Yes, the birds died in Yakima. Many have never returned - the night hawks and numbers of swallows, pheasants, killdeer and doves. Some varieties are coming back, now that DDT levels are finally going down decades later. Places along the Columbia and Willamette the Eagles still lay eggs that don't develop.

I remember working in the orchards on spray days - often the only days the Mexicans got to drive the tractors. They would often come out of the orchards soaked to the skin, dripping wet from Malathion and other sprays. I'm not saying the farmers didn't value lives and health, but they did seem to have a different level of concerns for their sons and a few of us local white kids.

If there were a God, only the deniers would have to pay for their foolishness.

Giving someone else equal rights does not infringe or take away rights from you.
It just makes it illegal to enforce your prejudice and hate.
It really is just that simple.

Use a gun - the perfect long-term solution to a short term problem (or even irritant).

Guns + idiots = many lives damaged or destroyed. RIP young lady, innocent victim or not.

I'm assuming you are referring to the "homosexual act" that is also engaged in by millions of married heterosexual couples and heterosexual couples that aren't married.

"Critical thinking skills must apply with any law passed as to what the unintended consequences may be. Agreed! If the consequences include discriminating against any US citizen or deprives them of equal rights/protections under the law then it is probably wrong.

"I could care less if you marry another Bob." As it stands, my wife might care more and her unhappiness I do worry about.

Wow! I never thought I'd see the day. I guess we are lucky to have the Feds here since our own AG seems more occupied with finding a new job than getting to the bottom of these many banking and finance related frauds. Maybe he should ask "What would Slade have done?" Not let the feds carry his water I'm pretty sure.

We are the home of the largest bank failure in US history, brought on by greed, corruption and fraud at the top layers and yet nothing. Maybe he could send his team to NY or the other States actually doing something.

Is there ever a time and place for these nut-jobs. They are our branch of the Taliban.

I actually hope the small minds will eventually just realize they lost this one too (just like blacks, Jews, women...) and start dealing with real problems instead of the ones that live only in their minds. But then I'm an optimist.

Acknowledging others' equality only diminishes the number of people you hate.

I guess we don't have a corner on cops making bad decisions. At least their department seems to accept that mistakes were made and implemented changes.

Actually he means "his" God, the one with the faulty memory. The one that forgot to include this on his Top 10 list of No-Nos. It's not like this wasn't a reality in Moses' day. He did mention that "adultery" thing though, maybe Rev Ken could work on that. Or, maybe the "Don't Steal" thing, is Rev Ken going to let the gun owners handle that one for him.

I always worry when people start drifting off the plan.

Bank on it. The Seattle Times' orphan publication in Yakima just ran a step-by-step article on how to do the referendum thing. On the one hand it may be just pandering to the local base, or it could be that there is going to be a lot of money to be made in hate this fall and nobody benefits more than the media outlets.