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"The Only Tough Part about Having To Film in Idaho Is When You Have To Leave" (Clint Eastwood) Enlightening Eastwood’s Pale Rider With a Statewide Movie Signage Proposal By Jim Banholzer With special lights from Brad Nottingham & Professor Tom Trusky Watching Clint Eastwood movies, particularly his well-crafted Westerns are almost like enrapturing religious experiences for some big screen buffs. Each of his movies project priceless lessons, even when he portrays an antagonist, such as the callous elephant hunter in White Hunter, Black Heart . Astoundingly enough, Clint filmed much of Pale Rider right here in Idaho , with a theme as ageless as the Boulder Mountains . Clint plays a nameless preacher protecting a poor prospecting town from a gang of ruffians sent by a greedy mining corporation, to intrude on their claim. This striking film, the first of Clint’s that he produced, was created in 1984 around Boulder City north of Ketchum and over by the Vienna Mine nea
Half-thought out wars constitute horn-honking emergencies The Raging Ferndale Grannies are a Michigan group of grandmothers who have been feverishly protesting our wars. While standing out on street corners, they hold up signs that say, “Honk if you are against the war, etc” However, in some areas they came up against horn-honking laws, so the wise elders edited their signs to read: Don’t Honk if You are Against Wars! This new peace-seeking missive resulted with even more people honking their horns. Whereas attuned law enforcers say that horns should be honked for emergency purposes only , I couldn’t agree more; and what bigger emergency is there now, than what we face, with heavy cost of our troops hopelessly quagmired overseas? Therefore, rather than being given citations for disturbing the peace, the devoted Raging Granny Ferndale protestors led by Nancy Goedert should be given commendations for promoting peacefulness , with their diligent efforts to awaken us about how we’ve

Haiku for Tammy's dog

Coffee Cloud Connection It quite stunned me when I saw your dog dash out of The rainbow, not so Lost in space, soaking On the corner of West Croy & River Street mud cakes Reflecting puddles Where a friend saw, you dip-ping Ov’r united with Slow section of the Waterfall, which reminded Me of my own Tinker South’rn Belle w/ mystic Beasts of the sea, future like And past grasping at Silly straws in chorus; You see these hot dogs wag off On great adventures When they scent its ov’r Almost on this sanctified Earthly seaplane plunge Yet quite tethered too The vast enduring unknown Smile from colorful Connection was you Ov’r backstreet clouds wisping gray Vimana cloaked blinds
I wonder what percentage of Pythagoreans would have laughed at the old Woody Allen joke, “I was talking with Isosceles the other day about an idea for a new triangle.” It’s best told by substitute math instructors who don lively Copernicus costumes in efforts to hold class attention. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa's_Substitute A good example of underlying mathematical patterns of harmonious music reflecting an inner harmony of the spheres is here: http://privateidahoconversationleague.blogspot.com/2007/09/harmonics-salt-on-vibrating-table.html Regarding our outer spheres: science currently has offered limited elucidation for why certain radio waves become disrupted when specific planets conjunct. Not only that; but also, some sky-watchers religiously claim that we are receiving voices from the heavens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGeWBiLVn8g
The Statesman should test market edible information products After delivering millions of sometimes-bland newspapers, I finally came up with a recipe ripe to compete with the Internet; via products you can simply eat, rather than wastefully toss out or recycle: Start out small, like at the food mall, and then mix nutritious soy based ink with cellulose news columns . Wrap into hermetically sealed rice paper, stuffed with ads. Organically orient the A Section to include everyman’s essential waking vitamins, with a whiff of caffeine providing the Buzz for B. In winter, Lifestyles could supply Vitamin C, to lick the dark. Occasionally articles come along that are so well written, such as Zimo’s Overlooked diving ducks , that they don’t need extra spices to whet readers hardy appetites. To alleviate rogue dogs from snatching the tasty wraps from the ground, require home subscribers to maintain a sanitary Statesman box, modified in the form of a child’s toy oven. When neighbors see subscr