Washington State Speaker of the House Frank Chopp declares his true love.
(Hat-tip: Orbusmax for breaking the news.)
Why do I think the Evergreen Freedom Foundation's Amber Gunn had something to do with this?
Kiss him goodbye. His decision to retain - then fire- then retain, then whatever a couple of left-wing blognuts has left him blowing in the wind before the presidential race really even gets underway. If he flip-flops like he has on the relatively trivial issue of the blogosphere, you know he'd implode if faced with tough issues. He's got great hair, but no brains.
As correctly noted immediately after debates in the Oregon Dorchester Conference of last year, Kevin Mannix was toast. (Mannix is doomed.) On the Dem side in the upcoming Presidential run, Edwards is toast.
The Oregonian has rather a lengthy story in today's regarding the impending attempt to remove an infected left tusk from an elephant at Oregon Zoo.
He broke his left tusk about 14 years ago in California. A veterinarian sawed off the fractured portion flush with Tusko's lip, hoping it would scar over and heal.
And this is how the problem began. Although The Oregonian inaccurately reports that Tusks are hollow, they actually are not. Only the portion extending from the sulcus to approximately eighteen inches distally is hollow; the remainder of the tusk is very much solid, as any cursory examination will readily indicate.
We know that Seattle is about to waste a million dollars. Now we know it’s going to make a few lawyers even richer too. From the Seattle Times:
Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels’ dream of replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a four-lane tunnel is as dead as anything gets in Olympia.
Gov. Christine Gregoire, Democratic leaders in the House and Senate and some Republicans joined together Tuesday and said no way, never.
Instead they called for a new viaduct to replace the old viaduct.
And still, ballots are about to go out asking Seattle voters for their opinions — whether to support a tunnel or an elevated structure.
I told you this was going to happen. Seattle is still going to go ahead with the $1 million all-mail vote on the tunnel vs. the elevated viaduct, despite the fact that the state has now decided the issue.
