Comments on: Another Perspective

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:48:23 +0000

Cheney has so damaged the US intelligence effort, it will be decades before the product becomes mediocre. It had barely recovered from Reagan, when these idiots took over.

He didn’t know enough to establish plausible deniability. He was so arrogant, he arranged things so he could claim credit for all of the “successes” which never happened.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:58:31 +0000

Ah yes… The “War on Terror”(tm). 🙂 Which legitimizes such things as this:

Sy Hersh: Cheney Ran Assassin Ring

Of course, Gov run assassination teams are not new. Virtually every nation has one or more (all very secret of course). Generally though, they are used as an extreme last resort (at least by most supposedly Democratic Nations). Even the former USSR was caution, unless that had a total nut like Cheney running them (in which case, the nut became a target eventually if any embarrassment surfaced). That wouldn’t happen to Cheney because… well, because the USA is such a Democratic, Moral, Ethical and just darned *nice*, Nation… And doesn’t do suck things as put a Gov sanctioned hit on a sitting or ex member of Gov. Well, at least they don’t (maybe) since Cheney has gone (well, officially gone anyway). LOL

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:37:13 +0000

Time for a initiative – the universal solution to all of California problems.

No one down here could figure out that a down turn and skyrocketing housing costs would doom the growth that has been fueled by people retiring with a decent income. Even with the slashing of house prices, Boomers will not have the money their parents had for retirement, so they will not be able to move.

Vacations are something for the top of the economy, not the middle class, so domestic tourism will die off, just as foreign tourism has died off because of the War of Terror™.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:20:06 +0000

California's f*cked up too, but for a different reason -- for some lame reason, the California constitution requires a 2/3rds vote to pass a budget or pass a tax. So every year, the Rethugs in the Assembly have refused to pass a budget unless they get their pet agenda of lunacy written into the budget and tax hikes simply don't happen. We're going to get redistricting next year thanks to some initiatives passed by the voters that take redistricting away from the legislature and gives it to a panel of retired judges, but the Rethugs come by their 1/3rd minority status honestly (that's about the percentage of Rethugs in the state), so we can't have sanity until either Orange County secedes from California, or the idiotic 2/3rds requirement is banished. Yeah, like that's gonna happen... - Badtux the "Something for nothing!" Penguin Badtux´s last blog post..Creating a story

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:28:43 +0000

Until we have an honest redistricting I don’t have much hope for anything changing. Republicans have have had fewer registered party members than Democrats for years, but nothing has changed.

There are too many people in this state who refuse to accept reality.

By: Jack K., the Grumpy Forester

Jack K., the Grumpy Forester — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:15:04 +0000

…Orygun occasionally goes through these political permutations. We are, after all, the only state other than New Jersey that forbids the personal operation of gas pumps. The state Republican party eventually lost its grip on the voters when it became apparent that all the rhetoric didn’t begin to match the actions and every daily newspaper in the state was running Doonesbury strips making national fun of the fact that we couldn’t keep our schools open for the full school year for reasons that didn’t have any connection to abortion or same-sex marriage…

That little ‘last recession’ episode spelled the beginning of the end of Republican party dominance in Oregon for the time being. Orygonians haven’t yet come to grips with the idea of having to “pick up the check”, but they have – at least for now – come to the understanding that cutting taxes and services may not be the only – or even the best – way to fix the problems we are facing…