1st Grade Teacher is right!

Tax gold at a higher rate when the price is over $500 per ounce. The cost to extract an ounce continues to go down due to improved technology.

We only need to change the constitution. I don't know if our electeds have that type of courage.

I think Judge Vinson is wrong because healthcare is unique. Health insurance isn't just a transaction. We as a society have agreed to help people when they call 911 or are found bleeding in the street. Therefore the burden of their treatment is absorbed by society if they don't have insurance.

Judge Vinson argued that if you required insurance to be purchased you are making inaction illegal and Obama's lawyers say that not buying insurance is a choice and therefore an action. It seems that since everyone gets cumpolsory treatment that insurance could be required and would be a unique situation.

I hope the Cities and County work together to avoid getting bulldozed by the State. Home rule would be a pretty substantial silver lining to these storm clouds.

I know this next statement is totally contradictory to everything we hear in the media for the past decade but - I am not overtaxed! I would not be upset if my property taxes, for instance, went up to improve our schools, or to keep the elderly from losing their meds, or to help folks get jobs, or to save other programs that show that we are a compassionate species.

I'm lost here. I understand that politicians need to be sensitive to perceptions but there's no recommended donation amount, there's just an invitation. His picture could be smaller or omitted entirely, that's for sure.

If there was no reception at all, Ralston's headline would read, "New Speaker Too Good to Meet With Nevadans - High fallutin south State Dem can't seem to find any time for the people who elected him."

The "kiss my ring" line from Ralston is a little more creative and bombastic than my attempt.

A "downgrade" is when the debt rating actually changes. The headline should be something like "revises their outlook downward". This is not a "downgrade" and the Sun may want to consider a correction.

The effect on actual interest rates will be small like one tenth of one percent or some small fraction of a percent. This is not really terrible news. Considering all of the blows we've taken Nevada should be relatively very happy that an actual downgrade hasn't occurred.

I would have assumed that the education level was a little higher than this in BC. Approving expenditures from the capital improvement plan? Did anyone tell the voters how much a special election costs? These are super misguided!

They'll have trouble getting anyone to work there or run for mayor.

Thank you to all of the Republicans who either stayed home or voted for "none of the above". I sincerely say that you all deserve the credit! There were obviously many of you who got to the booth and just couldn't do it. THANK YOU!!!

Thanks LarryVegas, usually this is where I make a comment about your "not me, YOU" type of comment or, "Nuh-uh" which is basically all you said. You peppered in some sort of fat joke which is funny, via internet correspondence, but none of that matters.

I want to say thanks for continuing to build upon the sarcasm in my previous post by responding, obviously, in the character of someone who didn't read it, doesn't understand it, or who simply posts things on a website but who really doesn't care. The attitude's the thing and baby, you've got it!

SHARON ANGLE WALKS ON WATER

Sharon Angle was seen near her home in Washoe County today walking across a large puddle and not getting the least bit wet. Scientists explain that she is such a political and mental light weight that she is incapable of breaking the surface tension of water.

On the verge of being sent to Washington D.C. to break the divisive tension there the world waits with bated breath to try to figure out what joke Nevadans are playing. Nobody gets it.

WHAT IS HAPPENING TO MY STATE?

I thought Ensign was a terrible embarrassment that everyone who voted for him regretted. But now...now too many of my fellow Nevadans are swept up in a rhetorical tsunami, a feeding frenzy of critical nonsense!

It's so easy to be hypercritical of any legislator. Small parts of big bills are blown out of proportion, some efforts from gov't don't work all the time, some gov'ts waste money - IT'S EASY TO FIND THE FAULTS. What about the freeway widenings, what about our new bridge, what about our jewel of a federal park at Red Rock? All federal projects - all huge successes! Please don't get swept up in a national push to oust the Senate leader and make the terrible mistake that so many of us are considering!

How can anyone vote for a person who doesn't believe in mental illness (prisoners get treatments for relaxation and her derogatory line about autism - Scientologists don't believe in mental illness), who believes that our founding fathers were the most conservative leaders ever - SHE SAID THAT! Franklin, Jefferson, Payne - none of them Christians, all of them fought to keep God out of the Constitution and they adopted an equality for all men which was at a time of kingdoms and monarchies! Our founders as uber-conservatives is simply the dumbest thing that I've ever heard!

She doesn't know what she wants to do with Social Security, she has no legislative successes at the State level to point to, she is so unimpressive that she runs (literally) from questions, and she admitted to a laughing Fox Newsy reporter that she only speaks to friendly media.

WAKE UP NEVADA!!! PLEASE!!! All Angle has going for her is that she's not Harry. If his opponent were a criminal in prison you wouldn't vote for either candidate, right? So you do have a line that you wouldn't cross in the "Anyone but Harry" battle cry, right? She had her little Palin-esque moment of "man up, Harry" but that's all she's got and that's not POLICY and right now we need help!