So for millions and millions of years, beavers and salmon had no problems surviving. Then we come along and decide beavers are harming salmon. Isn't it more like WE have destroyed and restricted so much habitat that they both are threatened? Sheeesh!
I'm thrilled that Brits, Irish, Scots, Chileans, South Africans etc are publicly celebrating the death of Thatcher. Makes me realize that we were denied this catharsis when Reagan died by media hagiography, rightwing scolding and war-on-terror propaganda.
The Seattle Times article is great news indeed. Lots of apartments are being built in Seattle. Way more than are being built in other parts of King County. This reverses a trend of only a few years ago. If there is a bubble with a hard landing, then it means that some investors get hurt. Tough. That's the nature of investing. Of course, some builders might get hurt, and I have sympathy for those folks. Unfortunately, that is the nature of work these days. Ask a software engineer what it was like working (or not working) ten years ago. The good news is that if the bubble collapses, rent gets a lot cheaper. Ideally, there would be a soft landing, but if not, then I still think it is a lot better than what we have right now -- really high housing prices for folks who can barely afford it.
If I'm not mistaken, Thatcher was the reason we got involved with Iraq in the first place. Hussein decided to invade Kuwait just at the moment Bush was in London, and Thatcher convinced Bush and other European leaders to go along with the argument that what was merely a regional dispute was an assault on Democracy. If they had conducted their talks over the phone, Thatcher wouldn't have gotten her way.
@12 - I know, right? I'm sure everyone(politicians, media, conservatives, the public, slog commenters etc) will be respectful and only speak of the "good things he did" when Castro(or Mugabe) finally kicks the bucket.
#10 - Mandela was a terrorist, at least for a while. He was the head of the armed wing of the ANC, and advocated violent resistance to the South African government. You may have agreed with his goals, but he was no MLK-style pacifist. He was a terrorist.
@17 I know, right? The white minority apartheid government was so kind to the majority black population. How ungrateful to fight back with violence! Mandela should have thrown roses!!!
#18 - Hey, asshole, I'm just defining a word for you, and giving you a little history lesson to boot. I never said the white government was "kind" to blacks, and I never said violent resistance wasn't justified. Don't put fucking words in my mouth. Thanks.
Yeah, to the British and the 50% of colonists that supported the British cause, George Washington was a terrorist. They might not have used that specific word, but the shoe fits.
I don't see why you're getting your knickers all twisted.
The three new apartment buildings at 15th and Market start at $1200 for a studio, and range up to "might as well get a mortgage" for two bedroom. I don't see how they're going to flatten rental prices in the rest of Ballard. When the bubble bursts, the corporate landlords won't be able to afford to lower the rent; it'll make better sense for them to leave the apartment empty and take a tax write off.
Margaret Thatcher is dead. The media in the United States seems obsessed with this fact. Then again, the same media decided to report on Kate Middleton getting her high heel shoe stuck in a grate.
I do not understand the weird obsession the US has with the UK. They colonized a very thin strip of land thousands of miles to the East of this place. Russia, France and Spain colonized swathes of land far more vast than the British did. And yet we didn't eulogize the passings of Yeltsin, Azana or Mitterrand the way we are mourning Thatcher.
i don't get why everyone wants me to care about the UK. I really don't, not anymore than I care about any other country. I have as much concern for the condition of Moldova or Bhutan as I do for Britain.
This is the United States, not the United Kingdom. Let the people on the other side of the Atlantic struggle with their feelings about Margaret Thatcher. i for one couldn't care less about her. She was a fellow human being, and for that reason, I wish her family and those who loved her the best. beyond that, I have no sentiment toward her at all.
Had i not been for our national obsession with the UK to begin with, we would never have heeded Thatcher's advice. Or Blair's.
Listen, the more we fascinate ourselves with the goings-on in Britain, the more we obsess over what hat the queen is wearing today or some stupid comment made in their Parliament, the more drawn into these foreign adventures you describe. It's better to break the chain of obsession, and walk away from Britain altogether.
It's been almost 250 years since the Revolution. It's time to cut the umbilical cord and grow the fuck up. Let's walk away from the UK, and stop trying to copy them. If you look at how their Empire imploded, you wouldn't want to be them anyway. We're not British. We're Americans.
And do you know what the opposite of love is? It's not hate-hate implies that you at least have some regard for the target of your emotions, enough concern for that target to even have en emotion for them. It's apathy. The best way to give the middle finger to somebody or something is to stop giving a rat's ass about it.
Oh, Holy Iron Drawers, She Who Saveth Great Britain From the Scourge of Socialism. Funny how few people realize she supported Pol Pot. http://www.newstatesman.com/node/137397
Two million Cambodians died in Year Zero. Supporting Pol Pot would put pretty much anyone beyond the pale to me.
They never grow old?
Did you mourn Hugo Chavez?
http://images.wsdot.wa.gov/nw/005vc16939…
That is both appalling and hilarious. I thought you were kidding, but it's real. What a clueless, self-absorbed twit. Thanks for adding it.
(while the rest of us remember the real and lasting harm that witch did to the hundreds of thousands of people the rest of us loved and cared for)
I don't see why you're getting your knickers all twisted.
I do not understand the weird obsession the US has with the UK. They colonized a very thin strip of land thousands of miles to the East of this place. Russia, France and Spain colonized swathes of land far more vast than the British did. And yet we didn't eulogize the passings of Yeltsin, Azana or Mitterrand the way we are mourning Thatcher.
i don't get why everyone wants me to care about the UK. I really don't, not anymore than I care about any other country. I have as much concern for the condition of Moldova or Bhutan as I do for Britain.
This is the United States, not the United Kingdom. Let the people on the other side of the Atlantic struggle with their feelings about Margaret Thatcher. i for one couldn't care less about her. She was a fellow human being, and for that reason, I wish her family and those who loved her the best. beyond that, I have no sentiment toward her at all.
See @10 and @13, for starters.
Had i not been for our national obsession with the UK to begin with, we would never have heeded Thatcher's advice. Or Blair's.
Listen, the more we fascinate ourselves with the goings-on in Britain, the more we obsess over what hat the queen is wearing today or some stupid comment made in their Parliament, the more drawn into these foreign adventures you describe. It's better to break the chain of obsession, and walk away from Britain altogether.
It's been almost 250 years since the Revolution. It's time to cut the umbilical cord and grow the fuck up. Let's walk away from the UK, and stop trying to copy them. If you look at how their Empire imploded, you wouldn't want to be them anyway. We're not British. We're Americans.
And do you know what the opposite of love is? It's not hate-hate implies that you at least have some regard for the target of your emotions, enough concern for that target to even have en emotion for them. It's apathy. The best way to give the middle finger to somebody or something is to stop giving a rat's ass about it.
I'm so very bored with the UK.
Two million Cambodians died in Year Zero. Supporting Pol Pot would put pretty much anyone beyond the pale to me.