Grizzzfan

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To fix the ferry system, sell those boats

Posted Fri, Jan 21, 5:07 a.m.

Why not build a bridge to Bainbridge and put a $10 toll on it while exempting green public transportation. It is technically feasible now from West Seattle across to the Kitsap Peninsula, and then another hop north to Bainbridge. Do an estetically pleasing structure. Shift dollars from high risk ferries ...

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A better idea for Detroit

Posted Sat, Nov 15, 5:28 p.m.

Nice idea but it doesn't stop the pension/compensation weight on their cost structure. The government can pay $40,000 for a natural gas car, but that doesn't mean the public will, or that GM will make a profit on it. Toyota has yet to make a profit on the Prius, and ...

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On Veterans Day, a brief history of U.S. war

Posted Tue, Nov 11, 11:19 p.m.

"Finally, a U.S. embargo of Japanese oil imports (thus choking the Japanese economy) brought Japan to its desperate gamble at Pearl Harbor." Another great lie -- the oil embargo started in August of 1941. Japan started drawing up the plans for war on the US in January of 1941. Japan ...

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On Veterans Day, a brief history of U.S. war

Posted Tue, Nov 11, 11:12 p.m.

"President Woodrow Wilson pledged to keep us out of World War I. But skillful British propaganda and largely phony atrocity stories drew us into it anyway." Funny, I thought it was German U-Boats sinking American vessels, killing American citzens, and restricting American trade that was the cause. While British propaganda ...

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It's Presidents Day in Washington: So whom can we claim as ours?

Posted Mon, Feb 18, 12:13 p.m.

Grant was a man of action: Nice idea but misses the essential nature of Grant and why there is a total disconnect to the Northwest. Grant, for all of his failures, kept trying. He was a man of action. After the Donelson campaign when Grant was relieved by Halleck allegedly ...

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