Please fire Nathalie Graham if she does not post a photo of the bad seafood.

While it was rude of the neighbor to jam the guy up, he has a point. Why do we make it so easy to be homeless in Seattle? Shouldn't it be as hard as possible? I know people would still be homeless if we made it harder, but at least then we would weed out the folks who just enjoy the "gypsy lifestyle" as opposed to those that have mental health issues.

@1 yeah. What did that breakfast of bad seafood look like?

In other news YOU were missed, Nathalie

Nathalie has that nasty brown-bottle morning-after illness that plagues the capitol hill area.

amazing that we've spent so much time debating those bike racks when the entire area under the Spokane St. Viaduct has been straight-up fenced off. it appears those "gypsies" all moved onto Alaskan by the Coleman dock. 20+ new tents down there in the last weeks.

@2: "so easy"? go try it for a month.

The intolerably rude Foxsplaining woman going off about football players "not being men" is soooo part of the Problem With America, and should be exiled from decent society as soon as possible. Also, feel better, Nathalie!

@2 Yeah, people come here for the amazing ease of homelessness and stay for the lovely winter weather. Or vice versa.

@2) Homelessness is made so easy in Seattle because:
Rent and home prices are through the roof
Non-pro-staff jobs pay poverty wages
There is next to zero treatment for mental illness
Hard drugs are dirt cheap
Sheltering space is limited
PTSD victims get no social help
Poor children are subject to abject conditions
Veterans get no help once they are no longer needed
People get denied housing due to discrimination
and most significantly: ignorant, judgemental wingnuts believe that homelessness is a lifestyle option - that homelessness is somehow NOT the product of a greedy upper class that does everything it can to take wealth and prosperity from the poor.

@2) Homelessness is made so easy in Seattle because of but not limited to:
Rent and home costs price out all but the upper middle class.
Non-pro-staff jobs pay poverty wages.
There is next to zero treatment for mental illness.
Hard drugs are dirt cheap.
Sheltering space is limited.
PTSD victims get no social help.
Poor children are subject to abject conditions which proliferates the cycle.
Veterans get no social or medical help once they are no longer needed.
People get denied housing due to discrimination.
And most significantly: ignorant, judgemental wingnuts believe that homelessness is a lifestyle option - that homelessness is somehow NOT the product of a greedy upper class that does everything it can to take wealth and prosperity from the poor.

Sorry for the double post.

@6,

I can't wait for Vince McMahon's new XFL joke to launch so these mouth breathing idiots can salivate over some overwrought jingoistic flag salutes prior to a football game, only to have the league fail spectacularly and make them look like fools and come crawling back to the NFL. The great Albert Burneko at deadspin has a pretty entertaining take here...
https://deadspin.com/the-new-xfl-is-dumb…

@14, eh, based on what I know about the regular posters in this comment section from lurking, it would do them some good to read it twice

@14

Pretty much what @16 says. It was worth saying twice.

@13 On Kiro radio last week Steven Long, the man who successfully sued the city to live in his truck, was asked if he wanted housing. He literally said no, he enjoys the "gypsy lifestyle". Please explain to me how that isn't a choice.

Hope someone was able to wake Tillerson to let him know that Putin fired him.

I had no idea Seahawks were that illiterate... Wow.

Why not identify the neighbor? They already publicized their identity with that tweet.

@18) Confirmation bias, also called confirmatory bias or myside bias, is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.

@18) And confirmation bias, if you did not figure it out, is also a fallacy.

@18: it's a choice, but it isn't made in a vacuum. who is he, how did he wind up living in his truck, why does he prefer it, etc.

you appear to believe we have a homeless crisis because "seattle" is mollycoddling them through tolerance and basic services. so, please share your recipe for solving the homeless crisis. remember: it can't be illegal, you can't use violence, you have extremely limited funds, and any new housing takes 4-5 years to develop and build.

go!

"Steilacoon"? Hope that wasn't a Freudian slip :)

News: a Seattle man taking PrEP consistently has acquired Truvada-resistant HIV. Update your risk assessments accordingly, it's a small city in terms of mean fuck path.

https://publichealthinsider.com/2018/03/…

I thought only three people had ever been infected with HIV while taking PrEP, and there was no real risk of exposure to a PrEP-resistant strain of HIV here in Seattle. I thought PrEP pretty much eliminated my risk of infection. I was wrong. In fact, PrEP resistant strains of HIV are circulating in my community.

Thanks for remembering Joaquin Avila.

REPORTER: Did you fire him because he called you a moron?

MR. TRUMP: What?

REPORTER: Did you fire him because he called you a moron?

MR. TRUMP: Say it again.

REPORTER: What are you deaf AND stupid?

@24. I’ll take a crack at that.

Housing first. But only if you can pass a clean UA and are willing to participate in mental health services. Job training for the able, assistance navigating Medicaid/Medicare, support for vets...

Zero assistance and public camping tolerance for anyone not willing to clean up and help themselves with these benefits. No food stamps and camping is only allowed in publicly sanctioned drug and alcohol free campsites ( like R2D2 in PDX)

The problem that exists with the “They’re just poor people down on their luck or marginalized by capitalism”view of the homelessness is that it doesn’t stand up to a reality test. None of you bleeding hearts actually knows a homeless person or a drug addict so you infantalize them like you do with everyone who needs your “protection”.

Get to know some people who live on the streets. Some real grimy, dope fiend hustlers. If you cut through the bullshit and tell them you ain’t gonna give them shit, the sob story will end and they’ll either stop talking to you(because there’s no use in it for them) or they’ll start to get real. And when that happens they say the same thing every time...”I’m not done getting high yet. When I am, if I’m still alive, I know where to go to get help”.

The mentally ill...that’s a different monster. Unless you want to take people’s freedoms away, you can’t make crazy people get help and they’re crazy...so you can’t exactly reason with them or set up a rational strategy for encouraging them to get help.

The writer says "Get over to the UW quad within the next five to ten days for cherry blossoms." The link says "UW cherry blossoms to reach full bloom in 5 to 10 days." These are not the same. (This is important information for cherry blossom lovers!)

@9 @30 Ack, thanks both.

@29: so, set the bar at nearly impossible - clean and sober - for any services and tolerance of camping. then allow those people into "housing first", which is.. where? social housing is always full up and there's not enough in the pipeline to keep up with demand.

"housing first" means put them in a home FIRST, then deal with their problems.

@15 Yes, we need much, much longer Patriotism Promises/Salute to Old Gorey at the Department of War's (scuse me - Peace Department's) (sorry -- Dept. o' Defense's -- so hard to keep up!) Nationalist Football Games™. Oh, and what's the holdup on mandatory 'Prayers for Jesus' at halftime? I thought that shit was long-since settled.

I roll with Emma's tweeting on this one: Hire More Women Torturers! (But only pay them 79% of scale. We don’t wanna go Too Far.)

Oh and the gal who wants the ball players to get the fuck off their knees and play ball!? She’d prolly make a damn fine Torturer too. She may be over-qualified, but what the heck -- hire her next, Mein Trumpfy! Just think how Happy you'll feel when you Fire her too.

Seriously, this administration is so whack it has me feeling kind of sorry for Tillerson - who seemed to be the nicest and most diplomatic of Trump's cabinet. I'm no fan of Exxon-Mobil, but wouldn't you have to have something on the ball, diplomatically speaking, to become CEO of a huge multinational?

I'm reminded once again of Bill Maher and how he was saying that this country has never seen an administration like this one. Oh, we've had bad, unintelligent presidents, and historically there have been bad leaders - Ivan the Terrible and Bad King John to name two, but this administration is like a virus from outer space.

I think of where this country and world are going, and I look so desperately for hope somewhere, anywhere - an inkling that everything will be OK eventually, and then I make the mistake of watching the news and in the words of my Southern brethren I don't know whether to shit or go blind.

@24 have the city take over open spaces such as parking lots, turn them into tent encampments each staffed with social services, clean water, trash/recycling/ washrooms. Have them spread out evenly in all neighborhoods (we all need to be part of this). Then raise business taxes and build a lot more public housing.

You mentioned the camping under alskian way. That campaign completely ruins the path that many use to commute. If the city had any brain/guts they wouldn’t allow camping in places like that, but instead they fence in open spaces that actually are better for camping and force the homeless into places that directly puts them in opposition with commuters.

@35: parking lots are for-profit businesses. do you mean take them over by eminent domain, or simply pay them rent equal to the daily take from parking fees?

still ain't heard jacksont's ideas.

Sigh, sorry for the typos

@36 both. Plus there’s some lots owned by the city. Every neighborhood has unused open lots, the city should lease or eminent domain em

@28 Urgutha Forka: Bingo! For the win.
@34 Bauhaus I: I feel your pain, and am SO glad I no longer have a TV. I also avoid Twitter whenever possible (I don't login or respond online to Blogs with Twitter feeds).

@10, @13, and @14: Thank you. Your comments are worth the repeat.