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posted by January 25 at 8:46 AM
onThe Senate Foreign Relations Committee has rejected president Bush’s new plan for Iraq.
The White House wants another $7-$8 billion to help secure Afghanistan, which just had its bloodiest year since 2001. Meanwhile, Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai says his country won’t spray the country’s heroin-producing poppies.
Children as young as six are being sold to brothels in Cambodia—some for as low as $10.
The Ford Motor Company lost a record $12.7 billion last year. Nonetheless, chief executive Alan Mulally confirmed that
despite the immense losses, Ford is considering paying bonuses to some of its executives to encourage them to stay on…
Existing home sales fell by 8.4 percent in December, the worse fall since 1989.
Still smarting from the 2000 election? Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says you need to get over it.
The U.S. military has a shiny new ray gun that “shoots a beam that makes people feel as if they are about the catch fire.” Look for it at the next Republican National Convention.
The Seattle Sonics say a new arena would be great for local businesses—all for the low, low cost of $530 million.
The teenager who died at the King County Juvenile Detention Center last week had swallowed cocaine when he was arrested two years ago. A toxicology test following his death is pending.
Sen. Ken Jacobson [D-Seattle] has introduced a measure to allow dogs in bars. On a related note: Why, exactly, are we paying him?
The ballot language for the March 13 viaduct vote has been set. It reads:
Advisory Measure 1 Seattle Advisory Measure Number 1 concerns replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a Surface-Tunnel Hybrid Alternative. This measure is advisory only. If you vote yes, you are stating that you prefer that the Alaskan Way Viaduct be replaced with a four-lane tunnel with wide shoulders that could be used for peak-period travel, in addition to surface-street and transit improvements. The estimated cost is $3,410,000,000, to be potentially funded with $2,800,000,000 in state and federal funds, $500,000,000 in city utility funds for utility relocation made necessary by the project and $250,000,000 from a localized tax on specially benefitted landowners. The Governor has said state and federal funds might not be available above $2,800,000,000.Yes, I prefer the Surface/Tunnel Hybrid Alternative
No, I do not prefer the Surface/Tunnel Hybrid Alternative
Advisory Measure 2
Seattle Advisory Ballot Measure Number 2 concerns replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct with an Elevated Structure Alternative. This measure is advisory only. If you vote yes, you are stating that you prefer that the Alaskan Way Viaduct be replaced with a six-lane elevated structure, increased to four lanes in each direction between South King Street and new ramps at Seneca and Columbia Streets. The estimated cost is $2,800,000,000 to be potentially funded with $2,800,000,000 in state and federal funds.Yes, I prefer the Elevated Structure Alternative
No, I do not prefer the Elevated Structure Alternative
Comments
Does $500,000,000 strike anyone else as way too steep for utilities relocation?
What, a hidden (and dishonest) Seattle taxpayer subsidy for Greg's tunnel Moby Dick? Say it isn't so!
Given the City's recent history of being sued successfully for misusing utility funds as a cash cow for other projects, that certainly does bear further investigation...
What do you have against the guy introducing the dogs in bars bill? You do realize people own dogs, take them places, even to work, why not the bar? It's a valid question that many a friend has asked me, "which bars allow dogs?" Currently it's illegal for any bar, but some turn a blind eye.
Pull that stick out, yo.
This gay adoption row has been the top story over here the past couple days. Basically the Catholic Church wanted its adoption agencies to be exempt from having to allow gay couples to adopt, the spineless Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Anglican church, put his weight behind them, and the government has just said no.
I'll be happy with dogs in bars the day that some significant portion of dog owners learn how to control their animals, i.e., never. Seattle has the stupidest and worst dog owners in the world. No, carrying a baggie full of dog shit does not make you a superhero.
I think $500 mil is cheap to relocate the utilities. Realize they don't even know where many of them are.
Fnarf, I'd argue that dog owners in the UK and Ireland are much worse. They don't care where their dogs shit, so the sidewalks are covered with it.
Hey, I'm all for dogs in bars. Thinking of it as a stalking horse for bar liberalizaton. First the dogs, then the strippers.
Really, this is Seatlle for chirst sake. You should expect no less of a Seattle-ite senator to attempt to introduce liberal dog related legislation.
It's god damned required.
look, i love my dog and everything, but the last thing i want to see in a bar are dogs playing around, sniffing people, jumping up on tables, pissing everywhere, barking, and all that stuff. there is a bar where i take my dog, but that's because they have a big outdoors area, and she can be out there with me.
Jesus christ guys, read the farking article.
"Establishments wouldn't be required to allow dogs unless they are service animals. And Jacobsen's favorite haunt would likely stay dog-free."
All this does is make what several bars are already doing in town legal.
Fucking alarmist douche-bags, the whole lot of you.
You mean after we can go out to a bar and come home without smelling like an ash tray we have to go and deal with a bunch of dogs slobbering all over us on the dance floor? Who voted for that idiot who is proposing this anyway???
Doesn't Norm's in Fremont already allow dogs?
I guess I'd rather have dogs at bars than babys. I used to like going to Grady's for a French Dip and a beer, but now that it's the hid-friendly Montlake Alehouse, I have no interest in going.
Wow, Seattle98104, touched a nerve this issue has.
I'm surprised the Sonics haven't come out for a No No vote on the Tunnel Viaduct to pay for the $530 million in taxes they want to steal from us.
And, yes, Norm's does allow dogs. I eat there at times, they're nice. Don't bring badly behaved dogs, though.
Yeah, I think I popped a vein.
To repeat for all the OMG teh dogs will invade my clean spaces folks.
All this bill will do is allow bars that want to allow dogs in their bars to allow dogs (in their bars). It doesn't force bars that don't want dogs to allow them.
OMG TEH DOGS!!!
Context helps. Sales volume dropped 8%, but prices actually appreciated:
"Even with the sharp drop in sales last year, the median price of an existing home sold in 2006 managed to rise a slight 1.1 percent."
I for one am excited about the dog thing. She already comes with me everywhere I can take her. I would leave if she started misbehaving. I wouldn't take her to Neighbors, for chrissake (not that they would allow it). I would love to have my bodyguard walking me home when I need it the most.
I for one welcome our dog bar enabling overlords and look forward to telling the wait staff to clean up the dog poo.
well i want a five foot rule on your filthy stinking dogs while i'm in the bar!
oh, and technically, Norm's isn't a bar, it's a restaurant. It does have a bar, great food, but the real bar on that block is next door. The other one is also a restaurant, which initially was a bagel shop that started selling sandwiches, and now has a bar.
The estimate for utility replacement and upgrades on the seattle web site from a 2006 briefing says it will cost $180M
http://www.seattle.gov/council/attachments/06awv.pdf
very nice find, Peter S.
But was the $180M for the fancy new "Hybrid" tunnel? With only 4 "lite" lanes instead of 6, it'll be almost three times as hard to find the utilities. Somehow.
Housing sales dropped, but they've been booming for years on end now. Still the raw number is probably among the highest months ever.
Say no to the Sonics' $530M stadium. That could buy 5,300,000 Cambodia child prostitutes. Everyone in the greater Seattle metro area could have their own!!
Sorry, math skills rusty. That's 53 million child prostitutes. Two for every Washington citizen!!
Er, 8, not two. Wish there was a delete post option. I'll stop talking now.
I don't have a dog, nor do I especially like them, but I've never experienced a problem with them in the few bars I go to which do allow them. There are a lot of friendly, well-behaved dogs in the area, and a bar owner would be foolish if they allowed any other kind to be inside. Most owners know if their pet is suited to this sort of atmosphere. Most bars will continue to ban all but service animals, so don't get your panties in a bunch over it.
And Senator Ken Jacobsen is a hard-working representative who earns his pay, which is more than I can say for some of the state legislators I have met...
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