So What Does Congress Do About The Good Economy News?: Buys new jets for themselves.
And Our Local Government?: Plans furloughs for 2010.
And Yet R. Kelly Still Walks Free: The Economist on our nation’s over-reaching sex offender laws.
Speaking Of Crime: Seattle announces plans for a drug diversion program.
Now We Have To Scratch Off Hobo Jokes As Acceptable: Homeless assaults are on the rise, and a push to add them to hate crime laws.
“Quality Journalism Is Not Cheap”: And neither is cheap journalism, so Rupert Murdoch will start charging for web access to news sites.
Iraq, Too Progressive Too Quick?: Prime Minister proposes smoking ban in country that probably doesn’t need nic fits.
This Was An Issue A Month Ago: Sotomayor sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice.
We Should Agree That Health Care Debate Is A Three Ring Circus: Because opposition to reform is insisting that the President’s plan would kill Down-Syndrome babies.
Completely Pointless: 80’s hits played as ragtime.
I love the “Great Day in Harlem” print hanging on the wall behind him.
you’d think that attacks on the homeless would go down in a time when so many are on the verge of it themselves.
but people don’t make sense.
Rupert Murdoch’s despotic yellow journalism empire has gone supernova, and is going poof shortly. What a dickhead. Doesn’t mind starting race wars while on the way down, either.
The rise in violence actually makes perfect sense, Guy@2
People despise what they fear most for/in themselves. As people get closer to becoming what they fear, they project and lash out against what that may be. In this case, it’s beating the shit out of homeless people (sorta trying to beat it out of themselves). Think of a closet case constantly hating on gay people.
It’s twisted, and you’re right anyway: people don’t make sense.
Hey if you would have wrote this this morning instead of last night you might have noticed that Sotomayor was sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
maybe it’s worth checking the headlines to amend your advance work before posting.
Speaking of Hate Speak…Sotomayor.
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/343084_ho…
Harassing the homeless has had hate crime status here since 2007.
The Economist calls sex offender laws “Unjust and ineffective”. You can say the same about a great many of our laws. They forgot to add expensive.
About 90% of fetuses with trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome) have been aborted since doctors started screening as part of prenatal care.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/us/09d…
Sarah Palin is part of the 10% that is actually “pro-life” (or she is so anti-health care she didn’t have prenatal care).
“Sarah Palin is part of the 10% that is actually “pro-life” (or she is so anti-health care she didn’t have prenatal care).”
Or she knows a good prop when she sees it.
FUCK U STRANGER. ME N MY LIBBY FRIENDS R SUPER OFFENDED THAT U WULD MAKE JEST AT R KELLZ BEING FREE MEANING THAT THE LAW HAZ NUTT DONE ITZ JOB, EG, YOU WANNA PUT ANOTHA BLACK MAN BEHIND BARS???
I SUGGEST YOU COULD START WIT KARLES MUDDY OR LARRY MIZZELL JR. THEY’RE THE ONE’S IN CLOSEST PROXIMITY, SO YOU’LL PROBZ FEEL MUCH MUCH LESS UNKOMFORTABLE WHEN U GET RID OF THEM.
SEATTLE’S STRANGER: SOFT RASCISM COULD GIT U A JOB, BUT DON’T STEAL NE WINE, YOU’LL GET FIRED.
My guess is that the keyboardist doesn’t need to be told how cute he is.
Just about a year ago, we were wrapping up an awesome primary contest between Obama and Clinton.
Oh my, how the Obama fans, many, just hated Clinton! They filled caucuses, right here in Seattle you could find a few THOUSAND of them on the legislative caucus day in a few local high schools! They had hundreds of volunteers in that office down in Cascade! They had neighborhood leaders! They had trained and prepared for the caucuses so no rapscallion hillaryites would pull any shenanigans!
Now it seems the fire has burned out.
Today Obama and the erstwhile Obamatrons can’t organize 100 people to show up at a town hall on health care.
It’s only the right wing doing any organizing now.
Gee, it’s kind of amazing how they got it up big time to fight Clinton, but we just don’t have anything going on, community-organizer-wise, on health care reform.
Could this be because the muddled plan which is designed to broaden and protect the insurance oligoply just isn’t that exciting?
Or is this just the laziness and ephemerality of all personality based political movements?
And yes there’s more: Watson in HuffPo:
“Democrats — from the president to both delegations in Congress — have done a lousy job of framing the issue, of making the clear and simple case for why public health care is good for all Americans. … Our ducks should have been in line months ago. Simple and straightforward slogans. Effective advertising. Faces of the uninsured, the underinsured, and declining standards of care. Famous spokespeople and surrogates. Millions of boots on the ground. All of it wired for action and success by a killer social media operation.”
Ayup.
Been sayin’.
” one aspect to this whole looming disaster (and I say anything less than a legitimate public option is a disaster for this Administration and this Congress) really is surprising. And that’s the level of Democratic surprise itself. Oh, we’re so shocked and outraged. But this was easy to see coming.”
Ayup.
Been sayin’.
Ayup.
Ayup.
YES YES YES HILLARY WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH BETTER THAN OBAMA SHE HAS NO CORPORATE TYES AND LOOK AT HER HUSBAND HE WAS A WONDERFUL PRESIDENT IF ONLY WE HAD GONE WITH HER WE WOULD HAVE TWO WONDERFUL PEOPLE IN THE WHITE HOUSE INSTEAD OF THIS UNCLE TOM WE WERE FOOLED
PC, 1080, thanks for reminding us why we couldn’t stand you a year ago, you stupid fucking cunts. As if Hillary and the DNC types aren’t part/all of the problem…
Unity, y’all!
@ 9, thanks for the article. I still don’t have solid opinion on those types of situations, but I can say I do support choice. I suppose it could be good thing, especially if the parents are financially unable to raise a developmentally disabled child. That article goes pretty deep though, thanks again.
trisomy 21
I recently read that scientists are studying people with Downs Syndrome because they have almost no incidence of cancer.
They suspect that the added chromosome may produce something anti-viral that prevents cancer.
Still, it goes to show that what we think of as “defective” can be superior in some way.
It also calls into question who decides when a baby should be aborted or not, when the judgement is left in the hands of government or individuals.
@20: “government or individuals”? So who should decide? Corporations? Homeowners associations?
Who?
If I had a ton of money I would find a way to bring rag time back as well as barbershop quartets.
I worked with a guy with downs syndrome. He regularly shit his pants. He was also late usually 3-4 times a week. When he was late it was practically guaranteed that you would find him at the McDonald’s on 3rd and Pine eating out of the garbage can. So I guess my question is what good is not getting cancer if all that it leads to is extra time on the earth to shit your pants and eat out of the trash?