Jan 14
The Shadow Blows commented on Republicans Officially Seize Control of Partisan State Senate.
So what is the procedure for filing recall election petitions against Tom and Sheldon ? Even if these are unsuccessful, it will create stress and distraction for both of them.
Dec 18, 2012
The Shadow Blows commented on What I Would Do About Guns.
Well, and what about requiring the purchase of liability insurance for each firearm? It seems to me that this would be a fair, equitable and productive strategy that imposes a financial cost on gun owners proportionate to the number/danger of their arsenals. The inevitable payments could be split between victems and affected municipalities, and it outsources a lot of the necessary bureaucratic hassles to those effective parasites in the insurance business.
Dec 14, 2012
The Shadow Blows commented on Time to March?.
A march is a great idea, but I think instead of the usual government offices there should be nationwide marches on all of the local NRA chapters, or perhaps the homes of prominent local Republican politicians and loudmouths.
Dec 14, 2012
The Shadow Blows commented on Washington Ceasefire Director on What Can Be Done, Right Now, to Improve Gun Control Laws in This State.
So maybe someone like Washington Ceasefire & Such groups could put out a call for nationwide marches on local NRA headquarters... imagine hundreds of people chanting outside of every NRA office "murder...murder...murder..." and holding up pictures of of slain children.
Nov 12, 2012
The Shadow Blows commented on Morrissey and Me.
The Smiths were great, but I had a very hard time warming up to Morrissey. As a straight kid in moderately redneck Colorado I had a number of friends who adored him, but I could never understand or warm up to him. This combined with my mid 80's teen redneck state homophobia made me a bit of a dick about the whole thing (did liking the Smiths means I was a fag? or way worse...that I would NEVER get laid?)
And he did have a propensity to act like such a pompous ass in public... but my Smiths friends were so much cooler than me. And sophisticated. And nice. And accepting. and those guitar lines...Johnny Marr was (and continues to be) amazing...and Meat Is Murder perfectly overlapped my discovered of marijuana. Wow. How soon was now? Maybe I was a faggot after all, and maybe that was okay, I didn't know... and there were girls. Mopey cute girls...and it was so much easier to relax with the black clothing semi-gothy Smiths/Cure people than the very stressful macho overdrive punk people or macho redneck metal people. Oh it was amazing to feel the energy of the punky and metal music....it was so cathartic, but everyone was so much tougher and butcher and altogether dude-er than I was, who could relax with those people? ...it was one fucked up misfired adventure after another with frightening and intimidating people and consequences constantly. The Smiths were melodic and wonderful and those guitars just went on and on and I never had to put up with being 'faced' or out macho-ed.
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And he did have a propensity to act like such a pompous ass in public... but my Smiths friends were so much cooler than me. And sophisticated. And nice. And accepting. and those guitar lines...Johnny Marr was (and continues to be) amazing...and Meat Is Murder perfectly overlapped my discovered of marijuana. Wow. How soon was now? Maybe I was a faggot after all, and maybe that was okay, I didn't know... and there were girls. Mopey cute girls...and it was so much easier to relax with the black clothing semi-gothy Smiths/Cure people than the very stressful macho overdrive punk people or macho redneck metal people. Oh it was amazing to feel the energy of the punky and metal music....it was so cathartic, but everyone was so much tougher and butcher and altogether dude-er than I was, who could relax with those people? ...it was one fucked up misfired adventure after another with frightening and intimidating people and consequences constantly. The Smiths were melodic and wonderful and those guitars just went on and on and I never had to put up with being 'faced' or out macho-ed.
Oct 16, 2012
The Shadow Blows commented on Just Because It Floats Doesn't Make It a "Vessel".
@ 3 there is some privately owned property under water in Lake Union, but that goes back to when the Montlake cut was made; on the Lake Washington Side the water level fropped by a few feet and uncovered new land that had been underwater, on the Lake Union side some treviously dry land was inundated. In cases where the inindated lands were owned by someone, their property rights continued.
Oct 16, 2012
The Shadow Blows commented on Tonight: An Epic Fight About Lake Union Waterhomes.
@ 24 Your point is clearly stated and well made. Which makes you, well, clearly a jerk.
Oct 15, 2012
The Shadow Blows commented on Tonight: An Epic Fight About Lake Union Waterhomes.
@10, I gotta say, living in a little 300-sq ft boat next to Gasworks is as "hipster friendly" as it gets...its just most hipsters ain't hip enough to have hipped themselves to the nautical grooverhood, dude. shhhh. don't tell them.
Oct 15, 2012
The Shadow Blows commented on Tonight: An Epic Fight About Lake Union Waterhomes.
@6 in this case the owners would not be paid anything by the city, they would just have their boats declared "not boats" and told to high-tail it, even though they have qualified as boats under the City's definition for the last 30 years. These aren't the big millionaires yachts that are affected, these are the little flat bottomed lake boats owned by old hippies and do-it-yourself nuts. Its not a condemnation under eminent domain, but an ex-post facto change in a legal definition. If the city wants to change the definition of "Boat" then they owe it to those folks already there to grandfather them in, like they did for all the rich folks in the floating homes.
Oct 15, 2012
The Shadow Blows commented on Tonight: An Epic Fight About Lake Union Waterhomes.
The article conflates a couple of points, and therefore gets the debate somewhat backwards. Currently there are three different things:
1) Floating homes; these are the big things along eastlake. they are architecturally buildings built on giants floats/barges permanently moored and hooked up to regular land sewer and water...the number of floating homes is capped, but they are all grandfathered in. Nothing important is happening with these.
2) Barges; there are 34 of these grandfathered in; these are like smaller floating homes in most ways, but built on real barges and not hooked up to shore sewer/water. Their number is also capped and they are grandfathered in, nothing is happening to these under the new shoreline code either.
3) vessels; these are boats and "house boats". DPD and the City are changing the definition a boat in the new code in such a way that several hundred people who to date have been scrupulously obeying the law will suddenly be deemed "not boats" and not compliant. They will lose most of the value of their investments...these are the small square bottomed boats with motors and steering systems; typically owned by working folks and retired folks in lieu of a small house. Essentially this will destroy the life savings of about 300 middle class and retired families. The Stranger should visit some folks at Gasworks Park Marina and talk to the Lake Union Liveaboard association. This isn't a case of a few rich guys being told their yachts have to move...under the proposed new definition even the hugest of Paul Allens yachts would be totally groovy, but grandma's 30-foot flat bottom lake boat would be illegal. The nominal issue is "gray water" (black water is already pumped out via pump-out services). Gray water is things like dish water, which on some boats its true, does get put back in the lake...but the proposed new rules don't do anything to limit of regulate the gray water they use as a justification, instead, they just screw the small boat owners.
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1) Floating homes; these are the big things along eastlake. they are architecturally buildings built on giants floats/barges permanently moored and hooked up to regular land sewer and water...the number of floating homes is capped, but they are all grandfathered in. Nothing important is happening with these.
2) Barges; there are 34 of these grandfathered in; these are like smaller floating homes in most ways, but built on real barges and not hooked up to shore sewer/water. Their number is also capped and they are grandfathered in, nothing is happening to these under the new shoreline code either.
3) vessels; these are boats and "house boats". DPD and the City are changing the definition a boat in the new code in such a way that several hundred people who to date have been scrupulously obeying the law will suddenly be deemed "not boats" and not compliant. They will lose most of the value of their investments...these are the small square bottomed boats with motors and steering systems; typically owned by working folks and retired folks in lieu of a small house. Essentially this will destroy the life savings of about 300 middle class and retired families. The Stranger should visit some folks at Gasworks Park Marina and talk to the Lake Union Liveaboard association. This isn't a case of a few rich guys being told their yachts have to move...under the proposed new definition even the hugest of Paul Allens yachts would be totally groovy, but grandma's 30-foot flat bottom lake boat would be illegal. The nominal issue is "gray water" (black water is already pumped out via pump-out services). Gray water is things like dish water, which on some boats its true, does get put back in the lake...but the proposed new rules don't do anything to limit of regulate the gray water they use as a justification, instead, they just screw the small boat owners.
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