Wild Card/Tuesday -- 4/11/06
Duties on the other side are calling, so I'll leave you with this Wild Card to entertain yourselves ...
TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2006
P.S. -- Do You Have A Purpose In Life
Issue: In her blog today, Cis Gors asks the question: What is your purpose? Not who you are, or what you do necessarily, but what is your purpose? She continues here.More: As you raise up in the morning ... does anyone care? Does anyone notice?…
Eye On Boise: House OKs Homeowners Exemption
The House just voted 60-8 in favor of HB 421a, the bill to increase the homeowner’s exemption from property tax. The bill now goes to the governor. It raises the exemption’s top amount from $50,000 to $75,000, adds in the value of land as well…
The Faces of Protest -- 4/11/06 ...
Rebekah Phelps-Roper, of Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., holds up signs and demonstrates near the Tennessee Capitol as a tour group enters the building in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday. Phelps-Roper, a member of a group that's been holding demonstrations at funerals for soldiers killed in…
Huckleberries Best of the INorthwest -- 4/11/06
In this undated image provided by the U.S. Mint, one of three options for the design of Washington's official state quarter is shown. An online opinion poll that allowed Washingtonians to pick their favorite was suspended Monday after robotic computer programs flooded the poll with…
Question No. 2 -- NBC Pedophile Sting Operation
Issue: 'Dateline' Pedophile Sting: NBC Collaboration Raises Eyebrows as Well as Awareness/Paul Fahri, Washington PostMore: "The NBC newsmagazine "Dateline" agreed to pay a civilian watchdog group more than $100,000 to create a pedophile sting operation that the network plans to feature in a series of…
Serephin's Blog: Sheila Parties W/New York Pals
"Last Monday former Idaho state senator and 1st CD Republican candidate Sheila Sorensen (R-INO) was in New York City attending the swank Women's Campaign Fund event. There were at least a dozen chi-chi restaurants in attendance, and Sheila (who, by the way, darling, looks FAAABUUULOUS!…
APhoto of the Day -- 4/11/06
Jennifer Nettles of the group Sugarland is passed through the crowd after diving into the audience at the CMT Music Awards show on Monday in Nashville, Tenn. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/John Russell)
Question of the Day -- What To Do W/Murals?
Issue: Lynching murals in courthouse spur debate: Legislature will meet in facility during Statehouse remodel/John Miller, Associated PressDFO: This one should be a no-brainer, despite what historians want. Although the murals are an accurate reminder of this country's sordid history, they shouldn't be in the…
Quick Fix 6 -- 4/11/06
1. APhoto Fix: Proof of the rap group D12 ,attends the MTV Europe Music Awards in Rome, Nov. 18, 2004. The rapper was shot to death early today at a nightclub along Eight Mile Road in Detroit, a publicist said. The death of Proof --…
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