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Roy Zimmerman in Idaho Falls !!

by Nemesis August 16, 2008

                                                  
Idaho Falls Drinking Liberally is sponsoring a concert by Roy Zimmerman, a funny and skillful political satirist.  With his sharp wit and musical talent, Roy takes on war, poverty, ignorance, bigotry, neo-conservatism, homophobia, greed, lust and fear. He’s in the middle of a lower-48-state tour, and is on his way to gigs at both the Democratic [...]

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Should the Farmers’ Market Move?

by Nemesis August 10, 2008

I think it’s time for the Idaho Falls Farmers’ Market to move.  It’s crowded, it creates tremendous pedestrian congestion around those two intersections (Broadway and Capital, and Broadway and Memorial) as people try to find parking elsewhere and then walk to get there (very few spaces left in the same parking lot).
 
Folks also park in [...]

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The Eagle Rock Co-op is OPEN!

by Nemesis August 3, 2008

It’s a “soft” opening as their grand opening is scheduled for mid September. 
They have products on the shelves and in the coolers, but they don’t have much in the way of produce yet.  They have a selection of meats and cheeses, some bulk items, coffees and teas, and various natural type shelf items (such [...]

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Quack Quack Quack?

by Nemesis August 2, 2008

I was asked to write something about alternative medicine by another site member.
Per Wikipedia, the term alternative medicine refers to any healing practice that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine.  Practitioners such as naturopaths and chiropractors and osteopaths use methods that traditional medicine practitioners tend to frown on, such as iridology, biofeedback, [...]

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IF City Taxes to Increase?

by Nemesis July 27, 2008

Per the Post Register today, there is a very real possibility that the City of Idaho Falls is about to raise property taxes.  The PR estimate was a $23 annual increase on a home worth $150,000.
 
Why the need for the increase?  Was the recent 2.86% levy decrease a bit premature?
 
The article mentions that the mayor [...]

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I’m a Reluctant Carnivore

by Nemesis July 26, 2008

I grew up eating everything. I mean everything. I’m from Appalachia, and we ate squirrels, bullfrogs and crawdads.  I moved to rural Idaho where we had the usual farm animals, made them into family pets, then we ate them, too. I like the taste of meat, for the most part. Especially charred on the grill (exactly [...]

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Step Parents and Discipline

by Nemesis July 19, 2008

I am a stepmother.  I had stepparents.  My daughters had stepparents.  The concept of stepparenting in our society is here to stay.
 
I was asked to write this post by another site guest who wondered, “Should stepparents discipline their stepchildren?”   It’s a tricky subject.  First it has to be decided what the concept of discipline is, [...]

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New Yorker Magazine Cover…Too Much?

by Nemesis July 14, 2008

The New Yorker Magazine has a motherlode issue on the stands…a collector’s issue if there ever was one.  It shows Barack Obama and his wife Michelle in the White House.  However:
Obama is garbed in traditional Arabic clothing and headdress, and Michelle is in military fatigues with an automatic rifle (and the ammunition sash).  On the [...]

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13,000 iPod Songs and Counting

by Nemesis July 13, 2008

I love music. I was raised on old country, Hank Williams Sr, Patsy Cline, etc. 50s doowop. I still like bluegrass, and folk music. I know all the 60s and 70s radio oldies by heart. By the 80s I was into the hard stuff, headbangin’ and big hair men. [...]

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Plant a Row for the Hungry

by Nemesis July 6, 2008

Apparently there is a national campaign for folks to plant extra garden rows of fresh produce and donate the extra food to the local food banks and homeless shelters. Fresh produce is a premium item, difficult to afford on a fixed budget, and donations of such are very welcome. It’s not something that [...]

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Handgun Control

by Nemesis June 29, 2008

The Supreme Court struck down the Washington DC ban on handguns as one of its last acts this term.  It was a 5-4 ruling, with the conservatives in the majority and Anthony Kennedy wielding the usual swing vote.

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Grass Roots Libertarianism

by Nemesis April 8, 2008

I am a registered Democrat, which has been a losing proposition in Idaho (especially Eastern Idaho) for me these past 25 years.
I started out as an ardent conservative Republican, but before my third presidential election I found I could no longer toe the party line. I couldn’t continue to support the idea that [...]

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Stay-At-Home Parenting

by Nemesis February 25, 2008

A high school student wrote a column in the Post Register in January, about the virtues of feminism. One of her issues was around the choices of career by her peers. In an informal poll, she asked the “what do you want to be when you grow up?” question, and one response surprised [...]

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