Idaho Senator Dan Foreman yells "Abortion is murder" at his constituents and then threatens to have them arrested. Yes, he's a Republican.

This is how Senator Dan Foreman, Idaho District 5, treats his constituents. We drove 7 hours to meet with him and he threatened to call the police if we entered his office. SPREAD THIS! pic.twitter.com/SfDzdciqg1

— nicky (@nicky_skinz) February 19, 2018

Well he seems nice.

One Idaho state representative is pretty sure he knows who was behind the violence in Charlottesville. Obama!

Courtesy of The Hill: 

An Idaho state lawmaker is facing backlash for sharing a conspiracy theory that former President Obama helped to orchestrate the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., as part of a plot to take down President Trump. 

Idaho Rep. Bryan Zollinger on Friday posted a story on Facebook that suggested Obama and other top Democrats like billionaire George Soros and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe were part of a conspiracy to set up the rally, the Post Register reported. 

“I’m not saying it is true, but I am suggesting that it is completely plausible,” Zollinger wrote on Facebook. The story claims that Obama has set up a “war room” to fight against the Trump administration — a claim that has largely been debunked — and that Charlottesville was a part of his plan. 

The lawmaker later told the Idaho Statesman that it was “maybe a mistake” to share the story but doubled down on his statement that the claims were “plausible.”

Plausible?

So it is plausible that a bunch of Nazis, KKK members, and White Supremacists gathered in Virginia to foment violence at the direction of the first black president in American history?

Sure, plausible, right.

But do you know what IS plausible?

That these racists assholes will continue to blame Barack Obama for every single thing that goes wrong in their lives for the next twenty years despite the fact that he is no longer in office, or wields any real power.

Because THAT is what racists do.

Idaho Congressman claims that "nobody dies because they don't have access to heath care."

Courtesy of Idaho Statesman: 

A statement made by U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador during a town hall meeting Friday morning has drawn criticism by those challenging his stance on health care. 

After a woman suggested that the lack of health care was essentially asking people to die, Labrador had a controversial answer at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston. 

“That line is so indefensible,” Labrador said. “Nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care.” 

I have to admit that when I first heard about this statement I thought it might be an exaggeration or the product of "fake news," because NOBODY could be that stupid, right?

Wrong.

In fact, as you can see from this video, the woman who Rep. Labrador is arguing with, and whom he actually calls a liar, is a nurse who has spent fourteen years working in the ER.

It literally makes my head ache to think that there are people in Congress who are this ignorant, and who are making these life and death decisions for the American people.

This guy is simply not smart enough to do his job.

It's primary day kids! Yes again. Update!

For the Republicans there are primaries in Arizona and Utah.

According to Real Clear Politics Trump leads in Arizona by 13 points while Cruz leads in Utah by 20.

As for the Democrats there are three states. Arizona where Clinton leads Sanders by 26 points, Utah where Sanders is leading by a slim margin, and Idaho where Sanders leads by an even slimmer margin.

For the Republicans Arizona offers 58 delegates, for Democrats 75.

Utah has 40 up for grabs among the Republicans, and only 33 for the Dems.

And of course Idaho has 23 which will probably be split up almost evenly between Hillary and Bernie tonight.

As usual I will try to update the blog just as soon as the numbers start rolling in, but we may not get the final tally until fairly late since these are western states.

Update: Dirty tricks already reported in Arizona.

Update 2: Trump wins Arizona.

Update 3: Now Hillary is projected to win in Arizona as well.

Update 4: Sanders wins Utah. Apparently the turnout was massive.

Update 5: Sanders has also emerged victorious in Idaho.  Good night for Sanders.

Idaho teenager threatens to "kill all the girls" because nobody will send him any nudes.

Courtesy of Local News 8: 

The Pocatello/Chubbuck School District and Pocatello Police Department worked in partnership to investigate a threat of harm to a student or students. The threat was posted on social media and was reported to school officials this morning. 

The District and Police Department have completed their investigation. A suspect is in custody and is being held in the juvenile detention center. 

The suspect is a 15-year-old male, he was charged with one count of threatening violence at a school and another count of telephone harassment. 

He could face further disciplinary action from the Pocatello/Chubbuck School District as well.

It's a little hard to read but if you look on the right side of the screen cap up above you can see the kid bitching about not receiving any nudes from his classmates and then essentially threatening to open fire with a shot gun and a nine millimeter pistol in the hallways of his school. 

So what do we think his mental illness is? Acute horniness?

Look I was so girl crazy in high school that I could close my locker without using my hands. But that never made me consider bringing a gun to school.

We live in a country whose national motto is now "Shoot first and ask questions later."

The problem with this kid is NOT mental illness, it is NOT poor parenting, and it is NOT too little religion in his life.

The problem with his kid is that he had access to weapons.

Without those he is just some stupid high school kid who can't deal with puberty.

Idaho Republican lawmaker does not seem to understand human reproduction.

"Wait. where do babies come from?"

Courtesy of the Star Tribune:  

An Idaho lawmaker received a brief lesson on female anatomy after asking if a woman can swallow a small camera for doctors to conduct a remote gynecological exam. 

The question Monday from Republican state Rep. Vito Barbieri came as the House State Affairs Committee heard nearly three hours of testimony on a bill that would ban doctors from prescribing abortion-inducing medication through telemedicine. 

Barbieri later said that the question was rhetorical and intended to make a point. 

Dr. Julie Madsen, a physician who said she has provided various telemedicine services in Idaho, was testifying in opposition to the bill. She said some colonoscopy patients may swallow a small device to give doctors a closer look at parts of their colon. 

"Can this same procedure then be done in a pregnancy? Swallowing a camera and helping the doctor determine what the situation is?" Barbieri asked. Madsen replied that would be impossible because swallowed pills do not end up in the vagina. 

"Fascinating. That makes sense," Barbieri said, amid the crowd's laughter.

You know I have long believed that Republicans do not understand how a woman makes another human being, and this just proves it.

I'm surprised this simpleton is not suggesting shooting storks out of the sky as a contraception measure.

Where DO they find these people?

Boise woman tries to convert Jewish friend by stomping on her neck. Must make Jesus proud.

Courtesy of KTVB:  

A Boise woman is facing felony charges after police say she attacked a Jewish acquaintance, stomping on the woman's neck as part of a bizarre bid to convert her to Christianity. 

Margurite Dawn Haragan, 58, has been charged with two counts of malicious harassment in an attack police have labeled a hate crime. 

Prosecutors say the incident started when Haragan showed up at the victim's home Feb. 5. It's not clear how the two women know each other. 

"The defendant was banging on the front window yelling at her that she better believe in Jesus and she was not going to leave until she did believe in Jesus," Ada County Prosecutor Dave Rothcheck said. He said the victim, identified in court only as "A.G.," opened her door to tell Haragan to leave and to write down her license plate number. 

That's when the suspect slapped her in the face and dragged her to the ground by her hair, Roscheck said. 

"The defendant began kicking the victim in the stomach and thigh area," he said. "During this time the defendant was screaming at the victim that she better accept Jesus or she would not let up."

I must have skipped that part after the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus waded into the crowd and started bitch slapping them toward salvation. 

So I guess it's not JUST Muslims who will kick your ass for not converting to their faith.

Good to know.

Two year old accidentally shoots woman with her own gun. Sadly she was killed and therefore unable to return fire.

Courtesy of The Guardian:  

A two-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed a woman after he reached into her purse at a northern Idaho Walmart and her concealed gun fired, authorities said Tuesday. 

The woman was shopping with several children, and it is unclear how they are related, Kootenai County sheriff’s spokesman Stu Miller said. Authorities originally said the boy was the woman’s son. 

The woman, whose identity was not released, had a concealed weapons permit. 

Miller said the shooting was accidental and occurred in the Walmart in Hayden, Idaho, a town about 40 miles northeast of Spokane, Washington.

First off a woman who carries a concealed weapon while out with a bunch of children deserves to be shot.  I know that sounds insensitive but since one of the alternatives is that a child is shot, I stand by my statement.

Secondly have you ever noticed just how many people are shot in Wal-Mart these days?

And thirdly this is just another example of having guns on your person placing you and your loved ones in more, not less, danger.

I feel badly for this two year old child, and the other children who were there to witness this.

But once again I am finding it impossible to feel badly for this woman.

God is my codefendant. There are 32 states where parents can use a religious defense in court for abusing or neglecting their children. In Idaho that protection extends to manslaughter.

Courtesy of Vocativ:  

Currently, 32 states, including Idaho, provide a religious defense to felony or misdemeanor crimes specifically against children, including neglect, endangerment and abuse, according to state statutes compiled by Children’s Healthcare Is a Legal Duty (CHILD), a national advocacy group. There are 38 states that provide religious exemptions in their civil codes on child abuse and neglect, which can prevent Child Protective Services from investigating and monitoring cases of religion-based medical neglect and discourage reporting. 

Of the states that still provide a religious defense to felonies against children, Idaho remains in a league of its own. It is one of only six states that provide a religious exemption to manslaughter, negligent homicide or capital murder (the others being Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, Ohio and West Virginia). But of those six, it is the only state where children are known to have died at the hands of faith-healing parents in the last 20 years. Rita Swan, CHILD’s co-founder, describes Idaho as “the worst in the country,” and she attributes the state’s high number of deaths to its overreaching religious exemption laws, which were enacted in 1972.

Swan and other child advocates argue that Idaho’s laws, and those like them, are in direct contradiction with the Supreme Court’s 1944 decision in Prince v. Massachusetts, which ruled that parental authority cannot jeopardize a child’s welfare, even in cases of religious expression. “The right to practice religion freely,” the court concluded, “does not include liberty to expose…[a] child…to ill health or death.” 

“Parents may be free to become martyrs themselves,” the decision continued. “But it does not follow they are free, in identical circumstances, to make martyrs of their children.”

Even though over the years numerous children in Idaho have died from medically treatable diseases or injuries, there is currently no plan to change this religious exemption.

Oregon also used to have a similar law in place, but then things changed: 

Outside of Oregon and Idaho, there have been 20 documented faith-healing fatalities of minors since 2008 in 10 different states, including Texas, Colorado and Pennsylvania, according to CHILD. But the death count among Followers of Christ puts Idaho well out in front as the deadliest state in the country. That distinction actually once belonged to Oregon, until a highly publicized child death in 1998 ultimately prompted prosecutors and lawmakers to act. 

Oregon, like Idaho, had a religious defense to manslaughter on the books when 11-year-old Bo Phillips died from untreated diabetes that year. His family, who were members of the Followers of Christ, prayed over him and anointed his body with oil instead of taking him to a doctor. It was the first time authorities felt they had a clear case of abuse in a faith-healing child death. But the district attorney for the county, Terry Gustafson, declined to prosecute the boy’s parents because of ambiguities in the state law. 

Gustafson’s decision triggered public outcry across the state. The Oregonian newspaper in Portland, the state’s largest paper, launched an investigative series on faith-healing deaths, which found that of the 78 children buried in one Followers cemetery in Oregon City since 1955, 21 had died from treatable illnesses. Shortly after, ABC’s 20/20 and Diane Sawyer brought national attention to the state’s faith-healing controversy with a prime-time segment on the Followers. By 1999, legislators had eliminated religious protections in cases of manslaughter and criminal mistreatment. 

Clearly what needs to happen in Idaho is the same kind of media scrutiny that took place in Oregon. However it would be incredibly sad if another child had to die in order to trigger that response.

Sometimes people ask me why I find religion so threatening. Honestly sometimes I just don't know where to begin.

Could it be that it is used as an excuse to hate those who supposedly the Bible deems worthy of hate?

Could it be how religion is used to oppress women?

Could it be how religion has negatively impacted our views of human sexuality?

Could it be that it is used to undermine our teaching of science?

Or perhaps it could simply be that it allows terrible people, to do terrible things, and defend their actions by using God as the scapegoat.

Pat Robertson claims that thanks to the Supreme Court the "onslaught of homosexual behavior" is having "deadly consequences."

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

“This onslaught of homosexual behavior that is being forced on us by the Supreme Court of the United States is having deadly consequences,” Robertson announced on the Monday edition of The 700 Club. “I was afraid it was going to happen. It has happened now in Idaho.” 

“If I were that couple, I’d get ahead of the curve. I’d get on an airplane and leave Idaho or get in your car and drive across the border into Montana,” the TV preacher recommended. “Get out of that state. And if need be, close your chapel down. I mean, just get out ahead of it because this is outrageous.”

You know I am not sure that Robertson clearly understand just how far progress has spread on this issue. Currently there are 31 states where same sex marriage is legal, and only 19 that are still fighting the inevitable.

 That does not leave a whole lot of places that you can drive to from Idaho where these people can get away from "teh gays."

By the way does anybody have a body count as to how many people have been killed thus far by this "deadly" increase in same sex marriage?

Idaho Republican convention collapses due to infighting and acrimony among the delegates. Boy do I love good news on a Monday!

Seriously what is going on here?

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

The Idaho state GOP convention collapsed on Saturday as the presiding Republican U.S. congressman called a halt to the proceedings amid infighting and walk-outs by delegates. 

Saying the party had hit “rock bottom,” 1st District Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador adjourned the convention without electing a chairman, establishing a platform or completing any of its scheduled business, according to the Spokesman-Review. 

“This is as low as the party can go,” said Labrador. “We have hit bottom. I think the party has no choice but to go up from here.” 

The three-day convention dissolved into acrimony as various factions representing the Tea Party and the libertarian wing battled over unseating delegates. 

According to the Huffington Post, all 15 delegates from Bannock County were successfully deposed, with a move to remove delegates from Ada and Twin Falls counties in the works before Labrador gaveled the proceedings to a close. 

State Sen. Chuck Winder (R-Boise) criticized the attempts disqualify entire delegations from the three counties. 

“It was basically the ultra-, ultra-conservative, tea party-libertarian type people basically flexing their muscle in the way the thing was organized,” said Winder. “It’s a real shame that a convention comes to that stage, where there really wasn’t any real floor leadership, there wasn’t any fairness in the process, either in the credentials committee or on the floor. It was all predetermined. It’s kind of ‘who’s going to have the power,’ rather than working together.”

This same scenario is playing out, in one form or another, all over the country. 

The Tea Party, who got a taste of power and liked, are determined to either take over the Republican party or tear it apart.

We saw this same thing happen up here in Alaska, and currently the establishment Republicans maintain a tenuous hold on leadership, but things remain shaky.

Which is great news for our Democratic Senator and will undoubtedly mean the same for Democrats in other red states where this infighting is taking place.

Conservative Idaho lawmakers craft bill protecting business owners who refuse service to anybody whose lifestyle conflicts with their religious belief.

Courtesy of KBOI2:  

Idaho lawmakers and conservative Christian allies who contend faith is under siege by gays, lesbians and the government are launching a "pre-emptive" strike to bolster rights of licensed professionals to refuse service or employment to those they conclude violate their religious beliefs. 

On Tuesday, Rep. Lynn Luker outlined a plan to shield religious people from the threat of having their professional licenses - issued for everything from midwives and doctors to physical therapists and nurses - revoked. 

Luker, a Boise Republican, knows of no example in Idaho of an actual challenge to a professional's license on these grounds. Still, he points to efforts by gays and lesbians elsewhere seeking to end what they contend is discrimination against them as a sign Idaho must act quickly to protect the faithful before something similar arises closer to home. 

"This is pre-emptive," Luker said. "The issue is coming, whether it's 10 years, or 15 years, or two years."

Yeah it's never too early to go into a full blown homophobic panic.  I mean if you wait the next thing you know some queer couple will want to gas up at your service station and YOU WILL HAVE TO GIVE IT TO THEM!

 I swear these idjits act like homosexuality is an air born virus like influenza. 

First you rent a room to a gay couple and the next thing you know you've opened a cake decorating business.

All I have to say is that there are few books that I know of that make my gay-dar go off as intensely as the New Testament. I mean the guy had long hair, wore a smock, hung out with 12 male "friends," and never once tried to bang Mary Magdalene.

In my book that suggests that somebody may have been a little light in the sandals.

Not that there is anything wrong with that. You know, unless you are a conservative homophobe from Idaho that is.

Let's take a moment to look around and see how Republican lawmakers are currently damaging our country.

These examples come to us courtesy of Salon.

First up criminalizing gun control:  

In Missouri, state Rep. Mike Leara believes even proposing gun control should be illegal. So he has proposed legislation that would make it a felony for “any member of the general assembly who proposes a piece of legislation that further restricts the right of an individual to bear arms, as set forth under the second amendment of the Constitution of the United States.” 

“I filed HB 633 as a matter of principle and as a statement in defense of the Second Amendment rights of all Missourians,” Leara told Buzzfeed. “I have no illusions about the bill making it through the legislative process, but I want it to be clear that the Missouri House will stand in defense of the people’s Constitutional right to keep and bear arms.”

From Oklahoma we have the attempt to undermine the benefits to women from Obamacare:  

The full state Senate in Oklahoma will take up a measure to allow companies to strip birth control and abortion coverage from employer healthcare plans under a bill that unanimously cleared the committee level last week. 

“Notwithstanding any other provision of state or federal law, no employer shall be required to provide or pay for any benefit or service related to abortion or contraception through the provision of health insurance to his or her employees,” the bill reads. 

That would put the law in conflict with the Obamacare provision that mandates contraception coverage in employee group insurance plans, unless the company in question meets the religious organization that qualifies for an exemption.

In Idaho a bill was introduced that would have forced students to pass a test about Ayn Rand before being allowed to graduate:  

The chairman of the education committee in Idaho’s Senate introduced a bill earlier this month that would make students read — and pass a test — on “Atlas Shrugged” as a requirement for a high school diploma. 

Then he backed away from the bill, saying he was just trying to make a point. The senator, John Goedde, told the Idaho Spokesman-Review he was “sending a message to the State Board of Education, because he’s unhappy with its recent move to repeal a rule requiring two online courses to graduate from high school, and with its decision to back off on another planned rule regarding principal evaluations.” 

Why that book? It “made my son a Republican,” he said, then adding, “well, he’s not a practicing Republican. But it certainly made him a conservative.”

And in Kansas teachers are being strongly encouraged to questions science that the Republican led School Board deems "questionable:"  

In Kansas, the state Board of Education will vote on new science standards this year, so the legislative jockeying has begun. A bill before the House Education Committee would make schools include evidence against climate change in science classes. 

According to the bill, science teachers would be required to “provide information to students of scientific evidence which both supports and counters a scientific theory or hypothesis.” 

As the Topeka Capital Journal notes: “The bill says instruction about ‘scientific controversies’ should be objective and include ‘both the strengths and weaknesses of such scientific theory or hypothesis.’ The only controversy identified in the bill is ‘climate science.’”

Yes they only identify "climate sciences" but we all know the ultimate goal is to sneak in a way for teachers to be forced to refute Evolution or perhaps have to teach Creationism along with it. Sneaky assholes!

And that my friends is just a sampling of what is happening around the country to control women's bodies, stop gun control legislation, and dumb down our children.

And people ask why I am a Democrat.

Stephen Colbert talks about the lunatic fringe of 2nd Amendment advocates including those who want to join the Citadel in Idaho. Remember them?

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As many of you remember we covered the Citadel about a month ago. And we had a LOT of fun with these batshit crazy freaks.

I am thrilled with Colbert talking about it on his show as he does an INCREDIBLE job of showing what lunatics these people really are! Both he and Jon Stewart are kicking ass on this gun violence issue.

Teabaggers decide that the present is not working out for them, so they are going to build a fort and pretend that they are living in the past. How is that any different to how they act now?

"NO Libruls Aloud!"

Courtesy of The Citadel:

A group of Patriots have decided to build a community off the most likely lines of peril, a bastion of Jefferson's Rightful Liberty where we may remain safe, warm, healthy and comfortable while American society suffers the inevitable destruction that must accompany the decades of degenerating morality of our Countrymen. The cornerstone of the Citadel is III Arms Company, an industry to support the first wave of Patriots who will become modern American Pioneers. We will build Fighting Arms and ammunition for Patriots and around us a town will begin to grow. Other revenue streams are already in the works. Our intent is to purchase at least one thousand acres, and construct a walled town of at least one square mile to withstand any potential violence from hungry, diseased Souls. Obviously the Citadel is not being built to defy any laws of the United States or the State of Idaho, or to withstand any .gov or .mil attack. Our fortifications are merely defensive for a SHTF world. 

The Citadel will have between 3,500 and 5,000 households within the walls, with a single gate permitting access. The Citadel is not to be a closed society, instead a refuge for genuine Patriots who wish to live without neighbors who are Liberals and Establishment political ideologues, open for tourists who will be welcomed into our town to visit our planned Firearms Museum, shop in our Town Center, stay in a B&B or hotel while vacationing and exploring the wonderful skiing, hunting and fishing opportunities in the area, and many other attractions we will offer. 

If you are a patriotic American who believes in Jefferson's Rightful Liberty, who believes in the Constitution as written, who believes in the Declaration of Independence, and who wishes to live in a beautiful, secure mountain town that bans Liberals from living among us, consider exploring the Citadel as we evolve and build. If you need to escape your suburban life and the vulnerabilities your family faces, consider the Citadel.

I guess if you cannot get President Obama to let your state secede, this is the next best thing. Just run away to play in the woods and pretend you're Huckleberry Finn.

You know this idea, of putting people terrified of reality on one  place to keep them from bothering the rest of us, is not new.

We have been doing it for decades.

Only usually we don't call them Citadels. We call them asylums.

Because you asked for it, here is Sarah Palin giving an interview to some rinky dink Fox station in Idaho.

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Sarah Palin spends much of this interview kissing up to Idahoans by claiming that she vacations there, was born there, graduated from there, and has a great grandfather who was a fire chief there. All in that ridiculous sing song voice of hers.

However later she is asked about her future plans: "You know I don't know politically where the future will..uh..land me, but..u..having a good time still traveling across the country, Todd and I, and our kids. We have...in fact the kids re all over he world. Our son is deployed in Afghanistan, another daughter's in London.." (London? Who the hell is in London? Willow? Piper?)


Interviewer: "Yeah I think we saw somebody last night."

Snowdrift Snooki: "Bristol, that's right, she still in LA. Well she'll be home now, she got voted off last night, but bless her heart she..she's on the All Stars season so that's pretty darn good."

Then the interviewer asks Palin about an upcoming  project that involves the whole family.

Snowdrift Snooki: "The whole family's gonna..we're all gonna talk about self responsibility, talk about making choices to stay healthy, be fit, and still enjoy our comfort foods because we still love our mashed potatoes from Idaho."

That may be just about the funniest thing I have ever heard. Can any of US imagine the idea of the Palin family writing a book or giving speeches about "self control?"

Does she mean like the self control it takes to get pregnant out of wedlock? Or the self control it takes to gain weight while practicing dancing six hours a day? Or perhaps she means the self control it takes to quit your job as Governor half way through in order to pimp your family out to reality shows and book tours? Lots of "self control" there.

Yeah, the Palins go together with self control, like Bristol goes together with abstinence, Todd goes together with manliness, and Sarah goes together with good work ethic. In other words, not at all!

However even if this new attempt to pimp out the Palin name for money fails, I seriously doubt it will be the last we will see of the Wasillabillies.  Remember that even though Sarah herself is rapidly turning into a fright show caricature of her previous self, she still has the B team waiting in the wings, ready to shake their moneymakers to fill the family coffers.

Poor Tripp, he really just never stood a chance.

150 Mormons quit church en masse to declare their "Declaration of Independence from Mormonism."

Courtesy of Reuters:

A group of about 150 Mormons quit their church in a mass resignation ceremony in Salt Lake City on Saturday in a rare display of defiance ending decades of disagreement for some over issues ranging from polygamy to gay marriage. 

Participants from Utah, Arizona, Idaho and elsewhere gathered in a public park to sign a "Declaration of Independence from Mormonism." 

"This feels awesome," said Alison Lucas, from West Jordan, Utah, who took part in the rally amid soaring temperatures. "I don't know if I would have had the courage except in a group." 

The Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is known for its culture of obedience, and the mass ceremony was a seldom-seen act of collective revolt. 

After gathering in the park, participants hiked a half-mile up nearby Ensign Peak, scaled in 1847 by church President Brigham Young to survey the spot where his Latter-day Saints would build a city. 

At the top, those gathered gave three loud shouts of "Freedom," cheered, clapped and hugged. 

"It's been a hard journey and this is a symbolic end," said event organizer Zilpha Larsen, of Lehi, Utah. "I just hope that it boosts people up and helps them feel more comfortable in their decision."

Now I have NO idea if these followers of the Church of Latter Day Saints still consider themselves Christians, or if some have decided to walk away form religion altogether, but it certainly does my heart good to  see ANYBODY refuse to follow their church doctrine blindly.

This certainly CANNOT be good news for Mitt Romney, to suddenly have large groups of adherents leaving his faith at the same time that HE, as it's most visible member, is in the middle of a campaign for the President of the United States.

Not that the two are related, but you know with Mittens as the current symbolic head of the church, they're KIND OF related.

"Seriously you couldn't have waited five more months?"

North Idaho gives the first "Not Sarah" award. I think that ALL female politicians should actively compete for this honor.

From the Idaho Reporter:

The wife of freshman Democratic Congressman Walt Minnick, A.K. Lienhart Minnick, handed out the first-ever “Not Sarah” award Saturday morning at the Idaho State Democratic Convention at the Coeur d’Alene Casino in Worley. The award was given to the party’s vice-chair Jeanne Buell, also of Worley, for her work within the party.

Minnick, giving a speech to the Women’s Caucus at the convention, said that Buell is someone who inspires other women “without saying ‘you betcha,’” a phrase for which Republican superstar Sarah Palin is known. Minnick praised Buell for being someone who is well-read, inspiring, and actively working to improve the Idaho Democratic Party.

Well I am a little disappointed that his award is not offered to the men as well.  Many of US also want to be recognized for not being anything like Miss Quittypants.

I don't know about anybody else, but I personally would be honored beyond belief to receive this plaque.  You betcha!

Oops screwed up my chances didn't I?

Sarah Palin and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day in Idaho.

From KTVB in Boise, Idaho:

I don't know exactly what Palin was hoping for during her appearance in Idaho stumping for Republican congressional hopeful Vaughn Ward, but I am pretty sure she did not expect to lose her luggage:

"We flew through the night and this morning my luggage didn't arrive. So about an hour ago, I was sitting backstage in sweats and tennis shoes and man, this is just so me. I'm in borrowed clothes, again... I appreciate the borrowed clothes though, this is nice," said Palin.

By the way, that was another Palin lie:

However, Mike Tracy, a spokesperson for Vaughn Ward, says clothes were purchased for Palin by a volunteer in the amount of $298.50. Tracy says Palin personally reimbursed the volunteer in that amount.

Ah Sarah, simply cannot tell the truth can you kiddo? I bet in your version the venue was filled to capacity.

Her visit drew about 1,500 to the 5,000-seat Qwest Arena....

Oooh that has to smart!

Of course the worst part for Palin may have been the pesky reporter with his camera crew that caught her without her wig arriving at the Boise airport.



Check out the video after the -1:52 mark.

She is clearly uncomfortable talking to the reporter and literally cannot get away from him fast enough. Also make note of her hair and how much less there is of it than when she is on stage earlier at the -5:34 mark.

I cannot believe too many people paid $1,000 to have their picture taken with our failed half-term governor, which makes me wonder if, after the Ward campaign paid Palin's speaking fee, they even managed to break even.