Joker’s Summer Awards

This has been another great week of summer in North Idaho. It’s so wonderful that I decided to give out awards to celebrate our little slice of heaven.

• I heart CDA: This award goes to Jimmy Mac who knows a good thing when he sees it. Yay Jimmay!
• Paranoia will destroy ya: The person fighting common core requirements and information gathering. You know who you are and so does Obama.
• You’ve got mail: The CDA School District must have cut surge protectors out of the budget because a power surge fried their servers – losing every email since forever. It’s got to be Tom Hamilton’s fault. Call the Geek squad right away.
• The Ted Stevens Internet Series of Tubes: We tried giving this award to the Coeur d’Alene School District for having one of the worst web sites in the history of man, but they didn’t return our emails, the award goes to Tom Luna who signed Idaho up for a long-term multi-million dollar Wifi contract from a campaign contributor. Nothing wrong here.
• Get a life: The group of Republicans who felt it necessary to stand on overpasses to protest President Obama. Why didn’t you hang those cheesy homemade signs on your boats and cruise the lake? You’ll get a tan and you’ll annoy fewer people.
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• Detroit can never happen here: This award goes to the city council who doesn’t flinch to overpay employee salaries or their pensions. Nobody on this blog was outraged that 14 of the 17 city department heads are maxed out on their salary and still get raises. Why should the taxpayers be upset, I dunno, but the hornets are really bad this year?
• Taking one for the team: This award goes to Coeur d’Alene City Administrator Wendy Gabriel. She has declined her merit raises the last five years.I can’t imagine the sacrifices she’ll making at making only $123,000 a year.No trip to Cabo! But I forgot that her husband is also making about $125,000 as the fire chief. I guess buying the new yacht will have to wait another week or two. I hope they both can scrape enough pennies together to eke out an existence.
• Corporate sizzle: Deanna Goodlander takes home the hardware for her unwavering support of the McEuen Archway. While most of us think this archway is dumb and has no real connection to North Idaho, the design blends in very nicely with Hagadone’s tastes – sterile and lacking emotion. Deanna knows if Duane is happy, everybody is happy. It really looks great next to the Coeur d’Alene Resort. Let’s make sure the cables are geranium red in the spring and summer and his patented blue in the fall and winter. Givem the sizzle!

Thoughts?