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Good on the protesters of the new youth jail. I’m not as opposed to the jail as they are. But, I’m glad they’re keeping the pressure on it.

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  1. 1

    Washington went for Clinton and always will go for a Democrat for president. That means a Democrat will always get Washington’s electoral votes, which means I can write-in anyone I want for president. I’m not forced to choose between the lesser of two evils in the presidential race.

  3. 3

    I’m glad Christie won’t be in government at the national level. He thought he’d get the attorney general slot, but it went to Sessions. Sessions is not a guy I want to see anywhere near government either, and while he’s a marginally better choice than Christie, he’s still bad for the country. I’m hoping the Senate rejects Sessions, and Trump will nominate a person who believes in individual rights versus some outback Fundamentalist Christian totalitarian statist like Sessions.

  4. 4

    People who love Trump.

    “Police have stepped up patrols and are working with the FBI after a neo-Nazi and white-supremacist website listed the names and contacts of local Jews in Whitefish, Mont., calling on readers to ‘take action’ against them. This is the latest stir in Whitefish involving Richard Spencer, a part-time resident who came to national attention last month by shouting ‘Hail Trump!’ over Nazi salutes at a rally.”

    (From Seattle Times daily briefing)

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Birds of a feather …

  6. 6

    Another Seattle restaurant closes its doors. Because a developer bought the property. But Boob will blame it on a minimum wage that hasn’t taken effect yet and is still too low for people to live on in this town of skyrocketing rents. When he comes up for air from celebrating our government being taken over by neo-Nazis (see #4 & #5 above).

    http://www.seattletimes.com/li.....-121785541

  7. 7

    The Freedom Fuckers are trying to Pass the Freedom Go Fuck Yourself Act.

    It is shit like this that makes me not give two shits about anything, even the destruction of this Country by Outside forces. Who could really give a shit about this fake fucking Country!!!!!

    Oh – you are shocked?

  8. 8

    It’s time for progressives to act more like Republicans.

    http://www.motherjones.com/pol.....stop-trump

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: As you read this article, don’t forget that not only did Trump lose the popular vote to Hillary by over 2.8 million, but Democrats also picked up seats in both houses of Congress last month. The GOP’s extreme agenda did NOT win a popular mandate in this election!

  9. 9

    @ 6

    It’s a national chain, so subject to the more aggressive minimum wage increases than smaller restaurants.

    If it opens elsewhere in Seattle, then clearly the closure is not related to the minimum wage increase. And one would think a chain would have the funds to set up shop elsewhere – Northgate, Sodo, wherever.

    However, if it doesn’t reopen elsewhere, it’s at least some evidence that family-style restaurants are no longer competitive in the Seattle city limits.

    Louisa’s (Eastlake) closed last week.

    Oh, and as far as the chef shortage is concerned? That apparently is a nationwide issue.

    Local restaurant deals with nationwide chef shortage

    http://www.baltimoresun.com/87780350-132.html

    HOW A DIRE COOK SHORTAGE IS WRECKING AMERICAN RESTAURANTS

    https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/how-americas-cook-shortage-will-make-restaurants-pricier

    It isn’t something that is unique to Seattle and evidence that Seattle is uber-special.

    I suspect that the restaurant won’t open elsewhere in the City. Employees can find jobs at other Spaghetti Factory sites or at other restaurants where demand for workers is greater. And Spaghetti Factory ownership doesn’t have to deal with the expense of Seattle rents, the cost of a new location start-up, or Seattle wage challenges.

  10. 10

    @ 8

    The GOP’s extreme agenda did NOT win a popular mandate in this election!

    GOP does not need a mandate at this point. What it has is control of the White House and both Congressional houses, which is plenty for now. Thank you, Senator Reid, for nuking the filibuster a couple of years ago. That will come in very handy in 2017.

    Historically, Democrats do better in presidential election years and less well in mid-term election years.

    So far this week I have seen two articles about the possibility that the GOP could have 60 Senate seats after the 2018 election. Here is one of them:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/12/20/can-republican-senators-get-to-60-seats-in-2018/?utm_term=.df4f3715f57a

    You are trying to spin the 2016 results as a something of a positive for Democrats. What really happened is Democrats lost the White House and fumbled a golden opportunity to retake the Senate. It was disastrous for the Democrat Party.

    And, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, you are a moron to suggest otherwise.

  11. 11

    I’m sure it’s easy as pie to find a “cook” to work at the Shari’s across from the used tire dealer on the main drag in ToothlessSisterFuckerVille.
    So what are you Real Americans complaining about?
    Just SuperSize yourselves!

  12. 12

    @8,
    I’m with you, but only to a point.

    As the document observes, the Tea Party wasn’t concerned about pushing policy or about confronting distant members of Congress. They kept it local. And they kept it about opposition to Obama and the Democrats. But something your source document overlooks, is that the Tea Party focused their opposition to local matters as well. For the most part, the Tea Party only opposed things that impacted them locally, or personally. This ties in with their lack of a broad policy agenda. Because that’s not what they were about. They didn’t have policy goals for national or global issues that applied across state lines. But they opposed a whole bunch of things that did apply across state lines. They wanted to stop paying taxes they believed were being spent on other people in other places. And they wanted to see government reduced because they worried that the debts would be imposed on their children. They wanted the federal government to leave their states and their counties and towns to do as they pleased. So they opposed a whole lot of sweeping stuff. And they used a lot of rhetoric portraying the administration as over reaching and invasive.

    Maybe they had a point. I might not agree with their local politics. And to the extent that their local politics might place burdens on me, I think the feds have a role.
    But honestly, if these illiterate dumbfucks what to dump toxic sewage into their trailer parks, teach their lice infested spawn that Jesus rode a dinosaur, and pave their county roads with stale pizza crusts, Mountain Dew Code Red cans, and rotten teeth, I say let them.

    We should oppose Trump. But only on any legislation or regulation that would burden our enlightened and progressive local authority. Otherwise, we should just stand back from the dumpster fire and roast marshmallows.

  13. 13

    @ 8

    Looks like Democrats are taking Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit’s advice.

    Blame the messengers: Dem boss Schumer fires staffers after November rout

    With Christmas days away, nearly every member of the Senate Democratic Media Center has been fired, a senior Democratic aide confirmed to Fox News. Schumer swung the axe on Friday, according to Politico, which first obtained “goodbye” emails from staffers, including some with decades’ experience.
    …
    “Job creation has never been a strength of the Democrats,” a Republican aide told FoxNews.com. “But firing staffers just days before the holidays so they can play catch-up is pretty brutal.”

    http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....-rout.html

    Remember, the GOP doesn’t have a mandate.

  14. 14

    @6

    It’s happening in SLU too. Wurst Place is shutting in Feb because they’re taking out the building. They had a phenomenal tap list and was very affordable for the neighborhood.

    @9

    Passing your “knows” for facts again right? Something about chains and greater impact of wage increases. Pulled that one right out of your ass.

    Spaghetti factory relies on very high table turnover and volume. With the cruise terminal now largely north, the low or no carb diet tendency AND the local/authentic change in the culinary landscape added to Brlltown real estate value it would not have survived the next lease negotiation.

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    I am shocked, SHOCKED to learn that this person’s claims did not hold up to scrutiny.

    U-M student’s claim of threat for wearing hijab is false, police say

    ANN ARBOR, MI – Ann Arbor police say there is no evidence to support a Muslim University of Michigan student’s claim that a man threatened to light her on fire if she didn’t remove her hijab.
    …
    The investigation — conducted by Ann Arbor police detectives in conjunction with officials from the University of Michigan Police Department and the FBI — included interviewing witnesses and viewing surveillance video from the location where the woman said the incident occurred.

    There were no witnesses to the actual event as it was reported, Lige said. Investigators said the woman also doesn’t appear in any of the footage.

    “Detectives reviewed hours of surveillance video,” Lige said. “We could not find her on any video. They just weren’t there.”

    http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-.....river_home

    Say, I wonder how that SPD investigation into that Gay Pride Week beating of a LGBTQ activist is faring.

    Anyone know if they caught the perp? I really hope the “victim” is doing OK.

  16. 16

    @ 14

    There’s no plan for the purchased property yet. Not even a plan for land that cost $15 million to acquire. First a plan is developed, then submitted, then reviewed, then changes are made, reviewed again, etc. Eventually, after all of the protests and lawsuits are done with, a permit is issued.

    Then it’s put out for bid, changes are made when the bids come back too high, it’s put out again, etc.

    Someday, something will be done although that space may be preserved regardless, because it’s a historic building.

    All that shit could take three years, or more. And yet the restaurant closes now, when it doesn’t have any place to move. It just closes.

    Gee. I wonder why that is.

  17. 17

    Gee. I wonder why that is.

    Answered. It just closes because the new owners of most buildings to be redeveloped aren’t going to renew a lease because they intend to remove all the tenants and start over. Sometimes the developer buys out tenants and sometimes they just sit on it and refuse lease extensions as each come due until it’s empty.

    Yep, the landscape is changing and not just in $15/hr Seattle.

    The era of huge dining rooms and paper thin margins of “family” restaurants in urban centers is a thing of the past. 10,000 square feet of space in almost any city is more valuable than a family feedbag can scrape together. Minimum wage is a minor factor but I can see a few other spots that won’t be around after their current lease. The $/per square foot won’t allow it unless people really are willing to pay $14 for a Red Robin burger.

    Or maybe you haven’t noticed that no one is opening 200 seat eateries that aren’t in suburban strip malls anymore.

  18. 18

    @ 17

    The number of restaurants within Seattle city limits affordable to those who earn low or moderate incomes is:

    a) Increasing
    b) Stable
    c) Decreasing

    Effects of minimum wage increase in Seattle on the answer given above are:

    a) Significant
    b) Insignificant

  19. 19

    @9 “Louisa’s (Eastlake) closed last week.”

    Yeah, I caught that. Funny thing, though. The minimum wage doesn’t hit $15 until 2021, it’s been static at (at a lower amount) all year, and does increase soon by 50 cents to a dollar an hour depending on exactly how the employer’s comp plan works. That still doesn’t exactly explain why the proprietor of a small cafe would close up shop with zero notice right before Christmas. Methinks there’s a back story here, most likely that the smallish building said small cafe was in is worth a lot less than the dirt it sits on.

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    @ 19

    I’d suspect the back story (I don’t disagree) is a failed effort to transfer the business to some other entity.

    Long-term businesses in trouble tend to fail slowly, right before they fail suddenly. Maybe it was a frozen LOC or a called loan.

    My point is that there are two Seattles. There is the Capitol Hill/Belltown crowd, which piles into businesses serving the latest uber-hopped IPA and $60 ribeye. Those seem to be doing well.

    Then there is the customer base of the limited-service restaurant group, and the cafe-style restaurants who tend to serve those with lesser incomes. Those seem to be faring not so well.

    I just think the latter category deserves some air play by Goldy and around these parts, too.

  21. 21

    @18

    The number of coffee shops with inexpensive food service, food trucks, and walk up food windows, grocery with expanded ready-made hot food selections in Seattle
    a)increasing
    b)exploding
    c)trending upward

    Sorry. The Data simply doesn’t work for you. It isn’t due to $15/hr.

    Just a tip, the best Filipino restaurant in Seattle is actually a grocery store. The best Banh Mi comes from a bodega and costs $2. Delicious fried chicken comes for a gas station where I’ve driven out of my way for lunch at a gas station. The way people eat is changing. A lot.

    Huge dining rooms with cheap food is dead. Long live the tiny spots!

  22. 22

    @ 21

    Best bahn mi in the north end is Yeh Yeh’s in Lynnwood, immediately north of Harris Ford off of 99.

  23. 23

    @ 21

    Oh, that Fat Matt’s mention you gave me? I subsequently saw them plugged in the movie “Up In The Air”.

    Thanks again. Spoke with the owner while I was there – good time, if brief.

  24. 24

    @9 What do you suppose caused the chef shortage, Boob? And what would attract more people to the occupation? Mmmmmm??

  25. 25

    @10 Actually, the filibuster was nuked only for lower-level judges and appointees, and still applies to Supreme Court justices and all non-budget legislative bills, as you and Trump are about to find out.

  26. 26

    @10 “You are trying to spin the 2016 results as a something of a positive for Democrats. What really happened is Democrats lost the White House and fumbled a golden opportunity to retake the Senate. It was disastrous for the Democrat Party.”

    The Democrats’ presidential candidate won the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. The Democrats made gains in both houses of Congress. Through an Electoral College fluke, the White House fell into the hands of a serial liar, sexual predator, and con man that his own party doesn’t trust and can’t depend on. This will have consequences, but the disaster will fall upon the dumbfucks who voted for him, far more than on Democratic voters. It’s not the well-heeled liberal professional class who’s going to suffer from Trump’s policies.

  27. 27

    @13 “Remember, the GOP doesn’t have a mandate.”

    No, it doesn’t, just a lot of temporary patronage jobs to fill. We’ll see how those new hires are doing two years from now, after the first referendum on Trump’s governance.

  28. 28

    @16 “Gee. I wonder why that is.”

    Probably because squatting isn’t a viable alternative to a lease.

  29. 29

    @18 Effect of Seattle’s hostility to cars on businesses whose customers get around by car and need parking spaces to stop and eat:

    (a) Negligible
    (b) Problematical
    (c) Devastating

  30. 30

    @20 By jove, Boob, you’ve nailed it! People in this town have too much money! It’s so bad an eatery can’t even sell a steak dinner for less than $60 anymore! Damn Amazon!

  31. 31

    @ 26

    Through an Electoral College fluke…

    fluke
    flo͞ok
    noun
    unlikely chance occurrence, especially a surprising piece of luck.
    “their triumph was no fluke”
    synonyms: chance, coincidence, accident, twist of fate; More

    Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, that wasn’t a fluke.

    That was Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

    Your candidate lost by 77 electoral votes. Your candidate could have prevented that from happening by listening to people other than her inner circle.

    Instead she listened to people who told her she could capture Arizona.

    Here, let me use it in a sentence, based upon the above, so that you’ll understand:

    “Trump’s triumph was no fluke.”

  32. 32

    “The number of restaurants within Seattle city limits affordable to those who earn low or moderate incomes is:”

    d) of absolutely no interest to the people who own all the real estate in Seattle.
    Ownership has consequences.

    Fuck off, hillbilly. Next time you crave affordable stuffed crust, deep fried, honey glazed, beer battered, coconut Buffalo Wings with your choice of dippin’ sauce why don’t you just fuck off to Puyallup?

  34. 34

    Friday, January 20, 2017

    Inaugural Swearing-in Ceremony
    US Capitol

    Inaugural Parade
    Pennsylvania Avenue
    Ticket required for special viewing areas.
    No ticket required for general public viewing areas.

    Inaugural Balls
    Ticket required – limited availability.

  35. 35

    Admit it, HA libbies. Deep down, you knew this was coming.

    Mississippi Church Member Charged in ‘Vote Trump’ Arson

    A Mississippi man arrested in the burning of an African-American church that was spray-painted with the words “Vote Trump” is a member of the congregation, the church’s bishop said.
    Andrew McClinton, 45, of Leland, Mississippi, was charged Wednesday with first degree arson of a place of worship, said Warren Strain, spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety. McClinton is African-American.
    …
    “We do not believe it was politically motivated. There may have been some efforts to make it appear politically motivated,” Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, who is also the state fire marshal, told AP.

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireS.....h-44330731

    This is the type of faked crime that some of you might describe as a “fluke”.

    Given the number of hate crimes that turn out to be perpetrated by the “victim”, it’s really the type of faked news item that is increasingly viewed, by both sides, as routine.

    Just as calling everything you don’t like fascist or traitorous diminishes the serious of acts that truly are fascist or traitorous in nature, the seriousness of a real hate crime will be lost in all of that serial dishonesty your ilk has perpetrated @ 15 of late.

    Right now your side just looks like a band of whining pussies.

    Stop the games. Clean house. Come back stronger.

  36. 36

    @33,
    comes with everything, Playboy.
    Snouts, fingernails, chemical flavor paks brewed in NJ, plenty of extra sodium, palm oil, and HFCS, one or two Band Aids, cigarette ash, and facial hair, and a really generous dose of Norovirus ’cause Virgilio, the prep cook, ran out of sick days.
    Yummmmm. Eat up, hillbillly!

  37. 37

    “Stop the games. Clean house. Come back stronger.”

    Nope. Sorry. We’re done.
    You’re on your own now.
    Good luck.

  38. 38

    There’s so many liberals with sad faces these days. Boohoo. Almost two thirds of the eligible liberal voters didn’t bother to vote. That’s a lot of people that sat on their asses but now want to cry. That’s like seeing the house on fire and sitting down to watch t.v. and complaining about getting third degree burns.

  39. 39

    @38,
    unless it’s not your house on fire, but the house belonging to the drunken, howling, wife beater, holly roller, who parks ugly fuck-stick motorcycles in his front yard, points his speakers out the upstairs windows blasting Lee Greenwood, breeds Zika in his doughboy pool, and watches snuff porn in his living room with the blinds open.
    When it’s that guy you buy marshmallows.

  41. 41

    So, I just found out there was some big fire in Tennessee. And the way I found out was because a friend re-tweeted some outraged Trumpkin pissing and moaning because “rich liberals” didn’t spring into action to help poor Tennessee.
    See, I din’t even fucking know they had a fire, or whatever it was. Somebody just said something about flooding too. So whatever. But I just think that’s fucking funny as hell. Of course we don’t give a shit about their trailer fires and flooded lynching grounds. I’m glad that shit burned. Too bad about the flooding, though. If not for that the whole fucking state might have burned and maybe even spread to Alabama and Kentucky.
    Guess this means I’ll have to cancel my big plans to visit Dollywood. Damn shame!

  42. 42

    Trump promised to stop being the world’s cop, then after being elected, surrounded himself with hawkish generals and started picking fights with China. Promise broken.

    Trump promised to look out for the little guy, then after being elected, filled his cabinet with billionaires. Promise broken.

    Trump promised to “drain the swamp,” but is filling his administration with career politicians and lobbyists. Promise broken. Oh, and he’s not going to use that phrase anymore.

    http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/21/.....index.html

    Have you rubes figured out yet that you’ve been had?

  43. 43

    The most thin-skinned president in history is likely to become the most criticized president. It’ll be interesting to see how that plays out.

  44. 44

    @40,
    right. We “failed”. It’s just kinda hard to feel like much of a failure when our lives and our kid’s lives just keep right on improving. While the lives of Trump voters, and their kids, just go from unplanned pregnancy to stop-loss to rehab to foreclosure to reality television suicide. All while living in trailer.
    I’m still not feeling the envy or regret. But I’m not feeling sympathy anymore either.

  45. 45

    @41 Back when Rick Perry was governor of Texass, he slashed state funding to rural fire departments by 90%. Then, when wildfires consumed his state, there were no resources to fight them. So Perry went crawling on his hands and knees to President Obama, begging for $50 million of federal emergency help. I’d guess that 90% of the uninsured drivers on our roads are conservatives, too.

  46. 46

    @35 Boob probably thinks this proves all black church burnings are committed by blacks. He’s really adept at these kinds of extrapolations.

  47. 47

    @40 That’s probably true. She didn’t mind her firewall very well. But the Trump presidency, and all its consequences, will be 100% the fault of Trump voters. Whatever happens in the next 4 years, Clinton and her voters aren’t responsible for it.

  48. 48

    @31 “Trump’s triumph was no fluke.”

    I beg to differ. No president who lost the popular vote ever won the electoral vote by such a large margin, or lost the popular vote by such a large margin. It was a fluke.

  51. 51

    Boob’s carrying on as if we actually care about Trump being president. The truth is, I’m apathetic about it. My stocks have gone up since the election, I’ll probably get a minor tax cut, I’m not going to lose my health care or need an abortion, I won’t be around to pay the debts he’s going to run up, and if he starts a war somebody else will fight it. I’m basically a spectator. I’m going to pop some popcorn, kick back, and watch Republicans fuck up this country and the planet. Sure, a lot of people will suffer, but mostly people who voted for him, and frankly I don’t give a shit about them. God helps those who help themselves, and I ain’t God. There’s nothing I can do for them.

  53. 53

    @50 And if Trump, who’s as old as I am, does get a second term by then Ivanka will be running the country anyway. Melania’s job will be to dress him and spread leaves in the Rose Garden for him to rake up.

  55. 55

    Hey senile dumb wabbit…

    Last October Harry Reid thought DUMMOCRETINS were going to win the senate so he threatened to go nukular on Supreme Court nominees. Now that Republicans PWN the senate, John Cornyn claims Republicans may use it if DUMMOCRETIN intransigence continues as always1

  57. 57

    @55 What makes you so sure all your senators will go along? After all, if Democrats don’t have the filibuster, Republicans don’t either.

  58. 58

    A GOPer’s solution to Obamacare repeal: If you’re sick or injured, get out your Boy Scout first aid manual instead of going to the ER or doctor.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....a5945716c2

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Is this the GOP’s best and brightest? You might go to jail for child neglect if you do what this idiot congressman suggests.

  59. 59

    Drumpf breaks another campaign promise:

    “Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said on CNN’s ‘New Day’ Thursday that Trump would not pursue a ban on Muslim immigration to the US based only on religion.”

    http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/22/.....index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Hey, who would’ve guessed the Orange Jesus made promises to the rubes he had no intention of keeping in order to swindle them into voting for him? Umm, well, some of us saw through him; after all, this guy has made a career of lying and cheating.

  60. 60

    (((Goldy))) @GoldyHA
    I lived in NYC for four years, and I don’t think I had a single power outage. This is my 4th or 5th this year. WTF, @SEACityLight?

    Why, this cannot be.

    Was not Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit prattling on earlier this week about how great it is having consistent utility service in the city, versus the problems experienced by those in PSE- and SnoPUD-served regions?

  62. 62

    @ 43

    The most thin-skinned president in history is likely to become the most criticized president. It’ll be interesting to see how that plays out.

    Well, he’s about to become an ex-president and spend his days golfing and blowing up the new administration.

    Tan, fit, and asshole is how I think that will play out for him.

  64. 64

    @62 I hope you’re better at reading x-rays than simple sentences, doc. You need to brush up on your reading comprehension skills.

  66. 66

    @61 I didn’t know PSE serves NYC. When did that happen? And I never mentioned Snohomish PUD, so quit making shit up, Boob. You’re entitled to your opinions, but you’re not entitled to put words I never spoke into my mouth.

  67. 67

    Anyone see a pattern here? Boob arrives at “work” at 8:30 am, fills the coffeemaker, turns on his computer, then starts posting on HA. He’ll probably spend the day signing Medicare reimbursement forms. I gotta hand it to Boob, both of us live off the fat of the land and neither of us do any useful work, but he has a better racket than I do.

  68. 68

    @ 67

    Most days I’ve been at work for a couple of hours before you even awaken, and half of my day is over before you insert your first Fleet tip.

    My day ends about the time your wife needs to recharge her Rabbit Habit.

  69. 69

    66

    I have never ever had an issue with PSE….for nearly 20 years.

    The rabbit is a clueless idiot.

  70. 70

    There’s a new sort of eatery-and-drinkery, doubtless at least in part a response to the current economic/regulatory situation. Someone’s opened a brewery/drinkery in Ravenna, that doesn’t have its own kitchen. Instead, they’ve arranged to have a series of scheduled “food-trucks-of-the-day” to set up shop next to the place. People are supposed to buy something from the truck, go inside and wash it down with their beer. If it’s successful enough, I have no doubt some agency will find a way to “protect” us all by shutting it down.

  71. 71

    @68 Boob, calling what you do “work” may be your funniest post ever. I do the same thing as you, i.e. spend all day posting political rants on HA, but I don’t have the chutzpah to call it “work.” I’m a Democratic party hack and liberal propagandist, which however lowly is notches above a Republican blowhard like you. At least I have better material to work with. I don’t have a Medicare tit to suck on, but being a useless capitalist is almost as good.

  72. 72

    @69 I’ve never had an issue with PSE either, because I don’t live in their electricity service area.

  73. 73

    You can rely on two truisms about Democrats: One, they’re in it for the money; and two, they’re hypocrites.

  74. 74

    @70

    This is not a new thing at all. There are lots of breweries that operate out of warehouse spaces that have food trucks nightly or at least on weekends.

    As my bar owner friend famously says, “Fuck the food! You don’t make any money on food!”

    just off the top of my head:
    Peddler Brewing
    Black Raven Brewing
    Chuck’s Hop Shops (both)
    Stoup Brewing
    Rooftop Brewing
    Machine House Brewing
    Valhalla Brewing
    Tripplehorn Brewing
    American Brewing
    …

    That covers from Edmonds to Auburn, Woodinville, Redmond and Bellevue.

    It’s not much different from places like Beverige Place Pub having a binder of menus of places nearby that deliver.

    Marketplaces change. I’m sure $15 an hour will kill off Tower Records, Sam Goody and Musicland with their stoner drop-outs playing music all day and rolling their eyes at your Manheim Steamroller Christmas cassette oh wait…

  76. 76

    @69 That would make Doctor Dumbfuck a clueless idiot, something I wouldn’t disagree with. What he’s done with a power outage at Goldy’s house is proof enough of that, as though I needed more.

  78. 78

    @73 If you’re stuck with a brain too weak to write your own comments, you can always plagiarize mine. =:-D<

  79. 79

    @76 All these guys must live in the PSE service area, because the lights never go on upstairs. Same dreary drivel, day after day.

  80. 80

    @77 This is probably is what prompted it:

    “Mr. Trump’s tweet follows Russian President Vladimir Putin’s own urging of his country to beef up its nuclear arsenal.”

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/do.....abilities/

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Hey, I thought Trump was gonna resolve these issues by picking up the phone and talking to his buddy? Guess not. Another broken promise. This one comes with a gigantic fireball and dust cloud.

  82. 82

    As if the billionaire and lobbyist swamp creatures in his administration weren’t clue enough.

    “Corey Lewandowski Says ‘Drain The Swamp’ Is No Longer A Priority For Donald Trump”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....5864855877

    The GOP base…betrayed again! But as long as they get to shout “Sieg Heil”, they’re cool with anything.

  83. 83

    Here’s what we know so far: In Fort Worth, a black woman called police to complain about an adult white male allegedly “choking” her 7-year-old son for littering on his property. The white male cop who responds to the incident tells the woman, “Why don’t you teach your son not to litter?” The woman answers, “It doesn’t give him the right to put his hands on him.” The cop replies, “Why not?” The woman argues with the cop. The cop arrests her and her niece, and hauls them away in his cop car. The Fort Worth PD says it’s investigating the incident.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ1Z204Mg34

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Maybe we don’t know the whole story, or maybe we do, that remains to be seen. My gut reaction is, “Maybe this is why black people don’t trust the police.”

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    @83 No matter. Doctor will spin it so that black women and their children everywhere deserve to hauled off in a cop car, although preferably shot dead.

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    How can anyone trust the cops, the military, the intelligence agencies, the legal establishment, the educational establishment or the government? They’re all unworthy of public trust.

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    I’m sure by now no one is surprised, although Doctor Dumbfuck will likely be disappointed to see that these immigrant workers will be paid so much – $10.72/Hr.

    “Trump Winery begs Labor Department to hire foreign workers over Americans”

    “ABC News reports the winery applied for the 19 visas through the H-2 program in 2016; it made similar requests in 2014 and 2015.”

    http://www.rawstory.com/2016/1.....americans/

    The GOP base…betrayed again! Sieg Heil!

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    It’s no longer clear who Doctor Dumbfuck and his loon hate more, blacks or Jews?

    “Jewish family flees home after conservative media falsely blame them for Christmas play cancellation”

    “commenters on Breitbart demanded the family’s home address and other personal information”

    http://www.rawstory.com/2016/1.....cellation/

    Sieg Heil!

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    72

    yet you go on a screed about how awful they are…..lol…..good to know you are talking from a factual standpoint

    you are a clown.

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    @88 And here we have a troll arguing that because I don’t live in PSE’s service area, I can’t possibly know anything about their outages or service record.

    https://pse.com/accountsandservices/servicealert/pages/outage-map.aspx

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: This is basically an argument that we can’t know anything that we don’t see for ourselves, because the news media can’t be trusted. So what you need to do is go to sources like this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKgqDes03KQ

    and this:

    http://www.globalclimatescam.c.....is-a-hoax/

    and, of course, this:

    https://flatearthscienceandbible.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/top-ten-undeniable-flat-earth-proofs/

    You see? It’s all about who you believe!

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    Finally caught up on my Podcastery over the last few days of shopping/wrapping/readying for family to arrive.

    “In The Dark” is really good and gets into how the “stranger danger” panic of today (coddling the precious flowers is a side effect) is largely the result of one missing kid case. A case that was bungled in almost every way by the local Sheriff’s Dept.

    But near the end there was a startling statistic,

    King County Washington Murder Investigation Clearance rate, meaning charges were filed against someone but not necessarily convicted, from 2004-2014 16%. Yes that’s right. If you commit murder in KCS jurisdiction you stand a better than 80% chance of getting away with it.

    Doing some diggin’ in 2009, running unopposed, Sue Rahr got 97% of the vote after her department cleared 4 of the 62 murder investigations they were responsible for after she took over the department in 2004.

    Why is no one in print media or “Government can do nothing right” radio hosts questioning the abysmal record of Law Enforcement by the King County Sherrif’s Dept? Shockingly it’s getting better as they cleared 2 of the 4 in 2014

    Willing to bet if you went back and looked at TV news stories between 2004-2009 you wouldn’t find more than a minute or two criticizing the department.

    And that’s why voters are stupid and not just about this issue.

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    Guess ole Roger needs to talk to Goldy about that wonderful Seattle City Light service…LMFAO

    Seems shoving his foot into his mouth is a rabbit pasttime.

    What a fucking clown.

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    @3 Lets see Sessions is a Senator I’d say he has the gig, with minimal political fireworks during confirmation.

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    Progressives should support the building of a new juvie facility is needed and not be NIMBys.
    Though you may need a holding facility for INS to pick up people from. The courts are going to remind cities and counties they have to abide by federal law and cooperation is expected. Rather if you go to Canada or Mexico and you are there illegally and don’t pay for your train ticket you will be sent back to the US or wherever you are

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