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13 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - SPD’s “Ope... · 1 reply · +13 points

Two dozen drug dealers... They could easily find that many to arrest just by walking down third ave through the ride free zone at any time of the day with their eyes open.

13 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Alligator bites off sw... · 0 replies · +5 points

There was a story about a year ago of a bull shark that killed someone in Ohio. The damn thing swam 1,700 miles up the Mississippi river. Pretty insane for a salt water hunter to be able to adapt to fresh water like that.

13 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - The Schrammie: Waiting... · 4 replies · +7 points

You are close with your reasoning as to why MJ is included as a Schedule 1 drug. A large percentage of prisons are run by private companies that have a virtual monopoly on incarcerations and they give substantial donations to elected officials to keep the revolving doors of the prison system with drug crimes.

It also has a lot to do with the fact that drugs such as morpheine, codeine and oxycontin are all produced by the pharmaceutical industry. Weed can be grown by anyone in their back yard. If you were able to give someone the option between an expensive prescription or growing their own medicine, how much of an impact do you think that would have on the profits of big pharma companies? And oh yeah, they give pretty heavily to elected officials as well.

13 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - The Schrammie: Waiting... · 0 replies · +6 points

I believe that "yeahright" might be referring to the constitutional limitations on the federal government's powers as the "start". Obviously, the feds powers have continually expanded over the years whenever they see fit.

13 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Dad won\'t face charge... · 0 replies · +4 points

Look up the kids that murdered the Tuba Man. I know they went through the juvenile system, but they have all had repeated run-ins with the law since they received a mere slap on the wrist for savagely beating someone to death, for kicks.

There was also a recent case in snohomish county where a homeowner found someone trying to steal his boat motor and confronted him. When that man attacked him and the homeowner defended himself with deadly force, he was arrested for man slaughter.

13 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Port: New Seattle spor... · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm also confused. Has the POS been able to explain where they think all of the additional business they are mentioning is going to be coming from? 7,000 to 11,000 daily truck trips is a HUGE increase in volume. Are the port facilities even designed to be able to handle that sort of increase?

And finally, (from my soap box) why is it so important to have more trucks to handle any additional volume at the port when they already have a vast network of rail lines that run right through that area? I can't imagine that all of the cargo coming into the POS is for local consumption, so put the containers on a rail car and get them to where they need to go much more cheaply and with a far smaller impact on the current infrastructure and without causing all of the related traffic headaches. I can't be the only person to feel this way.

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Edmonds police officer... · 0 replies · +13 points

Congratulations! It sounds like you and your husband are both VERY lucky.

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Farm bill clears first... · 0 replies · +4 points

We need single purpose bills. No more tack on legislation.

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Just days after liquor... · 0 replies · +6 points

You nailed it when you said that it is the wild west. The distributors used to be limited by the LCB as to what they could mark-up the product and had a virtual monopoly on the business. Now, there is the possiblity of competition (which is why they opposed the initiative in the first place). They have jacked their prices up by approximately 50% in hopes of quickly recovering the money they spent opposing this initiative prior to the competition forcing them to lower their prices to the retailers if they want to stay in business. Price gouging is beautiful.

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Some liquor buyers now... · 0 replies · +3 points

The problem is not with the taxes. The problem is with the distributors that have jacked their prices by about 50 - 60% and the liquor control board that is trying to get even with the people for taking away their power.
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