Posted Tue, Apr 3, 10:34 a.m.

whats ron paul got to do with it? we live in a state that has elected a democrat for governor for 34 consecutive years, is utterly dominated by democrats. so some dick wad pops up, spews something about ron paul, then heads off to by a $6 latte. lol

Posted Fri, Feb 10, 9:14 a.m.

it should be pretty obvious after Clintons perverted escapades that the noble womens rights pablem served up by the left is simply the political equivalent of the managers special at your local Ford dealer

Posted Thu, Jan 5, 9:56 a.m.

so the next election, to determine the aftermath to the unmitigated disaster of Gregoires bloated government and its impact of transferring taxpayer dollars to union compensation schemes instead of services to the public, will be decided by this stupid non issue of gay marriage?

Posted Tue, Nov 22, 10:22 a.m.

the main reason the GOP opposes tax increases is simple math. you could raise taxes to 75% accross the board and it would not make a dent in the growth of entitlement expenditures. what is infuriating to those on the right is the Democrats demonizing the 50% of the population ...

Posted Tue, Nov 8, 10:19 a.m.

we should make the waterfront into a 2 mile long Chihuly park. Seattles Da Vinci.

Posted Mon, Nov 7, 11:11 a.m.

raise taxes, give it to the public unions, lol. yeah , that strategy is working great in Cal. , Illinois, and New York where sharply higher taxes are driving business out, revenues down, and deficits through the roof. raising taxes to pay for services is one thing, to fund some ...

Posted Mon, Nov 7, 10:39 a.m.

what the progressives simply won't come to terms with is the fact that no amount of tax increases can possibly cover the staggering giveaway that the Democrats have given their union benefactors. You could tax every company and individual out of their homes and it won't cover the bill. When ...

Posted Mon, Oct 31, 10:34 a.m.

Portland, west hills aside, is flat as a pancake, so is Minneapolis. Seattle doesn't have a single block thats flat.

Posted Wed, Oct 26, 9:21 a.m.

Muir? under G Bush 2, more wilderness was put under federal protection then any other president. Republican Teddy Roosevelt built the foundation of the National Park system, and the wild natural wilderness of this country: Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, all unspoiled, are solidy Republican. So friggin sick of reading boilerplate ...

Posted Mon, Oct 24, 11:35 a.m.

funny, left wing vidiot Rachel Maddow stands in front of Hoover dam in a hoodie ranting about how we don't build em anymore. with a few exceptions, all the New Deal dam building turned out to be environmental and economic disastors

Posted Tue, Oct 18, 9:58 a.m.

"destroy the country to avoid taxes....." ohhkkkk, sure, that makes a lot of sense. and this is being planned in a secret fortress in Arizona? and when 80% of the country is destitute and milling around with fire arms and theres no food and water, the tax dodging Republicans will ...

Posted Mon, Oct 3, 7:33 a.m.

the nice thing about being a liberal is that you can be an environmentalist and still drive a Range Rover, be a feminist but condone interns performing fellatio in the Oval Office, be a "caring civil rights suporter" and live in an all white neighborhood, and spew juvinile bile at ...

Posted Mon, Sep 26, 10:30 a.m.

the money you claim comes from the government in fact comes from the taxpayers. so its essentially all private money. with government employees retiring in their 50's and living into there late 80's, the taxpayers will soon find that the retired government workforce costs more then the working government workforce. ...

Posted Wed, Sep 21, 6:49 a.m.

copying california, lol. aren't they collapsing in a sea of debt and recrimination.

Posted Tue, Sep 20, 9:48 a.m.

screw this, lets get back to why liberal seattle clowns hate bicyclists

Posted Wed, Sep 14, 9:58 a.m.

union handout. don't trust anyone over 30

Posted Tue, Sep 13, 9:27 a.m.

if you are sitting in your car obsessing about bikes not paying road fee's or whatever you need medical help. the tiny level of interference motorists encounter from cyclists compared to the oceanic level of stupidity exhibited by most drivers makes the whole thing laughable. go on a road trip ...

Posted Thu, Sep 1, 10:50 a.m.

orino, yup, all the trends point to shrinkage in metro areas. the remaining residents are older and wealthier. New York has seen a huge drop in 21 to 34 year olds over the last 10 years. after majoring in architecture/planning for 3 years I gave up on the moon unit/new ...

Posted Fri, Aug 12, 9:58 a.m.

its sad really. the best and the brightest just cannot accept the fast that the 50 year experiment of government growth has finally hit the wall. that wall is supply of revenues vs demand but it also a wall of information brought about by technology that has pealed back the ...

Posted Mon, Aug 8, 9:32 a.m.

you forgot the other poor mans waterfront, the amazing gorgeous vista from the viaduct. on 1 side the soaring metropolis, on the other the vast expanse of water, islands, and distant mountains. the owners of the new condos to be built when it is torn down will get to enjoy ...

Posted Wed, Aug 3, 9:49 a.m.

I have an engineer friend who has done work around the globe, I also have 2 friends in heavy construction who are working on the Green River dam project and were involved in the Brightwater and light rail tunnels. They all came to the same number when I asked what ...

Posted Mon, Aug 1, 8:24 p.m.

manufactured a debt crisis? you mean its just a fabrication? we don't really have a problem? wow, the reason the left is rapidly losing credibility is the insane belief, espoused by people like ex Enron council Paul Krugman, that if the GOP just went away, everything would be fine. its ...

Posted Fri, Jun 17, 8:30 a.m.

i wonder if people in paris or rome or barcelona sit around agonising over how to "fix" their cities. lol

Posted Wed, Jun 15, 9:31 a.m.

Knute, listen to me man. are you listening? Knute, the 60's ended 41 years ago man.

Posted Wed, May 25, 11:17 a.m.

spending what will easily be $25 to $30 billion to create a contrived "people zone" in place of an absolutely vital transportation asset like the viaduct is the reason why the initiative movement has sprung up. sure, its great to have urban showplaces, but seattle is full of large scale ...

Posted Tue, May 24, 10:12 a.m.

ah, the 60's. eh knute? zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Posted Mon, May 23, 11:23 a.m.

was in Paris last fall. guess what run along both sides of the Seine? Highways. place is absolutely marvelous, vibrant, swarmed with people. and honking cars, scooters, humans doing their thing. not some lame egghead "conceptual" waterfront. this city is crammed with college educated idiots.

Posted Fri, May 20, 9:24 a.m.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. looks like a UW Arch school project. cut up some styrofoam cups, get out the poster paint, create "conceptual folds" with "greenspaces" scale model. lol. classic Seattle lame, maybe we could have some Chihuly sculptures scattered near the thermal pools.

Posted Tue, May 17, 9:27 a.m.

MSFT stock is down 55% over the last 10 years. GOOG is up 400%, AAPL is up 1200%. Paul Allen has lost billions in bone headed investor toxic tech deals. The last thing this city needs is another clueless, stuck in the past boomer running anything. How about some 35 ...

Posted Wed, May 4, 9:39 a.m.

all I can say is, don't buy a house in West Seattle, it will be easier and quicker to get downtown from Bremerton .

Posted Wed, May 4, 9:38 a.m.

a researcher and writer, lol. man, it sure is good to have a working mans take on this. what else is good for us yokels Rog?

Posted Sun, Apr 17, 10:01 p.m.

oh, we can't allow that. my God, this could impact Gregoires chances of being re elected. a gop resurgence might imperil the states finances, destroy the staus quo. I'm worried.

Posted Thu, Apr 14, 9:08 a.m.

the tunnel , if built, will bankrupt the city. you'll see. the overruns will consume all the other services combined, all to provide a strolling area? go to Paris, the city of light. guess what runs along both sides of the Seine for miles? 6 lane roadways.

Posted Tue, Apr 12, 9:40 a.m.

I have a friend, a civil engineer who was involved in tunnel projects in China and is very familiar with the Boston project. he estimates the cost of the viaduct replacement tunnel at around $35 billion.

Posted Tue, Apr 12, 9:38 a.m.

Honda is rolling out a compresed natural gas vehicle next year. you can fill it in your garage if you have gas, it costs the equivalant of $1 a gallon, gets 30 miles to an equivalant gallon. the car isn't going away, its evolving. mass transit is simply not efficient ...

Posted Mon, Apr 11, 11:29 a.m.

top 3 tax break beneficiaries in the state are Microsoft at $35 million, Immunex at $19 million, and the UW at $25 million.

Posted Fri, Apr 8, 9:44 a.m.

under gregoire state government size, i.e. employees/depts/costs, increased by over 30%. this is the source of the budget disaster. under gregoire the state has taken money from services and handed it to state workers.

Posted Wed, Apr 6, 9:57 a.m.

my definition of a fool: anyone who has bought into the "us vs them" schemes cooked up by the political industrial complex to devert attention to the coming meltdown. if you think there is a gram of difference between the GOP and the Demos aside from the salespitch, you are ...

Posted Wed, Apr 6, 9:55 a.m.

devestate Medicaid? thats hysterical. over 50% of doctors already flatly refuse to treat Medicaid cases its such a joke. Death panels? Oh, you mean paliative care. Why is it that so many people with college educations and decent IQ's approach this subject without an ounce of real information or hands ...

Posted Mon, Mar 21, 9:30 a.m.

yup, its great. But why is it entitled to tax payer support? The only reason this and PBS is funded is because its another damn boomer legacy that just has to be saved. Virtually all the things that NPR does are readily available on web based and satalite based platforms. ...

Posted Thu, Mar 17, 8:56 a.m.

I'd like to imagine a city that isn't dominated by an army of over the hill, 60's stuck, moon units. go retire to your yurts and let this place reflect the desires of a younger generation.

Posted Wed, Feb 2, 12:18 p.m.

you could tax virtually everything at 90% and it won't fix the budget problem in the end. the pension schemes are infinately expanding budget bombs that will overwhelm all taxes and spending cuts.

Posted Wed, Feb 2, 12:16 p.m.

interesting, you mean like the massive tax breaks, as in no taxes, for "non profits" like Group Health and the UW? they both rake in millions but pay no taxes.

Posted Tue, Jan 11, 12:35 p.m.

the only scheme that isn't "traffic clogged" is already built: the viaduct. lets cut the BS and call this what it really is, a monstrously expensive and disruptive money pit whose sole purpose is to provide developers with prime realestate to build luxury condo's, more useless bistro's, and office space ...

Posted Tue, Jan 11, 10:53 a.m.

yup, tear down the most incredible urban roadway in the country, with enthrawling views. displace a vibrant creative community. and build what virtually everybody know is a ludicrous, traffic clogging tunnel. it takes a lot of people with a lot of masters degree's to come up with this crap. thank ...

Posted Mon, Jan 10, 12:16 p.m.

the left consists of highly educated commentators spewing stupid, inch deep, crap like this and Krugmans. the right consists of slightly less educated commentators spewing even less intelligent nonsense. the sad part is the leftwing drivel is eagerly soaked up by people with enough intelligence to know better.

Posted Fri, Nov 5, 5:45 p.m.

7-11

Posted Thu, Nov 4, 10:23 a.m.

losers? clueless liberal whackjobs who think money grows on trees. those political science degrees don't go very far in China or India these days, lucky you live in the USA, where we still tolerate useless humans.

Posted Mon, Nov 1, 1:25 p.m.

garyp, re. ralph. yup, the only honest man, and I lean conservative fiscally. as to mcginns war with gregoire over the tunnel, didn't this tunnel get voted down decisively by the voters in favor of refitting the viaduct? if you want a reason why voters are angry, thats a big ...

Posted Fri, Oct 29, 10:48 a.m.

90,000 millionaires? come on, 90,000? thats a ridiculous number.

Posted Tue, Oct 26, 8:56 a.m.

The thing the pro tax side just cannot get through their heads is that the issue is taxes squandered, not taxes collected. If the taxes paid by hardworking people in Washington went into an efficient, high tech, system run by a lean well managed government that provided services instead of ...

Posted Wed, Sep 8, 10:09 a.m.

in the 30's, you didn't need 5 years of hearings on permitting, environmental impact, law suits, planning commissions, and dozens of other time and money sucking delays. those noble dams and bridges where built by men working for minimum wages and a free dinner. $50 billion, after the college grad ...

Posted Tue, Nov 3, 12:48 p.m.

I ride hundreds of miles aweek all over the city and have come to the conclusion that most bicyclists are as stupid at operating a bike as most drivers are at handling a car. And like all true Seattleites, they are experts at whining their asses off.

Posted Wed, Aug 19, 11:42 a.m.

a rod and griffey left town because they wanted more money, Boeing left town because the unions wanted more money, the sonics left town because Shultz and his yuppee posse paid too much money.