• The Mormon Church is launching a television ad campaign in Seattle this week called “I’m a Mormon,” a series of testimonials addressing misconceptions about the religion. Asked what those misconceptions are, Seattle-area church spokeswoman Annette Bowen cited polygamy (those are “separate fundamentalists”) and those funny knee-to-elbow underpants, which apparently Mormons don’t wear all the time.
• Seattle City Council member Sally Clark—the wishy-washiest wishy-washer to ever wash a wish—was asked if her critics were wrong when they assailed her go-along-to-get-along, wishy-washy politics. Clark’s reply? “It’s up to you to make that decision.”
• Everyone’s favorite blackout juice, Four Loko, has agreed to change its packaging after being hit with charges of deceptive advertising from the Federal Trade Commission. The new labels will now state, “This can has as much alcohol as 4 regular (12 oz. 5 percent alc/vol) beers,” and the cans will be resealable for multiple chuggings (shudder).
• Last weekend, King County Metro defied all definitions of the word “rapid” when it debuted the RapidRide B Line. Metro had predicted bus trips from Bellevue to Redmond would take as little as 35 minutes, but the bus took about 50 minutes. On a weekend.
• A KING 5/SurveyUSA poll released on September 26 shows Republican attorney general Rob McKenna beating Democratic congressman Jay Inslee in the governor’s race 44–38. It marked the second time in two weeks that a poll found McKenna beating Inslee. (The previous poll, by Strategies 360, found McKenna up 46–39.)
• A reader poll on Slog, The Stranger‘s blog, found that 74 percent of respondents believed that cocaine should be legalized and regulated. The poll is legally binding.
• This time next year, you may be paying for parking with your cell phone—even when you’re away from your car. Proposed by Mayor Mike McGinn, the program would cost the city $78,000 in monthly service charges. But city budget director Beth Goldberg says the “convenience factor” could result in people staying parked longer and, perhaps, generating more revenue.
Apparently, the Stranger would benefit from viewing these Mormon Ads. The underwear that Mormons wear are called garments and they AREN’T elbow to knee; some of them are sleeveless and come mid thigh, and we actually do wear them almost all of the time. Those who practice polygamy are excommunicated from the Church. Making a comparison between the fundamentalists practice polygamy and claim to be mormon and the mainstream mormon church is as sensible as making comparisons between Muslims and terrorists, or Christians and the Westboro Baptist Church. I love you Stranger, but honestly, do some friggin research.
Yea the truth is the Mormon slots are the most entertaining? Yes and No on I-1183 slots are tacking up airtime costs like a rocket to the moon and If I have to listen to Dodge Ram 1500 Guts and glory 390 HP 20 mpg and proud of hillbilly ass crap I “will” puke?
Its like by the time Congress passes Obama’s labor bill to build roads and bridges? Like we can afford $380 a gallon to drive those roads and cross those bridges.
Whats worse than dirty hippies? The News Media that has had 9 days of constant coverage but still has not figured out what the message is the hippies are trying to get across? All of them ABC CBS FOX all of them have News Reporters that wish to inject their own personal politics and religious beliefs and morals? I understood it from day one when the peace protesters came in and day 3 when the labor unions jumped in and even the school teachers who plugged in on the weekend?
But News Reporters? They had me whipping my TV Brick all day and all night and as for those grody nasty sleazy republicans who want to debate religion as a platform in 2012? Yea the market for TV Bricks is Moooooovin fast.
So much bad news So little time to type about all of it. you should do the “suck list” or make it easy and just do the who dont suck list.
The Super tanker! the size of the state of Texas! a gas tank big enough to fill the great lakes! moving more money each day then most countries do! then! AGAIN! the same as last time! its Broken down spilling oil all over and fixing to loose 100% of its cargo and like some 90 year old woman in a Rolls Royce it sits there waiting? waiting for something to happen?
like it could have deployed a skirt of some kind or oil catch? it could do better than being a 90 year old woman in a broken down Rolls Royce? ya think Kemo Sabe?
Look! learn! Improve! no longer Super Tankers they are dysfunctional morons and a total waste of revenue and a danger to society and to make it worse your government and great capitalistic freaks of creep are just to ignorant to make a super tanker the size of Texas enough oil to fill the great lakes anything but an environmental disaster waiting to happen.