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*VICTORY DANCE*
House? Sure! Senate? Yes please! Rummy gone? If you say so!
For your amusement, the Seattle Times offers up some initiatives we'd really like to see, including:
Soak the Rich Initiative
Admit it, you hate all those Microsoft millionaires for lucking into riches and driving the price of vacation property in the San Juan Islands beyond the reach of all but the wealthy few. Here's your chance to get even.
According to Forbes, there are nine billionaires in Washington state with a combined net worth of $92.9 billion. Approving this initiative's one-time, 10-percent wealth tax on these mega-rich potentates would yield $9.29 billion to the state's coffers, enough to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a tunnel with flying buttresses, Renoir artwork and wall-to-wall Wi-Fi.
Rename Washington State Initiative
Let's agree: Our fair state has a boring name. And a hideous flag, what with George's large proboscis figuring so prominently on it. And we're all tired of explaining, "No, I'm from the other Washington."
Changing the state's name will give us new cachet. A lot of candidates come to mind — Cascadia, Tahoma, SeaTacSpokania — but I suggest "Walla Walla," a Native American word meaning "many waters" (though some dissenting linguists insist it means "sweet onions").
We'd keep our current WA postal designation, so we wouldn't have to change our stationery. Plus, "New York, New York" can't hold a candle to "Walla Walla, Walla Walla."
Apparently Bush thinks that the voters clearly want bipartisanship (which he did promise, way back in 2000). Somehow, most people don't read the election that way.
House? Sure! Senate? Yes please! Rummy gone? If you say so!
For your amusement, the Seattle Times offers up some initiatives we'd really like to see, including:
Soak the Rich Initiative
Admit it, you hate all those Microsoft millionaires for lucking into riches and driving the price of vacation property in the San Juan Islands beyond the reach of all but the wealthy few. Here's your chance to get even.
According to Forbes, there are nine billionaires in Washington state with a combined net worth of $92.9 billion. Approving this initiative's one-time, 10-percent wealth tax on these mega-rich potentates would yield $9.29 billion to the state's coffers, enough to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a tunnel with flying buttresses, Renoir artwork and wall-to-wall Wi-Fi.
Rename Washington State Initiative
Let's agree: Our fair state has a boring name. And a hideous flag, what with George's large proboscis figuring so prominently on it. And we're all tired of explaining, "No, I'm from the other Washington."
Changing the state's name will give us new cachet. A lot of candidates come to mind — Cascadia, Tahoma, SeaTacSpokania — but I suggest "Walla Walla," a Native American word meaning "many waters" (though some dissenting linguists insist it means "sweet onions").
We'd keep our current WA postal designation, so we wouldn't have to change our stationery. Plus, "New York, New York" can't hold a candle to "Walla Walla, Walla Walla."
Apparently Bush thinks that the voters clearly want bipartisanship (which he did promise, way back in 2000). Somehow, most people don't read the election that way.
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Date: 2006-11-10 04:46 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2006-11-11 10:10 pm (UTC)From:Saj, do you read "I Drew This"? I enjoyed his comic concerning Bush's opinion about the election outcome. (:
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Date: 2006-11-12 02:24 am (UTC)From:Celebrate!