Wild Card/Wednesday -- 8/31/05
The thread's open, lasses and laddies (ED. Note: What's a Portuguese doing trying to sound like a Scot? Knock it off) here ...
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 31, 2005
P.S. (Reintroducing An Old Friend)
Today you get to go to the Dollar Tree Store! Oh Boy! You have three dollars you can spend! Don't worry about the tax! You can buy three items from this list!Toilet paper Reading glasses A squirt gun Garbage bags Canned stew Bubble bath A…
For Those of You Keeping Score ...
... the last home of Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler sold for about $160,000 this morning with 30 people attending the auction and mebbe 11 bidders. Call it neighborhood revitalization.
10 Ways to Support Troops (For Those Who ...
... Don't Support Their Mission) offers swell ways to do just that (if you can get past the elbows thrown at the peace activists). I'm not posting this gratuitously to raise the hackles of the peace activists who blurk and comment on this blog. This…
A Mother's Love
Flowing like a river hushedWhere circling eagles reach.Six children know that we are blessed:Our mother’s love is deep.For the rest of John Austin's terrific tribute to his mother at age 80, click here.
Peanut Gallery -- Handicap Parking 1
Good morning, Dave. One of my all time largest pet peeves is the mis-use of handicapped parking spaces. This past week, I was dining at the Denny's in Post Falls. As I was leaving, I noticed a man pull into a reserved space which was…
Timbrrrrr Terrrrrorrrrr
I'm a wuss when it comes to carnival rides. The Merry Go Round is about my top speed. I still can't believe I road the Jurassic Park roller coast at Universal Studios a coupla years ago, the one with the big drop at the end.…
SR Circulation Numbers
Several of you have asked about our circulation numbers yesterday. Here they are:Weekdays: 95,000Saturdays: 108,500Sundays: 126,000Online: 1,000We've dropped circulation somewhat in the last year largely due to a business decision. Managing Editor Steve Smith (pictured) explains: "Our declines arep rimarily due to the complete elimination…
Question of the Day -- 8/31/05
Issue: Bush, 'global warming' to blame for hurricane? RFK Jr. joins others suggesting climate change responsible for intensity of Gulf Coast disaster/Joe Kovacs, WorldNetDaily.DFO: I got a letter this morning from an enviro who threw Hurricane Katrina in my face to content I was full…
Hump Day Quick Fix 6 -- 8/31/05
1. APhoto Fix: Prices at a Citgo Gas Station in Smithtown, N.Y., start at $3.29 for regular unleaded this morning. Crude oil prices dropped Wednesday after the U.S. government's decision to make petroleum available from its strategic reserve.2. Cartoon Fix: Bob Nowak (Abortion study), Chuck…
TUESDAY, AUG. 30, 2005
P.S.
Issue: Looters turn New Orleans into 'downtown Baghdad': Defender: 'It's an opportunity to get back at society' for those who've been oppressed/WorldNetDaily.DFO: I'm reminded of stories about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake in which the suffering and homeless helped one another -- and looting wasn't…
Best of the Local Blogs -- 8/30/05
5GenNative sends Huckleberries Online a photo of his/her "grand-dog" taken earlier this summer on the St. Joe near Avery. Dog's name? Huckleberries. How cool is that?*CDADave has taken his Wayback Machine to ... Spokane (?!) in the 1940s to check out elevation drops here, and…
Yes, Yes, I Do, I Do
Granati/Orange Frog 76 floored me with this beautiful reminder from Junior's wedding two years ago. Here, he takes his bride, Stephanie, in a Portland ceremony, and she has been a wonderful addition to the family.
Refinancing
I can't take out a third mortgage on my heart or consolidate my soul.The interest rates are too high. But I can budget my dreamsand clip a few more coupons. Watch for sales. Bob Salsbury/Unbearable Bobness of Being
Huckleberries Best of the Northwest -- 8/30/05
Shannon Sullivan greets a supporter outside Spokane City Hall as the official recall campaign to oust Mayor Jim West kicked off/Brian Plonka, Spokesman Review photo. Organizers to recall Spokane Mayor Jim West say they'd collected about half the signatures they needed by noon Monday. And…
Gotcha
Scene: Perkins restaurant on Division/SpokaneTime: Thursday eveningNarrator: Jon Livingston/SpokaneAfter ordering $42 worth of food and wolfing it down, two twentysomething femmes attempted to skip out without paying. The scam began when one left the table, and the other was presented with the check. Oh, said…
Question of the Day -- 8/30/05
Issue: World's Oldest Person Dies in Netherlands: 115-year-old woman dies peacefully in her sleep/Associated PressDFO: We have some longevity in my family, with many aunts and uncles reaching their early 80s and my godfather checking out at 89. Mom's now 80 and doing fine. But…
Cis Provides Final Word on Blog Trolls
Why in heavens name do we let ONE negative remark bug us, even if it is just a short time? I have gotten so I consider the source or lack of, and let it go.Cis Gors
Quick Fix 6 -- 8/30/05
1. APhoto Fix: Poland's former president and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa flashes the Victory sign with some 200 young Poles born on Aug. 31, 1980, the day when the Solidarity freedom movement was born out of worker protests in the shipyards on the Baltic coast,…
MONDAY, AUG. 29, 2005
P.S.
Issue: Coffee top antioxidant source: Study shows health perk to morning fix/Randolph E. Schmid, Associated PressJBelle: "How about cofffee being the uno primo antioxidant? As I remarked to my husband at lunch, "In the 23 years you have watched me grow roses, how many of…
Photo of the Day -- 8/29/05
A dancer surfs the crowd during the performance of Green Day at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards Sunday. You write the cutline.Top Cutlines:1. Dismayed that their recall petition was stymied by bureaucratic red-tape, an angry mob of Spokane residents stormed City Hall and forcibly…
In the "World Gone Mad" Dept ...
Kids in class limited to 5 F-words: Can swear at teacher every day but tally must be kept on chalk board/London Daily Mail
Peanut Gallery -- Bike Giveaway
a deputy has asked me to find needy children, ages 3-12, who need a new bike. It's the same deputy who put me in a choke hold at the fair. The deputies will assemble and deliver the bikes. I've only found one church who is…
CDA High Win Over Flathead ...
... from a Montana perspective here.DFO: Do any of you commenters/blurkers follow high school football? Which team? How many games to you plan to watch this year?
CDADave: An Anti-Cig Evangelist?
In a way, I feel one of my 'purposes' here on this planet is to get people to 'think' about smoking. God knows I'm never going to condemn anyone for it, but when I hear someone ask for a cigarette, I just tell 'em, "hey,…
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.
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