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Wild Card/Thursday — 3/26/09

Posted by DFO

March 26, 2009 5:45 p.m. • 29 comments

Before I get into the evening headlines, I’d like to point out that Huckleberries Online has a new blogroll — devoted to Spokane area bloggers (in the right rail). Next week, I’ll explore possible ways to highlight bloggers on the blogroll. Mebbe some sort of roundup a coupla times a week. We’ll see. Also, I’m taking tomorrow off. So I’m looking for a guest host for HBO. Now, for the evening headlines: Obama’s planning to send additional troops to Afghanistan here. Alaska’s Mount Redoubt is still erupting here. New York Times has cut jobs and salaries here. U.S. Senate votes to drastically expand AmeriCorps here. And the Wild Card remains in play …

29 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Charlie on March 26 at 11:07 a.m.
I guess I did my Rip Van Winkle act and the senate has nothing better to do than worry about college football #1’s. Budgets all taken care of, wasteful spending curbed, economy taken care of, what a bunch of useless idiots.
JohnA on March 26 at 3:45 p.m.
“Experts call for higher circumcision rate to reduce STD ”

Thanks for the heads up, D. You’re a cut above the rest. :)
toadman on March 26 at 4:01 p.m.
“Thanks for the heads up, D. You’re a cut above the rest. :)”

DOH!

…nice.
DFO on March 26 at 4:10 p.m.
Toad & you other Spokane area bloggers should check out the new “Spokane Area Blogs” part of the HBO Blogosphere in the right rail. I’ve spent the last hour or so putting it together. It’ll be a work in progress, as are all the blog rolls.
JBelle on March 26 at 4:21 p.m.
okay, i’m a little more relaxed. I saw myself both in the HBO Blogosphere and in the Spokane Area blogs. I live in Spokane and have for most of my life, but I am from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
JeanieSpokane on March 26 at 4:46 p.m.
Cool! I’m in there twice too :) (I suppose that will change once DFO cleans up the duplicates.)

Hey - I was born in Moscow. . .
toadman on March 26 at 4:49 p.m.
Cool.. I made both blogrolls too!!
toadman on March 26 at 4:52 p.m.
…but I was born in Fort Worth, Texas….
cantyoureadthesigns on March 26 at 7:29 p.m.
“Alaska’s Mount Redoubt is still erupting here”

The GOP, in a stunning show of stupidity, actually allowed it’s token and up and comer, Piyush Jindal to say in the all important GOP response:

“their (Democrats) legislation is larded with wasteful spending…and $140 million for something called “volcano monitoring.” Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C.”

“volcano monitoring”, in scary quotes? Like there’s no such thing and/or it’s only cartoonish value?

Who’s the buffoon now, Piyush “Bobby” Jindal?

Oh, and btw, it’s only $14M for volcano monitoring, but you know, these idiot Republican hacks can never keep their numbers straight.

A slight 10X exaggeration, who’ll even notice? It’s that scary “science” stuff undertaken by a bunch dirty freaking hippies, bookworms, nerds, and “Ivory Tower” geeks who can’t get a real job drilling for oil or running clearcut operations.

Every true patriot knows God controls when and where a volcano is going to erupt, so how DARE we challenge God’s works?

“Volcano monitoring”. Just another God-less Democrat liberal money-wasting heathen attempt at disrespecting the Will of God.

And now Mt. Redoubt, the name itself a grand irony, is erupting, spewing a 12 mile high cloud of ash, and threatening the citizenry, commerce, and OMG!, the oil business in Alaska:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL2BfaXvJYE
Stickman on March 26 at 8:05 p.m.
JBelle: Someday, we will meet and have a good time.
JBelle on March 26 at 9:23 p.m.
Indeed we will, Stickman. I look forward to it.
Stickman on March 26 at 9:28 p.m.
JBelle: Such a good thought as that, one can only hope. Life is so short, and fleeting at best. We’ll see.
hhuseland on March 26 at 10:49 p.m.
Probably the one thing I hate the most, is being uninformed. I pride myself on reading the paper from cover to cover every day, (S/R of course) So when I cruised into the VA parking lot today in Spokane, I noticed the American flag hanging at half mast. As I drove north past the naval reserve center, there again was the flag flying at half mast.

When I got home, I scanned all of the usual news sources. Nada. So I finally have to ask for help. Who died?
sibulsky on March 27 at 10:30 a.m.
Herb…from access.wa.gov

“Gov. Chris Gregoire today directed that flags at all Washington state agency facilities be lowered to half-staff Thursday, March 26, in memory of U. S. Army Pfc. Court D. Haugen, 23, of Wenatchee, who died March 11 in Germany. He was returning to Ft. Lewis after serving 15 months in Iraq. ”
hhuseland on March 27 at 12:05 p.m.
Thanks, Steve. Now I won’t have to go crazy … at least from that.

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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.