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Swingin' Little Governor Man!

with representatives who know nothing about transportation? As if Otter knows. The same guy who would have raised vehicle registration 600% to come up with $280 million for roads? All the meetings in all the counties in all the states won't accomplish anything without people who know transportation. All these politicians we keep electing by way of campaign finance is why our roads are crowded & aging. Who promoted all the growth without the infrastructure & why? Would politicians lsiten to anybody who didn't contribute to their campaigns & will the same politicians do anything except favors in return? NO!

People with money, {developers} contributed to people they wanted in office, {Otter} same story accross the nation, & the infrastructure is $2 trillion in the red. Who is going to pay? We all know the answer to that question. Feel good meetings by people who are suppose to be doing the job but don't have a clue, are asking for suggestions, won't listen to anyone but the people who contributed to their campaigns, & we're suppose to go for it again?

If we elected people based on their knowledge instead of the amount of money contributed through campaign finance, we might have competent people running government & the infrastructure would be fine.

A meeting with Otter about a fashon statement, or how to buy Levis would be productive. How to win a tight jeans contest maybe or pretend to be a Texas Ranger with a trophy wife. Some of US just aren't a slave to fashon like Butch or Gus. I wonder if he's Gus on Saturday or when riding the pony on his own time.

I'm going to hear all about this. Sorry Foreignoregonian, I pushed a little to hard & over the edge she went. One of the best jokes I've seen on this blog was the Casper thing you kicked me with way back when, that was original. If a guy can't laugh at those things I guess he might as well crawl in a bottle of booze or pills & die all alone.

I hear that since Bush has waterboarding & wiretapping OKED by Congress, a new anti virus had to be developed, anti blogger stalker. Looks like we'll all need it. It's tough being wrong all the time but good to know we have big brother looking out for US.

Brains, Brawn or Bounty...

No guarantee of no Bozos.

wants to give the boss an opportunity, our two cents worth. I started a site a few years ago to give the American taxpayer that exact opportunity, www.nextrevolution.net
Ideas in which we support each other. Ideas by the boss to solve problems like Social Security which our representatives use to get votes but never solve the problem.

I started this after working for the Nebrasksa Dept. of Forestry where my boss was stealing but I'm not going back into all that again. I also started this site because our representatives talk about doing something about Social Security just about this time, every four years, just before a presidential election like Obama & McCain are now. After the election it will be a nonissue until the next election & nothing will have been done?

One of the ideas I have on Nextrev is to allow people in a finacial bind to use their 401 without paying the 10% penalty, pay the taxes deferred but not the penalty. I put an email on Nextrev which I recently received suggesting basically the same. I'm not all about giving people who invested, fipped houses, or whatever, a pass. I do believe that if we as taxpayers, some obviously taken in less than honest banking & loan scams which has our government bailing out with our tax $, might get a break on penalties in tax deferred savings so as to keep a property in which they live. I'm not a banker or a government representative, but wouldn't fewer foreclosures be better than more? Am I losing my home or in foreclosure? No, I'm not doing this for myself. Do I pay Socail Security? I have for most of my life & would like to think I might have something there should I need it. If I'm not mistaken Social Security is a safety net, not retirement.

Some people suggest I'm way out of line in kicking every branch of government, both parties, & every governmnet agency. Some of these people actually served in the military, served being the key word. They fight for our rights & to preserve freedom. Sorry buit that's the deal,
I like most Americans appreciate it. We do however believe that giving up our free speech was not part of the deal should someone who served think we don't have the right to exercise those rights & bash government.

If some who served, think they should have the right to tell those who they fought for, fought to preseve those rights for, to tell US we suddenly do not have the rights they fought to preserve, we need to either set the record straight or change the rules. If giving those who served, the final say in everything from free speech to whatever they feel they should dictate, we need to get it out in the open.

From what I understand, some are now suggesting our representatives need to hear from the people to decide if issues we pay these representatives to oversee, really need our attention. I'm a little confused. If I say the roads are bad, agreeing with the Gov. that they need attention, I'm wrong. If I say banking is in the same mess it was in the 80's, even though headlines suggest government bail out banking, I'm wrong. Some even suggest like vietnam, the banking scandals of the eightes are old news & should be forgotten? Yet here we are in Iraq & banking?

If I suggest the USDA & FDA aren't getting the job done, even though like roads & banking, it's all over the front page, I'm wrong. Front page stories about salmonelia, E. Coli, food posioning, Mad Cow, & what ever tell me the FDA & USDA don't have the people to do the inspections. It's tomatoes for months & suddenly peppers? So the people who were eating peppers instead of tomatoes feel better?

I call the USDA & report a highly subsidized local Dairy for transportation & warehousing for unsanitary conditions & the USDA makes them clean it up. Possible kickbacks in transportation in the corporation that sent out a letter asking for information into fraud saves millions & I'm wrong & fired. The same corproation saves millions of $, reduces miles & fuel usage by millions of miles & gallons & I'm wrong?

Now the same Gov. who had a flunky send me a letter telling me the USDA & FDA do inspections, wants ideas on roads? If the USDA did inspections why did they have the highly subsidized dairy which I called in, clean up the conditions I reported? Sorry but if trucks that haven't been washed out in two years had been inspected, I wouldn't be calling the USDA. I don't think the USDA is really getting the inspections done. Ever seen a semi trailer used for hauling dairy product, not washed out in two years? Sorry but milk leaks & it get's pretty bad after two years in Idaho's high desert when trailers sit with doors closed. There are pics on Nextrev but pictures don't smell. There are also pictures of milk being dumped on the ground & fed to hogs.

There are also pics of hogs being shot at the same location by who I would suggest are illegal immigrants. Hogs butchered out in the open with dust blowing around, dust should you look at the pics, with no doubt less than desirable crap in it. How much did the hog farmer receive for those hogs & were taxes reported or paid for hogs or labor? How much did the dairy pay the farmer to take the milk in the higly subsidized dairy industry? How many gallons of perfectly fine milk gets dumped along with bad? How many times is milk rerun as pictures on Nextrev indicate before it makes it to your kid or should it have been hog food? I've seen it trucked from Boise to Fruitland, ID & back three to four times before it was done right, maybe.

How many of these fine fed hogs made it to market & who enjoyed this fine pork chop fed & raised in such fine conditions? The next time you enjoy a glass of $3 a gallon milk with your $10 pork chop you can be greatful your tax $ is paying for inspections never done while paying representatives elected through campaign finance from contributions from Agri corruption. Got milk? How much of your tax went to the $280 billion farm bill, USDA, & FDA for inspections never done?

Gov. Otter is asking for ideas while our representatives are day to day in bailing out Fannie & Freddie, Social Security is front page until after the election again. Now for some reason our representatives with a 9% approval rating are asking for ideas on a city, county, & state level? The big dogs in DC however have it all under control? Why is America is the sad state it is if everything is going so great?

I don't kick government to do America harm. I'm trying to give average Americans who go to Iraq & Afghanistan a little say in government besides voting for someone they can later give a 9% approval rating. I suggest we be allowed the opportunity to bring ideas to table while some suggest is why government, politicians we elect make decisions. I guess I was wrong in understanding the pitch by some, supporting politicians through voting because those politicians were saying what some wanted to hear but now they are doing something else. People vote them in because they are going to do what these people want but these people don't want them to make decisions until they know what the same people who voted them in wanted? It's all a little confusing & contridicting unless you realize, well I'll leave it up to the imagination.

I'd like to say that roads aren't an issue but the infrastructure, America's roads, rail, electrical grid, & so on have been in the news, common knowledge in fact, in need of funding for years. $2 trillion in need of funding isn't an issue to some people? Fix it today or fix it tommorrow at higher prices? I sould have confidence in decisions or ideas made by people who voted these politicians into offce? How would someone who voted for these for clowns who can't find $240 million for roads, have any idea as to the condition of our infrastructure?

Building hundreds of thousands of houses through loans from banks, in neighborhoods with no roads or electrical grid to support the development? What did the banks do with all the money they made? Buy a politicians through campaign finance? I imagine we'll read a lot more about crooked developers than crooked politicians.

Substations are suddenly popping up years after developments & Idaho Power wants to raise rates? Foreclosures are a year in the works with banking in trouble, seems a little backwards. Building four lane roads in the same neigborhoods where new houses sit empty while new houses go up next to them makes sense?

Whatever you do, don't say anything. Someone who fought for your rights will suggest you haven't the right. If you have any ideas, keep them to yourself until things get so bad the people we elect to make decisions, ask for your ideas. I wonder if they will be taking a cut in pay since they can't get the job done? Their pockets are already lined with campaign contributions & the next development is in the works. Doesn't matter that the road or electrical grid isn't finished where the last development has 100 empty houses. Somebody is still making bank & somebody is bailing out the bank.

Government, corporate unAmerica, & agri corruption won't be happy until every individual taxpayer is strapped. Gov. Otter still wants to raise vehicle registration. How many truckers have gone broke & who does the Gov. think is going to pay those taxes when the rates to bring food to the table is shifted from registration taxes to consumer?

The truth in the $280 billion farm bill is that corporate farms making big money aren't paying break even money to carriers who go broke, leaving fewer carriers to choose from. When there are so few truckers that corporate farms have to pay rates gouging the coprorate farm, the cost of food will go up & the consumer will pay. Add sales tax to the tax $ paid for the $280 billion farm bill & what do you get? It won't be money for roads. Government needs to put some people in the business of transportation who know transportation.

Asking how to do the job I vote for people to do, after they're in office is why I voted for them. People who had millions of $ contributed to their campaign & handed out favors in retrun are responsible for this mess & it's time for accountability.

When we stop electing our representatives on campaign finance resulting in the buddy plan like appointees in the Idaho Tax Commission, we'll have an infrastructure capable of handling the needs. When we stop the corporate welfare & favors in return for campaign finance we'll have money for roads. When we hold the people we elect responsible for their failure instead of giving them suggestions on how to do the job we elected them to do after they fail, we'll have an infrastructure in place before houses & failing banks.

Suggesting our representatives are getting the job done is about as far from the truth as Gov. Otter being a Texas Ranger, except in his own mind. Why are they asking for suggestions if they are getting the job done?

So your whole point here is that Governor Otter should NOT be meeting with the people to discuss Idaho's roads because he is unfulfilled as a Texas Ranger, failed us in Nebraska, appointed buddies to the Tax Commission, swindled us with the Farm Bill, hasn't maintained our grid, and did something wrong with hogs in Viet Nam?

When I saw you excessively long post I was hoping for some thoughts and substance...

What would you have Otter do? Not what should he have done...that's pigs under the bridge...but now, today, should he take the road discussion to the people or should he hide in the Capitol and spring a plan on us in January? Your call.

enjoy that rodeo!

Mr. Greyghost, you just have the facts all wrong. You can't say that Bush sorta said, and then compare with what Obama sorta said.

Government is more complicated than that. Senator Obama has said that he would meet with the President of Iran, or any foreign leader, without "pre-conditions," and without numerous other standard State Department particulars and bona fides.

That remains very different from President Bush's position, and in fact very different from Hillary Clinton's position.

Just like with Bush's press conference where he discussed the economy, banking, our monetary system, etc., I think you generalize dangerously on what is said, and then tend to write on what is just not accurate.

This is not to say that Bush or Obama is right or wrong - that is an opinion, but their stated and official positions are documented.

I didn't know they were doing vasectomies in 59. I wonder who the father of the kids are. Mama's baby, papa's maybe.
If only the teacher had stepped in, no clipping?

Okay, energizer bunny, two in one, goodness, gracious, oh my, code, appoligizes never given or accepted? This your brain on life, over & over & over. Can't keep up, take notes.

That's funny & still no clue? Which shell is the pea under?
Raise taxes to pay for roads & we'll know. It's what happens when you get? Forgetful, no wait, I remember 59 but not 78, or was it 87 but not 95? Those are highways. Better get some rest, it's mid afternoon & you can't possibly understand until after your nap. Go ahead & try.

It's a weekend, enjoy it no matter how much big brother stinks it up.

At this point for my experience I would recommend anybody but UPS but I have one more Pioneer and they have it too.

has nothing to say about the name I'm being called yet goes off the deep end as to why I wouldn't respond to the load of crap beng asked? Who responded to who? Shorts all bunched up again? Is your little friend taking a beating, needs some support?

Are these two people really just one person or maybe sitting side by side, holding hands? Always have to run to each other in support or crawl to someone else for support. I see all kinds of names on this blog, go for it. Just depends on you they're after.

Maybe, just maybe, goodness gracious, oh my, & all the rest of the nice language, the same by both so afraid of name calling, is just a put on? Can't take a joke & when someone kicks either of them around, the other comes a running.

Anybody can see you're being baited & going for it. Leave it alone & it goes away. Scratch every bite not realizing it only ithces worse the more you scratch. Claimed he would quit posting responses & here he is? There is a name for that as well.

Let's hear it. Which one will it be next? How about a duet, as if we haven't already had one? Stir it up & run for help.
Veterans, veterans, you made a joke about them & I'm telling. Most verterans would laugh.

I appoligized when he went over the edge last time so as to prevent something terrible from happening yet he keeps coming back for more. Go ahead & freak out, nobody cares.
If he shoots himself or somebody else, the Statesman should have seen it coming, I did.

Insulted veterans? Just one guy who claims to be a veteran yet runs for help when he can't take a joke. We now know why Bush hasn't sent out the invitation.

Nobody owes an explanation knowing it never would reach the mind of sane person. As if the guy answers any questions asked of him.

Does anybody know who Col. Mosby is? Is this a trick question involving Moby Dick? I don't know the guy & don't recall ever having any interest. Where does this stuff come from?

Names? Why would this guy get exited about something between two other people on a blog? Is it really just one guy, the same guy? A lot of similarities, goodness gracious, oh my, & a list perpetual. I guess he didn't like the line about holding hands or was it the depends again?

I guess everybody doesn't answer to the major anymore & he has a tough time adjusting. Maybe someone should explain that just because he served in the military, so he says, he doesn't have the right to tell US citizens what to do, not do, or how to think. There is a differnce. Fighting for our freedom & rights doesn't then give the power to tell US what our rights are because he served.

Good for the major if he thinks he stopped communism in Vietnam, dream on about stopping terror. I imagine the major
is already writing a vitory speech on Iraq for Bush in hopes for a pat on the back, atta boy. Major fighting is over, again. No doubt thought Bush was referring to the major himself the first time Bush claimed major fighting was over. As if it were victory with our one & only deserving credit.
Good thing for depends.

No American should answer to just any major disappointment who demands we should. Who does the major think he is?

You ARE kidding, right? Of course he asked you about Mosby.

Mosby was "the Grey Ghost." You don't even know your namesake from U.S. history?

Col. John Singleton Mosby of Mosby's Rangers (or Mosby's Raiders) in the Civil War - I think they fought mostly in the Shenandoah valley.

He was called the Grey Ghost because he would hit and disappear. The grey part was because he was in the Confederate Army...and they wore grey uniforms.

Mosby was a bit like Francis Marion - the Swamp Fox, but I may have wasted my time telling you about him...

Wow, I'm remembering history classes and test questions now from decades ago.

Ghostie, who the heck is the "major" you are writing about? What rights has he told you about that you have because he served? Your writing is pretty confusing you know...

You have read Moby Dick, now haven't you?

The major knew I raised Weims from a previous post & I think I mentioned having the name over twenty years. Might be a namesake if Mosby was where I got it, but that isn't the case. Jumping to conclusions? When you can suddenly read somebodies else's mind, you'll be in the money. Until then try to control yourself.

You ARE kidding, right. Bet you had to change shorts after that.

How many people cared when Mosby was mentioned & who the major was referring to? I didn't & suddenly it is of some major importance? Not. I asked, my bad. I should have known it would have you both changing shorts, ---- all over yoursleves again.

Maybe Mosby matters to you but I could still give a rat's
---. Mosby can be your grey ghost but he's not mine, never was, never will be. Mosby was no hero of mine, never stood out in history as far as I was concerned, why would I think about him?

The Civil War happened way back before 1978 yet from what I understand 1978 was so long ago it doesn't matter. If history is so important then why only when it pertains to what you or the major suggest? Was 1978 just a bad year or was it because I mentioned it? We can leave it out of history all together you feel the need. Banking scandals of the eighties happened in Nebraska even though someone tried to stop it in 1978. I suppose we can say iot never happened, never learned from it so I guess it is forgotten.

Banking scandals in the eighties don't matter when banking is in the news everyday in 2008? Bear Stearns, Fannie & Freddie? The economy, fuel prices, foreclosures, & indictments but banking doesn't matter? The Civil War does because of some guy called the grey ghost who you think is my namesake?

Why would the Civil War matter when history in the making doesn't? Are we suddenly going to get into the slave trade again? Did Montana break away from the union? I didn't claim to be Mosby so why would you assume? Just because somebody else thought about Mosby the rest of the world is wrong in not remembering. You didn't.

Your words,

Wow, I'm remembering history classes and test questions now from decades ago.

You never gave a thought to who Mosby was until? I'm to understand you knew when the major asked the first time what he meant but just today:

Wow, I'm remembering history classes and test questions now from decades ago.

Why didn't you make a big deal of it sooner? I guess everybody is suppose to jump at every chance, raise their hand, & hope the teacher calls on them.

Tell me you guys aren't a little closer than the blog. Have fun with the history lessons but remember, can't rewrite it to fit your needs. Just like Vietnam, Nixon, Bush & Iraq, it's history.

You didn't know about Major Tomlin? Communism didn't take over in Vietnam thanks to Major Tomlin. He isn't going to like you anymore. Just think, someday in a hundred years, somebody will be giving some unsuspecting guy a bad time because they didn't know who Major Tomlin was & the roll he played in keeping communism out of Vietnam. We better give the Major a name like greyghost but better. I'll let you guys come up with a name, making a hero of the Major. That's funny.

Try to give it a rest. Why two people are so uptight about a joke is, well it depends. Get it, depends.