3 Comments - Cassandra - Tuesday, Aug 19, 08 @ 9:35 am: I find it extremely difficult to believe that more than a tiny handful of people would change their minds about voting for Obama because our ever-greedy mostly Democratic state legislators voted themselves another pay raise. And aren’t most legislators running either unopposed, or effectively unopposed this fall, if they are running. Of course, the flap over the pay raises distracts voters from real issues such as what are our legislators doing with the billions in taxpayer dollars they already have, and will continue to get to play around with, and hand out to their friends in the form of “contracts” and high-paying, low-work state jobs, following receipt of the appropriate “campaign contribution.” It also distracts them from what appears to be the imminent death of the latest attempt at some form of ethics legislation, to reign in the current crop of pigs at the trough just a bit. We turned down those pay raises, they’ll say, and we’re supposed to be impressed and vote them another couple of years at state government’s overflowing money pit. And, for the most part, we will. - Ghost - Tuesday, Aug 19, 08 @ 10:18 am: on the issue of teenage drivers, they just need to buckle down and change the driving age to 18 (keeping the current farm exclusions). I know most 16 years olds will not be happy, but in our current soceity, 16 is too young and we are losing to many of our youth to automobile collisions which result from giving deadly objects to kids who should have a little more maturity and life experience before obtaining such rights. - Ghost - Tuesday, Aug 19, 08 @ 10:45 am: In addtion to teen age drivers, I would prohibit college students and interns from driving german made automobiles. Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.