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Assuming this is a real line of thought, it demonstrates why the police should not be determining what is and is not legal. The fact is that crime rates go down when cannabis is legalized.

story of Bob Ferguson, one of those listed in the NN suit above, sends out a fund raising letter about once a week listing his lawsuits against the Trump administration.

I believe people in his state have called for him to be investigated for turning his office into a fund raising campaign instead of doing his job, but he is the AG and would be responsible for appointing such an investigation.

So is it "intentional fallacy" if that is what they are ACTUALLY doing? Before you call a fallacy, you have to make a point that is applies.

Click! is a municipal ISP, but sells their service through Advanced Stream and Rainier Connect.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/...

That is currently being tried here in the Seattle area, but so many leftist parents are refusing vaccinations that it simply can't be done. The school district several of my friends are in have a nearly 25% vaccination refusal rate:

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article26252716.html

You can't deny nearly a fourth of the kids from education. Of course the Republicans here want to do that since they're anti-science and support mandatory vaccinations.

How do you allow normal, not-crazy, law abiding citizens reasonable access to firearms and keep crazy people and criminals from getting them?

Good question. On the surface, background checks seem like a reasonable approach. But it turns out that they are just a foot in the door for gun registration. Very little effort is put into maintaining the blacklists of prohibited buyers. Most of the effort spent is on tracking who owns which gun.

Theoretically, I should be able to walk into a gun show, have an electronic background check done and then buy whatever I want at that show without leaving a paper trail of my purchases. But my state has had an unofficial practice for years of storing all gun sales records and recently passed an initiative to retroactively make this legal.

As for the sperm party, the point of the party is so that the mom can honestly say she doesn't know who the possible father is. As for DNA having a damn thing to do whether or not you can get ordered to pay child support, that is an urban legend.

I'm not sure your if trolling or ignorant, but I'll bite for the people that could be misled into thinking actually biological fatherhood would have anything to do with child support. Many states do not give the father any opportunity to challenge paternity. If your married, named by the mother and don't receive the summons to court in time or even simply live with a woman long enough you can be ordered to pay child support. There are countless examples of men who have been ordered to pay child support for a child that isn't there's.

http://www.khou.com/news/Houst...
http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/r...

A recent law was proposed that would end the absurdity of paying child support for kids that aren't yours in the State of Washington:

http://www.thenewstribune.com/...

Here are a couple more links:
School Employee Salaries http://wwwb.thenewstribune.com/databases/school_pay/
and a site that covers most of WA state type employees http://lbloom.net/
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If I recall correctly the lbloom.net info took a lot of court time to get access to this public data.

Even if a vaccine ever ends up being approved for HIV, there's no doubt that there is going to be a whole wave of controversy around actually vaccinating people, as is the case with the HPV vaccine. Since so many parents think that vaccinating their kids for HPV is just giving them another "green light" to have sex when they're younger, I am sure the HIV vaccine would be met with that same response, if not an even greater one. It will be a huge hindrance to a great achievement.

This guy built a car in 1984 that got 103.7 miles per gallon driving from Mexico to the Canadian border.

Tacoma native driving from Bellingham to Mexico on a tank of gas...

More info:

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/07/03/1250824/charge-was-dismissed-but-arrest.html

Enough with the union bashing, already. Read a little history of the labor movement, and then see what you think.

I do read a lot about Unions. Stuff like this: http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/story/296557.html

It doesn't give me a very good impression. Despite that, I don't have anything against *voluntary* Unionization-- just don't expect me to join, I'd do a better job negotiating on my own.

But my main objection with Unions is that it makes the employee and management into "opponents." Right now, I have a very friendly relationship with my management, and I understand and agree with the company's purpose. If I were in a Union, suddenly he would be considered an enemy for us to defeat and we'd have to fight for our benefits/pay every year.

It's not really a big thing, just a subtle difference, but I'd much rather work with management with mutual respect than be their "enemy."

Anyone notice the increase in stories in the mainstream media connecting Craigslist to various crimes - the "Craigslist robber", selling babies on Craigslist, Cragislist hookers, Craigslist attempted murderers, Craigslist scammers, etc, etc.

It seems that every struggling newspaper in the country goes to some effort to tie Craigslist to any local crime. I don't recall any of these papers connecting crimes to their own classified ads. It's almost like these papers have some sort of agenda...

A few weeks before each mission, NASA would put the upper stage of an Atlas into orbit, so the range could practice by skin tracking it (no beacon transmitter responding). The NASA crew chief told me, with quite a bit of pride, of one such launch, where on the first orbit the radar in Africa, Australia, Hawaii (I believe) and White Sands couldn't pick up that upper stage. The radar at A-20 not only picked it up, it picked it up as it broke over the radar horizon some 1200 miles. out.

Now to the interesting part. We had an Ampex video recorder (S/N 32) in a back wall in data processing that, as best I can remember, looked precisely like the one they're using to recover that long-ago data. We used it only occasionally to capture radar data during ECM missions. I can't recall it ever being used during a NASA mention though. What mattered then was the digital position data, which with an FPS-16 is extremely accurate.

That said, it would be interesting if a historical link did exist a USAF radar site used by NASA and the recorder now being used to recover that data.

There's a more detailed account of recovering this data at:

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/nationworld/v-lite/story/682783.html

Isn't the only reason that they are charged with anything the fact that the KID took it on himself to do an illegal act rather than oh, say, wake up his mother, which any child is more than capable of doing starting from the age of childbirth? Yes, there was a previous order that the kid was not allowed to be left alone because he has some issues. Well, guess what, he wasn't left alone. His mother was there. So she was asleep. I'm sure that the order doesn't specify that one or the other of them has to spend every night being awake the entire time in case the kid acts up.

Yeah except the order was that the father should not leave the boy alone with the mother, apparently due to a history of neglect.

Now look at that, the fact that the mother decided to take a nap instead of take her kid to school or feed the boy, and that the boy was so desperate to get to school and get breakfast that he was still trying to reach school after he had crashed the car.

So yeah, just like every kid he knew how to wake up his parents since childbirth. Doesn't it seem likely that he had tried that before, and either been ignored or gotten in trouble and learned not to? Here we have a six-year-old boy who felt that he had to take matters into his own hands and take the family car just to eat, and you don't think the parents are to blame?

I say, blame the kid, give the other sibling back to the parents. The other sibling as far as we know doesn't have any of the same issues, and a child is far safer in the hands of moderately bad parents than in the hands of the state.

The father was under court order not to leave the kid with the mother due to a history of neglect and mental problems. The father disobeyed this, probably routinely since he always left for work before the boy would normally get on the bus, indicating his own neglect and irresponsibility.

So what makes you think the 4-year-old doesn't have the same issues? You think mom only neglects the older one? Maybe she actually feeds him and gives him rides to school when he misses the bus? Yeah, right! More like the 4-year-old just isn't old enough to act out in a way that garners national attention!

No, these aren't "moderately bad" parents, these are HORRIBLE parents, and both kids absolutely SHOULD be taken from them, and if this event was the necessary impetus then good and thank God nobody was injured in the process. It's good that this happened now, before those kids could be hurt any more by neglect.

The ONLY valid reasons I can come up with why anyone would want this site down are the exposing of undercover officers (not good for anyone, especially the undercover cops, except the criminals they're infiltrating) and the usual state of online abuse anyone who posts to a forum is subject to (but maybe the David Brame tragedy could have been better avoided had there been more voicing of his abuses?).

Reasons not valid... oh, those are numerous and probably why the cops freaked and GoDaddy's knees buckled.

" ...the growth in the now $18 billion gaming market is in simple, user-friendly experiences that families and friends can enjoy together.'"

I continually look for games that my 11-year old son and my wife and I can all play together and those are rather hard to find. I would rather the entire family play together on the 360 instead of my son playing on his XBox in his room, my wife watching TV in the living room and with myself playing GOW in the basement.

We used to play Crash Team Racing together, but it didn't appeal to my wife too much. ACME Arsenal looks promising though co-op mode is only 2-player and my wife isn't big on multi-player, "kill everyone else" battles (available for 1-4 players in A.A.). Of course, we haven't tried it yet-maybe she would enjoy it. Funny, silly, simple games (like, perhaps A.A. is) are what appeals to her. We enjoy playing Toe Jam and Earl (now available for the 360 too), but again, it is only 2-player co-op.

At the very least, we always look for 2-player co-op games that we can play. "Destroy All Humans 2" and "MW: Lone Wolf" are games that my son and I enjoy playing together, but unfortunately, "Ace Combat 6" is only 1 player. Fortunately, we have Halo 1, 2 and 3 to enjoy and GOW when he gets older. However, when we look for new games, it seems we find many more single-player games than 2-player co-op (or 3 player co-op). If MS hopes to make the Xbox the center of the family living room, (which they do), then they need to hurry up and do it (this article says that is what they are planning to do. I'm still waiting.

For an extra $15, our baggage handlers won't rummage through your bags and steal your stuff. Take advantage of our $5 rider covering pervert protection. For $20, we won't let them use your baggage to smuggle drugs into the country.

I don't quite understand how more security options would equate to less control for the system owner in such a way that it would matter to the owner. Never underestimate the small (very large actually) benefit of encryption.

According to James M. Atkinson, a Massachusetts-based expert in counterintelligence who has advised the U.S. Congress on security issues, its not that hard to take remote control of a wireless phone. You do not have to have a strong technical background for someone to do this, he said Tuesday. They probably have a technically gifted kid who probably is in their neighborhood.

According to James M. Atkinson, a Massachusetts-based expert in counterintelligence who has advised the U.S. Congress on security issues, its not that hard to take remote control of a wireless phone. You do not have to have a strong technical background for someone to do this, he said Tuesday. They probably have a technically gifted kid who probably is in their neighborhood.

His wife 'Gayla' was (thankfully) brutally beaten in the election for City Council. She's also got something to hide, as she can't fill out a simple questionaire. Sadly, Frosty should talk to his wife more, as she's for 'common sense decisions' (Warning: Picture of Gayla at bottom)

Board Member Dave Larson (who's a lawyer, btw) was the one who made the decision to 'ban' the movie, though Frosty's been squeaking his wheel on other topics at school board meetings for awhile. You can email Dave here!

Give Frosty a call and tell him you find his ideas intriguing and ask to subscribe to his newsletter! Frosty Hardison - Federal Way, WA - (253) 528-0343

Or just buy him something from this sad Amazon wishlist. After all, "The more citizen comment you have the better off we are."

Tacoma, Washington recently decided to add another span to their overloaded Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge. (You might remember the original one was Galloping Gurdy... yeah, it's that bridge.) The designer who created the new bridge came up with a great idea... the Tacoma Narrows is known for having insanely-fast currents while the tide is coming in and going out. His idea was to put turbines in the base of the bridge tower to generate power during the tide shifts. Selling the generated power would, over the course of a few dozen years, pay for the construction of the bridge while at the same time providing clean energy to everyone nearby. Win-win!

But of course, this is Washington Wacko-Environmentalist State. Instead, his plan was cancelled because the Wacko-Environmentalist movement decided that turbines, even covered with safety grilles, would kill fish-- and God knows that the lives of 3 fish a year is more important than tons of clean power! So now the bridge has a conventional base with no turbines and, as an added bonus, all of us non-wackos have to pay TOLLS to cross it!

http://www.djc.com/news/en/11180913.html
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/508 2737p-4630866c.html

None of this is really relevant to the article, but since this got modded +5 I had to respond.

There is a far greater likelihood of an asteroid hitting the Earth than this avian birdy flu destroying us.....

Sorry, here's that recent news item where Dr. Gerberding says we really shouldn't be worried about that birdy flu....

Your numbers were close, but not accurate, well at least according to the NY Times and Associated Press. AOL has 119 million, google has about 87 million visitors. Those numbers are pretty recent, I believe this past september. AOL represents 12% of GOOGLE's ad revenue and that made $380 million for GOOGLE. I haven't seen anything that says how much AOL makes on it, do you have some info to back up the $300mill?

http://www.thenewstribune.com/business/story/53160 87p-4817811c.html
http://news.com.com/Google+to+bid+on+AOL/2100-1038 _3-5873485.html

As the article states, this is in response to the rising civil liberties violations thanks to the U SAP AT RIOT Act.

Ultimately, as long as you are on US soil, you have the right to due process no matter who you blew up. Of course, get caught by us anywhere else and you could find yourself in Guantanamo. I believe that is what you are talking about, concerning "terrorists."

This is a fallacy. First, not all (though most) proprietary and / or commercial software is "corporate", but that is irrelevant anyway. Nothing at all says that corporations have to screw people. While this may be how most corporations operate, certainly not all do. Take for example Costco.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/ae/story/4797515p-44 14538c.html
It's from a local news paper here, I think it's an brilliant, and perfectly fits the DS. No subscription required, either.
Summary: a virtual dog, pet it and stuff with the touch screen, autodetects other people playing the game and wirelessly joins and the dogs interact.

He's probably referring to this survey which actually states high-tech workers in Washington state are the best paid in the nation with salaries averaging $94,600 a year.

The average for Washington state is actually more, $94,600.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/business/aerospace/s tory/4440746p-4194580c.html

the url tag is your friend!

I hope it doesn't happen much, but I am so glad it happened. I truly think that it will take the visibility and expense of a few redone elections to get the point across that electonic voting terminals need paper trails and other security features. This is not wasted money if it prods us into having better elections.

Washington State is having a similar problem with its Governors Race. Less than 300 votes separate the candidates.