tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post5211696941939573944..comments2024-03-28T12:29:39.157-07:00Comments on Graphic Firing Table: Down From The HillsFDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-47971205827458033582010-11-08T13:25:07.800-07:002010-11-08T13:25:07.800-07:00FDC,
Wow, amazing project -- thanks for sharing. ...FDC,<br /><br />Wow, amazing project -- thanks for sharing. Only on the West Coast, methinks. <br /><br />I'm glad it's not to be a Super Walmart.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-87877806214764068822010-11-07T10:16:11.201-07:002010-11-07T10:16:11.201-07:00Lisa: Fear, greed, and stupidity - it's what w...Lisa: Fear, greed, and stupidity - it's what we do.<br /><br />The work we're doing in the park was actually both fairly benign but silly. The site is along a trail to the Olympic Hot Springs, a very popular day hike. The huge winter rains in 2007 blew out the embankment when the culvert blocked (a common occurrence in the Northwest mountains, where the old logging roads were built across streams without protections for the culvert inlets) and now the trail is no longer accessible to people in wheelchairs.<br /><br />I'm serious.<br /><br />So the plan is to spend several millions to build a suspension bridge so you can roll all the way to the spring.<br /><br />Seems incredible, but I guess if I had been unlucky enough to have lost a leg to a booby-trap I'd still want to soak in a hot spring with naked hippie chicks like everyone else, so...<br /><br />Ael: The total number of seats was fairly small, but even the races the D's won were pretty contentious. And the news people, needing a "story", made it out of the teabaggers, effectively enhancing their political power.<br /><br />Out West we also saw a lot of fairly stupid but rhetorically persuasive ballot initiatives pass; electing people isn't the only outlet for Teh Stupid.<br /><br />Overall I think the actual number of the gomers is less than their influence through the press. But that influence IS there, and seems to be helping drive the country towards the Idiot Lane.FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-70480340956434295222010-11-06T20:39:16.798-07:002010-11-06T20:39:16.798-07:00I'm confused. There was like a 60 seat swing....I'm confused. There was like a 60 seat swing. That is 30 seats changing hands. Given that there is what, 500 odd seats in the house<br /><br />So... 30 out of 500 seats, or something like seven percent?<br /><br />That is a tsunami?Aelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10788190394672505925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-35800404286476536662010-11-06T19:21:36.847-07:002010-11-06T19:21:36.847-07:00The stupidity of our electorate seems to know no b...The stupidity of our electorate seems to know no bounds. It always comes down to greed and money.<br /><br />However ... the mountains of the Olympic Penninsula were gorgeous. Is it possible to explain the type of work you were doing up there? Do they plan to build something there?<br /><br />(More Joni Mitchell -- to put up a parking lot?)Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.com