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nti democrat years ago democrats got linked to radical environmentalism and the demise of logging that really hurt democrats in north idaho best thing that ever happened to republicans in north idaho was the spotted owl republicans here still brand every democrat as liberal and it seems to work reality be damned as a thought experiment i ve asked myself what policy position could an idaho democrat espouse that would actually earn votes i ve asked other people this same question the answer always is nothing idaho dems can t move any farther to the right really and even if they did idaho voters don t look at policies they just look at d or r it s not policies that are the problem it s the perception and that s where i see a ray of hope dems are on their back right now and everyone knows it perhaps if dems embrace that and announce that they ve seen the light idaho voters might take a second look it could be that idaho voters might be interested if dems say we ve got big problems we know it and we re changing as the army says embrace the suck perhaps we have a rare and fleeting opportunity to get people to listen i guess i m saying right now it s more about messaging than actual policies the election sent the message that dems need to change let s announce that we got the message at 11 29 2016 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday november 15 2016 white nationalist in the white house bleh that election didn t go like i was hoping or expecting and as usual any forecast i made was off the mark when will i learn ah well i m trying to be philosophical but it s going to take some time in the meantime i m watching the hue and cry over trump hiring stave bannon as his strategic adviser yes his brietbart news organization does appear to cater to white nationalists and that seems wrong for a key administration adviser but other than some alleged comments reported by an ex wife so you know not exactly a disinterested reporter about him not wanting his kids to be around jewish people i haven t seem much specifically attributed to him yes yes yes it s important to oppose trump and drag him down and mess him up and move him sideways in order to stymie his forward progress from my view advancing to the rear but i don t sign on to the slightly unhinged nature of it i m not comfortable piling on the guy before we re clear that he s actually going to be a negative in that position and is that really a negative i mean if you re on the left it is hateful for a n alleged white nationalist to promote such policies at the highest level of our government but won t that just hinder their effectiveness and hasten their demise if that view is truly out of favor in our country it will be exposed as such and if it s not well well then we ve got bigger problems than i thought at 11 15 2016 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday october 05 2016 the water he swims in it is said that a fish is unaware of the water it swims in it knows of and can imagine nothing else i attribute a similar lack of awareness to idaho supreme court candidate curt mckenzie in the october 4 2016 edition of the idaho statesman mckenzie has a column carping about the statesman s editorial board s choice of robyn brody for the court opening it s a fairly typical article extolling a candidate s qualifications for the position but two points jumped out at me first mckenzie refers to brody s term as president of the idaho trial lawyers association a close tie indeed what s the point of this you might wonder mckenzie and his winger ilk view itla as part and parcel of the liberal trial lawyers who support democrats by linking brody and itla mckenzie is winking to readers who dislike liberal trial lawyers and is attempting to tar her with that brush okay fine i m sure that s a reasonably widely held position among idaho s right wing voters but it s still just a guilt by association argument irrelevant to brody s or mckenzie s actual qualifications even worse is this quote they did not mention the organizations supporting me in the race including the idaho farm bureau the idaho association of commerce and industry the national rifle association idaho chooses life the association of general contractors the idaho association of realtors and the professional firefighters of idaho i am proud of such broad support from organizations rooted in idaho agriculture commerce values and communities here s the rub every one of those organizations is staunchly right wing and always support republicans over democrats okay fine to believe that this is broad support though you have to be oblivious to the existence to the values and communities of non winger idaho organizations mckenzie thinks he s mainstream when he s so far right that he can t even see the mainstream from where he s at he s a fish that doesn t know it s swimming in water mckenzie hints that he ll serve admirably and independently and pledges to fairly and impartially apply the constitution and statues as written but what if a non fish case comes before him i submit that he s not capable of being fair to non fish because he has no understanding of their existence and therefore no empathy or perception of their circumstances their values are not idaho values to mckenzie mckenzie would not be a supreme court justice for all idahoans at 10 05 2016 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday october 03 2016 a new icarus i m thinking of donald trump as a new icarus trump has toyed with running for president for several years and of course this year really jumped right into the ring early speculation was that he d stay in until time for the required financial disclosures then bail out but he didn t he filed and continued to march no one knows what he was thinking but perhaps he was willing to take a shot at running just for the hell of it basically if he ran for a while and flamed out well at least he d be more famous and enhance the value of his brand digression i don t think in terms of brand i know it s a real thing and people do think that way but not me so to write enhance the value of his brand feels odd to me like having pebbles in your mouth anyway trump may have considered it a win win either he d promote himself spectacularly or he d actually get the nomination if he got the nomination then his self promotion would go to a whole new level the best incredible and if not he d still have made himself more famous what s not to like but i suspect he failed to anticipate or appreciate the level of scrutiny he d receive as a wealthy bully trump has gotten away with some specious behavior but no one called him on it you ve seen the type wealthy bully and you know how people act around celebrities even minor ones and rich folk fawning making allowances for outrageous behavior enabling in order to bask in reflected glory so trump isn t getting away with everything so much anymore and the truth is coming out and it s ugly and his brand is suffering his brand is now described by huffington post thusly editor s note donald trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar rampant xenophobe racist misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all muslims 1 6 billion members of an entire religion from entering the u s can t be good so trump s hubris caused him to fly too close to the sun the bright hot light of fame and publicity and it exposed him watch now as he plunges like icarus into the sea at 10 03 2016 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday september 22 2016 donald trump jr t weeted about a bowl of skittles containing a few poison ones asserting that you d foolish to eat a handful from the bowl too great a risk his point was that letting syrian refugees into the us includes the risk that some bad ones will get in along with the good ones and the bad ones will kill people so just pass on the whole business let me digress here a bit there are two ways to assess risk one is the probably that a bad event will occur that is how likely are you to get a bad outcome if you take the risk the other is the severity of the outcome if the bad event occurs thus if you know there are bad skittles in the bowl but they just taste bad and you can spit it out if you get one you ll likely go ahead and have some skittles on the other hand if you know that some of the skittles are so poisonous that one bite is deadly you ll not eat any of them so trump jr has been attacked for using this analogy for suggesting that people could end up dead the most severe outcome some say the analogy s roots are in nazi germany others relate it to white supremacy jr is mostly shrugging off the criticism i m no trump or trump jr fan but i think this criticism is overblown and off base it s the presidential campaign silly season so supporters of one side will attack the other at any opportunity happens all the time and i think it undermines the credibility of the attacker if you make a weak exaggerated attack on one issue it just makes all your attacks look weak and silly even the valid ones muhammad ali used a similar metaphor or maybe this is an analogy he said that not all white people are racist but he was basically going to act like they are just to be safe in his case he likened white people to rattlesnakes there are many white people who mean right and in their hearts wanna do right if 10 000 snakes were coming down that aisle now and i had a door that i could shut and in that 10 000 1 000 meant right 1 000 rattlesnakes didn t want to bite me i knew they were good should i let all these rattlesnakes come down hoping that that thousand get together and form a shield or should i just close the door and stay safe i don t think that ali was channeling nazis or white supremacists i think was was just illustrating a point just like trump jr at 9 22 2016 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday september 13 2016 as i ve always suspected it s been obvious for years but now we have some somewhat objective evidence of it i thought i noticed it long ago because it just seems obvious it became an almost unavoidable conclusion a sad disheartening depressing conclusion when donna jones beat jackie groves twilegar for state controller in 2006 the state controller s duties are the state controller is the chief fiscal officer of the state of idaho responsible for maintaining all accounting and financial records paying all the state s bills and employees preparing the state s annual financial report operating the state s computer service center in that race the women had vastly different qualifications jones was a hsg and twilegar had an mba plus jones is a former state legislator a businesswoman and current director of the idaho real estate commission twilegar is a financial manager who s worked in corporate finance banking real estate and investments in other words twilegar was an accomplished professional woman from a financial background and jones was a political hack whose chief qualification was serving as an idaho legislator so why did jones win that election which brings me to this a recent survey shows crapo simpson and labrador all with comfortable leads going into this year s election but the nonpartisan idaho supreme court election between robin brody and curt mckenzie a far right republican legislator is close with 61 not knowing who they will vote for what explains this well according to the idaho politics weekly it s this and without the benefit of having an r or a d next to their names idahoans don t have much guidance on who to vote for here yup at 9 13 2016 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday september 09 2016 trump s easiest money yet i heard a radio report today that trump s campaign raised around 90 million in august i m just sure that type of money has got trump thinking trump seems to be pretty much a grifter willing to do about anything for a buck you ve heard the stories trump steaks trump air trump ice spring water and on and on you may have also heard about when spy magazine sent ever smaller checks to several notable people i can t remember the details but they sent small checks to see who would cash them then followed up with another smaller check and another as i heard it the last one for 13 cents was chased only by trump just as he d cashed all the others in other words no amount of money is too small for him go after so you know that 90 mil attracted his attention at 90 mil a month that s a billion a year even for a billionaire and we re not sure trump actually is one that s real money i d bet he s thinking about how to get on that train we know he s already had his campaign pay his businesses pretty big money to host campaign events and it shows in his latest campaign finance report filed monday trump linked businesses account for 17 of all campaign expenses to date he s paid almost 11 million to trump organizations since launching his campaign a year ago paying his own businesses is a good way to skim some bucks off the donations but you know he wants more i wonder how he ll do it maybe he ll let his loans to his campaign ride for a while then repay them at some silly high interest rate maybe he ll sell assets to his campaign at some inflated rate then buy them back at fire sale prices maybe if he loses and please please please let him lose he ll run again next time and just set things up from the get go to maximize his grifting opportunities gingrich can show him how set up a super pac and pay himself a ridiculous salary might work i m sure he ll think of something having all that money just right there has got to be making him crazy maybe that s why he s so inarticulate he s stupefied by all that money that people are just giving him giving him he ll never be the same at 9 09 2016 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday september 06 2016 colin kaepernick kaepernick is making news these days by refusing to stand for the national anthem at first the faux patriots sprayed spittle all over claiming he s not a patriot or real american or is dissing the troops or whatever before long veterans and others pointed out that american values for which troops are willing to fight to the death include free speech in fact that is one of the premiere american values and free speech sometimes means saying uncomfortable things okay right but my problem with kaepernick is that fro dude how do you get a helmet over that it s just not working for you two beady eyes in a halo of brown hair ha how s that for free speech at 9 06 2016 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday september 02 2016 public sector jobs are second class jobs governor otter released a 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