they are pretty though...


does it say anything about planting these:

Sorry, but this is just how we do things in Connecticut!

Ignore the real problem, just keep everything looking nice.

Thank you, move along.

I CT what you did there, lawmakers.

Is there any way Connecticut's statehood can be revoked?

welcome to Connecticut. Mountain Laurels are important to us.

But those of you that are focused on the gravity of the mountain laurel problem probably missed the the story my local paper leads with today: BREAKING NEWS it is difficult to park a few school busses.

http://www.westport-news.com/ci_11565702

Its good to live in such a boring state.

Nice, only DO NOT let your cows munch on that stuff, they'll get real sick
/wait, ?

If the state gets a piece of each flower planted they may be on to something.

flower tax... I just gave them a very bad idea didn't I.

Why do we allow government to operate like this? First come first serve, even with some pushback, is a damn stupid way to deal with individual issues as they come up.

Liberals

Aren't there like, 13 people in Connecticut? How can they be ONE BILLION over budget? What in the F*CK are they spending that much money on?

Only 1 billion?

Seems like pocket change these days.

/ The USA - the new Zimbabwe

Approves

/link is hot

lawmakers are scheduled to return to the Capitol on Monday to deal with the current fiscal year, which ends on June 30, 2009. It is estimated to be approximately $300 million in deficit.

but....

Both agencies predict the state budget, over the next two fiscal years, will be approximately $6 billion in deficit.

WTF???...

Seventeen percent of the state's work force is employed in the financial services sector. That's compared to 14 percent nationally.

Oh that explains it...

from Link (new window)

me_the_farker:
Seventeen percent of the state's work force is employed in the financial services sector. That's compared to 14 percent nationally.



14% of Americans work in the financial services sector? I think I have found the problem.

I'm sorry... I just don't have enough outrage for this thread.

/it's been a long week

Ah, Connecticut. The state that for some inexplicable reason is still part of New England.

DrillSergeantPoopyPants: Aren't there like, 13 people in Connecticut? How can they be ONE BILLION over budget? What in the F*CK are they spending that much money on?

I have a serious drinking habit which I managed to convinced the state to pay for.

wisher21: Ah, Connecticut. The state that for some inexplicable reason is still part of New England.

Says someone from what used to be part of Massachusetts and is still the smallest state in New England. Good thing, too, because New Hampshire has never learned to vote the New England way.

Seriously, John Sununu? Twice?

/Judd Gregg? really?
//"Let's secede, har har, that'll show 'em!" Yeah, good luck with that ::snrk::

To be fair, not much goes on in Litchfield County. I think the last two stories out of there were when Madelaine L'Engle died, and when the Rolling Stones' private studio burned down.

I do know an incredibly awesome Farkette from there, though.

That's a lot of pansies!



/not state flower, but should be.

We have parks in NY bigger than Connecticut. How can they be so in debt?

ramathorn83: Is there any way Connecticut's statehood can be revoked?

Sure, but we get to keep the Groton sub base, Sikorsky, UTC, Pratt & Whitney, and General Dynamics. In other words, we shall overtake Israel as the most heavily armed small country in the world. Hopefully, we can subjugate the rest of New England in short order.

But seriously, this is what happens when a state becomes relatively stable and boring.

At least we aren't like those poor white trash in Rhode Island who have about 12 percent unemployment or something ridiculous like that.

Aarontology: But seriously, this is what happens when a state becomes relatively stable and boring.

When did we first reporting a deficit? I think last year was the first. Not bad, seeing as some of the other 45 states have had a deficit since 2002.

DrillSergeantPoopyPants: Aren't there like, 13 people in Connecticut? How can they be ONE BILLION over budget? What in the F*CK are they spending that much money on?

Well, for one thing they spend about a half a million dollars (could be more by now, havn't checked in a while) a year on something called the "Permanent Commision on the Status of Women", and all we get for this is an annual report that says the same goddamed thing every year (women are poor, women are descriminated against, women are screwed by the medical system, blah blah blah...).

Its almost like they photocopy it.

Oh, I forgot something: they also pester the legislature and the Governor. In other words they are lobyists. Here in Connecticut, the taxpayers actually pay lobbyists.

I was born in Connecticut, I'll die in Connecticut, and in between I'll live in Connecticut.





That's pretty much my backyard.

rhiner: welcome to Connecticut. Mountain Laurels are important to us.

But those of you that are focused on the gravity of the mountain laurel problem probably missed the the story my local paper leads with today: BREAKING NEWS it is difficult to park a few school busses.

http://www.westport-news.com/ci_11565702

Its good to live in such a boring state.

Wow new to me, I have lived in Westport for years and had no idea we even had a paper.

Posting in a Connecticut thread.

/Naugatuck

I didn't rtfa, but this is why women shouldn't be involved with politics.

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: wisher21: Ah, Connecticut. The state that for some inexplicable reason is still part of New England.

Says someone from what used to be part of Massachusetts and is still the smallest state in New England. Good thing, too, because New Hampshire has never learned to vote the New England way.

Seriously, John Sununu? Twice?

/Judd Gregg? really?
//"Let's secede, har har, that'll show 'em!" Yeah, good luck with that ::snrk::

uhhhhhh....rhode island is smallest.