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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23, 2005

Wild Card/Wednesday 11/23/05

OK, folks, this is our last evening together until Friday. If you haven't found a thread of interest for a comment, yet, feel free to start one with this Wild Card. BTW, I still need a few more Huckleberries to fill the Monday print column.…

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Best of the Local Blogs -- 11/23/05

Granati provides a very cool orchid photo to get us going this evening.*After 6 years of marriage and three children including a new one under foot, ErinG/Idaho Native is going to prepare her first Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow here. (Yo, Granati, I want to hear your…

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Top Cutlines -- 11/23/05

I'm not trying to be gratuitous here. I don't think Mariah Carey's sexy in this awful dress. Rather, I wonder, what was she thinking when she decided to wear it to accept the award for favorite soul/rhythm & blues female artist at the 33rd annual…

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Ah, Don't Look Down ...

Jim Olson, maintenance worker at The Spokesman-Review changes light bulbs around the Review Tower. There are over 700 light bulbs total on the tower that all must be changed manually. The red and green lights will be turned on the day after Thanksgiving for the…

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Plonkas' Faces of the Season 2

Tiffiny Ryan smiles as her husband Dan Ryan talks about being home after finishing his National Guard duty in Baghdad. He is a division chief with the Post Falls Fire Department, and a member of Idaho Army National Guard's 116th Brigade Combat Team. His family…

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Giving Thanks For Readers

My thanks to you who pause sometimesto look upon these little rhymes,for words just lie there cold and deaduntil they are by others read,and so it is that you’re my pard:without you here, there’d be no Bard.The Bard of Sherman Avenue

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Photo of the Day -- 11/23/05

I'm not trying to be gratuitous here. I don't think Mariah Carey's sexy in this awful dress. Rather, I wonder, what was she thinking when she decided to wear it to accept the award for favorite soul/rhythm & blues female artist at the 33rd annual…

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Question of the Day -- Thanksgiving

Issue: "Marshmallow", a 37 pound turkey from Trites Farms in Henning, Minn., has a reason to be thankful after receiving this Thanksgiving's traditional presidential pardon, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex, in Washington, Tuesday.Question: I know it's corny. But it's…

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WorldNetDaily Poll -- Hot For Teacher?

What's your opinion on the reported rash of women having sex with students? 1. No reason for this taboo any longer, people can have sex with whomever they want 2. These are consensual relationships, time to decriminalize them by lowering the age of consent 3.…

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Huckleberries Online

D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.