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Post by tensor SP continues getting their hate on our democracy: The Onion explained, way back in 2000. A study released Monday by the American Public Transportation Association reveals that 98 percent of Americans support the use of mass transit by others. It really is that simple. Well, the voters of the greater Seattle area explained, back in 1996, [...]...
Effin' Unsound - Mon 11:25 p.m. - 3 clicks 
Former Washington State Republican Party chair and failed 8th Congressional District candidate Diane Tebelius has a poll in the field testing the waters against 48th Legislative District Democratic incumbent Representatives Ross Hunter and Deb Eddy. From all accounts the questions are pretty typical for this sorta poll: right/wrong direction, favorables/unfavorables, descriptions of the candidates...
HorsesAss - Mon 9:03 a.m. - 2 clicks
Post by Carl I know Democrats are in the minority with 59% of the Senate and all. Of course, as Nick has pointed out numerous times, the filibuster isn’t a rule in the Constitution, and having 60 votes for everything doesn’t really have to be a thing. So with that in mind, the Seattle Times’ desire [...]...
Effin' Unsound - Sat 10:47 p.m. - 12 clicks
The state of George has gotten some attention for being the home of a bunch of banks that have failed. But Washington state seems to be catching up. Frontier Bank of Everett is gone now, absorbed – via regulatory action – by Union Bank of San Francisco. (How much more concentrated will banking be at the [...]...
Ridenbaugh Press (Washington) - Sat 10:26 p.m. - 11 clicks
Dino Rossi may, or may not, be running for the US Senate against Patty Murray this year. My pal Goldy’s most recent thoughts on the subject, posted this morning, indicates that the smarmy real estate huckster may be moving in the direction of running. Apparently, the dulcet tones of Big John Cornyn, who heads the National Republican Senatorial Committee, have begun to entice Dino...
Peace Tree Farm - Sat 12:13 a.m. - 4 clicks
Ayep, that would be Louisi-anna. That humongous fucking oil spill is coming ashore for some fuckin'. It's gonna fuck up everything in sight like a whole platoon of drunken sailors on shore leave. Fifteen hundred miles of shoreline is going to have a trail of smegma that is going to make Alaska jealous and long for the good old days after the Exxon Valdez. 210 THOUSAND gallons a day , from a mil...
Ornery Bastard - Fri 11:42 a.m. - 12 clicks
How do right-wing ops get their stuff onto allegedly straight news in Seattle? One way is to slip it to KOMO radio’s ultra-conservative news-reader Carleen Johnson. Tuesday, in a news clip, KOMO news radio listeners heard wormy Fox News star,......
BlatherWatch - Thu 12:41 a.m. - 9 clicks
The Washington case over whether names on ballot issue petitions must be kept private or are public record went to oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court today. Read through the transcript, and you’ll probably see a leaning toward the public-record side of the debate. Here are some pieces of the transcript, from the Supreme Court [...]...
Ridenbaugh Press (Washington) - Wed 7:21 p.m. - 8 clicks
Mark Emmert Let’s see now, once again: A large part of the rationale behind paying university presidents such ever-increasing salaries is the concern that if they weren’t so paid, that they might leave if they turned out to be good in their job . . . So here we are, as University of Washington President Mark Emmert, [...]...
Ridenbaugh Press (Washington) - Wed 5:44 p.m. - 9 clicks
Post by tensor Jim Miller actually accidentally gets one right: Like Other Incumbent Democrats Coast-to-Coast, US Senator Patty Murray In Trouble in Washington State: (Verbs are just so totally over-rated! Not that a polling firm should take care in the construction of coherent statements…) Even the most liberal of Washington State’s voters simply must agree: Democrats currently holding [......
Effin' Unsound - Tue 10:03 p.m. - 8 clicks
The lede, an hour or so ago, from Jane Lorber's blog Green in the New York Times: Several thousand people gathered Sunday on the National Mall in Washington to observe the 40th anniversary of Earth Day and to urge Congress to pass climate and energy legislation. What if they gave a climate rally and Fox didn't cover it? ...
DailyKos (Washington) - Apr 25 - 3 clicks
Dino Rossi of the Prefers G.O.P. Party has been keeping Republicans on pins and needles over whether or not he will challenge third-term Senator Patty Murray (D-WA). Rumors on the street is that Rossi does not want to go to Washington, but the Republican leadership can’t find anyone better than the two-time [...]...
Hominid Views - Apr 25 - 5 clicks
Post by Carl I don’t have an opinion on the Trib not running a Charles Krauthammer piece about Washington Nationals baseball. But I do think it’s an amusing coincidence that one of their editors wrote about it so close to Charles Krauthammer Day, 2010. ...
Effin' Unsound - Apr 23 - 3 clicks
1077 splash sign on web Whatever your other views of Tim Eyman, there is this: The man knows something about running ballot initiatives in Washington state. No one is more experienced at doing that than he is. (He is even in the process of running a new one now.) So when asked about Initiative 1077, the just-filed [...]...
Ridenbaugh Press (Washington) - Apr 21 - 5 clicks
The Washington Federation of State Employees this weekend did something rare for them: They decided to withhold support for many Democratic candidates this year, especially many in the state legislature. Here’s what their statement said: “The delegates, meeting in Seattle, evaluated the performance of state senators and representatives and concluded most of them have waged a [...]...
Ridenbaugh Press (Washington) - Apr 20 - 5 clicks
Post by tensor Those People [Who] Want Limited Government have, accordingly, strictly limited the sizes of their protest crowds: …”several hundred” gathered at Westlake Park in Seattle. In other words, about as many persons as you can find waiting in bathroom lines during any moment of a Mariners’ game. (In those lines, though, the signage is to the [...]...
Effin' Unsound - Apr 19 - 3 clicks
