death of the diesel truck

[DHayden]

Im going to buy a salt mountain so I can store all the old, non recyclable, toxic batteries like the gov does with nuclear waste now. I'll make a fortune. My idea....no stealing.

 

[EDankievitch]

Coal!! With everyone drinking the no emissions CoolAid and going with electric cars, Ferrys, busses and trains we are going to need to put all those mothballed Coal plants back on line. It’s time to invest in Coal!!!

 

[endoscott]

"Sure liked the common sense approach of former governor Dixie Lee Ray. "


OMG! She had bigger b---- than all these snowflake politicians today! Hahaha, I forgot about her for a minute. I think she might have been an engineer? Can't remember.

 

[brucejohnson]

Interesting write-up here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixy_Lee_Ray She was one of the beautiful people of the world. More fun than a gunny sack full of wildcats.

Bountiful excerpts from the article only lightly touch on her amazing persona.

A graduate of Mills College and Stanford University, where she earned a doctorate in biology, Ray became an associate professor at the University of Washington in 1957. She was chief scientist aboard the schooner SS Te Vega during the International Indian Ocean Expedition. Under her guidance, the nearly bankrupt Pacific Science Center was transformed from a traditional, exhibit-oriented museum to an interactive learning center, and returned to solvency.

In 1973, Ray was appointed chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) by President Richard Nixon.

In addition to its research responsibilities, the AEC was charged with the manufacture of nuclear weapons for the U.S. military. Ray would later fondly recall the first time she saw a nuclear warhead describing it "like a piece of beautiful sculpture, a work of the highest level of technological skill."[2]

To the surprise of many, Ray announced in 1975 she would seek election as Governor of Washington. Later asked why she decided to make her first run for public office the highest office in the state, she would reason that "I was much too old to start at the bottom, so I decided to start at the top."

Despite opposition from all major newspapers and predictions from pundits that the state was not ready "for an unmarried woman who gave herself a chainsaw for Christmas," Ray went on to win the general election with a victory over King County Executive John D. Spellman, 53%–44%.[17] On election night, asked by a reporter to explain her surprise victory, she offered, "it can't be because I'm so pretty?"[1]

After assuming office, Ray tightened Washington state spending and began an audit of state salaries and programs. She balanced the state budget and during her tenure as Governor oversaw the state's first full funding for basic education. As the first resident of the Governor's Mansion without a First Lady, Ray hired her elder sister Marion R. Reid to serve as her official hostess.[3]

During a visit with the Dorian Society, a Seattle gay rights group, she was asked by one member if she had met any gay federal employees and if they ever felt under pressure. Ray responded, "I don't know any – you can't tell by looking at them," drawing applause from attendees.[16] In another instance, she declared Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Shelby Scates, who had deluged her with tough questions on the campaign trail, would "learn what the words persona non grata really mean" after her election.[8]

During what was supposed to be a routine joint press conference in Boise, Idaho, by the governors of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho in which the three touted the benefits of energy conservation, Ray reacted with barely concealed disdain to Oregon governor Robert W. Straub's call for legislation to encourage the installation of home insulation. "I don't believe our citizens are lax, or lazy, or indifferent," Ray fired. "In Washington we have a strong voluntary energy conservation program. We don't need legislative incentives."

She likewise alienated the state's Republican establishment after she fired 124 appointees of her predecessor, three-term governor Daniel J. Evans, offering to send them "a box of kleenex with their pink slips.

After leaving office, Ray retired to her farm on Fox Island. She was frequently in the news giving her opinion of current events. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer quoted her as saying she favored "abolishing political parties and taking away voting rights from anyone who fails to vote in two consecutive elections."[3] During her retirement she co-authored two books with Lou Guzzo critical of the environmentalist movement. In one of those books, Trashing the Planet, she derisively described environmentalists as "mostly white, middle to upper income and predominantly college educated … they are distinguished by a vocal do-good mentality that sometimes cloaks a strong streak of elitism that is often coupled with a belief that the end justifies the means."

During a speech in Pasco, Washington, in 1991, she further denounced the growing number of scientists advancing theories of climate change by telling her audience to "beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle."
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What a super smart realist and one heck of a fun person!

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[Cummins12V98]

I voted for her and Scoop Jackson, after them not so much

 

[Dl5treez]

the current transmission/distro grid is over 100% capacity. It's running on borrowed time in many areas. The bean counters don't want to spend the money to maintain it correctly.

 

[Tractorat]

I voted for her and Scoop Jackson, after them not so much

Same two I voted for.

 

[endoscott]

She BALANCED the budget and at the same time she FULLY funded education for the first time. And she gave herself a chainsaw for Christmas! What's not to like?

 

[Cummins12V98]

Back when they sold trees to pay for education.

 

[brucejohnson]

Back when they sold trees to pay for education.

Now we perch rainbow glittered polka-dot toot-owls (spotted owl) in the goofy-gopher-grassed (pocket gophers) rooted trees.

 

[Dl5treez]

Now we perch rainbow glittered polka-dot toot-owls in the goofy-gopher-grassed rooted trees.

They aren’t trees. They are living creatures. To call them trees is disrespectful.

 

[brucejohnson]

They aren’t trees. They are living creatures. To call them trees is disrespectful.

But I feed them phosphates and CO2 and a healthy variety of other carbon bits to help them stay big, healthy and green...they are my friends, as, in turn, they keep me warm and dry. Also, nothing quite like an alder smoked happy sturgeon; thank you trees! We are symbiotic organisms happily enjoying nature together with the other creatures of the forests, land and waters. City folk are just plain ol' jealous and hateful of us symbiotic country types. They evolved from sardines since they enjoy being packed ever so tightly in confined spaces. I think it really makes them grumpy though. Concrete and steel are very hot in the summer and cold in the winter. I know I would certainly be grumpiest in their environ.

 

[Terry Jay]

But I feed them phosphates and CO2 and a healthy variety of other carbon bits to help them stay big, healthy and green...they are my friends, as, in turn, they keep me warm and dry. Also, nothing quite like an alder smoked happy sturgeon; thank you trees! We are symbiotic organisms happily enjoying nature together with the other creatures of the forests, land and waters. City folk are just plain ol' jealous and hateful of us symbiotic country types. They evolved from sardines since they enjoy being packed ever so tightly in confined spaces. I think it really makes them grumpy though. Concrete and steel are very hot in the summer and cold in the winter. I know I would certainly be grumpiest in their environ.

"Also, nothing quite like an alder smoked happy sturgeon..."
Back about 1966 a housemate studying fisheries showed up with several cases of Columbia River Smoked Sturgeon. Holy Simoleans, was that good. Then the guys down the road started smoking silvers, and the house went bear hunting and made bear stew, known as sweatabrow. Good times.

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[brucejohnson]

Mmmmm mmmmm!!! Bear stew!

 

[Wayne M.]

Red Barchetta.

VERY GOOD analogy!