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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[REDSTATEWARD]

News Item - May 16,2019


Something rather remarkable just happened in Idaho. The state legislature opted to—in essence—repeal the entire state regulatory code. The cause may have been dysfunction across legislative chambers, but the result is serendipitous. A new governor is presented with an unprecedented opportunity to repeal an outdated and burdensome regulatory code and replace it with a more streamlined and sensible set of rules. Other states should be paying close attention.

The situation came about due to the somewhat unconventional nature of Idaho’s regulatory process. Each year, the state’s entire existing body of regulations expires unless reauthorized for an additional year by the legislature. In most years, reauthorization happens smoothly, but not this year.

Instead, the legislature wrapped up an acrimonious session in April without passing a rule-reauthorization bill. As a result, come July 1, some 8,200 pages of regulations containing 736 chapters of state rules will expire. Any rules the governor opts to keep will have to be implemented as emergency regulations, and the legislature will consider them anew when it returns next January.

Idaho lawmakers have essentially seen the governor and raised him through the roof. Earlier this year, Gov. Little followed the example of President Donald Trump and issued an executive order requiring state agencies to cut two existing rules for every new one they impose.


Oh, if only.......

[kiidcarter8]

No use.  Anything I bring up through research ... not my knowledge of the subject - you will refute.

Aww.  So unfair.

Try posting more links to Far Right Racist twitter.  That will be sure to convince us.

I am not asking you to be more fair.

[LarryBnDC]

News Item - May 16,2019


Something rather remarkable just happened in Idaho. The state legislature opted to—in essence—repeal the entire state regulatory code. The cause may have been dysfunction across legislative chambers, but the result is serendipitous. A new governor is presented with an unprecedented opportunity to repeal an outdated and burdensome regulatory code and replace it with a more streamlined and sensible set of rules. Other states should be paying close attention.

The situation came about due to the somewhat unconventional nature of Idaho’s regulatory process. Each year, the state’s entire existing body of regulations expires unless reauthorized for an additional year by the legislature. In most years, reauthorization happens smoothly, but not this year.

Instead, the legislature wrapped up an acrimonious session in April without passing a rule-reauthorization bill. As a result, come July 1, some 8,200 pages of regulations containing 736 chapters of state rules will expire. Any rules the governor opts to keep will have to be implemented as emergency regulations, and the legislature will consider them anew when it returns next January.

Idaho lawmakers have essentially seen the governor and raised him through the roof. Earlier this year, Gov. Little followed the example of President Donald Trump and issued an executive order requiring state agencies to cut two existing rules for every new one they impose.


Oh, if only.......

Nature preserves and other public lands for sale to the best connected bidder!

Fire sale!

[facilitatorn]

Or how to make a hellscape out of Idaho, republican style.

[NeedsAdjustments]

Or how to make a hellscape out of Idaho, republican style.

A hellscape for Idahoans but an absolutely heavenly playland for industry lobbyists.

[barton]

Boise will be Boise.

[REDSTATEWARD]

Boise will be Boise.

LOL

[NeedsAdjustments]

Boise will be Boise.

LOL

Yes!

[arafura]

Boise will be Boise.

LOL

Yes!

Idaho is a made up name.

[facilitatorn]

All names are made up. Point?

[arafura]

All names are made up. Point?

Most names mean something...Native American name for something, etc.
Boise...France...'forest'.

Shovelling snow, in Idaho...no no no no no.

mrs bambu went to Toronto...she was sick of living in the snow, by the time she left.
She loved the snow scenery in Canada and USA...just beautiful to look at.
She stayed with older folk most places she went...the women living alone struggled with 'shovelling snow'/'moving snow' etc.
It even snows in Arizona.

Team bambu doesn't do snow...except to look at, it has been decided.

[Yankguy1]

 I couldn't live anywhere it did not snow.

[josh]

No use.  Anything I bring up through research ... not my knowledge of the subject - you will refute.

What a mealy-mouthed, lameass excuse for an excuse.

Yes, we will refute what you bring up, Kiiid.

We won't "LOL" or say "not so." We will provide evidence that it is erroneous, mistaken, wrong, slanted, or whatever it happens to be. It's not because we are contrary, but because as with Obama's birth, while we are all entitled to our own opinions, we are not entitled to our own versions of facts.

The science of climate change is solider than you or Bambi seem prepared to accept.

The immorality of the kidnapping of the children and the intentional failure to track where they were put are not things we made up and they cannot be excused by any amount of fingerpointing.

The elimination of protections of our air and water are incontestable, if one is honest.

The rise in racial incidents and the reduction of civil rights enforcements are both simple to understand and acknowledge, IFF you are willing to be honest.

If "anything I bring up" can be refuted, you might try seeking your research without a bias in your research. Then you might bring up items that we cannot refute.

Of course, there is a good chance we will agree with them.

[luee]

A 1956 Idaho history textbook says:

"Idaho" is a Shoshoni Indian exclamation. The word consists of three parts. The first is "Ee", which in English conveys the idea of "coming down". The second is "dah" which is the Shoshoni stem or root for both "sun" and "mountain". The third syllable, "how", denotes the exclamation and stands for the same thing in Shoshoni that the exclamation mark (!) does in the English language. The Shoshoni word is "Ee-dah-how", and the Indian thought thus conveyed when translated into English means, "Behold! the sun coming down the mountain.[13]

Wiki

[josh]

Boise will be Boise.

LOL

Yes!

Idaho is a made up name.

"arafura" is telling us that Idaho is a made up name.