If the neighbors had had a bulldozer, they could have stopped him.

I wonder if SLOG will ever be able to go one day without worshiping their gun fetish.

I have loved many of my teachers, and even among those I did not like, I have respected their position and efforts. Hard work, bad pay, occasional reward.

That said, I have had 2-3 teachers that seemed to truly not care to be there, and it spilled out all over the students. They were there as part of the school's football stuff - and maybe, in a fieldhouse, they were marvelous instructors. In the classroom, they were placeholders and seatfillers - teaching by group reading of handouts, and overheads, and providing nothing else - and oh how I wanted to go off on them Bliss-style.

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a bulldozer is a good guy with a bulldozer.

Oh seventeen year olds with ideas about how the world works are precious.

Rand Paul blames Hillary Clinton for Benghazi. Then we should assume he blames George Bush for 9/11? I wonder if he's just covering up for Al-Qaeda? That's it! Rand Paul is in a secret pact with Al-Qaeda!!!

I love Killdozer...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnnmuHXSo…

Re the possible death penalty for the Cleveland girl-snatcher, a couple of the victims claim he may have had a fourth woman in his clutches, who mysteriously disappeared from the house one day. Ashley Summers, who was 14 when she disappeared in 2007, lived in the same area. There are two others also missing from Cleveland's west side.

Boeing has joined the race to the bottom by moving jobs to states with lower wage scales. Any respect I had for Boeing dissolved long ago when I saw that they canned people at the drop of a hat with zero remorse. Yes, they pay well (or used to). Yes, they get Christmas holidays off with a nice holiday bonus. But what they don't tell you is that you need to save that extra cash for when they can you. No wonder they've had so many problems with the Dreamliner. Who wants to go all out for a company that's probably going to ditch you?

Shame on you, Boeing. You were once the pride of Seattle and you blew it.

...and about that Cleveland shit who passes as a human being - I don't want him dead. I want him locked up having to endure the same circumstances he imposed on those poor victims. Zapping him with a million volts is too good for him.

"Loyalty to workers and the regional economy" — what's that? Is that a thing that used to exist in the business world?

@6

See, in the real world facts matter.

President Bush read an intelligence assesment seconded by the intelligence communities of every major western nation, that Iraq had WMD's. But that really wasn't the point. The point was that Iraq was in violation of a UN mandate to allow inspections. Refusal meant that the UN could (and did) use military force to enforce that mandate. Whether this was a good idea is a valid question. Saying Bush lied, was a war criminal, or all the other leftist propaganda is merely hot air.

President Obama is one of two things. He is a liar or he is incompetent. Well, I mean, he's both as evidenced by his term in office and his laughable claim that existing insured under Obamacare haven't had any negative impacts. Seen your insurance premium lately since that passed anyone? Anyone? Hello? But the press is his propaganda machine so they gave him a pass on that one. and every other bold faced whopper the son of a bitch tells.

But when a United States Consulate is under attack, or even when such an attack might be rumored, the president knows about it. It isn't something buried in the bottom of a pile of reports on his desk in the morning. It's a phone call to his office telling him exactly the threat. If in fact he went to bed, as he claims, and missed all the excitement he did so ignoring the need for his attention to the crisis, not in ignorance of that need.

Nor were the facts muddled. The CIA warned about danger several times in the weeks leading up to the attack. Consulate staff several times asked for additional security which Hilary Clinton denied while admitting it was needed. All this prior to the actual attack on the consulate. During the crisis, 4 highly trained men were about to board a plane already going to Benghazi to help and were ordered back. Special forces a block away died after refusing an order to ignore the danger their countrymen were facing and bravely trying to help.

After the attack intelligence reports never mentioned a video about Islam or demonstrations of any kind, except to say that possibly the attack was motivated by Egyptian demonstrations regarding that video. The leading official in Libya after the death of Stevens was never asked what had happened by the administration or Clinton. And the president and Hilary Clinton knew this while publicly stating the opposite. They knew they were lying and asking Rice to lie. They knew this while Clinton demanded the CIA rewrite their report 12 TIMES to make her look halfway competent.

The difference is one of an ill advised but lawful war in Iraq based on a UN resolution on the part of President Bush, and a self serving pathetic lie to cover up Obama and Clinton's part in the death of Stevens and the brave men in Benghazi.

@15: We can always count on you to join the conversation in a fair and balanced way.

Woo-hooo!!!! Seattleblues not ranting about homos for once! Yaaaay!

Nifty shift from @6's comment about 9/11 to some weird claims about Bush and Iraq, of course, but hey, at least Seattleblues seems to be suppressing his thoughts about anal sex for once!

Required reading: @15.

@15:

President Bush read an intelligence assesment

Hm. Would that be the assessment that included clear warnings that Al Qaeda was preparing to attack the US in the months prior to 9/11? The ones President Bush ignored?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinio…

@19: And if Bush had taken military action prior to 9/11 he would have been castigated as a war monger - and you know it.

@20: Um...or he could have stepped up security at airports et cetera. Not to Monday-morning-quarterback, but the intel had suggested that planes might be hijacked.

@20: You do know that there are effective responses to threats to national security that lie somewhere between "Continue reading My Pet Goat" and "Invade the wrong country," don't you?

@15: "President Bush read an intelligence assesment seconded by the intelligence communities of every major western nation, that Iraq had WMD's..."

This is such a massive revision of history that it makes me dizzy. Nobody believed Hussein had WMD's except a bunch of Iraqi expat grifters and their neocon advocates in the Bush administration.

@22: I do indeed. And if even if Bush had done anything from increase airport security to covert actions with special forces he would have been castigated as anything from a big-brother constitution violator to a war monger.

Not saying he shouldn't have take more action, but from the 2000 election on -- his opponents were seething for an opening to hop on the war monger narrative.

@23: And the British, and the Russians I believe.

Jeff Bliss is my hero today. He's not yelling at her; he's telling her the painful but obvious truth. I sure as hell wouldn't want to sit in that airless classroom day after day blowing another seven hours of my life on bullshit like that. Yes, there are fantastic teachers doing really tough jobs in shitty conditions every day. But for every sincere and hard working teacher out there, there is also someone pushing packets, not giving a fuck, just getting through to the end of the day when they can head home. It's a disaster, and it's a profound disservice to every person at the mercy of this system and these idiots.

Forgiveness by the victim or victim's family means fuck-all in a criminal case. This is why criminal cases are titled "[government] v. [accused]"--when you commit a crime, all of society is the victim.

#9

Oh please...Seattle is unaffordable for any family making the average wage and even if you have slightly "higher paying" IT job it still doesn't go far. It is not about getting rid of legacy emplyees because Boeing salaries are teeny tiny for all. It is that they cannot hire anyone new here for those prices and expect they will be able to buy a house in a decent neighborhood.

I know no one here drinks from the fountain called Reality, but the Job Sprawl...or rather, Mad Dash...into more middle class Districts is just beginning.

@24: Stop. You are embarrassing yourself.

There are myriad ways to increase security - appropriately, temporarily, in a measured fashion, in response to credible threats - that don't require violating the constitution.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. And because GWB failed to provide even the tiniest milligram of prevention, in response to real and credible threats, the USA - and much of the rest of the world - has had ten metric shit-tons of cure shoved up its ass for ten years. Two invasions. Two failed states. Abu Ghraib. Gitmo. And we're all still taking our shoes off at the airport.

All your apologist bleating and saying "No! No! Look at Benghazi!" won't change that.

1,7

You need to back to the source.

To 1974.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UECR8LhpR…

#30 cont. d

Scratch that.

1944 !!

http://www.theodoresturgeontrust.com/sto…

@7 I know! I automatically thought about "The Pig Was Cool".

@5 you're a condescending prick with, if this comment is any indication, some pretty trite and tired ideas about how the world works.

@28 Wait WTF? Ok let me try and unpack what your saying.

Paying a middle class wage is too ornerous for corporations because they used to pay middle class wages. So we shouldn't expect them to do it again because employees expecting to live comfortably is unreasonable. That's your reasoning?

#35

In the Midwest, the price fell to $129,000 in February from $130,500 but rose 7.7 percent from the year before.

http://www.realestateabc.com/outlook/ove…

Get it? The same salary in Kansas is the equivalent of a pay raise compared to the expensive northwest.