"Some people REALLY love Christmas. Me, I love Thanksgiving. This year I had my chance to do the traditional thing of shooting my own turkey for Thanksgiving. Man, you should have seen the people scatter in the meat department!" -- Pastor Tim's CleanLaugh (click here).Thanks…
In the More Reason for Demos' Fears category, the L.A. Times has reported that 97 of the 100 fastest-growing counties in the U.S. went Bush-Cheney earlier this month here.
Sports author John Feinstein offers a superb analysis of the Detroit/Indiana basketball fight here.
And the Washington gubernatorial count and recount and possible rerecount goes on and on and on. Dino Rossi has gained 25 votes to add to his 261-vote lead, but the big counties that went to Christine Gregoire are still be be recounted. You can read…
If you ever want to forward a single Hot Potatoes' item to someone, all you have to do is click on the time it was entered (lower righthand corner) and then cut and paste the URL address (you know -- the thing with the httP://www…
For those of us who believe the Big American Media wing of al-Jazeera isn't providing the whole story about Iraq, the latest "Good News from Iraq" by Chrenkoff is always a treat here.
Dubya's just broken the 61-million vote barrier here.
John Little of Blogs of War points out some of the cuh-razy reaction by democraticunderground.com readers to the plane crash that claimed Bush Sr.'s crew today here.
I was such a fool. For once, I tried to be open-minded about plans by The Duane to build a botanical garden in downtown Coeur d'Alene. After all, I figured, closing two blocks of Sherman Avenue for a botanical garden seemed like a good trade…
Cutting out early today, folks. Gotta get a head start on celebrating my double-nickle birthday: Big 5-5. Tomorrow. Nah, I won't be hitting the bars. Never have. But I'll be enjoying myself with my wife and extended family. 'Tis nice to have family around. I…
Darn ! Dan English is so logical. No wonder he keeps getting elected (including my little Republican vote). But if our elected officials have already decided to have an advisory vote for the library, open space, and public safety why not just add the Sherman…
Do we live in a democracy or a republic and what does that have to do with Sherman Avenue? Outside of the county elections office is a sign that reads in part, "Gatekeepers of Democracy." Sometimes we get complaints that "Hey, don't you know America…
You can find the rest of the story about the brave Marine who killed the wounded terrorist in Fallujah here.
Seems our old friend Osama has no where left to run and very little room to hide here.
Now, the Iraqi mosques aren't safe for the bad guys any more here.
I don't have time to do the regular features today. But I will be blogging off and on during the day. So, stay tuned.
*Arlen Specter wins colleagues' support: GOP judiciary panel members unanimously back chairmanship/WorldNetDaily: I'm told by my sources in D.C. that this cat now has a bell on his tail. And he'll behave. We'll see. We'll see.*Veterans blast Pentagon for ACLU deal: Defense department denies Boy…
Dubya welcomes Margaret Spellings, his secretary of Education nominee, with a peck. You can read all about her nomination here.
Earlier this p.m., I criticized U.S. Larry Craig for supporting liberal colleague Arlen Specter's push to chair the Judiciary Committee here. I just got this comment from his office.“Senator Specter gave his word to President Bush and has publicly committed to move the President’s judicial…
The Repubs on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which includes Idaho's Larry Craig (pictured), told all the religious conservatives to go back to the back of the bus now that the R's have gotten their vote again. Translation: All 9 of these guys support liberal Sen.…
DaveO, I think the Mayor and four of the six council members will want to avoid placing an advisory on the February ballot fearing the anti-BigD electorate will be successful and also torpedo the proposed library and emergency service levies. Like many others have said,…
I thought Big D said if people didn't want his beautiful flowers he would take the plans off the table. So why does he object to a public vote? If it's such a great idea, let the people examine it and then make an informed…
RuralNorthwest.com, in Boundary County, provides a good daily news review of North Idaho's five counties here.
And the winner is ... Rossi ... by 261 votes out of 2.8 million cast in Washington state. Mebbe. There'll be a recount here. And The Seattle Times notes that suburbs that haven't gone Republican in two decades helped put Dino over the top here.…
I've been doing some thinking about what a new Internet friend said re: this blog: "The endless smack toward non-Bush voters is getting kind of old, don't you think?" He could be right. Since this blog began in mid-February, the prez race was front and…
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.
