http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum Welcome to the Boise Weekly Forum en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:18:44 GMT vBulletin 60 http://forum.boiseweekly.com/forum/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4377&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:46:42 GMT WASHINGTON - The Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., for making "inconsistent, misleading or incomplete" statements about the circumstances surrounding his appointment to the seat once held by Barack Obama. The committee recommended no action beyond the letter.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34063391...s-capitol_hill

Yep, buying a seat is certainly nt corruption, if one is a dem. ]]> Politics JIMV http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4377 http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4376&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:45:09 GMT Why did the White House act so quickly to fire Gerald Walpin and attempt to discredit him with allegations of senility? Until now, it appeared that... Why did the White House act so quickly to fire Gerald Walpin and attempt to discredit him with allegations of senility? Until now, it appeared that the Obama administration got angry with Walpin for publicly opposing a settlement with Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson on allegations of fraud in handling federal funds that would have allowed Johnson to continue to receive such funds. Now, however, the Washington Examiner reports that a Congressional inquiry has discovered that Johnson may have used that money to pay off women accusing him of sexual harassment — and that Walpin had gotten too close to the truth:

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/2...ama-fired-him/ ]]> Politics JIMV http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4376 http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4375&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:17:01 GMT This is disgusting they are now praying for President Obama's death.
And they wonder why everyone thinks they are nuts.

There’s a new slogan making its way onto car bumpers and across the Internet. It reads simply: “Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8”

A nice sentiment?

Maybe not.

The psalm reads, “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.”

http://features.csmonitor.com/politi...y-or-sinister/ ]]> Politics kluwer http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4375 http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4374&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:25:29 GMT ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports:

What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?

Here’s a case study.

On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”

The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.”

I am told the section applies to exactly one state: Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/200...care-vote.html

Democrats...for a price. ]]> Politics JIMV http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4374 http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4373&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:49:50 GMT fox, nonews inserted the film into a story...again.
How can anyone think they are a 'news' organization at this point?


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts988

For the second time in just over a week, Fox News is coming under fire for misusing old news footage. The latest flap is leading some people to charge that the cable news network is intentionally misleading its audience, while Fox claims a "production error."

Wednesday's incident occurred when Fox News host Gregg Jarrett mentioned that a Sarah Palin appearance and book signing in Grand Rapids, Michigan had a massive turnout. As footage rolled of a smiling and waving Palin amidst a throng of fans, Jarrett noted that the former Republican vice-presidential candidate is "continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand-new book,'' adding that the images being shown were "some of the pictures just coming in to us.... The lines earlier had formed this morning."

However, the video used in the segment was from a 2008 McCain/Palin campaign rally. ]]> Politics kluwer http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4373 http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4372&goto=newpost Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:39:17 GMT Well it's online so the righties can't cry about that, but it's over 2000 pages so they will cry about that.

I just feel sorry for the right I really do, you know they are going to whine and cry that it has 2000 pages, but they don't know is that the number of pages only matters to them.
Seriously, what does the number of pages matter?
Is less pages good or is more better? They don't know, they just need to bitch, whine and cry.
The party of 'no'. ]]> Politics kluwer http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4372 http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4371&goto=newpost Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:10:11 GMT http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/11/rove-cheney-gingrich-and-kristol-fail-rally-911-trial-foes Excerpt By Nick Baumann and David Corn ... http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009...911-trial-foes

Excerpt

By Nick Baumann and David Corn

On Monday, Karl Rove sent a tweet to his 92,000 followers: "Don't sit out: 9:30am 11/18 Dirksen Senate Bldg Rm G-50 to oppose Atty Gen's testimony on trying terrorists on U.S. soil." On Tuesday, Newt Gingrich dispatched a similar message to his 1.2 million Twitter devotees: "Join @keepamericasafe at 9:30am Wed at Dirksen Senate Bldg to protest Holder's testimony on bringing terrorists to US." Keep America Safe is Elizabeth Cheney's new hawkish group—neocon godfather Bill Kristol is one of its three board members—and on Tuesday it tweeted followers: "Reminder 9:30 am show Holder and Obama what you think about the terror trial decision." The Keep American Safe website also posted a "call to action," urging protesters to storm the Senate on Wednesday morning, when Attorney General Eric Holder was scheduled to testify about the Obama administration's plan to bring 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other terrorism detainees to New York City to stand trial. Cheney's outfit asked its supporters to send Obama and his allies in Congress a clear message: "WE WILL FIGHT YOU ALL THE WAY."

No such message was delivered on Wednesday morning. When Holder arrived at the committee room in the Dirksen Building, there were no demonstrators, no angry mob. Some 9/11 relatives who oppose trying KSM in New York were in the house. (There are 9/11 families on both sides of this debate.) But the scene was the same as that accompanying most hearings. There was not even a standing-room-only crowd. Plenty of empty chairs could be found in the seating section for the general public. No throng of irate citizens was gathered in the hallway or outside the building. The Capitol Hill police reported no signs of any protest. This was no tea party. Essentially, no one had responded to the urgent pleas from Rove, Gingrich, Kristol, and Cheney.

End excerpt

So essentially, Rove, Gingrich, Kristol and Cheney gave a tea party AND NOBODY CAME.

LMAO. ]]> Politics Old Round Guy http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4371 http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4370&goto=newpost Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:39:40 GMT http://www.idahostatesman.com/eyepie...ry/977306.html

Excerpt

But it's hard to know how much homelessness there really is

BY BETHANN STEWART

Trying to determine the number of homeless people in Boise is all but impossible, but shelter providers say they're full now and winter isn't even here yet.

"On average, we're seeing 10 newly homeless people a day," said the Rev. Bill Roscoe, executive director of Boise Rescue Mission, which operates two shelters in Boise and one in Nampa.

Part of the difficulty: Homeless people are mobile, and homelessness for many is temporary.

"They're not staying. If they did, they'd be in the rafters," Roscoe said. "It's bad, and it's getting worse, but to put a number to it, I can't do that."

Several have tried.

A lawsuit filed against the city in October claimed there were 2,000 to 4,500 homeless people in the city on any given night.

That's higher than a 2007 city estimate, which doesn't have a directly correlating number but determined 2,020 to 3,078 people experienced homelessness in Ada County in the course of a year, based on census data and poverty rates.

End excerpt

Many of the homeless are children, some very young children.

Since my wife and I came out here in 1985 I don't see where anyone has even TRIED to manage the homeless population.

My wife did a social work internship at a womens's homeless shelter while she was taking classes at BSU. Not long after that the Statesman reported a 60 percent increase in the demand for shelters for women and children and at soup kitchens and food banks.

The demand has increased every year since then.

Well, that's what you get for voting Republican.

The Idaho Republican government should be ASHAMED of themselves.

But they don't CARE. ]]> Politics Old Round Guy http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4370 http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4369&goto=newpost Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:28:38 GMT http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/977296.html Excerpt From improving broadband to finding outstanding teachers, a coalition lays... http://www.idahostatesman.com/localn...ry/977296.html

Excerpt

From improving broadband to finding outstanding teachers, a coalition lays out reform goals.

BY BILL ROBERTS

More Idaho high school students should go to college.

They need more rigorous math and science instruction.

And the state needs to find more highly qualified teachers — those who have degrees in the subjects they are teaching.

Those are among several recommendations expected to be unveiled Wednesday by a group of Idaho business leaders, parents and educators as a way for Idaho to provide a high-quality, cost-effective education.

The group, called the Education Alliance of Idaho, was formed after Gov. Butch Otter challenged business leaders in 2007 to look for ways to improve education in Idaho. Otter will introduce the alliance and the report at a news conference Wednesday morning.

The four broad goals and 17 recommendations are aimed at improving Idaho's educational quality as compared to the rest of the country, said Guy Hurlbutt, Alliance chairman.

End excerpt


We should already HAVE this.

Our kids are Idaho's most valuable resource.

For SHAME on Idaho's Republican government.

But they don't care.

]]> Politics Old Round Guy http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4369 http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4368&goto=newpost Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:06:07 GMT Per Mark Levin's show. It is now the time for conservative women in the Republican party. They can throw in Miss 8 sex tapes Prejean and the Cheney women. ]]> Politics Erika http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4368 http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4367&goto=newpost Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:24:11 GMT There were Tea parties in Harrisburg and Salt lake City, just in case folk think they are over... There were Tea parties in Harrisburg and Salt lake City, just in case folk think they are over... ]]> Politics JIMV http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4367 http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4366&goto=newpost Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:20:48 GMT http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_re_us/us_jefferson_sentencing Excerpt By MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press Writer ALEXANDRIA, Va.... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/...son_sentencing

Excerpt

By MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press Writer

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A former Louisiana congressman who famously stashed cash in his freezer was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for taking hundreds of thousands in bribes in exchange for using his influence to broker business deals in Africa.

The sentence handed down in suburban Washington was far less than the nearly 30 years prosecutors had sought for William Jefferson, a Democrat who represented parts of New Orleans for nearly 20 years.

Agents investigating the case found $90,000 wrapped in foil and hidden in boxes of frozen pie crusts in his freezer.

Prosecutors had asked a judge to follow federal guidelines and sentence him to at least 27 years. The defense asked for less than 10 years, arguing a stiffer sentence would be far longer than those imposed on congressmen convicted of similar crimes in recent years, none of whom was sentenced to more than a decade.

End excerpt


As well he should. ]]> Politics Old Round Guy http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4366 http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4365&goto=newpost Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:09:07 GMT http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091112/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_afghanistan_gates Excerpt By ANNE GEARAN, AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON –... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091112/...hanistan_gates

Excerpt

By ANNE GEARAN, AP National Security Writer

WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Robert Gates says President Barack Obama wants to take the best elements from several options presented to him for the next steps in Afghanistan.

Gates says the decision is near on whether to add more U.S. forces to the 8-year-old war. He confirmed to reporters aboard his plane Thursday that Obama did not choose any of the specific options laid out for him at a White House meeting on Wednesday. Instead, Gates said that Obama wants to select the best ideas from among many presented.

At issue is how fully to answer Obama's war commander, who wants about 40,000 additional U.S. forces and a reworked strategy. Gates would not spell out details of the four options presented Wednesday, nor what he thinks represent the approach.

End excerpt ]]> Politics Old Round Guy http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4365 http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4364&goto=newpost Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:34:58 GMT WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama rejected the Afghanistan war options before him and asked for revisions, his defense secretary said Thursday,... WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama rejected the Afghanistan war options before him and asked for revisions, his defense secretary said Thursday, after the U.S. ambassador in Kabul argued that a significant U.S. troop increase would only prop up a weak, corruption-tainted government.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_us_afghanistan ]]> Politics JIMV http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4364 http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4363&goto=newpost Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:16:36 GMT *Salute, and a tip of the hat to our honored veterans. Highest honors to those who gave the last full measure of devotion to God and Country.* Salute, and a tip of the hat to our honored veterans.

Highest honors to those who gave the last full measure of devotion to God and Country. ]]> Politics Old Round Guy http://www.boiseweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4363