Interesting that ACHD did have their employees both working as lobbyist back in 2004. http://www.sos.idaho.gov/elect/lobbyist/04emplob.pdf

This article seems almost like a reprint from the 2009 article at the IFF which is the owner of Idaho Reporter. http://www.idahofreedom.net/blog/lobbyists-public-payroll

I compare this lobbyist problem just like Boise paying PR firms to convince voters what is best for them. Why not just use the people you already have on the payroll?

While we are on Government wasting monies, how about Luna spending $115,000 getting his Tech program finalized. Would not this have been better to do before the bill passed this last spring?

All this tells me governement is just too big and a 10% cut across the board for all government is not unreasonable.

This is taking on the appearance of a giant amoeba. When you push in on one side it just expands on the other side. You can’t hurt it.

We have all had to adjust to lower incomes and higher costs for just about everything. Govt. never seems to hit a speed bump and just keeps getting larger and more intrusive.

Nampa now has a license requirement for gold buyers. Not pawn brokers but people who host gold buying parties now have to have a license. Where does it stop?

Several years ago, I discovered the pleasure to be had from a natural sneeze. Humans aren’t the only animals who sneeze. Watch how a dog sneezes sometime. They don’t care what people think.

Specifically, they hold their tongues back, and let it come blasting out of their schnozzle. I use a cocktail napkin from the supply I keep in my left back pocket at all times for those occasions when luck blesses me with a sneeze. I head for a bathroom, because what’s about to happen isn’t a pretty site, but neither is an ejaculation, if you get my drift.

My sneezes come in sets. I can get as many as a dozen in a good round. With each one, my head feels clearer and cleaner. My whole body responds to the impulses from my brain, which I have learned not to suppress, after years of suppressing them.

The reason people scream, or make funny squeaks, or even go so far as to pronounce “ah-CHOO!” when they sneeze, is that they are suppressing natural impulses from the brain, that undoubtedly originate at some lower, more fundamental level. It is their brain that is screaming to be set free. It is Nature, screaming at the irrational shame some people have in being her child, little more than a dog. They are invariably ashamed of other natural acts and impulses that lead to the body being out of control for a moment in time.

Such people will never produce anything requiring any significant amount of creativity. Show me a great artist, and I’ll show you a free and natural sneezer.

In this Sunday’s Oregonian print edition, I was surprised to see a classified ad listing an opening for web designer at ACHD. Seems insane to pay to post an ad in an out-of-state newspaper for such a low level position ($23.00/hr max). They must be awash in cash.