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TITLE: Dungball Wizard ARTIST: Mike Flinn MEDIUM: Felt and ballpoint pen on kiddie poster board STATEMENT: A selection of Flinn’s oil paintings from 2002 to the present will be on exhibit September through October at Basement Gallery with receptions on First Thursdays Sept. 3 and Oct. 1. Come and see Boise Weekly’s most published freelance artist’s wares and, of course, Henri the horse dances the waltz ... You are invited!
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MAIL AN EVEN MORE MODEST PROPOSAL (WITH APOLOGIES TO JONATHAN SWIFT) Like most true patriots, I have found myself left uneasy in recent months as I have seen my beloved country beset on all sides by enemies in our midst, our freedoms lost, our descent into fascism all but certain. Though assured by a sage correspondent who follows these matters closely that “Real Americans still comprise almost half of all Americans and growing,” we are still left with the vexing question of what to do with the greater than 50 percent who aren’t Real Americans. Some have suggested using the electoral process to right this wrong, but the most recent election results surely show the folly of that method. The democratic process itself has led us to our current state of tyranny by the putative majority, and further resort to electoral politics will only serve to strengthen the hand of the subjugator. I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection. I’ve been assured by a very knowledgeable
acquaintance in the legal profession (though nonetheless a True American), that the classification of this tyrannical elite as Enemy Combatants is entirely practicable within certain of our State Courts. Subsequent to that ruling, those so deemed can be legally detained indefinitely; without resort to the voting booth, these traitorous curs will see entire jurisdictions freed overnight from their unholy dominion. With our newfound majority, we can once again utilize the sacred democratic processes bequeathed to us by our Founding Fathers to nationalize the institution of these detention facilities, and will quickly see America returned to Real Americans, with liberty and justice for all. I would remind those that decry these methods as too draconian of the words of Barry Goldwater, who said, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice [and] moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!” Our very liberty is at stake here; half measures will not serve! To those that would quibble about the logistics of identifying and excising this cancerous mass from our body politic, I say only this: Beware
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AH, HEALTH CARE. YOU GUESSED IT, IT’S STILL THE TOPIC DU JOUR Why should anyone heed what even rational Republicans say about health-care reform? The ignorance and rowdiness exhibited by right-wingers at town halls across the country are causing millions of Americans to turn a deaf ear to all Republicans. The town hall “protesters” have been duped with a cartload of misinformation by protest organizers and national Republican leaders who seem to think derailing health-care reform will gain them some victories, or TV ratings, or will “break” America’s first Black president. Ignored amid the lying and shouting are the needs of every American facing overwhelming health-care bills, the 14,000 who lose their health insurance each day, thousands of others clinging to jobs for fear of losing health insurance
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