As blogged this morning at Sound Politics, Governor Gregoire seems to be awfully friendly these days with felons.
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You’ve probably noticed by now that I’m no fan of the Sonics. This isn’t because I don’t like basketball (I don’t but that’s not the point). It’s because I really don’t like the idea of any professional sporting organization holding taxpayers hostage with threats to leave if they can’t have public funding.
I didn’t like it when the Mariners threatened to leave if they didn’t get their own stadium. When the opportunity to vote on the funding package came up I, like many other voters, voted against it. I was outraged when the state legislature decided that they were going to fund the stadium anyway, over the voters objections. When they tacked on an emergency clause to force the extra taxes on us I was livid.
Why do they keep insisting on calling it "Smart Growth"?
The City of Portland (CoPo) has roughly a forty-six-year history to draw upon; a history which shows that during this time, population growth has been drawn to the suburbs while the core has consistently shown declines - much as we see in virtually every major city in America. Rather than learn from this long history, so-called "planners" at Metro and CoPo continue their failed policy of high-density, transit-oriented core redevelopment - dangling tax abatements, waivers, and of course, hundreds of millions of dollars in bond debt in an effort to lure developers to build their dream.
The effort has proved fruitless at every turn, yet Metro and CoPo are hardly adept at single-trial learning, Quite the contrary, in fact - they keep doing the same thing over and over, hoping for a different outcome each time. This is generally regarded as a working definition of the term, "insanity".
Eye on the World blogs Egyptian Virginia Tech victim gave his life to save a fellow student thanks to an AP report. Recommended reading.
The martyr's name: Waleed Mohammed Shaalan.
Note: Fairness means reporting the Muslim heroes just as much as the Jewish heroes at V-Tech.
Today and tomorrow based on the Hebrew calendars are the State of Israel's Remberence and Independence Days. Considering the rising tide of anti-Semitism and its sibling Islamofacism, I believe that it's important for the friends of the Jews to commerate those days as well as the Holocaust rememberence day. Granted, I prefer the standard Western Gregorian calendar that says the real date of Israeli independence is May 14 over the Hebrew one, but one can't be too picky about your allies' calendars in the fight in the war on Islamofacism. That said: Why do I blog about the Jews as much as I do? Personal relations with Jews - Jewish relatives, Jewish English professor and one of my two doctors being Jewish aside - as Martin Luther King, Jr. once said: "Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true." (SOURCE - with other great quotes) Maybe saying a few good words about the Jews and the Jewish state and bad words about the Islamofacists perverting their Islamic faith and the nations that sponsor the Islamofacists now and then might help make white white and blue blue again. Hence, this post is dedicated on those days to the rising Islamofacist threat to serve as a warning.
