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You mean the woman who got punched after she smashed the windows of somebody's van with a hammer while they were in it?

[citation needed]

Y'all always talk about needles in the parks, but I've yet to see even a single one in three years of living here. I did once see one in a back alley, though.

Anecdotes are not useful. Here, I did a thirty-second google for you.

More than 3/4 of our homeless are from Seattle. 90% are from Washington State. http://www.seattletimes.com/se... [seattletimes.com]

Interesting. Thanks. It appears that hipsters don't even take their virtue signalling seriously enough to keep the homeless in their own capital city so that they can pretend to care about the less fortunate.

Sorry, it's against my lease. Doesn't mean I haven't bent the rules to let someone shower & crash on my couch for a night, but it's kinda cramped with me and my fiancee already.

Then don't be so quick to say that others should sacrifice. Perhaps others have their own problems, rent, leases, obligations to shoulder.

Once you agree to any nuclear installation, they can change the rules and do whatever the hell they want. This is what has happened at pretty much every nuclear power reactor: the nuclear waste ends up being stored on site indefinitely. It makes no difference that this is the worst possible scenario because it makes security a nightmare and the sites were never designed for long term storage in the first place.

The DOE's job is to make nuclear technology happen. They don't really give a rat's ass about the environment or security. It wasn't like they wanted the EPA Superfund. They didn't start it and it's mostly paid for by taxes on other polluters, like the fossil fuel and chemical industries. All they do is spend the money when enough political pressure is brought to bear.

Take Hanford. They are cleaning up things they know how to deal with. Unfortunately that's not where the real trouble is. The most horrible problem are these huge tanks full of various toxic and radioactive waste. They don't know exactly what's in them and they are so old that they all leak. It is possible that moving the material around could cause either a chemical or nuclear explosion because critical mass could be reached. (Not nuclear weapon bomb level explosion, but enough heat to cause a vapor explosion.)

So they don't know how to empty the tanks and they don't know how to deal with the material when it gets out of the tanks. They had a plan to build an automated facility to make glass logs that would physically contain the radioactive material and it has failed. They are over budget and behind schedule. Their timetable is a fantasy.

So why does anyone in Idaho expect anything to be different?

Oracle workers look GOOD?

The fuck up everything: http://koin.com/2014/09/17/ora...

Read http://www.koin.com/news.asp?RECORD_KEY%5Bnews%5D= ID&ID%5Bnews%5D=1324 to know what I'm talking about below.

Right now, Oregonians don't pay Washingtonian sales tax when they cross the border. There's a proposal to make them pay sales tax on purchases less than $50.

We need some kind of national sales tax uniformity in the U.S.A.

As an Oregonian who has lived in several places across the state, I will have to propose amendments to your pieces of advice:

* Visit a McMennamin's hotel for lunch or dinner...

But don't expect good service or clean silverware.

* Fareless Square.

Get a concealed carry permit first.

* Don't swim in any river that Intel has named a chip for. Seriously. It's not their fault, but I mean it.

There's nothing wrong with the Deschutes. But then again, most of you Portlanders can't see past the top of Mt. Hood, so I don't expect you to know anything about Oregon's high desert.

Now, to add on to your advice:

* Visit one of the fine sushi places in Portland. Sushi Town in Hillsboro is good. Not the best, but good.
* Visit Bend and go to the Deschutes Brewery if you want *truly good* beer. And good service.
* If your a Finn, go to Junction City (that's just northwest of Eugene) during the Scandinavian Festival's Finland Day.
* Don't take your kids to the Rose Festival carnival area. The ride operators deal drugs.
* Avoid downtown Portland (and downtown Eugene) whenever the WTO is meeting in this hemisphere, when a major timber sale is scheduled to happen, when war breaks out, when the President is in the Pacific Northwest, or any other time when it is reasonable to forecast traffic-slowing protests.
* Check out Ashland at least once.
* Get a Shedrain umbrella.
* The air sucks in Eugene.

Well, that's about all I can think of.

I already hate the fact that seatbelts are too tight and that there are laws mandating their use (especially here in MN where you can be ticketed for not wearing one while having no other violations).

Washington State (USA) has had three judges declare that unconstitutional. See here and here and more here or you can always Google it.

400 employees know that managers get bonuses to meet goals that require employees to work overtime but without pay. I rarely, if ever, boycott things but I try not to shop at Wal-Mart.

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