Big Coal wants feebleminded to join the CO2 debate

Big oil and coal would like to know if you are really as stupid and gullible as they think you are. A group funded by oil revenues and associated with coal interests is running teevee commercials to explain that CO2 is really good for you. The more the better. They also have two websites aimed [...]

Another Baucus Blunder

There were a couple of good articles on Salon.com yesterday about the bizarre goings on in the Finance Committee. Alex Koppelman reminded us that Max Baucus actually supports a public option. During the hearing, Max said, “The public option would help hold insurance companies’ feet to the fire…” Yep, that’s our boy. The public option [...]

Brainwashed or Brainless?

I know I shouldn’t be by now, but I continue to be amazed by the wellspring of stupidity available to conservative cuckoos. On the one hand, they express deep moral outrage over young students being “indoctrinated” by singing a short song about their elected president. They ignore similar songs and prayers for President Bush and [...]

Max’ed Out

This morning, Max Baucus was finally forced to give voice to what most of us have known for months. In voting against two public option amendements in the Senate Finance Committee, Max has shown that he is more interested in subsidizing his large campaign donors than in listening to the people who elected him. The [...]

Best Health Care System in the World

Why would we want to change this wonderful system and move to a rational system that provides affordable health care for our families?

Dennis Rehberg aide, Dustin Frost is out of the hospital following a serious head injury from a boating accident. Friends and family are selling T-shirts, hats and teddy bears to help defray his [...]

Word Warrior

I don’t know anything about the folks who are on the panel to choose the Montana Poet Laureate, but I do know that they have a tough job. There’s something about the climate in Montana that nurtures language and grows  masterful writers and poets like cheatgrass in the sagebrush.
Yesterday, Governor Schweitzer announced the selection of [...]

Lemon Tort

Your Congressional representative Dennis Rehberg again stood up in Bozeman this week and said that we don’t need health care reform. What we need are more tax breaks for the wealthy and tort reform. We shouldn’t “force” good health on people if they don’t want it. People should be free to “force” the cost of [...]

Being Neighborly Ain’t Socialism

I was reading an article the other day about the building of an early irrigation project in an arid part of the West and I was reminded of these teabagger dweebs. We live in Montana, in what is, by necessity, probably one of the most socialist parts of the world. Early in our history, and [...]

$3 Billion Hose Pipe

About a month ago, we talked about a fantastical idea by Colorado developer, Aaron Million, (apt name) to build a ten-foot diameter hose pipe to suck water from Flaming Gorge Reservoir and shoot it 600 miles down to Denver so the Rocky Mountain Front could continue to grow at current unsustainable rates.
Well, it seems that [...]

More Fracking Woes

Update 09/22/2009: Environmental agencies in Pennsylvania are scrambling to clean up 8,000 gallons of fracking fluid that spilled into Stevens Creek. A burst pipeline released the toxic carcinogen manufactured by Halliburton Corporation late last week. A fish kill in the creek was reported by the state Department of Environmental Protection. Earlier this month DEP began [...]