2 On Feb 28, 09:38 pm, THartill wrote:

Well eventually the Dems in D.C. would probably propose it, but as it stands right now it’s Gordo that is pushing it.

And as far as the size of Government programs go…Since the Republicans have been in charge in D.C. the Federal Budget has risen 33% while inflation over the last six years is about 18%.

Both parties want larger Government and more programs if you look at their voting records. One says they don’t and one says they do. The 2 party system works perfect for the ones in charge and less than perfect for your everyday citizen.

4 On Mar 1, 06:36 am, Pierce wrote:

Good call. Perhaps your atonement will lead to a price drop in time for Easter dinner.

6 On Mar 1, 07:31 am, Clatsopod wrote:

Perhaps the Transition Center is in trouble because they are much more concerned about getting “revenue” than either providing services or protecting the non-criminals. Most people doing jail time are convicted of misdemeanors and if what’s being spoon-fed to Freel is true apparently no one is much interested in providing them with services because they aren’t cash cows.

8 On Mar 1, 02:52 pm, Carrie wrote:

When I saw the Daily Astorian use an MSNBC story on their front page (the one with the dog whelping a cat or some such thing) I thought, “There’s no other news locally so you have to do a fill in article with this?” I guess a cute story, you can see how much of it I remember, but front page of our one and only local daily?

Thank-you Tryan for the round-up locally! Can you just imagine if we had four people doing Tryan’s job (maybe even for a salary?) what sort of local online newsjournal we could have?

Walter, your sad. Really. So your tired of being PC? Your tired of creating atmosphere’s conducive to civil behavior, promoting educational and economic growth, preserving the mental and physical health of a multitude of races, traditions and cultures less fortune than yours? LOL! So be it, your too weak to hold up your end of the bargain, anyways. You call to yourself what you send out from yourself.

Negroid may or may not be the correct term, as can be said for bovine excrement.

Your articles are like you are Washington’s own little National Inquirer reporter, ever on the look out for the slimey side of the human personality and calling it “the truth.” Grasping hold of the elephant’s tail and calling it a rope doesn’t make it one.

Wasn’t that a nice, un PC way to talk with one another? Sure got things [not] resolved and now the flow of information and the health of online communication will just [not] be ever so much better!

Having differing points of view are necessary, growth is only possible through the exploration of others’ viewpoints and a constant willingness to challenge your own perceptions. IMHO. I think people like Walter (no matter their imagined biological construction, which is what negroid and caucasion refer to), while I’ll defend with my life their right to speak, truly are the epitomy of the meaning of what happens when a certain typification/classification (whether socialogical, biological or economical) of people feel their status quo is challenged.

“The notion that humankind can be divided along White, Black, and Yellow lines reveals the social rather than the scientific origin of race. The idea that there exist three races, and that these races are “Caucasoid,” “Negroid,” and “Mongoloid,” is rooted in the European imagination of the Middle Ages, which encompassed only Europe, Africa, and the Near East.. . Nevertheless, the history of science has long been the history of failed efforts to justify these social beliefs. Along the way, various minds tried to fashion practical human typologies along the following physical axes: skin color, hair texture, facial angle, jaw size, cranial capacity, brain mass, frontal lobe mass, brain surface fissures and convolutions, and even body lice. As one scholar notes, ”[t]he nineteenth century was a period of exhaustive and, as it turned out, futile search for criteria to define and describe race differences.”. . . Attempts to define racial categories by physical attributes ultimately failed. By 1871, some leading intellectuals had recognized that even using the word “race” “was virtually a confession of ignorance or evil intent.” The genetic studies of the last few decades have only added more nails to the coffin of biological race. Evidence shows that those features usually coded to race, for example, stature, skin color, hair texture, and facial structure, do not correlate strongly with genetic variation. . . The rejection of race in science is now almost complete. In the end, we should embrace historian Barbara Fields’s succinct conclusion with respect to the plausibility of biological races: “Anyone who continues to believe in race as a physical attribute of individuals, despite the now commonplace disclaimers of biologists and geneticists, might as well also believe that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy are real, and that the earth stands still while the sun moves.” Ian F. Haney Lopez, The Social Construction of Race: Some Observations on Illusion, Fabrication, and Choice, 29 Harvard Civil Rights, Civil Liberties Law Review 1-62, 6-7, 11-17 (Winter, 1994)

10 On Mar 2, 07:27 am, Walter Richards wrote:

Carrie – “Walter, your sad. Really. So your tired of being PC? Your tired of creating atmosphere’s conducive to civil behavior, promoting educational and economic growth, preserving the mental and physical health of a multitude of races, traditions and cultures less fortune than yours?”

None of that has anything to do with being PC. Being PC is being afraid to say/do anything that might be offensive to anyone, no matter how ridiculous their demand not to be offended. If the Founders had been PC, there wouldn’t have been a First Amendment freedom of speech.

Being PC means that the only … and I mean ONLY … way to “preserve cultures” is to hold those cultures separate, rather than meld with the rest of society. America was once a “melting pot”, but no longer because we have to keep those cultures separate.

Being PC means a society of victims. Everybody is a victim. Except male caucasians, because they’re the ones keeping everybody else victimized. If you’re gang raped by a bunch of crips, it’s because of their “environment” – not because they’re a bunch of punks. Or maybe they were just copying what they saw in a movie, and didn’t know better.

Being PC means “zero tolerance”. The idiocy where a keychain can be a weapon because it has a less-than-1 inch chain on it. Or where nail clippers are possible weapons. Or where kindergarteners get in trouble for using their fingers as “guns” when playing.

Being PC has nothing to do with “civil behavior”. It has to do with “politically correct behavior”.