 1978 to promote freethought and to keep state and church separate.
The Yes Men, who attempt funny brazen activist satire on a regular basis, make a full length movie about their adventures . . . i guess about fixing the world, or some crazy s**t like that.
The Special Olympics 2009 World Winter Games invites you to attend with the Vice President of the United States Joseph Biden the medal round of figure skating to be held Thursday, February 12, at Qwest Arena. Vice President Biden is leading the official presidential delegation to the World Winter Games.
Seating is first-come, first serve. Doors open at 7 a.m. Everyone must be in the building and through security by 10 a.m. Plan to stay until at least 11:30 a.m.
No large bags, backpacks, banners, signs or political buttons.
Special Olympics International is a world sports and advocacy organization for people with intellectual disabilities and is strictly nonpartisan.
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.
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
Yes, our own Senator Crapo, who's very office is run by a woman (Susan Wheeler) has voted against the Lilly Ledbetter act. Apparently, he's FINE with proven income disparity between men and women in the workplace. Shame on you Sen. Crapo, for not insisting on EQUALITY in PAY for women.
I am happy to report that our trip to Washington DC was excellent - but not being a special dignitary with motorcade service, we did a lot of walking, a lot of celebrating, and not much sleeping our using the computer. ( I'm posting this from my iPhone on the Amtrak )
Shortly I'll post a wrap-up of our experience of the historic inauguration of Barack Obama. The closest to blogging we could get was twitter pushing thru to facebook ... we also have a flickr account and have uploaded most of our images ... I'll include links to the pertinent sites and key images.
The one thing we can say is that for a few days in January, everyone in DC was positively oozing love and patience. more soon ...
-arecity
Nutritional Plastics Inc. began its trip east for the Inaugration of Barack Obama in flying to NYC on Saturday morning. We flew into Newark, took the train to Manhattan, and walked to our friends Chelsey apartment. We walked to Times Square, visited the MoMA, B & H, a broadway sing-along bar, and ate Italian & Chineese food. Were now on Amtrak, winding down the coast to DC, where we've already missed some of the inauguration festivities. We'll be picking up our inauguration tickets at Senator Crapo's office this morning, and with any luck, will be wirelessly posting photographs to our flickr site of our experience at the BigEvent. Million will share the experience, many are blogging, and we're aiming to share with you our best vantage point.
Everyone has their opinions of Barack Obama & his lovely family, and we see him as all too human - imperfectly perfect, just like the rest of us. We believe the promise of "change" means change from a leadership team with few ideas past the most base interpretations of the world - to a team led by a pragmatic problem-solver with a voracious mind.
We wish Barack well on his journey into the Presidency - and with our attendance at his Inaugration, promise to move ahead with a sense of optimism, a love of mankind, and a dedication towards understanding.
Will it all work out? Only the future knows,
and we can show you the pictures along the way.
At 12:00 today, a neighborhood dog started howling essentially and rhythmically to the beat of a passing ambulance. The ambulance came and went quickly but the dog remained on pitch and time much longer. As the tones reverberated off of homes and branches, I realized our four legged friend was simply alerting the neighborhood to the real election taking place twenty blocks away at the Borah post office.
Darlene Bramon, Ben Doty, John Erickson, and Melinda Smyser walked into the post office, now with Butch Otter scent, and cast OUR states' electoral college votes for "the next president of the United States" Republican John McCain... well probably not the next president, but that is who we voted for.
All the pomp and circumstance of election day seems a little less spectacular when four white people slip into a post office more than a month after the election to decide the leader of the free world . . . or maybe it's just me.
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.