News Mar 3, 2013 at 8:10 am

Comments

1
Perhaps Representative Ed Orcutt (R – Kalama) could kill 2 birds with one stone, so to speak, and reduce pollution and improve public discourse if he would just cease his respiration.

We've all got to do our part.
2
Do bicyclists really fart that much?

Most bullets are emitted by young men under 26. I wonder if we could restrict the sale of bullets to persons in that age range?

Let's rename the Alaskan Way Tunnel to the Washington's Anus.

The SCOTUS is emitting lots of racist hate speech lately.

One creative way to encourage people to vote to expand public transit and other less-emitting forms of travel is to restrict parking citywide, and then encourage the lot owners to jack up the cost of parking in the few remaining lots. People will emit complaints of course, but they will do so while purchasing an ORCA card.
3
The tunnel builders are polluting the Sound? Surely that can't be right!
4
Video excerpt from Ghost Cities in China:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5…
5
I'm outraged that the spill sources are already fixed, robbing me of an opportunity for juicy outrage at the tunnel builders letting thousands of gallons of our sewage escape.

Further stealing away my fury, reading comments to past stories on Slog taught me our ordinary local system pumps 2 billion gallons of raw overflow out of our sewage system into local waters every single year. 2 billion gallons. That's our normal, believe it or not.

That's why to force us to finally address our massive sewage flows, the feds at DOJ are putting local government under a consent decree. Just like DOJ did to our city's cops despite McGinn's best stall tactics.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2…
6
Man, those Bushs really left us with a bunch of intellectual light weights, bigots, and angry old white guys on SCOTUS. They fucked this country good, the bastards.
7
@ 2, even when I lived in Seattle (and I've been gone for years) parking was ridiculously limited and expensive. People love cars, and the most progressive cities have the worst parking and traffic.
8
Sign the Petition to the White House to Build A Hydrogen Economy:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitio…
9
7,

Maybe, but lets see what happens when there's only two lots and they both charge 50 bucks an hour
10
@8: Top five reasons why the hydrogen economy will not pan out:
1. HYDROGEN IS NOT A FUEL SUPPLY
2. HIBRODEN IS NOP A FEUL SPPLUY
3. HARGOBLEM LD NIY E VULL ZUBLY
4. MIDROHEM SI WOB DA FEWL ESPLAY
5. GYDROHEM NIZ TON A FWELL PUSPLY
11
Technically, Orcutt is correct. YOU are giving off more CO2 pedaling a bike than you are driving a car. The car, on the other hand, more than makes up the difference over your respiratory increase.
12
@10

Businesses will fail, people will move out of the neighborhood en masse, and Capitol Hill will go into decline again?

Or not, I suppose, but your scenario doesn't necessarily end the way you want it to.
13
venomlash, please consider signing this petition to stop @8 from creating any more petitions.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitio…
14
Capitol Hill and the City of Seattle think that parking space reduction will reduce pressure on rising rents?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Oh wait. You were serious? Let me laugh harder!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Whew. That was a good one.
15
I don't suppose it would do any good to educate Rep Orcutt's on the difference between carbon dioxide given off by respiration and carbon monoxide given off by internal combustion engines?
16
Rep Orcutt has clearly shown he's an expert on hot air...
17
Don't forget that it was cowardly Democratic surrender monkeys who put the bike tax in the budget for the Republicans. I would guess as cover from being accused of raising taxes by their Republican constituents.

So Judy Clibborn, always the subservient, self-flagellating Democrat, does the Republican heavy lifting for them, giving them their tax increase, rather than debunk their false belief that bicyclists don't pay their share. Or at least make them own up to raising taxes.
18
With regard to cycling respiration emissions: AHAHAHAHAHAHA
19
sophist or idiot?

i think orcutt has a list of GOP think-tank bullet points with ready objections to any environmentalist advocacy.

so, the answer is both.

20
Sign the Petition to the White House to Build A Hydrogen Economy:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitio…
21
The Republicans use their basic misunderstanding of science again and again to justify bad policies. Most anything is useful in the right circumstance, but pollution if it's in the wrong place.

Water is a green house gas, the matrix of life, and a leading cause of drownings. Manure is a great fertilizer, but sewage overflows can be bad for our waterways.

The human body produces about 2 pounds of CO2 per day while a car produces about a pound of CO2 per mile. The car's emissions very quickly dwarf those of a person. And, the car's driver is busy emitting CO2 as well.
22
Nothing about Obama's Sequestration?

You know, the one he swore during the campaign would never happen?
23
@13: Did you do that? Creating cyberot on the White House web site is a no-no.
24
@11 Banna,
Orcutt is no more technically correct than a monkey is a poet if something poetic comes out of its typing.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
25
@13, signed and promoted on Facebook.

Orcutt, who is so worried about free riders on the state budget, ought to take a look at himself. Cowlitz County, where they grow 'em big and stupid like Ed, takes $1.47 out of the state treasury for every dollar it puts in. King County, where almost all of the bike lanes are located, gets back only $0.61 for every dollar paid in.

The free rider here is Ed Orcutt and his hillbilly relatives in Kalama. Cute town, I'll admit, but it couldn't exist without massive state subsidies.
26
@23, I don't take anything you write seriously, don't worry.
27
@11 - What Orcutt doesn't understand is that CO2 released during animal respiration comes from atmospheric carbon taken up by plants irrespective of how much one eats. Some also come from fertilizers but it's an argument for minimizing the use of fossil fuels in making and transporting fertilizers. Some CO2 emissions come from processing and transporting food with fossil fuels but that's an argument for eating little to no processed food and for eating local products. I suspect that one could also argue that greater muscle mass due to exercise stores more carbon out of the atmospheric reservoir.
29
@15: Internal combustion engines emit both carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.
30
@29, and it's the carbon that is the issue. Orcutt is simply wrong on the facts. Cars emit more than ten times the most heavily respirating cyclist.
31
@ 9, people will still drive and still pay.
32

Now it's time for today's Facebook Funniee


Sequester is like when that chick from Firefly gets into the Jupiter II and builds a mountain out of potatoes.


https://www.facebook.com/john.bailo/post…

That's it from today's afternoon drive...hope you'll all enjoying the weekend, and stay tuned from more Seattle funnies from us all !!! Ha'Yuckayuk!
33
I don't get it.
34
@33: I general, or something specific?
35
@34, I assume Sandiai @33 is referring to the latest entry in John Bailo's parade of self-promoting non sequiturs @32. It's OK, Saniai, nobody gets it. Not even Bailo.

The funny thing about that Evernote thing is that I assumed the "password's been hacked, click here to reset" email I got was itself phishing, especially since it didn't come from Evernote but from a mail server with no rDNS configured at "mkt5731.com", and the password-reset links were to that domain as well. Sounds like Evernote is right on top of flerm.
36
I even understood the references; still, nothing.
37
Question for conservatives: Why do you elect idiots? Sure, liberals have a few, but not many. And the ones that do pop up don't last. Conservatives love to elect the most blithering of fools, and keep doing so, year after year, across the nation.
38
@37: Why do you ask such inherently partisan monolithic unsophisticated questions? With not a morsel of self-reflection that may invite an enlightening discussion? Your loss, not ours.
39
I parked on Capitol Hill around 7:00 on a Friday night and had no trouble finding a spot. The same thing was true in the middle of the day downtown. This is anecdotal, of course, but it seems likely that the high rates they charge for parking are starting to work. People avoid parking on the street on a regular basis because they don't want to pay the high prices. Likewise they don't park for very long. The end result is that people who visit the area for a long time or on a regular basis find other ways to get there. Meanwhile, folks that visit for a short time can find a spot. Sounds ideal to me.

Oh, and if you don't think that a parking requirement (or any requirement) for new buildings doesn't cause the price of rent to go up you don't understand basic economics. You see, you have a supply, then you have a demand ...
40
If that lady's arm was armed, this woundn't have happened.
41
See, I didn't even have to say anything, and the Deep Trash Tunnel polluted Seattle even more.

Time to kill it.

Quickly.
42
@39 You don't understand the new economics.

Supply and demand has flown out the window.
43
@38: Clutch those pearls, boy!

Please wait...

Comments are closed.

Commenting on this item is available only to members of the site. You can sign in here or create an account here.


Add a comment
Preview

By posting this comment, you are agreeing to our Terms of Use.