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I’ve posted a few things to get you going this morning before stepping aside to let CindyH and Betsy Russell take control of this blog for the next two weeks, while I’m on vacation. I’ll probably post a few other things early in the vacation and then disappear altogether. I plan to hang around Coeur d’Alene, enjoying our waterfront and sunshine — and attacking a list of honey-do’s that has grown this summer. Be good. I’ll see you back here Aug. 10. Now, for your Monday Wild Card …
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.
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ejs on July 27 at 8:06 a.m.
I was wondering over the weekend why we never got Beutler’s mug shot to poke fun at like we do all the other local “figures” who in the past have wanted to “play ball with the law”
ejs on July 27 at 8:08 a.m.
Oh wait, I expect it could be the advertisement we see at the top of our beloved blog. Money talks journalism walks.
Bent on July 27 at 9:51 a.m.
Hey Cindy!!! Here is a real gem:
http://cdapress.com/articles/2009/07/27/news/news05.txt
Kage_Mann on July 27 at 10:04 a.m.
Bent, some people are just plain kinky and seniors don’t realize it.Like this guys mother who called the cops on him.
Bent on July 27 at 11:25 a.m.
I know that is just what makes this story so dang funny! Can you imaging how mortified this couple must be this morning!
coeurgenx on July 27 at 1:05 p.m.
DFO-enjoy your vacation.. you will be missed on HBO..
toadman on July 27 at 2:46 p.m.
“Can you imaging how mortified this couple must be this morning!” - Bent
Or INSANELY turned on!!!
;-)
People get off on the weirdest things.
hmoffsuite on July 27 at 3:55 p.m.
I am proud to have an American Flag flying in my front yard on the ‘ol flag pole. I really love to see it blowing in the wind with just the right degree of furl. I only buy sewn cotton flags for the perfect effect. Normally I buy a new one each year as I like them fresh and vibrant. This year, just now, I noticed the American Flag in my yard had begun to tatter and fade. Losing the vibrancy of color representing our American Spirit. But, this year, I will leave the fading, tattered, muted flag as it is. I look at it and see it as being the Obama flag. It sort of represents what is happening to America under the Obama administration.
Cabbage Boy on July 27 at 4:00 p.m.
The sewers in DC continue to stink.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090727/ap_on_go_co/us_senators_mortgages
“WASHINGTON – Despite their denials, influential Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad and Chris Dodd were told from the start they were getting VIP mortgage discounts from one of the nation’s largest lenders, the official who handled their loans has told Congress in secret testimony.”
I am confident that Sis and the other dem apologists on here will a) explain away the preferential treatment and b) point to some past GOP failing.
But they will largely miss the point that it is Washington D.C. that is corrupt. Politicians that stick around there get corrupted. No matter what their “party”. Hence the phrase “vote the bums out.”
Sisyphus on July 27 at 4:14 p.m.
ZOMG! hmoff is ashamed of his country! Time for the tar and feathers.
Oh now hmoff, you keep saying that Bush is no longer in charge and we need to forget about him. You should quit reminding us how bad he was. Cause that flag surely didn’t become faded and tattered since January. But you sure have.
toadman on July 27 at 4:16 p.m.
hmo, inasmuch as engaging you in a discussion about everything I find wrong about what you’ve said would be about as fun as shoving a spoon in my ear and slowly scooping my brains out, I think I’ll refrain form doing so.
And CB, all you get when you “vote the bums out” is, new bums. It’s not a solution either.
Sisyphus on July 27 at 4:17 p.m.
Not from me Cabbage. Deregulation was truly a bipartisan effort once Clinton got in. I’d like to revisit the TARP program and ask the tough questions on why they’re re-inflating the bubble instead of reforming Wall Street, which has clearly failed us.
Cabbage Boy on July 27 at 4:22 p.m.
Toad, but Frosh bums are more likely to remember where they came from. For a little while anyway.
D.C. is pretty simple really. Just follow the money trail.
Sis, perhaps they should give the Fed. Reserve more power to… ummm…. investigate, yeah, investigate these crisis.
hmoffsuite on July 27 at 4:24 p.m.
Sis >> “Cause that flag surely didn’t become faded and tattered since January”
Actually Sis, when I put it away last Ocober for the season, it was bright and brilliant. Only assumed its tattered and worn down look since the big O got in office.
hmoffsuite on July 27 at 5:01 p.m.
Too many personal attacks, folks. Have a good life. I am. Adios
Cindy_H on July 27 at 5:04 p.m.
Sis, I’m pretty sure a man of your intelligence can find a way to disagree with someone without referring to their waist size.
Geez.
eagleeye on July 27 at 5:18 p.m.
Oh for crying out loud. A few jabs on a friggin blog and someone sticks out their bottom lip, packs up their toys, and goes home. I will give a big Geez to that.
Stickman on July 27 at 5:23 p.m.
hmo: I love flags, and fly them all the time. If you get a somewhat tired one, I would love to have it. I can’t afford to buy them anymore, but I do have a few that I have given the scouts and the Young Marines to properly dispose of. I have two that I don’t fly, that once covered soldiers caskets. I also have one that was brought back from Germany after the war by a soldier that wanted me to have it. A collector’s flag of course, not one that you would ever fly. I went to Arlington a few times around Veteran’s Day and to see the many thousands of flags would give you a chill. I think there are over 250K soldiers buried there, and on those days a flag flies by each spot. Impressive to say the least. Keep flying your flag and taking heat each time you comment.
Truly on July 27 at 7:16 p.m.
I’m thinking this thread needs to stop now. Cindy get your po po cuffs out and stop this:)
Peace!
spokelooneh on July 27 at 7:58 p.m.
The worship of symbolism over substance is one of the main reasons this country has gone to hell in a handbasket.
Me, I like how the Raoul Duke character in Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, set circa 1971, tied an American flag to the back half of his gigantic rented Cadillac and it flapped in the wind as he drove back from Sin city, aka Las Vegas, to Hollyweird, CA.
That’s PATRIOTISM right there, boy!
America, love it or leave it!
Phaedrus on July 27 at 9:23 p.m.
The only valuable question from all this foolishness is, will “birthers” contaminate the GOP in 2010? I doubt it but that hasn’t stopped the administration’s enablers in the media from giving it a shot. R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., of The American Spectator, recounts in a column a phone call he received from a cable news show.
The show needed a conservative to talk about the “birthers,” the booker said. Tyrrell agreed, adding that his magazine had investigated and debunked the Obama birth conspiracy a year ago.
A little while later, the booker called to cancel Tyrrell. The explanation: They wanted a conservative who believed the “birthers.”
http://blogs.standard.net/2009/07/27/will-birthers-contaminate-the-gop/
Nick_Adams on July 28 at 12:38 a.m.
Are there some comments missing? I didn’t see any reference to hmoff’s waist size or personal attacks. Were they deleted? Are the threads cross-posted and just out of context?
If comments were deleted, an explanation is necessary. I understand that DFO has tried to create a more civil atmosphere, but he at least gave us his reasons for the censorship.
Either way, if it means hmoff is gone until DFO returns—good. His one, flat note of all Obama-bashing, all the time is tiresome. It must be quite embarassing to know that even by hiding behind CindyH’s skirt, it’s not quite enough to protect him from the mean boys down the street.
marmitetoasty on July 28 at 5:09 a.m.
Stickman, I will send you a Union Jack (British Flag) to fly lol or better still our St Georges Cross (English Flag)…
x
OrangeTV on July 28 at 7:33 a.m.
Nick, he was talking about comments made in the Obama “Mom Jeans” thread. Seems like it’s always the R types that can’t handle a few harsh comments and do the old pearl clutch, door slam thing.
OrangeTV on July 28 at 7:36 a.m.
Actually, now that I’ve investigated the other thread, it does appear some comments were deleted. Hmm, odd that.
wheels on July 28 at 7:51 a.m.
If you dish it out you’ve got to be able to take it…it’s that simple.Must be to hot in the kitchen.
Arch_Druid on July 28 at 8:07 a.m.
I think Hmoffsuite should quit blaming Obama for how his flag looks. If you fly it all the time and in all kinds of weather, then yes, it is going to look extremely tattered and faded in a matter of months. However, if you fly the flag properly, for those days when it SHOULD be displayed and the flag code does advice what those days would be; then the flag would wear a lot better and likely last for years. Hmoffsuite wants to wear his flag out by improper displays of it, that’s HIS problem.
wheels on July 28 at 8:14 a.m.
Kenny Rodgers had it in propper perspective.
Cindy_H on July 28 at 8:46 a.m.
Nick: I deleted one comment from Sis. And apparently DFO deleted a comment from another poster.
I think it’s just silly if you disagree with a commenter, state your point and then feel compelled to add something like “And you’re fat too!”
In hindsight, perhaps I should have left the comment up and allowed the silliness to speak for itself, but I do have actual work to do, and didn’t feel like waiting for the thread to dissolve into another grade-school level taunting match.
I hope you’re not suggesting my skirts are so ample that grown men can find refuge behind them? Oh well. All are welcome as long as you’re not trying to peek up them ;-)
brentandrews on July 28 at 8:51 a.m.
Remembering the Eighties today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cP-ARAtDnE
Arch_Druid on July 28 at 9:02 a.m.
I’ll agree, Cindy H. Disagree all you want, ad hominen attacks should always be out. It reduces adults to little kids and we are all supposed to be way too old for that.
Stickman on July 28 at 3:10 p.m.
Thanks Melody, I would love a flag from your country.
Stickman on July 28 at 7:11 p.m.
spokelooneh: Your comment has bothered me all day. Symbolism over substance, I sure didn’t like that remark. But, I will leave it in your hands and not even comment. It isn’t worthy.
Arch_Druid on July 30 at 8:58 a.m.
Stickman, THERE ARE PEOPLE who do worship symbolism over substance. If they fly the flag both day and night and then JUDGE THEIR NEIGHBORS as less than patriotic because they do not.
How does the fellow know if the (unpatriotic) home owner had ever been in the military? If he comes from a military family? If any of his children are in the military?
Then again, one flies the flag and then attacks ONE’S OWN NATION because of the TYPE of gvt that we have, the KIND of people who were voted into office—not criticize, attack—it begs the question about why the fellow flies the flag at all. Doesn’t he understand exactly WHAT the flag represents?