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  4. 4

    For Lee, if he’s listening in:


    In Calif., Medical Marijuana Laws Are Moving Pot Into Mainstream

    “With little notice and even less controversy, marijuana is now available as a medical treatment in California to almost anyone who tells a willing physician he would feel better if he smoked.”

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....id=topnews

  5. 5

    Does anyone else feel Goldy was being dishonest in his last post?

    Why didn’t he measure percentage increase in population growth vs percentage increase in state spending over, let’s say, the last 10 years?

  7. 7

    Oh this is just too good:

    But it’s the political numbers that are truly striking. Obama has a 66 percent approval rating, which is the highest this poll has recorded, while the GOP’s favorability is at 31 percent, the lowest the poll has recorded in 25 years of asking the question. Arguably more remarkable still is that, asked whether Obama or the GOP Congress would be more likely to make “the right decisions about the nation’s economy,” respondents broke for Obama 63 percent to 20 percent. That means that even within the 31 percent rump that holds a positive view of the GOP, at least a third trust Obama’s instincts on the economy equally or more. And why shouldn’t they? Despite Rush Limbaugh’s best efforts just 2 percent of respondents blame Obama for the state of the economy, compared to 33 percent who blame George W. Bush. (Wall Street and Congress come in for 21 and 11 percent, respectively.)

    http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs.....e-gop.aspx

    Even a large percentage of Republicans trust Obama MORE than the GOP on the economy! It doesn’t get much better than that.

    Spend all the time you want here wingnut fiends.

  8. 8

    @4
    “With little notice and even less controversy, marijuana is now available as a medical treatment in California to almost anyone who tells a willing physician he would feel better if he smoked.”

    Yep, it’s gone from being a black market in California to more of a gray one. As long as people who “feel better if they smoked” are giving money to American entrepreneurs rather than Mexican drug lords, it’s a step in the right direction.

  9. 9

    Oh this is cruel:

    Buck up, Charles. You didn’t leave the conservative movement, it just went shithouse-mouse bullgoose-loony paintchip-eating insane when Hussein Obama was elected. Before that, they were just your garden variety loons crapping in their pants and exulting in the warmth of their own creation.

    LMAO!! Describes our wingnut brigade to a tee.

    Same link as 3.

  11. 11

    What has happened to Charles Johnson @ Little Green Footballs?

    He’s saying nasty things about Glenn Beck!

    He’s quoting denunciations of creationism!

    He’s getting hate mail from right wing lunatics and he’s calling them “moonbats”.

    LMAO!! This is just too delicious!

  13. 13

    @5

    http://www.ofm.wa.gov/trends/tables/fig505.asp
    Between 1994-95 and 2001-02 Washington’s rank among the 50 states in state and local taxes per $1,000 personal income fell from 11th to 32nd. In 2005-06, Washington’s rank was 28th.
    In 2000, Washington’s state and local taxes per $1,000 of personal income dipped below the average of all the states for the first time since 1985.
    In the 2003-2006 period, the ready availability of consumer credit and a quickly appreciating housing market helped spur consumer spending, resulting in a rebound in taxes relative to personal income.

    http://www.ofm.wa.gov/trends/tables/fig401.asp

    The number of full-time equivalent (FTE) state employees has generally tracked closely with growth in the state’s total population.
    While total population growth is a reasonable indicator of demand for state government services, growth of select population groups may further drive up demand for specific services like higher education, public assistance, or prisons.

    ‘Oh and we have smaller class sizes in our schools and the average caseload for social workers has shrunk.
    http://fiscal.wa.gov/FRViewer......0Caseloads

  14. 14

    @4 Marijuana is better for you than whatever the Republicans are smoking. They’re popping stupid pills, too.

  17. 17

    I’ve done some research into what subjects pop up most on this blog. Here’s the breakdown in percentage terms:

    – A rant against the Seattle Times editorial board, 72% of all blog posts.

    – A rant against some Vancouver, WA bank or bridge, 16% of all blog posts.

    – Legalize pot/police bashing, 11% of all blog posts.

    – Birds Eye View contests/Drinking Liberally, 3%.

  20. 20

    Hey Darryl–
    I got a reaaaal kick out of you trying to defend Joe “The Serial Liar” Biden on his fantasies about what he discussed with Bush.
    You aggressively tried to defend the indefensible.

    Let me ask you one simple question Darryl–
    Don’t you think that while running for President, or VP or the 3 months his has been in office……….
    Don’t you think Biden would have used these profound, well-crafted quotes before now??

    Why would Biden all of a sudden remember & share these private conversations with Bush??

    Darryl..come on man. Get serious.

    Biden is a L-I-A-R!!
    There is no way that even comes close to passing the smell test.

    The only thing it smells like is Rahm Emmanuel, James Carville and the rest of the Democrap Henchmen.

    Bad Try Darryl===No Sale.

  21. 21

    From today’s Rasmussen–

    Saturday, April 11, 2009

    The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 34% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Twenty-nine percent (29%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +5

    When Joe “The Delusional KLOWN” Biden’s prognositication of Obama being test comes true, these numbers that have already tanked since Inauguration WILL PLUMMET.

    Hey, BTW, why aren’t you KLOWNS protesting Obama?? He promised all troops out of Iraq in 16 months and you KLOWNS were groaning.
    Now Obama is saying 19 months AND he is going to leave 50,000 troops.

    Where is your outrage???
    TOO DAMN FUNNY,
    Obama knows Bush was right on about lots of stuff and is maintaining Bush’s policies on intelligence, wiretapping etc. things you KLOWNS went nuts about when Bush was President.

  22. 22

    Speaking of liars – three names immediately come to mind…

    1. The Faux News operated Rasmussen polls

    2. CYN CYN the child rapist

    3. Traitor, coward, cunt – Karl Rove

  23. 23

    Speaking of polls – did anyone notice what happened in the only poll that matters? You know, the one on Nov 4 when the American people collective fucked the Publicans in the ass and OVERWHELMINGLY by LANDSLIDE MARGINS elected PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA and a whole slew of other Democrats? Remember that one? That was a good one! No matter how many lies CYNCYN tells, he can’t undo that one !!!

  24. 24

    Mr. Cynical,

    It’s always amusing watching your amateur attempts at being a propagandist.

    Nevertheless…the fact remains: Karl Rove is a proven liar. Dick Cheney is a proven liar. George W. Bush is a proven liar.

    A whole pack of liars saying something…doesn’t make it true….

    Even when YOU join the pack.

  25. 25

    Darryl, Darryl, Darryl………
    Biden all of a sudden remembers memorable conversations with Bush and you believe him.

    It’s amazing what pot will do to your mind, huh Darryl.

    We are talking about SERIAL LIAR Biden who lied about being forced down by enemy fire in Iraq in a helicopter….when John Kerry, the other guy in his helicopter admitted it was weather.

    SERIAL LIAR Biden who told us about being in the middle of enemy fire in Iraq at his Hotel…when in reality, the gunfire was 20 miles away.

    Darryl, Darryl, Darryl…my oh my.
    So sad.

  26. 26

    Darryl–
    Do you think Biden jams coke up his schnoz with his daughter who is on video snortin’ it down??

  27. 27

    @25

    Does Biden stretch the truth?
    You betcha’!
    Is Biden a better VP than Sara Palin would have been?
    You betcha’!

    That was the choice we had, Cyn. Biden who knows is way around DC and the world stage and is known for telling a yarn or a fruitcake who has just started her first term as the governor of the least populated state in the nation.

    The yarn tellers ticket got about 9.5M more votes than the fruitcakes did. :-)

  28. 28

    25. Michael spews:

    Does Biden stretch the truth?
    You betcha’!

    Stretch the Truth??
    Biden’s a chronic liar and has been his whole life.
    Remember his plagarism??
    That was a sign.
    Go ahead and attack Palin.
    Biden is a sick bastard.
    His mouth will get us in a lot more trouble than anything Palin could have ever dreamed of doing.

    Hey, Biden warned the World Obama will be tested by terrorists in the 1st 6 months.

    Is that the right thing for a VP to say??
    Kind of an open invitiation.
    Just stupid.
    I think both Obama & Biden are scared to death now that they have full knowledge of what is happening…knowing they must take full responsibility if anything happens.
    It’s on the Obama/Biden watch!!

  30. 30

    @27

    I rest comfortably with the knowledge that at least 9.5M more Americans that see things my way than see things your way.

  31. 31

    Mr. Cynical @ 26,

    “Biden’s a chronic liar and has been his whole life.”

    Yeah…’cause Karl Rove the professional liar sez so.

    Stop Cynical…you’re crackin’ me up…taking the side of proven liars and all.

    “Hey, Biden warned the World Obama will be tested by terrorists in the 1st 6 months.”

    No he didn’t you dolt! He said:

    “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said.”

    …you know, maybe something like N. Korea attempting to launch a satellite….

    “Is that the right thing for a VP to say??”

    Ignoring that a VP did not say that, why the hell not?

    “Kind of an open invitiation.”

    No. That was not an invitation. That was a prediction. A direct and open invitation is saying something like

    There are some who feel like that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is bring ’em on.

    Now that would be fucking stupid!

  32. 32

    29. Darryl spews:

    Mr. Cynical @ 26,
    “Biden’s a chronic liar and has been his whole life.”
    Yeah…’cause Karl Rove the professional liar sez so

    No because Biden admitted being a plagarist!!
    It has nothing to do with Rove.
    Biden is a plagarist and you know it.
    Keep defending him though Darryl..you look kind of silly.

  33. 33

    Hey Darryl–
    Another Somali Pirate hijacking–

    The head of the East African Seafarers’ Assistance Program says Somali pirates have hijacked an American-owned tugboat with 16 crew in the Gulf of Aden.

    Having a weak President and a Serial Lying VP who sing Kumbaya, pander to terrorists and look like deer in the headlights..
    really paying big dividends.

  34. 34

    Mr. Cynical @ 30,

    “It has nothing to do with Rove.”

    What the fuck are you babbling about? It most certainly does have to do with Rove.

    That professional liar called the Vice President a liar.

    We always enjoy it when your marginalized ideological whack-jobs (like, say, Karl Rove) rear their ugly heads with mouthfuls of hypocrisy!

  35. 35

    @31
    OMFG! Somali Pirates! Better hide under the bed with my arsenal!

    Besides President Bush was doing such a good job of getting tough on the Somali pirates, not!

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