Filed under: Politics
From MSNBC:
The vote, on an amendment to a 2008 spending bill for the Treasury Department and executive branch agencies, was defeated 217-209.
“We are pleased to see a bipartisan majority reject this political stunt,” said Cheney spokeswoman Megan McGinn.
What!?!
217-209…..’bipartisan majority’ – 8 votes…… 217 against versus 209 for – that’s leaning a bit towards “a squeaker.” Rejecting a political stunt – kinda like the one where a CIA agent was ‘outed’ but not really ‘cuz we had no clue she was really Joe Wilson’s wife!’
Or as Digby says this morning:
“If any of the Dem contenders make it, we will have a president who speaks normal English, in complete sentences and responds to questions fluently and with real meaning. I can’t tell you what a relief that will be after these last six years of alien gibberish and bizarre, robotic responses that everyone has been pretending are normal ways of speaking.”
Eggactly!
Filed under: Boise
The newest count for Boise, other cities in the Treasure Valley, and across the state were in the Idaho Statesman yesterday.
“Cities in Idaho with more than 20,000 residents, according to population estimates through July 1, 2006, by the U.S. Census Bureau.”
- 1. Boise:198,638
- 2. Nampa: 76,587
- 3. Meridian: 59,832
- 8. Caldwell: 37,056
Boise, Nampa, & Meridian were in the top three spots with Caldwell in 8th. This doesn’t encompass all the other ‘little’ towns in the Treasure Valley from Eagle to Kuna, Melba to Middleton, etc.
I checked last night, and the Boise census in 1960 was about 34,000 when I was in 1st grade at Hawthorne. We had these old wooden Army barracks or something akin. A new school was being built and by 3rd grade we were in that. Now, when we moved to Kuna in 1965, that population was 500. Dad said it’s somewhere around 12,000 or so now. A long way from the time when Gus Gosvenor was the town cop with Glenn Caskey as county deputy and could just tell your parents you were little shits.
Filed under: Health Care
Julie at Red State Rebels put up an alert for ‘Idaho Health Care’ meeting July 23, 2007.
“A few weeks from now, Idaho Health Care for All will hold a public forum on its proposed plan, which would be a publicly financed, privately delivered, Idaho-administered single risk pool. The meeting is set for 7 p.m. Monday, July 23, at Hyatt Place Hotel, 925 N. Milwaukee, Boise, near the REI store”
Think I’ll put in for time off to attend.
- Website: http://www.idahohealthcareforall.org/‡
Julie also had a website to “a website to promote single-payer national health insurance. It features Moore’s film but is run by Physicians for a National Health Program. ” Have to check it out and report back. 
