More Bad Cheese News: Sally Jackson Cheeses, an artisanal outfit in Okanogan County, launched a recall on Friday in response to E. coli illnesses. My mind is already spinning as I wonder what new regulation this will inspire in some kneejerker in Olympia.
Budget Protests Begin: People picketed the Department of Social and Health Services in Vancouver, angry over a reduction in home support specialists. And what do you know, some of the protesters were state workers who stand to lose their jobs!
“The Nigerian Scam Made Me Do It:” A judge sentenced a Vancouver man to 43 months behind bars on a raft of fraud charges. The guy claimed he did it because he lost $80k to a Nigerian scammer. This isn’t 1999 anymore, dude.
Inside Seattle’s Newest Strip Club: The much-anticipated Jiggles in the U-District is now open. Predictably, they are not selling booze because they don’t want to deal with the Liquor Control Board.
One Makes Twenty: Ageless goalkeeping legend Kasey Keller has signed on for one more year with Sounders FC. Next year will be his twentieth and last as a pro.
You’re Doing it Wrong: Defraud your insurance provider out of $30k in supposedly stolen ties once, shame on them. Try to defraud them again for $35k in supposedly stolen replacement ties six months later, you are an imbecile. A Lynnwood man did exactly that and will now be entered into a diversion program.
The Eyman Effect: With new restrictions on their ability to raise taxes, legislators look more likely to raise additional funds this year through user fees. Mentioned in this story are park entry fees and sporting licenses. The only problem with those kinds of user fees is that they presuppose the state has some sort of ownership right to lands and natural resources.
Blessing in Disguise: A lot of Canadians got butthurt after they failed to read anything more than the provocative headline (“Too Asian?“) of an article in their big magazine of record, MacLean’s. Now, a senator wants to revoke the mag’s public funding contribution. Sounds great to me—give up $1.5 million and never have to be a client of the state again.
“I’ve Got This:” The likely election-stealing president of Ivory Coast has ordered UN peacekeepers and French troops out of his country. He claims they are interfering. Just let there not be bloodshed.
Paging Charles Mudede: Amanda Knox is in the news again, asking to review the forensic evidence that helped convict her.
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Also Matt, I don’t see how this:
“one of the worst things about nation-states is the cultish idea propagated by the criminal gangsters running them that the “nation” has a right to certain things simply by virtue of its existence. Only the State can manage the resources of the People. That whole thing.”
…disputs anything I said. Of course I agree with you. What I am saying is that the notion of property is ALSO a cultish idea propagated by criminal gangsters. Furthermore, these cultish ideas evolved at the same time for the same reasons. The state apparatus is designed to defend property. THAT is why propertarian anarchism is a contradiction.
@48,
When Roosevelt first proposed turning the Grand Canyon into a protected park, the most voiciferous opponents were mining companies. Further, uranium was discovered there in the 50’s and there’s been fighting ever since by people who want to open more uranium mines there. You think they’ll let tourists wander around uranium mines? So I guess what I wrote was speculative, just like saying “Seattle is gonna have some gloomy weather soon” is also speculative.
We’re more responsible with oversight than without it. Deregulating the banks sure made them responsible, right? There’s no reason for labor laws because no company would dream of hiring a child, right? And the FDA is just sitting around twiddling their thumbs all day because the food and drug industries never sell tainted products. Are we perfectly responsible with oversight? Of course not. But you think people would be more responsible with NO oversight, regulation, and government??? History suggests otherwise. Take a trip to Somalia if you’d like some experience living in a country with no elected government and all the freedom you can imagine.
Oh look, the anarcho-capital-whateverist troll is trolling again. Look at him go!
FYI, Jiggles is a chain of strip clubs in Portland, and none of the franchises I’ve been to serve booze. They end up cornering the under-21 crowd (and the into-strippers-under-21 crowd). I doubt the decision not to serve booze has anything to do with the liquor control board.
“It’s up to the private property owner! If you want free speech, then only hang out on private property that guarantees your free speech. Simple.”
Let me know how free your speech is living in Seattle where nobody agrees with your dumbshit ‘simple’ ideas.
This is the dumbest ‘idea’ I’ve seen in the last 20 minutes.
“As far as moving around goes, I guess your movement could be restricted, but it would not make a whole lot of sense since people allowing you to move across their property would probably mean income for them.”
This is fucking brilliant. Totally brilliant. I would LOVE to stop every 40 feet on my way to work in the morning to pay a toll to the owned of each unique parcel of land I crossed on my way downtown.
“And the private park conjecture is a classic “it doesn’t exist, so therefore it can never exist” (forget the Latin) sort of fallacy.”
Really? I thought the free market did everything better and more efficient than the government? Why don’t we have OODLES of pristine land to visit all held and managed by private companies out of the goodness and love of their philanthropic mission.
I thought for a long time you were an amusing post-modernist Stranger joke, a ploy on Slog to mix things up a little bit. But I really don’t think there is anyone at The Stranger imaginative enough to create such a colossally fucktarded character.
I hope if you ever draw any kind of compensation from The Stranger that they pay you in trinkets and other non-fungible, non-monetary assets. Then maybe you can barter your chickens for healthcare.
@48 Your proposed sarcastic anecdotal evidence that you’re not an emotional cripple is just that, anecdotal evidence, evidence that you seem unwilling to honestly investigate. I highly suggest you stop by the corner of Pine and 3rd for a personality test.
@24 , and Rob touched on this… Read that article; the deal is that they’re licensed as a restaurant and a nightclub, not as a cabaret. The cabaret (strip club) license has a legal requirement to be a “dry club”, and obviously the license they do have isn’t that.
There’s a couple guesses we could make about why the owner has no liquor sales, and the ST mentioned what Luby paraphrased: That he’s keeping the State out of it. Maybe this way he’ll fight one war at a time (for now the city is coming down on him pretty hard). He also never applied for a liquor license. Maybe he just procrastinated or something.
this makes me miss that french guy who wrote about croissants
@ 62, NOTHING could make me miss that guy. At least Luby is succeeding at being entertaining. I like, for example, how he seems to think that public ownership is nothing more than a philosophical idea that can be argued away; I’d LOVE to see him act on this belief and find out what happens.
@61, or maybe he knows he couldn’t get a liquor license. Just sayin’.
5280, our vestigial blue law on liquor here forbids selling booze and strips in the same place. The owner had a liquor license for the comedy club, and left it behind to follow the tassels and strings of his longtime dream.
Could we get someone who doesn’t live with his mom to write these??
Say why you will about Luby, but 66 comments on the morning news? Well done, UI.
He reminds me of a sci-fi geek who views Star Trek as the perfect model for society and wishes it was real. The best is when he actually describes how his society would “work.” The Wiki replacing restaurant inspections is a classic, but I think privately owned parks beats it. Please, Luby, elaborate some more!
Luby,
What exactly do you plan on doing as a career?
I lol-ed. I did.
Re: state ownership of lands: Louisiana Purchase.