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[Oliver]

JoB,

Thanks for keeping up the momentum. My family will be there friday night.

[HunterG]

Anyone catch a glimpse at the sun during the sunset this evening? My god – it was MAGENTA! I’m not talking your everyday subtle magenta, I’m talking holy cow – this can’t be natural magenta.

And by the way… thought I would throw this out there since I am talking about the sun – though the sun may be coloful – it’s all but active, sunspot activity has decreased dramatically recently. Global warming…global cooling…my lord, what are we gonna do with ourselves humans?

(and I am running out the door so don’t have time to do that nifty short linking thing)

http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=1

[pam]

I loved Stacey (spacey stacey) – she was the sweetest girl. We all thought Bundy or someone similar may have gotten her with such a sudden disappearance. So sad…. There was a young girl killed in Schmitz Park, may have been one of the girls mentioned above from Madison.

I think it might be better to focus on more positive hocus pocus haunted houses then such sad stories about young lives being taken…. imho

[changingtimes]

fav store ever!!! although a little dusty. I remember when i was little they were located in the UW area. After moving back to seattle i tried to take my children to my fav kid store haunt and it was gone!!!!! finally found them in ballard! sucks to hear they are moving again!

[changingtimes]

i remember reading about black widows getting transfered to the pacific northwest via bannanas and other fruit boxs. EWWWWWWWWW! (shiver shiver)it scared me enough to always check the boxes at costco and shake all my fruit before eating….by the way i bought corn at safeway the other day and there was a whole dead caterpiller family in one of the stalks i was shucking….fuzzy bugs also terrify me!

[dapuffin]

I was bitten by a brown recluse in the 1980s. (It was in another State.) Not a pleasant experience at all. Well the aftermath was not pleasant; I never saw the sucker that got me. I’m pretty phobic and the spider hatch season is one of the very very few things about living here that I don’t like. ESPECIALLY the above-mentioned “Pacific Northwest Bathtub-in-the-Morning Holy $$^$#%#$%#@ Spider.” Thanks for the giggle Herongrrrl.

[HunterG]

There have been quite a few around my place feeding upon my poor little Winnie (cat).

She adores them, stares at them longingly, bats them around and then lays on them so she can play with them later. Or until I find them and vacuum them up.

[datamuse]

A spider spun a lovely web inside my car window earlier this week. I actually thought it was really cool and thought about leaving it there, but decided he wouldn’t catch much in my car so relocated him.

Every time I go running in Westcrest I run into a ton of spiderwebs. Really annoying.

Btw, daddy longlegs are actually some of the most poisonous spiders out there, but their teeth can’t penetrate skin so people and pets are safe. They’re good to have around because they eat other spiders.

[beachdrivegirl]

Interesting headliner in the Times today!

Washington’s unemployment rate reached a high today. it has not been that high in four years….

Personally, I am curious to see how this effects the Governors race. IMO, it cant be good.

[beachdrivegirl]

“Neither one of you are defending a position.. you are defending an argument.. and a poorly thought out one at that.”

Actually I think I am defending the position that I am smart enough to look for real solutions rather than band aids solutions. I do this by facts rather than my neighbor’s opinion. ALso, I don’t need a band aid solution just so I can high five my neighbor over.

Secondly, I think that if people took the time to research a topic and use facts rather than opinions to position their argument than they would realize just how poorly thought out this bag tax is. And actually look for REAL solutions.

And my argument about diapers is pretty thought out. Have people not realized plastic bags are recyclable? Diapers are not! And this bag tax is also taxing PAPER bags. Paper bags are not part of the problem.

[Anonymous]

“They picked a position and defended the position instead of exploring the subject and coming to conclusions.”

NEPS provides 62 links under their references tab, including information from 6 countries and 3 other states.

This thread references a garbage bill insert.

I encourage people to research for themselves.

[WSMom]

Nearly 17 years ago, when my daughter was just learning to talk, I brushed against some bushes getting into my car. She was behind me in her car seat as we pulled out of the driveway she kept repeating, “mama, butterfly, mama, butterfly”. I still remember how she enunciated each and every syllable in her sweet baby voice. Just as I was complementing her on her good words, I felt something in my hair…you guessed it…A HUGE SPIDER!!!! It took all my self control to slowly pull over, stop the car and shake the creature off of my head without totally freaking out and freaking her out as well. I still get the shivers thinking about it. Butterfly indeed.

[Anonymous]

“Neither one of you are defending a position.. you are defending an argument.. and a poorly thought out one at that.” – JoB

Jeez, JoB, you seem to be getting better and better at putting people down.

So, if someone disagrees with your opinions, they are uninformed, lack experience, naive, taken by biased research, etc.. I truly believe that you have come up with every single excuse for WHY a person doesn’t agree with you.

Have you ever considered that maybe there are, simply, 2 (if not more) sides to an argument? People who feel differently than you do have intelligence, value and strong points to offer.

I, for one, am interested in everyone’s opinion and would never discredit someone’s personal thoughts for the sole reason that it didn’t match mine.

What if this were turned around and it was a Republican idea that was going to be passed into law? Would you be so confident that our elected officials should make that decision without the opportunity of a vote?

[Anonymous]

Revolver Trooper Palin

I guess that’s means I’ll have a love/hate relationship with my parents. Or that I’m supposed to shoot myself.

[JoB]

JT..

i did the same. I collected lots of bags.

i donated my extra bags to the food bank. they can use them…

then i got my envirosaxs.. they roll up and go right into my purse.. and they don’t add much weight. 2 carry all the groceries i buy at a time even if i buy lots of impulse purchases.

and if i plan to do a major grocery shopping. i put one of those nice big costco bags into the car and load it from my cart.. one pretty much contains a full cart.

they also are great for carrying yard waste.. or clothing to the be donated or containing plastic containers you want to give away or…

i don’t think i have found all their uses yet. And they wash out with a garden hose. great product!

it took me a while but i found a solution that worked for me.. and in the meantime someone else got free bags.. they didn’t go to waste.

If you read the material that went with the bag fee, it said very clearly that part of the money was to go to offset increased costs for plastic bag recycling to make an increase in garbage rates unnecessary.

If you read the insert that came in your garbage bill at about the same time, it explained why they were incurring increased costs for plastic bag recycling.. single bags jam the machine.. and people are not being conscientious and bagging them together.

I am not going to go back and look at the poll to verify who put it together… i don’t care enough.

and i am not going to go back to see if this organization has added to their position paper since i read it last. The bias was pretty obvious going in. They picked a position and defended the position instead of exploring the subject and coming to conclusions… and they had to stretch to do so.

of course people would prefer plastic bag collection sites at stores to paying a 20 cent fee…

and the question if they would prefer a 20 cent fee that they could avoid or an increase in garbage rates wasn’t asked.

the issues with plastic bags are clear and have been from the start.

free plastic shopping bags create a waste problem, a recycling problem when they are not bagged together and an environmental problem when they blow from our streets into the sound and marine animals try to ingest them. Not to mention the problem of chemical seepage from the bags in landfills.

I am not sure what part of that you actually refute.. but labeling the opposition condescending doesn’t really make much of an argument..

beachdrivegirl…

nor does the tactic of naming all the other environmental problems that could be addressed… and which will not change in the least if the bag fee is defeated.

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so here is some of that condescending stuff…

Neither one of you are defending a position.. you are defending an argument.. and a poorly thought out one at that.

[soclwrkrinmotn]

Froth Moonshine Palin

Well. I think I would rather be Steak Leather. :)

[roundthesound]

Can’t make it tonight after all, have to stay late at the office. I will be there for sure next week, have a good time!

[JenV]

“The shot that has been called by the Feds — it’s understandable but very, very disappointing that taxpayers are called upon for another one,” Palin told reporters during a visit to delicatessen in Cleveland.

The Federal Reserve Bank is called THE FED. Government police officers are called “the Feds”. Isn’t this one more thing a VP nominee should know?

[WSB]

I still don’t have any leads on what’s going into Blackbird, so who knows, maybe that’s it. If you read the announcement carefully, it doesn’t necessarily say the “concept” is a restaurant!

[JenV]

is being forced out of Ballard due to development. So sad. Maybe they should try West Seattle!

http://www.kirotv.com/news/17495199/detail.html

[WSB]

The guy who’s handling this for Metro has to confer with a Seattle Public Schools person who’s back tomorrow after some time off, then I’ll get info – will post here as well as in a home-page news story … TR

[JenV]

Q: What is the difference between Sarah Palin and the typical vice-presidential nominee who confuses jargon for policy, speaks in scripted platitudes, and criticizes their opponent rather than offering a vision for the future?

A: Lipstick.

(courtesy Robert Felton, Austin Weekly News. article can be found here: http://austinweeklynews.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=1919&TM=73531.96)

[JanS]

Steak Leather here….not liking that one :(

[squareeyes]

Spiders are not allowed to live if they invade the house, simple as that. Generally I let the outdoor ones live, unless they decide to stretch webs anywhere between my front door and my car. That’s a forfeit.

My two cats are excellent for alerting me to a spider, but useless when it comes to killing them.

I particularly noticed last fall that there were far fewer spiders than normal invading my house; this year they’re back full force and I’m killing 2-4 a week the last several weeks.

[JoB]

please come stand with us for half an hour on friday night … starting at 6.

we will have signs and handouts.. all you have to do is show up.