The democratian: fresh from the moron zone - "Fuddy-Duddies Missed Out."

We're cursed with a clueless moronic rag of a daily newspaper in SW Washington.  Literally, a cancer on our society where they perceive their agenda and perceptions as superior to every one else's, and they attack with an effort to destroy those wise enough to disagree with their version of utopia.

As exhibit A, I offer up the rank stupidity of today's editorial where the monkey they let loose on a keyboard asks the moronic question:

What happened this year with fair attendance and primary voting?

First: fair attendance.

Folks, what we've seen here is just a glimpse of what we're GOING to see if they ever implement a toll on their masturbatory fantasy of the CRC.

Except, of course, this will be a result felt by ALL of small business in Clark County that relies on disposable income and for the same reasons: people simply cannot afford it any more, so the Fair makes the top of the "cut" list.

That $1300 per year or so that these morons want to vaporize every year?

Where do these idiots think that money is going to come from?

In answer to my own question, it's hard to say what they WILL blame:  what they WON'T blame is anything or any project THEY endorse or demand or want to ram down our throats.

Attendance is down, according to the rag, 13% from last year, "and they're not sure why."

Well, given the rag's recent bankruptcy, it's fairly clear that both numbers... and money... are constructs they haven't mastered.

First of all, the number "13%" is rather nebulous and antiseptic.  Let me spell is out:

Something on the order of 32,000 people didn't want to waste their money.

Or, in the alternative, they didn't have the money TO waste.

And the rag isn't sure why we stayed away in droves.

They stumble around, carefully avoiding the actual reasons because, well, God knows they could never bring themselves to achieve reality and tell the truth:  because, with apologies to Jimmy McMillan, "The rent is just too damned high."

If you want to have a good time at the Fair... spend the day out there... then you need to be prepared to pay something approaching Disneyland money.

And to paraphrase a famous leftist:  "Idiot who wrote this editorial, I know Disneyland.  Disneyland is a favorite place of mine. And Idiot, the Clark County Fair ain't no Disneyland."

The rag keeps repeating the lie that it's not cost in an economy with double digit unemployment as if the ONLY cost to going to this money trap was the absurd cost of parking and the massive rip off of paying $10 just to walk in.  The Cowlitz County Fair, just north of us, has FREE admission.

So, for a typical family of 4, you're out $45 just to get in past the gate.

And the idea that the only monetary consideration is the cost of admission and parking, absurdly high to begin with, didn't go up and, therefore, there was no financial reason not to go; a conclusion the rag clings to like a plank in the ocean after the Titanic sunk, a rather cold and very temporary dodge, to be sure; is as moronic as believing in their hearts that scamming us all with a ticket tax for the next two or three decades while they offer nothing in return for the bank they were going to make on the ballpark was also a great idea.

What DID go up was what vendors had to pay.  What did go up was what vendors had to sell.  What went up was the cost of everything else.

$8 for a burger?  Seriously?  For THAT?

No.

The reason for the fall-off in attendance to the fair rests with the county commissioners and the fair administration.

And no amount of spin from the rag can change any of that.

You want more people?

Ratchet back the prices.

And remember: in all of this the impacts of these prices that were such a challenge in the disposable income meme so required by small business here in Clark County is just the tip of the iceberg.

If tolls ever get implemented around here, 32,000 skipping the fair will become a drop in the bucket.

And when it comes to the vote... the lack of a presidential primary, the lackluster slate of candidates... the rag's support of fringe-left whack jobs and their rank double standard all sickened people who's attention is elsewhere.

Most of the races were between 2 people (no need to vote in the primary since they both go through to the general) or where the two main candidates were the same (The governor's race, for example, where it really doesn't matter whether Inslee (who is going to win) or McKenna win)  or where the candidates were worthless and the PCO races were a foregone conclusion.

I voted, because once you spend 5 seconds on the East German border you become genetically programmed to vote.

But for those like the moron who wrote this editorial, who have actually supported a candidate who has NEVER voted (Janet Seekins in the assessor election) to complain when others don't vote?

I dunno.  Moron doesn't quite cover it.

So, there ya have it.  The rank stupidity and self-delusion of the cancer on our society on fill display.

I will never attend the fair, prices notwithstanding, as long as they sell alcohol there.... yet another issue the rag rabidly supported.  It's the same thing.... year after year... a large waste of money... now foisted off on a populace increasingly unable to afford it.

And while I voted and always will vote... I can fully understand why Clark County came in dead last place this time around, given the lack of unbiased news coverage and the lackluster candidates.  And, because of the disappointment of RINO Rob McKenna, while obviously, more people will vote in the general, I fully expect us to be in last in turn out yet again.

Given the filth of the campaigns and the blind eye the rag turns to the leftist liars (Boldt and Probst, for example) it's just not going to be surprising.

That the rag doesn't get it?

Well, they call that "Thursday."