http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-good-the-bad-and-the-fucking-nuts/Content?oid=11986804 Comments On: The Good, the Bad, and the Fucking Nuts by Goldy, Dominic Holden, Cienna Madrid and Eli Sanders en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by auntie grizelda]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:30:40 -0800 The Stranger That wins the prize right there for fucking nuts!

No, no, no! They're in second place. Auntie, you don't give yourself nearly enough credit.
Posted by Mister G]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:33:27 -0800 The Stranger That wins the prize right there for fucking nuts!

Posted by auntie grizelda]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:16:23 -0800 The Stranger
Almost everything we eat has been genetically modified to make it better for human consumption. Corn is a huge example; tomatoes; etc., Cross breeding is genetic modification people!
Posted by anarchyeddie]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:36:07 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Spookie]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:29:56 -0800 The Stranger Protect our organic food and label genetically modified organisms.

Does this include hybrid tomoatoes and anything made from them? If so, then everything tomato will have a label, because every single tomato anyone has ever eaten for at least the last two centuries has been a genetically modified organism.
Posted by Mister G]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:21:39 -0800 The Stranger
Posted by deedee666]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:19:25 -0800 The Stranger Posted by jenc01]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:23:28 -0800 The Stranger
Protect our organic food and label genetically modified organisms. Call today to demand support:

Senators
Hatfield, Brian (D) Chair JAC 237 (360) 786-7636
Shin, Paull (D) Vice Chair LEG 407 (360) 786-7640
Honeyford, Jim (R) * INB 107 (360) 786-7684
Becker, Randi (R) INB 115B (360) 786-7602
Delvin, Jerome (R) INB 202 (360) 786-7614
Haugen, Mary Margaret (D) JAC 305 (360) 786-7618
Hobbs, Steve (D) JAC 239 (360) 786-7686
Schoesler, Mark (R) INB 110 (360) 786-7620
*Ranking Minority Member
Representatives
Blake, Brian (D) Chair JLOB 306 (360) 786-7870
Stanford, Derek (D) Vice Chair JLOB 318 (360) 786-7928
Chandler, Bruce (R) * LEG 427B (360) 786-7960
Wilcox, J.T. (R) ** JLOB 424 (360) 786-7912
Buys, Vincent (R) JLOB 470 (360) 786-7854
Dunshee, Hans (D) JLOB 370 (360) 786-7804
Finn, Fred (D) JLOB 418 (360) 786-7902
Hinkle, Bill (R) JLOB 421 (360) 786-7808
Kretz, Joel (R) LEG 335A (360) 786-7988
Lytton, Kristine (D) JLOB 310 (360) 786-7800
Orcutt, Ed (R) JLOB 408 (360) 786-7812
Pettigrew, Eric (D) LEG 434B (360) 786-7838
Van De Wege, Kevin (D) LEG 434A (360) 786-7916
*Ranking Minority Member **Asst. Ranking Minority Member
Posted by dscreeen]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:50:33 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Shafted by Stranger posting false charges from a waitress]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:47:51 -0800 The Stranger
The emergency guns bill is just common sense. It prevents the governor from denying Washington citizens their federal constitutional rights to keep AND BEAR arms when every time it snows 4 or 5 inches.
Posted by Paddy Mac]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:42:53 -0800 The Stranger
I've been riding a bike since I was twelve. That's fifty years of biking. I also drive. I joined a bike club. Sometimes I have to drive to get to the ride. I have driven from Spokane to Vashon to take a boat to Blake Island and go mountain biking.

I feel uncomfortable going over twenty miles per hour on a side street. We had a meandering dirt road full of potholes. Everybody drove real slow. Now we have an urban street. Everybody speeds everywhere. There is no serenity and nobody waves anymore. Be careful what you ask for.

We get five cents credit for every grocery bag we reuse but they don't last forever. And we do have reusable bags. I carry an extra rucksack in my bicycle bag so I can pick up groceries on my way home from a ride.

One day I did all my shopping by bike. I planned my route so I would get the small light items first and saved the big stuff and frozen foods for the last stop. I had my basket and backpack full and grocery bags hanging from the handlebars. It didn't seem to take any longer and I got some exercise. It seemed to take all day when I would drive the car anyway.

I don't beong to any organized political party, I'm a democrat.
Posted by Charlie Greenwood]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:33:41 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Mister G]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:58:06 -0800 The Stranger
Ask Oregon how much they lost on the 2% millionaire tax, or New York.

Tax poverty until there are no poor no more.
Posted by Slam1263]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:26:15 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Arthur Zifferelli]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:47:58 -0800 The Stranger
But I also think it's a side issue. To me, the main event is this irrational faith in fixed-rail mass transit. I believe that Portland will eventually abandon the white elephant it has built.

In cities with the density to support meaningful commuter rail networks, such as Boston or Chicago, those systems are in financial crisis. Boston just announced that it will be raising commuter rail fares by 40% and cutting night and weekend service, which was pretty much skeletal to begin with.

If they are doing this in East Coast cities far more affluent and densely populated than Seattle or Portland, the rail fetishists here should be looking for other solutions. But there is no sign of their even considering that. For them, it's full steam ahead, right towards the cliff.

Very strange.
Posted by Mister G]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:40:48 -0800 The Stranger
Some nations require military service and basically arm citizens to the teeth and still they have no violent crime in comparability to America.

some gun stores are being operated by drug addicted criminals who are not doing a good job as similar to SPD?

SPD needs to be addressed as they are still trying to cling to Dino's lounge and all of that its ok if police are criminals as its all undercover work and we are just making it a world where criminal police can own and operate drug and criminal infested lounges.seems most of the policepiggys and politypiggys have neglected to remember the D.C. Sniper and his Seattle Tacoma antics? then again they don't remember anything until they get shot and then we are all to feel sad and remember them?

as most of it is corn flakes its really a hog troth to keep pigs busy from addressing real issues as they don't have time to save America from going broke or getting killed or being treated like shit?

right after the weather men said la nina was a bust as we had two months of warm dry winter after the first winter storm Seattle says its spent all its budget for Winter DOT work?

So its like they call it a "budget" but in fact its fabricated amount of fictional moneys reported for some Blind accountant with hearing problems?

one storm? in a mild winter and yup! the clowns are broke.
Posted by slade]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:30:58 -0800 The Stranger
The part that really irks me is that we're collecting no extra tax revenue from these two-wheeled whiners AND they want there own lanes. I say OK, but let's make 'em pony up the license fee or whatever. No free ride for you bozos!
Posted by brandnutopian]]> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:56:33 -0800 The Stranger The Stranger doesn't like guns. It's probably because they've never been shooting before.

Being anti-gun is a tribal thing among liberals, until they get robbed.
Posted by Mister G]]> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:51:38 -0800 The Stranger Posted by GabrielDiesel]]> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:41:35 -0800 The Stranger
We still have way too many people lingering in the left lane on the freeways, but speeds have risen where possible. The idea of different driver testing is one of those Worthy Goals, but it wouldn't make much difference given that you only get tested once.

HB1217 comes from the cyclista lobby. They want to make it as hard as they can to own a car here. They hope that people will demand more fixed rail systems that we'll never be able to afford, and which reflect a cityscape that existed only in the East and Midwest, and even there was outdated after the 1970s.

It's a weird mindset: part nostalgia, part rail fetish, part liberal Puritanism, part the architect/planner's lust for a retro-moderne city that existed in the sci-fi films and literature of the 1940s through the 1970s. In short, a geek's vision strictly from books and movies.

The remarkable aspect of it is that they've been able to con so many people into voting for rail lines, and for politicians who will enact their "war on cars." They do it by spinning a fictional vision of a smoothly operating city that will never exist. It's a fantasy world, and people need to be made to see that it won't happen.

There are alternatives that make much more sense and can actually happen over the next few decades: electric cars and remote guidance of individual vehicles. Google already has this up and running on a test bed in California. It can provide all of the benefits that the transit types say they want, while preserving the messy personal freedom that, in the end, the cyclistas, New Ubanists, and mass transit fetishists absolutely hate.

Posted by Mister G]]> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:47:40 -0800 The Stranger
On the East Coast, you respect the fact that cars are bigger than you and will kill you if you get in their way and ride accordingly. Seattlites, are cavalier about their surroundings when en route. I don't know how many times I've almost hit a pedestrian crossing against the light and they don't even acknowledge I'm there. Many bicyclists are no different, assuming that you'll negotiate them, not vice a versa, which to me is completely insane. If you're riding a bike in the city, you better be on point at all times or else you shouldn't be riding.

If I were to suggest a solution, it would be to utterly revamp the DMV and the way in which drivers are tested. There are so many basic concepts of safe driving that are not taught, and should be.


Posted by brandnutopian]]> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:09:01 -0800 The Stranger It's a "Shoot the Messenger" bill that puts an end to quality traffic engineering studies before making the substantial change of reducing 35, 40, and 45mph speed limits to school-zone 20mph speed limits in the dead of night without a study, public input, or accountability.

The fun part is the hypocrisy. The same people who told the Roosevelt neighborhood that they were rich old NIMBY racists because they didn't want 65-foot buildings next to their high school turn right around and want Miss Grundy in any neighborhood to be able to get the city to cut the speed limit to 20 mph in front of her house.

The cyclistas hate cars and so does the mayor. But we hate the mayor, and we'll get him out of there in 2013. Question is how much damage will the fucker do in the meantime?
Posted by Mister G]]> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:51:23 -0800 The Stranger
Take everything (including this) written on this website as being the thought processes of a bunch of overwrought losers with nothing better to do than vomit electronic detritus onto the comment board.
Posted by Kindumbseattle]]> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:02:50 -0800 The Stranger
"This bill would scratch that provision and make it legal for gun-toting motherfuckers to run around in public armed with their personal arsenals."

Lets reword this without the silly bias.

This bill would make it legal for citizens like you and me to protect themselves in public with legally owned firearms in the event of a federal emergency.

When shit hits the fan and the lovable SPD aren't able to protect us I want to be permitted to protect myself. Why is that so fucking nuts?

Posted by dutifulbog]]> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:33:05 -0800 The Stranger