Wild Card/Tuesday — 3/24/09

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  tarynahecker on March 24 at 10:43 a.m.

  I have an SOS from Spirit Lake. My Motorola cell phone, which was working perfectly last night, now has a blue screen with the motorola logo and the words “bootloader usb init.” I googled that and it looks like this fun blue screen is the blue screen of death. Does anyone know a phone techie who might be able to help me via email since I can’t call any of the support lines seeing as my phone is dead and my landline phone isn’t working either?

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  Cabbage Boy on March 24 at 11:14 a.m.

  Good article on Gonzaga,
  http://www.cbssports.com/columns/story/11542904

  “And that’s what I’d say to you, too, Gonzaga. Enough is enough. Stop teasing us with March greatness. You’re no longer the little engine that just might. You’re a runaway freight train. ”

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  Liz on March 24 at 2:15 p.m.

  Yes, I am one of those apple-lovin’ geeks who put a shout out for Woz on my blog. I also spread the word around my facebook and twitter worlds…
  Woz rocks!!!

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  hmoffsuite on March 24 at 3:48 p.m.

  Another Obama TV appearance this evening. He sure loves those cameras and teleprompters. The guy is infatuated with himself. Don’t think we have ever had a President that focused more on himself than the job before. Its time to get to work here and remember the campaign is over, or is it?

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  CDA_Mom on March 24 at 4:05 p.m.

  I am so disgusted by the CDA Press. They have another posting of racially offensive remarks and have not deleted them. go to this article http://www.cdapress.com/articles/2009/03/24/news/news03.txt

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  DFO on March 24 at 4:09 p.m.

  Thanx for posting that, CDA Mom. The racist struck just 20 minutes ago. It’ll be interesting to see how long the post remains up.

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  toadman on March 24 at 4:09 p.m.

  hey hmo! Where were you yesterday when Wall Street was rallying!

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  hmoffsuite on March 24 at 4:32 p.m.

  toad. Sitting in front of two screens and computers, watching cnbc and bloomberg, from 4:30am til the market close. Yesterday was a great day indeed. By the time the market closed, I was wore out.

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  toadman on March 24 at 4:48 p.m.

  dude, hmo…step away from the ticker, man… that stuff will kill ya…

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  hmoffsuite on March 24 at 5:01 p.m.

  toad. I only do it because I find it fascinating and a great mental challenge and exercise. If I pick up on a tidbit here or there, then act on it by buying a stock, and make a few bucks, it feels like an intellectual victory. I have a daytrading account which is seperate from the investment accounts. So, its really more about entertainment than making money.

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  Lizard_People on March 24 at 5:03 p.m.

  I have a question for ThomG, or someone like that. Is it possible that Walt Minnick would co-sponsor Ron Paul’s HR 1207:Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009? http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-1207

  If he did, I suspect most Ron Paulers would have trouble voting against him in 2010.

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  hmoffsuite on March 24 at 5:16 p.m.

  Obama speech tonight: Sales pitch to get his bills through. How stupid of me. Should have known.

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  Cindy_H on March 24 at 6:45 p.m.

  Um. So. What would ya’all think of me if I admitted to having NEVER listened to an entire speech by President Obama. Ever?
  To be fair and honest I’ve never listened to an entire McCain or Ron Paul or Ralph Nader speech, either. But I have read transcripts.
  So, just how bad a citizen am I?

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  keithincda on March 24 at 7:43 p.m.

  Well based on that avatar I’d venture a guess as to why you don’t have time to listen to a speech but this is a PG rated website….

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  Stickman on March 24 at 7:46 p.m.

  You are a good citizen Cindy, as I haven’t watched any of them either.

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  MikeK on March 24 at 9:41 p.m.

  Howdy, all. If you’re interested, the new City of Coeur d’Alene Blog is live at: http://cdacity.blogspot.com. You can also get there (and most people will) through the city’s main website at: http://www.cdaid.org

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  hhuseland on March 24 at 10:31 p.m.

  I feel that I am very politically savvy, having spent many years in the trenches. Having said that, I, throughout the years have mellowed to the point where no longer are my pronouncements descending from god. I have learned that other voices can be heard and blended in with my basic political viewpoints.

  Still, there are points of reference that I and many others stick upon. Is it whether you gain control of your life and your livelihood through hard work, being smarter than your competitor or …

  You are hanging out waiting for a government handout, faking a back injury for social security, too lazy to work, etc.

  These have/have not entities will control this country in the years to come. When you discover that there are more have nots than halves. and if they all vote, well, I guess you can see where this is heading.

  I have always worried that the liberals would create a society of receivers that the givers could not support, yet the liberal politicians continue to mine this played out glory hole. God help us all.

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  Bent on March 24 at 10:38 p.m.

  Wow, MikeK you guys put a lot of material on that thing.

  It was good to see my freind and fomer co-worker Dave Townsend is all over it! When Dave landed that library job …man, it must of been 11 or 12 years ago… he inspired me to get out of the news business. His color returned and he looked truly happy for the first time since I had met him, which was probably 10 years before that. Good for you Towsend. It looks like you are doing very well. It’s been nice talking to you recently on linkedin as well.

  Now that I’m a blogger I’ll add that to my blog roll (once I take the time to figure out how to do that).

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  Sam on March 24 at 10:45 p.m.

  Mike, I can’t wait until the city lets us know about the investigation into that one cop who did that one thing that one time!!

  Okay, so it hasn’t happened, and of course everyone hopes it won’t, but to say that blog will replace a newspaper’s independence doesn’t jibe with me.

  I owe you lunch.

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  Nick_Adams on March 24 at 11:04 p.m.

  Herb: You worry about liberals? Really.

  Recievers and givers are relative given one’s point of view. Some would say that, over the last decade (yes, I’ll include some of the Clinton years), the givers have been the middle and lower-middle class and the receivers have been the wealthiest Americans. During that time, there’s no question that the rich have grown richer and the poor, poorer.

  For every person “faking a back injury”, I’ll show you a corporate executive building tax shelters to protect them from capital gains. For every person “too lazy to work”, I’ll show you a person who has inherited every dime they have, but fighting higher taxes on the weathy.

  Since you’re in Bayview, perhaps you can get Bob Holland to weigh in on what’s best for the have-nots.

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  Nick_Adams on March 24 at 11:33 p.m.

  @Sam. I don’t see where anyone has claimed that the city’s blog will replace newspapers or any other media outlets.

  However, they are proactively trying to get information out to people, rather than relying on reporting. Given that there is pratically zero journalistic coverage of municipal matters these days, at least the city is trying to get more info out.

  Think about how easy it’d be for the City to sit back and, knowing that the media doesn’t have the resources to cover the beat, and move more of their business behind closed doors.

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  OrangeTV on March 25 at 2:11 a.m.

  Nice to see that HBO is listed on the city blogroll. Wouldn’t it be rather swell to see Getoutnorthidaho.com listed there as well? Just a thought…(hint hint).

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  Sam on March 25 at 7:04 a.m.

  Nick, I understand. I was of course just tweaking Mr. Kennedy. Who I will vigorously criticize through the next election cycle with my friends at OpenCd’A.org.

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  MichaelStrickland on March 25 at 8:25 a.m.

  Nice discussion.

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  toadman on March 25 at 8:48 a.m.

  Herb, listen, people are always going to fleece the system. A small percentage of people at the top are going to use their money to keep from paying their fair share, and small percentage of people at the bottom are going to lie and cheat in order to take more than their fair share from the rest of us.

  This may be a cynical view, but there’s nothing we can do to change that. For me, it’s sunk cost. The cost of doing business. People are going to steal from you when you run a retail business. You have to account for it. Does that keep a retailer from running their business and turning a profit? Only if they ignore it completely. But, no matter how many things retailers, and governments, put in place to keep from being taken advantage of, it’s still going to happen.

  This doesn’t mean we should stop giving aid to the poor, and it doesn’t mean we should cut out all tax write off’s for the wealthy. It just means more regulation and oversight (but not too much more) should be enacted to minimize this effect.

  I break it down like this: Just because 1% of welfare recipients are taking money even though they aren’t doing anything to warrant getting it, doesn’t mean we should cut funding to the legitimate recipients.

  It’s a sunk cost. The cost of doing business. Just let it go, man.

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