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bartkusa posted:drat. I'm going to miss having a boring election that I don't have to think about. He at the very minimum got people thinking about the war in a very serious way in 2003 when he went to Iraq and straight up said that the WMDs were bullshit. Guy has balls the size of your mom. I lived in TN at the time and the name Baghdad Jim was being thrown around like crazy. It riled up the fox news crazies but it made people like me revisit right wing views. Also he was just always a 100% lock for left legislation. It's always good to have solid people to count on.
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bartkusa posted:Was he effective/influential in Congress? Put it this way: the two Democrats who outrank him on the Ways and Means comittee are Sandy Levin and Charles Rangel. He's an old player like Norm Dicks was.
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Counterpoint: he had a super safe seat, and he had it forever, and with that he was a fourth stringer at best at power and topped out at influence by making some cameos in Michael Moore movies. He's vastly underperformed and I hope whoever replaces him does better.
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Best Friends posted:Counterpoint: he had a super safe seat, and he had it forever, and with that he was a fourth stringer at best at power and topped out at influence by making some cameos in Michael Moore movies. He's vastly underperformed and I hope whoever replaces him does better. Representative Kshama Swavant.  Representative Goodspaceguy  Representative Tim Eyman 
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foobardog posted:Representative Kshama Swavant. That was my first thought when I heard the news. That would be great.
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Best Friends posted:Counterpoint: he had a super safe seat, and he had it forever, and with that he was a fourth stringer at best at power and topped out at influence by making some cameos in Michael Moore movies. He's vastly underperformed and I hope whoever replaces him does better. Do you understand how committee appointments work WayAbvPar posted:That was my first thought when I heard the news. That would be great. My thought as well, it's not like she would lose next time.
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Pacific Brewing and Odd Otter make pretty good beer.
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I've never been to Dick's Drive-In, but a bunch of you guys mentioned it in here and http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/obituaries/dick-spady-co-founder-and-namesake-of-dicks-drive-in-dies-at-91/
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I guess the bigger news for me was that a bikini barista blew up in Everett and the barista died from her injuries. I used to drive by that barista almost every day going home. Edit: it was the same barista location that was in the news for (surprise!) a prostitution scandal.
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anthonypants posted:I've never been to Dick's Drive-In, but a bunch of you guys mentioned it in here and http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/obituaries/dick-spady-co-founder-and-namesake-of-dicks-drive-in-dies-at-91/ He's eating a bag of Dick's in heaven now 
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seiferguy posted:I guess the bigger news for me was that a bikini barista blew up in Everett and the barista died from her injuries. I used to drive by that barista almost every day going home. I can't wait for the new craze, nomex clad baristas. 
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Wanamingo posted:He's eating a bag of Dick's in heaven now I've never wanted some Dick's in my mouth until now. What an amazing fellow.
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If I honor Mr. Spady in the proper way (Deluxe, Special, and a cheeseburger!), it will definitely lower my chances of living to be 92 like he did.
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WayAbvPar posted:If I honor Mr. Spady in the proper way (Deluxe, Special, and a cheeseburger!), it will definitely lower my chances of living to be 92 like he did. Everyone knows the proper Dicks order is Deluxe, fries, and a chocolate shake.
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Mrit posted:Everyone knows the proper Dicks order is Deluxe, fries, and a chocolate shake. Unless you are over 2 bills, I have never seen someone over 200 order just 1 deluxe.
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Ya'll crazy. The proper dicks order is three cheeseburgers. You eat two at the stainless steel bar and save one for later while drunk.
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anthonypants posted:I've never been to Dick's Drive-In, but a bunch of you guys mentioned it in here and http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/obituaries/dick-spady-co-founder-and-namesake-of-dicks-drive-in-dies-at-91/ El Destructo fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Jan 15, 2016 |
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that's a local dick. our dicks are better than that one.
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Seattle, WA: our dicks are better than yours.
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loving tunnel
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For people like me who didn't instantly know what he meant: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/inslee-orders-bertha-tunneling-stopped-after-sinkhole-forms/
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Jesus, how long until we just scrap the entire project. This is looking dumber than the tolls on 405.
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Fingers crossed the next sink hole just collapses on the machine and we can just bury it for good, or add it to the Seattle underground tour.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:For people like me who didn't instantly know what he meant: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/inslee-orders-bertha-tunneling-stopped-after-sinkhole-forms/ Love how the article ends with "Haha we weren't really following soil testing protocol there, but we will from now on, promise." Oh my god.
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Soarer posted:Fingers crossed the next sink hole just collapses on the machine and we can just bury it for good, or add it to the Seattle underground tour. A new Seattle underground. Neat. BrandorKP posted:Pacific Brewing and Odd Otter make pretty good beer. Good beer to be found to the South Want a good pub crawl. Start at Tacoma dome and go all the way down Pacfic, you even get a nice free street car to ride on.
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Don't make fun of us, we'll serve you fake arrest warrants. Please pay your fines in real US dollars - not monopoly money. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=932794100150096
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Wasn't there some study showing the tunnel would be expensive, ineffective, over-budget and over-schedule and that there was an alternative plan which did not involve tunnels and was much more likely to work well?
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Accretionist posted:Wasn't there some study showing the tunnel would be expensive, ineffective, over-budget and over-schedule and that there was an alternative plan which did not involve tunnels and was much more likely to work well? There was a lot, the Stranger basically harped on it for years. Just tearing down the viaduct and not building anything would have likely been a better plan.
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They should just stop all work permanently and ordain the current progress as the world's largest civic butthole. People will travel the world over to stand in its gaping wonder.
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foobardog posted:There was a lot, the Stranger basically harped on it for years. Just tearing down the viaduct and not building anything would have likely been a better plan. Too bad corrupt businesses forged ahead anyway, even installed their own pro-business mayor.
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effectual posted:Too bad corrupt businesses forged ahead anyway, even installed their own pro-business mayor.  http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/austin-utility-chief-tapped-as-nominee-for-city-light-ceo/ quote:Larry Weis, who currently leads Austin Energy, is Seattle Mayor Ed Murray’s nominee to become Seattle City Light CEO. I dont know the names well, but theres already been some public anger. Anyone more involved know anything more substantial?
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So does anyone know what's going to happen with Washington's driver license not following the Real ID standard or whatever? I was thinking of visiting the Hanford site later in the year and noticed this bit of insanity: http://www.hanford.gov/files.cfm/Hanford_Badge_Real_ID_fact_sheet.pdf Apparently you have to have a Real ID valid ID to visit the site... which means people with Washington state drivers licenses can't visit the stupid site that's in their own state (without having another form of ID too). What a clusterfuck, is WA state going to fix their screwed up drivers licenses or are we just going to have to get used to traveling, etc. with our passports all the time?
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mod sassinator posted:is WA state going to fix their screwed up drivers licenses or are we just going to have to get used to traveling, etc. with our passports all the time? IN the meanwhile: http://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/standard-drivers-license-soon-wont-get-you-aboard-aircraft/ quote:Standard Washington licenses or ID cards can be upgraded to enhanced status for a calibrated fee of $3 per year remaining on your current license or ID card.
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CEO of my company has had problem visiting government sites around the country because he just has his WA ID. Sent a company wide email letting everyone know about this bullshit so we all have a heads up to always bring passports everywhere, now that the WA ID has been depreciated like a CD player after iPods came out. Edit: Like a CRT television after flat-screens. Like Windows Vista after Win7.
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FWIW they announced that you'll still be able to use the basic WA driver's license at airports for at least another two years.
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Hey, Washington, what the gently caress is this http://app.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=2782&year=2015
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anthonypants posted:Hey, Washington, what the gently caress is this http://app.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=2782&year=2015 I'm like two paragraphs in and its already bullshit. Won't they be surprised to discover a lot of people with "female anatomy" have "male DNA" and vice versa. Get Dr. Fausto-Sterling on the line.
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anthonypants posted:Hey, Washington, what the gently caress is this http://app.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=2782&year=2015 Its Republicans.txt, nothing new.
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what the gently caress does "male DNA" and "female DNA" even mean Yes, the intent is clear in that they're trying to specify biological males/females but what the gently caress is "male DNA"--having one X and one Y chromosome? Then what about all the people born with multiple Xs or Ys? Is it anyone with at least one Y chromosome? All non-practical arguments aside I guess you could at least do the categorization that way (you'd still be an idiot). And that's the easy one. How do you define female DNA now? Can't go by "presence of (number) of X chromosomes" and that's just problems with definitions! Let's not even touch enforcement! What'll they do, blood tests? It's idiotic from every possible angle
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