Weekend Wild Card — 2.20.10

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  Arpie on February 20 at 7:04 a.m.

  Happy Blogfest to all. I will be atop Schweitzer racing and hoping not to finish last in one this year’s version of one of the nation’s oldest telemark races. Please, someone, drink a beer for me. In abstentia I will raise a toast to all thing HBO: The force for fun it is, the family it has become, and what it will be in the future!
  Cheers!

  It sure looked to me like the new card served it’s purpose well.

  Nic’s names were great.
  I like Endless Cage Match
  and Sandbox.
  It needs a graphic.
  Someone should be able to photoshop a donkey and an elephant in a cage.

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  hmoffsuite on February 20 at 7:52 a.m.

  The pulse of America. What Americans are thinking. Here are the results of some major polls taken this week by Rasmussen Reports. Quite interesting, actually, and I’m not posting it to make any political statements nor am I being critical.
  
  http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/weekly_updates/what_they_told_us_reviewing_last_week_s_key_polls

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  PatrickH on February 20 at 7:57 a.m.

  The city of Tracy, California has decided to start charging UP TO $400 for medical related 911 calls. Classy.

  http://cbs13.com/local/tracy.911.calls.2.1502690.html

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  Arch_Druid on February 20 at 8:09 a.m.

  Sounds like they want to compete with the ambulance service. Uh, shouldn’t they charge that 400 when and only when 911 calls prove to be frivolous? I think I’d agree with that. You get fined for calling cops, paramedics to an incident that ultimately proved phony and away from very real emergencies.

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  PatrickH on February 20 at 8:15 a.m.

  Most municipalities already have code that fines people for making false calls to 911. What do you consider to be a frivolious call? If I think I’m having a heart attack and it turns out not to be should I be charged? What if I’m a store owner and someone says they are having a heart attack and it turns out that they are not, what then?

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  Arch_Druid on February 20 at 8:33 a.m.

  If you are having a heat attack, that is definitely a real emergency. Why would you be “fined” for a real emergency? On the other hand, why SHOULDN’T a guy who “claims” a heart attack just so he can watch all the excitement of cops and etc. barreling down the street toward his house get fined? He’s not sick, you are. And even worse, he could have caused your death because of his antics. That’s why there SHOULD be codes and fines against false 911 calls.

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  nic on February 20 at 8:55 a.m.

  Arch, you missed the point that Patrick was trying to make. Not What if I pretend to have a heart attack - that would easily classify as frivolous. But what if I called because I genuinely thought I was having a heart attack, but it turns out I just ate some bad tacos and there’s really nothing wrong with me, no heart attack - what then?

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  Arch_Druid on February 20 at 9:23 a.m.

  I don’t think you could miss the signs of a heart attack Nic if you were well informed of the symptoms. For your answer, we had to call 911 on the night that my dad died. He started complaining that he couldn’t breath. He went out in the yard trying to get air. He came back in and tried to take his lung medication. Complained again that he couldn’t breath and went to the back porch window and opened it and leaned up against it trying to get air. I then was getting mom up because it was late night because it looked like dad could have been in serious trouble. Well, mom didn’t think he was, until he toppled. There can be many different symptoms to a heart attack. Including what might be mistaken for gas pains. It is only because people don’t recognize the symptoms immediately that they are also likely to ignore the problem until it is too late. The problems can come on gradually. Only in a percentage of circumstances is there what is called in layman’s terms, a massive heart attack. Where the person who has it dies immediately. Dad didn’t die immediately. After mom called it in and I checked to see if dad might still be among the living, was able to report that he was barely breathing. And mom was trying to give him CPR when the paramedics showed up. He died hours later in the hospital.

  You’d know if you ate some bad tacos, Nic, if the gas pains go away and don’t come back. Its when it doesn’t then you know you have a serious problem.

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  brentandrews on February 20 at 10:41 a.m.

  Wishing everyone a great Blogfest - too bad I can’t be there. Y’all have a good one. - BA

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  hereinidaho on February 20 at 10:52 a.m.

  Does anyone know if LCDC has agreed to fund a parking lot for KYRO ice arena?

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  geoffocache on February 20 at 10:56 a.m.

  I will see all of you who can make it to the Blogfest!

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  hmoffsuite on February 20 at 3:16 p.m.

  Should anyone have read the poll link I posted above, then they would understand what the tea party thing is all about. You don’t need to read each poll, just the overview on the page that loads. The sum total of all the polls taken last week will explain exactly why the tea party initiated. A rant by Rick Santelli of cnbc financial news lit a fire. /// another item. The repubs are having a big rah, rah convention in DC right now. They had a straw poll for presidential candidates. 11 Names. Ron Paul won with 31% of the vote, Romney next and then Palin with 7%.

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  JIMMYMAC on February 20 at 3:18 p.m.

  Posting from the blackberry from a wedding reception. Have a good one everyone!

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  Digger on February 20 at 8:54 p.m.

  For what its worth - I was checking in at OpenCDA.com and, surprise, the CHRG logo is no longer included as part of the OpenCDA logo on top of the page.

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  hhuseland on February 20 at 9:32 p.m.

  I have just learned that many counties in California are now charging for EMT calls. Now this isn’t the same as having them deliver you to the hospital, just the intial call. I find the above remarks regarding “you should Know’ as frivolous and unfeeling. Emegency calls are not always emergencies, as a medical professional would see them. We, however, are not medical professionals and are constantly reminded that if we have a situation that we find serious, we are to call 911.

  I think the situation in California points more to the state being broke than whether it is a rightous law or not.

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  Arch_Druid on February 21 at 8:08 a.m.

  A couple of letters to the editor out of the CDA Press this morning. Got a question for John M. Ukich that of course the Press wouldn’t care to publish: Who runs the U.N.? I don’t believe that POTUS runs the U.N. at all. None the less, Ukich in noting that the U.N. is granting certain favors to Hamas a terrorist group “on the behalf of” the Palestinians; he now equates this entirely with Obama. That Obama is hand delivering gifts to the bad guys. Anything to take a slam at the prez, right? Even when it goes off the deep end.

  Next, Jeff J. Langford really has it in for anyone who “isn’t a common man.” Such as career politicians, lawyers and erudite professors. Now if the guy had demonstrated some kind of knowledge of history, he’d find that the founding fathers were in most cases NOT common men and many of them were also CAREER POLITICIANS. What Mr. Langford wants to project onto them, such as term limits, is a recent by the 1990s invention. The founding fathers never made nor practiced the sorts of claims that Langford makes now.

  So, who should be the “common man” that Langford would rather have become president or members of Congress as examples, the working poor?

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  jt on February 21 at 9:50 a.m.

  I enjoyed the BlogFest gathering very much. Got to meet Arch, Cindy, CleanWater, Derek, DFO, Digger, Dogwalk, Duane Rasmussen, IdahoDad, Me, Mike K, OrangeTv, …

  Thank you DFO & the S-R for hosting the event!

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  hmoffsuite on February 21 at 4:43 p.m.

  Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use the back door.

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  Cindy_H on February 21 at 5:38 p.m.

  Was lovely to meet you jt. And I’m not saying that just because you brought cookies to our table.

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  Stickman on February 21 at 5:57 p.m.

  Of course I like the idea of a political wild card. Will it separate everything, of course not, but it gives some of us, like me, a chance to say something that has nothing to do with the political climate of late. I may actually comment more, and hopefully many of you as well. See you on the wild card.

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  Stickman on February 21 at 5:59 p.m.

  jt: Missed you this time, please make a point next time in introducing yourself, I always love meeting new people.

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  jt on February 22 at 8:34 a.m.

  Stickman - I certainly will. Sorry I missed you as you were on my list of folks to find.

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  Arch_Druid on February 22 at 9:10 a.m.

  Every one should catch the Leonard Pitts jr editorial this morning in the Spokesman-Review. He, I think does a good job of explaining exactly why Obama has it tougher as president, as a mixed race AFRICAN-AMERICAN president given the underlying prejudice that greets the man at every turn.

  Well, who else would be associated by his pastor? Even though plenty of pastors in the GOP fold have been politically active and had less than civil things to say themselves? Until Obama, not one.

  When Pastor Wright crossed the line where Obama was concerned AND he finally left the church; the people who jeered at Obama for months for staying loyal to a loser, then turned around and jeered at him for throwing the loser under the bus. Yeah, THAT kind of abuse that Pitts refers to.

  So, think I’ll ask this question, when was it ever “conservative” to let your bigotry show?

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