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13 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Snoqualmie residents o... · 0 replies · +14 points

I have to agree with jnsland. You choose to live next to a forest it is not like living in a city, you do things differently.

You learn to live with nature. Bears scavenge, that is most of what they do in mother nature's plan. If you don't provide a food source, they will not come. The same lessons go for raccoons, squirrels and opossums.

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Seattle handing out $1... · 0 replies · +14 points

The city of Seattle has money for 'its political cronies priorities' like new stadiums for millionaires, bike lanes, street cars and more. You say where is the money to fix streets, bridges and take care of basic infrastructure - that's needs a new levy or bond to pay for those. The taxpayers of Seattle are bilked and hoodwinked at every opportunity.

What this city desperately needs (besides a political housecleaning) is an independently handled top-down performance audit of its spending and prioritization. That this audit be published publicly in its entirety the same day the politicians get it. That way we will not end up with a sanitized report burying the bodies out of the public eye.

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Culinary trend has cus... · 0 replies · +1 points

Don't give them any more bright ideas

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - How cold was it last w... · 0 replies · +1 points

Maybe just a touch skeptical here, if it is a natural occurrence, that impresses the heck out of me!

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Barefoot Bandit\'s cas... · 0 replies · +3 points

The kid escaped a group home in 2008 and began a crime spree, now that he's had some time in solitary, Moore isn't so cocky now that he has come face to face with reality.
I do not trivialize the theft of aircraft, too easily this could've led to a calamitous fireball with another aircraft, home or business. The young man is savvy, not simply a confused kid. His string of burglaries and thefts, the measures he went to in eluding law enforcement being apprehended with a stolen firearm paints an opposite picture to what his lawyer is trying to portray.
Don't get me wrong, it never makes me happy seeing young people throwing their lives away. There are too many things here to make me think he isn't trying to play us for patsies. Life is about choice - be prepared to stand up and be accountable when you make the wrong ones -- repeatedly.

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Tests show CFLs gettin... · 0 replies · +2 points

I agree it is a vexing issue. Many CFL's have in their fine print - not for inverted use. You have to read carefully - it is not like it used to be a 'slam dunk one size fits all'. What I ended up doing was purchasing a 'Y' splitter placing two smaller CFL's at a 45-degree angle than one larger element inverted and solved my problem.

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Starbucks to have K-cu... · 0 replies · +1 points

K cups are a real convenience for those who only drink a cup of coffee in the morning but I do not even want to think how much a pound of coffee costs using these.

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Study: Some green cars... · 0 replies · +1 points

The battery decrepitude issues after a few years of ownership with hybrids and all-electric cars makes them impractical to buy, either lease them or pass on them entirely for a new diesel.
Right now, I commute in a 1989 CRX HF and get over 40mpg highway, dropping to 32 for more mixed driving conditions. I'm not seeing a lot of progress in mileage over 20 years with newer cars.

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - 3 men rescued after fa... · 0 replies · +1 points

This was an old and derelict mine, the older they get the more dangerous and unstable they become. It is a good example of why abandoned mine accesses should be imploded. I'm not for a nanny state by any means - these are like old large opening wells, a few boards nailed up is not sufficient, close them off for safety.

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Tolling on 520 bridge ... · 1 reply · +22 points

Why isn't there someone is WSDOT being held responsible for this gross act of incompetence? They are supposed to be capable of awarding contracts to reliable professional firms. Oh wait, I forgot myself - this is of course Washington, where blundering incompetents are promoted not punished (see Christine Gregoire for background).

At least they finally got the Nalley Valley viaduct reopened. How can you misalign two sections of road by that much... We never did hear anything about the people behind that debacle and it's price tag either. It's just the taxpayers money after all. And, for our next trick, here comes the Seattle waterfront tunnel.

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