Comments On: The Stranger http://www.thestranger.com Comments On: The Stranger en-us Copyright 2012 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 16 May 2012 12:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Re: Savage Love]]> Posted by ChristinaNY]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:43:19 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Another Third Party Dies an Ignoble Death]]>
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05…
Posted by mlb]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:43:16 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Romney Reaches Out to Hispanic Voters]]> Posted by Cherry Pirate]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:42:44 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Savage Love]]> Posted by virginia mason]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:42:32 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Lunchtime Quickie: It's Noon. Have You Vacuumed The Cat Yet?]]> Posted by Dougsf]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:42:14 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Charges Against One May Day Protester Dropped After Incident Video Surfaces]]>
At least they have a learning curve over at the CIA.

The first underwear bomber, whose father had worked off and on with for the CIA (an African national of high position), had difficulty boarding his European flight (no luggage, one-way ticket, no passport, on passenger no-fly list, and kept mumbling about "bombs") was aided past security with the help of an American man later identified as the embassy attache (the standard position for the embassy CIA guy).

The second underwear bomber simply works for the CIA; a much smoother story.

I guess McGinn's $41 million figure for SPD training was to aid them in telling smoother stories.
Posted by sgt_doom]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:41:43 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Hey Journalism, I Thought You Were Supposed to Be Better Than This?]]> Posted by JonnoN]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:41:15 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Lunchtime Quickie: It's Noon. Have You Vacuumed The Cat Yet?]]>
It'd be nice to think there aren't other cats who would let you get anywhere near them, or idiots who would try it, but neither seems worth betting on.
Posted by rob!]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:41:13 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Mayor and Exec. Reach Arena Deal, But the City Council Sounds Skeptical]]> Posted by Mr. X]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:39:31 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Savage Love]]> Posted by ChristinaNY]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:39:05 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Online News Fail]]> Posted by mhays]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:38:52 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: "Christians" like Tony Perkins are Forcing People to Choose Between their Churches and their LGBT Family Members and Friends...]]>
Just curious.
Posted by Theodore Gorath]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:38:30 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Hey Journalism, I Thought You Were Supposed to Be Better Than This?]]> Posted by long-time reader]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:38:17 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Online News Fail]]>
Also, any website is judged by its control of spammers like the slackjaw a few minutes ago here.
Posted by mhays]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:38:14 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Pants on Prairie Fire]]>
Reagan tripled the debt. Try harder. Perhaps start by reading the fucking post.

In short, the debt has gone up by about half under Obama. Under Ronald Reagan, it tripled.


@17,

Tax increases and spending cuts, which he has been trying to push through for four years, but Republicans won't accept it. Surely it's not possible for someone to actually be as stupid as you pretend to be.
Posted by keshmeshi]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:37:45 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Savage Love]]> Posted by jamminbanana]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:37:34 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: The Universal Subway]]>
Sounds like the lice problem was either cleaned up, exaggerated when we were warned about it, or still a problem and you got lucky. I recall that the trains looked clean enough when we rode them...
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:34:31 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Does the World Really Need a Black Keys Documentary Yet (or Ever)?]]>
If you're going to call this a blog about music, then you really have no standing to tell someone that a long-form music is not a documentary. Similarly, a guy who posts pictures of shopping carts in Ravenna can only make hipster jokes in an ironic way.

Paul
Posted by biffp]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:33:08 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Mayor and Exec. Reach Arena Deal, But the City Council Sounds Skeptical]]> Posted by iviola]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:32:03 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Mayor and Exec. Reach Arena Deal, But the City Council Sounds Skeptical]]>
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424…

Budget Hole.
Posted by hansen's snake oil pays for itself if he pays]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:30:30 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: The Old Parking Fight Is Over! (Let the New Parking Fight Begin...)]]>
1. With the Olympics a light rail system was put up the center of the valley and a spur to the University. There were all kinds of arguments that it would go unused and was a waste of tax dollars. It has become so popular new sections are being added to cover more of the metro area and easily integrates with commuter rail from surrounding counties. (Trax + Frontrunner in Utah | Central Link + Sounder here). In fact they had so much ridership they had adjust the train suspension for the standing room only crowds.

2. They looked at outlying commuter areas and came up with a service of commuter buses that were coaches with seats similar to touring buses, had minimum stop, and such features as on board WiFi. Professionals would start their day checking email and so forth during the commute. The hard plastic seats and "pack them in" mentality of urban buses (trips lasting a few blocks in city) just don't fit people who are commuting from outlying areas. People were willing to pay a little higher fare to be comfortable and productive on their commute.

Planners also have to understand that not everyone works in the same central core, including those who live in the city but work in the suburbs. For example, city dwellers who work on the MicroSoft campus, or Boeing at Paine Field. Nor are schedules always 9 to 5. So to be successful, the public transit system needs to be bi-directional and run extended hours. (I recently was recruiting for a position, our company is in Edmonds near the Sounder/Amtrak station -- I found a wonderful candidate that could use the one "reverse" commute train to get to the office in less than a half hour, but would have spent an hour or more getting home on busses for the lack of an end of work reverse commute train. They didn't take the job.)

Sometimes a community needs to invest in a route and run some lightly loaded runs to show that commuters can rely on public transportation before they commit to it. Take Edmonds as an example, if you had continuous light rail/commuter train service to Everett/Seattle/Bellevue -- you would serve not only southwest Snohomish County, but much of North Kitsap and NE Jefferson County (via Ferry) -- extend Mukilteo and you add Whidbey Island (via ferry), extend north and get Skagit.
Posted by TheTransactionTaxdotOrg]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:30:10 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Pants on Prairie Fire]]> "Conversely, Obama only has to remember a few answers for the press's infrequent and softball questions."

Again, to whomever is paying you, I can do better and possibly for less money. At least I understand Romney's platform.

Preaching "I don't like Obama" only gets you points with the "We don't like Obama" crowd.
Posted by fairly.unbalanced]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:28:02 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: What Do Governor Chris Gregoire and NY Times Columnist Thomas Friedman Have in Common?]]> @4, CC-Rob wins again! !

Why the bloody hell doesn't somebody warn me that Freakman was in town!

I wouldn't have prepared for him (cleaned my rifle, put some extra ammo in my pockets) and gone ahunting the Freakman!

I've never liked sorierity girl, Gregoire, so am not surprised she would be feasting royal with the ultimate neocon douchebagger, Thomas "three chins" Freakman!

Thomas "let's offshore all the jobs to India" Friedman.

He should feel right at home with the extraordinarily large Punjabi H1-B population downtown, though.

I would gladly meet in any dark alley with the Freakman....anywhere....anytime....anyplace.

He should have been ended, long, long ago.....
Posted by sgt_doom]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:24:58 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: The Universal Subway]]> But King County is 1.93M.

Since the light-rail will connect Bellevue and SeaTac as well, I think we can safely assume that we're talking closer to 1 million people.

That said, I'd really like to see an accurate population number for the functional urban land of this city. Pure 'city limits' ignores quite a bit of the 'outlying' commuter population that is critical to Seattle. King County number include too many people further out, like Everett, who don't drive in to Seattle regularly.
Posted by treacle]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:24:19 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: Mayor and Exec. Reach Arena Deal, But the City Council Sounds Skeptical]]> Posted by junipero]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:22:00 -0700 The Stranger