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Wild Card/Monday — 2/9/09

Posted by DFO

Feb. 9, 2009 5:37 p.m. • 39 comments

In the news this evening, a study shows that older women are disappointed in multi-vitamins here. Analysts say that TVs will be fitted in contact lenses within 10 years here. The Senate moved forward with the $838B porkulus bill here. Barack Obama hit his head while boarding Marine One this morning here. And the Wild Card remains in play …

39 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Cabbage Boy on February 09 at 11:14 a.m.
Time never heals the heartache completely. But that is part of loving, losing someone hurts. My prayers go out to you Dave.
thawtfulreader on February 09 at 12:01 p.m.
Breaking: A-Roid admits taking performance enhancing drugs…
Liz on February 09 at 12:12 p.m.
my prayers for you, Dave. My father died on this very day in 1970. did himself in with cigs and food. sad. I never really knew him. I was nine years old….
BethB on February 09 at 12:14 p.m.
Thank you for sharing it. Not an easy day, I’m sure. I just wrote about my year-old nephew this a.m., and the joy of a child. Such incredible promise, they hold. And such incredible heartache, if we lose them.
garyg on February 09 at 2:19 p.m.
Dave,

So sorry to learn about this. I’m sure you and your family find this a sad day on many counts. We lost our daughter to muscular dystrophy when she was five months old. We’ll never get over the loss, but we have learned to live with it.
toadman on February 09 at 2:26 p.m.
Dave, I cannot even imagine the pain you endured twenty five years ago today. The very thought of it tears me apart inside, because I can’t even imagine living a life without our own three precious boys.

I wish you peace, and hope you find comfort in whatever means are most natural to you.
zelda on February 09 at 3:09 p.m.
Remembering at this time of year is especially hard. I am sorry for your loss, Dave. Poetry says it better than I can.

“There’s a certain slant of light,
On winter afternoons,
That oppresses, like the weight
Of cathedral tunes.

“When it comes, the landscape listens,
Shadows hold their breath…” — Emily Dickinson

“About the woodland I will go
To see the cherries hung with snow.” — A.E. Housman
Truly on February 09 at 3:23 p.m.
Dave - there are no words really that will bring you the true peace you need this day but there are many, many of us with our hearts to be here with you this day and all of your days with our friendship and love. You have more than just your immediate family my friend - you have all of us hucksters and many more that love and care about you always. Please know this is from my heart and the rest of us too.

Peace Dave!
thawtfulreader on February 09 at 5:32 p.m.
25 minutes into his first presidential news conference, Obama has already made more cogent points and logical arguments than Bush did in 8 years.

There’s your change, right there.
Bob on February 09 at 5:34 p.m.
But Thawt, Bush wasn’t a logicker, Bush was a *decider.*
thawtfulreader on February 09 at 5:50 p.m.
“But Thawt, Bush wasn’t a logicker, Bush was a *decider.*”

Well Iremember coming infrom the woods and President Bush

promising too put Food on hour family,

and he, did.the end. Yes sir.
Truly on February 09 at 6:08 p.m.
His first press conference. He just took office and already gave us a bigger glimmer of hope. Bush didn’t give a press conference until after 9/11.

I just have to say “what a breath of fresh air”.

Please all of you ass Republicans please help and stop this bs.

Right on!
JamesBond on February 09 at 8:09 p.m.
I wanted to be the first to tease a story that Governor Tax Increase (a/k/a Governor Otter, the former libertarian-leaning, Washington, D.C.-bashing, political ingenue) is proposing to raise our taxes some more!!!!

http://www.idahostatesman.com/newsupdates/story/662768.html

This is in good keeping with how Idaho’s Republican governors going back to Dirk Kempthorne have been spending money like drunken sailors while the Tax-n-Spend Legislature serves the drinks.

Nothing quite like another tax increase during a severe recession!
Bob on February 09 at 8:15 p.m.
More tax cuts! For rich people!
Arch_Druid on February 09 at 10:59 p.m.
Not if Obama has his way.
Bob on February 10 at 7:09 a.m.
Well, it’s morning and that means it’s SHAMELESS TUBOB PIMP TIME. This morning I blog about something we really avoid speaking of in our uptight American Judaeo-Christian Work Ethicky Society. Using the toilet at work.

Money shot:

I had a rare and always disturbing close encounter with Toilet Paper Man in the bathroom stalls at work yesterday. Toilet Paper Man has some OCDish thing with toilet paper where you can hear him constantly pulling off pieces of TP and doing something with them, not sure what but it makes a weird skritching kind of sound. The aftermath, as I discovered later that day on a very unusual second run to the can, is a toilet jammed full of TP. I don’t think that’s the point though, just playing with it and dropping it, but something kinda obsessive-compulsive handwashingesque.

Speaking of work restrooms and I know you weren’t, do you ever have the experience of finishing up a rather aromatic movement and as you are getting to leave the confines of the stall you hear coworkers come in and find yourself paralyzed and unable to exit the stall out of a neurotic hang up over refusing to be associated with the odor?

http://unbearablebobness.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/02/the-silence-of-the-stalls.html
Joker on February 10 at 7:27 a.m.
Here we are again with Bob’s morning ritual of straining, grunting, hands clenching hard, his eyes bulging, as he attempts to push something clever, original and insightful out of himself. Today’s pertified dookie is about going to the bathroom at work and all the whacky observations he makes concerning his fellow employees. Pewww. It stinks.
Bob on February 10 at 7:49 a.m.
Here we go again with Joker’s bobsessed ankle biting. Dude, you’re a mess. Go back and count how many of your comments are about me.

(twilight zone theme)

You’re unwound and you hide behind your pseudonym, a typical anonyweenie coward plugging up the intertubes. Your envy for me seems to be getting overboard. Perhaps you need to re-regulate your internet mind. Find your center.
Joker on February 10 at 7:58 a.m.
Since I started reading this blog a few months back, you’ve been polluting it with inane posts and atacks on other people. Think of me as liquid drano to your middle-aged self. Youth will be served and you’ll be a distant memory…
Bob on February 10 at 8:13 a.m.
So you fancy yourself some kind of Blog Avenger? Some sort of Dark Knight who will rid the Kingdom of Huckleberria of the scary dragon?

OMG. You’re hilarious. Deranged and hilarious.

My recommendation is to learn to bite higher than my ankles.

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.