Bernie and Ted leave the senate after the Inflation Reduction Act passes. I wouldn't want to breathe Ted's air either. Drew Angerer / Getty Images

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maybe the word got out after that parkland kid got killed and the driver wasn't cited; stopping for pedestrians is optional. I almost got hit in a crosswalk yesterday, along with FIVE other people.

WSDOT: "Every intersection is a crosswalk - Itā€™s the law. Drivers must stop for pedestrians at intersections, whether itā€™s an unmarked or marked crosswalk, and bicyclists in crosswalks are considered pedestrians. Also, it is illegal to pass another vehicle stopped for someone at a crosswalk. In Washington, the leading action by motorists that results in them hitting someone is failure to yield to pedestrians."

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indeed!

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where on Meridian is this crosswalk?

(have the 5 Ws of journalism truly gone extinct: who what where when why? why why why?)

wah!

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@2
Itā€™s the passive-aggressive driving style endemic to the Northwest.
Also see Almost Liveā€™s ā€˜Ballard School of Drivingā€™ - still a classic!

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@2, 5,

Have posted this here before, but certainly do enjoy it. Guy's my hero.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/X0sgwVkI8HY

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Matt, donā€™t l look a gift horseā€¦..

Yeah, DC never gives us everything thatā€™s needed, but progress is progress ā€“ inch by inch. So, I hesitate to bitch about not marching all they way to Pretoria. The depressing thing isnā€™t that Progressives didnā€™t get everything they wanted. The depressing thing is that all Democrats couldnā€™t support the Democratic agenda. Youā€™ll notice that Republicans have nooooo such problem. In fact, if you stray in the Republican Party, you receive a scolding, are dropped from the retreat/party list, and get primaried out of office.

Letā€™s just be glad thereā€™s some action on climate change and that Medicare wonā€™t be a slave to Big Pharmaā€™s greedā€¦after 1926 (sigh).

Iā€™m warning you. Yes, the three or four days of 90s in a row may be over by the end of August, but September and October are way hotter in Seattle than June and July. Itā€™s just that the days are shorter, and it isnā€™t still 85 degrees at nine PM. I remember people from back East bitching about Seattleā€™s July evenings being sweater weather. Just you wait, Iā€™d tell them. On the other hand, the light in Seattle in late August, September, and October is incredible ā€“ and those blue, blue dusks. Beautiful and mesmerizing. Like nowhere else in the world. Not even Paris.

It's hard for me to imagine at this point turning a Trump supporter knowing what we now know about his years in office. If one is still able to say, ā€œHeā€™s my man,ā€ even now, then Iā€™m pretty convinced that changing his/her mind would be rather like convincing a psychopath not to chop you up and then make a soup out of you. Itā€™s hard to believe that there seems to be so many of whom the world has utterly failed to teach compassion or social morality. This is not just stupidity at play but something more heinous

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@8 - If cops can't issue a citation for an infraction they did not see, that's a good thing.

If there's is damage or injury resulting from an event, that's reporting a crime.

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Republicans vote against everything that supports life. They are a literal death cult hell bent on murdering as many people (and all other living things) as possible. It would be so much easier if they just pulled a mass Jim Jones like event and left the rest of us to try to salvage the planet. It makes no sense to force millions of more people to be born and foisted onto the planet when all they have to look forward to is a horrific, dystopian existence.

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It will always be hard to enforce traffic laws by hand, especially if you build an excessive amount of roads (as most places in the United States have). Making things worse, we expect more people to drive, which means we have a lot more bad drivers.

One solution is to invest in more traffic cameras to catch the various infractions. Fail to yield at a crosswalk -- get a fine. Go ten over -- get a fine. I can tell you that the cameras around the schools definitely work. I've known people who drove too fast -- in broad day light, with no kids around -- that got a ticket. They could have fought it, but it wasn't worth the trouble. If they had been pulled over, it is possible a cop might have given them a warning. But instead, they paid a sizeable fine, and ever since, slowed way down in those zones. But the entire city -- as well as most major roadways -- should be treated the same way. The end result would be people driving a lot safer.

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'When it comes to public safety
their* hands are tied. The only
safety they have the capacity
to defend is their own.'

Wow great comment blip

'These are arguments
for abolishing the police,
but for reasons I canā€™t fathom they
are regularly presented here in their defense."

What?
jk

*la Po-po

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@15: Well Goldilocks, may you find something between a fascist police state and anarchy that suits your disposition.

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"So we need cops to
ticket people in the act, as
performance art, for passing
motorists, not just the offender."

well put fax 4
if it won't Sting
it's likely Ignored

peeps are only Human
most of us need a
Prod every now
and Again

& some a Cattle Prod
can we wire one into
Scofflaws' cushy sea
-ts? just a little Jolt
to Waken 'em up
and FLY RIGHT
muthafuckas.

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Matt thanks for the cat and dog videos! Pets are much happier when they are not caged up!
Our pair of cats entertain each other, when the humans are at work!

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*2026

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@22 you are confusing resources with capability. Of course the police could eliminate crime or issue a moving violation for every infraction but to do that youā€™d have to hire a massive amount of officers and depot technology. No one would like that and the cost is prohibitive so we settle for a measure of inefficiency. This is hardly a case for abolishing the police unless you plan to abolish every profession that doesnā€™t achieve perfection (hint: itā€™s all of them)

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@18: Hmmmm. Seems a fascist police state and anarchy are right up your alley, Elmer, especially after your being on record for praising Hitler.
Try not to fall in when flushing. Puget Sound already has more than enough toxic waste.

@23 Seventiesrocked: Then why the hell DIDN'T the SPD officers disarm and cuff Lyles, notify 9-1-1, and transport Lyles to the local ER for psychiatric evaluation? What a shame that the SPD didn't just restrain Charleena Lyles in 2017. According to SPD policy, the officers "had" to fatally shoot a pregnant woman with a chef's knife against two armed men--7 TIMES-!!!-in front of her own children?! Lyles' sister, Monika Williams, was quoted in The Seattle Times as saying that she "could have taken her [Charleena] down".
Does anyone in mental health and law enforcement care about the trauma these kids suffered then and most likely still are now?

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Hooray to Democrats for finally getting important measures passed in the Senate. We still didn't get everything we wanted, but it's a lot better than doing nothing.
Now if we could just gag and hogtie obstructionists Mitch McConnell and its equally draconian RepubliKKKan sock puppets, Joe Manchin and Krysten SInema, along with Orange Turd and the rest of the GOP, and fire them all off one-way into a distant galaxy via Jeff Bezos' atrocious space dildo. May they get swallowed up in a black hole, and good riddance.

@25: Oh, that's right, I forgot. According to the SPD, guns= good, human lives=bad.
Shoot 'em first, and testify in court later.
No wonder the vast majority of good police officers of Seattle have been retiring, quitting, and running for the exits en masse.
It's like Morty once said in a previous SLOG from April 2021: Law enforcement agencies are so desperate for cops they'll hire people they wouldn't dream of recruiting 10-20 years ago. And Mayor Bruce Harrell's offering cash bonuses still isn't enough.

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@11 xina for the WIN!!!

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Smart move, Bernie. I wouldn't want to breathe Ted Cruz's MAGAt death breath, either.

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@19: Good idea, kris! I'm all for using a cattle prod on RepubliKKKans. We could give 'em all a big zap in the badoobies.

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It's a shame Ted Cruz didn't just drop dead of COVID upon making his escape to Cancun with his wife and family, willfully abandoning the very idiots who ecstatically voted for him down in the deep-fried Lone Star State of pro-Trumpist MAGA-Confusion. This was during Texas' severe winter cold snap in mid-February 2021 that took the lives of 246 people. That's a weird way to try to turn your red state blue, Ted! So much for having your own power grid. How long before all the neofascist red states all go into an unseasonal deep freeze or burn to a crisp from continued flagrant climate change denial?


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