― briania (briania), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago)
― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 17:56 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 17:59 (twenty years ago)
The situation is especially unfortunate this year, because Grassley's quixotic opponent is this guy, Art Small:
http://www.artsmallforsenate.com/images/stories/whoisartsmall_portrait_colo.jpg
Art believes that there is such a thing as "society", and that government can and in some circumstances should play an affirmative role in creating opportunities for the less privileged in the legitimate pursuit of social justice. In personal style, anti-slick is his chic (he thinks Good Will shops offer excellent sartorial value). In substance, he is thoughtful, articulate, funny, interesting.
Plus, dig that Trotskyite beard!
― briania (briania), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 17:59 (twenty years ago)
xp: there's much worse in Congress than Grassley
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago)
Or at least the first two.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago)
One measure in particular is worrisome; it would compel the state to compensate property owners for any regulation that decreases the value of their property. It sounds all very nice and fair until you examine it for, oh, about ten seconds. For example, suppose the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) ruled that used motor oil could not be dumped into unlined pits dug into the ground, then the state of Oregon might have to pay everyone for taking away that 'property right'.
I'm a-feared this monstrosity of a bone-headed law will pass.
― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 19:04 (twenty years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago)
Here's to BEING ABLE TO WATCH AN HOUR OF CRAPPY TELEVISION WITHOUT SOME DOUCHEBAG TELLING US THEY APPROVE OF THIS MESSAGE once again.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago)
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago)
And Oklahoma! Do Will Rogers proud!
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:31 (twenty years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:37 (twenty years ago)
I'm soooooo with you on that one, but sadly it ain't gonna happen. DeLay has been carpetbombing the airwaves in my area with negative/positive (i.e.Morrison=Satan/DeLay=Saint) ads for the past few weeks. The funny thing is, some of Delay's ads reference negative ads from Morrison. I have yet to see or hear a single negative ad from Morrison, aside for some general yard signs from the Democratic Party with slogans like "Dump DeLay!" and "Advancing America Without DELAY!"
BTW, perhaps one of my happiest recent memories was discovering that--due to redistricting or something--DeLay isn't my congressman. Go Al Green!
― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:43 (twenty years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 00:55 (twenty years ago)
― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 01:32 (twenty years ago)
― k3rry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 02:43 (twenty years ago)
― k3rry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 02:51 (twenty years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 04:00 (twenty years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 04:17 (twenty years ago)
In my neck of the woods, the usual Republican candidates won for the Congress (Rohrbacher) and both State Senate and Assembly. Ah well, no surprise.
The propositions are an interesting bunch. Right now Prop 66, a long needed revision of the 'three strikes' law, is winning but not yet decisively. 1A, the local government revenue proposition, is storming to a victory -- another feather for Arnold's cap. 63 (soak the rich for mental health care -- really!) is winning but not yet clearly, while somewhat to my surprise 71, the stem cell funding bond, is decisively winning. That I really don't get.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 06:07 (twenty years ago)
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 06:42 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:17 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:18 (twenty years ago)
anti-gay-marriage-and-civil-unions passes by like 70%.
FUCK EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU FUCKING PIECES OF SHIT, PATHETIC EXCUSES OF THE MAMMALIAN KINGDOM... PLEASE GO BACK TO THE PRE-HISTORIC WATERS OF PANGEA WHERE YOU CAME FROM
― mattp, Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:38 (twenty years ago)
― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:39 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:39 (twenty years ago)
― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:40 (twenty years ago)
― k3rry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 12:19 (twenty years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 20:19 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago)