OK, do that just one more time
Veep Duane Rasmussen of the Kootenai County R’s sez there’s more to state Sen. Mike Jorgenson’s close encounter with the crack reporting team of host Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show.” Remember? The Hayden Lake senator was caught on tape with other national GOP conventioneers explaining “Small Town Values” to Stewart’s F-Troopers. Mike stammered that Small Town Values meant church – “Christian church, Jewish church …” Well, Duane tells Huckleberries that he encountered Mike shortly after the taping occurred. And that Mike couldn’t figure out what had just happened to him. Seems one of the Stewart reporters filmed Mike’s part of the segment four times before he got what he wanted. Which was an extremely funny cameo in the four-minute-plus clip. However, Duane says that Mike now feels that he was “ambushed” into looking foolish. He had plenty of company on that clip.
Arizona bound
Gary Ferguson and Mike Caldwell, The Boys From Idaho who are riding horses to Apache Junction, Ariz., had a special treat as they clip-clopped past the Circling Raven Golf Club at the Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort near Worley. A curious Native American golfer stopped the cowboys and asked them what was up. When they told him that they hit the trail with six horses and two dogs when they couldn’t find work in Blanchard, the Indian dropped his expensive golf clubs and performed “a special traditional native American dance and sang a special song” for them in the middle of the golf course. Gary’s son, Franklin, who’s marking the cowboys’ progress with posts on their MySpace page, posted the obvious rhetorical question: “How cool is that?”
Quotable quote
“I met (congressional wannabe) Walt Minnick today and will meet him again tomorrow. Nice guy, but his campaign materials sure are misleading. Lots of guns and fishing and the words ‘right’ and ‘business’ and ‘conservative.’ Nothing saying he’s a Democrat. Is he embarrassed or something?”/Holly Bowen, UI Argonaut Opinion Page editor who formerly published an underground ezine as a Post Falls High student.
Huckleberries
My condolences to Sandpoint, which has been picked as No. 8 in Sunset mag’s 10 Best Western towns. Quoth: “As you cross the two-mile-long bridge spanning deep, blue Lake Pend Oreille, the Selkirk and Cabinet mountains rimming the horizon, you know you’re some place special: a four-season outdoorsy resort that’s also a real town with a strong community spirit.” Translation: Get ready for another influx of urban equity bandits yearning to be free of the huddled masses. (Hat Tip – to Chip Roos for the heads up) … Yeah, there’s definitely something I like about Demo Steve Caires, a Kootenai County commissioner wannabe, and it has nothing to do with his stands on anything. His folks and grandfolks are from the Azores Islands, in the middle of the Atlantic, like all my grandfolks were. Besides my mother and two siblings, he’s the first full-blooded Portuguese I’ve met in CdA since moving here 24 years ago … BTW, Steve was walking with a cane when he visited the office. The ex-football coach learned the hard way that his sixtysomething body can’t do what it once did as he tried to show his son’s players how to handle blocking assignments … Bumpersnicker (spotted by Inlander reporter Kevin Taylor on red Highlander on Monroe Street Bridge/Spokane Wednesday): “Wag more, bark less.”
Parting shot
Most realize that child raper/murderer Joseph Duncan is the scum of the earth. Even the American Civil Liberties Union admits that monster who destroyed the McKenzie/Groene family is the poster child for the death penalty. In an interview with Nathaniel Hoffman/Boise Weekly, Tom McCabe, ex-chairman of Idaho ACLU’s legal committee, said: “They’ve shown me a person who really is … perhaps, deserves to die.” Perhaps? McCabe continues: “He’s so totally self-centered, he is the center of his universe. You can’t have people like that running around in society. He killed people for his own sexual pleasure. Here’s a guy that doesn’t have any restraint.” So why not come out and say that the guy deserves to fry? No ifs, ands, or perhaps.