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Kaal posted:Hah yeah pretty much. The sufficiency rating of the Sellwood bridge is 2. Just 2%. It's a loving deathtrap. I figure one day it'll drop to 0% and it'll burst like a pinata. Fortunately it should be replaced by the end of next year. Well we already knew that's what would happen, but the general public is loving moronic greedy assholes and believe any ad that promises lower taxes. I work retail so I see all the greedy poo poo people do every day. Then all the politicians are easily bought, so they can cut any last red tape that remains; like denying the 15$ wage inside seatac. This was all thanks to the much-touted public referendum system. Can someone kick Tim Eyman back to the south? I'm just catching up on the thread but thought I'd mention that though we're considered solid blue our last few governor elections have been very close, most even requiring recounts. Plus we have some "dems" that are in name only (like Rodney Tom), so we're not that reliable for national elections, to say nothing of local ones. Spatula City posted:Also, there are a disproportionate number of people on the autism scale in this area. I heard that's from all the chemicals boeing dumped into lake washington over the last 100 years. Who knows if it's true. Edit: Might be true, I won't hold my breath. Even with mail ballots a ton of young people still don't bother voting, and many that still vote (like me) are disillusioned by the 2-party system and vote indy. \/ got any sevens fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Apr 2, 2014 |
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Tigntink posted:Publicola has some charts and graphs about the current housing situation. Standard Operating Procedure. 2nd amendment guarantees machine guns, not knives! /sarcasm Did you see the hobo with a knife that 6 ABQ cops were so afraid of they flashbanged him and executed him? Happened a couple weeks ago. Are cops still forced to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-lDtCHFmvg? "I'm never gonna die in no ghetto!"
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Apr 5, 2014 06:09
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I'm glad to be in Eugene, Oregon rather than in Portland or Seattle. I haven't really spent time in Seattle, but over the last decade I have seen Portland descend into traffic-clogged hell. From what I have heard, Seattle isn't exactly a traffic dream, either. Seattle's worse.
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Apr 6, 2014 12:27
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How bout this sun? drat it's nice out today, I'm gonna go for a hike in shorts and sandals with my dog. I love the pnw.
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Apr 13, 2014 23:24
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I just hike a half mile or so along the cedar river, Renton has a ton of little parks along it. My dog's little so he doesn't do the big hikes.
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Apr 14, 2014 05:07
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I love this area, I hate the greedy loving people.
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Apr 15, 2014 07:42
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mod sassinator posted:Typo, it was an income tax. I was sad to see that one get voted down, but didn't have a ton of hope for it. The former. He's been doing anti-tax poo poo for 15+ years. His biggest success was lowering car tabs back in the 90's from like 300 bucks a year to ~50, dunno what public service that hosed over in return since I was a kid. Just another FYGM rear end in a top hat.
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Apr 15, 2014 08:13
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Thanatosian posted:Heh, the cover story in The Stranger this week is "What's Wrong with the SPD: The Right-Wing Cop Union and its Pet Mayor." That's every police dept around the world.
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Apr 16, 2014 23:21
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Kaal posted:Very true, and it's an enduring problem. The public has to have a way to defend itself from these right-wing cop unions that are actively sabotaging any attempts at reform and burying anyone that gets in their way: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/reform-in-reverse/Content?oid=19281433 Oof, I read that and it does not paint a rosy picture for Seattle's future. I already knew Murray was bad news when the Seattle Times started endorsing him and doing daily hit pieces on McGinn. Also today they had a slobberjob farewell article about Rodney Tom. What a lovely rag.
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BraveUlysses posted:They're taking any and all steps to break the unions, pure and simple. Yeah, the only reason the Times isn't congratulating them is because they're going to lose some subscribers.
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Apr 18, 2014 19:20
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Haha, the seattle drill out of commission for another year (or more). I knew a tunnel would be a waste of time and money but I'm in Renton so couldn't vote against it (also the council ignored the vote anyway iirc because of their business bribes).
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Apr 23, 2014 07:26
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UnclePlasticBitch posted:Maybe I'm crazy, but I think that having to obtain a postage stamp is probably that extra nudge of effort that prevents WA from having really high voter turnout. I know there are drop boxes and such, but I guarantee you the majority of voters here have no clue they exist, or if they do, where the boxes are. I've heard you can drop a ballot in the mail and they'll mail it anyway without a stamp. That's what I've been doing the last year.
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Apr 23, 2014 18:03
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Min wage would be over 20 bucks now if it hadn't been crippled by Reagan. If we can't even get 15 then burn the system down.
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Apr 27, 2014 19:05
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And the whole doctor system is set up as a FYGM machine, only allowing a certain number per year.
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Apr 29, 2014 18:10
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I hope we get big turnouts for the Seattle labor day stuff. Push that (mediocre) 15 dollar wage as much as possible.
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May 1, 2014 07:12
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Solkanar512 posted:Portland is nice to visit and all, but seriously, you guys voted down fluoridated drinking water. It's one thing for folks to freak out about GMOs or even vaccines (neither WA or OR are great on those counts) but fluoridated drinking water? That's really loving nuts to be against. Do you drink pure grain vodka or rainwater?
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SALT CURES HAM posted:Is moving to the PNW from Texas worth it? More specifically, is it worth it if I don't have a college degree? Moving to Somalia from Texas is worth it. PNW is even better than that. I have a college degree but couldn't find a job to use it so I just have a grunt job with union benefits, it's pretty good actually.
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oxbrain posted:How about some sort of flat tax based on income. Or wealth.
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May 18, 2014 22:45
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Gerund posted: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. So she's a tool. :itisapun: Maybe she'll institute reform, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Ferry county is a landlocked one?  By the name I always assumed it was one of the island areas.
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May 25, 2014 16:31
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Gerund posted:Handing out jay-walking tickets in Seattle is a point of civic pride! And beating the 'mexican piss' out of jaywalkers too. I've been to a few Storm games, it's the same as going to a Sonics game was. If you like one I don't understand why you wouldn't like the other. I haven't been to a Reign game yet though.
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May 31, 2014 04:44
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If only those poor shooters had had more guns. Wait...
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Jun 11, 2014 05:56
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TheBalor posted:Has that ever happened? I'm not being sarcastic, I'm genuinely curious how often a mass shooting has been stopped by a vigilante with a gun. The seattle college guy was stopped by pepper spray (instead of a gun) last week iirc. Guns aren't needed.
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Yet another warning by the Wash. State Supreme Court that our congress is in contempt for not raising enough funds for education. Are they ever going to be jailed for it? They'd figure out a solution pretty quick if so. Maybe they could *gasp* create an income tax! (Yeah right  )
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Anyone else go to the Fremont solstice fair today? Weather was perfect for it, the naked bike ride grossed out my nieces and I laughed my head off. That area is great. One of the booths was an anti-$15 wage thing, but it looked like it was put together on the fly. No table, flyers, etc. Just a couple guys with ad-hoc signs. Can you believe the balls of them to do that in Fremont?
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Jun 22, 2014 03:01
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I have a week of vaca in a week and was thinking of touring the peninsula a bit then maybe hitching a ferry to the San Juans for a couple days, anything in particular I should see?
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Tigntink posted:
This is the same state that voted down an income tax for people only making 1 million or more per year. And voted for charter schools. And almost all of Tim Eyman's poo poo that hamstrings the budget. People here are retarded when it comes to money.
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Jul 8, 2014 10:11
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seiferguy posted:Good news! Tim Eyman's latest initiative to try and reduce state revenue by slashing the sales tax won't be on the ballot this November because he failed to collect the amount of signatures needed. This will be the first time since 2006 that there isn't an Eyman initiative on the ballot. He's been struggling because one of his biggest money-funding old men croaked last year, and businesses are starting to see that his initiatives rarely pass, or if they do, get defeated in court because they're unconstitutional. Wow, the one time I would've voted for his crap.
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So where the hell are the legal dispensaries? Is there a list? Googling just gives me hundreds of medical only ones.
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Hedera Helix posted:If the nuclear plant over in the Tri-Cities area is shut down, it's going to be replaced with coal or gas. They're not going to build another hydroelectric dam, and solar and wind aren't going to be able to fill that gap. Also, Hanford and Columbia Generating Station are two different things; Hanford is the one with the hideous waste disposal problems, going back to atomic bomb development during WWII. But it's good to see people conflating them, makes it easier to campaign for the plant's shutdown and replacement with fossil fuels. No, it just poisons the Columbia river and the fish in it we eat. Doubt the guy will win anyway, anyone that populist on the eastside has a snowballs chance in hell.
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Kaal posted:Are we still talking about the Columbia Generating Station here? Because warming up water doesn't poison anything. I was referring to all the leaks in the Hanford storage tanks.
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Don't they just re-post other articles now?
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Irradiation posted:God drat I loving hated those commercials. All I got from them was "LOOK HOW loving WHITE WE ARE". Well Oregonians are kinda racist...
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FRINGE posted:I met some of those. They were from CA. I hope it wasnt Gold Beach. My grandma used to live there. Also, tonight is Lou Pinella night at the mariners. Good times.
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anthonypants posted:Unironically do this to get conservative opponents airing ads of murderous hobos running the rail. Just hire Ernest Borgnine to be the rail bull, then it's an even chance for both sides.
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If Vancouverites pay higher than average taxes, why not move to Oregon?
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anthonypants posted:I've never heard of Dick's apart from the one that's already here, but people will not shut up about In-n-Out. You never listened to hip hop? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfOJaoeE3mQ&t=201s Seconding the Tutta Bella rec, drat good pizza. Seattle has tons of good pizza joints, but they're all a little different so I rotate. One has thicker crust, one is greasier, etc. When I went to UW I had way too much Pizza Ragazzi. Sooo good with beer. got any sevens fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Aug 15, 2014 |
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Beowulfs_Ghost posted:Po'Shines up in North Portland. I think WA is still trying to build a new coal shipping port or 2, but we have the nimby crowd doing what they can to slow/stop it. I can't blame em, running all that train traffic through downtown Seattle shuts down several big intersections, and the cars aren't even covered so coal dust flies all over the place. How loving cheap are the coal companies that they can't make a retractable cover like asphalt trucks?
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DrNutt posted:I'm sure the two-thirds of America in the service industry will give a poo poo. How many people even have a normal work week and holidays in our lovely new economy? Not I. i'm in the middle of a 10-day stretch, and work overtime almost every day.
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