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KOMO - Seattle, WA : Mariners pound Sanchez, Royals in 9-4 victory | Sports | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking New

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:32:49 +0000

Bring the outfield fences in. Get rid of Figgins. Keep Wells up for good. Get Ryan hitting lessons on a personal 1 on 1 level every day 7x 24 or trade for him late season. The talk about the failure to "GET" Prince Fielder is a crock of Sh*t. We never made the list. Tell me this. What hitter wants to come to a ballpark where the ability to hit home runs and off the wall doubles is almost non existent? Sure you can visit for 2-6 games a year but call Safeco home? Really???!!!!! If I am a major leage player that makes his money by jacking balls out of the park and drilling balls off of the back of the outfields, why would I want to come here? The compenstion is usually based on batting average, slugging percentage and home runs generated for a big stick. Safeco isn't where you are going to do that if you are playing there 81 games a year. Just isn't going to happen.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Judges disciplined for handling of Lohan case | Entertainment | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Break

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:26:03 +0000

The law must be blind in its application even to those that thumb their noses and disrespect it. Frustrating in this case, yes. Part of what makes the USA great, absolutely. Personally, my opinion is that high visibility celebs and especially sports figures need to be held to a higher standard not given greater latitude to make mistakes and reduced sentences because of their status. In this case when a judge makes a procedural mistake by not hearing arguments by counsel that is just plain wrong. It puts the case and the finding in jeopardy and leaves the whole case open for review and re-trial, an expensive and needless use of tax dollars.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Bremerton college warns of potential credit card fraud | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, S

Wed, 4 Jul 2012 01:14:58 +0000

No surprise here. Colleges run their networks wide open. This is always going to happen. For the majoriity of people credit card data will be the target of the soviet based criminals because it is easy and fast money. The Chinese are after intellectual property and bringing products to market by stealing all of the R&D that others have done so they can manufacture specific products without the burdon of paying back all of the R&D costs. The low hanging fruit that higher education presents is a primary target for these Cyber Criminals.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Deena from \'Jersey Shore\': I didn\'t use sidewalk | Entertainment | Seattle News, Weather, Sports,

Tue, 3 Jul 2012 23:34:47 +0000

Great role models for kids. *sarcasm* "See you can be a moron and make lots of money and have a career by just showing the world how stupid you are!" The Kardashians make an estimated $47 million per year to parade their stupidity and arrogance around for all to see. These clowns are no different. Just less money but, just as pathetic. To the point of the story, the police have to watch the Jersey Shore house even closer and that takes regular officers away from their regular patrols. Selfish, stupid and criminals. What more could a television network want!

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Suspect in restaurant attack had history of sexual assault | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weathe

Tue, 3 Jul 2012 22:50:37 +0000

I hope that you are spewing sarcasm. Do you really think that any elected official, law enforcement or anyone for that matter is feeling good about releasing a POS like this guy and then justifying their action as "It's good for business." Really? If you actually believe that you are delusional. Knowing that this guy is trying to infect childern with HIV is cause for death in my book.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Suspect in restaurant attack had history of sexual assault | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weathe

Tue, 3 Jul 2012 18:22:01 +0000

Sniper practice? The vest only covers his torso. Oregon, please execute, quickly.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Suspect in restaurant attack had history of sexual assault | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weathe

Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:11:12 +0000

The most recent crime was completely preventable. Why wasn't this POS locked up for life or simply executed back in 1993. Excution is my preference. Any pedophile who is knowingly trying to infect children with HIV is a waste of air on this planet and just when you think a pedophile couldn't be any worse here comes Adam Lee Brown who not only leaves his victims with a horrific memory but a potentially deadly disease as well. This is as bad as it gets. Any bleeding heart, sexual preditor rehabilitation advocates want to try to defend this guy? Please execute this guy and get him off this planet.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Accused killer of sex offenders to represent himself at trial | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Wea

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:44:08 +0000

You have come full circle. The court of law is exactly were the level is determined for sex offenders based on evidence, behavior, demeanor in the courtroom and reports from law enforcement, prison officials, counselors and psychiatrists if engaged. After all of that data is evaluated then a number is designated for the offender. That number/level is not an arbitrary finding. "..stable housing, stable employment and stable, healthy relationships." Wouldn't that be great if we all had those parameters in our lives everyday? Look around rudy, all of those conditions change for the better and for the worse all the time. Foreclosure, unemployment, divorce, relocation, betrayal and so on and so on.They are not excuses or reasons for people that commit crimes. They are the conditions we all live in. How you handle these conditions is a choice you make. Again, your comments are for a utopian world where criminals do not re-offend, people learn from their mistakes, blame does not exist and everything is good when we shake hands and forgive one another. Hurt or harm my kids there will be a problem. No handshake, no forgiveness. Not happening rudy, it just isn't.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Accused killer of sex offenders to represent himself at trial | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Wea

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:30:23 +0000

Understand? No. So what if he was 17 and had a family? Does that reduce the severity of the crime? Tell that to the victim.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Accused killer of sex offenders to represent himself at trial | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Wea

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:25:22 +0000

I think that when a person violates another person’s basic human rights such as rapists and pedophiles, the rights and freedoms for that specific violator are no longer what they used to be. Specifically, pedophiles and rapists have taken something that can never be returned, namely innocence. Their victims memory can’t be wiped clean never to remember. Your ideas are valid in a utopian world where criminals come out of prison rehabilitated and never re-offend. Criminals re-offend, more children are violated and the cycle replays more often than not. That is the world we live in. To your comment "New hate lists. New lists nobody wants to live next to." You are correct, I do not want to have a sex offender living next to me or my children, ever. That would be the real test of your ideology. From a statistical perspective I am not willing to have my children be a victim by putting them in a high risk environment. If there is no way to identify groups of offenders how do you protect those that are innocent from those that are likely to re-offend? Seems to me that your ideology protects the guilty not the innocent.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Accused killer of sex offenders to represent himself at trial | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Wea

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:43:43 +0000

All of that information is public so, sorry to burst your bubble. It is public for a reason, people have a right to know what a criminal has been charged with and what that could mean after they are released. For King County you can search your own area for Registered Sex offenders here; http://www.icrimewatch.net/index.php?AgencyID=544... As sex offenders, both of these men were tracked, monitored and counseled-barely. The definition is directly from our of the law books so, again, I have done nothing illegal contrary to your comment, I only posted the facts here with regard to definitions and history. Do a search of their names and you will find the same. My guess is that you are either a fan of pedophiles or know one or both of these sex offenders. What I do see out in the world we all live in is that the majority of sex offenders rarely are rehabilitated and pose a high degree of re-offending.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Accused killer of sex offenders to represent himself at trial | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Wea

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:06:13 +0000

***The victims were identified as Gary Lee Blanton Jr., 28, who was convicted of rape in 2001, and Jerry W. Ray, 56, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a child in 2002. ***Level 2 offenders have a moderate risk of re-offending. They generally have more than one victim and the abuse may be long term. These offenders usually groom their victims and may use threats to commit their crimes. These crimes may be predatory with the offender using a position of trust to commit their crimes. Typically these individuals do not appreciate the damage they have done to their victims. I do not see a crime here. The other option for the jury is to rule for Jury Nullification. "Jury nullification is a constitutional doctrine which allows juries to acquit criminal defendants who are technically guilty, but who do not deserve punishment."

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Snoop Dogg busted with marijuana in Norway | Entertainment | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:06:14 +0000

Artist??? Really?? This is a shocker.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Snoop Dogg busted with marijuana in Norway | Entertainment | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:05:20 +0000

Because he is stupid.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Microsoft office in Athens attacked | National & World News | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breakin

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:12:42 +0000

Close the office and lay off the locals in Greece. If that is what the urban terrorists want then so be it. Why operate in a hostile and dangerous environment and put people at risk? These fire bombing morons have a better plan to get Greece out of their economic hole? Great let them do it.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Court upholds most of massive fine against Microsoft | Technology | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, B

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:40:50 +0000

Europe has long been anti-American business. EADS the parent company for Airbus is a great example of this. While EADS has been long subsidized by several European nation states they complain and protest when the USA tries to subsidize Boeing on defense and commercial business claiming unfair practice by government intervention. The fall of the Euro and general fall/fail of many European economies is only going to give the Commission more reason to point fingers at elsewhere since they cannot manage their own businesses and government economies. Instead of looking at others, maybe they should start looking in their own back years and get their own house in order.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Case file: Sex offender photographed young girls at Costco | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weathe

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 06:01:43 +0000

Just execute him and save us all the trouble of housing him for $50,000 - $75,000 per year that could go to law enforcement or education. Repeat offender who chose to do what he did again and will do so again and again and again. For all those who say that rehabilitation is an option, just ask yourself-"Is it my kids picture that some pedophile is looking at now?" Then tell me that this POS is going to change and if you really think he deserves another chance. Better yet, for those that think rehabilitation is an option, invite this POS to YOUR house when he gets out and sponsor him. Didn't think so. Execute him now.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Coast Guard: Stay away from Arctic drill rigs in Seattle | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather,

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:16:17 +0000

Come on now! Eisbrecher mines her/his own metals from the earth, to build their own computer, monitor and chip sets, has an army of organically raised and organically fed, free range rodents to run a self-made electric generator for the self-made computer that also charges the hybrid bicycle -human and self-made motor that was created my our very own mayor-his next career after he is gone from his first and only term, to get to and from their job as a Greenpeace volunteer. So be kind!!!

KOMO - Seattle, WA : No money for forced sterilization victims in NC | National & World News | Seattle News, Weather, Spo

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:23:16 +0000

Accountability and Responsibility. Each legislator has a responsibility to do what is right, not make excuses why they can't do the right thing. The reason for punishment is all about accountability. If there is no punishment to the state for its actions it has NO accountability in this matter. "If you could lay the issue to rest, it might be one thing. But I'm not so sure it would lay the issue at rest because if you start compensating people who have been `victimized' by past history, I don't know where that would end," Republican Sen. Austin Allran said. Senator Allran, It "ends" when all of the people that have been victimized have had justice served. It does not matter who the victim is or who the guilty party is. Justice must have a blind eye. Bank robber or corporate raider, homeless or wealthy, individual or state, all must be held accountable and be responsible for their actions.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : \'I can’t\' give up\': Woman spends thousands to find missing feline | Pets | Lakewood News

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 07:23:25 +0000

I can understand her feelings and desire to find her cat. Really I do. The sad reality of this is the cat was probably eaten by a coyote. My hat is off to this women as she did her best to keep the cat indoors. I am not a cat person for several reasons. Highly allergic to them. Don't like outdoor cats since they only deficate in other peoples yards never their own. A dog will sit next to you and starve to death if you die and drop to the floor. A cat, the truth here, will feed on your corpse if it gets hungry. That just creaps me out.