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The city of Seattle has had years to figure out ways to deal with homelessness in SoDo ahead of the All Star Game. Really could have got ahead of things, and figured out how to get people housed. Instead, last minute sweeps. Predictable, but not necessary.

We’ll have chances in the future to do this better, but I fear that we won’t. And in any case, this was squandered.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

Comments

  1. 1

    We’d be better off if Trump had been re-elected.

  3. 3

    118 from yesterday.
    Why were the Republicans fighting? One party accused the other of not being racist or greedy enough?

    Headline on fox: “Republicans brawl because DEMOCRATS IN DISARRAY OVER BIDEN BEING TO OLD. “

  4. 4

    Americans do not discuss the social contract any more. I remember it being discussed as a kid in the 1960s and 70s.

  5. 5

    The United States is one of the world’s wealthiest, most developed, advanced economies. We have more of the finest universities and innovative global corporations than any other nation. And our currency remains the default unit of global trade and finance. We can do shit. And we do it with excellence.

    In a nation like the United States, to demand a set of basic economic rules that create and impose sweeping levels of poverty, food insecurity, and struggle in order to drive competition among desperate workers for artificially limited survival is an extreme position.

    Defining a living wage indexed to the cost of living and then making it a requirement is a moderate position.

  6. 6

    I don’t know the situation in Seattle, but it seems like there are too many young homeless, and homeless by choice.

    If homeless by choice then really irresponsible. I mean I sympathize with one but if you really are just hanging out then that’s not being accountable for yourself.

    And parenting, bad parenting, is partly to blame. Some people really shouldn’t be allowed to breed. In essence this is a heterosexual problem, amirite?

  8. 8

    Little noticed GOP Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has it all figured out.

    Just get rid of more than 50% of Federal Employees and term limit any government job to 8 years.

    The GOP wants to run the Government like a business.

    Well no business that has ever existed in the history of Capitalism, but a business.

    Except maybe Twitter and that firing of half the staff when the new guy took over seems to be going….what’s the opposite of smooth?

  9. 9

    Many a casual observer gets excited about a rider before the mountain stages.

    Girmay seems like a likeable guy and he may very well have a good long career.

    But he’s fallen way off the leaderboard for sprinter points and is now an hour and forty minutes behind the white Jersey leader.

    Many were high on Tyler Ferrar the Wenache kid who at 27 won tour stages on the Tour. Next Big thing The hope of American cyclists. A couple more years of crashes mostly caused by his own riding and he was done.

    He is the only American to have won a stage at all three Grand Tour events so there’s that.

  10. 10

    @8 Should we tell him?
    Who’s considered a federal employee?
    Federal employee means a current employee of an agency, including a current member of the Armed Forces or a Reserve of the Armed Forces (Reserves), employees of the United States Postal Service, and seasonal and temporary employees.

  11. 11

    What is Tyler Farrar doing now?
    After retiring from cycle racing, Farrar became a firefighter in Kirkland, Washington, as part of the City of Kirkland Fire Department.
    He promises he’ll never ride in the rain again.

  12. 12

    But he’s fallen way off the leaderboard for sprinter points and is now an hour and forty minutes behind the white Jersey leader.

    In other words, the troll has made a complete ass of himself…….again. So many self pwns and he simply cannot stop doing it! Little wonder here why you guys call him Doctor Dumbfuck. Even my cat picked up on it and started calling him a dumbfuck.

  13. 13

    Why are Republicans against the United States’ military readiness? We used to disparage people who did that with the term “Communists!“.

  15. 15

    @11 I used to golf with three SF 49ers, two of them still playing. on the Joe Montana Superbowl teams. The third was Elmer Collet, who had played guard. When I was golfing him at the Olympic club, he had been out of the game for about a decade. He was fucking HUGE! He could hit a 9-iron over 200 fucking yards.

    Back to your comment, during the time I knew him, Elmer was a firefighter in the town of Kentfield, north of SF, and is now retired.

  16. 16

    Twitter! Only the best people are here!

    Twitter has two important advantages over other social media platforms. The first privilege is the freedom of speech. The second privilege is the public nature & credibility of Twitter. Twitter doesn’t have an intolerant policy like Meta. Other platforms cannot replace it.

    @anashaqqani

    Twitter, officially endorsed by the Taliban.

    Cool deal, Elon.

  17. 17

    @3 I couldn’t find that headline at foxnews.com, but I found this one:

    “Dem state rep calls Moms for Liberty members ‘a–holes’ and the ‘Taliban’ in targeted tweet”

    … which seems accurate to me. The Dem rep, I mean.

  18. 18

    @8 This same idiot who wants to staff the federal government with trainees (think FDA drug approvals, FAA air traffic controllers, rail safety inspectors, etc.) also wants to raise the voting age to 25. I wonder if he realizes that involves amending the Constitution?

    P.S., I doubt he’ll get much of the 18-24 vote, but he probably wouldn’t anyway.

  19. 19

    ‘I hadn’t heard that about Gym Jordan. If these fucks are going to devour each other, I’m not going to interfere.

    Growing concern’ about the future of right-wing Freedom Caucus as Republicans turn on each other

    The far-right House Freedom Caucus has plunged into turmoil over the last week, as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was expelled from the group over her perceived status as an inside person for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and other members attacking founding member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) as a “RINO” [Republican In Name Only].

    I seems to me that my cat is in a mood that might result in her devouring a troll. My kitty is a true American patriot who hates fascists. I’m so proud of her!

  20. 20

    My goodness, there is a troll here, a really stupid one, but aren’t they all?

  21. 21

    18,

    GOP electeds are all daring innovators like Stockton Rush.

    Which I guess makes GOP voters all gullible customers about to be pulverized into pink mist.

  22. 22

    @21 Serves them right.

    My cat’s hungry for dumbfuck meat. I hope he shows up.

  23. 23

    IT’S ALL FINE. IT’S A HOAX. IT’S JUST A WAY FOR SCHOOLTEACHERS TO GET RICH PUSING A FAR LEFT CLIMATE AGENDA!

    With a Saturday temperature of 37.4C, Fort Good Hope in the Northwest Territories (NWT) saw “the hottest temperature recorded that far north in Canada,” says Environment Canada meteorologist Jesse Wagar.

    “Each summer is just getting hotter and hotter,” says Ms Wagar.

    Of the top five temperatures ever recorded in the NWT, four occurred in the past eight years, she says. Three of those were in the last three summers.

    With a temperature of 37.9C (100.2F), the mercury in the community of Norman Wells just south of Fort Good Hope was just 0.1C lower than the hottest temperature recorded for the near-Arctic region, extreme-weather historian Christopher Burt told BBC News.

  26. 26

    Found this. Had to share
    —
    A GOP conspiracy can never be countered because…

    If there’s no evidence, that is evidence that the deep state hid the evidence.

    If one of their own is indicted, it’s evidence of two tiered justice.

    If one of their enemy isn’t indicted because of there is no actual evidence, that’s because they are being protected by the deep state.

    If one of their enemy is investigated, they are always given favourable treatment; “Hillary Clinton should be in jail over Benghazi and her private server, Hunter Biden was treated with kid gloves” etc.

    If their whistleblower turns out to be a criminal, that is proof that the weaponized DOJ is trying to silence the whistleblowers.

    If you’re in the MAGA cult any and every event is just proof that what you believe must be true.

  27. 27

    @26

    There’s a basket of 10 nice apples. But a Repuke wants you to fear the apple so he tells you that the apples are bad and rotten. But they’re really not. So the Repuke adds a rotten apple to the basket. Walla, the apples are rotten now.

  28. 28

    My cat is hungry and the troll didn’t show up! That furball is looking me like I might be his next meal. This sucks big time and I’m pissed.

  29. 29

    The big splash banner headline over at “We’re sorry, we didn’t mean it here’s $787M”news.com

    Christian Entertainment. Because there is nothing else happening in the world.

    They’re a giddy that a conservative rapper for a single day topped the iTunes Gospel chart so they had him on the air and then for about a minute his song was #1 on the platform. Almost as quickly it dropped out of the top 50 but we don’t want to talk about that here on Tuckerless Primetime.

    Also totally over the moon over “Sound of Freedom” being #1 at the box office BEATING INDIANA JONES on July 4th.

    Cool cool that there is a market for low/medium budget Christian movies is not new but let’s break it down.

    July 4 was opening day for “Sound of Freedom” While “Indiana Jones” opened the Friday before 6/30.

    Indy’s opening day was $23.5m. Freedom $14.2. By the end of the day on July 4th Indy had done $84M to Freedom’s $14.2.

    On the fifth, Indy retook the top spot. Freedom would see a 78% drop in audience after just one day. Indy would see a 50% drop on it’s SIXTH day of release. For the following full weekend Indy would take the #2 spot with an additional $26M while Freedom would end up in the #3 with $19.5

    At present,
    Indiana Jones 4 is sitting at $122m/$249m Dom/WW
    Sound of Freedom at $41.5m / $0.00 Dom/WW

    It was a brief shinning moment. Kind of like that child cyclist.

  35. 35

    The AP does a nice job laying out that clerking for a certain Wise Latina involves some significant whoring to sell her books.

    POLITICS
    Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor’s staff prodded colleges and libraries to buy her books

    Sotomayor’s staff has often prodded public institutions that have hosted the justice to buy her memoir or children’s books, works that have earned her at least $3.7 million since she joined the court in 2009. Details of those events, largely out of public view, were obtained by The Associated Press through more than 100 open records requests to public institutions. The resulting tens of thousands of pages of documents offer a rare look at Sotomayor and her fellow justices beyond their official duties.

    In her case, the documents reveal repeated examples of taxpayer-funded court staff performing tasks for the justice’s book ventures…

    Why do Democrats like to use books to unjustly enrich themselves? There was Jim Wright. Then that awful Baltimore mayor Pugh. Now this chick.

  36. 36

    Ron DeSantis is hard at work protecting Floridians from the greatest threats they can possibly face!

    The tourism industry, the farming industry, the trucking industry, and the construction industry.

    Its Bidens fault! It’s on hunters laptop!

  37. 37

    @ 29

    At present,
    Indiana Jones 4 is sitting at $122m/$249m Dom/WW
    Sound of Freedom at $41.5m / $0.00 Dom/WW

    And Roger and Me earned only $6.7M domestically, yet Michael Moore was lauded. Why might that have been?

    Multiples of what the film cost to make, perhaps.

    Sound of Freedom cost $14.5M, so it’s earned 3x its production cost.

    Lemme know when Indy 5 gets to the $750M-$1.2B range. With the Mission Impossible franchise hitting theaters tomorrow, Indy 5 will get buried.

  38. 38

    35,

    The AP does a nice job laying out

    Actually they don’t. Relying heavily on bots, AP is not as well positioned to perform investigative reporting as say Pro Publica. So they gotta rely on outside sources to do investigation them. And in this case it’s a Republican campaign operative and former McCain staffer. And the report lacks even a single concrete example, which is a shame because this is a serious problem.

    It needs to be made impossible for anyone to lobby the court outside the formal public bounds of amici. That would not exclude book writing and public speaking. And both have been traditional activities dating back a long time. Forbidding any effort at combining the two would however make a great target for a binding ethics statute. Glad to see another “conservative” is ready for judicial reform like the vast majority of Americans.

  39. 39

    Cool cool that there is a market for low/medium budget Christian movies is not new but let’s break it down.

    Running right up to the point again. They’re touting this as PROOF Christians going to movies dominate America.

    Break it down, say with an average ticket price (Matinee, Regal Tuesday, Child, Full Price, IMAX, etc.) is $11 (2021 figure)

    Less than 3M people have seen “Freedom” in America
    More than 11M people have seen “Indy” in America

    As stated, is Christian Media profitable? Yes, in the same way “Send me your cash and my whole mega church will pray to heal you goiter.” Is it more than a boil on the ass of entertainment industry earnings? No.

    Even on the high end of the estimated production, a 5th installment of a franchise that no one was clamoring for will be profitable.

    Neither of these are Super Mario Bros.

    What’s being argued is someone should trust Kirk Cameron with a $100m budget to make a Christian blockbuster. Major studios should invest the farm in Christian themed films. That they can make boatloads of cash selling the same 10-15M people a ticket to every single film.

    And have no overseas receipts. It’ll be fine.

  40. 40

    So it appears our star whistleblower witness we said was missing…(looks at notes)…skipped bail on an arms trafficking and espionage charge. The Trump Justice department opened an investigation and warrants were issued after our savior left office.

    This tampering with a witness. SHALL NOT STAND!

  42. 42

    40 “If their whistleblower turns out to be a criminal, that is proof that the weaponized DOJ is trying to silence the whistleblowers.”

  43. 43

    Not trans or a drag Queen. Weird..

    (CNN
    —
    Police say they have arrested a “popular” Tennessee soccer coach after finding videos on his cell phone depicting unconscious boys being raped.

    Police say they were alerted after Campos left his phone at a restaurant and employees went through the device, looking for information about the owner so they could return it.

    “What they found, instead, were dozens of unconscionable videos and pictures of children, and so they called police,” authorities said in the news release.
    …
    So far, the rapes of “at least 10 children” were found on the phone, and detectives have managed to identify three of the victims, according to police.

  44. 44

    Greedy racist incel, when will you denounce soccer organizations for giving a safe place for pedophiles? Since you denounced Disney, you don’t want us to see you are a hypocrite and not denounce Soccer.
    Or you could publicly admit you are a liar.

  47. 47

    42,

    Word has it “Curveball” can also provide first hand details on the precise location and composition of all the “Biden Crime Family” WMD facilities and bio-weapons labs.

    Having established a $2 Trillion track record of wasted spending and a mountainous body pile in vain service to political stunts, why would anyone ever expect any Republican to stop short now?

  48. 48

    Ron DeSantis under pressure as Florida malaria cases spread
    The best way to stop the malaria epidemic is to order all hospitals and medical professionals to stop reporting cases. You can’t have an epidemic if no one is officially catching the disease. , Nevertheless, Ron’s staffers are working overtime at figuring out how they can blame malaria on woke drag queens and Rainbow radiation.

  49. 49

    48,
    Goodhart’s Law in action.
    This is the expected result of running government as a business.
    A real “Business Genius” like Elmo would order a gradual discontinuation of collecting malaria data, then arrange to strategically track the decline of Malaria reports to a correlating decline in Drag Shows.

    Either way, Florida voters die. And Twitter will die

  50. 50

    @38,

    There’s nothing wrong with limiting lobbying and outside influence over the federal courts to only those individuals able to provide seats on private super-sonic jets, luxury resort trips, $1000 bottles of wine, Alaskan fishing expeditions, or free houses.

    Nothing in the Constitution forbids it.
    Their views are more important than any of yours.
    It’s freedom of speech.

  52. 52

    It’s freedom of speech.

    And why should there be freedom of speech when other freedoms are trampled on and you give two shits about that.

  54. 54

    Or you could publicly admit you are a liar.

    My cat and I would settle for him admitting he’s a dumbfuck.

    Kirk Cameron

    Speaking of my cat, the poor thing can’t stop ROLF at the dumbfuck and his post about film profits.

    Speaking of the dumbfuck, has he ever talked here about how the orange fascist freak he voted for three times and will soon do so two more times and how he doxxed Obama, inspiring a potential assassin with a truck full of weaponry to…

    Oh, wait a second. Of course he didn’t. The troll has been self-reduced to talking about insignificant crap that doesn’t mean shit to anybody, including himself.

    My cat has stopped ROLF and is nodding in agreement. ‘Nuff said.

  55. 55

    Rigging the most powerful court with hand puppets in service to billionaire plutocrats is extremism.

    A call for lifetime appointees to a coequal branch of government to recognize and adhere to basic rules of ethics and transparency is a centrist, bipartisan, consensus view shared by the overwhelming majority of Americans.

  56. 56

    The Supreme Court should adopt and publish its own binding code of ethics, and lay out a transparent system of accountability to that code. That is the absolute bare minimum that they owe to the public they serve and who have honored them with that service.

    If the current members of the court refuse to accept that basic responsibility, then the other two branches of government have a responsibility to the public they serve to implement such a code for them.

    This is this institutionalist position that seeks to protect and preserve the credibility and authority of the court as an institution and as a coequal third branch of government responsible only to the law. The opposing position would destroy the court for the sake of preserving a myth and concealing a corrupt political charade.

    It’s our republic. We can only preserve it if we choose to.

  57. 57

    Probably the weirdest thing that happened today:

    Marge introduced an amendment to the defense authorization bill to withdraw the US from NATO. That’s really not that strange. She has the good sense and education God gave a box of Kleenex.

    What’s weird is the utter silence from the GOP afterward and the lack of laughter in the chamber when she did it.

  58. 58

    @57 Please stop defaming Kleenex. It has served many generations of runny noses very well.

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