It is small and inexpensive, but offers up all sorts of options that will meet your navigation needs with amazingly great power. This unit is unique and convenient as it has a click to enter scroll wheel making it easy to select your destinations….

While our “leaders” in Congress debate expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, the voters of Oregon have resoundingly rejected a similar effort in their state. Per the WSJ:
Oregon voters passed judgment Tuesday on a plan that …

No harm no foul, Synthia. We just get mean when people attack freinds. It’s a normal response. I was probably I little less civil than I should have been (Read: I was pretty rude).

How’s this for fair and balanced: Oregon’s working poor will have to wait a while longer to get health-care coverage for their children. Voters easily defeated Measure 50, a plan to raise tobacco taxes to provide universal health care for……

On November 7th, 2007 at 1:14 pm, Hunter1262 said:
As a resident of Marion County, Oregon, it is nice to see common sense prevail. It is unusual for those of us with a conservative mindset to overcome the Socialist Republic of Portland in the political arena, so when it does occur, we celebrate.

Woo-hoo! Another Marion county resident with some sense. Too bad we didn’t have more of them in the Capitol…

In regards to rural Oregon, I spent half of my life living in Eastern Oregon, and there is nothing third world about it. It may be somewhat poor (oops, except for Bend, which has some of the most expensive real estate in the state), but people have jobs, people get by, and there is nary a town without a gas station. Eastern Oregon used to thrive, but then they built I-5 (Hwy 395 used to be the major trucking route) and then the environuts shut down the majority of logging in the state. Whole towns practically vanished because of that. Of course, there really isn’t a place in the state where you can stand and not see a tree (except parts of downtown Portland), but the environuts tell us we are running out.

Oregon is a very sane place, with islands of insanity known as Portland, Eugene, Ashland, and Salem fights back and forth. Save us from the blue!

Hope things go better for you personally. Look forward to hearing from you again.

I’ll let swj know if i see him. I’m pretty busy myself gearing up for the holiday maddness i know as family gatherings!

Take care.

I did forget one other important thing.

swj719AWG, I’m sorry for my very snippy response to your comment. Also undeserved.

I won’t be commenting for quite a while, I think — the absence related to events in my personal life — but I hope if and when I rejoin this civilized discourse, my name will not be connected with mud, but with mistake and remorse.

If swj doesn’t check back into this old thread, would one of you kind folks, when you see him on another thread, refer him back here to receive my apology?

Thanks for being understanding and forgiving.

as being part of some Malkin secret society that looks out for it’s own

We got a secret handshake and everything!

I am not part of this secret society

Your membership form is in the mail.

Not to worry. No apology necessary.

Everyone, thanks.

I take your point. And I think you’re right.

Yesterday was a terrible day for me. A new day and your comment make me realize that I did spit venom for no good reason — only to vent, and Feebs didn’t deserve it.

I do certainly know how to comment without becoming an attack dog, but I sure didn’t show that yesterday.

I’m sorry, Feebie.

And thank you, RaisedRight. I appreciate your input.