This recipe requires a crock pot.
Ingredients:
2 large and old Sage Grouse boned out and cut into bite size pieces
1 large can cream of celery soup
4 tbls. Worcestershire sauce
2 tbls. ground pasilla chile
1 tbls. honey
3 tbls. stoneground mustard
1 tbls. [...]
The Tribune had a piece this weekend on a rift that is developing between various leaders of the medical marijuana movement.
Mike Smith, a ‘caregiver,’ commenting on the fact that the Tribune carried photos of two girls smoking a bowl in a park, and another fellow smoking a bowl on [...]
The health care bill that the Senate will soon bring to the floor has a really interesting - and dangerously deceitful - accounting trick in it that we all need to understand. Part of the proposal, if you haven’t heard, is to raise the portion of the payroll tax that [...]
I have made the claim for years that both Social Security and Medicare are unfair and counterproductive because they transfer money for the lesser wealthy cohort, the younger, to the more wealthy cohort, the older. The financial demographics are indisputable. Under the heading of “druthers” I would opt for both [...]
Surely by now you’ve heard the “pine beetles” meme, just in time for committees’ work on a climate-change bill — that the pine-beetle devastation of trees across Montana is the result of Global Warming. Same goes for hurricanes, drought in Africa, California fire season, heavy rains in the Ozarks, and [...]
The good news is that ObamaCare will reduce the amount of free-riding the rest of the world practices on the back of American funded medical innovation. The bad news is that ObamaCare supporters really doesn’t care about the future of innovation.
[...]Andrew Revkin, the guy on the climate beat at the NYT, says this about the hacked climate researcher’s emails:
The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.
I [...]
I think this means that we might finally be getting past the blame Bush for everything stage. Maybe not.
[...]Why do I watch the Sunday A.M. taking heads? It must have something to do with searching for exquisite pain.
I just heard Barbara Boxer say that we need to, right now, spend money on high-speed rail to get job growth. She’s sitting with Leiberman, Durbin and Hutchenson. The problem with [...]
James and Carol have been all over the climate change email hacking. Today, so is the WaPo.
My thought is that, if Penn State doesn’t punish Michael Mann in some way, the school’s science cred goes in the toilet. This is what happens when science looks more like [...]
$1,144,504 : that is the irrevocable price so far, with millions more still tied up, of the City’s involvement with Southern/SME.
According to a memo released Friday, $905,019 in principal + $239,485 in anticipated interest will be written off the city’s books, on the heels of an evaluation of independent auditors [...]
Charles Krauthammer asks “What’s the point?” regarding the KSM terror trail:
So why is Attorney General Eric Holder doing this? Ostensibly, to demonstrate to the world the superiority of our system, where the rule of law and the fair trial reign.
Really? What happens if KSM (and his co-defendants) “do not [...]
It is rumored on Drudge that Senate Majority Leader plans another Saturday night vote on the Senate’s version of the healthcare trainwreck.
I just imagine Congressman Rehberg in a dark office, glued to C-span, waiting for Senator Jon Tester to cast his vote, “Oh please…oh please…”
[...]I guess is where that whole ‘reap what you sow’ thing comes into play.
[...]The Tribune offers an apologia for Senator Max Baucus today telling us he “doesn’t deserve ratings plunge over health care.” Showing they are as tone deaf as recently defeated local politicians who blame the “national economy” for their defeat, the Trib’s editorial writers tell us that a) Senator Baucus’ [...]
The question lately has been which card in SME’s House of Cards will go first.
One rather good guess is the “spot-zoning” case which landed at the high court yesterday and which threatens to undo SME’s plans. If the Sup Ct “unzones” the project, it would give all involved in SME/Southern [...]
I have, for decades, said that the taxing corporations is the height of both foolishness and dishonesty. Foolish because something that only exists in the construct of the law is not a “person” and secondly, it is only “persons” who benefit from the earnings of businesses. To the extent that [...]
I’ve always loved Senate rules - especially the filibuster - because they are often the last line of defense between the people and the collective stupidity of Congress to inflict damage. But here’s a rule that I just learned about (and like equally as well.)
The Oklahoma Republican has threatened [...]
Business Week has picked Great Falls, Montana, as the best Montana city in which to raise your kids.
I agree!
Although, in fairness to rest of my great state, I like the whole state. In fact, I got to travel to Butte yesterday, and the more time I spend in that [...]
Keith Hennessey has an early analysis on the tax side of the Pinky Reid’s (D - Palookaville) behind closed doors health care train-wreck-in-the-making bill.
You can find it here and, as always, Hennessey should be taken seriously.
I think this point is especially pertinent:
Leader Reid’s bill would use new Medicare payroll [...]
It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights—the ‘right’ to education, the ‘right’ to health care, the ’right’ to food and housing. That’s not freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are rations of slavery—hay and a barn for human cattle.
— Alexis de Tocqueville P.J O’Rourke
H/T to Steve T for [...]
Since the stimulus bill did none of the things that J.M Keynes said it should do; timely, temporary, and of sufficient size (I suggest that the failure of the first two criteria nullify the last) the Dems are busy trying to replicate the mistake.
House Democrats are moving quickly to [...]
Pat Buchanan makes a great point about what America’s U-turn on the treatment of terrorists really means. If we now assert that these inviduals are entitled to the right to a jury trial and other Constitutional protections, what does that say about what we have done until now? Further, if [...]
In Tim Geitner’s prepared speech before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today he said:
To establish a more global foundation for growth and avert future crises of this nature, we must rebalance global demand…
[...]
Emerging markets and economies with large and sustained surpluses will need to shift their growth towards domestic demand [...]
Wes Pruden on ‘the bow’:
Some of the president’s critics are giving him a hard time, and it’s true that this president seems never to have studied much American history. Not bowing to foreign potentates was what 1776 was all about. His predecessors learned with no difficulty that the essence [...]
I first saw this on TV when the president and his entire friggin’ entourage were dressed up in these neo-commie outfits. I guess this is like the Chinese version of handing out white doctor’s coats.
For some unknown reason I find it rather creepy. But maybe it [...]
Congressman Rehberg stayed strong in the latest MSU-B, Day One Poll, marking his second highest approval rating since taking office at 54%:
Approval
2001 49.2
2003 52.9
2005 48.9
2007 58.6
2009 54
Senator Baucus, on the other hand, is having a little trouble with that health care [...]
This is an open thread designed to allow Craig Moore and Mark Tokarski to continue to debate the Iraq casualty numbers and the Lancet study.
[...]Reason Mag is having a fund raising drive. I don’t usually pimp for ideologues (although I do think that both Reason and National Review are good investments.) Here is their most recent reason why you should throw them a few sheckles.
Apologies to the late Norman Maclean but, because his [...]
I was meaning to turn the following into a full-length obituary for another source, but because of the chaotic last week (I’m a newly minted CMR asst. debate coach and we had our home tournament last weekend) never got around to it.
Anyways, some of you may have heard [...]
A redux of my mammoth essay on AIDS in Africa from the New Atlantis was published on yesterday’s Sunday op-ed page of Texas’s largest daily, the Dallas Morning News.
The bio line at the end of the piece is dated (they just plucked it from the original); obviously, my little [...]
Contra: The Missoulian:
[...]Maybe we need to turn the whole environmental movement on its ear. James at Second Hand Bike Rack tipped me to these photos of pollution in China.
If we truly wish to protect the world’s environment, we should be inviting more construction here.
You tell me what is going to [...]
Paul Krugman is the darling of the left not so much because he’s a liberal economist but because he’s a liberal economist with a with both a Nobel Prize and a NYT column. I attribute this misdirected praise primarily on the fact that most liberals, specifically, and Americans, more generally, [...]
It takes a good deal of chutzpah for liberals to complain about losing a “progressive” talk station for lack of voluntary advertisers, when the public stations they dominate enjoy privileged access to tax dollars involuntarily extracted from conservatives.
Of course, local “progressives” have an another option: They could take up a collection [...]
Travis posted a piece earlier this week about a pit bull that attacked a yorkshire terrier.
By pure happenstance, I ran into the owner of the yorkshire terrier. He asked me if I was the Gregg Smith from the Electric City Weblog and, when I said yes, he said he [...]
To follow up on my earlier post about Missoula’s loss of a “progressive” talk radio station, here is a piece from the Missoula Independent, on the same topic. The indy found an advertiser who says he will only advertise on progressive formats, so he’s pulled his ads:
“There’s certainly [...]
A pastor was standing in the vestibule of his church remembering the various congregants who where listed on the memorial placard of those who had died in wars when a young boy approached him:
Boy: “What are you doing, Pastor?”
Pastor: “I’m remembering all of our members who died while in the [...]
Here’s the Intrade chart on the Dec. 31 contract on whether the U.S. government will pass a health care reform bill with a public option by the expiration date. Trading with a 6 handle at the time of this post. Looks like a solid short to me.
[...]
In honor of next weekend’s Cat-Griz game, I offer two football links.
One article suggests we should eliminate the kicking game.
Another article suggests we should eliminate helmets.
[...]A comment posted by MarkT yesterday was, I thought, amazing even for him. In it he called the US the “world champion terrorist” and the “most efficient killer on the planet,” comparing our nation’s activities since the Vietnam war to the Third Reich’s Holocaust.
I consider his comparisons at once [...]
Here is the Great Falls Tribune’s take on the Sheriff funding issue.
Reading the comments thus far, I am once again reminded how the strength of one’s convictions are often inversely proportionate to the amount of time one spends studying an issue.
[...]Due to my kid’s end of season sports banquet, I was a little late to Sheriff Castle’s public budget meeting. Then I made it for about an hour and twenty minutes of his meeting before I nearly conked out and had to go home for the night, since I [...]
Apparently the newcomers to the city commission in Kalispell are also of the tax- and regulation-averse flavor, with incumbents losing badly. (The eight-year mayor Pam Kennedy lost 37-63!)
Tammi Fisher sounds like an interesting new mayor — and only 33! That’s quite impressive. She, like Great Falls mayor-elect Mike Winters & [...]
Travis Kavulla, Gregg Smith, Dave Budge, Rob Natelson, Awe
GO RUSTLERS!
