tim koch : all Pacific Northwest women can head on over here to Olympia, Washington Planned Parenthood for all of your Plan B and general birth control needs. the City of Olympia officially loves and welcomes you all.
May 9
tim koch commented on Seattle Beer Week: It Begins!.
tim koch commented on Seattle Beer Week: It Begins!.
bethany, try not to market booze to much to washington state high school kids, ok. the center for disease control says that underage drinking leads to higher teen pregnancy rates. did you read that state of the worlds mothers report? it says the united states is the worst place in the industrialized world for newborn babies.
May 8
tim koch commented on A Critical Overview of The Stranger.
tim koch commented on A Critical Overview of The Stranger.
The Seattle area also has well-paid blue-collar jobs: aircraft assembly, shipyard work, machine shops, stevedoring, commercial construction, etc. There are women in all these fields, but more men. Women can work hard for long hours, but more men than women can handle a jackhammer or a big chain saw, or drive a big yellow bulldozer, or conduct a choo-choo train, or hoist a garbage can full of trash, or stevedore it up on a hot summer day. This has nothing to do with discrimination and everything to do with men's superiority over women.
Women have made huge strides in indoor work: law, accounting, finance, waiting tables, changing diapers, mopping floors, academia, and government. Why, this very issue of The Stranger is practically festooned—festooned like a stevedore's clipboard, we like to say around the old newspaperman's lunch table—with writers of the feminine persuasion. (prez, and you guys, look ok ignore bruce ramsey he is fukin dumb. also, i feel that there may be alot of underreported income disparity between male and female workers who work the same exact jobs, and women also get passed up for alot of jobs too, that they are evenly qualified for. which is why you don't have many women chiefs of police and big truck drivers. thats the main stuff i think. if someone has a higher skillset and makes more money just because of that reason alone, then that is not part of the sexist income disparity problem found in seattle, i think.
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Women have made huge strides in indoor work: law, accounting, finance, waiting tables, changing diapers, mopping floors, academia, and government. Why, this very issue of The Stranger is practically festooned—festooned like a stevedore's clipboard, we like to say around the old newspaperman's lunch table—with writers of the feminine persuasion. (prez, and you guys, look ok ignore bruce ramsey he is fukin dumb. also, i feel that there may be alot of underreported income disparity between male and female workers who work the same exact jobs, and women also get passed up for alot of jobs too, that they are evenly qualified for. which is why you don't have many women chiefs of police and big truck drivers. thats the main stuff i think. if someone has a higher skillset and makes more money just because of that reason alone, then that is not part of the sexist income disparity problem found in seattle, i think.
May 3
tim koch commented on Fatal Car Crashes Are Down.
tim koch commented on Fatal Car Crashes Are Down.
12: i hear you, i haven't driven a car in 20 years, but i don't think CDC (who wrote that list i put there) handles bus or transit stuff. im fine with "taxing beer for buses" though, my man mike mcginn over there would be fine with that idea too.
May 3
tim koch commented on Fatal Car Crashes Are Down.
tim koch commented on Fatal Car Crashes Are Down.
i like that cdc link there:
What Can Be Done:
States can:
-Enforce 0.08% blood alcohol concentration and minimum legal drinking age laws.
-Expand the use of sobriety checkpoints.
-Require ignition interlocks for everyone convicted of drinking and driving, starting with their first offense.
-Consider including strategies to reduce binge drinking—such as increasing alcohol taxes—to reduce drinking and driving, since the two behaviors are linked.
-Pass primary enforcement seat belt laws that cover everyone in the car.
What Can Be Done:
States can:
-Enforce 0.08% blood alcohol concentration and minimum legal drinking age laws.
-Expand the use of sobriety checkpoints.
-Require ignition interlocks for everyone convicted of drinking and driving, starting with their first offense.
-Consider including strategies to reduce binge drinking—such as increasing alcohol taxes—to reduce drinking and driving, since the two behaviors are linked.
-Pass primary enforcement seat belt laws that cover everyone in the car.
May 3
tim koch commented on Fatal Car Crashes Are Down.
tim koch commented on Fatal Car Crashes Are Down.
see eric, i got dom here worried about i-502. washington state ranks among the worst in america in dui fatalities, thats just the facts dom:
http://usdotblog.typepad.com/.a/6a00e551…
http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/drinkingan…
http://usdotblog.typepad.com/.a/6a00e551…
http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/drinkingan…
May 2
tim koch commented on Worst News: Slayer Guitarist Jeff Hanneman Dead at 49.
tim koch commented on Worst News: Slayer Guitarist Jeff Hanneman Dead at 49.
shit, first my dog, then this. terrible, i read on slayer's website that jeff was all fucked up from being bitten by a spider. this is terrible news for the metal world. we smoked alot of pcp back in the day listening to slayer in old graveyards, trainyards, and abandoned mental asylums and stuff like that back in new jersey. rip jeff
"thrives amongst the seven gates, searching for the keys.."
"thrives amongst the seven gates, searching for the keys.."
Apr 16
tim koch commented on Rally in Olympia on Friday to Fight the Beer Tax.
tim koch commented on Rally in Olympia on Friday to Fight the Beer Tax.
jay,
i am sorry i made the rob mckenna supporters, i mean right-wing bar owners, upset with you, im also sorry you have to hear their whiny bullshit now. i do agree with adam kline that using the beer tax for dui related stuff is a good idea, its seems a responsible move on his part. prez, ALEC is just mad at jay here because he is looking to increase tax revenue with his proposed budget, thats all this shit here is about.
i am sorry i made the rob mckenna supporters, i mean right-wing bar owners, upset with you, im also sorry you have to hear their whiny bullshit now. i do agree with adam kline that using the beer tax for dui related stuff is a good idea, its seems a responsible move on his part. prez, ALEC is just mad at jay here because he is looking to increase tax revenue with his proposed budget, thats all this shit here is about.
Apr 10
tim koch commented on The Morning News: Obama Reveals Spending Plan and Twinkies and Anthony Weiner Get a Second Chance.
tim koch commented on The Morning News: Obama Reveals Spending Plan and Twinkies and Anthony Weiner Get a Second Chance.
megan: parents play a key role, ok. there is, um, koch dna, so to speak, in that wine bill and in prez's budget.
Apr 6
tim koch commented on Thank God Emergency Contraception May Finally Be Available Without Bullshit Restrictions.
tim koch commented on Thank God Emergency Contraception May Finally Be Available Without Bullshit Restrictions.
anna, thank you for reporting this. i am tired of the lewis powell memo and its associated mindset. the thing makes for these bad decisions by prez and sebalius. i think the goddamn thing just makes people stupid and cruel altogether. and, also, women's reproductive rights should not be filtered through someone from Kansas for fucks sake prez. (dude, wise the fuck up, you went harvard, i know people who went till the 9th grade with more sense than you people sometimes..)
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