(And there are 40 other media clips from the past week in politics posted at Hominid Views.)
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Slog commenter Jane Doe points to this program from the 2007 Annual Spring Research Conference put on by the UW's Office of Minority Affairs and The Graduate School’s Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program, in which Christopher Monfort provides an abstract of his project titled The Power of [...]
Young Turks: Boehner’s big boner.
Pap: The showdown in Chicago.
The Week in Health Care and Scare:
Headzup: The Republican Health Care plan. Young Turks: Rep. Grayson reads number dead with no health insurance in GOP districts. Andy Cobb is The Spokes-jerk: Shuster: Rep. Tancredo storms off set after [...]Sandpoint advanced to the state semifinals for the first times since 2005 by shutting down a potent Middleton ground attack. The Vikings, which utilize the double-wing, entered Friday’s game with a six-game winning streak and averaging nearly 270 yards per game rushing. Sandpoint (8-2) held Middleton (7-3) to just one first down and 14 yards [...]
Democratic Rep. Brian Baird (WA-03) says he’ll vote against health care reform, no word on Rep. Adam Smith (WA-09). Brad Shannon has the story, along with a statement from Dwight Pelz encouraging members of the delegation to support reform.
Baird cited, among other things, wanting more information from CBO. Okay [...]
Details are starting to emerge about suspected cop-killer Christopher Monfort, and not surprisingly, he sounds a little crazy. And as it turns out, he’s also a pretty crappy artist.
Really. Those are images from a 2003 art exhibit of Monfort’s titled “No War” at Highline [...]
Mike McGinn, who could be Seattle's next mayor, is curled up 'round the fire with his family and black labrador, so he can't take phone calls. In his absence, campaign spokesman Aaron Pickus reacts to the latest results, which put McGinn 2,400 votes in the lead. "It’s a big jump," [...]
Stephen Gutwillig gets to the real heart of the matter:
How can the notion that marijuana is “here to stay” coexist with these rates of marijuana arrests? Apparently because the people caught in the crossfire aren’t considered part of the mainstream. In California, African-Americans are three times as [...]
The Vikings, losers of two straight to conclude the regular season, redeemed themselves with a 38-14 win over Lake City in a State 5A playoff opener Friday before an estimated crowd of 3,000 at LC. Coeur d’Alene (7-3) will play host to third-ranked Eagle (9-1) in a semifinal next Friday [...]
"I haven't talked to the team yet," says Charla Neuman, spokeswoman for mayoral candidate Joe Mallahan, "but I can tell you—uh, obviously this is not—it gets harder and harder to overcome these numbers. We're looking to see how many votes are left to be counted."
Is there any hope for Joe? [...]
More details on the shooting in Tukwila this afternoon:
The P.I. is reporting that the man shot in Tukwila this afternoon is in fact a suspect in the Halloween killing of Officer Brenton—the suspect is in critical condition at Harborview after being shot in the head, according to [...]
McGinn is now up by more than 2300 votes. That's outside the recount threshold and "Mallahan would now have to get about 54 percent of the remaining votes — a level he has never achieved in any of the vote counts," says the Seattle Times. The Times also [...]
Mike McGinn 85416 50.31%
Joe Mallahan 83032 48.91%
Write-in 1328 0.78%
That's a 2,384-vote spread.
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[...]King County Elections just dropped another 19,562 Seattle ballots, and these went strongly for Mike McGinn, 53.2% to 46.8% for Joe Mallahan, once again doubling McGinn’s lead to a 2,384 vote margin.
Mike McGinn 85,416 50.31% Joe Mallahan 83,032 48.91%Based on today’s earlier drop, I think it’s fair to say that this is the trend we [...]
A tear runs down the face of Col. William Salter during a vigil at Fort Hood, Texas on Friday. Authorities said Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan shot and killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas on Thursday. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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I saw the photo of the major smiling and holding a donut, just hours before he held out his gun and devastated the lives of thousands of soldiers and their families. In one instant, an entire community of soldiers and their families faced a new dynamic of total [...]
Volunteer Chantilly Burtis, left talks with Lookout Ski Patrol member Ron Lichti during set up of this years 11 annual Winter Swap at Kootenai County Fairgrounds in Coeur d'Alene on Friday. The sale opens Saturday , November 7 from 9:00-3:00 with thousands of new and used winter sports items available.' [...]
Office of Brian BairdBrian Baird, the Democratic congressman from Vancouver, Washington, says he's going to vote against his party's landmark health insurance reform bill this weekend (or, perhaps, early next week). Why?
Until more information is available on premium estimates and Medicare impacts, I will vote [...]
Sometimes, when I hear other wives talking about their flaky pie crust or their super secret all-day lasagna recipe, I feel a little bad for Paul. All across this great land, men are trudging home from work, tired and hungry, only to be revived at the door of [...]
About 20,000 ballots just released by King County Elections show that Mike McGinn's advantage in the Seattle mayor's race is growing—slightly. McGinn had a 515-vote lead yesterday; now he leads Joe Mallahan by 1,209 votes. In terms of percentage of the vote, McGinn led by 0.4 percent yesterday, but he [...]
By comparing voter rolls to records of ballots received by the county, Mike McGinn's mayoral campaign found that uncounted votes include far more of the youngest demographic, which are McGinn's voters, than counted votes. In contrast, uncounted votes include about 50 percent fewer voters over 65 years old than the [...]
Posted by news intern Garrett McCulloch
Tukwila Police recently shot a man at an apartment complex near Southcenter. From seattlepi.com:
Seattle Police responded to Tukwila after receiving a tip that the man was connected to the fatal shooting Halloween Night of Seattle Police Officer Timothy Brenton, according to a police source [...]
Mike McGinn padded his margin by an additional 694 votes this afternoon, more than doubling his narrow lead over Joe Mallahan to 1209 votes:
Mike McGinn 75,657 49.99% Joe Mallahan 74,448 49.19%This represents McGinn’s largest numerical lead thus far, and while not conclusive, bodes well for those anticipating a trend toward McGinn amongst late voters.
In this [...]
More and more, people use several Google products every day to do all kinds of routine things - email, chat, shopping, documents, kitten videos, RSS, Waving, on and on. It's easy to forget how much information you're handing off.
Well, Google is now providing a new service that lets you see' [...]
The Eagles Lodge reports that $2400 in cash, equally divided among 4 Washington Trust bank bags, was stolen from the Sherman Avenue organization between 5 p.m. Monday and 5:57 p.m. Tuesday. Trustee Bill Barlow reported to Coeur d'Alene police that the money was in an office inside the lodge. The' [...]
Floats carrying the New York Yankees baseball team make their way along Broadway during a ticker-tape parade celebrating their 27th World Series championship on Friday in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Question: Should New York have conducted the parade in light of the tragedy at Fort Hood, Texas?
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Jake Blumgart on why the aerospace giant is really ditching Washington workers:
As you've probably heard, last week Boeing infuriated local labor leaders and disappointed our state's politicians by deciding to open up a second 787 production line in South Carolina. While the company says this wasn't' [...]
Continuing to cheat tourists and drunks under new ownership.
Remember the rampant rumors at the end of September that world's best dive bar the Five Point was closing? Thanks be to drunk baby Jeebus, it's not true. But the [...]
The unemployment rate in October rose to 8.9 percent in Idaho and 11.1 percent in Kootenai County. In some rural corners of North Idaho, one in five working-age persons is jobless. Seasonally adjusted unemployment edged up a tenth of a point statewide last month. In Kootenai County, the rate increase [...]
Photos from outside the memorial service for Seattle Police Officer Timothy Brenton at Key Arena today...
More after the jump. All taken by photographer Ashley Robinson.
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Move over, Oprah Winfrey! There's a new alpha-bookseller in town, and his name rhymes with "henpeck."
On his radio show and cable television programs, first on CNN Headline News and now on the Fox News Channel, Mr. Beck has enthusiastically endorsed dozens of novelists, a majority of [...]
President Barack Obama said Friday the entire nation is grieving for those slain at Fort Hood, and he urged people not to jump to conclusions while law enforcement officers investigate the shootings. Obama met Friday morning with FBI Director Robert Mueller and other federal leaders to get an [...]
Washington’s best political satire site is without a doubt, Red County, a pitch-perfect, Colbert-esque parody of the angry, deluded, self-denial that tends to fill the right-wing blogs. And it doesn’t get any better than their frenetic mock analysis of the King County Executive race:
The general election result that shattered [...]
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[...]Do you really see Coeur d'Alene as such a miserable place controlled by big money and crooked politicians, or do fear it could happen and want to expose the next big political controversy. I read Mary Souza's open CDA web site and see nothing but paranoia and sensationalism. I listen' [...]
I’m a young woman in a committed relationship with my longtime boyfriend, a handsome and VERY well-endowed man. His penis is more than satisfying, but it’s never gotten me off. I only climax when he performs oral on me. I feel guilty because when we make love, I wait for [...]
I feel snubbed…
Locally, an iron triangle of left interest groups (e.g. NARAL) liberal media (The Stranger, PubliCola) and the labor left (SEIU) seek to impose ideological requirements while slamming any Democrat who hints at moderation.
What am I… chopped liver?
Other than that, I kinda agree with Joel.
Don Sausser, HBO's Eye on Sherman Avenue, writes: "You know that the Christmas Holidays are approaching when Resort personnel are seen hanging lights on a blustery day."
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Wow now this is pretty amazing. In a document published by George Washington University entitled "Thinking Anew---Security Priorities For The Next Administration" the Ft. Hood Shooter's name "Nidal...
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Four Coeur d'Alene High football players -- three of them starters -- suspended for an athletic code violation have been reinstated for tonight's state 5A football playoff game at Lake City, Viking coach Shawn Amos announced Friday morning/Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.
[...]Obama/Pelosi/Reid are asking Americans to explode our nation's deficits on a risky experiment while reducing coverage for elderly Americans and mandating coverage for other Americans.
Read this...
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Joker: The door to the cooler is weathered wood with an ironwork across the middle. While there is no door handle, there are claw marks on bottom of the door, as if something or someone couldn't get out. The sounds of dripping water echo through the cooler. I don't [...]
While going through the "new" Midtown for the first time, I was aghast at how dangerous the experience was. Traffic roaring past cars trying to park and/or sight see. Harrowing might be a better word. The difference between downtown Sherman and Fourth Street is obvious to me -- namely signals. [...]
Noor Faleh Almaleki died Monday of injuries suffered when she was run over October 20 in a parking lot in the Phoenix suburb of Peoria, Arizona, police there said. Authorities said they expect to change the aggravated assault charge against her father, Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, to more severe counts [...]
Jezebel offers a must-read tour of the Scientology Holiday Catalog. I'm surprised by how many books are in this catalog, but the fancy e-meters are nice, too. Happy Xenu Day, everybody!
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' [...]A graduate of Rogers High School and Eastern Washington University working as a physician assistant at Fort Hood, Texas, was among 13 people killed in a rampage Thursday, according to a family member. Michael Grant Cahill was 62. Meanwhile, a Post Falls soldier wounded in the shooting spree is [...]
The Stranger's Brian Geoghagan videotaped the funeral procession for slain officer Timothy Brenton in front of the Seattle Police Department East Precinct, where Brenton had been assigned for eight years.
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[...]Post by news intern Garrett McCulloch
The national unemployment rate cracked 10 percent for the first time in 26 years, as noted in Slog's patented Morning News. But it's really a lot worse than that. When you count people who have given up looking for jobs or have settled for part [...]
So, how crazy is Susan Hutchison’s letter to supporters, hinting that a U.S. Senate run might lay in her future? Not so crazy that I hadn’t predicted exactly that just a couple weeks back.
[...]As if there wasn't enough anxiety caused by the daily late-afternoon update in our insanely close mayor's race, King County Elections announced moments ago that officials would release two batches of results today. The first will come at 4:30 p.m. and the second drop will hit between 9:00 p.m. and' [...]
In his attempt to connect the dots, Bill McCrory/OpenCDA.com may be hinting that irregularities may have occurred during the City Council elections. It's hard to say exactly what she means by posting the Idaho codes for contesting elections for reasons other than the tightness of the vote. Bill ends by saying: "While'" [...]
CindyH will sub for me next week as I take some R-n-R to catch a breath after the elections and to enjoy Dr. Oliveria & my wonderful daughter-in-law, who will be visiting between interviews for medical residency at University of Washington and OHSU/Portland and sundry other places. I may give [...]
Meet the new Mayor of WTF-sville, and/or foreskins are funny! Beeep!
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[...]Please try to restrain the schadenfreude as you read this (delusional) letter from King County Executive candidate Susan Hutchison to her supporters. In conceding her defeat, she stands by giving "the right message," running a "fair and honorable campaign," and, lastly, comparing her career to astronaut John Glenn, who went [...]
BaconcatAs I mentioned earlier, Larry Stickney—Christian extremist, family man, alleged wife beater—is literally praying that Referendum 71 will be rejected. But data released a few minutes ago by the Washington Poll, a project run by the University of Washington, indicates that prayin' ain't going to help. [...]
Lynne Stratton, talked about her step son George Stratton III at their home in Post Falls on Friday, November 6, 2009. Stratton was injured during the shooting at Fort Hood in Texas on Thursday. (Kathy Plonka/SR)
A Post Falls soldier wounded in Thursday’s shooting spree at Fort Hood in Texas in [...]
Charles Mudede on Claire Denis and the modern urban family:
The urban family has a different and deeper set of values that are not connected by a sense of soil, wholesomeness, health, or devotion, but by the condition of being with (and close to) others who share [...]
This time in Orlando. One person is dead and at least eight people are injured after a shooter terrorized several floors of a Florida office building.
MSNBC says that Jason Rodriguez, a former employee in the building, is a suspect in the case. The shooter is still at large.
Police [...]
Postmortem Celebration
Michael JacksonToday brings two worthy opportunities to commemorate the man who would be King of Pop. The Kenny Ortega–directed film This Is It documents rehearsals for Jackson's would-be comeback shows and sloppily accomplishes the impossible: rehumanizing Michael Jackson, presented here as a tireless, meticulous, [...]
For anyone with even slight observation skills, it is clear that both our political leaders and the main stream media elites are anxious that we, the unwashed masses, are assured that the Ft. Hood...
DFO: What's your reaction to the outcome of the Coeur d'Alene & Post Falls races?
Jeff Ward/Reagan Republicans: In Post Falls, we're happy that Betty Henderson got elected. Our endorsement didn't have much influence because she was such a good candidate. We had a lot of effect in the' [...]
A perfect stocking stuffer for active women, GoGirl allows the simple convenience of taking bathroom breaks standing up in situations where restrooms are unfit or nonexistent. (AP/GoGirl photo).
Question: Do you think this product will catch on?
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Four readings tonight.
At Elliott Bay Book Company, Daniel Arnold discusses his book Early Days in the Range of Light, which is about the early days of mountaineering, back when men used to murder bears with their bare hands just because they felt like it. Needless to say, [...]
Coming sooner than you could have hoped to PCs and Macs everywhere is Find Your Own Way Home, the first casual game to feature what the distributor (getting out ahead of critics) calls "a real rock band." REO Speedwagon: real.
You're the nice lady' [...]
Ken Camp at NPI Advocate notices that Rep. Adam Smith (WA-09) and Rep. Brian Baird (WA-03) need to get some phone calls of encouragement regarding the pending health care bill. There might be a vote this weekend.
Feel free to click through to NPI Advocate for more information.
Separately, [...]
I will get back to my series of posts on “First principles” fairly soon, but in the meantime this came up and I just had to say something. Jeff Jacoby writes…
Those who fulminate against letting voters periodically vote on ballot measures believe that citizens are too dumb to judge [...]
On the fourth day of extremely close results in the Seattle mayoral race, Mike McGinn widened his lead over opponent Joe Mallahan. In an updated count released Friday afternoon, McGinn had 49.99 percent of the vote, to Mallahan's 49.19 percent. That amounts to a lead of just 1,209 votes [...]
The funeral procession for slain Seattle Police Officer Timothy Brenton is rolling past our offices right now, as Dan mentioned a minute ago. Police cruisers from far and wide—hundreds of them, from Tacoma, Everett, Stilacoom, Snohomish, Steilacoom, border patrol, Salem, Oregon, they just keep coming—are filing down East Pine Street. [...]
