http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/01/15/seattle-bag-ban-pronounced-popular-and-successful Comments On: Seattle Bag Ban Pronounced "Popular and Successful" by Cienna Madrid en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 25 May 2013 10:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by alki44]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:31:19 -0800 The Stranger http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/…
Posted by nelsonj7474]]> Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:33:38 -0800 The Stranger
During spring and summer, though, the Davidson current disappears and only the southward-flowing California current remains: with this current, the Coriolis effect creates offshore movement.

If you're going to name yourself as some champion of science and logic, you might actually want to know a thing or two about science and logic. In your rush to put "progressive" in quotation marks five times per post and make convoluted Sarah Palin comparisons, it seems you overlooked a couple obvious things.

There; now you can tell me how having any actual knowledge about basic local oceanography is just such Sarah Palin "progressive" bullshit.
Posted by Bonefish]]> Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:22:33 -0800 The Stranger
Of course, I'm giving you logic. But you are a "progressive," and like your right wingnut cousins, you are not about science, or logic. You are all about your faith, which is really faith in your superiority, or actually the need to generate that faith to cover your insecurity. It's a game of appearances, not reality.

Call your good friend Sarah Palin, #52, and pray on it. You're just as stupid and hypocritical as she is, and every bit as stubborn in your ignorance.
Posted by Mister G]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:35:20 -0800 The Stranger
Strangulation
Restricting mobility
Disrupting digestion
Marine animals often mistake plastic bags for food, such as jellyfish. Once eaten, the bags cannot be processed and block the digestive system, making it very difficult for animals to get proper nutrition, and can lead to a slow and painful death from starvation or dehydration. To make matters worse, when the creature dies and decomposes, the plastic bags will be re-released into the environment."

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Posted by stating the obvious]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:04:51 -0800 The Stranger
#50, somewhere a "progressive" was raped by a plastic bag, which is why the hive mind has declared them evil.
Posted by Mister G]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:44:16 -0800 The Stranger Posted by dirac]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:18:48 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:31:02 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sarah70]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:07:13 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Christampa]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:39:56 -0800 The Stranger
#40, I have quickly accumulated a dozen or so cloth bags. One of them crapped out after about five uses, and the others are wearing out fast. I wash them after each use, which is what public health authorities recommend. Of course, "progressives" wouldn't ever want to know about the people whose medical status might make them more susceptible to infections, just like the "progressives" who are fighting their war on cars wish that the elderly and the disabled would just die already. As for the "sad trombone," I'll do just fine. I'm accustomed to the change, and consider it minor. But it's one of those small things that shows so vividly how Seattle's "progressives" are just as stupid, hypocritical, science-denying, and faith-based as the wingnuts to whom they're always pretending to be so superior.

#44, no shit, huh? The worst thing is how they think they're smarter and better.
Posted by Mister G]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:40:55 -0800 The Stranger
And I now drive my car a bit more cause I don't like dealing with paper bags when walking or busing.
Posted by ryanmm]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:31:32 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Confluence]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:07:25 -0800 The Stranger Posted by WestSeven]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:35:24 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Ben]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:26:49 -0800 The Stranger
And Mister G: The study assumes cotton bags are made entirely from virgin textiles. This isn't necessarily the case. Environmentally speaking the best option is to make the damn thing yourself. All it takes is an old t-shirt and some thread...
Posted by zivilisierter Wurm]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:04:38 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:54:55 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:32:43 -0800 The Stranger Posted by ScruffyBallardMan]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:15:19 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Mister G]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:47:18 -0800 The Stranger
But hey, they're biodegradable!


Posted by Mister G]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:44:12 -0800 The Stranger
And not "Gosh, I know he's right but I hate admitting I'm wrong" annoying. More like "little kid who pees his own pants just to be a pain in the ass" annoying.
Posted by Ben]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:41:30 -0800 The Stranger
But hey, that's fact, science, and evidence. Which amount to absolutely nothing when opposed to "progressive" vanity, ego, appearances, hypocrisy, ignorance, and "faith."
Posted by Mister G]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:39:21 -0800 The Stranger
To my reading of it, all the biggies are there: thin disposable plastic (banned here), thick plastic, reusable cloth, reusable vinyl, paper, biodegradable plastic. And they gave cloth a big break, because they never examined (or maybe I missed it, but I don't think so) the environmental issues involved with laundering cloth bags.

So there you go, doing the typical "progressive" imitation of Sarah Palin: denying science, dancing around the facts, playing word games. It's quite frankly what I expected, because it's how "progressives" in Seattle handle pretty much of everything they do.
Posted by Mister G]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:34:18 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Mister G]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:26:58 -0800 The Stranger