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It's too bad that Michigan's MSM are so pathetic: none of them has picked up on this. But they've done a bang-up job of protecting Tiger fans from scalped tickets. Ugh.
John McCain's Straight Talk Express runs on fossil fuels.
by Dump Terry McAuliffe on Sun Nov 05, 2006 at 10:35:16 PM PDT
how conservatives are protected from the shark-feeding-frenzy destruction by the MSM?
I mean, if Cynthia McKinney says something that when you take it out of context sounds a little "off", they crucify her.
When Ward Connerly says "God Bless the KKK!" he gets to keep his $1 million salary and benefits of being in charge of the Wingnut Institute of Race Relations.
Kerry botches a joke about Bush, and he has to apologize and cower. Bush makes a joke about (ha! ha!) not finding the WMDs for which 650,000 have now lost their lives, and he goes right along being President, no apology required.
I hate the double standard! Connerly should be publicly humiliated over his statement.
Our current healthcare system is simple. Don't get sick.
by tiggers thotful spot on Sun Nov 05, 2006 at 10:39:57 PM PDT
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The no-on-2 forces have made a big issue of "out-of-state" and "California" forces trying to force their agenda on Michiganders. Believe it or not, "out of state" is a major no-no in Michigan politics.
by Dump Terry McAuliffe on Sun Nov 05, 2006 at 11:16:22 PM PDT
wish that "out-of-state" could be a major no-no everywhere... we have our Prop 90 which is backed by another Wingnut, Howard Rich
http://www.thenation.com/... You won't find Rich's name on any official political contribution records. The estimated $11 million to $14 million he's kicked in (so far) for state initiative campaigns in Arizona, California, Idaho, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon and Washington comes through a cluster of organizations almost as obscure as he is... But if this is some cross between self-effacement and stealth, the measures he's bankrolling are mostly stealth. California's Proposition 90, the Protect Our Homes Initiative on the November ballot, is advertised as a way to stop state and local governments from seizing private property by eminent domain and delivering it to private developers. ... In fact Proposition 90, like similar measures in Arizona, Idaho, Nevada and Washington, is a Trojan horse. Its major target has nothing to do with Kelo or eminent domain. It's aimed at "takings"--the alleged depreciation of property values through land-use regulations for any purpose but health or safety... In effect, Proposition 90 and its siblings, which are opposed by a wide array of cities, counties and planning and environmental groups, would all but close the door to most future environmental and land-use controls... Of the roughly $3.7 million raised so far for Proposition 90, much of it to pay signature-gathering firms, only a small fraction comes from within California. The rest, some $3.4 million, has come from the Fund for Democracy, Montanans in Action, Club for Growth State Action, Colorado At Its Best and Americans for Limited Government. In Arizona, Rich's Fund for Democracy and Americans for Limited Government have so far kicked in $1.1 million. In Idaho, the total is $412,000. In Missouri, where the petitions were ruled invalid, the Rich groups spent $2.3 million on the effort. In Washington the total so far is $260,000. In Montana a state judge ruled that petitions for three Rich measures were gathered through "deceit, fraud and procedural noncompliance."
http://www.thenation.com/...
You won't find Rich's name on any official political contribution records. The estimated $11 million to $14 million he's kicked in (so far) for state initiative campaigns in Arizona, California, Idaho, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon and Washington comes through a cluster of organizations almost as obscure as he is...
But if this is some cross between self-effacement and stealth, the measures he's bankrolling are mostly stealth. California's Proposition 90, the Protect Our Homes Initiative on the November ballot, is advertised as a way to stop state and local governments from seizing private property by eminent domain and delivering it to private developers.
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In fact Proposition 90, like similar measures in Arizona, Idaho, Nevada and Washington, is a Trojan horse. Its major target has nothing to do with Kelo or eminent domain. It's aimed at "takings"--the alleged depreciation of property values through land-use regulations for any purpose but health or safety...
In effect, Proposition 90 and its siblings, which are opposed by a wide array of cities, counties and planning and environmental groups, would all but close the door to most future environmental and land-use controls...
Of the roughly $3.7 million raised so far for Proposition 90, much of it to pay signature-gathering firms, only a small fraction comes from within California. The rest, some $3.4 million, has come from the Fund for Democracy, Montanans in Action, Club for Growth State Action, Colorado At Its Best and Americans for Limited Government. In Arizona, Rich's Fund for Democracy and Americans for Limited Government have so far kicked in $1.1 million. In Idaho, the total is $412,000. In Missouri, where the petitions were ruled invalid, the Rich groups spent $2.3 million on the effort. In Washington the total so far is $260,000. In Montana a state judge ruled that petitions for three Rich measures were gathered through "deceit, fraud and procedural noncompliance."
by tiggers thotful spot on Sun Nov 05, 2006 at 11:20:25 PM PDT
You're surely aware of Oregon's Measure 37, and what has happened there. Prop 90 is at least as bad, if not worse.
by Dump Terry McAuliffe on Sun Nov 05, 2006 at 11:22:59 PM PDT
I'm hoping the voters see through it, like they mostly did with Ahnold Gropenator's evil special election.
But it's hard to know what will happen on Tuesday.
Prop 87 was leading, but every third radio commercial I hear is sponsored by Chevron, and now Prop 87 is trailing. Propaganda works. Goebbels could have gotten a job with a PR firm.
by tiggers thotful spot on Sun Nov 05, 2006 at 11:24:54 PM PDT
In Michigan we have one of these "eminent domain" ballot measures, I believe it's Prop 5 if memory serves. Do you know if it is also about takings, and interfering with future environmental programs?
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
by dconrad on Mon Nov 06, 2006 at 03:34:39 PM PDT
wide narrow
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