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Now I know why Washington State regularly elects lunatics to office
Oregon Magazine ^ | February 17, 2006 | Thomas H. Lipscomb

Posted on 02/17/2006 4:10:24 PM PST by WaterDragon

I am an independent journalist who just got a good laugh over the latest "courageous stance" adopted by your student senate. Growing up in Oregon, I was always puzzled by why the lovely neighboring state of Washington seemed so heavily influenced by what I thought was a lunatic fringe. On the one hand William Gates and his baby boy Bill had produced two obscene monopolies, Boeing and Microsoft, and on the other your assorted elected officials seemed more at home in 1960s Communist Albania than the Wobblies "One Big Union" of sainted memory in the Northwest.

Now I know what the problem is. I don't know how I could have missed it for so long.

Your action --through something no intelligent student pays any attention to--"student government" --to deny former student, notorious Marine aviation hero, Pappy Boyington a place in "The University of Washington Hall of Fame" says it all. I gather you think he is not a proper role model for today's U of W student. Defending the US in a declared war initiated by a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor seems to be a problem for you. You may well be right. I don't think he has anything in common with you either.

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To: MillerCreek

The way to handle this is by organizing the Washington State alumni to refuse to contribute any money to the school until not only is this shameful act rectified by the student government issue a apology !


21 posted on 02/17/2006 4:59:16 PM PST by Reily (Reilly (Dr Doom))
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To: WaterDragon

I have often been puzzled by the fact that it was the independent people who valued freedom who first moved to the west, and yet, the far west is one of the hotbeds of Liberalism.

How did that happen? Where did those original values go?

Seems strange to me.


22 posted on 02/17/2006 5:33:49 PM PST by arjay (I would rather be right than consistent.)
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To: WaterDragon
Curtiss P 40 Warhawk


23 posted on 02/17/2006 5:52:26 PM PST by 45Auto (Big holes are (almost) always better.)
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To: WaterDragon
AGF Flying Tigers
24 posted on 02/17/2006 5:54:54 PM PST by 45Auto (Big holes are (almost) always better.)
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To: 45Auto
That's American Volunteer Group, AVG.
25 posted on 02/17/2006 5:56:36 PM PST by 45Auto (Big holes are (almost) always better.)
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To: southernerwithanattitude
If one of my kids did something this stupid I would march their a-- out in front of the TV cameras and make them apologize to the entire country!

But one of your kids wouldn't do what these kids did.

And whatchawannabet their parents are proud for their children having taken "a courageous stand against authority".

Which, I guess, is a way of saying "the maggots don't crawl far from the egg"...

26 posted on 02/17/2006 5:56:38 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: WaterDragon

I have been wondering if the girl who made the remarks in the student senate was an ethnic studies major. I have a friend whose daughter majored in ethnic studies at UW, and I can tell you that it is a complete waste of time.


27 posted on 02/17/2006 5:58:16 PM PST by Eva
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To: billbears
Perhaps Mr. Lipscomb can explain his knowledge of where federally sponsored organizations have found the Constitutional responsibility to waste tax dollars building statues to dead people.

Perhaps Mr. billbears should gain more familiarity with the story before commenting.

The statue in question was not federally sponsored, nor were any tax dollars involved in the project. Nor does Lipscomb so propose. Instead, the memorial's student sponsor was seeking authority, so that he could then pursue private funding.

28 posted on 02/17/2006 6:02:12 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: WaterDragon
My uncle who is now 85, god bless him, flew with the Flying Tigers in China in 1939; after Pearl Harbor he was reassigned to the European Theater to the 449th Bombardment Squadron, 322nd Bombardment Group (nicknamed the 'Annihilators'), and he flew in the B 26 Marauder known as Flak Bait, now displayed in the Smithsonian. Flak Bait
29 posted on 02/17/2006 6:02:40 PM PST by 45Auto (Big holes are (almost) always better.)
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To: BlueNgold
Regardless of what you may think ... Oregon and Washington are actually more liberal politically than California.

Oh. My. God.

30 posted on 02/17/2006 6:04:58 PM PST by null and void (<---- Aged to perfection, and beyond...)
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To: zzen01

Washington and Oregon have been throughly CaliPornicated""
Not all that can be blamed on Kalifornia.

They have their own special home grown brand of liberal creeps. Trying to do business in Portland is a disaster.


31 posted on 02/17/2006 6:05:54 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: okie01
Perhaps you could provide to me the resource that shows this monument will be privately funded only. Of course from the student body president comes this tidbit
I would also like to remind you that as ASUW President I cosponsored this bill to create a memorial, it failed by one vote, and a good majority of those who voted against it wanted more inclusion of other alumni who were combat veterans who earned the Medal of Honor. This week a new resolution to that effect is being drafted and introduced. In the meantime the ASUW supports veterans in other ways, currently we are supporting state legislation that will hopefully pass and guarantee veterans tuition waivers. In the end, the buck stops here, I would appreciate further comments to be made to me. Please do not participate or condone the hate-filled comments and phone calls made toward individuals in our student government. It has been appalling to see what is being said to people. I too am nauseated.

Thank you for you statements.
Sincerely,
Lee Dunbar

Here

I should also note that you may want to read the minutes of the meeting (also linked there) before you post again. From the minutes of the meeting

Andrew Everett said he had drawn up funding proposals for the UWAA, several UW departments, and other private sources of funding.

You were saying....government waste is government waste, no matter how 'patriotic' it appears

32 posted on 02/17/2006 6:14:17 PM PST by billbears (Deo Vindice)
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To: billbears
Andrew Everett said he had drawn up funding proposals for the UWAA, several UW departments, and other private sources of funding.

Read it again, billbears. The Alumni Association, etc., that is private funding.

33 posted on 02/17/2006 6:47:40 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: billbears

Sorry you didn't include Dunbar's email addy... it would be nice to respond to him.

My suggestion to one UW official who was whimpering about lack of space and who would fund it...is that at this point every Marine in the country would fund it... and I would suggest they crash a Corsair nose down in Lake Washington shallows just off shore and have a statue of Pappy climbing out of the cockpit happily waving a whiskey bottle...

It would be the most popular statue on campus...!

And Pappy would LOVE it.


34 posted on 02/17/2006 6:54:07 PM PST by Clodia Pulcher (There are more nuns in whorehouses than reporters with military experience)
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To: WaterDragon

We don't elect folks up here, they fraud themselves into office.


35 posted on 02/17/2006 6:55:39 PM PST by Lancer_N3502A
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To: WaterDragon

36 posted on 02/17/2006 6:57:45 PM PST by Lancer_N3502A
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To: okie01
everal UW departments

What departments would that be?

37 posted on 02/17/2006 7:06:10 PM PST by billbears (Deo Vindice)
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To: WaterDragon; RMDupree; HairOfTheDog; ecurbh

Good article.

Go Cougs. :-)


38 posted on 02/17/2006 7:07:40 PM PST by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1000 knives and counting!)
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To: okie01
Secondly, where are they going to put this statue? On Washington University land. Land purchased by the taxpayers. Who will fund upkeep of this statue? The landscapers, janitors, etc that are employed by the University of Washington. More tax dollars to fund the upkeep of said statue.

Don't get me wrong. I am not arguing the point that this woman was correct. I just do not see the importance of any statue if funding comes from tax dollars in any form. It may be just one statue in this case. However consider this same push for a statue happening in every state at every university. The thousands upon thousands of dollars add up after awhile.

39 posted on 02/17/2006 7:13:15 PM PST by billbears (Deo Vindice)
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To: billbears

You are still sneezing at a gnat.

Read my Modest Proposal above.

This is a no brainer.

It doesn't require an amendment to the Land Grant Act


40 posted on 02/17/2006 7:18:53 PM PST by Clodia Pulcher (There are more nuns in whorehouses than reporters with military experience)
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