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posted by on October 25 at 8:40 AM
War: President Bush holds press conference, says…
”I know many Americans are not satisfied with the situation in Iraq.”
…then proceeds to ramble on yet again about trusting his generals and refusing to set a timetable. But hey, at least we’re not `staying the course.’
Health: Hospitals inch closer to universal care all on their own in an effort to keep costs down.
Politics: Worried about the election, Bush and company set to work conning religious conservatives once again.
Crazy Dictators: North Korea warns South Korea of war.
Government Secrets: Police hold drug raid in New Mexico, turn up classified nuclear documents instead.
Science: Brits are gearing up for a the world’s first full face transplant.
Traffic: The New York Times notices our viaduct debate. (Note to viaduct obsessives: Please wait for separate post from Erica C. Barnett and/or Josh Feit instead of hijacking this thread. Thank you.)
Tax Dollars: Retiring Port of Seattle chief gets raise, already makes more than heads of Los Angeles and New York/New Jersey ports.
Dead Local Icon: Kurt Cobain now top-selling dead artist in America. Suck it, Elvis.
Living Local Icon: Could Ichiro be leaving after this season?
Cobain was a hero to most of us.
Cobain was a hero to most of us.
But he never meant shit to me. The sucker was a slacker-him and Johnny Depp.
Ichiro is totally leaving. He's a winner, and the M's are well, losers. He turned 33 last sunday, so he doesn't have that many more years left in him, and he wants to win a world series.
I'm guessing a 2-3 year deal for $5-$8 million per year.
Also, the St. Louis Cards took a 2-1 lead in the World Series. Looks like all the prognosticators have to revise their predictions. *again*
:)
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/10/25/iraq-failure.html
Hans Blix "Iraqis better off under Saddam"
Only if you were Suni perhaps, Brian.
Can someone inform me why the salary of the Port of Seattle chief executive is being increased while the port is losing money, losing business and continues to require a property tax subsidy to stay afloat??
Fer Chrisakes, isn't anybody watching the hen house around here?
---Jensen
The Port has always been a fucking joke. They should be MAKING money, not losing it: it's a cash cow. No one has any idea how to reform it, because the reformers are even stupider than the crooks. Currently they're obsessed with building a gazillion-dollar "biotech hub", which is nice, except that all the biotech jobs are in San Diego, not here. No one at the Port seems to be at all interested in, you know, shipping.
Fnarf, I am still trying to figure out why we have two cruise ship terminals and a third at Pier 91 now being proposed and designed to replace the two already in place.
I guess when nobody will hold you accountable, you can do what you want.
The Port of Seattle has got to be winner of the most dysfunctional agency in the state.
---Jensen
You wanna see a REAL sad sack baseball team, playing in front of 37,000 empty seats every night? You will, at Safeco Field, if Ichiro walks or is traded.
He is more than just a good hitter, outfielder and leadoff bat. He is a Japanese icon, Japan's Ty Cobb, that has made Mariner fans out of thousands and thousands of Japanese. If he goes, those fans go too; they're not gonna pay to see Kenji Johjima or, if we sign him, Daisuke Matsuzaka. That's like replacing Michael Jordan with (sorry Josh Feit) Gilbert Arenas. You're not just losing a player.
Sadly, by retaining manager Mike Hargrove, who Ichiro allegedly despises, they've taken another step, along with all the losing, towards nudging him out the door.
A large part of the problem with the Port is ... well, us. We keep electing the same old crooked commissioners. There were several reformer types running in the Port election last year, but they lost to the feather-your-nest types.
The Port needs a major restructuring, and the Port commissioner jobs maybe should pay enough so that the Port commissioners aren't automatically holding their hands out for kickbacks, the way they are now.
The Port jobs shouldn't be elected. They're not in New York/New Jersey; the head is jointly held by the two governors, and they appoint the board. The members are professionals, not glad-handing sycophants. I'm sure they waste plenty of public dough, but they know how to run a port. Ours are an embarrassment. It's telling that they run a huge deficit every year; our port operations all told lose a fortune every year. That's backasswards.
As for Ichiro, fans who come to the park because of him are a hindrance to proper club management. They should be coming out to support a winner. This argument is the same one that led the M's to hold onto past-pull-date dreck like Bret Boone way too long, and continue to ensure garbage like Willie Bloomquist a spot in the lineup he doesn't deserve.
I agree that Ichiro is a worthwhile player, but his iconic value means nothing to me. They pay him to PLAY. And the fact is, in right field he's probably not worth as much as some other team would pay for him -- but in CENTER field, he's worth much, much more. In right, he's an All-Star; in center he's an MVP candidate, one of the four or five best players in baseball. $5-8 million is ridiculously cheap.
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