That’s fairly easy when a majority of people in Ada/Canyon don’t vote,don’t know or care who their Reps are and ,in their own words ” are proud of it.” Gerrymmandering special districts, creating one-party requirments for the primary’s, or turning your own Bureaucratic creation into a money wasting useless construction hole i.e. ” CCDC” is very easy in view of the above.

An African dung beetle probably has a different vision of perfection than I do too. . .

At one time I knew a J-O-N John. He had served a tour as an USAF Explosive Ordnance Demolition technician before he joined our unit. He was a clinical example of what happens when the human brain is exposed to too much over pressure (also referred to as concussion by laymen) from explosive detonations too many times. I’ve heard that oxygen deprivation from breathing too much smog can result in similar damage. So J-O-N, have you ever been in EOD?

I would rather sit down to coffee and hash current events with a person like dh, than a button-up BOHICA.

You missed the point. We are discussing concepts RE how things ought to be, not how they currently are, which is history. If one wants change, one does not reiterate the status quo but rather comes up with new ideas. Stay on subject, which is: how and why we need to change Idaho’s voting procedure.

If one agrees that Democratic Majority Rule, according to some formula defining DMR, is a legitimate method of confiscating the property of others, then the recent Community College Absentee Ballot debacle may well point the way to a solution: vote by mail for everybody, as they do in Oregon. And since in Idaho one can register to vote at the polls, we should send vote by mail pamphlets not just to already registered voters but to all eligible voters. In this way, EVERYBODY gets to vote from home, not just those selected by a politically-targeted, well financed mailing campaign.

As for your “ends justifying the means” rationale in which you think robbery by voting is OK and it’s just tough luck for those who refuse to play Pirates of the Caribbean, you should re-think your moral epistemology that just because the politicians made it “legal,” that doesn’t make it morally correct.

DT II

For me, the community college was a necessary and appropriate service for the community. We could get bogged down in how to pay for that service while waiting for it to happen, but in this case I wasn’t willing to do that.

EDITOR NOTE–Relax dude! You won and you got the supermajority. The system works.

If you had it your way we would never have an election on anything because not enough people would show up to the polls. I voted for the community college district because I feel it is important for our community and am willing, in this instance, to pay up. If people are complaining about this topic but didn’t bother to vote then I don’t really feel sorry for them.

Unfortunately it is true that in Idaho with its property tax and levy systems, a few of the horde are able to organize and rob us all. I guess with the apathetic and lethargic masses of “citizens” we now have, it could be argued that we all deserve exactly what we get.

The drunken sailors at the assessors office have mandated that our humble thirteen year old house has appreciated “0nly” around ten percent THIS year but that our dusty, rocky, DRY, and smog enshrouded lot to which it clings is worth 54% more than it was last year. Maybe it is the adjoining new horse boarding operation with all its attendant new “fly habitat” that is driving this year’s inflation of our land rent to the masters. Or is it the yahoos that are building 450,000 to 1.5 million dollar particle board wonders within eye blight of our place? Sure, I’ll also be ecstatic to subsidize IDA PWR CO so they can more profitably buy and sell out of state power to the new houses.

On this latest Com College scam, I’ll be ecstatic if the REAL levy IS only the propagandist touted eleven dollars and change per 100,000 instead of the allowable $125. Any bets on that happening? Kind of reminds of the year the sheeple imposed the sales tax to Save Our Schools and lower our property taxes. The property tax assessment were mysteriously late that year too.