Irony
New Yorker Magazine Cover…Too Much?
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the newsletter or RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]
Local News Station KPVI Stole My Work
This morning I discovered that our local NBC news affiliate KPVI published a news story on their website, and the graphic they used was stolen from my website, the IdahoFallz.com blog. You can see clearly from the attached images that they used my “IFPD” picture taken of an IFPD truck, originally published on IdahoFallz.com as [...]
Idaho’s Otter Must Be On Drugs
Can we get our governor drug tested? Our legislature has one week left in session, is it possible for them to quickly introduce and pass a bill requiring weekly urinalysis of our Governor?
Why do I suspect Governor Butch Otter is on drugs? How else do you explain Idaho’s governor vetoing an uber-popular drug treatment [...]
What kind of sex scandals merit leadership changes?
Today news broke of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer being investigated in connection with an international prostitution ring. Rumors are circulating if Governor Spitzer will or should resign his office. Do you think Spitzer should resign his office? Do you think he should be forced out of office? Does anyone know if New York or [...]
The Flap Over The Flag
Here is a story that makes your blood boil on Veterans Day!!!
Recently, the Department of Veterans Affairs opted out of the tradition of reciting the significance of each fold in the flag-folding ceremony at military funerals.
The recitations accompanying each fold pay tribute to the service and sacrifice of our veterans and their families, and the [...]
Michael Moore’s Sicko: Is America’s Health Care System Sick?
“We’ve given the entire health care system over to the insurance industry … they have total control.”
This statement represents the core of Michael Moore’s latest film, Sicko. Does anyone dispute this statement? More importantly, does anyone believe the insurance industry has fostered quality health care in America? Does anyone believe health insurance companies have acted [...]
Legislators Reveal Their Hypocrisy in Family Values
When the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA) recently scored Idaho with the worst day care standards and oversight (52nd in 52 rankings), many thought our legislature would finally pass meaningful reform. When even the Department of Defense (one of the biggest federal bureaucracies) gets high marks for running child care [...]
Liberals or Conservatives- Who Gives More???
Is it me or did anyone else find the 20/20 story on charity a bit ironic? If you didn’t see the episode it was a John Stosell report in which he interviewed Arthur Brooks who is a Professor of Public Administration and Director of the Nonprofit Studies Program at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School [...]
Increase Penalties for Leaving Accident Scenes
According to a recent KIDK 3 report, 20% of DUIs are hit-and-run because the offenders know they will get much less punishment for leaving the scene than for getting a DUI, especially if they already have DUIs on their record.
While we cannot prove if they were drunk, it’s time to dramatically increase the penalties for [...]
Ratio of reward offerings could drive clues
Last week, KIFI Local News 8 reported the continuing saga of thefts from local construction sites, and how one electrician lost about $11,000 in trailer thefts. A $500 reward was being offered for clues leading to the conviction of these thieves.
A few minutes later KIFI reported a beef cow shot near Heise, and a $5,000 [...]
School funding irony?
Idaho Falls Republican Jack Barraclough, Chairman of the House Education Committee, was quoted in today’s Post Register as complaining,
“What does the Legislature need to do to prove to education that we’re going to provide funding? It’s frustrating to be told that week after week, year after year, that they don’t trust us.”
Mary Haley asks [...]
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