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SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2008

Wild Card/Sunday -- 4/6/08

I appreciate that controversial ad that TUBOB posted in the comments (which you can find directly below this post). It talks about a controversy in the blogosphere involving an Absolut Vodka ad that provides a wishful view of America through Mexico's eyes. Seems it has…

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Bumpersnicker

I saw a car w/Arizona vanity plates that said TOETAPN. I wondered if 1) the driver was Larry Craig or 2) if the real owner had any regrets now about their plate/MamaJD.DFO: MamaJD, where did you spot this vanity plate?

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Dogwalk: Keep Guns Out Of National Parks

Regulations to keep firearms unloaded and inaccessible in our National Parks is being reconsidered by the Interior Department, currently headed by our (Idaho) own former governor. I hope the urging by former directors to leave well enough alone prevails. Yes, crimes are committed within the…

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Handle X Hucks: Hagadone Fighting Ed Corridor

You originally saw the lead to Saturday's Handle Extra column last Monday hereSomewhere between Jobs Plus and the proposed education corridor, Duane Hagdone lost his vision for Coeur d'Alene, unless that vision was simply that locals should serve rich guys attracted here by the tourism…

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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.