| Mar 12, 2006 @ 2:39 AM |
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Fishing01
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Seriously folks, all the potato heads live in southern Idaho. Up in the panhandle, we focus on fishing, hunting, camping, golfing, biking, hiking, horseback riding, eagle-watching, beer, and living year-round in a resort setting. Our mountains have generous amounts of snow for ski and snowboard playing, photos of our lakes grace many calendars and travel magazines, and the prices at our gas pumps beat anywhere else on the West Coast. Glacier National Park and Yellowstone are less than a day's drive. For big city needs, Spokane is close at hand and Seattle and Portland are also less than a day's drive away. Did I forget to mention the great tasting water that flows in abundance in our huge underground aquifer (the biggest sole-source aquifer in the U.S.)?! Our perfectly warm summers feature lack of humidity, we have no earthquake faults, and hurricanes don't visit us. 
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| Mar 13, 2006 @ 12:30 AM |
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reinfire
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ok, so now its the north vs the south. Look out!!! The remaking of The Blue and the Gray!!! Comeon!! We fish, golf, ski, do the hokey pokey and turn ourselves around. Thats what it's all about!!!
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| Mar 13, 2006 @ 12:46 AM |
north idaho
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Fishing01
Posts: 9
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Responding to your hokey response, seems like a lot of my state tax dollars sit in the tar on the roads around Boise. Okay, it's time for some moon viewing from the hot tub...
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| Mar 13, 2006 @ 1:17 AM |
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reinfire
Posts: 326
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Just "your" state taxes. Wow. Thanks for fixing those roads, miss mayor.
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| Mar 13, 2006 @ 2:37 AM |
north idaho
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sweet_gal_in_ID
Posts: 198
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If you throw a few spuds in that hot tub of yours, your dinner will be ready in no time at all! 
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| Mar 14, 2006 @ 2:05 AM |
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Fishing01
Posts: 9
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Why all this preoccupation with potatoes???
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| Mar 18, 2006 @ 2:23 PM |
north idaho
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Mischiefs
Posts: 6
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Ummm I am thinking you need to do some research there hon.
Do you not watch the news ?
Jerk Gov.Kempthorn has been allowing our Northern Parts to be open game for dumping Toxic Waste for at least the last threeYears!!!
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| Mar 18, 2006 @ 5:29 PM |
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sweet_gal_in_ID
Posts: 198
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Jerk Gov.Kempthorn has been allowing our Northern Parts to be open game for dumping Toxic Waste for at least the last threeYears!!!
You've got that right. 
And now he's been selected as Interior secretary by the Pres. 
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| Mar 18, 2006 @ 7:50 PM |
north idaho
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Fishing01
Posts: 9
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My job for the last 5 years has included editing technical documents related to all of Kootenai County's landfills. I don't have any specific knowledge of other northern Idaho locales, but in KC goes above and beyond in conformance with local, state, and federal environmental requirements for solid waste. My engineering firm employer (working for the EPA) also has done significant cleanup studies and work to improve conditions at the Bunker Hill (mining) area around Kellogg, Idaho, a Superfund site. This firm also has done the only definitive study of the Rathdrum Prairie-Spokane Valley sole-source aquifer. Having read through thousands of pages of detailed data on leachate, water and soil quality, I am totally comfortable drinking the water, floating and fishing from the rivers, and swimming and boating in area lakes. The environmental awareness, public education, private and industrial compliance with environmental regulations, and municipal planning efforts here is awesome. I say this sincerely, based on first-hand knowledge.
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| Mar 19, 2006 @ 3:00 AM |
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reinfire
Posts: 326
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Ummm I am thinking you need to do some research there hon.
Do you not watch the news ?
Commenting on that
The whole topic happened to be that "South Eastern" Idaho were called the "potato heads" and how wonderful "Northern Idaho" with the fishing golfing, sparkling brooks, god like qualties, etc. - . How it turned into an attack on other Idahoans and Gov. Kempthorne , tax dollars going into the construction work of Boise ,toxic waste, so forth, is questionable. Hmmmm
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| Mar 19, 2006 @ 3:50 AM |
north idaho
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Fishing01
Posts: 9
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Looks like while you were sitting on the sofa, soaking in the news, I have been out there doing the field work, communicating with the front line, analyzing the data, and helping to ensure that my "backyard" was ecologically protected and regulatory compliant. My daddy always taught me not to believe everything I read in the newspaper or saw on TV. My religion has taught me that Paradise is not part of my present reality. My work has shown me that a great place to live is all about people and environment, not politics!
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| Mar 19, 2006 @ 2:41 PM |
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reinfire
Posts: 326
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Actually if you were to read the forum above me, I was commenting on what another had said about "Not watching the news and needing to do research"-not directed towards you. My fault- should have put that in quotes so as not to be confusing.
Kudos on your research. My whole point was to be a state as a whole. You've dissected and focused on Northern Idaho which is understandable, you live there. However, dissing the other side of the state and directing the indignation to other regions without further research and the knowledge about these regions is the best reason I think think of to invest in blindfolds.
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| Mar 19, 2006 @ 11:32 PM |
north idaho
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sweet_gal_in_ID
Posts: 198
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Ladies, I believe this thread has gotten out of hand. I am sorry I allowed myself to get caught up in the bickering.
Fishing01, personally, I was a big put off by what seems to be your view of how much better north Idaho is compared to southern Idaho. I certainly hope that wasn't your intent, but that's how I "read" your posts.
I'm going to venture out there and find some other forums that are a bit more friendly.
All the best. 
[Edited on 3/19/2006 11:40 PM]
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| Mar 22, 2006 @ 12:27 AM |
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FunPartner
Posts: 33
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hey- i'm a sweet gal in I daho, too, I didn't read the posts, but stay here!!!!! I fish, don't hike, but enjoy the summers so much. So don't leave- I love Idaho, only for the summers. 
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| Mar 22, 2006 @ 12:49 AM |
north idaho
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sweet_gal_in_ID
Posts: 198
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I didn't read the posts, but stay here!!!!!
Hey FunPartner, 
Decided not to leave, but posted it elsewhere in the Idaho forum.
Summers? Nah, I'm a winter person. I can always bundle up, and if I'm lucky, snuggle. There are only so many clothes one can remove in the summer before the police arrest you. 
75 degrees is about right for me. 
One blink, and it'll be summer! 
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| Mar 22, 2006 @ 10:37 AM |
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Mischiefs
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 I am not so worried about politics as I am about the toxic waste. It is in fact here in Northern Idaho and I don't plan on turning a blind eye to it.
I have written several congressmen on the subject and started a petition to get it out of here. So are you trying to tell me I am Ghost Chasing here? Your personal backyard may be clean at the moment... But when your teeth start bleeding or your hair falls out... Then what are you going to do?
Close your eyes and say It's not toxic waste?
I am a advocate against Toxic waste... Politics or NO! Oh and I am not a potato head, Idaho Tater Tot maybe... Nothing personal but maybe while your out there in that so called field you might want to look below the surface. Waste water is not the same as Nucular waste! Just maybe you should learn to investigate the news a little too. This is not a personal ,but you seem to have made it one... If your going to make a personal come back on this please make it a valid and intelligent one.
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| Apr 2, 2006 @ 11:15 PM |
north idaho
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Fishing01
Posts: 9
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Just back from an adventure to Rogue River territory in southwest Oregon. The Grants Pass visitor's center furnishes brochures about the local Vortex anomally that I decided to pass up. Sounded like a magnetic nightmare. Maybe a leftover alien toxic dump from eons past? March was blooming furiously, but I heard that to avoid the 100 degree summer temperatures you have to make escape plans.
Sis called yesterday from North Carolina, and weather was on her mind as well. Not so much the temps hovering already in the 80s, but the humidity is making her hair curl earlier than usual. Good thing my brother-in-law has snagged a new job, to help pay for the extra electricity the air-conditioner is consuming.
I am worried about Dad in Illinois. CNN mentioned a severe weather warning in St. Louis, so I gave him a quick buzz. Three minutes into the conversation about his lawn and the price of gas ($3.89/gallon for regular), my step-mother interrupted the conversation, yelling for him to get off the phone and take cover, as a tornado had been spotted just west of their condo.
I am trying to relax tonight with the latest National Geographic, and the cover story is about earthquakes and predictions for the next Big One in California. Gosh, I really do LOVE NORTH IDAHO.
Best wishes for a wonderful week, wherever you happen to be located.
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