I've lived in Mtn Home since 1989, so that's...hold on...I'm thinking...WOW! Exactly 25 years! Boy, I think I can almost declare myself an Idahoan. But my family is British and I grew up in Louisiana around lots of other Brits so I still think I'm a little bit of a mutt. Those of you who have been around awhile may remember when I used to blog all the time. My opinions weren't very accepted and there was always an issue because I work for the county. That really wasn't fair because I NEVER blog at work! And I am still entitled to my opinions and thoughts about city and county issues, right? However, it stirred a lot of pots and those pots certainly can make a lot of noise! Since I'm a writer, I took what I wrote in my blog seriously so I spent a lot of time researching things which got exhausting to do when you're not even get a paycheck for it. So I stopped. That was a blessing to many! However, to this day, I still have people stop me and ask me why I wasn't blogging and t! hey missed it. I've missed it. Mainly because there are so many issues that come up and I have no voice except around my friends and I'm sure they are tired of it.

It's the Oct 8tn List

Posted Thursday, October 8, 2009, at 8:25 AM

Unbox the Cross!

1. The Taliban is not a threat so American troops can just go home. That is what they say on their website. Yet, several were killed yesterday and the Taliban takes credit.

2. Troops requested 50,000 but the General was pressured to lower that to 40,000.

3. Baucus bill meets their target-costs $829 billion but the good part is that it cuts deficit by $81 billion. How? Well, it will cover 95% of the people however there will be 25 Million who have insurance now who eventually won't be insured? Premiums will be going up! The Cadillac insurance plans will be heavily taxed. Taxes and penalties! Medical devices will be taxed. Leads to a massive involvement by the gov't.

4. Heritage Foundation is warning of propaganda and gimmickry to get this bill to pass. Case in point-Doctors for America? The Obama meeting with doctors was so staged it is not funny. I watched footage as they were handed white coats for that meeting. It was all a fairytale to get people to believe that doctors want this reform. These were doctors for Obama, who campaigned for him. Let the people see all these white coats and they will believe that all doctors support healthcare reform.

5. Unbox the Cross! The decision about the cross will be decided today as it is argued in court. California's Mojave Desert is at the heart of a Supreme Court case about the government's display of religious symbols. Here's a real interesting tidbit about this story. A Catholic veteran who used to work at the park service where the cross stood was troubled about it and reported that it shouldn't be on public property.

6. I heard about the crowds of people who were standing in line for 5 city blocks in order to get their share of Obama Money. So I had to search and read about this. According to the Boston Globe-Rumors travel fast and when the word got out that they would get a $3,000 check just for proving that they were homeless or poor, the crowds formed by daybreak, Tuesday morning. It wasn't long before people started getting frustrated and angry. Scuffles erupted as people pushed and shoved each other. It was so bad that the city had to call out the Detroit Gang squad to control them. Several had exhaustion problems and had to be treated by medical personnel. But hey, who would suffer a little tired feet syndrome in order to get some free cash?

7. Obama's people say that they have enlisted over 2 million people who support healthcare reform. Where are they? Apparently, their voices are too meek to be heard over the raging voices of those who oppose it at all the townhall meetings. They are being called silent majority. Hey, that is what we RWE used to be called. I mean that those of us who were silent in the past are finally using our voice and they are the silent ones? I'm just confused now. Don't we, those who oppose it outnumber them? Then wouldn't that make us a MAJORITY?

8. Boise want to spend millions and millions on a trolly car system instead of using that money to improve the real public transportation system that they have. Seems stupid to put money into something new. But who am I but a small town MountainHomey.

9. Apes taking over the world? Yes, this does concern me. I was always leery of those creatures. Not only do they congregate in zoos all over the world but they turn up driving cars through towns, dancing in the streets of New Orleans during Marti Grais (spelled right??)and seen doing all sorts of things on commercials while wearing business suits when everyone knows that apes and chimps only like to wear overalls and flannels. This does deserve more attention! I must watch them carefully for signs of insurrection.

10. And finally, number 10. Only because I couldn't just post 8, right? My final worry for today! Drum-roll please. Obama is a party-animal! Yes, folks, while we think that he is working hard at solving all of man-kinds problems, that is really his doppleganger. He is really out bowling, golfing and surfing with these newlyweds. I'm not kidding! I saw it in their slideshow. Every single picture of their vacations, Obama was right there in the background living it up. I think that we have a double doing all the work, if you can call what he does actual work and the Pres. is having a good time snorkeling in Hawaii. Reported to be his home state but the jury is still out on that.

However, I have no double to work for me so I must close and get there. The official time is 7:25am. Thank you peoples and have a great day.

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I dont agree with the latest health care proposals but Heritage Foundation is a questionable. They are so biased that its almost laughable. Numbers can be twisted to prove anybody's case.

-- Posted by twilcox1978 on Thu, Oct 8, 2009, at 10:20 AM
Oh and FOX too. They use studies performed by Heritage Foundation to back up the various hosts agenda.

For example, one study performed by them states the cost of the Waxman-Markey bill is 9.04 Trillion at the low end and 12.36 Trillion at the high end. This uses the assumption of a baseline year to compare to. This baseline year is 2005. They assume that nothing is going to change from then until 2050. The only change will be higher energy prices and the resulting mess that comes from that. To argue that the only change in everyday life will be energy prices and that we will act exactly the same in 2050 as we did in 2005 is laughable.

-- Posted by twilcox1978 on Thu, Oct 8, 2009, at 4:42 PM
What nobody is worried about #9 or #10? Okay, fine! I guess I'm on my own there. No, strike that phrase. Goin it alone may be thought to be a comment related to the one about masturbation so I can never use that line again without giggling. On a serious note, Censored, I am sorry if you have been sick and I never intended to make anyone think that I doubt that the Swine flu exists. My comment was to question if this flu is any more dangerous than the other normal flu. Nobody seems to have gotten all up in arms about the normal flu and it has killed far more than this H1N1 flu. I hope that you are feeling better, Censored.

Twil- I have said many times before that numbers are not believable so I stand with you on that one.

-- Posted by kimkovac on Fri, Oct 9, 2009, at 12:32 AM
**** dirty apes, and their crazy apocalyptic ideas.

I appreciate your concern Kim. But I just learned that my swine flu was just a figment of my imagination. I wasn't really puking, coughing or feverish, I'm just a really good actor. So good that I even tricked myself into believing. Here's the link:

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=23035672&blogId...

-- Posted by censored on Fri, Oct 9, 2009, at 8:47 AM
The government pigeon-holed that last link. This one should work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV9lC0u24Ik&feature=related

-- Posted by censored on Fri, Oct 9, 2009, at 8:58 AM
If I want good solid numbers, I go to Bureau of Labor Statistics, Congressional Budget Office, Census, or Bureau of Economic Analysis. True, it takes awhile for these groups to come up with the numbers. By the time that they have analyzed the issue properly, the issue may be off the table or no one cares anymore. The paradox that is research.

-- Posted by twilcox1978 on Fri, Oct 9, 2009, at 9:09 AM
#9

Where is Chuck Heston when you need him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31QUOUxqz2M

In order to be fair and balanced:.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9MxTRspXpQ&feature=related

-- Posted by Beau on Fri, Oct 9, 2009, at 9:41 AM
Awesome!

How can you argue with that kind of proof? I mean the Video evidence is damning! I always knew in my gut that Repubs hated women that talk and do anything other then look pretty. But there's the proof of their sexism in pure technicolor. They blew up lady liberty and created a race of mute women! You people make me sick!

My God! The implications of such a thing boggles the mind.

Thank You Beau.

-- Posted by censored on Fri, Oct 9, 2009, at 10:31 AM
Your going to give yourself a heart-attack with all those exclamation points. Just calm down and be cool, otherwise you might not make it for the revolution.

You should be out hunting and warming up your trigger finger. It's still legal too shoot a deer and curse it liberally.

Example: I'm gonna fill ya full of lead you *^&$ sucking Liberal! Or, die you dirty fascist!

It's good therapy and you won't get thrown in jail. Unless you don't have a deer tag.

-- Posted by censored on Fri, Oct 9, 2009, at 2:48 PM
I might try my hand at hunting a deer next year. Any suggestions on a brand or type of rifle. I have not fired a gun of any kind in about 10 years. Its weird how things that are boring and only for "old" people are not so bad when you get older yourself.

-- Posted by twilcox1978 on Fri, Oct 16, 2009, at 11:02 AM
Its kind of ironic that now that my dad is on his last leg due to lung failure from many long years of smoking that now I am starting to get the itch to hunt and fish.

Not to get off on a tangent but some leftists depict hunters as archaic, conservative, out-of-teach with reality relics. 99% of most hunters that I have met are better environmentalists than the granolas that are made famous with their advocacy.

-- Posted by twilcox1978 on Sat, Oct 17, 2009, at 12:17 AM
I agree about hunters. They have more incentive to maintain the public lands and so most act accordingly. The real threat to them is the yuppie that wants to be an outdoorsman. They desire paved roads, cell phone service, indoor plumbing/sewer, and up-to-date lodging. The modern, middle-class, city folk that have no business being in the wilderness but feel that they must do because everyone else is are the primary offenders. In my experience having spent many summers in Shoup, Idaho they are the ones who leave trash behind and degrade the land.

-- Posted by twilcox1978 on Mon, Oct 19, 2009, at 10:50 AM
Not all places have to be developed. Just leaving some places alone and letting them be remote is the best thing that us humans can do sometimes.

-- Posted by twilcox1978 on Mon, Oct 19, 2009, at 2:45 PM
I have had the same thoughts myself. The closest that I have been to that ideal is the Frank Church Wilderness. I am glad that they did not complete that Forest Service road from Shoup to Riggins.

-- Posted by twilcox1978 on Tue, Oct 20, 2009, at 8:27 AM
"And they know all about what happens when you don't control immigration!"

This would make for a great bumper sticker. I would find it amusing. I dont know about anyone else but it would give a new light on the subject.

The residents of Lemhi County are always stereotypes as being old-fashioned, isolationist rednecks that dont have a clue. They make the prospect of development a bit more rigorous than others. The result is miles of pristine, uninhabited, trash-free, unpolluted earth. Not everybody has to line up for tourist dollars.

-- Posted by twilcox1978 on Tue, Oct 20, 2009, at 5:26 PM
Another example is that of Banff National Park. I know it is Canada but it is not filled with modern infrastructure. Paved roads, yes but there is not a lodge or resort every 3 miles. Beyond the park, the same holds true. The point is that leaving nature be is not a bad thing. It does not mean that one is ignorant and is foresaking income in the name of pride. Making development difficult or sometimes impossible does not mean that one is backwards. Instead of giving into outsiders and adjusting to their wants and desires, why not make them adjust to your ways (albeit simple and old-fashioned).

-- Posted by twilcox1978 on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 3:01 PM

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