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Tonight we went to the Saturday night stock car racing and it was not expensive and also quite entertaining.  There were not the number of cars as we had seen in the past, in the 70's and 80's there were 10 or more cars in the heat races and more in the main races.  It would be nice to see more stock cars at the Pocatello Speedway and also nice to see more race fans.  I know it is not NASCAR but it is some local racers showing their talent and pushing cars around the track built in the area.  There must be hundreds of old stock cars hidden in barns, fields, and shops around Pocatello.  I will bet if you ask your dad or grandpa they might even produce an old open wheel, big block, gas gusseling HOT race car.  At least have some race stories to tell and remembering the smell of burning rubber, hot radiators, a soft drink, burger, or chili dog in the bleachers. 

Tonight I heard and seen a start of what may become like the Friday night trip to the Drive-in Movies.  Stock car racing in Pocatello may be on the way to past memories and not current Saturday night thrills and spills at the Airport Raceway.

The Republican National Committee today July 22, 2010, announced a new 'Victory Campaign' as an effort to replace incumbent congressman Walt Minnick with his Republican challenger Raul Labrador.  Called Idaho's D2H (Delaware to Hawaii)  Victory campaign, the RNC is providing funding and resources to build an in-state structure to support Republican leaders.

Press ReleaseIdaho House Committee Says "Conscience" Trumps Patients' Rights03.11.10, 2:39 PM ET

 

 

State Affairs Advances Legislation Allowing Health Care Professionals to Trump Advance Directives & Living Wills for End-of-Life Care

BOISE, Idaho, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A living will or advance directive for end of life care may soon be worthless documents in Idaho if state legislators have their way - and that's news that has older Idahoans outraged. After receiving hundreds of calls and emails from AARP members urging the bill be amended to address the issue, this morning the House State Affairs Committee passed the Health Freedom of Conscience bill (SB 1353), allowing all Idaho health care professionals to ignore end of life care and treatment at any time they feel it violates their "conscience."

AARP strongly opposed the legislation and urged that the "end of life" language be removed. Representative Elfreda Higgins offered an amendment to the bill to correct the issue so the bill did not carry a negative impact on individuals' living wills and advance directives - the amendment was rejected with little debate.

"This legislation tells Idahoans that as patients, they don't matter -- their living wills, advance directives or other instructions for end of life care are now set to be subject to someone else's conscience," said Jim Wordelman. "AARP commends Representative Higgins for taking a stand for older Idahoans; it's unfortunate her attempt to put patient's needs and wishes first in Idaho fell on deaf ears."

The Health Conscience bill enables any health care professional to object to and refuse to perform any end of life health service that violates his or her conscience. The bill's vague language will mean any end of life service could be denied, irregardless of the patient's living will and advance directives, which provide instructions for exactly how to address end of life care issues.

"We've heard from our members and the public across the state as have their legislators on this issues - those pleas have been ignored today," added Wordelman. "This bill places the needs of a health care professional above those of the patient, and that's the wrong direction for health care in Idaho. We hope the House recognizes this bill for what it is -- bad policy."

The bill was introduced by Senator Chuck Winder, and co-sponsored by Senators Shirley McKague, Russell Fulcher, Leland Heinrich and Representatives Judy Boyle, Raul Labrador, Thomas Loertscher, Joe Palmer, James Ruchti and Erik Simpson. Having already passed the Senate the bill now heads to the full House for a vote. AARP is urging the House to amend the bill to ensure the rights and wishes of Idahoans are not ignored.

AARP is Idaho's largest membership organization with over 180,000 members.

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There once was a very rich man who "Bought" his own nature reserve and since wind farm companies want to plant turbines nearby, he's doing what he can to stop them from spinning.

He sent out surveys to 868 Bingham County homeowners.

He asked, "Do you believe that windmills in Bingham County could have a general positive or negative impact on the county's citizens?"  Not, "I have my own spot of privately own nature and don't want to look off in the distance and see windmills providing power to anyone or providing more income to the area, what do you think." 

82-percent say it'd be positive impact for the County, this means the rich man needed to try another way to keep his occasional view unmarred.

On day 5 of the 5-day survey, the question changed and asked 162 people "would it affect your opinion about the windmills, if the power from the windmills was sent to California and didn't help Idaho's electric rates at all?"

By the way wherever the power ends up, Bingham County would still profit from the taxes these companies would pay.

Of this group polled close to 66-percent say it would affect their opinion, that means the rich man might have a way to keep his occasional view pristine.

The rich man somehow contacted Governor Otter and he toured the private nature reserve, which he gladly did at the beckon of rich man.  Rich is a poweful word to polticians.

Thinking of another way to joust the windmills he offered some of the private nature reserve to create a state park in southeastern Idaho which could be a tilting factor in the ongoing personal and private windmill war.

The decision is in the governor's hands as to creating a state park and be blessed by this "Don Quioxte".

Rumors say that Governor Otter is doing some preliminary research, I wonder if he is checking his bank account too,  to see if this plan is practible or "profitable" before he mounts his Sancho Panza donkey.

This afternoon Aug. 9th I went for a duckwalk out to Fort Hall Pow Wow Festival as did many other people.  My wife and I brought folding chairs as is custom of Pow Wow watchers, I used to be a participant but duck walking dance is no longer tolerated, and boy oh boy there was some really hot looking dancers out there from 2 to over 65 and all the colors of the rainbow.  Had to have fresh squeezed lemonade, made from a whole lemon per small and 2 whole lemons per large, and the staple of most Pow Wows "fry bread".  My fry bread though was full of a burger and chili and called an "Indian Burger", yum!  The booths of vendors were awesome, the ol duck-walker traded for a few trinkets and bought a few more.  Well heading back to the nest and if you didn't go to this Festival you missed it and missed a gooood time!  so long for now.

Our family owns 2 loyal, loving, and obedient pit bull terriers.  Loving owners have naturally loving dogs - mean, aggressive people have aggressive and mean dogs. I also believe that there are many owners who train dogs to be aggressive animals, as in fierce guard dogs used by persons involved in activities they don't want anyone to observe. Neglected, untrained dogs tied or caged in a yard without contact or affection from humans becomes damaged, mean dogs.  Likewise, there are dog owners who take the responsibility to teach, play, handle, and train dogs to be helpful companions and good friends. Getting rid of aggressive and mean people would solve a lot of our bad dog problems. There are bad dogs in every breed.  Actually, studies about dog behavior show that other breeds have the most reported attacks on people.

          You might also wonder who would want to own pit bull terriers a few were Presidents Woodrow Wilson and T. Roosevelt.  Others include Jessica Alba, Rachael Ray, Jessica Biel, Helen Keller, Serena Williams, Jesse G. James, General George Patton, Fred Astaire, Jan Michael Vincent, Steve Irwin, (The Crocodile Hunter), Alicia Silverstone, Humphrey Bogart, John Steinbeck, Fatty Arbuckle, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Barbra Eden, Rosie Perez, James Caan, Shaquille “Shaq” O’Neal, Judd Nelson, Michael J. Fox, Ken Howard, whose life was saved by his pit bull, Usher, Thomas Edison, Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Madonna, Jack Dempsey, Bernadette Peters, Jon Stewart, Earl Holliman, David Spade,  Brad Pitt, Mary Tyler Moore, the list goes on.

"Montana and Idaho are moving to host the first open gray wolf hunts in the lower 48 states after the animal's removal from the endangered list across much of the Northern Rockies. Montana wildlife commissioners voted Wednesday to let hunters throughout the state shoot 75 wolves, or 15 percent of Montana's population, beginning in mid-September." (From a Journal story.)

This hunting practice is no more than "thrill killing” as wildlife persons have called it. When "game animals" are killed and not harvested for food it is, killing of an animal simply for the "sport" not to put meat on the family table. To boast of the excitement and rush of “murdering" of a wild beast, and using any excuse to justify doing it. But, I do realize the people of these states may contain persons who want to eat a wolf also, but that is not the majority of these thrill killers.

I say this because I was told as a youth to not, "play with your food", and "don't kill anything you can't use or eat." I am of Shoshoni decent and had this told to me from Elders and relatives. I think I would be somewhat less appalled of the killings if the following was added to the "hunts".

"WASTE OF GAME MEAT", RULE from FISH AND GAME. "Hunters are required to remove and care for the edible meat of big game animals, except mountain lions. This includes the meat of the front quarters as far down as the knees, hindquarters as far down as the hock, neck meat, meat along the backbone and meat covering the ribs. It does not include meat of the head, internal organs and meat on the bones after close trimming."

From the same background I do not agree with the "hunts" because the Wolf is a revered animal and is simply "being an animal of its instincts," and does not need to be killed. And as many, many things in this life, is revolving around the religion of the dollar bill.

   When I was a young duck my family would go to Ross Park and my uncle would take us down to the collapsed part of the lava above the park.  He would walk us kids out through the sage brush and over bunny trails, there were no human trails then.  The walk was tough and rough, he would take us to spots though along the rocks and show us what was left by people who stopped hundreds of years before us and take very hard rock; perhaps obsidian; and peck or scratch "stories" on the rock.  He would always take off his hat and stare and tell us to look into the past and imagine natives taking hours, or days  to leave the marks on the rock.  "Do no harm to these, and leave as quietly as we came," he would say, then he would toss a few leaves of tobacco and step back into that present day.  These walks I know took us near what is now Kirkham Trail, I hope convience was worth stepping on ancients.

  When I was a young duck my family would go to Ross Park and my uncle would take us down to the collapsed part of the lava above the park.  He would walk us kids out through the sage brush and over bunny trails, there were no human trails then.  The walk was tough and rough, he would take us to spots though along the rocks and show us what was left by people who stopped hundreds of years before us and take very hard rock; perhaps obsidian; and peck "stories" on the rock.  He would always take off his hat and stare and tell us to look into the past and imagine natives taking hours to peck and leave the marks on the rock.  "Do no harm to these, and leave as quietly as we came," he would say, then he would toss a few leaves of tobacco and step back into that present day.  These walks I know took us near what is now Kirkham Trail, I hope convience was worth stepping on ancients.

Talking with a relative she reminded me that not all of the "art rock" was "pecked" that some was made with numerously scratching the rocks, and I am sure that she is correct.  She wanted to know if some arthropological persons have documented the images on the rocks that will be ran over and buried and I told her, "I don't really know."

Boise our capital, seems the road to Caldwell and Nampa have been torn up since 2006 and still not done or maybe they just keep moving the construction arouind between towns, still hard to get around out of the city.  I mean going 55 or 45 on those roads can get a person killed with all the traffic going by on both sides at the speed of whizz and zoom and they switch lanes up there like they live in UTAH.  They turn into a lane and if they think someone was watchin they turn on a blinker or toss a "your'e #1 finger salute!!" just to let you know they are far enough behind as to not get sucked into their draft.  Went to some mall and a few stores but they were not worth writin about.  Duckwalkin back home and around....lad