That should be looked into.

I’m sure I could go back and come up with dozens, if not hundreds, of votes Morris has made in opposition to the Governor.

That’s the sign of a true lackey.

:::eyeroll:::

Give us a break Morris go home to your wife and let the Governor go home to her retired husband.

Let’s see your proof of “kickbacks” that Sebelius is pocketing.

Oh, you say you have no evidence?

Guess that means you’re a liar.

What does God say about _that,_ Parkay?

“Thou shalt not bear false witness”

One thing to keep in mind about our part-time legislature: Even when they’re not in session and not getting their $80-some dollar a day, they still have to provide constituent services. They get no support from the state for this. It means weekends and evenings at community meetings and events, it means endless phonecalls from angry constituents, it means hours spent helping neighbors resolve issues with state agencies. It’s _not_ an easy job, and they don’t get paid anywhere near enough for the job.

Kathleen did not complain about the salary – it was Steve Morris that brought it up.

He is the Republican President of the Senate.

Don’t forget the free housing and other little perks.

But of course, it is all the democrats’ fault…

Posted by: ksfarmgrrl | June 11, 2007 at 11:32 AM

Of course it’s the democrats fault. The stupid Republicans are trying to outDemocrat the Democrat party :)

Sadly, the Republican party has decided that buying votes was easier than earning them.

Damn those tricky out of staters! Fooling kansas voters like that.

Are you saying the people of kansas are too stupid to elect their own governor, that they fell for the lure of big money advertising and voted against their own best interests?

say it isnt so….

I wonder where I could find some of that tricky out of state money to fool the folks out here?

Perhaps you don’t know this, but Kansas has to import doctors in more than twenty high-tech specialties ranging from in vitro reproductive services to cardiothoracic surgery. Did you see the stroke-center billboard Via Christi posted on Kellogg last year? The doctor in the picture wasn’t a Kansan.

If, God forbid, one of your children was hit by a car and needed neurosurgery for head trauma, followed by intensive care unit recovery, his doctors would not be Kansas natives. If, God forbid, you got cancer and needed a bone-marrow transplant, your doctor wouldn’t have gotten his fellowship training here.

Sometimes Kansas natives leave the state for advanced-specialty fellowship training and come back home, but there aren’t enough of them to fill the needs, so outsiders have to be recruited. It’s like KU’s basketball team. Local boosters want a top-flight team, so they have to recruit coaches and blue-chip players from other states.

Kansas recruited my spouse for Kansas-natives’ benefit. And you get me on the blog. ;-)

The drainage of rain water from my property this Spring could have irrigated the entirety of western Kansas. :D

Hmmmm….. The last I checked, republicans had a majority of both houses in Kansas.

If the REPUBLICANS wanted to control spending in this state, they could. They have majorities.

Perhaps they are just spending like drunk sailors after watching the republican majorities in BOTH houses of Congress?

Republicans are now the party of big spending. No matter how hard they whine, they have been in control and done nothing but piss away tax dollars.

But of course, it is all the democrats’ fault…

Source: The Guardian

By Andrew Gumbel in Los AngelesPublished: 11 June 2007

America is facing its worst summer drought since the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression. Or perhaps worse still.

From the mountains and desert of the West, now into an eighth consecutive dry year, to the wheat farms of Alabama, where crops are failing because of rainfall levels 12 inches lower than usual, to the vast soupy expanse of Lake Okeechobee in southern Florida, which has become so dry it actually caught fire a couple of weeks ago, a continent is crying out for water.

In the south-east, usually a lush, humid region, it is the driest few months since records began in 1895. California and Nevada, where burgeoning population centres co-exist with an often harsh, barren landscape, have seen less rain over the past year than at any time since 1924.

The Sierra Nevada range, which straddles the two states, received only 27 per cent of its usual snowfall in winter, with immediate knock-on effects on water supplies for the populations of Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

The human impact, for the moment, has been limited, certainly nothing compared to the great westward migration of Okies in the 1930 – the desperate march described by John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath.

Read more: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article264...

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We’re seeing the results of the climate model predictions playing out. Huge storms, blistering droughts, fresh water scarcity, melting ice sheets, disappearing islands. What a train wreck.

I do mind a governor who uses water as political capital, and who could give the bush family a run for their money on cronyism.