In My View March 3: Moronic Ignorance

As noted, The Columbian is totally in the tank for the left. Their now-legendary support of democrats and ONLY democrats for every open seat up and down the ticket in 2008 will stand the test of time as acting as a stealth propaganda sheet for the left.

Today's blithering idiocy is no different.

Like a petulant punk, the paper deliberately twisted Gov. Jindal's response to the messiah's State of the Union Address a few days back.

They started the process with obvious Goebellian propaganda puff pieces that, among other things, allowed their candidate of choice, the ubiquitous "No Choice" Royce Pollard to shoot off his mouth on the subject as if what he had to say had any greater importance then what I have to say... or, for that matter, what my pet Cocker Spaniel has to say.

It doesn't... but those "in-kind" contributions start early when they newspaper perceives a solid threat to their boy.

So, the rag pushed out two puff pieces designed both to smack around yet another Republican AND to let the whole world in on the "wit and wisdom" of the Commissar of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Vancouver.

He had nothing of any value to say (when does he?) but the newspaper, in their continuing effort to go out of business, couldn't pass on the opportunity to actually act like the pearls of wisdom oozing from his mouth were, somehow, newsworthy.

That said, today the newspaper attacked Jindal over his declaration that $140 million was scheduled as part of the porkulus bill to be wasted on volcano monitoring.

Whether the moron who wrote the editorial (And it sounds like Laird, who has them common sense and leftist tendencies of a rock ape) is simply a moron... or if he needs to increase his dosage, the fact is that again, the Columbian deliberately missed the point of the exercise.

Odd, isn't it? The idiots down in Columbianville have no trouble attacking Jindal over a remark he made concerning $140 million... but they've managed to keep their mouths shut over the massive waste of hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars with $1.4 TRILLION in interest alone at the national level... while they robotically go ON, and ON, and ON about the massive $4 BILLION I-5 Bridge Replacement that we do not want and do not need as if that WASN'T the most massive single waste of money in this nation's history.

What Pollard has to say... what this rag of a newspaper that bears only a passing and accidental resemblance to journalism has to say... is meaningless. And with each and every one of their continuing violations of journalistic tenets, it becomes, if possible, more so with each edition.




In our view, March 3: Volcanic Ignorance
Offense taken by scientists, N.W. residents as Jindal mocks volcano monitoring

Tuesday, March 3 | 1:00 a.m.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has turned a primitive ritual into some sort of political self-sacrifice. Last week, Jindal tossed a heaping helping of his own political credibility into a figurative volcano.

As Jindal presented the Republican counterpoint on Tuesday evening to President Obama's address to Congress, he was complaining about government waste when he condescendingly belched forth with "$140 million for something called 'volcano monitoring.' Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C."

Oh, dear. We'll get to the response from the more respected sources — the scientists — later. First, though, allow us to reverse the circumstances. Suppose Washington state Gov. Chris Gregoire went on national TV and decried wasteful spending on hurricane monitoring? She would rightly incur the wrath of every resident on the Gulf and East coasts. Studying hurricanes is more than playtime for scientists. It's the business of saving lives and property.

Admittedly, we've got a dog in this fight. Oops, wrong metaphor. We've got a volcano in our backyard. "Does (Jindal) have a volcano in his backyard?" Vancouver Mayor Royce Pollard asked in a Sunday Columbian story. "We have a volcano that we are told could go off any time. And it would be nice to get a little warning." Mount St. Helens in Skamania County is less than 10 miles from the northeast corner of Clark County. As the crow flies — no, as the ash blows — this volcano is less than 50 miles from the Vancouver-Portland metropolitan area with 2 million-plus residents.

For Jindal's enlightenment, the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens killed 57 people, including Columbian photographer Reid Blackburn, and destroyed 250 homes, 47 bridges and more than 150 miles of road. We'd like Jindal to know that Mount St. Helens is less than 100 miles from the Seattle area, which has several million residents who face their own volcano peril with nearby Mount Rainier, arguably and potentially the deadliest volcano in the nation.

These facts define in horrifying terms a danger that should not be mocked or trifled with by politicians, especially governors who are struggling to recover from their own natural disasters.

As for the more respected opinion of scientists, we yield the floor:

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