If the command “Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!” is one of the all-time memorable taglines for a sci-fi film, it’s hardly the only one. Following are few of my favorites. See if you can guess the origins of each. 1. “A long time ago in a…
5:49 p.m. A woman's voice on the scanner: "Can I have my clothes back?"1:39 p.m. A man crushed his arm between the boat and a dock, according to EMT reports. (But I couldn't catch where accident occurred.)1:15 p.m. Utility line down @ Ramsey & Hayden.
The Libertarian Party is celebrating its 37th birthday today, having been founded on Dec. 11, 1971, and ranking as America's third-largest political party. So what to get the birthday celebrant? Here's what Idaho gave the party's presidential candidate this year, Bob Barr: 3,658 votes. That's…
Item: Obama wants to offer states help, Gov. Otter isn’t sure he wants the handout/Idaho Statesman More Info: President-elect Barack Obama is offering states their share of federal economic recovery dollars to start rebuilding America’s crumbling infrastructure. While other states are throwing out their wish…
Americans don’t need to write good ether it’s all about the internet now … the only dictionary that matters now is urban dictionary now. Now, its more important to know whats going on than being able to describe it. And if we do have to…
There's one thing Sen. Larry Craig needs to consider in deciding whether he'll ask the Minnesota Supreme Court to review his airport bathroom case. Well there are several things, like cost, and precedents, and the law. But beyond that. How long does he want to…
Item: Bush opens up on struggle with alcohol abuse/CNNMore Info: President Bush reflected on his own struggle with alcohol in a White House meeting Thursday that touted gains in the war on drug abuse. CNN was the only media outlet invited to attend the entire…
Item: Just a third of U.S. adults got flu shots/ReutersMore Info: Fewer than a third of U.S. adults have received a flu vaccine so far this year and only about half said they intended to get one, according to a survey released on Wednesday. The…
Item: Obama wants to offer states help, Gov. Otter isn’t sure he wants the handout/Idaho Statesman More Info: President-elect Barack Obama is offering states their share of federal economic recovery dollars to start rebuilding America’s crumbling infrastructure. While other states are throwing out their wish…
Item: Unhappy primary care doctors could be bad news for Idaho: Low pay, long hours and piles of paperwork have many nationwide looking to quit/Idaho Statesman More Info: Many classmates of Dr. Chip Roser ended their medical training ready to practice a specialty. They morphed…
Alex Brandon/APNew Orleans Hornets center Tyson Chandler falls on a photographer after saving a rebound in the first half of their NBA basketball game with the Charlotte Bobcats in New Orleans Wednesday. Neither person was injured. You write the cutline.Top Cutlines1. "The bald eagles had…
Item: Starbucks won't slug it out in ad wars: Coffee chain says it'll take high road/Seattle PIMore Info: McDonald's has erected a billboard in sight of Starbucks headquarters declaring, "four bucks is dumb." If Dunkin' Donuts' taste test commercials were the schoolyard equivalent of blowing…
Jesse Tinsley/SRRusty Marsh, playing Santa Claus, hands out candy canes to the kids of Spirit Lake Elementary recently. At the annual event, the kids walk from their school to the downtown area, listen to the Timberlake High jazz band play carols and then meet Santa.…
Item: Arctic blast: Weekend forecast calls for snow, frigid temps/Tom Hasslinger, CDA PressMore Info: The storm should hit in three phases in Couer d'Alene, the first of which should touch down Friday, when a cold blast from the north hits a moisture patch coming up…
Who do you think will be the next indicted in the Senate-seat sale scandal?/WorldNetDaily 1. David Axelrod, Obama political consultant 2. First lady Patti Blagojevich 3. Mayor Richard Daily 4. Rahm Emanuel, incoming White House chief of staff 5. Illinois Deputy Gov. Bob Greenlee
Christopher Anderson/SRTaylor Rochestie drives down the lane to try and score against Gonzaga in Pullman Wednesday. Rochestie scored 6 points in the game, going 0 for 5 from 3 point range. ESPN game story & boxscore here.South Carolina St 66, Idaho 59
Courtesy: As The Lake Churns"We were snowmobiling with our 6 year old twins at Priest Lake," writes Lisa Sheehan/As The Lake Churns, and climbed to the top of a huge rock outcropping. It looked as if we were standing on top of the world. SR…
AP File PhotoPresident-elect Barack Obama, left, his wife Michelle Obama, right, and two daughters, Sasha, 7, and Malia, 10, second from right, wave at the election night rally in Chicago last month. Item: Canyon leader criticized for forwarding e-mail about Obama dress/Idaho StatesmanMore Info: The…
5:43 p.m. Injury accident involving a semi truck and a small car on Highway 95 @ Bonners Ferry. Med-Star is en route.4:20 p.m. A twentysomething blonde drove off in a silver Ford SUV from Holiday pumps on Haycraft without paying for gas.3:22 p.m. Albertson's reports…
Eric Risberg/AP Photo A sign promoting Day Without a Gay is shown posted in the Castro District in San Francisco today. A daylong strike for which people were encouraged to call in "gay" to work to express support for same-sex marriage is drawing spotty participation.…
Granati/OrangeFrog76"... the scout master would be next to the oil barrel fire while drinking his "hot chocolate" or whatever it was with the scouts running here or there, trying to sell an overpriced, dead, brown-needled, green-painted tree to those that dared step foot in their…
It was time to step into the lion's den and ask a female why women as a whole now use purses the size of bowling bags. "The bigger your purses, the more attention you get" said one woman on campus, wielding quite a large (purse).…
The Westboro Baptist Church, an extremely controversial group that has made anti-gay messages its hallmark, is the latest group asking to place a holiday sign at the state capitol. "Santa Claus will take you to hell," it begins. The sign, the contents of which are…
"Certainly the 'privacy interest in avoiding unwanted communication' is very strong in a stall in a public restroom. ... Here it is the place in which the conduct occurred, as much as or more than the nature of the conduct, that determines its offensive nature.…
Randy Squires/APIn this August 2005 file photo, Sen. Barack Obama, D- Illinois, left, laughs with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich during Governor's Day at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Ill. Blagojevich was roused from bed and arrested Tuesday, after prosecutors said he was caught on…
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.
