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A raccoon wandering through a power substation in Ballard around midnight today caused an electrical short that left 11,000 customers without lights for nearly an hour — and spelled the end to the critter.

When Seattle City Light workers arrived at the Canal Substation at 614 NW 45th St., “they could tell by the smell that an animal was involved,” said Mike Eagan, spokesman. Apparently the raccoon “bridged the wrong gap” on the transmission lines, he said.

Only unnecessary because anyone with a sane mind already knew it to be true.

Google's move is a transformative step toward the city's own vision of being a community where people can work, live and play all in the same place, she said, and where people walk more and sit in traffic less.

What a credulous hack. The only thing accessible by foot is going to be people's cars. These stout sprawling buildings (along with all of Microsoft's and Nintendo's, etc) ensure everyone on the eastside is going to be sitting in traffic for the rest of their lives.

1. don't order "biscuits and gravy" in a diner. It's "biscuits and gravy." It'd be better to just be who you are instead of trying to fake it you know.

2. Rail against the gas tax holiday all you want, we understand the fine policy reasons etc. etc. But please:
get a plan for some immediate benefit to the working class. Something. So you show you care? So you show you are a leaer not just a kibutzer (sp?)?

In addition to the long term stuff.

Seems like you don't care and if you are only on the defensive it's not so good for you.

How about putting on a windfall profits tax and sending everyone a check from that? Call it a "War pfrofits tax" or something. Take that money and fund green engineering investment, green r and d, hybrid subsidies, or college costs for the average Joe.

Something.

IF you think the gas tax is helpful for the environment etc. etc. why not have some balls and raise it then?
Then [pass it back to those who need it or green infrastrudcture, etc.

When you just oppose you don't look like a leaer and you cdon't connect with people.

Btw when you say it won't work because the oil companies will just raise the price anyway.....you look like a total wimp vis-a-vis the oil companies. Why would you let them get away with that shit?

3. Funniest line of the day: J. Carville:

Hillary can give one ball to Barack, and they'd both have two.

4. Um, you haven't changed anything you are saying for a while. Suggest your declarae victory, seat MI and FL, float HRC for VP and float someothers for cabinet including a few generals, work with the DNC to start the general election campaign (tyhis may have already started, kudos, but make a big pr deal about it -- hell create a joint BHO-/HRC-DNC unity committee because all of you folks are going to work for the ticket whatever it its, right??

You need an udpated message and the above suggestions fall into the whole hope change unity thing you promised before. You need to take it to a new level now.

Pls. make a note of it.

Keep dreaming, my mysticism-loving friend.

Ah, now there's the sort of clarity that unPC can always be counted on to bring. Along with pages and pages and pages of other crap, of course.

#13, I have a hypothesis:

H(unPC) = sqrt(Tc - T)

That is, as the time until the convention approaches 0, the entropy of unPC posts also approaches 0.

Chances are they'll settle in Fremont, Frelard, Bollyford, or Fremont Ridge.

@19: Downtown Kirkland already has a relatively dense population, and there are more condo/apartment developments going in, and has plenty of restaurants, shops and nightlife, plus lakefront parks. Lots of young workers from Microsoft and other Eastside companies live there. I would be willing to bet that a large number of the Google people settle in Kirkland.

In fact, this is just the kind of development we should support. It's not practical or desirable to have *everyone* work and live in Seattle. A vibrant downtown like Kirkland, with desirable employers like Google within half a mile -- I don't understand what's wrong with this picture.