Is this a REAL investigation? Try some thing bigger than a box of office supplies...

Mike Baker from the Associate Press has started a few articles on the minor points of privilege for the legislators. I don't mind if they cover things like internet access, cell phone services, laundry cleaning reciepts and MINOR expense reports.

Most of this is what? a couple million dollars or less?  I could understand going after may be a little birdy type of things like art in a politicians office, which for some might not understand that if you live over on the Washington Coast or the furthest South and North eastern remote counties, is going to be a working home in the capitol.

And stuff like these minor expenses, make remote working on legislation and state business from their home districts possible. To look decent, professional and representative of the best we have to offer in the state?

I have to say, if it were some thing seriously outrageous like a baseball stadium passing a kickback, someone getting special treatment or favors Or there was real serious issue? (hypothesizing only folks. No burning bush here...) Then there would be some burning fire under the political stakes.

I just do not understand why this reporter is going after small and petty sums. Does the reporter have better things to cook up during the legislative session?

Beliefs....

Some might say, what do you believe in? A higher power? Yourself, a faith?

Though some might say I believe in listening to others are experiencing. Because when you listen to others, you learn some thing about their pitfalls, their issues, their pain, their experiences.... And what I do not want to repeat.

You might call it, your average walking education. Learn the greatest things... And some references to a higher power, a higher spiritual awakening for some.

But I do not directly believe in a god or higher power, directly. i do love listening to various speeches and ideas related to it. There are many worldly faiths around? And they all have rich, wonderful histories.

And there are agnostics - atheistic pursuits that should be wonderfully also mentioned. With the world at the fingertips, you can find a lot about some thing through a search engine. Now you can find the same thing through social media sites... (way too many to list and changes over the microsecond?)

The reason why I love Clark County, Washington has such a wonderful history of different cultures. And being connected to a wider metropolitan area of nearly two million people, I explore the oddity every single day.

With a seven billion people and growing in the world and a further growing of the on-line life as more and more come on every day, we get to learn more and more.

And with a small, but growing international airport in Portland, right across the Columbia River, any person can travel all over the physical world and a physical presence can be had, that a network site or social media could never give.

So if you have belief in some thing, as long as you do not impose it on others, please share? You never know, I might come across you at some point in my travels.