Still buttmad about the Steelers whupping your butts a few years ago, are we?

@1, it was the league assistance that we resent. Yesterday, Sneaky Pete returned unfortunately. Should have just trusted his team, and gotten out of the way. An NFL coach would have been down 20-6 at halftime. The missed field goal is one for the ages - what an idiot?

Paul the Octopus DID correctly predict the World Cup final in 2010, but he died that October. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Oc…

The Stranger's journalistic integrity demands a correction to this grevious error.

Shit. Changes to civil commitment laws is so dangerous. We do not have the infrastructure to support that and it is ripe for abuse against the mentally ill. This is going to get bad.

Should be noted:
Technically it wasn't another Japan Air 787 Dreamliner that leaked fuel on a runway -- it was the same one that did it a week ago, doing it again, but on a different runway!

And something one of you whippersnapper cub reporters in the SLOG newsroom, seeking to make a name for him/herself, might want to check into:

Most of the 787s delivered so far were built in Everett, but back in April 2012 the first new Dreamliners started rolling off the South Carolina plant's scab/low-salary/non-union member assembly line.

It would be very interesting to find out whether all the ones having suddenly having problems now were built there --on the cheap-- instead of by good ol' reliable Northwest union labor, right here!

@3, are you still complaining about officiating, SEVEN YEARS LATER? If the Seahawks really wanted to win that game, they could have. There's no conspiracy, just sore losers looking for a scapegoat.

Green Bay had that bad call cost them the game here in Seattle, which, in effect, caused GB to not get the #2 seed, a bye, and home field advantage yesterday (which could have changed the outcome), but are we still complaining about it AT LENGTH less than 6 months later? No. Get over it.

Seahawks aren't the homecoming kings, but at least they did make it to the prom, and their classmates all wish them well.

This is the kind of unprincipled crap that makes my head hurt.

The Republican party, the party of individual freedom and liberty, in a desperate effort to protect their unregulated and irresponsible gun ownership are willing to support involuntary commitment of the mentally ill. Nice commitment to freedom and liberty there.

From there it will follow the course they have run so many times before, with education and social services. To reduce the amount of money that the government seizes from job creators, these mentally ill people will be warehoused as cheaply as possible. Then, when the inevitable tragedy occurs, it will be evidence that government can't do anything right despite the millions of taxpayer dollars that we spend on the broken system (nevermind that the system is tragically underfunded they will claim that throwing money at the problem won't solve it). They will complain about the high cost of administration and then demand more accountability - which, of course, is provided by more administrators.

They have this strategy all figured out and they run it again and again because it works for them.

Meanwhile the whole effort is simply a distraction to prevent us from actually dealing with the real issue: unregulated and irresponsible gun owners.

@7, a clipping call on a QB in the Super Bowl is pretty hard to forget. No one is looking for a scapegoat, just not forgetting it happened. The Green Bay call was made by the replacement refs and the strike was settled soon after. Really apples and oranges - get over it yourself.

@9,
While I agree that republicans will do everything they can to fuck up and underfund any changes to the mental health system that might be enacted (and then blame government for not working), I don't agree that it's a distraction.

Responsibility and accountability for gun ownership are important, yes, but at the root there's still a lot of untreated mental illness. Making sure the mentally ill can't get guns is a great idea, but it still doesn't solve the problem of them being mentally ill and dangerous. Perhaps we DO need to address the possibility of more easily confining them.

Kind of rich to see Seahawks fans complain about officiating (almost a decade later at that), when the refs have been letting the Seahawks defense get away with egregious holding and illegal contact all season, not even to mention the free win the refs gave you over Green Bay.

Also, with a head coach who has made his reputation on cheating, rule-bending and cheap play.

In the game of ref-blaming, you guys have no legs to stand on.

No argument about Sneaky Pete, and hated every shot on Sunday of the master of cheating, Bill Belichek, in his short-sleeve hoodie.

@13 free win? The refs called it based on how they saw it.

Sour grapes much?

@15: No, I am not a Green Bay fan, so I do not really care about that game. You actually have to care for it to be sour grapes.

It is just really, really funny to see Seattle fans complain about refs when they gave you six points for throwing an interception. What more could you ask of them? Eight points? Did you want that last throw yesterday to be a touchdown too?

Sorry, but "I called it like I saw it" is not an excuse when you have replay and can watch it in super slo-mo from several angles, with a chance to reverse your obvsiously bad initial call.

People watching on TV could see it was obviously an interception. Placing one hand on the ball when the other player has two arms wrapped around it and pulled to his chest is not a "mutual catch," even if you sneakily put the other hand on the ball once on the ground. They confirmed the call to save face, and the NFL backed it for the same reason. Even Lynch agreed after the game that the call was the wrong one, even if he could not say it explicitly.

@12 It astounds me (but does not surprise me) how the gun-righters can be so gravely concerned about more red-tape for obtaining guns, or the loss of rights to certain guns... and yet, have seemingly little concern for how an innocent citizen can more easily be (in effect) incarcerated for their 'dangerous mind'.

Granted, both are encroachments of one's constitutional rights but the latter is a thousand times more unsettling to me.

@13 You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Name one way Pete Carroll cheated on anything.

Also Golden Tate had joint possession with his feet on the ground first and mutual possession goes to the offense. The Packer defender didn't have his feet on the ground and he did not maintain control while going to the ground per NFL rule. If he wanted to be credited with an interception he should have completed the process of the catch. If Calvin Johnson's TD against the Bears wasn't a catch the neither was the Packers.

@15, of course it's sour grapes. Otherwise, it's some false equivalence about a call in week 3 equalling a few questionable calls in Super Bowl XL.

Super Bowl referee Bill Leavy publicly admitted that he made at least two botched calls in Super Bowl XL that effected the results of the game.

Also let's not forget that an egregious bullshit PI against Kam Chancellor led to the Pack's only touchdown in that game. If not for that call Green Bay punts instead.