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Oregon is having it’s own brush with liars – er liberals. The governors race is up for grabs, Ron Wyden is actually campaigning on his record (shocking) and its looking like there might be a few new conservative legislators in Salem and DC.
Toxic Tina Kotek would probably be a landslide gubernatorial winner any other year. She is so far left she makes Kate Brown look like Ronald Reagan by comparison. There’s a bit of a dust up between Brown and Kotek over school closures, homelessness and rising gun violence. Kotek tossed Brown under the bus after she (Kotek) got Brown’s endorsement. The current governor decided to defend her record, which made for some interesting snipes between them. Like Whitmer, both have serious memory lapses about who did what and when.
Knight contributed $3M dollars to the two candidates running against Kotek. Didn’t take more than a New York second for her to whine and pledge to clean up campaign financing. I guess big money donors are OK if the funds are going into your war chest and not your competitors.
Biden and Liz Warren were in Portland campaigning in the last two weeks. I feel sorry for Biden. The dude has lost whatever fast ball he used to have. (Not much to start with.) Warren is a piece of…..work. “Don’t let Oregon go red” was her rallying cry. There was lots of praise for Kotek’s plans to fight crime, end homelessness and provide free community college for everyone. No details of course, but by golly, Tina has a plan.
“SEC proposes Anti-oil rule May 12, 2022 Biden cancels remaining lease sales.”
Silly me. I thought the SEC was supposed to be non-partisan. Like the DoJ, IRS, FBI, Military…..
What? Oh, never mind.
[quote quote=6432] Of course, these days, she’s employed her Stanford PhD to make some decent money, and she’s watching how much she’s paying in taxes, and — naturally — feels that she’s paying too much.[/quote]
So your sister is a closet conservative? 🙂
Rule of thumb I apply to Portland area projects. Take the initial estimate times 3 and you are close to the final cost. I see NASA is following the same model.
Should we expect the same people appalled by the murder of Jamal Khashoggi to be appalled by the attempt on Salman Rushdie?
Is there really a difference?
Creeping up? What is the WH doing well? It’s response to Monkey Pox?
Has everyone just thrown up their hands, saying “whatever”. A few weeks ago sleepy Joe had no control over oil prices. Now, gas prices have dropped 8 straight weeks thanks to the President’s actions. Good lord, they must think the American people are as dumb as Kamala.
I’ll ask the question to our little group- What has Biden done right? Be generous.
And exactly how will the US protect Taiwan? Shake our finger and wear a somber face? We certainly can’t support military forces and the Navy would have to operate over the horizon. Geez, does anyone have a treaty with them?
No, there will come a day when Xi or whoever decides to bring that petulant child back to nest,and it won’t take more than a day.
I wonder how many actually differentiate media v cable and internet blogs. MSM ceased reporting news year. Like you said, it’s about eyeballs. Its no longer about reporting, its about spinning a story and being “first”.
[quote quote=6279]Greta going say we all going drown to death. I’m not going argue just perturbed the cure is worse than the disease.[/quote]
Definitely. Here in Washington, we are going to save the planet by taxing the hell out of anyone using fossil fuel.
Can there be a bigger scam than cap and trade? “Passed by the state Legislature in 2021, the Climate Commitment Act – Senate Bill 5126 – directs the Washington State Department of Ecology to develop and implement a statewide cap-and-trade program to cut carbon pollution by requiring emitters to obtain “emissions allowances” equal to their covered greenhouse gas emissions.”
Similar to stocks and bonds, these allowances can be obtained through quarterly auctions hosted by Ecology.”
So, the state is selling allowances to save the planet. Right. Another new tax by a different name.
In other news, Jay Inslee and his minions have the Biden administration on board with removing hydroelectric dams on the Snake River. There is some serious twisted logic to removing clean sources of power (when there is already a predicted generating capacity deficit) in order to save fish. An additional twist is 10% of America’s wheat crop is shipped via barge on the Snake. Transporting wheat would then be done by truck or train, a more expensive alternative to barges, and definitely less friendly to the environment.
Greenies look more like Keystone Cops chasing a bad guy while trying to save the planet. All they can promise is higher taxes and a lower standard of living at a higher cost for the middle and lower class.
Fun times await…..
OMG, Newsome would destroy Harris in the primaries. This is a woman who couldn’t even carry her own state in 3 years ago.
Let her run. It will be fun to watch.
Vegas oddsmakers have old Joe not making it to the end of his term.
My bet – a very small wager – is power brokers get Kamala to step down. Sleepy picks a new VP- Newsome? Klobachur? Booker? and then resigns for health reasons.
Hey, you can’t make this shit up.
[quote quote=6197]“If the mob had been able to seize a hostage, Pelosi or Pence, the consequences would have been serious. I can guarantee you Trump would have tried to negotiate his way into a second term.” Probably the most ridiculous comment I’ve read in a long time. GR, are you actually Outsider Fan from TOS?[/quote]
GR assumes Trump was in control of the mob and could make this happen.
The gun show loophole is the sale between private parties. Washington closed that loophole (I believe Oregon has the same or similar law) in that any sale between private parties must be brokered by a Federal Firearms Licensee. There is a 3 day waiting period on the transfer.
The left loves hyperbole, and they bring it in spades when talking about gun control. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/30/the-gun-show-loophole-myth/
Switzerland is a good study on gun ownership. Estimates peg 75% of the population owns a hunting rifle, while 25% on handguns. Switzerland has a gun culture that works with training, regulations, and insistence on responsible gun ownership.
