Thursday's Show Plan 11/20/2008
Quickpoll: What ideas do you have to deal with the State’s budget deficit? Cut non essential spending, privatize, no pay increases, layoffs, voluntary furloughs, 4 day workweek?
Founders Quote: "It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives."
—John Adams, Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756
What’s wrong with Oregon’s voters? They now have elected the nation’s first “transvestite mayor” and now a convicted felon as a mayor! http://www.dhonline.com/articles/2008/11/19/news/local/5aaa02_sodaville.txt
Is the deepening Oregon recession an opportunity to implement government efficiency programs? The overspending legislature’s chickens come home to roost as the state’s revenue forecast takes a nosedive. Of course the lobbyists are scrambling to make sure their ox doesn’t get gored with the necessary reduction in spending. So how do you fairly apply future spending increase reductions? In reality, the state still has more to spend than it did last budget, or does it? http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/recession_slices_1_billion_fro.html
Portland Trib: http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=122712357824689900
Predictable Oregonian editorial response: Doom, gloom and wailing. http://www.oregonlive.com/editorials/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/editorial/122714431415990.xml&coll=7
WA state’s hole even bigger: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008413282_staterevenue20m.html
Possible Constitutional Crisis: US Supreme’s to take up issue of Obama’s citizenship in private conference. Many state lawsuits now on this issue. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=81484
Portland considering a leaf tax? You’ve got to be kidding! If it moves, tax it! A leaf district? What is this anyway, an April Fool’s joke? http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/portland_considers_leaf_tax_to.html
Are the Columbia county citizen passed anti illegal alien initiatives legal? The County Commissioners ask a court to decide. http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=122711405275570500
Automaker bailout: Bad showing by auto execs leads to bailout bill being pulled from the docket for the moment: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=39639
Oregonians are driving less in spite of lower gas prices, leading to less gas tax revenue. Should we privatize and toll some roads? http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2008/11/americans_oregonians_continued.html
Congrats: Willamette U’s Richard Ellis is Oregon’s “professor of the year” http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/willanmette_university_politic.html
Global Warming Madness update: UN Climate official urging individual state action on CO2 in the midst of a bad recession: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CA_SCHWARZENEGGER_SUMMIT_OROL-?SITE=ORALB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Jobs win over the environment: http://www.oregoncatalyst.com/index.php?/archives/1873-Poll-Jobs-wins-over-environment.html
This Day in American History: The famous Cal/Stanford game where the marching band took the field and helped win the game: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=57500
Offbeat:
Flight attendant helps land Air Canada 767 after co pilot has mental breakdown: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/steward--helped-to-land-plane-as-copilot-restrained-1546207.html
Indiana inmates sneak through ceiling to have sex: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_JAIL_SEX?SITE=ORALB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
NC undercover cops use taser of pallbearer at his father’s funeral: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FUNERAL_TASER?SITE=ORALB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Today’s stupid criminal award: Rapper gets 20 years for writing shooting song? http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_RAPPER_SENTENCED?SITE=ORALB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
