Though solar would probably work better but unfortunately I don't have 10-20 grand lying around. If only the City and state could subsidize such things.

I personally love the wind farms, they seem like some alien art installations when you come over the hill going east to Vantage. Maybe the residents would like them more if they featured more "quaint" touches like fucking wooden geese in gingham bonnets. Gah.

There was a headline yesterday in what might be deemed the legit press reading, "World Awaits Release of Paris." I wasn't waiting, were you?

Is the American media driving its own engine?

Someone should frame the front page of today's Times and send it to James Kelly and Mack. One hell of a chief they chose to defend. James Kelly's credibility just took a dive. Mack doesnt care cuz he doesn't live here anymore.

Who does this shock?

I couldn't find it on youtube - nahsing!

It's just as dumb as trying to stop wind power ...

But I thought that guys with the sad, unfortunate bangs (the guy from Blackbook) was supposed to be the savior of Out. I never bothered to check it out; guess I wasn't the only one.

Maybe Ms Graves can review her drawing for us? Notice the phone on the wall and her wide eyes yearning for freedom or a, nevermind...

http://www.tmz.com/2007/06/26/paris-totally-sketched-out/

The system was built over the last century, but saw major expansion during the 1930's WPA era. Those irrigation canals were built using tax payer money back when the area was arid desert (think south Washington Tri-Cities/Eastern-Central Oregon dry, not The Gorge “greenier” kind of dry) to provide water from the Columbia, Wenatchee Yakima, etc. rivers to food and cattle farms. Towards the end of the 2Oth century, those massive hundreds of acres farms where sold off by the parcels and turned into single family homes. Those homes retain, in addition to expansive, vastly reaching views, a share in the irrigation water.

That water, which could be retained in the rivers for other uses (salmon culitivation comes to mind), is instead being used to water Kentucky Blue Grass lawns and azalea shrubs. These days, very few drops of irrigated water actual hits a cash producing crop. Those same owners who oppose the turbines do benefit from public water drawn from publicly owned rivers and also benefit from regulated cheap in-state produced electricity. The turbines will clash with the ambience of those (irrigation watered) green hills. There is no greater good being served since the “homesteads” do not produce any benefit to society outside of a small tax revenue. IMHO they really should not have a say in the matter since they have no argument beyond ambience. To paraphrase: sometime the needs of the many, outweigh the needs of a few homeowners. That’s the American way for you.

There, Dan, I said it.

I forgot how much I hated Dan Savage for that little diddy he wrote in the Stranger supporting the war. Now that anger is back!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

And I forgot how much I hated people that voted for Nader in 2000. That anger is back too!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

For 7 months this letter has been mailed and for 7 months I have never recieved one reply. Not one peep. Just an FYI.

So, again, Grant: the Nader vote?

if there's a culprit, it's the jim crow assholes down in florida. if you want to blame someone, blame them. they're the ones who put up road blocks, purged voter rolls (of people who were legally entitled to vote--i won't even get into the jim crow ex-felon disenfranchisement laws (which we share)), etc.

By the way, New Hampshire went Democratic in 2004.

The Nader documentary that's just been released on DVD spends a good deal of time interviewing members of the Nader camp. They aren't apologizing for anything. They say the Nader vote came from people who wouldn't have voted if he hadn't been on the ballot. Nader energized people who were otherwise uninterested in the process. Therefore, Nader didn't steal votes from anyone. Maybe that is partly true, but I sure would like to see what would've happened without Nader on the ballot.

I'm convinced the only way a three/four party system works is in those cases where there is parliamentary representation of all parties. That isn't going to happen here in the States. The Dem/Rep thing is too ingrained.

It did matter. Modern politics is nuanced. The monorail debate, and the commons debate are nuanced. Grant may have fought for the monorail, but the death of the monorail was not about a city who loves cars (nearly all American cities love cars) but about a failed implementation of a transit project. That's not to say that Seattle isn't very backwards about transit; it is.

But, 20 years (really? You were on this for 20 years?) is a drop in the bucket. If you believe in it, then you should stick with it even if the going gets tough. Throwing away your effort at the 20 year mark seems like a waste of those 20 years more than any few defeats you faced along the way.

But, yeah, fighting the commons seems to have been a mistake (I supported it then, and remain glad that I did). Park space would have existed that won't now exist. Period.