I think his own words speak to that. The Oregonian has an article today telling us what the governor of Oregon thinks about the Iraq war…

Gov. Ted Kulongoski continues to attend nearly every funeral of Oregonians killed in Iraq. And he doesn’t believe for a minute they died defending the nation from terrorism.

"It’s all part of a message, but it is not the reason we’re there," Kulongoski said in an interview with The Oregonian. The real reason: Oil, he said.

"If they had zero oil, do you think we’d be there?"

Yes Mr. Kulongoski, I think we’d still be there. Read this post for an enumerated listing of the reason’s we’re there in the first place. We have enough proven sources of oil here in the United States to take care of our need for oil for a decent amount of time… if Democrats like yourself would let us tap them.

Thanks to Oregon for setting the newest low in stupidity in public schools.

Unruly schoolboys or sex offenders?

The two boys tore down the hall of Patton Middle School after lunch, swatting the bottoms of girls as they ran — what some kids later said was a common form of greeting.

But bottom-slapping is against policy in McMinnville Public Schools. So a teacher's aide sent the gawky seventh-graders to the office, where the vice principal and a police officer stationed at the school soon interrogated them.

After hours of interviews with students the day of the February incident, the officer read the boys their Miranda rights and hauled them off in handcuffs to juvenile jail, where they spent the next five days.

Now, Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison, both 13, face the prospect of 10 years in juvenile detention and a lifetime on the sex offender registry in a case that poses a fundamental question: When is horseplay a crime?

Fool.

Raid on plant uncovers hundreds of illegal workers

Federal agents on Tuesday raided the offices of a Portland food processing plant suspected of employing hundreds of illegal workers who used Social Security numbers that belonged to other people or were made up.

More than 165 workers were detained to be processed for possible deportation, officials said, and three people were indicted on immigration, illegal documents and identity theft charges.

Portland Mayor Tom Potter criticized the raids. The three arrests were understandable, he said, but "to go after local workers who are here to support their families while filling the demands of local businesses for their labor is bad policy."

Sure.  It's bad policy to go after people who are committing ID fraud.  All 165 of those people were working with false documents.  That they singled out 3 for harsher crimes is no excuse for the actions of the others.

Soon after it opened, my wife and I went to the Tacoma Museum of Glass, in the hopes of seeing great examples of art…made of Glass.

What greeted us was a display of several modern “artists”, including, among others, John Gage.

Some of the artwork included: 

• A piece of approximately 8 in. x 10 in. parchment, upon which the “artist” had traced the outline of several rocks.
• A 10 or 15 foot roll of parchment upon which the “artist” had wallked backwards across, after stepping into paint.
• A recording of one of Gage’s musical “art pieces” in which each note was played 60 seconds apart.

And other less memorable pieces…

This was when I realized something that I had long suspected, but whose thought had not crystalized in my mind:  It isn’t that I don’t understand “modern art”, it is that “modern art” ISN”T ART.

This is an open comment thread to try to answer the question above intelligently.  Any blog posts or news stories - link 'em here.  Any thoughts - post away.

Figure we should attempt to contribute here in the blogosphere…

Seems to me as if this isn't just a regional, but a Western USA problem. April 25, 2007 3 More Colleges Disrupted by Threats Amid Post-Virginia Tech Fears

Amid heightened fears over campus safety since last week’s murderous shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, three more colleges on Tuesday were the scenes of disruptive threats.

Well, well they included a school in California as well as the two others in the AP story yesterday. Stand at the ready.

Who just threatened my alma mater Skagit Valley College (and all the other schools the past week).

You really think your threat did anything more than simply bring out the friends of the school?

You really think your threats are going to scare people that much longer?

Guess what, I'm not afraid.  Nor are my fellow Cardinals.  And I'm going to offer the college administration an undisclosed amount next week to start a security fund as an alumnus.  Nice going, punk jihadi.

(I clicked Oregon in the labels because of the link.)

The 4 years mark was of course marked with the usual moonbat protests.

What is ironic is how the Socialists are hijacking the anti war movement to move us closer to Socialism.  They contend that if we stop funding for the war we can build school, get socialized medicine, create jobs, build gulags….

Drop in at Little Green Footballs, Hot Air or Michelle Malkin for enough pictures and stories to make your blood boil.  And Sister Toldjah has some great links as well.

LGF includes the mandatory flag burning and the moonbats even burn a US soldier in effigy. 

See how the Liberals support the troops?  The F*** the Troops sign says it all.

Maybe I will catalog that tomorrow.

But behind it all, the question remains about what we are doing and its worth.

1) Leaning Straight Up: More Gore HYPOCRISY - Gore buys carbon offsets… from HIMSELF.

Read the post and then say what you want about global warming, but acknowledge the hypocrisy and economic interest Al Gore has in making the global warming issue as big as his greed.  I am disappointed, but not surprised in the least.

2) I also believe there is some global warming.  But Dennis Prager's blog has made note of debate between Pacific Northwest scientists about glacier growth and retreat - a key factor in determining the scope of global warming. 

3) Paloulistics also caught Gore's lack of guts to take questions after lecturing the media.