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https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/500m-hole-how-hot-economy-city-requests-punctured-sound-transits-lynnwood-light-rail-budget/
Now our right wing anti-government folks will take this one way. I will explain to you why another look is appropriate. These projects should have been bid in 2008-2009. The Federal government should have been pouring money into infrastructure. Read how now property costs are much higher. Compare costs of property to be condemned now to then. Construction materials- steel, copper, fuel and concrete were much cheaper. Contractors were bidding against each other, not to make a profit but to pay interest on their equipment and keep their best employees on board. I personally managed a government capital project at that time estimated at $60M (pre-recession) that came in $16M under budget. Why did we not do more? republican obstructionists refused to Give President Obama anything. And now they accuse democrats of being obstructionists!!
I expect the opportunity will come again after the next recession they cause.
@1 Repukes are a bunch of fuckwad assholes. Eve would have had an abortion if she knew what kind of fuckwads Repukes are.
@2 Eve never existed. And you are in New York why do you care about projects in the Pacific Northwest? You don’t like coming to Seattle every month or so. Actually you should support Republicans in ant supposed reduction to Seattle’s infrastructure, as that is your stated preference. You want the effect just you want others to take the blame,
Sometimes the dead win an election, so it’s 100% a woman will be Seattle’s next mayor. RR owes me a beer. Coin check.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Missouri,_2000
No need to stand in for the meteor RR, don’t do it, you are just wrong.
@1 Ahh if Seattle only had the geography of Detroit, Michigan, odd Detroit is not building any light rail, but Detroit would kill to have these light rail issues. The motor city feels even more left out.
Or move Seattle to Sedro Woolley easy enough to put in all kinds of light rail and infrastructure. Yep a premier light rail system can be built dirt cheap. Heck there are some abandoned rail lines just waiting for new life along Northern Street.
“It’s also an act of profound ignorance. For those with little understanding of and less regard for the Christian faith, there may be no greater image of prayer’s futility than Christians being gunned down mid-supplication. But for those familiar with the Bible’s promises concerning prayer and violence, nothing could be further from the truth. When those saints of First Baptist Church were murdered yesterday, God wasn’t ignoring their prayers. He was answering them.”
So, Christians pray for violent death? No wonder they’re such assholes all the time. No wonder they worship the machine gun the same way they do their “God”.
It certainly explains our resident lunatic.
Is this Ed Gillespie’s year?
In other news, NJ elects a new governor as Bob Menendez’ corruption trial concludes and the decision goes to the jury.
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Murphy’s up 14.
And the trial did not go well for the prosecution.
Scheduling appeals could run into late 2018.
Drinking Liberally is cancelled. Alex Jones was right and the revolution really heated up Sunday into Monday and there is a general curfew. Those seen on the streets after dark will be shot.
Texas seems unfazed as the uprising was quickly put down by the forces of Jade Helm.
It’s in The Sun and they wouldn’t print it if it wasn’t true.
VA Gov will come down to turnout.
If early returns show high turnout Northam wins.
We may know by dinner time. Doctor Dumbfuck should lay in some Pepto before the lines at the trailer park Circle K get too long.
Trollin’ Trollin’ Trollin’ all the World is Trollin’
Trump not invited to Paris Climate Conference
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It’s well past the point to admit that these treasonous ravings from ignorant, superstitious, shit-bag hillbillies are foreign directed agitprop not worthy of debate.
The “argument” is a simple one:
-Piddles, “‘“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.’ is a great opening line to Catch 22.”
-real world, “Fuck off, traitor.”
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Seattle has light rail and the ridership is beyond everyone’s hopes.
“Yeah, yeah, but people are just getting off buses and riding the choo choo instead.”
Full Metro system,
April ridership, up almost 10,000 from 2016
May, Higher than April and up over 5,000 from 2016
June, up almost 10,000 from 2016
July, up 7,000 since 2016
Simply put, there are more people riding all forms of KC Metro now than there were when U District station came online.
But certain factions still will tell you no one rides it or it’s only replacing buses.
I think we’re all old and have some blinders about ST3 because of the timeline but there’s something interesting.
We also talk about the influx of new money and young people driving up prices in Seattle. But about the time those mid 20s people are married, having the second child and seriously looking at moving to the suburbs the rail to these stations will be open or opening up.
Northgate
Bellevue
Redmond
Lynwood
Tacoma
Puyallup
Kent
Auburn
President PeePee Traitor used to make Schiller sneak out of the White House and bring him McDonalds.
The traitors will never admit how humiliating this must be for them. Like all the best cons, the victims end up defending the con in order to shore up their wrecked self esteem.
Pssssst.
Despite all the idiotic happy talk from Hillbilly/Traitors and Speaker NotNearlyasSmartasTheyThought, the House tax plan is still $200 billion over the cap. And this is before they factor in all the markup. Considering how far off this will put the bill when it makes it over to the Senate, in order to avoid the filibuster Yertle and his monkey troop may have to start from scratch. Christmas? Not likely.
It looks like I will avoid any and all legal trouble in relation to any of my past actions.
It’s good to be me!
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Buttery Males?
Tough break comrades! It looks like you won’t be getting Ukraine after all. And the Magnitsky act isn’t going anywhere, either.
Still, for such a shitty little country you made quite a splash. Helped that you had 63 million teevee addicted hillbillies standing by with the big assist.
There’s always 2020.
I’ve noticed the right is trying to demonize the term “anti-fascist” as if they think fascism is a good thing.
@ 20
You should have noticed they are demonizing violence by thugs in masks as not a good thing.
@20.
When they Kneel they’re spitting on the memories of those who served
“Department of Elections Commissioner Edgardo Cortes says Virginia had a “substantially higher” number of early voters in this year’s closely watched race for governor than in recent past gubernatorial contests.
The 180,000 absentee ballots returned as of Sunday were 60,000 more than all absentee votes cast in the 2013 gubernatorial election.”
A fifty percent increase in early absentee returns over the previous gubernatorial mid. Still, they are probably all poor, white, working class, aggrieved, salt-o-the-earth types furious about Colin Kaepernick and just afros in general.
Northam is doomed./s
@3 “Eve never existed.”
Neither did any of the bogeymen Republicans daily cower in fear from.
@20 Thugs in masks? You mean these guys? B-b-b-uttt they’re Trump’s “fine people”!
http://www.gettyimages.com/eve.....id88983601
The Texas shooting probably isn’t more complicated than “the world mistreats me, so I’m going to show ’em!!” That, and a nutjob having no trouble acquiring an assault rifle, 15 mags, and 500 rounds of ammo.
@3 WTF? Please explain what I like and what I don’t like, so I can understand what I like and what I don’t like. Please, since you know so much more about me.
What difference does it make if the Project is in Seattle and I am in NYC. I made comment because I think Repukes are fuckwad hypocrites. Always complaining about the price tag of a Transportation Project. How come they never complain about the cost over runs of Nuclear Plants?
Later – I will post information regarding failed Nuclear Plants that Repukes love so much or favor over renewable energy….Repukes are fuckwads. Get it now?
Would “the pro-fa” be a good re-branding of the HA troll freaks?
@17 you go girl!
Repukes demonizing people is there only way to the top. Extremely effective. Scum of the earth.
Interesting. With 95% reporting incumbent R Marshal is losing by quite a bit to what will be the US first openly trans state legislator.
Danica Roem, VA.
Marshal ran a half misogynist half homophobe campaign to try to hold the seat. And he’s out.
Northam wins..
So is Gillespie and Rove still an item?? Or does the “pro-fa” deem those two “cucks”?
Fuck all traitors.
Northam is in.
Hillbillies just couldn’t be bothered to get off their giant fat asses and leave the “comfort” of the filthy trailer park to get behind treason one more time.
Sew the wind, bitches.
Dem wins NJ Governorship
Interesting article in 10/16/17 issue of ENR (Engineering News Record). For those that still carry blueprints in the back of the pick-up, its a magazine related to construction and engineering.
Page 7 – “Energy Interest at Odds Over DOE Proposal” by Pam Radtke Russell.
I’d link to it but I think you need to have a subscription to access the article, but give it a go – see if you can access it on your own.
Speaks about how some would prefer to Invest in the transmission and distribution infrastructure rather than subsidies operation of coal and nuclear plants, as a better way to make the electric grid more resilient and reliable.
The hearings, held on October 3rd and 5th, focused on a September 28th DOE directive ordering the FERC to write a rule to allow utility companies full cost recovery for nuclear and coal plants.
The article states nuclear and coal plants in wholesale markets are becoming unprofitable and being retired early because of competing lower forms of energy production – namely low-cost natural gas plants and renewable energy.
And Repukes love Nuclear Energy and Coal….hmmm, bunch of dumbfucks. Repukes don’t make decisions based on smarts, they have to stick to their guns, they can’t swallow their pride when they know they are wrong…they’ll go to great lengths just so they don’t have to eat their own words.
Fast forward to 3-4 weeks later, to today’s issue received in the mail.
ENR Cover – Picture of a Nuclear Plant Cooling Tower. With the words “On Life Support”
“With U.S. prospects limited, nuclear power construction turns to plant decommissioning, new technologies and work abroad.
I didn’t read the article yet.
And if you go back a few months – many articles on major issues with the building of nuclear plants (I think SC and Tennessee) – cost and time overruns.
But Repukes – they love their nukes (and coal). You never hear of any Repukes complaining about the wasted money of this type of investment.
Get with the program you dumbfucks!
How’s the debate going between alt-right and alt-lite?
Meanwhile I hear on the interwebs it’s ok to be white… history and family lines and all that..
And statues..
@36
I know! This morning after showering I looked in the mirror and I repeated to myself, of course out load, “It’s ok to be White”, ten times.
At first I felt so unsettled, but after the tenth time of saying “It’s ok to be white”, I really felt so much better.
two small local races in CT – Dems flip their mayor from Repuke.
West Haven, Ct and Bristol, CT – two blue collar towns.
Correction to 38 – incumbent mayor of West Haven was a Democrat.
Hicks will be Hicks.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141908705
Meanwhile President PeePee, after only 4 days away from his padded toilet seat and 24/7 Quarter Pounders w/Cheese, is already growing exhausted. Canceled his excursion to the DMZ, and nearly collapsed while giving an address in Seoul, gripping the podium with both hands and resting chest down on his notes.
So much winning.
Hopefully he was having a heart attack.
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Given his age and all the known lifestyle indicators, he’s probably having mini heart attacks regularly.
Secretary Clinton, how do you plan to observe the first anniversary of your stunning defeat?
Lizzie O’LearyVerified account @lizzieohreally Nov 3
I wrote about navigating the exhausting gray area that’s not quite harassment, but still not ok.
This may be a shitty week for treason.
What goes on in any given jury room is an utter mystery. But deliberations in the Menendez trial are not going well. Prosecutors prefer nice clean, efficient deliberations where obedient citizen jurors who trust the state give just enough deference to the conventions of due process to get their free meals and one or two nights in a good hotel before delivering a guilty verdict.
At least one of these jurors is sending requests to the judge to have portions of the defense closing sent in to be read to the jury. May indicate that a battle is going on in there. They’re hung.
It was only the tip that hurt.
They voted for the first time in 2016. How are they feeling, one year later?
http://www.wlbz2.com/news/loca...../489946354
To Latinos!
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/11/saturday-night-live-election-night-behind-the-scenes-dave-chappelle-neal-brennan
So what were the issues that got Northam elected?
1) Healthcare
2) GUNS
ACA is seeing record enrollments and folks are sick and tired of mass shootings and sick freaks loading up on guns and going postal or having gunfails..
Meanwhile a tired old troll clings to hating Hillary Clinton.. Will this hatred reclaim its lost youth?