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In an opinion piece in USA Today the writer blames the Republican Party’s association with conservative Christians (one of the main reasons) for the GOP losing young voters. And, of course, liberal Republicans buy the lie.

It’s beginning to sound like a broken record. Oh, I’m sorry, the ‘youth’ won’t know what a record is.

Remember that this is an opinion piece, not a study or a survey. And it’s posted on a liberal, dead-tree rag’s Web site as they try to reach a younger crowd that never had ink-stained fingers from trying to understand the world around them.

What are the other reasons given in the piece?

Young people react to the success or failure of the first politicians they know. The twentysomethings of the 1980s, for example, associated the Democratic Party with the malaise of Jimmy Carter — and the GOP with the triumphs of Ronald Reagan.

Apparently, the writer thinks that ‘young people’ are too stupid to think for themselves. They’re just dumb animals with limited higher brain functions. All they can do is follow their first emotional reaction.
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Evergreen College has a long history of promoting protests as part of their liberal indoctrination programs (they call them ‘classes’). Over time that pesky law of unintended consequences has brought the chickens home to roost.
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As usual, the Tacoma News Tribune comes out on the side of tax and spend politicians in University Place with this headline: City cuts traffic fees, but developers still complain.

Toward the bottom of the article the writer states the real issue:

The city continues to struggle to get its Town Center project up and running.

The background:
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What a disgrace. The American flag is a rallying banner for everyone who loves this nation and all the good it has done for its citizens and for freedom around the world. The same flag that symbolizes their right to free speech.

Eli Sanders at the Stranger describes what a Democrat caucus looks like in a liberal wasteland like Seattle. The highlight, or should I say lowlight, was:

At the mere mention of doing the pledge there were groans and boos. Then, when the district chair put the idea of doing the Pledge of Allegiance up to a vote, it was overwhelmingly voted down. One might more accurately say the idea of pledging allegiance to the flag (of which there was only one in the room, by the way, on some delegate’s hat) was shouted down.

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For several years there has been a group of people from the other side of town showing up on Tacoma’s beautiful Ruston Way waterfront once a week, setting out and holding signs that show how little they know about the world we live in.

They’re with a group that calls itself ‘United for Peace, Pierce County’. Normally there are between one and three of them out there, but they’ve had as many as eight. Once they even flew a United Nations flag. I wanted to burn it but that would have been vandalism. Guess I’ll have to buy my own. I wonder if I need a permit for that.

The group is affiliated with a national BDS, anti-war group but with their swelling numbers I’m guessing they don’t get a lot of interaction.

So over the years we’ve had many opportunities to discuss relevant issues. Here are some highlights (or lowlights, depending on your perspecitive).
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Our world really is turning upside down. In the Everett (WA) Herald yesterday was this piece, “Totem Middle School students protest lax rules“. Yep, it’s just what it sounds like. The subtitle:

Totem Middle Schoolers call discipline weak, unfair About 200 students walked out of classes on Wednesday, saying they often feel unsafe and want harsher penalties for drugs and fighting.

To me, this screams “wake-up call”, but apparently there aren’t too many people who hear it.
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It’s time for the city of Tacoma to stand up to these thugs. Tacoma’s track record stinks. Will they do as much to protect the military as they’re doing to keep Russell? What are they going to do about this?

The people of Tacoma love having the bases here. Tacoma has a rich military heritage that cannot be forgotten. Many active and retired military personnel call our city home and we need to show them our respect and support.

Here are some things the City of Tacoma can and should do:

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According to an article on Crosscut.com (Sound Transit is accused of push-polling - h/t Orbusmax) other people were as displeased with Sound Transit’s recent survey as I was.  Here’s more in the PI.

I thought it was funny that some of the comments on Crosscut.com’s blog questioned the qualifications of the responders to the survey. I guess they think that just because someone has to pay for something doesn’t mean they’re qualified to decide what the money should be spent on. But at least there was a little honesty:

“It’s a totally non-scientific push poll. That said, I do agree with most of what they are ‘pushing’ as an alternative, with one exception.” [emphasis added]

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This is how an elderly couple in Tacoma was treated by people who are supposed to represent us.

The couple fought the condemnation all the way to the state Supreme Court, arguing that Sound Transit had not given them enough notice. The Millers knew their property was being considered, but the notice for the meeting at which the decision was made was advertised only on the agency’s Web site.

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The HOV lanes that we’ve paid for but seldom use are just another reminder of junk science gone mad. But for the sake of argument, let’s pretend they actually do what they’re supposed to do, which is to get people out of single-occupancy vehicles. If we then allow single-occupancy drivers into those lanes, at a premium of course, that will completely undermine the supposed value of the HOV lanes.

So anyone who advocates for HOV lanes and is in favor of HOT lanes is admitting that their stated goal really wasn’t the stated goal after all. So what was the goal? What’s the purpose of HOV lanes if they’re opened to anyone who is willing to pay for it (again)?
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