Month: July 2006

“Get Rich Quick with Measure 37” was the best anti-campaign against the proto-933. It lacked money, radio or tv ads, but what it had was the perfect message: Are you like me? Do you want to make money fast? In Oregon, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do exactly this. I came to Oregon from…

If I’d have known, I would have celebrated.

An interesting note on Andrew’s and Dennis’ posts the last couple of days on the “Walking for Washington” program. I googled Walking for Washington, and came up with a group called United for Washington. In addition to the BIAW, the Faith and Freedom network, and others, UfW is behind the WfW program. At first they…

For a group of people with whom I share nearly no political or philosophical connection, I have a lot of respect for libertarians (or is it Libertarians?). A lot of my respect comes from that they don’t stray far from their core beliefs. If you run across a libertarian, you can be pretty sure where…

More perfect is asking us to rewrite the Washington state constitution, redefine our state priorities and write our own voters guide. This. Is. Great. Download the KUOW story featuring the Moreperfect’s Timothy Killian here (Mp3 file).David Postman has a great piece on it from a week ago.

Boy, Larsen sure did play the straight man. From the Colbert Report last night:

From Andy’s point of view, businesses are good, until they start agitating for things like clean water: Last week it surfaced that the Taylor Shellfish company was working to boon doggle Pierce County residents to harvest shellfish up there. Keep in mind, once this happens every resident in the county will be on the hook…

Mr. Ballard of Vashon/ King County reminded me of something here, that we should double check to see if our favorite local blogs are on Lefty Blogs. I’ll admit, I’m lazy, and even though I use the Thunderbird reader at home, I check Lefty Blogs instead of updating all of the blogs on the reader….

In the past couple of days I got two emails about the IsThisMikeOn.org website. One from Dwight Pelz, the other from a staffer at the DSCC back east. The website, by the way is a great idea, super even. Check the emails out though: In case you haven’t seen it yet, I just wanted to…

Related to a very fun Washblog thread, Gerrymandering will be the topic on Radio Open Source on Monday. For the record, Washington state has a bi-partisan redistricting commission that takes the job of actually drawing the lines away from the legislature. The leg of course approves the lines, but they don’t have to get their…