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That zombie George Washington bit sounds like the Sleepy Hollow TV series.
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No blowing off M80s on the hill, you assholes! Now have a happy fourth!
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CNN headline: "Women on Supreme Court lash out"
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What's up with those broads on the Supreme Court? Must be that time of the month, amirite?
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So Seattle should be paved over with tall buildings and make everybody and family live in an apartment? I believe that's what they are doing in China.
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Re: Scaife and the Clintons, there's more to the story. Christopher Ruddy, who had earlier been an attack dog for Scaife, helped create NewsMax Media with funding from Scaife.
…In the fall of 2007, however, Ruddy published a positive interview with former President Clinton on Newsmax [dot] com, followed by a positive cover story in the magazine. The New York Times noted with reference to the event that politics had made "strange bedfellows". Newsweek reported that Ruddy praised Clinton for his Foundation's global work, and explained that the interview, as well as a private lunch he and Scaife had had with Clinton, which Ruddy says was orchestrated by Ed Koch, were due to his shared view with Scaife that Clinton was doing important work representing the U.S. globally while America was the target of criticism…
And
On April 20, 2008, two days before Pennsylvania's presidential primary, Scaife's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.
If anything, this reflects poorly on the Clintons rather than well on Scaife.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mel…
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the whole writing RIP thing, whether you call him an asshole or call him a great civil rights / great chemist / great feminist / great orator /great hero.... writing RIP has been done to DEATH, meaningless now
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No one cares about the price of houses in Seattle.

It's the price of houses in Lakewood, that matters more.

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Destination Unknown comes on at 12:15pm at Kent Lake Meridian!

http://durocks1.wix.com/2012#!__about

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building rail to all corners? we were going to do that with a monorail added to light rail and nickels and the ST board killed it off when it needed a few hundred million more after the bad $11B finance plan was replaced with one costing about half as much then a few phase outs of the delivery to ballard plus $300 M down payment from the city would have changed the whole finance curve. But no -- ST killed it off by not stepping up and being part of a solution. Even if they said "we'll take the real estate and route and stations but switch it to a skytrained light rail" they could have done that instead they loved killing it off in a fit of political schadenfraude. so the people you can thank for us not having rail to all corners are them plus many others collectively most of us failed to fix the finances in the monorail or integrate the X route idea with light rail when it coulda shoulda been done back by 2005. we threw away a huge tax stream which by today likely would have been even bigger since on my block instead of 10 year old volvos like I saw in 2005 the folks buying these half million dollar houses are driving BMW suvs, highlanders, and new volvos, lots of cars worth $40K and throwing away that mvet for the monorail was a huge mistake. building rail all over is how big cities work, we're woefully behind and the current ST build out plans will leave us way behind when they are done years from today. you can thank a bunch of democrats who joined some republicans in killing off what could have been a successful rail complement that would have created our X system inside seattle. ballard and interbay are booming, so is west seattle, so is EVERYWHERE we are drowning in traffic, the conclusion is still the same you must go under or above, under is more costly, cost is the primary problem, so darnit, build the other n s line we need here -- to get to all corners -- THAT's how the middle class working class mom in "next to shoreline" gets downtown for first job then over to bellevue cc for class then back home at night. you just won't ever be able to have rapid transit with bus, ped or bike improvements.
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"Up 6% around here. A house in Seattle will set you back a half a million dollars these days. So families and working people will continue to be priced out of Seattle until we rezone huge chunks of the city (more than 70% of Seattle is zoned for single-family housing), embrace building taller buildings (a la Vancouver, B.C.), and shrink the city by building light rail to all corners. If you're against all of that, you don't get to whine about house prices because you are part of the problem."

seems to me that all those people whose house you want to bulldoze might be against that. (the half that already live in houses).

the other half, that live in higher density housing who you suggest should cheer for that so they can live in another high density unit? and btw, Dan, a taller building like Vancouver costs MORE to build and live in.

or is this more of the "build more and prices will go down" nonsense?

too much "locker room" last night, Dan?

and of course, here is Anzel yesterday lamenting just this loss of homes Dan cheers for:

"We did not, however, on this particular route, pass any of the gleaming, boxy, modern homes that keep popping up throughout the area, driving rents up and displacing longtime residents. No one with the megaphone talked about gentrification."

hooray for ideology based journalism!
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"nd working people will continue to be priced out of Seattle until we rezone huge chunks of the city"

Even your quiet little single family Cap Hill neighborhood Dan? You'd accept apodments all around your comfy single family home? Are you demanding your quiet, upscale neighborhood be rezoned LR4?
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@7, the whole RIP thing isn't meaningless; it simply means someone croaked. It isn't going anywhere. Might as well get used to it, because you'll be looking at it until you RIP.
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@10 +1

Dan, don't be surprised at the patronizing remark about the judges dissent from NPR. It is by and large a neo-con propaganda media outlet heavily funded by conservative corporate foundations.
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@13:
Right on!
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The dissent by the 3 women Justices was to the issuance of some follow-on orders on Thursday, expanding the reach of Hobby Lobby to faith-based NGOs.

Y'oughta refrain from posting on the basis of half-remembered radio murmurings. Read the damn paper - it was in this morning's NY Times.
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Huh? It didn't seem to make anyone cringe when it was said an 'all male majority' ruled in favor of HL.
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The man who left his son in the car to die claims he took him for breakfast to Chick-Fil-A.

That's their clientele.
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In Seattle and the several cities covered by the recent work-force housing study, the clearest finding is that the best predictor of high rents is high density. Density is much more significant than regulation, for example, or area. Increasing the density of Seattle will increase housing costs, just as it has elsewhere.
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I invented Zombie George Washington years ago...

http://youtube.com/ZombieGeorgeW
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Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday paper, picked up the story of that animal who baked his child in his car. And included a picture.. The child looked beautiful. The dad, like the arse wipe he is.
A story of ugly torture, to ones own child. Cause he didn't want to be a parent anymore.. A truly sick fuck.
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If you build more housing, prices will, in fact, go down -- I don't see how prices could go up in a world where Seattle housing is plentiful. As to the modern shoeboxes going up all over town, thouse are houses for sale, not the apartments or condos that urbanistas would like to see more of.
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Um... Richard Mellon Scaife also supported Planned Parenthood and abortion rights, supported legalizing same-sex marriage and marijuana, and opposed the invasion of Iraq in 2003. He also gave $100,000 to the Clinton Global Initiative and his newspaper newspaper endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton's bid for president in 2008.

Please wait...

and remember to be decent to everyone
all of the time.

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