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SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 2009

Spencer Wild Card -- 6.27.09 

I busted a gut laughing at the main thread of the comments section Friday, when the stars came together and old-fashion thread that featured great debates and great humor came together. Spencer deserves a H/T for his willingness to discuss his trespassing scrape that landed…

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Coeur d'Alene Moose On The Loose ... 

In the next two photos by Don Sausser (special to Huckleberries Online), you see a small moose that was on the loose @ Independence Point about 10 o'clock this morning. Check out how close the moose got to the two families emerging from parked cars…

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Poll: Sanford Scandal

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Spencer Jokes About Brief Jail Stay 

Joker: Inquiring minds want to know: What's your prison nickname? Slick, the Hair, Grease lightning, the whistleblower? Watchdog? How was the grub? Did you pull a maggot out and feed it to a blackbird? Did you see any guards swiping oxycotin pills? What color jumpsuit…

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Boxer Wins Ugliest Dog Contest 

Pabst competes in the World's Ugliest Dog Contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair on Friday in Petaluma, Calif. The toothy 4-year-old Boxer mix won top honors. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)Question: Describe the ugliest dog that you've ever owned?

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ML: Tuning Out Jackson Death Coverage 

Marianne Love: The sin lies not in the fact that the Spokesman-Review chose to run both stories on the front page. I believe that the sin lies in the nonstop coverage that will likely occur on cable news stations for the next several days. People…

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Otis G: Partying Like It Was The 1950s 

Holy crap! This is the sort of thing neighbors did back in the... like... 1950's! I hope they have a great party, and as far as I'm concerned ... if anybody DOES call the cops, THEY'RE the obnoxious ones -- Otis G/Otis G Experience.Question: I…

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Sisyphus: Busybody Neighbors Suck 

Sisyphus: I had a car quit on me recently. It was not worth funneling more money into it so we parked it out front letting the new one occupy that space in the garage. We spent a couple days evaluating how best to unload it…

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GS: Send Teachers To Buddhist Camps 

Item: Mead educators report to boot camp: Former student offers a taste of Marine life/SR Gregor Samsa: Wow. Rather than glorify a program probably intended to amp teachers up to be better recruiters in high schools for the military, to convince kids that their future…

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Fishwife: Too Many CPD Blue Downtown 

Fishwife: The black gloved, omnipresent CDA cops won't win the incumbents any votes. I've never seen a town so saturated with cops. They are everywhere and need lessons in social diplomacy. A legion of blues show up for every city park encounter I've witnessed. They…

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M&M: 10 Best Pictures? How About 1? 

I'm going to take a second from our Colombian adventure and make a movie-oriented note: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has apparently found a new way of promoting itself - or, more exactly, the art of cinema that it tries to represent.…

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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.