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By: Scotia48

Scotia48 — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:29:27 +0000

Thanks, Kate. I feel a little better today. It’s been dreadful and I just found out that a mega faire has been putting out feelers for a site around Portland to set up for next year. Maybe they had something to do with it, too, the “Perfect Storm” as it were.

By: biscuit

biscuit — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:27:54 +0000

I’m so sorry, Scotia.

They are evil, aren’t they? It’s so frustrating when they come in and pull the rug out from under events and opportunities that are nothing but good for the people.

By: Scotia48

Scotia48 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:24:23 +0000

Thanks, Kate, I don’t know but I am really sad. This “person” just used his powers to take down a festival in Western Washington that had been ongoing for 9 years. He had been overheard saying, “it just a party for a bunch of drunks”. He is known for $$$ he likes. His body language was awful, he had already made up his mind and influenced another state entity to “revisit” their favorable ruling and change it. He hated the pro-festival people. He also offered another venue that was already booked for the weekends that this would take place!!!
Politicians are EVIL!!!! I had alot invested in this. It will cost the festival owner megabucks to get back to where he was and all the vendors and entertainers that were counting on the income.
All this at a time that the county has the highest unemployment (7.5%) of the region. A $5 million influx into the county would have been helpful. All this and he is running for office this year! Stupid!

By: Kate Petersen

Kate Petersen — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:09:25 +0000

Oh, no. Is there anything we can do to help?

By: biscuit

biscuit — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:51:10 +0000

Oh no. I’ll go see what’s going on.

By: Scotia48

Scotia48 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:37:21 +0000

I’ll revisit your post, Kate. It fits right in with what happened to us yesterday. Awful stuff at the county. A double dipping man both State Senator and County Commissioner and owns LOTS of timber to harvest here took us down.

By: Scotia48

Scotia48 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:26:50 +0000

Anybody who knows mariachi mama at DailyKos needs to send her some love. She’s in a bad situation. Please!

By: biscuit

biscuit — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:39:47 +0000

Argh. Not clear. Let me restate that — he might be advocating holding things together a la Wachovia, etc.

But in terms of what we know about people over a very long period of time, he’s right.

If he’s advocating on the basis of the last, say, 75 years, he’s dead wrong. In fact, if he’s advocating on the basis of the steam engine, he’s dead wrong.

But if he’s advocating on the basis of what we know and how we can adapt newer technologies to implement that knowledge in terms of networks and cooperative behaviors and etc., he’s absolutely right.

By: biscuit

biscuit — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:37:23 +0000

He might be. I’m not certain of his underlying perspective but, in terms of what we know about humans over a very long period of time, he’s right.

By: Kate Petersen

Kate Petersen — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:32:15 +0000

Formation of networks, yes yes yes. We also need to establish universities (in the Socratic sense of a teacher on one end of a log and a student on the other) to make sure that knowledge doesn’t get lost when public libraries are no longer reachable due to distance. But that should be more along the lines of sharing/exchanging knowledge rather than one who knows it all imparting it to one who knows nothing.

There’s much I know and much I can teach, but there’s far too much that I don’t know and will need to learn.

Okay, I’m with you on the banking and transportation now. I was thinking that the writer was advocating holding together rail lines and highways and Wachovia and Lehman Brothers.