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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Oregon legislature acts to protect K-12 system
The Oregon legislature has stepped up and has followed sound advice from the people they represent. They are
attempting to enact legislation that would reduce the size of the reserve fund, ($400 million), which was carved out of the new $6 billion k-12 budget, by $200 million dollars, thus providing an additional $200 million
dollars to this next 2 year budget cycle. ($225 million final amount of funding increase.)
This
effort would if successful prevent approx.. 95% of the remaining scheduled layoffs and program cuts
(Governor
Kulongoski attempted to veto/ ignor the wishes of the voters, but was himself strongly defeated in a veto over ride
effort spear headed by his own party.)
This would also put the OEA union into a stong position to offer
a two year pay freeze or raise reduction that would then allow all layoffs to be halted, and all programs to be
restored.
Rainy day funds/reserve funds--Well it's raining about as hard as recorded history has ever
seen.. And if this is not the time to use reserve funds when will it be?
Colin Stuart McCoy
I find it an accurate indicator of failure in our State political leadership, that Oregon is one of the less than
a handfull of states that spend more on prisons than on Higher education. what a bunch of geniuses.
Update-7-19-09
I think the "delay" in processes that the tax increase proposals going through Gov. Kulongoski's office
if intentional is an acceptable tactic. I think the gov. should sign all but the corporate tax bills and veto
the corporate tax increase related one.
10/20/09 Update on the corporate tax bill signed. As it appears
now, I don't have a huge problem with this tax under existing economic realities.
I am a believer in that
over taxing corporate profits can lead to a negative impact on economic growth/activity.. key word/phrase here is
(over taxing). This bill appears rational enough.. let us hope it does not lead to imprudent over reaching
in this form of taxation.
9:25 am pdt
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Pro or Anti- Religious
Over the course of the last couple of weeks I have been asked why my posting are so religious?...I have also
been asked why are my posting so anti- religious?
So for those who may need clarification I will state
the following.
When it comes to matters of faith or a persons religious beliefs.... to me that is a personal
matter that is not something I track very closely, I'm much more interested in observing how people interact with
the rest of humanity.
However...If your church or your faith or social affiliations requires you to
participate in discriminatory or exclusionary beliefs or practices...You will find me being as vocal as I
feel I need to be in order to confront these intellectually/spiritually unsound behavior/belief patterns.
I have a real problem with people/organizations who because of their intellectual failures or lack of needed
education attribute to God or Jesus, directives that are clearly anti-Jesus, or anti- God.
People who
have yet to get their minds around the fact that when it comes to a person gender, gender orientation, race or sexual
orientation... they were born this way.. the scientific evidence is solid and really settles the matter for
any body who operates in a non-taliban manner.
So if you truly believe in God, things are the way they
are in these regards because it is Gods design..Gods will.
The God or faith that I would be willing to ascribe to will not ever accept that God, being all knowing, compassionate, wise.. would ever create beings that
were not to be treated as equal in all things related to human and civil rights.
It's only when you are
dealing with the demented and uneducated aspects of humanity that you find the human condition assaulted/insulted
by people who are in fact clearly leaving their intellectual honesty at the door, and are imposing their hate and discriminatory social agendas against the innocent.
The time has come for these people. organizations,
groups to grow up and rejoin the human race, it's time for them to set aside their mindless fears, hates, and uneducated beliefs. The future for these issues is here.
Within the next several years organizations that discriminate or exclude in the name of God, or Jesus will either grow up, or fade away.
The period
of human history where humans can do evil in the name of God or Jesus, or which ever diety they follow.. is coming
to an end!!!
Colin Stuart McCoy
1:48 pm pdt
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Shooting at Holocaust Museum
Something very wrong has happened. An innocent and heroic guard was killed in the performance of his duty.
( Reports have stated that this guard, who by every account was a wonderful person, was in fact holding the door for the "shooter", trying to, in fact, help him.
The shooter is a person with some serious errors in thinkings and possessing some very distorted facts/beliefs.
This was so needless..
I'm
studying this all now. More soon.
CSM
It appears based upon what I have come across that
the shooter had an intellectually unsupportable degree of prejudice against groups of people.
It also
appears that the shooter had a distorted and innaccurate understanding of the financial institutions of our country.
IE the Federal Reserve. Rather than study the situation, it appears that the shooter bought into various conspiracy
theories that have as of this date been thoroughly disproved. Not saying there are not serious problems with how
we manage the global finance system that needs to be corrected just as soon as possible, but let us try and keep
it real, and the debate intellectually honest and supportable by fact. Let us stay away from the products of damaged
and uneducated minds.
6/19/09 It has now been reported that child pornography has been found on the shooters personal computer--Why is it that those that are involved in "white" supremacy processes or hate groups
are always such poor representations of their ethnic group?
I have serious problems with the situation in Israel and Palestine, both sides have engaged in processes that are impossible to support fully. Israel deserves
to exist in peace and this must be recognized by all Muslim nations, but Palestinians also have a right to their
own homeland as well, where they may live and prosper in peace, and this must be accepted by Israel.
People who choose to deny that the Holocaust happened have serious problems with their ability to study
and perceive reality. It happened, and had I the opportunity I would have been willing to risk my life to end
it.
CSM
5:52 pm pdt
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