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-Benjamin Franklin
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TREGO SCHOOL HOSTS VETERANS DAY PROGRAM
Trego School hosted our local veterans with a thanksgiving dinner with all the fixins and pumpkin pie for dessert. Following lunch, the pledge and all-school singing of the Star Spangled Banner, Trego School K-4 students honored the vets with singing My Country ‘Tis of Thee and This Land is Your Land. The 5th-6th grade students Read more
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The Narcissist Test
I didn’t pay much attention to the idea of narcissism as a personality disorder until a whole bunch of psychs were diagnosing Trump as having a “narcissistic personality disorder.” So I checked, and the guy who edited the “Journal of Personality Disorders,” Allen Frances, said: “We must not confuse Trump’s constant bad behavior with mental Read more
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Force 11 Storm- Small Houses and Sheds Removed
The November 14 issue of the Mountain Ear headlined “Eaton gives Burk the Petitions”: “Lincoln Electric’s Board of trustees met Monday night, November 7, to accept the petitions that the concerned REA members (CREAM) had circulated calling for the ouster of the trustees. The trustees, their attorney, some Co-op employees, and approximately 50 LEC members Read more
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Trap Guns
There was a time when this sort of weaponry was common – kind of like land mines, you could set the gun and wait for someone or something to come by and set it off . . . kind of like an assault burglar alarm. Taken from Kevin O’Brien’s Weaponsman posts: “Trap guns (which are Read more
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When the Game Plays Us
P.J. O’Rourke wrote “Don’t Vote. It only encourages the bastards.” Here, in Lincoln County, the voting process has been so finely tuned that election day is only a formality that “encourages the bastards.” It occurs not only at Libby, but even in our local elections. Three times I’ve been “elected” to the Trego school board Read more
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The Mini-Fascists
My father’s generation pretty well put paid to Fascism. Sure, Juan Peron and Francisco Franko were still running things in Spain and Argentina as I moved from teen to adult – but the big name Fascists departed our time-space continuum before I was born. While members of the Greatest Generation did hang Benito Mussoline by Read more
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