There's gotta be a way to get the message across to STUPID POLITICIANS that we do not want to see Vancouver tied into Tri-Met and LOO-RAIL.
When I read that two states say that we (Clark County, Vancouver) have no say in the LOO-RAIL addition to the bridge I get mad as hell. Oregon has no right to dictate to us what we want or need on this side of the river. NONE, ZILCH, NADA, ZIP.
I wonder why in hell the IDIOTS in Olympia even have that much say on what crosses the bridge down here in Clark County.
To say WE WILL BE FORCED TO PAY FOR IT is not a way to get the public on board with LOO-RAIL.
As a side note has anyone counted WA plates at the park and ride lot in P-Town. OR plates don't count as they didn't come from Washington. Ha Ha Ha. They will become part of the traffic problem if the paring structures are built in downtown Vancouver.
DeeLittle; Actually both. #1- No background in environmental services. #2- The sneaky way he was hired. He will not give up the post because it will pad his benefits. Nobody who is thrown a bone like that will willingly give it up. Morals be damned.
To most people he should have turned it down, but we all know what kind of political person he is. A 'ME FIRST" politician. His selection was not a fluke.
I would suggest that if you want to make the retirement benny's more like the real worlds then you have to let the state legislation know that. I really don't know how it got so bad with the state benefits issue but there's gotta be a law. I bet most are sick and tired of how the workers and politicians for the state manipulate the system for personal gain.
One last thought. The system set up for recalls suck. We all know that. It's all about the cost (money). Lawyers are not cheap when it comes to maybe getting money for a recall petition. They know a cash cow when they see one. And after it is all done and said you can still lose. The lawyers will still get their money.
The picture of Don Benton, sitting at his desk, reminds me of a Mel Brooks movie.
You know the one I'm talking about. Blazing Saddles.
Mel's sitting at a desk, jumping up and down and shuffling papers, proclaiming 'we gotta protect our phony baloney jobs'. Meanwhile Headly Lamar is complaining that the gov is mispronouncing his name. 'It's Headly Lamar not Heddy Lamar'. Funny stuff.
Hey Hawk, I'll take a couple of cases of Black Velvet if you please! I don't know if Ben's operates in Los Wages but it's worth a shot. LOL
Hey everybody, Happy May Day out there. Do ya all think there will be more violence in downtown P-Town this year. Saw some video last night about last years protest. WOW. The new edict about cops using less violent methods should work though. It's a new age and the cops should be less confrontational. That is if the protesters don't get out of line.
In my travels around the county I still find that a lot of Oregon plates parked in driveways. I have an occasion to visit a few large apartment complexes also. Last night, just for fun, I counted Oregon plates with my grand kids. We counted over thirty of them. So after I dropped them off I drove through one of the big ones by my place. I found over forty of them.
My point is this. If so many are visiting here are they just spending the night or what?? Come on man!!! That's over seventy. You can't tell me ALL of them are just visiting.
When waiting in line at some stores around here I find that a lot of visitors are from Oregon. Same thing. It's amazing that so many just visit here, isn't it?
The idea of having ID on you all the time is not what I meant. When I go for a walk or a bicycle ride I am not required to carry ID. Anytime I go to any place that requires ID I take it with me. There are exceptions even then. I don't have to show ID at a doctors office (unless a health card is one) nor a movie theater. I buy booze and beer without ID. I guess I look old enough.
In fact the only time I have been asked for ID has been when I'm driving. Then I also have to provide them with my CWP at the same time. Oh and when I signed up my sister-in-law with DSHS. That was so I could be listed as her caregiver. Three times in ten years is not bad as some I know.
I never carry I.D. when I am not driving. Never have. Over the years I been stopped on the street and ask to show some. I say I don't have it on me and the next question always is 'why not?'
I tell them my name and either my SS# or my drivers license number. They try to tell me it's against the law to walk the streets without proper I.D. I tell them to give me a ticket and we shall see what the courts say. See, I'm just to damn old to give a rats butt anymore.
So far (48 years) not one ticket. You see the cops don't want to tie up the courts with a losing proposition. This is still America the last time I checked. The whole time, while growing up, I was led to believe in freedoms of the U.S. I still do, but when someone tells me I gotta carry I.D. all the time I basically tell the to stuff it.
Now if you are driving or doing some other thing that requires I.D. then by all means you had better have it on you. But just walking the streets is not a justification for it. JMO.
If you drink to the point you end up blowin' a .22 on the drunk-o-meter scale why can't you just own up to it?? You kill two people and put two more in the intensive care unit and you STILL claim you're innocent??
You are an idiot. You proved that by racking up five PREVIOUS DUI's. I hope they find this idiot guilty and throw away the key. He is taking up valuable court time and it's pretty much a done deal. Unless there is plea bargaining involved, in which case it's the lawyer who thinks this idiot has money.
Did not one you see where Annette has passed away? Oh god, she was my first true TV crush. Thank you Disney!! I grew up watching the club.
And those movies. OMG They don't make them like that anymore. What a great actress. They haven't made a good movie in Hollywood since 'Beach Blanket Bingo', have they?
I know she couldn't act her way out of a paper bag but she was my eye candy anyway. And you just know that them there peeverts were well aware of it at corporate.
Open forum, May 13-19
Dammit, not enough coffee. 'paring' should 'parking'.
May 14, 2013 at 6:43 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Open forum, May 13-19
There's gotta be a way to get the message across to STUPID POLITICIANS that we do not want to see Vancouver tied into Tri-Met and LOO-RAIL.
When I read that two states say that we (Clark County, Vancouver) have no say in the LOO-RAIL addition to the bridge I get mad as hell. Oregon has no right to dictate to us what we want or need on this side of the river. NONE, ZILCH, NADA, ZIP.
I wonder why in hell the IDIOTS in Olympia even have that much say on what crosses the bridge down here in Clark County.
To say WE WILL BE FORCED TO PAY FOR IT is not a way to get the public on board with LOO-RAIL.
As a side note has anyone counted WA plates at the park and ride lot in P-Town. OR plates don't count as they didn't come from Washington. Ha Ha Ha. They will become part of the traffic problem if the paring structures are built in downtown Vancouver.
May 14, 2013 at 6:41 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Open forum, May 6-12
DeeLittle; Actually both. #1- No background in environmental services. #2- The sneaky way he was hired. He will not give up the post because it will pad his benefits. Nobody who is thrown a bone like that will willingly give it up. Morals be damned.
To most people he should have turned it down, but we all know what kind of political person he is. A 'ME FIRST" politician. His selection was not a fluke.
I would suggest that if you want to make the retirement benny's more like the real worlds then you have to let the state legislation know that. I really don't know how it got so bad with the state benefits issue but there's gotta be a law. I bet most are sick and tired of how the workers and politicians for the state manipulate the system for personal gain.
One last thought. The system set up for recalls suck. We all know that. It's all about the cost (money). Lawyers are not cheap when it comes to maybe getting money for a recall petition. They know a cash cow when they see one. And after it is all done and said you can still lose. The lawyers will still get their money.
May 12, 2013 at 5:56 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Open forum, April 29-May 5
The picture of Don Benton, sitting at his desk, reminds me of a Mel Brooks movie.
You know the one I'm talking about. Blazing Saddles.
Mel's sitting at a desk, jumping up and down and shuffling papers, proclaiming 'we gotta protect our phony baloney jobs'. Meanwhile Headly Lamar is complaining that the gov is mispronouncing his name. 'It's Headly Lamar not Heddy Lamar'. Funny stuff.
May 3, 2013 at 6:25 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Open forum, April 29-May 5
Hey Hawk, I'll take a couple of cases of Black Velvet if you please! I don't know if Ben's operates in Los Wages but it's worth a shot. LOL
Hey everybody, Happy May Day out there. Do ya all think there will be more violence in downtown P-Town this year. Saw some video last night about last years protest. WOW. The new edict about cops using less violent methods should work though. It's a new age and the cops should be less confrontational. That is if the protesters don't get out of line.
May 1, 2013 at 5:40 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Open forum, April 22-28
In my travels around the county I still find that a lot of Oregon plates parked in driveways. I have an occasion to visit a few large apartment complexes also. Last night, just for fun, I counted Oregon plates with my grand kids. We counted over thirty of them. So after I dropped them off I drove through one of the big ones by my place. I found over forty of them.
My point is this. If so many are visiting here are they just spending the night or what?? Come on man!!! That's over seventy. You can't tell me ALL of them are just visiting.
When waiting in line at some stores around here I find that a lot of visitors are from Oregon. Same thing. It's amazing that so many just visit here, isn't it?
April 26, 2013 at 6:27 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Open forum, April 15-21
The idea of having ID on you all the time is not what I meant. When I go for a walk or a bicycle ride I am not required to carry ID. Anytime I go to any place that requires ID I take it with me. There are exceptions even then. I don't have to show ID at a doctors office (unless a health card is one) nor a movie theater. I buy booze and beer without ID. I guess I look old enough.
In fact the only time I have been asked for ID has been when I'm driving. Then I also have to provide them with my CWP at the same time. Oh and when I signed up my sister-in-law with DSHS. That was so I could be listed as her caregiver. Three times in ten years is not bad as some I know.
April 16, 2013 at 7:40 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Open forum, April 15-21
I never carry I.D. when I am not driving. Never have. Over the years I been stopped on the street and ask to show some. I say I don't have it on me and the next question always is 'why not?'
I tell them my name and either my SS# or my drivers license number. They try to tell me it's against the law to walk the streets without proper I.D. I tell them to give me a ticket and we shall see what the courts say. See, I'm just to damn old to give a rats butt anymore.
So far (48 years) not one ticket. You see the cops don't want to tie up the courts with a losing proposition. This is still America the last time I checked. The whole time, while growing up, I was led to believe in freedoms of the U.S. I still do, but when someone tells me I gotta carry I.D. all the time I basically tell the to stuff it.
Now if you are driving or doing some other thing that requires I.D. then by all means you had better have it on you. But just walking the streets is not a justification for it. JMO.
April 16, 2013 at 6:04 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Open forum, April 8-14
If you drink to the point you end up blowin' a .22 on the drunk-o-meter scale why can't you just own up to it?? You kill two people and put two more in the intensive care unit and you STILL claim you're innocent??
You are an idiot. You proved that by racking up five PREVIOUS DUI's. I hope they find this idiot guilty and throw away the key. He is taking up valuable court time and it's pretty much a done deal. Unless there is plea bargaining involved, in which case it's the lawyer who thinks this idiot has money.
April 12, 2013 at 6:36 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Open forum, April 8-14
Did not one you see where Annette has passed away? Oh god, she was my first true TV crush. Thank you Disney!! I grew up watching the club.
And those movies. OMG They don't make them like that anymore. What a great actress. They haven't made a good movie in Hollywood since 'Beach Blanket Bingo', have they?
I know she couldn't act her way out of a paper bag but she was my eye candy anyway. And you just know that them there peeverts were well aware of it at corporate.
April 10, 2013 at 4:07 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )