This week we interviewed Peter Goldmark, a Democrat running for Commissioner of public lands. Dr Goldmark is a well educated man who is also a farmer/rancher from Okanogan in eastern Washington. You can read about Peter’s background and experience HERE. Dr Goldmark is a soft-spoken man,very knowledgeable and experienced in how to best manage our state’s varied and complex issues. From sustainable farm and logging practices to water quality and shoreline protection, Dr Goldmark is absolutely the right choice for this most important position. If there were ever any doubt as to the consequences  of allowing a big corporation to engage in dangerous practices, HERE is one story.

There is a delicate balance between regulating business out of business and allowing safe and sustainable practices that allow commerce to flourish. No one understands this concept better than a farmer. We have interviewed a lot of elected officials and folks running for office. Dr Goldmark is one who knows the issues AND knows how to address those issues. The citizens of this state would be lucky to have a guy like him managing their land. He’s an impressive guy, we urge you to listen to what he has to say HERE, and judge for yourself.

Phil Gramm has brought our country to it’s knees. (No porn-pun intended) He has single-handedly disemboweled all regulatory control over the energy markets, which brought us the Enron debacle and our currant oil crisis. He was instrumental in the process that is responsible for the mortgage crisis and the resulting death of real estate and the daily failure of our nation’s biggest banks. Read about it HERE.

After HE caused all of THAT, millions of Americans are suffering the loss of their houses, their jobs and their ability to travel to look for NEW jobs, “flatulent-phil” accuses US of being a nation of whiners. OH, and we’re all mental cases. All the economic disaster we all face (but not HIM, WE taxpayers will bail HIS banking customers out) is all in our heads.  Ya see? Phil and the bush family and all the rest of the leeches who we will never hear about that are actually PROFITING from this global economic disaster HE is responsible for claim to be more MORAL than the rest of us. After all, GAWD MUST want them to be rich because they are morally,genetically and racially superior to us hoard of unwashed masses who will pick up the tab for them.It turns out that old moral phil invested in a couple of pornographic stroke movies. Read about it HERE. But you will notice that the titles are MORAL because they are about good American truckers and *gag* the nixon white house. PRAISE JESUS!!!

Even someone as tone-deaf and stupid as old blinky McCAin is trying to distance his stumbling campaign from this monster. JEEZE, who’s next john? He has jettisoned half of the lobbyists from his staff at least in public. We can all rest assured that IF the media and corporate America (there’s a difference???) get their way, leeches like gramm will be in positions of power to finish off what’s left of our once-proud and great nation. GAWD help us, THEY won’t.

Is John McCain tongue tied, stupid or senile and is it contagious? Watch as old John is questioned by a woman reporter about a vote on birth control and ED treatments. He blinks, stammers, and looks like he’s trying to pull his lips off. And he told her he certainly doesn’t want to talk about THAT issue. Then he mentions a country that hasn’t existed for a long time….TWICE in as many days. His supporters seem to have the same problem forming a cogent sentence when describing his policies. So, is it straight talk or babble? YOU decide.

No, I’m serious. What DOES he stand for? When you SEE him on TV, what crosses your mind? THIS is what crosses MY mind when I see him chopping the air with his hands or smiling without changing his eyes at weird times when he’s botching his lines. I also think of THIS as he flops around like a fish on a dock. So, to those of you who are inspired by this man, what IS it? What makes you support him and which position on which issue at which time does it for you? I’m serious.

Aside from the Brots and burgers, the mattress sales and the drunken pyrotechnics July fourth also is a day we celebrate the signing of the document that shook the world. Our forefathers broke ties with the kingdom who ruled them and at great personal peril. The second they signed the parchment they were traitors who could be hanged.They were brave and bold men who cherished their liberty and fought for it with a zeal that impressed the world. Most of the original signers wound up dead or died in abject poverty without ever seeing their families again.

In this day of instant gratification, we think we are making a grand sacrifice if we walk to the store once in a while. We suffer the shredding of our constitution and take solace by watching our TVs as the talking heads tell us that as long as we do what we are told, we will be safe. We cower at the prospect of bearded brown people killing us in our sleep and sacrifice our liberty and freedom as we sit behind deadbolt locks gripping our guns and waiting….waiting for the attack our leaders keep telling us could happen at any second despite the their professed superior ability to keep us safe. *sigh*

This extraordinary document bears reading and if you haven’t read it in a while, see if you think it relates to what is happening to us at the hands of our modern day king george. I’m willing to bet the founders of our country would think of us as cowards for allowing our country to be once again usurped by a tyrant. Read it HERE.