Well it just so happens that at some point the City of Spokane made the term official and memorialized and defined it in the municipal code.
Rembrandt Heist
2 weeks ago
Friday, September 17, 2010
What About Toolin'?
In the winter when I was a kid we used to do something called ski jogging. We'd find a way to grab onto the bumper a slow moving car on a snow covered street and let it pull us a long. I don't know how the practice received the name, but that's what it was. During my time in the Air Force I never met anyone who had heard that term or knew what it meant. For me it was always something uniquely Spokane.
Well it just so happens that at some point the City of Spokane made the term official and memorialized and defined it in the municipal code.
Well it just so happens that at some point the City of Spokane made the term official and memorialized and defined it in the municipal code.
Tree Planting On The Children Of The Sun Trail
I received this email today:
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Hello Volunteers,
This is a last call for any volunteers who would like to participate in our tree planting this weekend. We have over 400 trees to plant around the bike path of the Department of Transportation's North Spokane Corridor!
Whether you have service hours to complete or you would just like to get out and make a difference in Spokane's native landscape, we are inviting people of all ages to join us. If you would like to bring younger children to this event, please keep them near you for safety.
Light snacks, coffee, and water will be provided, but please bring your own water container to refill.
Here is the information you will need:
Location: At the North Spokane Corridor bike path between Hawthorn and Parksmith. Parking is available on Parksmith, but you will need to walk or ride your bike in to the site (approximately half a mile). Please see our Google map for the exact location.
View Tree planting N. Corridor 9-11 a.m. Sat. Sept. 18th in a larger map
Date: Saturday, September 18
Time: 9:00am-11:00am
Recommended supplies: Some shovels will be provided, but bringing your own is suggested. Please bring work gloves, a water bottle, and check the weather for appropriate attire.
We hope to see you out there tomorrow morning!
Thank you,
Kate Cornwall
Volunteer and Restoration Coordinator
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Over 400 trees? That's a boatload of holes to dig in two hours so they could use a lot of hands. But if there's a place that needs unuglifying, it's the NSC bike path.
Bummer, I will be in Missoula tomorrow.
*****
Hello Volunteers,
This is a last call for any volunteers who would like to participate in our tree planting this weekend. We have over 400 trees to plant around the bike path of the Department of Transportation's North Spokane Corridor!
Whether you have service hours to complete or you would just like to get out and make a difference in Spokane's native landscape, we are inviting people of all ages to join us. If you would like to bring younger children to this event, please keep them near you for safety.
Light snacks, coffee, and water will be provided, but please bring your own water container to refill.
Here is the information you will need:
Location: At the North Spokane Corridor bike path between Hawthorn and Parksmith. Parking is available on Parksmith, but you will need to walk or ride your bike in to the site (approximately half a mile). Please see our Google map for the exact location.
View Tree planting N. Corridor 9-11 a.m. Sat. Sept. 18th in a larger map
Date: Saturday, September 18
Time: 9:00am-11:00am
Recommended supplies: Some shovels will be provided, but bringing your own is suggested. Please bring work gloves, a water bottle, and check the weather for appropriate attire.
We hope to see you out there tomorrow morning!
Thank you,
Kate Cornwall
Volunteer and Restoration Coordinator
*****
Over 400 trees? That's a boatload of holes to dig in two hours so they could use a lot of hands. But if there's a place that needs unuglifying, it's the NSC bike path.
Bummer, I will be in Missoula tomorrow.
Any Minute, Weeks From Now
Since the unveiling back in May, Cathy McMorris Rodgers and her fellow Republican House members have been touting the America Speaking Out site as a means for you and I to communicate our ideas to Republican House members.
In today's news we have notice that the Republican House members have listened and have formulated their agenda for the November election. But they're not telling us what it is just yet.
One of the GOP proposals would require bills to have a specific citation of constitutional authority, on the heels of criticism that Democrats breached their constitutional limits in Congress with big-ticket bills like health care reform. If a member questioned whether the House had constitutional authority to pass a bill, that challenge would receive debate and a vote.
The second major initiative would encourage — though not require — members of Congress to read bills before they vote. According to a senior House GOP source, Republicans plan to push for a new rule that would require the House to publish the text of a bill online at least three days before the House votes on it, also giving the public an opportunity to review legislation.
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The rollout is the culmination of House Republicans’ “America Speaking Out” initiative, an online, grass-roots effort to build ideas from voters across the country. Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio developed the plan this spring and designated California Rep. Kevin McCarthy as chairman to pull together a governing agenda for the party after four years in the minority.
“Within a matter of weeks, the American people will see a new governing agenda that is focused on their priorities,” said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for the Republican agenda. “Americans have been speaking out, and this agenda will demonstrate that Republicans are listening.”
Now one thing the Republicans haven't mentioned publicly are the criteria used to determine which ideas will receive a greater degree of listening over others. So the only thing we have to go by is what they've been tracking for us--the votes. And here are the top voted items in each category.
American Prosperity - Job Creation
Fiscal Accountability - Spending
American Values - Life
National Security - Homeland/Border Security
And last of all under Open Mic.
I've posted on the items receiving the most votes in each category here, here, here, here and here.
I look forward to seeing what the illegal-alien-deporting, defense-busting, pro-choice, citizenship-verifying, more-liberal-and-democratic Republicans have in their election agenda.
Unless, of course, they only listened to what they wanted to hear.
In today's news we have notice that the Republican House members have listened and have formulated their agenda for the November election. But they're not telling us what it is just yet.
One of the GOP proposals would require bills to have a specific citation of constitutional authority, on the heels of criticism that Democrats breached their constitutional limits in Congress with big-ticket bills like health care reform. If a member questioned whether the House had constitutional authority to pass a bill, that challenge would receive debate and a vote.
The second major initiative would encourage — though not require — members of Congress to read bills before they vote. According to a senior House GOP source, Republicans plan to push for a new rule that would require the House to publish the text of a bill online at least three days before the House votes on it, also giving the public an opportunity to review legislation.
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The rollout is the culmination of House Republicans’ “America Speaking Out” initiative, an online, grass-roots effort to build ideas from voters across the country. Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio developed the plan this spring and designated California Rep. Kevin McCarthy as chairman to pull together a governing agenda for the party after four years in the minority.
“Within a matter of weeks, the American people will see a new governing agenda that is focused on their priorities,” said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for the Republican agenda. “Americans have been speaking out, and this agenda will demonstrate that Republicans are listening.”
Now one thing the Republicans haven't mentioned publicly are the criteria used to determine which ideas will receive a greater degree of listening over others. So the only thing we have to go by is what they've been tracking for us--the votes. And here are the top voted items in each category.
American Prosperity - Job Creation
Fiscal Accountability - Spending
American Values - Life
National Security - Homeland/Border Security
And last of all under Open Mic.
I've posted on the items receiving the most votes in each category here, here, here, here and here.
I look forward to seeing what the illegal-alien-deporting, defense-busting, pro-choice, citizenship-verifying, more-liberal-and-democratic Republicans have in their election agenda.
Unless, of course, they only listened to what they wanted to hear.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
I'll Procrastinate Tomorrow Instead
Being the wizened-elderly-wannabe at times, I offer up advice that sometimes pans out. For example, I always tell people they should have a spare inner tube on hand in case they have a flat. Swapping the tubes out is usually the quickest way to resume your bike ride. Hardly original on my part, but tried-and-true worthwhile advice nonetheless.
This morning about four blocks away from work I noticed something about the bike didn't feel right. Coasting along I looked at my tires and saw the rear one was low and quickly fading. I walked the last two blocks.
Now I always have a spare tube on hand, but there was a slight problem. I used it last week. I didn't patch the one I took out.
So what'd you do during your lunch?
This morning about four blocks away from work I noticed something about the bike didn't feel right. Coasting along I looked at my tires and saw the rear one was low and quickly fading. I walked the last two blocks.
Now I always have a spare tube on hand, but there was a slight problem. I used it last week. I didn't patch the one I took out.
So what'd you do during your lunch?
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Putting Lipstick On The Pig At The Trough
High fructose corn syrup is used in a lot of foods. Whether deserved or not, it also has a bad rap. So agribusiness is doing something about that. They're petitioning the FDA to use "corn sugar" in place of high fructose corn syrup. To help educate the masses, they've created a web site called cornsugar.com.
They want to clear up all our confusion.
Navigate the maze. Get it? Maze.
After the main page finishes loading a variety of quotes from presumably reputable people are displayed one after another.
The cornsugar.com domain name is owned by the Corn Refiners Association. Why does corn need to be refined?
Along with cornsugar.com there's another site called sweetsurprise.com which also serves to "educate" us about high fructose corn syrup. That domain name is owned by DDB, an advertising agency with the highest revenue in the world. I'm sure they make for fine educators, too.
Why is all this important? Because corn is one of the most heavily subsidized foods in America. With billions of our tax dollars at stake and the health considerations being raised about high fructose corn syrup it's important for agribusiness to reframe high fructose corn syrup as corn sugar. With corn so heavily subsidized and tariffs applied to imported sugar, "corn sugar" sounds much more natural and remains much cheaper.
Other than the agribusiness welfare queens what bothers me about "corn sugar" is that it tastes like crap. Compare a Coke with a Jones Cola made with cane sugar. There's no comparison. Jones Cola tastes so much better. But it also costs so much more.
And we pay to have it that way.
They want to clear up all our confusion.
Navigate the maze. Get it? Maze.
After the main page finishes loading a variety of quotes from presumably reputable people are displayed one after another.
The cornsugar.com domain name is owned by the Corn Refiners Association. Why does corn need to be refined?
Along with cornsugar.com there's another site called sweetsurprise.com which also serves to "educate" us about high fructose corn syrup. That domain name is owned by DDB, an advertising agency with the highest revenue in the world. I'm sure they make for fine educators, too.
Why is all this important? Because corn is one of the most heavily subsidized foods in America. With billions of our tax dollars at stake and the health considerations being raised about high fructose corn syrup it's important for agribusiness to reframe high fructose corn syrup as corn sugar. With corn so heavily subsidized and tariffs applied to imported sugar, "corn sugar" sounds much more natural and remains much cheaper.Other than the agribusiness welfare queens what bothers me about "corn sugar" is that it tastes like crap. Compare a Coke with a Jones Cola made with cane sugar. There's no comparison. Jones Cola tastes so much better. But it also costs so much more.
And we pay to have it that way.
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