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  • Northwest Loses Corner On Crazies Market

    03/28/2008 5:31:56 AM PDT · by suspects · 4 replies · 545+ views
    The Billings (MT) Outpost ^ | March 28, 2008 | Michael Graham
    When the news broke 12 years ago that the FBI had arrested that paranoid, bomb-mailing nut the Unabomber near Lincoln, Montana, my reaction was “Montana? It figures.” When the news broke two weeks ago that a hate-spewing, paranoid, bomb-thrower of a preacher was Sen. Barack Obama’s lifelong pastor and counselor at a Chicago church, I had the exact same reaction. The insanity hasn’t changed. Only the geography has. America has always had its share of conspiracy theorists, political paranoids and all-around nut jobs. In fact, during our nation’s first days as a Republic, rumors swirled that a Jacobin conspiracy was...
  • Happy's Inn is so friendly even a deer once saddled up to the bar

    03/03/2006 10:55:05 AM PST · by HolgerDansk · 20 replies · 1,321+ views
    The Missoulian ^ | 3 March 2006 | VINCE DEVLIN
    HAPPY'S INN - Thinking of relocating? This town has it all - grocery store, Laundromat, restaurant, bar, casino, motel, sporting goods store, gas station, post office. For your convenience, they're all located under one roof. Welcome to Happy's Inn, a bar that literally put itself on the map. Happy's Inn is listed on Montana state highway maps, a dot on U.S. Highway 2 between Kalispell and Libby.[...] “Back in the '40s or '50s, a deer came into the bar all the time, came right up to the bar and drank with the guys,” says Happy's Inn employee Lee McKean, right,...