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Lee Atwater sheds a ghostly tear. A beautiful repurposing of the southern strategy. Lets talk about traffic! gently caress the east side.
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I live near there, traffic in that general vicinity is terrible for much of the day due to all the Microsoft activity around there. I don't deny that outright racism plays a part in the opposition to the Mosque, but I'm willing to bet that it's more about Microsoft folks knee-jerking about getting around campus. On the other hand, these are things no one pays attention to unless scary Muslims are involved, so I'm probably just wrong there. D1Sergo fucked around with this message at 17:09 on May 15, 2014 |
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May 15, 2014 17:05
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We have a mosque in my neighborhood at northgate way and 15th ave ne - there's zero increased traffic because most folks who attend mosque walk to it. I think it's kinda like orthodox jews - there's only certain exceptions where they're allowed to drive on holy days. I could be totally wrong though.
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May 15, 2014 17:24
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Tigntink posted:http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Neighbors-say-mosque-in-Redmond-would-add-to-traffic-parking-woes-259310311.html" Folks are trying to build a Mosque in Mukilteo as well, but all I've seen is a small banner that has since been taken down. Anyone know anything about this?
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May 15, 2014 17:26
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Solkanar512 posted:Folks are trying to build a Mosque in Mukilteo as well, but all I've seen is a small banner that has since been taken down. Anyone know anything about this? Mosques are usually built w/o any bank loans (because of a ban on all uses of usury), so of all holy grounds they tend to be the ones that are the most either fly-by-night or full of stop-start planning.
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May 15, 2014 18:14
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It's a shame the income tax didn't pass in WA. It'd be nice to revisit the issue at some point. This is thoroughly ridiculous:  From: Who Pays? A distributional analysis of the systems of all 50 states. (PDF)
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May 18, 2014 05:35
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Guys if you want to preserve the illusion that you're not bigots you have to keep from insulting Islam in the article comments.  They can't help themselves.
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May 18, 2014 05:40
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51st street, that's the one with its own exit to/from 520, right? Traffic there is only bad during regular commuting hours, and I say that as someone who's lived in the area for about ten years. Neighbor Sam Weirbach seems to be mistaken, but why? But why?
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May 18, 2014 05:51
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Bob Socko posted:51st street, that's the one with its own exit to/from 520, right? Traffic there is only bad during regular commuting hours, and I say that as someone who's lived in the area for about ten years. Neighbor Sam Weirbach seems to be mistaken, but why? But why? I work right at 51st and the 520 and there is never, ever traffic problems, even during rush hour. The only congestion comes from cars exiting for 40th street, so maybe they should protest the new Microsoft building going up instead.
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May 18, 2014 09:08
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Eggnogium posted:I work right at 51st and the 520 and there is never, ever traffic problems, even during rush hour. The only congestion comes from cars exiting for 40th street, so maybe they should protest the new Microsoft building going up instead. When I first heard the traffic complaints I assumed it was going to be some gigantic thing with hundreds of cars coming and going simultaneously, but apparently they're looking at like 30 something parking stalls? Hard to take those complaints seriously with all the office buildings right there that actually bring in hundreds of cars daily.
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May 18, 2014 10:14
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Accretionist posted:It's a shame the income tax didn't pass in WA. It'd be nice to revisit the issue at some point. Not surprising given how sales tax basically works out to being a big flat tax for lower income groups.
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May 18, 2014 19:10
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Hell, a flat tax would be a huge step up. Those typically exempt your first $X of income.
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May 18, 2014 19:50
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Accretionist posted:Hell, a flat tax would be a huge step up. Those typically exempt your first $X of income. A flat tax followed by tax cuts for 65% of people later would actually be a tricky way to impose a progressive taxation system.
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May 18, 2014 20:06
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How about some sort of flat tax based on income.
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May 18, 2014 20:14
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That would be great but unfortunately voters around here are just too drat stupid.
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May 18, 2014 20:15
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I remember when Shoreline switched from being "Unincorporated King County" to "The City of Shoreline", but at the time I was way too young to know why it was happening. I remember hearing that it may have been because of school busing concerns, that residents of Shoreline didn't want their kids to be sent to south Seattle instead of local schools (if you've been to Innis Arden, aka North Mercer Island, this is believable). Was this remotely accurate in why Shoreline was formed?
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May 18, 2014 20:35
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oxbrain posted:How about some sort of flat tax based on income. Or wealth.
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effectual posted:Or wealth. Call it an 'Oligarch Tax.' Make sure people know Russia had those and they were bad
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May 18, 2014 23:42
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OwlBot 2000 posted:Had? Ha, tense issues, yeah. They've got some unsavory dudes who'd be great for an ad campaign. I can't do ad-work but imagine using something like: THE OLIGARCH TAX  BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T VOTE FOR THAT (^^^ Sergey Veremeenko)
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Mojo Threepwood posted:I remember when Shoreline switched from being "Unincorporated King County" to "The City of Shoreline", but at the time I was way too young to know why it was happening. I remember hearing that it may have been because of school busing concerns, that residents of Shoreline didn't want their kids to be sent to south Seattle instead of local schools (if you've been to Innis Arden, aka North Mercer Island, this is believable). Was this remotely accurate in why Shoreline was formed? A lot of the incorporation wave of the late 90's was driven by an edict from the county that "thou shalt join a city or form your own" for all the urban areas it governed. They decided they didn't want to provide city level services to those places since they weren't cities.
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Xylorjax posted:A lot of the incorporation wave of the late 90's was driven by an edict from the county that "thou shalt join a city or form your own" for all the urban areas it governed. They decided they didn't want to provide city level services to those places since they weren't cities. That explains my hometown of Covington. Our first city hall was in the same spot of the same building the Video Encounters used to be in. I miss that place. 5 day game rentals for $2.50, frequent free rentals and the porn section was right next to the Genesis racks where it was easy to sneak peaks at the boxes while pretending to look at games.
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Xylorjax posted:A lot of the incorporation wave of the late 90's was driven by an edict from the county that "thou shalt join a city or form your own" for all the urban areas it governed. They decided they didn't want to provide city level services to those places since they weren't cities. The cities that did form because of the GMA were usually already places of strong civic identity and development. ...and then there is White Center, West Hill, Riverton, Top Hat, Fairwood, the SE Renton/NE Kent sprawl, Klahanie, Northern Kirkland, the really odd hole inside Bellevue that people live in to avoid taxes, and the east of I-5 part of Federal Way. Which also isn't counting the parts of unincorporated King County that are potentially being annexed by cities in Pierce or Snohomish county, and the large tracts of rural KC up in the hills. Basically all that is left, going on 25 years after KC told everyone to figure it out, is the outskirts of cities that no one wants to add to themselves because of how run-down it already is.
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May 19, 2014 05:00
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NPR is reporting that a federal judge has just overturned Oregon's gay marriage ban.
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800peepee51doodoo posted:NPR is reporting that a federal judge has just overturned Oregon's gay marriage ban. Yeah, gay couples are getting hitched in OR literally right now.
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800peepee51doodoo posted:NPR is reporting that a federal judge has just overturned Oregon's gay marriage ban. Congrats Oregon!
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May 19, 2014 20:23
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Idaho, WA, and Oregon livin in harmony, yo
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Gerund posted:The cities that did form because of the GMA were usually already places of strong civic identity and development. Are Microcities a speciality of Oregon and Washington? In the Portland metro, there is Maywood Park, Johnson City and Rivergrove, all with populations under 1000 people, and all surrounded by larger cities. Does this occur other places?
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glowing-fish posted:Are Microcities a speciality of Oregon and Washington? In the Portland metro, there is Maywood Park, Johnson City and Rivergrove, all with populations under 1000 people, and all surrounded by larger cities. Does this occur other places? Boise has Garden City, I don't think any other city in the state is large enough to really encompass another city within it though.
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It's not a PNW thing. A lot of that was done so suburban property tax didn't fund urban schools. Dallas is full of pocket cities like that.
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Also, outside of Beaux Arts Village and the points cities, both around Bellevue, I can't actually think of any pocket cities up here.
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Tigntink posted:Idaho, WA, and Oregon livin in harmony, yo :casgaydia:
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It feels good to have same-sex marriage again. 
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In other news, there's a ban on cultivating GMO on the ballot in Jackson County. quote:The measure in Jackson County in southern Oregon, has drawn national attention and more than $1 million in campaign funding to the community, which has only 117,650 registered voters. So can anyone tell me about this county? Is this a significant amount of agricultural production in Oregon, either in terms of space or specific crops? Also, if they stopped spouting frankenfood bullshit and supported public research into GMOs, they wouldn't have to choose between "chemical companies" and "families farms".
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Solkanar512 posted:In other news, there's a ban on cultivating GMO on the ballot in Jackson County. Apparently they're really big on pears: http://www.co.jackson.or.us/Files/Agricultural_Lands.pdf
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Washington state had an initiative that would have simply required labeling GMO foods. Initial polls showed it had a majority support, but then a ton of money came in against it and it lost pretty handily. There's no way a straight ban on GMO crops will ever come to fruition.
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seiferguy posted:Washington state had an initiative that would have simply required labeling GMO foods. Initial polls showed it had a majority support, but then a ton of money came in against it and it lost pretty handily. There's no way a straight ban on GMO crops will ever come to fruition. Vermont passed a labeling law, and Mendicino County has a GMO cultivation ban.
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Seattle has a new police commissioner, announced to be Kathleen O'Toole, their first female commissioner. You may remember her from a stint with Boston PD as commissioner during the time in which the riot police murdered a reveler in late '04, where she slapped a few wrists but didn't follow up on any charges. She was also Ireland's top cop for the last 8 years and a Pattern committee member during the post-98 Belfast agreement police reforms. reporting from The Stranger below: quote:This morning Mayor Ed Murray nominated former Boston police commissioner Kathleen O'Toole to become Seattle's next—and very first female—chief of police. O'Toole's confirmation is subject to an all-but-certain vote of approval by the Seattle City Council. Personally, I'm happy that we're past the hiring stage and she was my most preferred of the other two, as she had been a former commissioner and was from someplace bigger than bumblefuck Arizona or bumblefuck California. Rumor has it she'll be interested in installing shoulder-cameras and coordinating with the DOJ to get the SPD out from under that little "you're a terrible police force, we are beginning the process to fire everyone involved" thingy.
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