Washington 2020: The Calm Before the Drizzle

[Lunar]

Ok guys, Washington has been fully discussed.

It's complete.

Time to go home.

[Lunar]

nooooooooooooooooooooooo

[Lunar]

[Lunar]

The Washington thread continues?


State amphibian: Pacific Chorus Frog, adopted 2007
State song: "Washington, My Home", adopted 1959
State flower: Coast Rhododendron, adopted 1892
State bird: American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis), adopted 1951
State tree: Western hemlock, adopted 1947
State fish: Steelhead trout, adopted 1969
State insect: Green darner dragonfly, adopted 1997
State gem: Petrified wood, adopted 1975 [lol gay]
State fruit: Apple, adopted 1989
State grass: Bluebunch wheatgrass (Agropyron spicatum), adopted 1989
State tartan: one designed by Margaret McLeod van Nus and Frank Cannonita, adopted 1991
State fossil: Columbian mammoth or Mammuthus columbi, adopted 1998
State folk song: "Roll On, Columbia" adopted 1987
State ship: the Lady Washington, adopted 2007 (previously the container ship President Washington, adopted 1983)
State dance: Square dance, adopted 1979 [gay x 2]
State vegetable: Walla Walla Sweet Onion, adopted 2007 [gay x 3]
State Marine Mammal: Orca, adopted 2007 [anti-gay, so you're down to x 2 now]

[Lunar]

why do you like fourth graders so much pedophile?

[Lunar]

oh wait, I answered my own question

btw potatoes are really starchy and shouldn't count as vegetables.  but i do love them more than I love my legs (see flag).  Should we have a square dance to settle this?

[Lunar]

I don't understand that but it sounds illegal

LET'S DANCE

[Lunar]

my elementary school taught square dancing too but it's not because some punk state made it its official dance

this thread has taken a turn for the worse, somebody should quickly change it to discussion about someone's numbers that nobody cares about

[Lunar]

somebody should quickly change it to discussion about someone's numbers that nobody cares about

the KC Election race,

thx

[Lunar]

What is your opinion on the Columbian mammoth?

[Lunar]

reminds me of Wasilla











screw Washinton

[Lunar]

Washington?

[Lunar]

Washington?

I forgot I posted that at 3:50 am.  Classic Lunar.

[Lunar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XSLfm_h1WY&feature=player_embedded#!

lol. Where does this idea that Dino Rossi is some charismatic politician come from? He is boorrring. But I guess he's still charismatic compared to Gregoire.

Um, his campaign knows that for prerecorded videos, you're allowed to do another take when the candidate screws up a word and awkwardly pauses in the middle of sentences?

[Lunar]

Anyone know how strongly Palin is going to stick by whats his face?

[Lunar]

Anyone know how strongly Palin is going to stick by whats his face?

I hear rumorz (they're spelled with a "z"because they're potentially even less credible than the "s" kind) that her people called to ask Didier to drop out...but he filed anyway, so that should be fun.  Obviously she'll be conspicuously absent.

No idea why she put her money on such an obvious losing bet, anyway

She's a bizarre one.  It pisses me off how many political reporters interpret her 20 House "targets" as something strategic, when anyone who got her actual target emails, as *cough*, I may have, knows that they were clearly identified as just the Democratic incumbents occupying McCain districts.  Yet, months later, I'm still reading stories from Politico, the source where I first read this information, talking about the calculation in these targets!   Hello, you were the people who pointed out her calculations being non-calculative?

And, of course, there's a lot of strife over her endorsement of that ex-governor who's involves some B's, R's, A's N's, D's and T's who is pretty much the OPPOSITE of everything that Sarah Palin's family values base is obsessed with.  He appointed some of those judges that legalized gay marriage in Iowa, and did other socially moderate things, but, (1) he was pretty much to be the next governor of Iowa at the time of her endorsement and (2) his family values opponent was an ally of Huckabee.  However, if Palin did have aims for 2012, would her winning coalition of caucus-goers be those who went for what's-his-face that's governor, or what's-his-face with the Dutch name that ended up losing?  My feeling is he latter.  Just like her endorsement of Fiorina.  She has this weird policy of being strategic, but not TOO strategic,  with her endorsements, which pretty much aligns with the fact that 95% of her interactions with the world are via Facebook or Twitter.

[Lunar]

A "Bryan Baird" has filed to run as an independent in WA-3. Rofl. After SC I can't help but wonder if he's a Republican plant. It would be a clever way to get both Herrera and Castillo to the general.

REJECTED.   Apparently you need to be 25 years old now to be in Congress?

[Lunar]

http://smeall.org/

Watch the video NOW

Wait, who is this woman, and does she suffer some sort of mental retardation?  I feel like I should refrain from commenting until I know the backstory. 

[Lunar]

Unless of course you are Hispanic.

I've met Latino men named Jaime too.

I don't know anything about Jaime Herrera, but what if her parents gave her the anglicized "Jaime" [Jahy-mee] as her name?  

A glance a her website shows that she pronounces it Jamie instead of "High-ma" or whatevsky

[Lunar]

My Mexican friend pronounced it high-may.

Yeah perhaps "high-may" would have been better than "high-me"

There's a Latino doorman at my office's building who's name is pronounced with the hard J (Jay-mee), I wonder if his real name is High-may?  I'm not very good at a Spanish accent, but as someone who worked for four years checking residents ID cards, I really prefer to call people by their preferred name rather than the name they tell white people to simplify things.  Oh well.

[Lunar]

I don't read this thread 'cuz it scares me, but I enjoy how Rossi is racking up all those critical endorsements, y'know, Coburn & DeMint

I wish Illinois's primary wasn't held so early, so Kirk would have had to be a right-wing partisan for 6 more months...

[Lunar]

What is that footballer being such a twat?  Rossi's not exactly a liberal

[Lunar]

It's more symbolic than anything else.

"On too many domestic and foreign policy matters, Rossi has not distinguished himself sufficiently from the Republican Party line. He has missed numerous opportunities to establish himself as a Northwest brand of Republican."

"On almost every topic, Murray is studied and has an answer. On the issue of net neutrality, which involves unfettered access to the Internet, Rossi did not have a clue, even though this issue is pressing within the tech industry."

[Lunar]

Does anyone else kinda feel bad for Dino?  Three spirited campaigns...you almost have to wonder if he had staked out claims as being an unquestionable moderate on one major issue area, how well he would have done.