More Brush.

The only thing taking longer than passing the Health Bill...

(Jamming it down our throat--- ??!! You got to be kidding --- PUL....EEE....ZEE!)

...is getting the parking situation resolved downtown.

I think that the difficulty is, the attempted solutions have up to now been worse than the original problem.

From statistics, about 200 people are the problem. And I'm not sure, short of changing human nature, that any penalties or rewards will work. Solutions that punish the other 10k ticket receivers, not to mention the 100'sK people who haven't gotten a ticker, just seems like overkill.

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Caught a moment of Fox Business just before leaving the house. Headline was, "J.Dimon and other big bankers are getting 'fed up' with Obama."

The BALLS. I mean really ginormous, hanging BALLS!

Balls that big would seem in jeopardy of getting caught in the zipper of regulations. Heh.

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A little good old fashioned lobbying by the City of Bend on the UGB.

I loved this: "Do not talk to the people in green hats."

Wasn't clear if they referred to the city folk as well as the citizens. Must have been awkward. Obviously, if they were giving the tour, the city officials were the ones presenting their viewpoints. Captive audience, what?

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Local hospitals are complaining of a lower number of patients.

A "disconcerting trend."

Like most of Bend, my guess is that it's not so much that the patient visits have declined slightly, but that they are no longer rapidly growing.

A 1% drop doesn't sound so bad, unless you compare it to ...say 8% yearly increases....(Made up that number....)

Same with sales at stores and motels and restaurants. Investment in made on the presumption of growth, you know. And payment on investment debt is made by said growth.