Idaho: Pocatello

*The Annual AAUW BOOK SALE is Here! 10/17 & 10/18
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*The Annual AAUW BOOK SALE is Here! 10/17 & 10/18

AAUW Book sale at Bannock County Fairgrounds
Sat., Oct. 17 from 9 to 5 and Sun., Oct. 18 from 10 to 4
Proceeds go towards an ISU scholarship for women.

If you have book donations, please feel free to bring them along to the sale. The AAUW Pocatello Branch would be grateful if you were able to sort the books and mark the boxes according to the following categories: Antique or Rare (i.

The rhetoric and debate has gone slightly beyond a feverish pitch in Pocatello.

Observers wonder what will happen next.

43rd State Blues host Serephin spoke of this heat in his entry: Controversy being engineered at Idaho State University. Since then, the flames have gotten worse. Professor of Civil Engineering Habib Sadid spoke out in the comments section under a September 4, Idaho State Journal story called: ISU faculty very angry, very frustrated with Vailas administration:

In Khomeini’s regime is Iran, there was a judge who used to execute anyone opposing the government’s policies without trial.
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A few minutes ago on Daily Kos, in their "Late Afternoon/Early Evening Open Thread" (posted by former Idahoan and all-around wonderful lady mcjoan), I watched a YouTube video produced by MoveOn.Org and the band R.E.M. titled "We Can't Afford To Wait".

The video highlights people from all across the country holding personal signs explaining why they can't afford to wait for health care reform. One of the sign holders, at approximately 3 minutes and 29 seconds, is Tim Frazier, long-time Mass Communication professor at Idaho State University in Pocatello. His sign says, "My mother can't afford to wait -- Alzheimer's -- diagnosed 2008 -- $6,500/month.

If anyone showed up in Pocatello for the wingnuts' "Teabagging Party", they must have only stayed for about 20 minutes. When I drove by Poky's City Hall parking lot earlier this afternoon, there wasn't one sign-holding soul. I guess they all went home early to teabag each other.

Lets go protestin' now
The wingnuts are all learning how
Come on go Teabaggin' Par-ty
(come on go Teabaggin' Par-ty...)

Early in the morning, Rethugs crawlin' out
Ron Paulies will be coming along
They're loading up their woodies
With their teabags out
And headin' out singing their song

Come on (Teabag!) baby wait and see (Teabaggin' Safari)
Yes they're gonna (Teabag!) take you protestin' (Teabaggin' Safari)
Come along (Teabag!) baby wait and see (Teabaggin' Safari)
Yes they're gonna (Teabag!) take you protestin' (Teabaggin' Safari)
Go teabaggin' now
The wingnuts are all learning how
Come on go Teabaggin' Par-ty
(come on go Teabaggin' Par-ty.