<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Judy,</span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">There actually maybe an "up-side" to this one, if you just look at it openly and honestly. *S*</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Imagine, the schools in Idaho will have to TEACH english, especially to the native english speakers! Might be a reason not to rape the school budgets over and over.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">And, once we start with</span></font> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">"references to God should be welcome in all public places and public verse.", Allah Akbar, I can go along with that one. At least the idiots</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">didn't specify which God!</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Wayne</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 5, 2010, at 11:29 AM, JLBrown wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 6pt; "><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; ">Visionaries,<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 6pt; "><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; ">The Idaho House yesterday overwhelmingly passed HCR 44, euphemistically titled “Sovereignty under the 10<sup>th</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>amendment” but pushing an English-only agenda and blurring the line between church and state, among other things. The blurb in this morning’s Lewiston Tribune (pasted below) notes that all but one of the Democrats (Mary Lou Shepherd, who often votes with the Republicans) voted against it. What it doesn’t note is that all of the Republicans (including Tom Trail) voted for it.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 6pt; "><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; ">This is a largely symbolic measure, but symbols matter. I don’t think measures such as this help advance the cause of human rights in Idaho.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 6pt; "><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; ">Judy<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; ">From this morning’s<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Lewiston Tribune</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong>Resolution in House pushes English, God</strong><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">America should reserve a place for God in the public domain and speak English when doing government business, according to a symbolic measure passed 50-17 in the House.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Rep. Rich Jarvis's resolution Thursday was aimed at asserting states' rights under the Constitution's 10th Amendment.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">The Meridian Republican argued keeping English as the language of government and business would keep America an "English-speaking nation."<o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Jarvis's measure also urged that "references to God should be welcome in all public places and public verse." It now goes to the Senate. All but one Democrat, Rep. Mary Lou Shepherd from Wallace, voted against the measure.<o:p></o:p></p><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">You can read this lovely piece of work at:<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><a href="http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2010/HCR044.htm" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2010/HCR044.htm</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div>=======================================================<br>List services made available by First Step Internet,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.fsr.net</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <br> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================</div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>