Nebraska. (sigh)

If you think that's bad, AD, you should check out what's happening in Montana. They've really gone off the deep end.

So, about that tanker deal.

Let's see...here we are in WA state, yammering about being able to find enough money for Rainer Valley libraries to have summer programs and yet a $2 Billion tunnel is built...then we have politicos slicing and dicing 21st century science and technology programs but find $35 Billion to build a 1980s era airplane which, based on the ten years it took to make a decision, does not seem imminently needed.

Well since the country is beyond the point of being able to save it I say GO NEBRASKA!!!! The rest of us sane people just need to avoid going there and simply watch from the outside. (Should make for some amazing reality television)

Remember gang, if you vote for idiots this is what you get!!

Politics in this country drives me up the fucking wall.

It's like 100 people all in a room together, with only 4 of those people in the back paying attention to issues and platforms and arguing about how the government and nation should be run. Everyone else is watching American Idol, paying zero attention to what is happening with the money they pay in taxes.

Then there's an announcement that it's time to vote, and only about 15 to 20 people shuffle away from watching the singing teenagers. When they're done voting and asked why they picked whoever they picked, they reply "Oh, I just picked the same people I always do," or "I dunno... I heard somewhere that this person was gonna do something or whatever," then they go back to TV.

Then all hell breaks loose as a result of uninformed and half-assed voting patterns and everyone in the room grumbles and complains.

And then it all repeats itself again.

The level of apathy in this country is disturbing.

The Boeing news is very good. This is a HUGE contract.

@5 Everyone gets a vote and everyone gets a say. Admittedly, it isn't always progressive or intelligent, but without it a much bigger mess ensues. (ala Middle East).

I spent six years living in NE, doing some kind of cosmic penance, or paying of dues, or something. Prior to that my geographic goal was to always live west of Interstate 5. I did not fit in NE. But while I lived there it dawned on me that, all the time I thought NE was weird and I was "normal," I had it backwards. The west coast is a tiny slice of the US w/a sizable population, thank god. But the big chunk that rests between the coasts is big and they are convinced that their perspective on everything - I mean it, everything - is right. And the rest of us are weird and dangerous. People over there thought I was from San Diego, and cluck-clucked over my every word, outfit, and pair of earrings. When I told them that I was really from Seattle, the clucking stopped and I was shunned. It's sickening but we can't ignore the Big Chunk Region.

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