Musings: Discretionary fund use comes to a head this Tuesday, June 5

Some blog thoughts as this Tuesday approaches.  I am not quite willing to throw out the baby  with the bath water.  This is the time for learning, listening and assessing.   Some musings and comments:

Greg L is all over the discretionary funds issue on the dark site. The fault I find with his analysis is his perpetual problem of partisanship.  Many of the supervisors have questionable use of the discretionary funds, yet Letiecq chose to call out only Democrats by name. If we are going to discuss names, then let’s be fair and name all who have abused or attempted to abuse the discretionary fund system.

Meanwhile, I have to hand it to the Sheriff of Nottingham for his diligence on this matter. He did some things I was not willing to do myself.

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Green Lantern comes out of the closet

  The wedding band 

When social change comes, it often knocks us over, especially if its arrival has been fraught with difficulty.  Now we find out that after all these years, Green Lantern is gay.  Well, good for Green Lantern.  More interesting than the comic series, watching the social conservatives take out their green lantern comic books as though they were removing chicken crap with their fingers will be the real entertainment.  Sorry guys, you know statistic tell us 10%….

Washington Post:

DC Comics announced on Friday that Green Lantern, a superhero staple for decades, is gay. (And all of this time, my money was on Wonder Woman or Aquaman.) When bigotry falls, it often falls fast — gay marriage, Barack Obama as the first gay president and now popular superheroes like Green Lantern.

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