Apr 30 2009
Another Chinese Toy Recall
Archive for April, 2009
Apr 29 2009
For Your Listening Pleasure
I love me some Indigo Girls. My favorite song of theirs is “Shame on You”. Enjoy.
Apr 28 2009
Diversity Week at My School
This week at my school is Diversity Week.
Today was “Show Your Culture” day.
Tomorrow is Tie Dye Day.
Thursday is “Wear the Color of Your Personality” Day. I’ll be wearing blue because that’s my color. I’m not a blue person (sad) but I like blue! It’s a cool color, it’s the school color, it’s the cool school color!
Friday is “Blue and White” Day, school colors.
There will also be local restaurants providing ethnic food, a diversity of foods, so to speak. It will be a lunch party. I’m thinking about eating something from the taco wagon, or the BBQ place.
Apr 26 2009
What is a Homosexual “Lifestyle”?
I keep hearing the anti-gay marriage people, especially those coming from an established religious group, saying that gay marriage is about tolerance of the gay “lifestyle”.Â
Can someone help me understand, when a gay couple wants to do the exact same things as a straight couple are legally allowed to do right now, the exact same things…how is that asking us to tolerate a DIFFERENT lifestyle?
Seems to me, that by legislating against gay couples being allowed to have the same civil rights as straight couples, that we are currently forcing them into alternative lifestyles, by law.
Assimilate them! We straight people are Borg. Assimilate the gay couples into our lifestyle. Let them get married and have children and raise families and get divorced and remarried and pay child support and squabble over custody. Why should gay people be special and get to have alternative lifestyles? Make them mundane and average and just folks, the same as the rest of us have to be! Give them the rights and privileges all of the rest of us have, and soon they’ll just be one more statistic in the great society of everyday people.
That’ll teach ‘em!
Apr 22 2009
Idaho Woman Prompts PZ Myers?
Hey, rumor hazzit that it was our very own Valkyrie who actually put the bug into PZ’s ears (so to speak) about these “God Boxes”.
Good on her! She’s bummed that she didn’t include a link to her own website in her email. She says she never ever thought he’d actually write about it (but secretly hoped he would, I’m guessing, or she wouldn’t have sent it in to him).
NOT PZ
 You know what this says to me? It says that if you find something deliciously weird, and you’d like the entire world to know about it, send it on to PZ Myers and who knows? Your little discovery may end up on a famous website and commented upon by hundreds of snarky scientists.
Word to the wise. Don’t publish fantastic finds here, dufus! No one reads this site, and your information will die a slow neglected death.
Apr 20 2009
Don’t Miss Roy Zimmerman Tomorrow !!!
Remember, tickets are $12 for general admission adults, and $6 for students, and can be purchased at the door. Proceeds go to the Idaho Food Bank. The concert starts at 7pm on Tuesday, April 21st, at the Colonial Theatre in Idaho Falls, on A St.Â
Here’s another wonderful music video to get you in the mood:
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Apr 20 2009
Truman Banquet, Bonneville Co Democrats
We’ve mentioned this before when the email data came out. It’s a little closer to the date, and this week we got a poster with details (but it looks like they used the same picture from her website).
Apr 17 2009
4 Malls in Idaho are Part of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
General Growth Properties has filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy laws, which allows it to keep creditors at bay while it figures out how it needs to reorganize to become financially sound.  It’s the nation’s second-
largest mall owner, after Simon Property Group.  Apparently, the reorganization they underwent last fall, and the extension they got on $4 billion in loans in February didn’t help enough to keep them out of this situation.Â
General Growth owns the Boise Towne Square Mall, the Idaho Falls Grand Teton Mall, the Coeur d’Alene Silver Lake Mall, and the Pocatello Pineridge Mall.
So there’s a teenager on this site who inadvertantly gave us a good picture of why the concept of malls is going downhill…they are great places for young, relatively poor people to ‘hang out’ but not such great places to make big-ticket, high volume profitable purchases.
