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‘Tis the Season for Christmas Lights and Cussing
Well, I finally got around to taking down the Christmas lights from the house last Saturday. I laid them all out in the driveway, then plugged them in and checked every bulb on each string. Then I carefully coiled them all up, sealed them in a plastic bag, and tossed them into the garbage.
I’ve been burned enough times to know that, when I put the lights back on the house in two weeks, half of the strings won’t light up. I could never see the point in replacing nine flimsy bulbs in a $3.00 string of crappy lights, so I always get mad, yank down the dead string, and replace it with a new $3.00 string. This year I figure I’ll just save myself the anguish and replace it all before I start. Hey, I’m happy to help boost the economy. Of China.
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USDA Rule Would Send Organic Dairy Cows To Pasture
The United States Department of Agriculture says organic milk cows should be sent to pasture -- at least for 120 days a year.
As Steve Karnowski reports for the Associated Press, the draft USDA rule comes after outcry about big organic milk producers that keep their animals in large feedlots, feeding them organically and producing organically, but not giving them any fresh grass or room to roam. Under the proposed rule, which is up for public comment until December 23, in order to be certified organic, milk cows must be on pasture for half of the year and 30 percent of their dry food must come from grazing.
Boulder-based Aurora Organic Dairy, which produces store brands for the likes of Wal-Mart and Safeway and Broomfield-based Horizon were at the center of the controversy. Aurora spokeswoman Sonja Tuitele tells the AP that the company is looking at the draft rules and will provide comment. As Karnowski reports, Tuitele "said the proposals don't adequately provide for inclement weather. She also said the final rules will need to take geographic differences into consideration." Horizon, on the other hand, is supportive of the proposed rule.
Guest Opinion: Children Chant
Children’s Chant Against Obama: Never Again
When second- and third-graders chanted "Assassinate Obama" on a Madison School District bus recently, district spokeswoman Janet Goodliffe explained that most of the children didn't understand what the words mean. According to The Associated Press, she attributed the chant to the community's being "highly conservative" and overwhelmingly for John McCain.
I admire Janet Goodliffe as a preschool education leader. But as a teacher, she offered tortured excuses instead of capitalizing on a great teaching opportunity.
This is not an isolated incident. As a former teacher and Idaho Falls school volunteer, Luella Hendrickson, wrote on this page Thursday, after the election, children in her daughter's elementary class condemned Obama for being a Muslim, not being a U.S. citizen, selling out to the Arabs, taking away our guns, etc.
Anyone with ears to hear know these children were parroting their parents. Children get the drift from home: The new president is radical, dangerous and not to be trusted.
How terribly sad.
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Diary of a Mad Voter: Joan McCarter
Parting Shots from the Bush Interior Department
The Bush administration has given the incoming Obama team (and the American people) yet another middle finger. First they announced--on Election Day, the day the American people decisively rejected "drill, baby, drill"--that they were putting huge swaths of Utah's most beautiful and fragile canyonlands under the auction block. Now they think they've figured out a way to make their policy of "rape the land first, don't bother with the questions ever" permanent.
Idaho Fishing
Steelhead Stocked in the Boise River
Anglers lined the Boise River near the Parkcenter Boulevard bridge, shoulder to shoulder, in anticipation as Idaho Fish and Game released another 300 steelhead into the Boise River Thursday afternoon, November 13.
Fish and Game managers plan to release another 300 in the river Thursday, November 20, from the Glenwood Bridge to Barber Park.
Steelhead are returning to the Oxbow Hatchery as forecast, and Idaho Fish and Game managers released the first 300 into the river on Thursday, November 6. Trapping at Oxbow began Monday, October 27.
Besides a 2008 fishing license, anglers hoping to tangle with one of the 4- to 10-pound hatchery steelhead need a $12.75 steelhead permit. Barbless hooks are not required for Boise River steelhead angling.
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INVITATION TO SUBMIT RESPONSES TO A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS TO DEVELOP THE FOX SITE PORTION OF THE RIVERFRONT TRIANGLE URBAN RENEWAL DISTRICT- MISSOULA, MONTANA.
The City of Missoula Redevelopment Agency (MRA) is seeking redevelopment proposals from qualified developers interested in undertaking a hotel, and/or a residential, commercial mixed-use project to redevelop one or both City-owned parcels within the Fox Site portion of the Riverfront Triangle Urban Renewal District. Together, the parcels total just under two acres in size. Proposals may include civic use of one parcel. The deadline for submittal of RFP responses is January 8, 2009.
Documents and informational material may be found here or may be obtained by contacting:
Missoula Redevelopment Agency
140 West Pine Street
Missoula, MT 59802
(406) 552-6155
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