Then they should make that Trump advisor testify for only 10 hours at a time. No comparison.

I love a good rainy ski. That's the PNW life right there. You can really point yourself straight down a steep run, feeling like a boss, even as the slush beneath your skis creates so much resistance that you never really pick up that much speed.

Part-time Tattoo Artist, All VENDING MACHINE COP.

They wouldn't be vigilantes if our government wasn't inept. Save our salmbabies.

He shoulda known that VENDING MACHINE COP takes no quarter.

The lynching joke helped Cindy Hyde-Smith win. Racist whites vote for other racist whites no matter how openly corrupt, incompetent, or flat-out stupid they are. Neo-confederate Hyde-Smith is an obvious mouth-breathing idiot with barely two brain cells to rub together, making her a perfect fit for the Asshole Supremacist Rapeublinazi party’s voters.

I've lived in Wallingford a couple times, and it's a lovely neighborhood, but calling it Wallyhood causes a massive cringe. And on top of it's inherent cringiness, being such an overwhelmingly white area, the use of 'hood seems a little culturally appropriative.

@4 Salmbaes*

"...there is set to be a 3 percent hike in property taxes to raise approximately $74.2 million a year."

The way this is written, a reader might assume 3% increase on total property taxes. In reality it's a 3% increase on the Port of Seattle portion of property taxes.

From the article: "The increase means the owner of a $590,000 home, who now pays $69 per year to the port, would pay about $70 in 2019 and $79 in 2023."

Big difference.

@7 I find the word neighborhood to be culturally appropriative too. I prefer place of residence.

We have a problem: only 22% of American hear about global warming from media at least once a week: http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us-2018/?est=happening&type=value&geo=county

Granted the survey was taken before the 1.5C report but we can't both have identified a very existential threat and have corporate media mostly ignore it because it's not good for business. btw 70% of Americans think the environment is more important than economic growth so there is really no much of a debate about the general course of action.

6: It wouldn't surprise me if Bannon TOLD her to make the lynching joke.

P.S. Obviously, a handful of dead sea lions isn't gonna save our salmon. It's just hard to forget seeing a sea lion eviscerate a nice big king salmon off your line right in front of you.

@12

She doesn't seem smart enough to have made the remark with any sort of premeditation. Look at the way she had to read her fake apology or refusals to answer any questions about her remarks. She didn't have the brains to even pretend to be contrite.

@21 well put

Children need to be nagged to do anything. Do they like being nagged? No. Do they protest when their toys are taken away when they don't do what they're told? Yes. If more nagging(laws) is not what you want, then put your fucking toys away and do what your told. k?Thanks.~_~

@7 - If you’re overwhelmed by a particular race, you might want to address your racism.

@23, etc- So you seem to be pushing the line that Democracy isn't a good thing. I assume, from your past posts that you are more in the line of an authoritarian dictatorship. Please explain how this would be an improvement, and what you feel your role would be in such a government.

@21 - Agree with all but the last.
What we should have done was hang every one of their leaders and generals...including the their ridiculously mythologized Robert E. Lee...for Treason. Criminalize their actions, as was done with the Nazis, so that the CSA leadership couldn't spend their cushy retirements spit-shining their legacies and crafting the beginnings of the noble "Lost Cause" narrative. The "malice toward none" approach to CSA leadership was our mistake.

@9: Thank you for that clarification. I am not - and likely never will be - a homeowner, but that sounded like quite the spike.

@13: I agree with you about the taxation to afford the port, but it is absolutely NOT a false equivalency to say that Ivanka and Jared should be investigated for their private email use. These people have made a lifetime out of ignoring the laws the rest of us have to abide by, and you're willing to take them AT THEIR WORD that everything is above-board, it was somehow an oversight, when "LOCK HER UP" was 80% of Trump's campaign platform? You even say that the FBI found no criminal intent in their investigation into Clinton. Fine, the FBI can come to the same conclusion about these two, so long as the FBI investigates it.

I actually did get to enjoy the sun yesterday, thank you for asking Michael. But it was only because our public transit system is garbage and makes every trip using it 5x longer than it would be through any other form of powered travel. (If only I could afford an apartment large enough to contain a bike, to make up some of that difference.)

I was enjoying it until the last moment, when the sky darkened and I was soaked just in time to reach my destination, because no buses ran any closer and I had to walk the last mile. Thanks, King County Metro!

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The term 'Justice' came from serfs, overly sick and tired of living in mud, eating mud, and mud milkshakes, and pillows, said this 'just US' bullshit's gotta fucking GO. When they gathered up enough Nerve to come right out and ask for a sliver of said pie, and were told they could fuck the fuck OFF, they got out their Pitchforks and Torches and TOOK some pie. (Without even re-re-asking!)

@32- that is middle school nihilism. No person with a cursory knowledge of history would suggest that things are less just now than they were even 30 years ago. It is not a straight line, and people like you seem to harbor a fetish for the mis-steps. But that does not mean it was better to be a gay american in the 1980's, or a woman in the 1890's, etc, etc.

You do know, don't you, that Hyde-Smith could have hiked up her skirt, pulled down her panties and taken a dump on The Quad at Ole Miss and still won against Espy? Why are we so shocked when a Mississippi politician lets "looks like a good day for a lynchin'" slip? Is it because we expect them to be better schooled at deceit? Those tar-paper shacks that Bobby Kennedy visited in the mid-Sixties are still there, and they are still filled with hungry children.

@28: I think they were more concerned about healing a shattered nation than they were about internet randos thinking they were racist or too merciful generations later.

Also, you know, when people surrender in a war, it is considered poor form to have them all executed.

@34 As one of the serfs I can totally identify with what you so eloquently described.

@37: He's proven repeatedly in the past that he doesn't understand basic science at even a junior high level. (And in this thread, he proved he doesn't know what a false equivalency is either.) Don't get too upset, he just doesn't know any better.