“Weird, Weird, Weird”: Last night, the King County Council failed to fill the spot left vacant by Dow Constantine, who was elected King County Executive last month – the West Seattle Blog was live-blogging the meeting that eventually resulted in a deadlock.
Not Again: Port Townsend, Kalama and the Forest Grove Mobile Home Park are under a water boil warning due to water main breaks.
Today in the Tunnel: Mayor-Elect Mike McGinn and State Representative Frank Chopp are still fighting against the tunnel replacement project, which has been approved by the State Legislature to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct.
Today in First Hill: A suspect in last month’s shooting near Saint James Cathedral has been identified.
God Dammit: AIDS on the rise among local gay men.
The Battle Continues: Rocco Girlanda, president of the Italy-USA Foundation, has responded to Senator Maria Cantwell’s defense of Amanda Knox.
Brothels Saving the Planet: The former site of Mustang Ranch, the US’s first licensed brothel, is being restored into a floodplain for the Truckee River.
Fucked it Up: Independent Senator Joe Lieberman is definitely blocking the Medicare compromise, which would allow 55 to 64 year olds to buy into Medicare; photo the Huffington Post makes him look like a muppet.
Guantanamo Bay Detainees: Looks like they are definitely being moved to an Illinois prison.
US to Go Through With Arms Sales to Taiwan: China is not happy.
Sounds Gross: The Mayon Volcano in the Phillipines has started oozing lava; 20,000 people have been evacuated.
Shit’s Not Bananas Anymore: EU cuts import tariffs from Latin America in a bid to end the “banana wars.”
Awwww look it’s a raccoon playing in a bathtub!
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Port Townsend is in Jefferson County.
Kalama is in Cowlitz County.
Forest Grove Mobile Home Park is in Snohomish County.
Fiendishly clever, those raccoons. If you pitted a raccoon head to head with an octopus, who’d win?
I’m getting pretty sick of that Joe Lieberman motherfucker.
There’s a real witty discussion going on in the comments section of Seattle PI’s HIV story. But not so much..
@1 is correct. And it’s “Chopp”.
Raccoons are fucking evil.
Told you the tunnel was dead.
@ 1, 5: fixed.
That article states HIV rates are increased, not AIDS diagnoses. They are different conditions.
But then it also talks about heterosexual “high-rest” sex, so accuracy apparently isn’t high on anyone’s list.
Holy crap I think I just had a cute stroke!
@6: You just envy their dexterity.
Also, they probably read Nora Roberts when nobody is looking.
Intern@9: Not fixed. Port Townsend is in neither of those counties…
Is that really appropriate, to suggest the rise in HIV incidence in gay men is due to God’s damnation?
@ 15: lol? maybe?
And @ 1 & 5: *actually* fixed.
@4, 15. Seriously! I haven’t read so much hate on the subject in a long time…who the fuck are these PI readers?
Dan seems to be failing his hometown base.
Perhaps a little less attention to youth pastors in Australia and a little more attention to the Gays in Seattle would be in order?
“Despite education and outreach efforts, the number of gay men contracting HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases has been increasing for much of this decade.
“Incidents of sexually transmitted diseases like Gonorrhea, Chlamydia and Syphilis among men who have sex with men (MSM) have risen to levels not previously seen since the early- to mid-1980s, according to a report presented to the health board last week.
“In 2005-06, for example, there were more than 1,200 cases of gonorrhea in this group, according to the report – the most cases since 1981-1982. In 2007-2008 there were almost 400 cases of syphilis in the MSM group – and incidents of this disease in the past several years have been the highest the health department has seen in almost 30 years.”
And yet Dan advocates GAY SEX for America’s teens as a Foolproof 100% Safe means of birth control?
Either he is criminally stupid or maliciously evil.
Physician, Heal Thyself-
“HIV diagnoses among homosexual men has been increasing about 8 percent a year since 2001 – while the number of HIV cases due to high-risk heterosexual contact and injection drug use has been consistent or DROPPING during that period, according to the Public Health report.
“Wood said the increase in sexually transmitted diseases among men who have sex with men has happened even though the county has outreach programs in place.
“We’ve got a problem with risk behavior continuing to occur despite all of the efforts that we’ve put into it ,” Wood said.”
Seems pretty bizzare that Seattle’s Posterboy Homo goes all over the country telling people how to have safe responsible sex-
Maybe they should recruit IV drug users and street walkers to go about lecturing the credulous frat boys of America- they seem to be the demographic that has it’s act together…