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Stebbijo's Pillows |
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Posted by : Stebbijo on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - 09:25 AM PST
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I collect discarded cloth table napkins, hankies, buttons, lace, embroidery thread, doilies, and what have you. Nothing is ever new. Then, I sit in front of the TV, watch my favorite shows, and put it all together by hand. So, when I am not pissing off people in government, blogging, or working, I am doing this. I think some folks wish I would just do this! They are all unique and one of a kind. Here are a few.
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May is Here! |
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Posted by : Stebbijo on Saturday, May 02, 2009 - 03:25 PM PST
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More Sicktown |
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Posted by : Stebbijo on Monday, April 27, 2009 - 09:58 AM PST
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Small towns have a special body of authority that really govern the town. In this case Cabinet, Idaho is composed of a structure of leaders who approve or disapprove of any newcomers. This group is the local Cabinet Rod and Gun Club. Newcomers have to pass the test so to speak to fit in. If you have big bucks or can sing karaoke at the local bar, you are a keeper. The local folks like the suspense of a good story, so if you move in and tell them you work for ABC or NBC network, and you are building your summer home on the river, every local wants a piece of the construction. The locals also have dreams of becoming a star, discovered at the Cabinet Moose on the Loose Bar and Grill. Some young girls dream of becoming fold out material.
Big Freddy’s new wife moved in from Seattle. Her former husband told everyone he was a grip for mainstream movies like Flipper. He was gone a lot. However, before she divorced and married local Big Freddie, they bought an old abandoned store so she could sell videos and most likely her ex could set up his sets. For what, we are not sure about, but everyone knows the video movie store did not make a whole lot of money and she had to sell it down the road. Nothing like moving to a small town to make your dreams come true – renting videos - in a town with a population of barely 500.
If you are really interested in joining the group of locals, you eventually meet at a shop somewhere and the decision is solely up to the locals to allow you to be part of their special society. The initiation is usually a big drunk where the wannabe has to pull his pants down and put a stuffed sheep toy on his crotch and then they take a picture. Congratulations, you have now graduated into this sect of small town personality along with the approval of the Queen of the Silver Dollar, who manages the Moose on the Loose Bar and Grill.
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Not Again? |
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Posted by : Stebbijo on Monday, April 20, 2009 - 12:54 PM PST
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I get so sick of the news space we give the white supremists here in North Idaho.
This picture is one that my husband and I took several years ago, just outside of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Idaho is not the only state plagued by racism in the United States. The difference is that most people in Tulsa, OK ignored it. This photo never made any mainstream newspapers in the area. My husband and I, aghast at this presentation had to stop and take a pic. After all, we are from Idaho where racism is part of the hot topic index of local media. It still makes news and we, for an instant thought we had captured something at Crazy Reuben's trailer parts store who really was crazy. It felt like we just drove into Bonner County, Idaho.
When I decided to move from Idaho, I deliberately picked a place unlike Idaho, an area diversified in culture. Boy, did I pick it. Oklahoma was like moving to an entirely different country! However, you would be surprised how many people I met, could have fit into North Idaho, but they would never leave their beloved homeland. I never told a black person that Idaho was the place to be. After all, that would have been cruel, I knew better.
Why does Idaho keep trying to claim their identity regarding racism?
Oklahoma had their black towns and their white towns. This was respected. The Neo Nazi's were provided white nurses because no blacks wanted to take care of them anyway. I was shocked when the Neo Nazi's were accommodated in the hospitals. They were the most pitiful ignorant group of idiots, I have ever encountered. Really, they belonged in Bonner County, Idaho. Talk about toothless foreskins, these guys were pathetic. They were nothing and held no brain space in anyone's agenda there. But here, we give them front page billing.
Tulsa was full of paranoia and anger after 911 (see above pic). I was there. But, Idaho completely lost it and put barricades up around the capital. My charge nurse was from Kuwait. Illegal aliens from Mexico were driving the nursing home kitchens, laundry facilities, and fast food chains and filling up the maternity wards - not to mention the culture of Asians. It was not unusual for me to be a minority in a group of citizens or a class.
Given the fact that we have a colored President and the State of Idaho has always been a red neck kind of area, that has nationally claimed we will will hold onto our guns with our cold dead hands, I sense the same paranoia that was prevalent in Tulsa after 911. That same paranoia is coming back in the local blogs here, pertaining to the Tea Parties through attacks of racism regarding our President. We are a haven for it.
The paranoia surfaces here again, because of this aryan presence that continues to keep their foothold here. We still pay attention. Their timing is superb. They love us. Just recently the area was blanketed with propaganda that upset many of the residents and then it was profiled in the news AGAIN!
That's what they wanted.
My best advise?
Ignore them.
Really.
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Did You File Your Tax Extension Today? |
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Posted by : Stebbijo on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 02:59 PM PST
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Yes, I did.
Since I don't qualify for the first time home buyer credit of 8000K, which would totally get us out from underneath the IRS, I have to find a way to save the money I do not have, so I can afford to live. I have experienced my own real recession for many years, however this year, together, we made just enough that we don't qualify for any earned income credits and we don't have enough writeoffs, so the morons think I am going to pay more than the deductions that were withheld at their reccomendation. They don't want you to get ahead or climb out of a pit of sludge. It's ridiculous, I need to work less, because the more we make, the more they take, and we actually come out worse than the years we do not make as much.
I figure since things are travelling at record speed and changes and bailouts are like candy these days, that maybe by October something may be done that benefits us
So, that's my tea party and I am sipping to it.
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