Propaganda Minister Carney blows it again:

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From the Joseph Goebbels file so beloved by our president:

THURSDAY: OBAMA: 'We believe the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines'...

TUESDAY: Q: 'There's a draft of the speech floating around that says the president will urge Israel to withdraw to the pre-1967 borders'...

CARNEY: 'That report is completely false'...

Why is this not surprising?
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Will Stuart and Boldt sell us out on the ballpark? Of COURSE they will.

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So, the ballparkers have been busily working behind our backs to jam this crap down our throats so we get to pay for their special deal. The split? 99% of us get to pay for a ballpark usable by 1%. 100% of us bear the responsibility for paying for this crap pile if Portland gets another AAA team... and all for the privilege of watching just barely out of high school baseball, baseball that people don't watch now at any of the schools in question.

We get to build this $23 million facility; they get to pay around $750 or so every day they play in it. That's "fair," isn't it?

Stuart and Boldt, who vote together 100% of the time like the good democrats they are, will certainly screw us, just like Stuart did when he lied about a vote on loot rail as part of his "Leavittesque" campaign strategy, wherein, like Leavitt, he would say or do anything to get elected, only to forget all about his promises the day after.

So now, we're confronted with this: will these two, with their proven lack of integrity, sell us out so Stuart and Bomar can watch baseball?

Will they jack the tax up beyond 5% so that all the other groups can suck out our tax dollars, all under the guise of the "public good?"

Absolutely. Expect this 5% to magically increase in order to shut the many other groups, much more deserving, up. In fact, I wouldn't at all be surprised if this scam was entirely to finance THOSE groups because, as we should all know by now, the primary purpose of all of this is to jam Yakima into selling THEIR soul to keep the team... a feat I sincerely hope they accomplish.

But if the Bobbsey Twins jam us with this tax; since there is no way Mielke will go along with them, hanging THEM out to dry, for once, instead of their usual course of the other way around; will it go away if the team stays in Yakima?

You know better then that.

So, when the vote takes place, expect Boldt to vote like he always does: democrat.... ramming yet another tax (this is certainly not the only one) down our throats.
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Best picture of the last TWO years:

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Dear Yakima: You're kidding, right? (Do us a favor and PLEASE keep your baseball team.)

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Dear Yakima,

My name is K.J. Hinton and I am one of the increasingly unfortunate to live in Clark County.

We have a wide variety of problems here with non-responsive government.  Our services are suffering, our cultural organizations which have , in many cases, existed for decades are going under, and those leading us have tin ears almost as well developed as the President, if that's possible.

Lately, the more gullible, including the mayor of Vancouver and at least one of out county commissioners, have been sucked into the baseball team's scam of playing one community off of another.  These people have gone so far as to demand that we tax movie tickets to support a ballpark that less then 1% of the people of Clark County could ever use at any one time... while 99% of us are on the hook to pay for it... and these people pay roughly $750 per game to use this $23 million facility.

In our county, where double digit unemployment is the norm, that kind of insanity cannot stand.

While the people of Clark County have many needs, kowtowing to special interests and the select few with a baseball fetish who somehow believe they have the right to ram this tax down our throat without our permission under some bizarre concept of "governance" and the "public good." 

Of course, those justifications could apply to ANY business coming here, yet oddly, that scam hasn't been tried to bring in, say, Boeing, or Ford or any other manufacturer, proving once again that this is the act of a select few who view themselves "privileged" to use us as serfs so they can have the game fields they want built, which will do absolutely nothing for this community as a whole and put the entire county on the hook for when these people screw us, as if they were dictators and more then the special interests of the downtown mafia.

This "let them eat cake" attitude is why I cordially detest and despise those governing us.

So, do us all a favor, and do whatever it takes to keep the team where you are.  And while you're at it, come and get these despicable characters shilling this crap.  Because if they truly believe that baseball is all that, then they surely would want to live where this barely above little league ball is played, sparing us their peculiar vision of empire building.

Sincerely,

Me.

Obama: I'm an idiot on the Middle East.

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It's unfortunate that my Cavalier Spaniel has a better grasp of politics and strategy in the Middle East then our own president.

The idea that Israel must return to it's 1967 borders makes as much sense as telling our people that we have to return to the pre-Jefferson Purchase boundaries of 1803.

There are so many ways the president has blown it.  While he did, finally, get past his indecision and give the word for special ops to take out Obama, in almost every other area he's been a full-blown screw up.

He screwed up Libya by missing his opportunity to get rid of Ghadaffi, he's screwed up generally by implementing a rank double standard (Where's our no-fly zone over Syria, again?) and now, he's completely f$%ked it up in Israel.

I'm sure, by now, the Israeli ambassador has told the Empty Suit to get bent.  At it's narrowest point, Israel is 9 miles wide based on the 67 borders.  Israel has given up tens of thousands of square miles of land in the abortive search for peace... having given up the Sinai, and the Gaza Strip, in fact, having undergone continuing attacks from Gaza ever since.

It would be political and military suicide for Israel to accede to Obama's clueless demands, and hopefully, Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will tell him, ever so diplomatically, to drop dead.
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