THE NEW IDAHO REPUBLICAN PARTY – ONLY IN IDAHO?

THE NEW IDAHO REPUBLICAN PARTY – ONLY IN IDAHO?

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Public radio KUOW carried a story, today, about the Idaho Republican party and its transformation from its traditional character. Apparently there are now strong factions within the party at odds with one another. One member of the party was quoted as saying:  "I visualized myself as more conservative than many, and that's what I thought until I was rudely awakened by some of these other people who started calling me a liberal." Idaho has been so Republican that the joke is the Democrats could…

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My Grandmother: Marija Mattia Vulic’ Babarovich 1863 to 1953

My Grandmother: Marija Mattia Vulic’ Babarovich 1863 to 1953

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My maternal grandmother Marija Babarovich was born on September 21, 1863 on an island in the Adriatic Sea and died in Anacortes, Washington on August 5th, 1953. She was born in what was Austria Hungary, became Yugoslavia and is now Croatia. She died the year  I graduated from high school in Anacortes, Washington.Her life story is one of great courage and sacrifice involving immigration to America while not being able to speak English. I've previously talked about that in writing about my…

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A SERIOUS CASE OF POLITICAL SHELL SHOCK

A SERIOUS CASE OF POLITICAL SHELL SHOCK

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The first world war lasted from 1914 to 1918. Along the  Western front there were some six thousand  miles of trenches extending from the sea to the mountains. The trenches were subject to cannon bombardment and the fighting involved crossing the area between both sides trenches, known as "no man's land" to the enemy trenches where hand to hand killing took place. The strain of this kind of war and the life in trenches took a mental toll. In WW I it was called…

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SO, YOU REALLY THINK YOU MAKE RATIONAL DECISIONS?

SO, YOU REALLY THINK YOU MAKE RATIONAL DECISIONS?

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In an article entitled "Why Consumers Aren't Good at Telling You What They Want" http://www.instituteofdecisionmaking.com/?p=619 The writer, Matthew Wilcox, says that when Steve jobs was asked if Apple had used consumer research to help design and launch the I-Pad,  he replied "no." And when asked why not, he said,"it's not the consumers Job to know what they want." What neuroscience marketing research has shown, is that the consumer is not very good at telling us what they want. We know…

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OUR HISTORY OF NUCLEAR POWER

OUR HISTORY OF NUCLEAR POWER

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The recent nuclear disaster in Japan and the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine are certainly not the first nuclear disasters. But, Chernobyl was the worst nuclear accident in  history. The attempt to contain the  contamination involved some 500,000 workers and cost an estimated 18 billion Rubles which crippled the soviet economy. We had our own nuclear diaster in March of 1979 when a nuclear power plant failure happened at Three Mile Island in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. There was radiation contamination…

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SOME QUOTES TO PONDER

SOME QUOTES TO PONDER

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Some random quotes from my reading over the weekend: "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of  those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little"  Franklin D. Roosevelt I wish every Tea Party member and every cold hearted conservative Republican who would choose to let the poor starve and those in medical need suffer meditate on those words. Especially those who go to church every Sunday and…

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On an early Friday morning, July 7th2000, my mother Mary Thelma Babarovich, died in her sleep at the San Juan Care Center. Her death was not unexpected. After all, she was born on December 28, 1905 and was ninety four years old when she died. She had been in failing health for some time. Her passing was, in fact, a personal blessing to her as she had been ready to meet her maker for some time. My sisters, Phyllis Ennes…

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DAN SULLIVAN & HIS GIFT TO ME

DAN SULLIVAN & HIS GIFT TO ME

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One more note about my friend Dan Sullivan who died last Sunday morning. In 1991 I received a large box from Dan. Inside was an antique framed print of a majestic lion standing on a rock. Accompanying the print was a letter from Dan which read: November 19, 1991 Dear Paul, When I discovered this in a little shop in London my mind went back twenty five years when we were young with fires in our belly. This old marvelous print embodies…

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DANIEL F. SULLIVAN July 1, 2012

DANIEL F. SULLIVAN July 1, 2012

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My friend of many years  Daniel Sullivan died of lung cancer the morning of July 1, 2012 in Seattle. He  was 86 years old. His wife Susan was with him when he died. Lita and I had just visited with Susan and Dan last Wednesday before leaving the next day for a talk I was giving out of state. I'm thankful for that opportunity to say goodby without realizing it was good by. Dan was a plaintiff's trial lawyer who acomplished so much in his life. He was…

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I AM FLOORED BY JUSTICE ROBERT’S VOTE ON THE HEALTH CARE BILL!

I AM FLOORED BY JUSTICE ROBERT’S VOTE ON THE HEALTH CARE BILL!

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I have to admit I never  thought the outcome of the U.S. Supreme Court on the health care bill  would ever be what  it turned out to be. Nor would I, in a  thousand years, have anticipated the "swing" vote would be Justice Roberts who now suffers the hysterical abuse of  conservatives like the  biopolar conduct of Glen Beck  in reacting to Robert's vote. So, why did  he do it? I believe he made a very difficult choice to fulfill…

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