Every year it’s the dog lovers getting bit by dogs, and not the dog haters. Can you guess why ?

Oregon, isn’t that one of the two states that doesn’t let people pump their own gas ?

Why do we allow Jay to come over, you may be wondering. Everyone has their faults; this is Jay’s. He’s Lew’s friend and I don’t have to hang out with him if I don’t want to. I usually make like a banana and split when he comes over. I’ll just make sure Mr. Skeeter goes with me.

I appreciate your attitude about ignoring the Skeet-meister. He was definitely curious about you and wanting to check you out toward the end of our visit. Next time you come by it’ll be easier. He seems to remember and respond better to the people who respect his need to be in control of approaching first.

It just seemed natural to me to pay no attention to him when I visited, and sure enough, by the end of the visit, he was coming over to sniff me.

It’s unfortunate Mr. Skeeter has to be banished when Jay visits because Jay can’t control himself — it’s the dog’s home, not Jay’s. Are you sure you can’t banish Jay to the back room for his own safety?

To answer your questions about taxation, specifically what will be taxed in the near future, that’s anybody’s guess. Anything that they can get away with? I recently wrote a blog post that had a link to another blog whose author discussed Oregon’s scramble for more revenue because people are paying less in gas tax. TPTB in OR are proposing to tax how many miles a person drives, even using GPS to track. Crazy invasion of privacy, huh? When you push hybrid cars to be environmentally conscious and use less gas, your gas tax revenue will decrease. Duh. You’d think the legislators in OR would have thought about it logically and made the appropriate provisions, but we are discussing elected officials here. They don’t often think and plan.

I used to live in an area with multiple dairy farms years ago, and methane was an issue then as well. Creating a bigger hole in the ozone was the theory back then.

Come on, it’s at least a nickels worth you know with inflation and all that.

I read your about page and let me ask you, how many new and exciting ways of generating new tax revenues do you think are in the works.

Being that we’re located in the middle of dairy farms a while ago before being abandoned due to heavy opposition, the federal government tried to implement taxes based on how much cows fart (methane gas release).

As it is now if a farmer decides change a hay field to a corn field, they have to pay a higher property tax because corn is more valuable than hay. Even know this corn is not being sold, it’s going into their silos to feed their cows.

In case you didn’t know, the vast majority of farms in America are little family farms and not the giant agra-business farms.

I’m sure there are plenty of other examples of proposed new taxes that I just don’t hear about.