Jesse: ignorant and dishonest conspiracy theorist with the IQ of a dead carp — still sharp enough to fool tea baggers and other “patriots”

As for Brokaw, I’ve never really liked him. Legend and all, but boy did he handle the presidential debates with anything but impartiality. And Ventura, I haven’t had a lot of exposure to, ever. Not even as a wrestler. He seems like a “straight-shooter”, which can be good, but not when coupled with a lack of intellectual curiosity.

Perpich. He went somewhat insane. Might have made people slightly gunshy.

I did not disagree with the vehicle inspection change. That is happening everywhere. Vehicles are built differently now. It is no longer true that a reasonably new vehicle runs better when it belches out crap, with inspection being a way of making people have to work extra hard (by like five minutes) to keep their vehicle running the way they want it rather than the clean way. With very few old vehicles on the road it makes no sense for every single person to show up at a service station every year (or two, depending on the state).

The best way to reduce smog caused by cars is probably to walk and take public transit. The best way to make that happen is dense mixed use housing in urban zones and public transit. I don’t recally Ventura’s position on either issue, but I do not recall a lot happening on those fronts (from the State) whil ehe was in power. Or since.

Hey, when was the last time this state had a Democrat as a governor anyway???????? When?

And while I appreciate that he signed a pro-atheist proclamation while in office, I don’t forget that he paid so little attention to what he was signing most of the time that he signed a pro-Christian proclamation just a few days later without knowing it. I also think of him every time I look out my office window at the brown smudge on the horizon. After all, we don’t really need any vehicle inspections. Rather than reforming the process, it’s really for the best that it was eliminated. I’ll find some other air to breathe.