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Re: Bill Would Require Labeling of GMOs

not so simple — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:30:31 -0000

I've read a sizable amount of both the science of TRASGENIC plants. You are a GMO, as two things came together to make you.

The social opposition to them is now laughable, especially in Northern Europe and Scandinavia. I have come to hold the same exact opinion as Rachael. While initial skepticism and further researched was warranted, it seems there is enough health information now to support the idea that transgenic foods are fine to eat, incredibly useful at feeding both the developed and developing world, and ecologically beneficial through higher yields in arid conditions (using less water). This skepticism, though, has lead to dangerous places. "Dandelion rice", or golden rice, was a fantastic invention putting dandelion genes into rice to produce Vitamin A to safe children from blindness. It works really well, was truly safe, and the Non-profit complex would not use it over regular, low Vit. A rice. This is a case of bad autocracy by people who don't understand or respect the science behind it.

If you don't like it stay out of the market and go eat dandelion weeds, deal with it, and please, STFU. (I'm talking to you Bill McKibben)

I would also like to recommend a book that describes this issue in depth in a style that most educated non-scientists can understand: Mendel in the Kitchen by Nina Fedoroff (molecular biologist).

Re: Compelling Specifics

anotherneighborhoodactivist — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:05:21 -0000

Speaking of ignorant hate speech, how about the above commentary on "cycling, density, organic loca-vore liberals" and your recent post [on Shootings, Robbers, and the Art of Distraction 6 hours ago:

"the woman’s companion went to the health and beauty aisle in the store, and raked a bunch of items into a backpack."Blacks…..oops, sorry, members of one of our 'disadvantaged' communities."A 15-year-old boy and a 29-year-old man were both wounded in a shooting in south Seattle"Blacks…..oops, sorry, members of one of our 'disadvantaged' communities."the 17-year-old and two other men began robbing people in the street, sometimes armed with a handguns.Blacks…..oops, sorry, members of one of our 'disadvantaged' communities."3 shot in South Lake Union"Blacks…..oops, sorry, members of one of our 'disadvantaged' communities."Drunk man shot in leg on Capitol Hill, then fights medics"Blacks…..oops, sorry, members of one of our 'disadvantaged' communities.It's been a busy 36 hrs for members of our 'vulnerable communities'.

Is this really the most intelligent argument you can make?

Re: Kline Says Backpage Bill Needs To Be “Bomb Proof”

Nemo — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:25:06 -0000

That's for the actual Liberals with unending bleeding heart, and neocons who secretly patronize the things they rail the most against.

Actual Progressives would be very wary of unintended consequences, and implementing laws that don't actually address the issue, nor are proportionate to, or actually make any effort towards, addressing the actual problem.

It's not a matter of not making it "easy" for this to occur. It will occur just as easily in other places. This kind of thing did not start happening, nor has it increased, due to Backpage. Just because you think it won't appear in a more "public" venue, does not mean it will not be able to be found in another one.

It only makes those that read the Weekly feel better that that they are doing something, anything, about it, no matter if it's actually effective.

Re: Compelling Specifics

Eddiew — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:46:15 -0000

re Northgate commuter parking: are you sure the feds require a net of 1,000 NEW stalls? I doubt it; King County has added several hundred stalls since 2002; why not change the federal agreement; the parking does not make fiscal or land use sense for Seattle, Northgate, Mapleleaf, ST, or Metro; just say no.

Re: Compelling Specifics

Davey Jones — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:46:12 -0000

Think of all the drunks and bums staggering around; now they'll be gainfully employed harassing all the Patels and Chakrabortys from Amazon for a quarter.

Re: Kline Says Backpage Bill Needs To Be “Bomb Proof”

Blue Light — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:53:07 -0000

Remember when "human trafficking" referred to what coyotes do on our southern border?

Re: Kline Says Backpage Bill Needs To Be “Bomb Proof”

Blue Light — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:50:59 -0000

The Democratic Reflex

Re: Compelling Specifics

Bark More Wag Less — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:32:23 -0000

As an old school Rockefeller Republican, I want to thank Seattle's liberal urbanists. No one has done a better job at driving the lower class riff-raff out my neighborhood than the cycling, density, organic loca-vore liberals. Sure, they'll throw the occasional 'low income' apartment to some cute Somali family, but the real trash -trailer and ghetto versions - who ruin neighborhoods are all moving down to the South end. Just follow the sound of gun fire if you don't believe me.

So keep up the good work urbanist liberals! Nothing drives out the po' more than your $5 heirloom tomatoes I love so much!

Re: Backpage Exploitation Gets Kristof’s Attention

FrequentPoster — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:00:18 -0000

Run of the mill ass vs. run of the mill retard, huh?

I'll go for the ass.

Re: Legislators Propose “Scrub” of Special Tax Districts

FrequentPoster — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:56:10 -0000

I hope the rest of the state will rescue us from the Seattle Smugsters and their tax-happy ways.

Re: Shootings, Robbers, and the Art of Distraction

Dumb Polack — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:55:25 -0000

"the woman’s companion went to the health and beauty aisle in the store, and raked a bunch of items into a backpack."

Blacks…..oops, sorry, members of one of our 'disadvantaged' communities.

"A 15-year-old boy and a 29-year-old man were both wounded in a shooting in south Seattle"

Blacks…..oops, sorry, members of one of our 'disadvantaged' communities.

"the 17-year-old and two other men began robbing people in the street, sometimes armed with a handguns.

Blacks…..oops, sorry, members of one of our 'disadvantaged' communities.

"3 shot in South Lake Union"

Blacks…..oops, sorry, members of one of our 'disadvantaged' communities.

"Drunk man shot in leg on Capitol Hill, then fights medics"

Blacks…..oops, sorry, members of one of our 'disadvantaged' communities.

It's been a busy 36 hrs for members of our 'vulnerable communities'.

Re: Shootings, Robbers, and the Art of Distraction

Dumb Polack — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:17:02 -0000

So now you want more cops in the south end? Jeez, can u make up your minds.

BTW black people have been shooting each other all over: 3 in SLU last night, two on Cap Hill.

Must be "Shoot a brotha" week/month or something.

Re: Shootings, Robbers, and the Art of Distraction

Butch — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:55:39 -0000

Except for their votes and their "activist" representatives and council members.

Re: Kline Says Backpage Bill Needs To Be “Bomb Proof”

FrequentPoster — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:02:34 -0000

“I have a daughter that was convicted on prostitution charges at the age of 15. My entire family has been victimized.”

God forbid that she tell the little snowflake the truth about being a whore.

Re: Homeless Count Up Slightly

Davey Jones — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:44:04 -0000

Another homeless youth tragedy of our disadvantaged communities ignored by the mainstream media!

Re: Kline Says Backpage Bill Needs To Be “Bomb Proof”

Davey Jones — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:34:36 -0000

Racist quote? Are u calling investigate West and NPR racist? That's a novel way to deny facts.

Re: Homeless Count Up Slightly

alliegladson — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:53:19 -0000

I heard that many college students or youths have to go back to their parents house, because they can not afford apartment rent anymore.

Re: Kline Says Backpage Bill Needs To Be “Bomb Proof”

FrequentPoster — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:45:15 -0000

The issue is punishing a critic of Mayor McDope.

Re: Kline Says Backpage Bill Needs To Be “Bomb Proof”

FrequentPoster — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:44:20 -0000

The Seattle Smugster "progressives" have an utterly addictive need to erect symbolic totems to their Goodness, even when it's clear that doing so will violate other "principles" they've claimed to hold dear.

What used to be prostitution, the world's oldest profession, has now been relabeled "human trafficking," and something the Smugsters can score cheap points by appearing to fight. Voila! Now the liberals get their share of the perpetual witch hunt. They just needed a new label to feed their addiction to Goodness. Wow, that was easy!

This is the gift that'll keep giving. Once Backpages has been beaten into submission, something else will arise. It always does, because we are talking about the world's oldest profession. Little matter that, in going after it, you've trampled on all kinds of freedoms. What's freedom compared to a few cheap points in this or that election?

And then there are the other uses of sexual witch hunts.

In the case of Backpages, we have a highly unpopular Mayor Michael McDope using this particular target as a proxy for his harshest journalistic critic, the Seattle Weekly. The Weekly is owned by the Village Voice, which also owns Backpages. The mayor joined the torch brigade at the point when his popularity his 23%, partly because the Weekly helped paint him as the hapless, lying buffoon that he is. Revenge was in order.

The other "progressives," looking for a way to lick McDope's loafers without seeming to, jumped on the bandwagon. This included Jonah Spangenthal Lee, now of Publicola. Just before he merged his Seattle Crime Blog with Publicola, Jonah hopped on McDope's bandwagon. He even tried to float the lie that the Seattle Weekly hadn't been critical of McDope before he joined the crusade.

Bottom line: Seattle's "progressives," both at Publicola and The Stranger, are perfectly willing to join their beloved mayor's sexual witch hunt against his sharpest critic, the Seattle Weekly,. Just as they, in the end, don't object to regressive taxation as long as the proceeds fund their toys or the effects advance their social control agenda, the "progressives" are perfectly willing to throw virogous, independent journalism and journalists under the bus.

Ah, nothing like a good juicy sex scandal, eh Seattle Smugsters?

Re: Friday Jolt: Immigrants and PACs

Tim Malone — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:06:18 -0000

It's not 1/3rd, but from 2000-2007 it always hovered around 30%, according to the FEDS.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US...

Re: Homeless Count Up Slightly

Dumb Polack — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:21:34 -0000

"2000 youths on the Eastside become homeless."

Yes, that's because most of the time 'homeless' doesn't mean actually not having a roof over your head. By most bum-vocate advocates standards, crashing on your friend's couch for a month makes you homeless.

Re: Kline Says Backpage Bill Needs To Be “Bomb Proof”

Go 'way, 'batin' — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:20:51 -0000

"I know mom! I'll sit in your basement and paste the same inane racist quote every day. That will get back at those black pimps."

"What? Mooooooom! I can't go look for a job today. It's Saturday! And I have to copy-paste my black pimp thing. If I don't paste it enough I'll never be important on the Internet. Hey, ma, did you wash Hitler underoos?"

Re: Friday Jolt: Immigrants and PACs

Dumb Polack — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:12:03 -0000

Exactly! And who's gonna cut my lawn and clean my gutters at such low prices? THose 'native borns' I see on Ballard commons drinking 48s all day?

Re: Friday Jolt: Immigrants and PACs

JH — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:45:05 -0000

It isn't a question of more or fewer undocumented workers being hired. If employers hire undocumented workers using fake SSNs, they still have to pay those workers the state minimum wage, they have to pay taxes for those workers, and they have to keep records.

If, instead, they hire undocumented workers under the table, they can pay those workers whatever the worker is willing to take, they don't pay any taxes for those workers, and they do it all without any paper trail.

Yes, hiring workers using fake SSNs is bad, but it would be worse to hire undocumented workers under the table.

Re: Legislators Pushing For Crackdown On Scrap Metal Theft

Guest — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:21:55 -0000

I feel confident in saying that the recent opening of the Recycling Depot in Georgetown has made the situation worse. A couple of years ago, two thieves were stealing copper from our shop yard and selling it to the R.D. at it's Rainier Ave location. The owner was mostly cooperative in helping to identify the men, and provided me with video footage which I then gave to the police.

However, he seemed completely uninterested in helping to arrest the thieves (they're his foot soldiers). When one returned to the Depot, did he detain him and call the police? No, he called me and asked if it would be OK to give him the check, paying for the metal stolen from us!!!

Then, he gave the thief my phone number (!?!?!?!?)

In contrast, I have found the larger companies to be trustworthy - e.g. Pacific Iron, Seattle Iron.