Comments on: Cascade Photo Surfaces On The Net

By: dog

dog — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:53:00 +0000

I just think fun needs to be re-legalized. The beatin yer wife comment was a poke at the Pollyanna
comments about the good old days. Doesn’t the Bible say it’s OK to beat your wife?

By: Gordon

Gordon — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:23:39 +0000

So, dog; what’s your point?
Yer agin’ bars and drugstores, or you’re in favor of beating yer wife?
(After all, if you cain’t beat yer wife, whose wife *can* you beat?)

P.S.: We may have to relegalize brothels; they seem to be the only businesses that ain’t goin’ broke.

By: dog

dog — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:25:29 +0000

Don’t forget they had a brothel or two in Cascade back then as well, or at least more workin girls than now. It was OK back then to drink beer and drive and beat your wife too.

By: misc

misc — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:56:44 +0000

I love that beer and drugs dominated Cascade’s main drag back in the day.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:55:15 +0000

Two bars, a drugstore, a cafe and a barber shop — what more could any town need?
Oh, yeah; a grocery store, a post office, a gas station and a couple of churches.

Once a town has all that, additional growth is just redundant.

Too bad.

By: The Boise Picayune

The Boise Picayune — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:32:33 +0000

Other than the fact that they are both large American Cities, The-Center-of-the-Universe (aka NYC) and the collection of suburbs known as Los Angeles have little to nothing in common.

So……………..

That really is a great picture. And the one that “Shane” discovered was featured on my rag.

Digital is OK; but I miss the chrome films.

Mama don’t take my KodaChrome awa-a-a-aaay…

By: Tom Anderson

Tom Anderson — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:04:25 +0000

Here’s what I know… Dictators/Kings/Queens are mostly a better type of leadership because the can only steal so much, and they tend to form a fondness for their country and want it to succeed.

The current system in America allows theft by 10’s of thousands of leaders so the corruption is massive. Our political leaders only care about their power and status for the most part, not about their constituents.

The problems that the world faces cannot be solved with every human being on the planet trying to grab as much wealth as possible. We live on a small, finite planet, and have no place to go if we mess it up badly.

We need to honestly figure out, as a world, whether we intend to continue trying to maintain ‘situation normal’, which is totally unsustainable, and will likely cause a huge die off of the human species, or do we want to listen to our best scientists and devise a sustainable framework which we will all live within.

This is, on a global scale, exactly what we face as a city in Boise. Do we let the ‘growth is good’ folks win? If we do, we know exactly what will happen. We will create a carbon copy of Los Angeles, or New York, in the long run. That is, if resource depletion doesn’t end the party early, like it probably has already.

By: Cyclops

Cyclops — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:40:21 +0000

Tom, I did read the book. I was wondering if you actually shared the author’s view it will take worldwide domination to accomplish the necessary goals.
The main problem I have with the thesis is that there has never, nor will there ever be, a “benevolent dictator!” So the arguement becomes moot at the outset. Initiating a movement that seeks world domination in order to do what is right for the planet because the people here now are too stupid to realize the situation is just plain silly!

By: The Boise Picayune

The Boise Picayune — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:59:20 +0000

T.A.

As a former Republican Operative (NY, NJ and ID) and erstwhile Bull Moose Candidate for Mayor, I am well acquainted with the status quo.

And while I nearly completely agree with your assessment of the situation, I would like to point out that victory can be found in participation.

My brief participation (cut short by an unexpected death) embarrassed the Mayor into adopting my campaign call for a Forensic Audit of the CCDC (which he reneged on later, knowing nothing would happen).

Participation = Change

No Participation = SSDD

By: Tom Anderson

Tom Anderson — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:51:16 +0000

Cyclops: Read the book for his opinion.

In my own opinion, the people of the world are so indoctrinated with propaganda and the interrelated problems are so complex that what we actually need is a benevolent world dictator. The tinfoil hat crowd will lose their minds at that suggestion, but they are the most misinformed of all, so should be disregarded.

Our current paradigm of corporate rule through political puppets is what is truly ‘Orwellian’.

PICAYUNE: I ran for a Boise public office rather recently and here is what I found. Your likelihood of being elected is almost directly correlated with the amount of money you spend on trying to get elected. The amount of money required will be more than you will make while holding office. So, you either have to be rich, or get money from donors. The only donors who put out the type of money required are businesses, and they will make darn sure you will do what they want and NOT what the people want if you are elected. The game is rigged, only a very few good people ever slip by the corrupt process.