Sorry for the delay in new posting.  But, here's some news...you're not getting much today either. 

 

Celebrated my 30th Birthday this weekend.  The gang came over and played ROCK BAND until 5 in the morning.  I'm sure our neighbors loved us.  Also, work is kicking my butt, so it may be a few more days before a longer post.

 

So, in the meantime, I want to introduce you to 2 things.

 

1: A new artist I am very much enjoying named Charlotte Martin.  Here's a video.  Kinda has a Tori Amos sound without all the femanist hoopla (which is fine, but irritating after my wife has played it 8000 times).  My current favorite song by Charlotte is called "Cut the Chord."  There isn't a video for it (there are come crappy bootlegs on YouTube) but you can find the song online.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So…I just finished watching DOA: Dead or Alive.  This is one of the greatest movies I have seen in my life starring one of the Greatest Actors EVER:  Eric Roberts!

 

Seriously, though…while American Beauty it is not…DOA was actually not bad.  If you’re interested in watching it, you need to go in with the sole intention of having fun.  Because, if you’re looking for a great script, great acting or stellar fight scenes, this isn’t the place to be.  I mean, it is based on a video game, after all. 

 

If you’re looking for Hot chicks duking it out in bikinis while trying to foil the plans of a villain played by the greatest actor EVER, Eric Roberts, this is the movie for you. 

 

DOA was rather enjoyable with all this in mind.  I don’t think it was designed or marketed as an Oscar winner.  It’s full of babes kicking ass and playing volleyball.  Jamie Pressley is hot.  And, just like in the game, Christie is smokin’.  Top this off with the superb thespian talents of the greatest actor EVER, Eric Roberts, and, you have the perfect movie to watch on a plane ride to Chicago while sitting next to a woman who obviously thinks you’re some kind of chauvinistic pig to be watching this movie in public.  (Did I mention that I finished the movie while on a plane to Chicago while sitting next to a woman that obviously thinks I’m some kind of chauvinistic pig for watching this movie in public?

 

Did I mention that DOA has hot chicks kicking ass in bikinis?  Did I mention that Eric Roberts SUCKS?

 

   

Just about every anti-tax issue on the ballot this year appears to be passing, at this point.

 

The Roads and Transit (RAT) tax is failing miserably.

Voters want to keep the 2/3 vote to raise taxes in general.

and...

Voters want to keep the super majority to raise taxes for schools.

 

What does all this mean?  Does it mean that we love congestion and hate children?  I don't think so.  I think it means that we are tired of a bunch of incompetent boobs continually asking us to give more and give more and give more, but not see any results.  The Roads and Transit initiative would take 50 years to complete.  And, in the interim, traffic would still be awful.  The schools are always asking for more money to pay teachers more and to shrink class sizes.  But, each time they are given more money by the tax payers, the schools fail to perform to expectations. 

 

I am going to quickly turn this into a stump speech for Dino Rossi, I think. 

 

Washington needs change in a big way.  A BIG way.  Olympia has been more of the same since 1980...long before I even got here.  I have never known a fiscally conservative Washington State.  We have a Democrat Governor, a strong Democrat majority Legislature, and a very Liberally leaning Court.  A one party monopoly is ALWAYS bad.  Washingtonians realized this when it came to the Federal Government.  When all 3 branches were controlled by Republicans at the Federal level, Washington State worked to get more Dems in Federal office.  Why can't they see the problem is exactly the same at the State level?  Particularly in the Puget Sound region, which is over half of the population of the State, there is such a hatred of Republicans (thanks to our wonderful President) that they don't care who is running.  If there is an R after their name, forget it.

 

In the last 4 years since Governor Gregoire took over, taxes have skyrocketed even higher than the insane amounts they were at before (don't let the fact that we have no income tax fool you...our property taxes are ridiculous), our schools have had even more money thrown at them only to produce even worse results, initiatives passed by the people in election were disregarded by the legislature who went ahead and passed their own version of the same thing (gas tax), and...traffic still sucks and the Alaskan Way Viaduct and 520 are still crumbling.  More of the same.

 

We have 2 years to go.  I am not saying that we need a flush of everything.  But, we do need a strong change.  It's been over 20 years since there has been a Republican governor in Olympia.  Christine Gregoire is a 32 year bureaucrat.  It's time for her to go.  It's time for someone to come in and say, "This is dumb, this is dumb, and this is dumb.  Stop doing them."  It's time for Washingtonians to realize that not every Republican is George W. Bush. 

 

The election results aren't due to low voter turnout, like many people will try to make you believe.  It's because we're sick of spending more and not seeing results.  The State gets enough money from the tax payers.  Start making what you already get work, and then we'll think about giving you more. 

 

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ADDITION:  Here is an example of what I am talking about regarding the Puget Sound region and any one with an R by his name. 

As of 9:00 this morning:

King County prosecutor

Dan Satterberg - R (I)	54%
Bill Sherman - D	46%

 

Dan Satterberg is a clearly more experienced candidate, working for years under beloved King County proscuter, Norm Maleng.  He has filled the post since Maleng's death and has even vowed to work to make the prosecutor position a NON-PARTISAN elected position.

Bill Scatterberg has never tried a murder case, has served most of his career is advisory positions to Democratic candidates, and is running on the platform of "I am a Democrat and Satterberg is a Republican." 

 

There is no reason why this particular runoff hasn't been decided already.  AND...the margin should be much bigger.  "Because I'm a Democrat" should never be a reason to elect someone. 

 

 

Every year, I get annoyed at Halloween.  Why is that, Jason?  Well...I'm going to tell you.

 

Halloween is one of two things.  Either is A) a froofy little holiday where kids can dress up like scary little monsters and make grandma and grandpa oogle at how cute they are just before going out and mooching sweets off the neighbors a few nights after their parents got hammered at the house up the street...or B) it's a time for people to worship the devil and drink blood and stuff. 

 

What Halloween in NOT, in my opinion, is a time for teenagers to act like idiots while spoiling the fun of the little ones. 

So...after yet another year of getting pissed off at the 14 year olds who think it's okay to come to my house without a costume and stick their backpack in my face without even using the magic words...I now present: