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Well, if they’re gonna run racist ads down in Tennessee, the least the GOP could do is be honest about it. (Courtesy of The General.)

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  1. MTR’s ballot guide:

    Initiative 920: Repeal of death tax
    Yes.
    Rationale: I vote for all tax cuts and against all tax increases.

    Initiative 933: Stop government theft
    Yes
    Rationale: Stop fucking private property owners.

    Initiative 937: More windmills
    Yes
    Rationale: The global warming stuff is bullshit of course. But I’m voting yes because the use of natural gas for electricity has driven up the price to the point where the fertilizer plants in the midwest that use natural gas for feedstock have shut down. We now rely on foreign countries to sell us fertilizer. Our food supply is now dependent on whether foreign countries like us or not, and I think that’s a bad idea.

    GE has developed wind turbine technology that can produce power for about 7.5 cents per KWH compared to current rates of about 6 cents per KWH. So it’s in the ballpark.

    HJR 4223: Increase tax exemption
    Yes
    Rationale: I vote for all tax cuts and against all tax increases.

    King County Prop 1: Who the fuck knows what this is about?
    No
    Rationale: Ron Sims can’t be trusted.

    King County Prop 2: More empty buses.
    No
    Rationale: We already have enough empty buses.

  2. Does anybody know what kind of bullshit Ron Sims is trying to pull with Prop 1?

  3. Thanks for the anti-reality guide MTR. I voted the opposite way on all but one case.

    I glad to know I was right about the others, though.

  6. Being a racist or killing a woman sure helps your senate chances if you are a dem. I would go for president but I havent rape anyone yet.

  7. 7

    We’re all Americans here. Except for the trollfucks. See #1 for example.

    P.S. – pay your fucking gambling debt, Mark Welsher!!!

  8. Being a racist or killing a woman sure helps your senate chances if you are a dem. I would go for president but I havent rape anyone yet.

    Commentby Robert C Byrd-Democrat US Se— 10/29/06@ 5:33 pm

    That must be klake the lying wingfuck! The spelling and grammar looks like his.

  9. This one deserves reposting:

    “I read a study recently which showed that conservative judges vote to overturn laws more often than liberal ones, which is the very definition of ‘activist’ judge as defined by latter-day conservatives.” Commentby Daddy Love— 10/29/06@ 5:12 pm

    A certain amount of judicious judicial activism is healthy, but I don’t want injudicious judicial activism to get out of hand. (See Richard Sanders for an example.) That’s why I voted for Susan Owens. Also because I’m a partisan hack.

  11. That must be klake the lying wingfuck! The spelling and grammar looks like his.

    Commentby Roger Rabbit— 10/29/06@ 5:34 pm

    Sorry Roger keep dreaming.

  12. I”m still wondering if any other libs are curious about Ron Sims and his hiking plan….

    I mean in a world of poor transit, and limited $$, why in the heck is he turning nice right of way w/ rails into trails? Don’t we have like 10,000 miles of trails within a 1 hour drive?

    I”d love to take a train or light rail (except i don’t live along Rainier avenue). Offer me a BN track and hey baby, i’ll ride the rails..

  13. I”d love to take a train or light rail (except i don’t live along Rainier avenue). Offer me a BN track and hey baby, i’ll ride the rails..

    Commentby righton— 10/29/06@ 5:57 pm

    Righton he will when you name the rail after him.

  14. Goldy you should have aired this video instead. They never showed up in King County with their cameras to catch Ron Sims clowns stuffing the ballot boxes.

    Join us at http://www.videothevote.org — Our goal is to protect the vote by being the eyes and ears where ballots are cast and counted on Election Day. We will document and report any irregularities that occur at polling places and boards of elections while they are happening, enabling the media and public to watch-dog the electoral process across our country

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaEECHjWptU

  15. 17 Agreed. Methinks that the rail lines are becoming missed opportunities for transit rights-of-way that may well become far more significant than the recreational opportunities provided by trails. Mind you…my family and I LOVE hiking and biking. Just that it seems there are more important things.

    In the 1980’s I worked at Physio-Control–what is now a part of Medtronic. We were one of the early industrial developments along Willows Road, perhaps the second after Rocket Research. Several of the people I worked with were involved with the Snoqualmie Valley Railroad Museum, and they often speculated about finding a couple of Budd Cars to run a transit service on the track that parallels Willows Road–they jokingly referred to it as “Physio Area Rapid Transit” AKA “PHART”.

    Well, guess what? Now there are high-tech developments all along Willows, the traffic through that corridor has become God-awful, and that rail spur is now part of what would get converted to a trail under Sims’s proposal. The irony is that as a trail it’s redundant–the Sammamish River Trail is only a quarter of a mile away.

    Are we really considering all the possibilities here?

  16. So what the fuck is Ron Sims trying to pull with Prop 1? Does anybody know? Since the wording is so obscure, I’m assuming it’s some bullshit that will end up fucking The Producers somehow.

  18. Legislators take an oath to uphold the law. Yet Darcy Burner supports breaking the law when she tells the fucking lie about the 2.13 minimum wage. I believe under-reporting income is a felony punishable by huge fines and long jail terms.

    Seems like any candidate who actually follows through on fucking lies like this should be indicted.

  20. Speaking of LiarfuckingCantwell… who do you guys think of her giving taxpayer money to her fuck buddy?

  21. Goldy:

    Thank you for putting up the kind of add that Klake, Mark the Redneck, JCH and I can get behind. And you know that JCH likes it when we get behind him. [he he]

  22. Mark, regarding “empty busses”…if “empty” is to mean “occupied only by the driver, there are a hell of a lot more “empty SUV’s” out there.

    I have to admit, I’m at the helm of an “empty Grand Marquis”…although that STILL gets over twice the mileage as an Expedition or a Suburban. We live in Seattle, and early this year I took a job at a high-tech firm in Bellevue, not entirely realizing how drastically the bus service had been cut back in recent years. My greatest frustration was to realize that the routes that go from Overlake, the Northup Way/Bel-Red corridor and even the Bellevue Transit Center are now limited to a few “inbound (i. e. to downtown Seattle) runs in the morning and corresponding “outbound” runs in the evening. Get a clue, guys…who lives in the Northup industrial parks and commutes to Seattle? Sure, the busses are going to be empty if you run them when/where nobody needs ’em! I’ll probably change jobs again before they tear up 520 if this doesn’t get straightened out.

  23. 25 Mark the Dipshit….it wasn’t taxpayer money, it was HER money. It’s also none of your business. And what’s with your sudden fascination with Maria’s sex life? Ain’t getting any yourself?

  24. I just think it’s terrible that LiarFuckingCantwell gives taxpayer money to her fuck buddy. That just seems wrong to me…

  25. So you support more empty buses?

    Why?

    Why not pour some fucking concrete so people like me in our luxury SUVs can get where we need to be?

    And while we’re at it, let’s get rid of those stoopid fucking HOV lanes. We tried an experiment. It failed. Time to turn ’em into lexus lanes so The Producers can get where they need to be. FUcking ridiculous the way it is now for us to have to sit there with the rest of you.

  27. 14 SITTING FEDERAL GOP POLITICIANS ARE under arrest, indictment, probation, conviction or investigation. Only ONE Dem is in that situation. And just think how many rethugs we’d have in jail if there were any REAL oversight!!!

  28. So how did we get Mark the Redneck and Roger Rabbit to agree on I-917?

    There actually is a lot of potential in wind power. Regardless of whether this initiative passes or not, economic forces and the limited supply of fossil fuels will eventually require all these alternative and renewable energy sources to be used.

  29. Actually, that should be I-937 (or whatever the windmill initiative is numbered). Who knows what I-917 was (or would have been)? And who cares?

  30. So how did we get Mark the Redneck and Roger Rabbit to agree on I-917? Commentby Richard Pope— 10/29/06@ 8:48 pm

    I stomped some sense into him.

  31. 17

    I”m still wondering if any other libs are curious about Ron Sims and his hiking plan….

    Commentby righton— 10/29/06@ 5:57 pm

    Hey righton, where ya been, are you out on parole now? To answer your question, I posted on a previous thread that I think it’s a bad deal for the neighbors. I sure don’t want Port of Seattle running Boeing Field! What is Ron Sims thinking anyway.

  32. Redneck et seq.

    Indictment is not the remedy for bet welshing! As I’ve pointed out previously on this blog, gambling contracts are not legally enforceable. Therefore, gambling debts normally are enforced by making the welsher go swimming with cement flippers.

  33. From the front page of the NY Times:

    Hundreds of thousands of weapons intended for Iraqi security forces were not properly monitored, a new federal report said.

    Spin it for me, Righties. Start with shooting the messenger, the NY Times, see if you can get to the facts.

  34. @ 17 re the “big deal”-

    I’m afraid both Sims and Dinsmore are building legacies. While the trail is a nice dream, it’s not at the top of the “to do” list.

    The trail’s use for transit is compromised by the fact that WSDOT is cutting it at the Wilberton I-405 crossing for work on freeway widening. It would cost big bucks to maintain the rail line in a usable condition.

  35. Roger Rabbit @ 37

    Actually, the $100 bet thing seems like a pretty close legal call. I think you can legally contract to “gamble”, if the proceeds go to a charity, rather than to the bettor. Not sure whether this would apply if the “charity” was a political cause. There was also the question of whether Goldy and Mark had a meeting of the minds — whether they had agreed on the same thing or not. Actually, there was a lot of evidence that they had.

    I think courts don’t like gambling contracts. So if there is even a reasonable doubt as to whether the object of the contract is lawful, or whether a contract has been formed, a court should probably reject it. So your analysis is correct and basically the same as mine.

    Wonder how this issue would fare in small claims court?

  36. Pope – Here’s a legal test for you. If an offer is made, and the offeree makes a counter offer, is the offeror still obligated to the terms of the original offer, or is that considered a rejection of the offer? I know the answer… so let’s see if you’re qualified to be a judge.

    Here’s the exchange:

    912 by 15 ! ! ! !
    Hey Goldy, a week or so ago, you wanted to make a bet on whether 912 passes by 15. I accepted your offer, but never heard back from you.
    I say the “Yes” vote on 912 will be at least 57.5%. If I’m right, you send $100 to Eyman’s compensation fund. If I’m wrong, I’ll send $100 to whoever you specify.
    Are we on? Or are you not so sure now that everyone thinks like you?
    We’re all waiting to hear…
    Commentby Mark The Redneck— 9/20/05@ 11:36 am

    Mark the Redneck @1,
    You’re on. $100 says I-912 does not get 57.5% of the statewide vote.
    Though I gotta say, you did pick the absolute worst cause I could possibly think of. If you’d like, instead of trying to screw each other, we could make this a friendlier wager by selecting a mutually agreeable charity – like the Red Cross – so that no matter the outcome, a worthy cause comes out a winner.
    And Cynical @3… screw you. I didn’t offer you a wager.
    Commentby Goldy— 9/20/05@ 5:31 pm

    Goldy @ 15 – Nope. You pay Tim $100 and go on record putting money in his pocket or no deal.
    You decide.
    Commentby Mark The Redneck— 9/20/05@ 7:15 pm

    Since I never heard back until after the election was over, the deal was dead.

  38. Goldy said “You’re on”. He also said “if you’d like” – you didn’t “like” so Goldy was held to “You’re on”. Your “no deal” has no validity.

    Later, you said you “tried” to pay the debt but Cantwell’s site didn’t work for you. IMHO, that was bullshit. You lost and you were too chickenshit to pay what you owed.

    So pay the fucking gambling debt you owe to Goldy.

  39. K at 39

    ok, at least the 405 widening comment has some logic…but i gotta wonder….you mean we have 15 miles of rail from bellevue to renton, and cuz we lose 1 mile of it, the rest is worthless….isn’t a cure to that 1 mile still worth it?

    Could you libs/greens put the word out that his hiking plan is going to screw transit for a long, long time. I know you guys would rather take mass transit than those stupid Priuses (just a bandaid)

  40. Looks like Goldy is still on Daylight Savings Time!

    For The Clueless does have a good analysis. It appears that Goldy accepted and formed a contract. Goldy then proposed a modification of the contract — loser pays a specified charity. Mark rejected the proposed contract modification. Original contract stands.

    However, a different analysis may be appropriate. It does seem like the counteroffer argument has some merit. More appropriately, there is an exchange of on-line messages. And no completely unambiguous acceptance by Goldy. We can call it an acceptance, but Mark messaged back, and wanted Goldy to “decide”. Goldy didn’t get back to Mark until after the election.

    I see it as ambiguous. Goldy did intend to accept Mark’s bet offer, but the subsequent conduct makes it ambiguous. A normal business contract would not normally be accepted in such an ambiguous manner. And a gambling contract would certainly be strictly construed.

    So I would say there was no contract formed here.

    Had a contract been formed, it would still be illegal and not enforceable. The definition of “gambling” includes benefitting a third party by the outcome of a chance event, and not just benefitting the person or persons betting:

    http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/def.....=9.46.0237

  41. Richard, you mean, we will stop having to read one line Clueless? Or last line Furball? Once again great analysis! Yippee!

    Now to something more serious:

    http://www.breitbart.com/news/.....OIB80.html

    I know proud liftist and ATJ have serious comprehension issues, but if you look at the most dangerous cities stated in this study, you’ll determine many of them controlled by donk had recent voting issues. Many of them are from Furball’s favorite state Ohio. Since these are moonbat controlled cities, Furball overlooks this and claims Blackwell did it. How Furball did Blackwell do it when these “crime-ridden” cities are controlled by your pukes? Who manned the polling stations Furball? Who created the polling stations Furball? I’m sure given the opportunity, Furball would choose any city from 325 or above as his final resting place!

    Now if that don’t beat the band. Funny how truth and facts hurt the librul mind.

  43. Daddy Love ballot guide:

    Vote early and often. Elect Democrats; it drives them crazy.

    Initiative 920: Repeal of inheritance tax
    Nope.
    Rationale: (1) Cuts money earmarked for education; (2) extremely progessive tax that affects only the undeserving offpsring of a very few of our most well-off and conmfortable families.

    Initiative 933: So-called “poperty rights” measure
    Nope.
    Rationale: (1) In practice, legal and financial burdens will gut zoning and land use regualtion; (2) I disfavor developer-sponsored initiatives; (3) I do not agree with the highert-use valuations that enable property owners to imagine some use to which they would never have put their land and then charge the government for “taking” it from them.

    Initiative 937: More windmills
    Nope.
    Rationale: I am starting to disfavor initiatives completely unless I see some compelling public good. On the whole I prefer legislative action. However, this is a “lean no” on my part; my feeling is not that strong.

    HJR 4223: Increase personal property tax exemption
    Yes (amazingly aligned with MTR)
    Rationale: The personal property tax exemption is set at a dollar amount, which to me means that we will periodically have to raise periodically it due to inflation and rising property values. It should be set some other way.

    King County Prop 1: Give KC the power to sell or swap Duwamish and waterfront land it owns.
    Yes.
    Rationale: KC paid the bonds off back in the 1930s or something. Why should the county not have the power to sell land that we own outright? There’s no public debt involved.

    King County Prop 2: Transit funding.
    Yes.
    Rationale: We need to increase transit right now because of the major works projects about to begin.

    WA Senator: Maria Cantwell
    Not that Mike! is the lamest guy on the planet, but we don’t need more pro-no-Iraq-strategy anti-Social Security Rubber Stampers back there.

    WA-08: Darcy Burner (can’t tell you how good that one felt–I guess I just did)
    This smart little cookie is beating Gay Pride Dave like a drum, this election is important to take back the House, Dave IS one of the lamest guys on the planet, and we don’t need more pro-no-Iraq-strategy anti-Social Security Rubber Stampers back there.

    Supreme Court justice: Susan Owens (fuck the BIAW)

    District Court: Frank LaSalata

  45. 9 RR

    NY Times Op-ed that quotes a study by Lori Ringhand, a professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law. In her study of the Supreme Court, justices were considered to have voted in an activist way when they voted to overturn a federal or state law, or one of the court’s own precedents. She found, essentially, that
    (1) Conservative justices were far more willing than the liberals to strike down federal laws — clearly an activist stance, since they were substituting their own judgment for that of the people’s elected representatives in Congress.
    (2) When state laws were at issue, the liberals were more activist. This may be a Rehnquist influence on the conservatives.
    (3) In the third measure, overturning the court’s own precedents (for which data were available only up to 2000), the conservatives were far more activist.

    Even up on 1 and 2, and coservative more activist in 3. It’s not a wide survey; it’s only the USSC. But it is indicative. And there’s no indication that Roberts and Alito will temper conservative jusdicial “activism.” Here’s a link to the paper (PDF).

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