Yesterday evening I learned from my son, as he was telling me what he and his friends did with their free afternoon following an 11:30 dismissal from school to start Spring Break, that a pair of older boys in the neighborhood (perhaps middle school age) described and demonstrated the technique to play the “pass-out game” [...]
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“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Can someone show me where the power to nationalize health care is granted to the federal government in the Constitution? The 10th Amendment (above) specifically reserves any [...]
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PEER is at it again — campaigning to keep tribal employees from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) from working alongside federal employees at The National Bison Range, located on the Flathead Reservation. The co-management and annual funding agreement (AFA) entered into by US Fish & Wildlife Services and CSKT is in keeping with [...]
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http://www.missoulian.com/news/local/article_43d44b54-21c3-11df-bf39-001cc4c002e0.html?mode=story “One of the main concerns is that the CSKT, as a sovereign nation, may feel no need to be accountable once the federal check clears,” Ruch said. “If this Bison Range arrangement is an experiment, then that is all the more reason why it should be monitored closely.” The words of a bigot. The [...]
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Perhaps the backers of the proposed Bitterroot Resort will come to the conclusion it’s just not meant to be. Here’s hoping! Those of us opposed to the leasing of National Forest land on Lolo Peak to the Bitterroot Resort for development of a “premier” ski area and golf community cite a catalog of concerns on [...]
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The Obama administration’s plan for “health care reform” sucks and the attack on the First Amendment by our president sucks worse! Flag that! We’ve been traveling for 11 days (trip report to come) and not paying much attention to the news. When my husband called me this afternoon while I was out to lunch to [...]
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The topic of this entry is not the usual fare here at Big Sky County Reports but it’s a topic that has been on my mind. There has been much in the news the last few days about an event that took place in an American city. The story goes like this: A woman witnessed [...]
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Bozeman demands Internet passwords By MATT GOURAS Associated Press HELENA – Job applicants with the city of Bozeman are finding that those private Internet discussions and pictures may not be so private after all. The city is asking job seekers for the user names – and passwords – to Internet social networking or Web groups [...]
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Those of us opposed to the leasing of National Forest land on Lolo Peak to the Bitterroot Resort for development of a “premier” ski area cite a catalog of concerns on which we base our opposition: environmental, impact on the local community, access issues, water rights issues, etc (see the Friends of Lolo Peak website [...]
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…More lawsuits I hope the judges that hear the suits brought by The Blue Goose Alliance and PEER (“Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility”) against the Department of the Interior (DOI) over its agreement with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) for management of the National Bison Range see through these suits for what they [...]
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