The Sun Valley Suns Ipod was stolen on Saturday night from the Penalty box inbetween the second and third period. It was stolen during the beat the sun portion of the game.

If you have any idea where it went please call Jamie Ellison at 309-0949

Thanks

I don’t think I need to hype this one too much. Ski town rivals are coming to town, 7pm game time both nights. Get there early. And get ready to get rowdy!!

Well after watching all the Washington hoopla yesterday, I saw that President Obama’s first act was to suspend the monkey trials at the Guantanamo Gulag. Well done.

In six or seven years of operation, they have managed to try something like 3 people. There have been 700 or 800 detainees there. A real model of efficiency. Due process? This with military tribunals and with defendants subjected to rules of evidence unlike any allowed in this country. A right to a speedy trial? Not at Guantanamo where apparently you must wait a decade or so, be subjected to “here say”, a little torture now and then, and purportedly (if they manage to actually conclude a trial) get sentenced by a few folks who are just a shade biased. We wouldn’t allow that crap in a courtroom here.

Funny how we are always pointing out human rights violations everywhere else in the world. We talk some good due process but we don’t always deliver. Guantanomo reminds me a lot of those Japanese camps we set up like the one in Minidoka County during WWII. We got smarter and moved this one to Cuba. A bunch of these folks are being held currently and are free to leave, they just don’t have anyplace to go. The majority were detained for no reason at all. Nobody wants them. All of this incidentally, was O’K'd by the greatest legal minds we have. The Supreme Court.

Now Obama has his work cut out for him. The beauty of all of this is, Obama is following what I believe historians and scholars will reflect back on- as one of the worst presidential periods of all time. If Obama manages to simply not screw anything else up, he will probably be seen as a conquering hero.

President Obama has been on TV today-freezing pay of white house staffers and telling folks we are entering an era of transparency. Obama has told his staff that any departing personnel will not be able to engage in private lobbying efforts while he is president. He has also said that they are going to actually comply with the Freedom of Information Act in the spirit of that act rather than subjecting it to secrecy everytime someone makes some half ass argument that we need to keep secrets.

Due Process? Telling the truth? Transparency? Setting examples? What kind of a madman have we elected?

Next thing you know, he might even try to withdraw the U.S. from our middle east occupation. Quit trying to force feed our brand of “democracy” on the world. We might actually enter an era of credibility and responsible behavior.

The best piece of transparency so far-occurred when V.P. Biden’s wife mentioned that Joe had been offered the Secretary of State gig and ultimately turned it down because of all the time you must spend away from home traveling. I was immediately reminded of an old eastern Idaho cliche’ that the only reason voters voted for Senator Hansen was to send him to Washington and keep him out of Idaho. That same sound reasoning makes sense to me now that I apply it to Hillary as the Secretary of State.

President Obama is scaring me. I am scared because I agree with every single thing he has done or said so far. The dude even wants a playoff system for college football. What’s not to like about him? Geezus, I hope this doesn’t mean I am a “liberal” or a “democrat.” Hopefully, we are entering an era where doing the right thing does not require a label or judgment from anyone. I can’t wait to see what Obama does next. This might be fun. Really.

The Sun Valley Suns will be playing a team from Langley B.C. this weekend, and we all know how serious the Canadians take their hockey. Game times 7 pm both night. Tonight’s game is a benefit night for Atkinsons Park Penguins hockey. Saturday night is Sawtooth Pony club.

Hope to see a rowdy crowd there both nights.

It has taken a little while, but it looks like we have a pretty good schedule for the season. We will start on the road, over in Jackson on December 19-20. The Moose come here January 23-24, always a fun series. A couple of fun games over the holiday, we play the future Suns on December 26th and the past Suns on December 27th. Check out the full schedule at www.sunvalleysuns.com.

See you at the rink,

Chugga