Wild Card/Tuesday -- 9/6/05
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TUESDAY, SEPT. 6, 2005
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On his blog today, CDADave "20 Indications" re: how he knows he's getting old here, including:1. I now get excited when I find a laxative that works.2. When I see a bikini-clad sweet young thing at the beach, rather than being lecherous, I feel like…
Photo of the Day -- 9/6/05
A new baby giraffe, born on Sept. 3, 2005, and standing 6 ft (2 meters approx.) tall , stands in the sun for the first time with its mother Aiofe at Blair Drummond Safari park near Stirling, Scotland earlier today. You write the cutline.Top Cutlines:1.…
12,700 West Signatures And Counting
Tim Ricks stops to sign the petition to recall Spokane Mayor, Jim West, Tuesday Sept. 6, 2005 at the official petition headquarters on north Division and Carlisle Streets. Erika Raborn, 21, right, has been working at the headquarters for the past few days with her…
Peanut Gallery -- Hail School Bells
Anyone besides me glad that school has begun? It is so nice to have the quiet streets back and the not-so-crowded stores, etc.Granati
On Flame Wars, Elbow Throwing ...
Commenters and blurkers often wonder why I allow overly passionate commenters to post at Huckleberries Online rather than give them their walking papers for good. Frankly, I enjoy much of what they post and tolerate their politics when passions are high. Most of you know…
Peanut Gallery -- Have We Always Been Divided?
This (New Orleans disaster) has been another polarizing topic that reflect the general breakdown of America. It's amazing how different America has become, largely with completely different "values" in the coastal Metro areas vs the inland rural areas. If this issue (or 9/11) can't unite…
Question of the Day -- 9/6/05
Item: A hand-painted sign outside a New Orleans business warns away looters in the wake of Hurricane Katrina Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005. Ethicists and social psychologists said in interviews that rules of human behavior _ including respect for others' property and for social order itself…
Sanders Beach Is Ours, Baybee
Public wins access to CdA beach: Judge sets the ordinary high water mark for Sanders Beach at 2,130 feet/Susan Drumheller, Spokesman-Review.DFO Mini-Edit: East Lakeshore Drive home owners have only themselves to blame for the court decision that cost them any right to Sanders Beach. For…
Quick Fix 6 -- 9/6/05
1. APhoto Fix: Pallbearers from left, James Duff, Kerri Bartlett, Greg Garre, John Englander, David Leitch, John Roberts, Fred Lambert, and Ronald Tenpas, carry the casket of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist to the Supreme Court, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005, in Washington. Evan Thomas and…
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