One of the most secretive, dark states’: What is Kansas trying to hide?
8What are you trying to hide @barney?
http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article184179651.html
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What are you trying to hide @barney?
http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article184179651.html
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The North Korea of the United States?
@eonfifty Holy crap - coincidence? I think not!
@looseneck
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@eonfifty Don’t tell me Kansas is getting missiles, too!
@mehcuda67
They already have them
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=missile+silo+kansas&client=firefox-b-1&prmd=minv&biw=414&bih=716&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjXusK_r9DXAhUHOyYKHRWYAAsQ_AUIDygB
Around Topeka
/8ball coincidence?
It is decidedly so
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The state government is trying to hide its incompetence. Brownback’s tax plan was a total failure resulting in revenue shortfalls all over the place. Now, the state doesn’t have money to fund essential services which has resulted in all kinds of problems. The Gov has too much pride to admit this and try to change anything. He’s supposed to leave and be Trump’s religious zealot or whatever that cabinet post is, but that hasn’t happened yet. Not sure the lieutenant governor will be any better anyway…
/giphy sad sigh
Oh…and you know Trump’s tax cuts? Yeah…that’s what happened to Kansas. If this goes through at a national level, we’re all hosed.
@medz no worries, they will just toss another dollar tax on gasoline
not like the majority can just drive 5 mins and get it in another state or anything…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh wow, my state is getting acknowledged? This is scary.
Seriously, KS has a way of keeping things quiet. I’ve always wondered why none of these major events never make national news. There’s some messed up people living here.
@Snoopa Amen. I’m just south of KCK and work up there, it for sure gets weird
@Snoopa Its not new york or kalifornia, not coastal, has no nationally major cities. Major media is almost all concentrated on the coasts, and most of it doesn’t give a flying f*ck about flyover country, with minor exceptions for chicago and maybe St Louis. If it didn’t happen in a major coastal or near coast city then it has to be pretty epic, or very conducive to selected narratives, talking points, or agendas, in order to be covered on a large scale.
@boredashell Can’t think of their names but those church people in that area. Bad Stuff.
@duodec One thing that happened this year that I thought should’ve been headlines: a terrorists organization was stopped who has been planning for a year or more to kill muslim/Somalian neighborhoods in the area. The house was filled with bombs and guns. They were one month away from carrying out their plan. But it was spoiled when one of the men physically abused his girlfriend, that retaliated by reporting everything to the police.
@Snoopa I never thought Brownback would be re-elected after his first term. I heard about the tax stuff all the way over here on the East coast. Thought you guys wouldn’t tolerate him again. Good luck next election!
The SE corner of the state has a handful of my distant relatives, whose ancestors moved there in the 1870s. That’ll explain it right there.
Maybe they are hiding the secret portal to Oz?
@Kidsandliz Oz reference took longer than I thought.
@medz pitiful LOL
I would like move back there (grew up in KCK and went to university in Lawrence). I do love Kansas, despite what people say, it’s a beautiful state (hey, I’m a photographer).
The state government is totally fucked up. Brownback, Kobach… The Koch brothers have their fingerprints all over the state. <sigh>
@transplant Very nice carillon in Lawrence. The person who played there was one of the best in the world (he’s retired now) and is a wonderful composer as well.
I live in kck. HELP
About those crashes… I don’t see a dangerous part of the road as much as I see drivers driving dangerously fast or at least distracted. Your car doesn’t flip over going around a turn because of the road. That happens when you take a turn too fast. When you’re driving in the rain, you should really slow down. I’d be willing to bet those spin-outs were at least partially due to worn tires combined with an unsafe speed.
While it may be possible to mitigate the risk of collisions by altering the route, it also stands to reason that drivers would be more likely to reduce the risks by being more cautious and/or slowing down.
If the linked story is representative, it would appear the lack of public transparency is deeply rooted in Kansas government, regardless of whomever is the current administration.
I have a good friend who lives in KS and was not aware of this. Will be curious to hear his thoughts.
The examples of lack of transparency are shocking - no public record of how a legislator votes? And legislators vacating the committee of a chairman who insisted on public record voting? This is the stuff of back water third world nations.
On the surface this systematic problem would appear to be the result of either or both of the following:
If the above were not true, the electorate would throw all the bums out.
@RedOak Yeah…problem is the folks will just vote for any name with a ® next to it. If you don’t, you’re considered a “baby-killing liberal”.
@medz however, the lack of transparency doesn’t appear to be a partisan issue.
It appears more deep seated than that.
Until voters, regardless of party, raise bloody hell nothing will change.
Simply voting is not much less lazy than not voting.
It takes effort to nurture good govt. Government, lacking average citizen involvement will gravitate to despotism 10 times out of 10.
That means not simply researching candidates. That’s somewhat lazy as well.
It means more than simply contacting our legislators occasionally about our pet issues.
It means educating ourselves in proven successful economics and freedom loving governance.
It means demanding metrics for our “leaders” and the actions they take.
It means demanding proven ineffective programs be ended (40-50 years of the welfare state had done nothing to eliminate poverty).
It means the stopping “feel good” experiments without any real world hope of working.
Transparency should be a much easier thing to improve - assuming voters really want it.