Apr
22
2007
Update 01: Got the management letter from a friend at bottom of post. Am posting the item of interest.
Guess what? The Sedro-Woolley School District decided to pull an accounting trick that the State Auditor's Office caught with a recent management letter. The Skagit Valley Herald Newsroom did a stellar job in reporting last Friday that, "The terms of the $2 million 2003 bond issue from which the money came authorized the use of the proceeds for purchase of property and capital improvements but not for curriculum or payroll, according to the auditor’s letter. Limited general obligation bonds are authorized by the Sedro-Woolley School Board and repaid out of district revenues."
A different kind of bond is being proposed and ballots are due at 2000 Hours/8 PM 24 April. Not knowing this information, I voted yea. You can go HERE for why - for one, we need to replace a middle school I was just in a few months ago returning a textbook from 1979 I had bought at a book sale.
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Apr
22
2007
It's unclear why the folks in Nevada keep re-electing this idiot. Even his home newspaper notes: Enter Sen. Reid, flopping around in big red shoes like Bozo the Clown. This is the best they can do by way of a Senate Majority Leader? Between Harry and Pelosi, the Dems are looking seriously out-of-touch. Not that it's any big surprise, but one would think that they'd at least try to hold the wool over your eyes a little bit longer. Heck, even Bill (Ah did not have sexual relations with that woman) managed to keep things under wraps longer than these boobs.
Sen. Reid appeared in public to declare the war in Iraq is "lost."
Less than 24 hours after declaring Iraq a lost cause, Sen. Reid insisted, "No one wants us to succeed in Iraq more than the Democrats."
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Apr
22
2007
25 years ago, the Conch Republic was born. Residents of Key West, Florida got fed up with federal interference and took action: Key Westers protested by hoisting a Conch Republic banner in Mallory Square April 23, 1982. They declared war on the United States by ceremoniously bopping a Navy sailor on his head with a loaf of stale Cuban bread, and then promptly surrendering and applying for $1 billion in foreign aid.
You have to wonder how many in the population trace their roots back to France. They never got the money, but it was a brilliant exercise which remains influential to this day.
Apr
22
2007
A medly of events, seemingly unconnected, all come together in this space: WiFi will kill your children, bosses want you to stop coming to work in order to save the planet, and Russia has decreed that 50% of all news broadcast over radio channels must be "good" news. How does it all tie together, you may ask. That's relatively easy:
The single most powerful religion on the planet today is the "Green" movement. Anything relating to human activity is bound to be bad, and thus we have the Institute of Directors (whatever that is) over there in the U.K. calling for flex-time and staggered shifts to help save the planet from Global Worming. At the same time (also in the U.K.), the chairman of the Health Protection Agency is pushing for formal studies of wireless networks "amid mounting concerns" that they may damage childrens' health. Meanwhile, over in Russia, new broadcast mandates require that 50% of news must be "positive" in nature, and further require that the USA be cast as "an enemy" in most cases.
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