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Perhaps, Irked, the problem of perception comes from your faculties rather than from the air.
In any case, I doubt that the persona which you project on this site would find any problem with the corruptions of mega-capitalism which infect every aspect of life in Seattle.
So no specifics, then. Just a vague perception that business occurs in Seattle but not in Portland or Eugene.
How eager they are to be slaves - Tiberius Caesar
Coulda tripped out easy, but I've changed my ways - Donovan
After we finish this discussion, perhaps we can agree upon where is the center of the universe..... I nominate where ever I happen to be at the moment
"It's not a lie if you believe it." -- George Costanza The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. --Bertrand Russel
After we finish this discussion, perhaps we can agree upon where is the center of the universe..... I nominate where ever I happen to be at the moment
Apparently, Ardy, you agree with the heretical opinions of Giordano Bruno, who wrote :
“We can state with certainty that the universe is all center, or that the center of the universe is everywhere and the circumference nowhere”
Being less pliable than Galileo, he was burnt at the stake for this blasphemy, having been handed over to the secular arm by the Church, which, of course, recommended mercy. · ·
How lucky you are, Ardy, that you do not live in those times !!
Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam (Perhaps you pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it)
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them." Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month." Dostoevsky
In a city that is often derided for its lack for public transportation, downtown L.A. is the one exception.
The city center has light-rail lines, a subway, a maze of bus routes and shuttles, links to commuter rail and even a tiny funicular that trudges up and down Bunker Hill.
But many residents and developers say that it can still be difficult to get around the far-flung city center without a car. So urban planners and downtown boosters have spent considerable time on what may have once been considered impossible: creating a truly car-optional neighborhood in the center of a region defined by its car culture.
Voters in downtown Los Angeles this week approved key financing for a $125-million streetcar project that might finally put this theory to the test. The streetcar would run mainly along Broadway, and Hill and Figueroa streets, three of downtown's main arteries, connecting various neighbors, including the old banking district, South Park, Civic Center and the fashion district.
Oh...all right. We'll gerrymander the Lakewood Bl corridor (Downey to Long Beach) into the new NorCal.
Today, the Dem Super-majority began their first day of work. First order of business: Prop 13
The Rethugs have been marginalized to the position of teets on a bore - useless.
There nothing they can do to stop any legislation which comes from Sacto-Cow-Town. Heck, they don't even need to show up to work for two years. Whether Rethugs show up or not - the results will be exactly the same: steamroll
Heck, they don't even need to show up to work for two years. Whether Rethugs show up or not - the results will be exactly the same: steamroll
I don't think Democrats are quite so regimented as to vote en bloc against anything a Republican suggests, and for anything a Democrat suggests (like what we have seen Republicans do in the US Congress).
If a Republican introduces a bill that some Democrats in the state legislature see as a good idea, then I think those Democrats will probably vote for it. So Republicans still have the same basic power as any member of a governing assembly: The power to persuade other members to vote for their bills.
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