The cop should have known not to interfere with a Seahawk fan doing his duty.
Police say a man attending Saturday’s Seahawks game assaulted an officer, knocking him unconscious.
via Police officer assaulted, knocked unconscious at Seahawks game – seattlepi.com.
The truest expression of America is not the exclusion of all ideas for “safety’s” sake, it’s the inclusion of all ideas.
The holiday displays that previously have competed for attention on the state’s Capitol campus are now coexisting peacefully.
via No holiday arguments for displays at Capitol | Seattle Times Newspaper.
Every year at this time you can find the dominant religion in America losing its tiny, closed mind over Christmas.
Having been mixed with paganism and European tradition for a thousand years, suddenly the holiday is deemed to be under attack by the dominant religion’s imaginary evil nemesis.
In these times, faced with ignorant yahoos defending pagan conifers and scenes of their deity’s birth in the same breath, I like to turn to that bastion of wholesome American west cowboyness, Gene Autry, The Singing Cowboy.
Gene put out what is one of the most beloved Christmas albums of all time back in the 1950′s and he’s always been associated with making Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer famous.
You just can’t get any more “right” than old Gene.
With his words, I’d like to remind the overwrought Right that their holiday has been like this for a long, long time.
So let’s do as Gene Autry would have us do in another of his holiday hits and, “Let’s give thanks to the Lord above ’cause Santa Claus comes tonight.”
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Back in the day, when America Online was king and the Internet was just still so many soup cans connected with string, I wrote.
I wrote funny (no, really!) articles about current events and topics or just found a funny handle on something and grabbed it and ran.
I wrote sketches and even sold some jokes to a columnist. I went through voiceover classes and was deeply interested in making commercials.
Then something happened. I’m not sure yet just what it was but all of those interests faded out.
These days I come home from the job, have dinner and plop in front of the computer – substantially the same as always – but what I do from there is different.
I hang on Facebook, reposting other people’s posts and looking for things to post. All of my comments are short. Few of them are funny.
I have become an extension of Facebook.
That’s essentially what Panzo.org has become. It’s no longer an extension of me augmented by Facebook and Twitter. It’s become an extension of those. A very opposite effect.
So then what is the point of this?
I hope I can figure that out.
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There’s a fellow who has taken up shop right outside of a.Starbucks that I frequent. I see him and his dog there every day, in all temperatures and weather conditions. He holds the same sign saying, “Any kindness helps.”
I’ve taken to giving him coffee and a snack now and then. I bought a box of Milk Bone dog biscuits on discount and today I gave a few of them to his dog.
People sneer at guys like him. He’s younger than I am but I don’t know his story. He might be mentally ill, legitimately out of a job and on the streets, or he could be a meth head.
I can’t tell from the limited contact I have with him but he doesn’t turn down food or coffee so he’s not deeply addicted to anything. If he was, he’d demand cash. I’ve seen that kind of street begging before.
So let’s ask the question in the title of this post right here: do beggars work? This guy shows up every day and stays for hours in all kinds of weather. He doesn’t hassle anyone and he takes anything he’s given.
Does he have a job? Is this it?
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This is way overdue. Now can we also do something about the tow trucks that line up, waiting to tow vehicles at 3PM downtown without being notified by the police? They’re like vultures.
Seattle City Councilmember Nick Licata says he plans to introduce legislation that would cap towing rates after a Seattle Times columnist wrote about a resident who was charged $800 to get his truck from a towing yard.
via City Council to take on predatory towing fees | Strange Bedfellows — Politics News – seattlepi.com.
Sure, it works here in Seattle but here, even the street department is passive-aggressive.
Rather than detouring traffic to the next arterial, which would make sense when one lane of a two-lane arterial is closed for a block, SDOT forces drivers to take turns through signage. This backs up traffic in both directions and pisses everyone off.
“Our officers are committed to treating every passenger with dignity and respect,” the agency said in a statement.
The statement went on to say, “Hahahahaha!”
via Travel | Two elderly women object to security search at JFK | Seattle Times Newspaper.
Well, that’s it, Mr. Depp. You’ve angered the telepathic minions of the Invisible Sky Daddy. They officially hate you now but don’t worry, it’s Holy Hate™
Lee Douglas of The Christian Coalition adds, “I’m sure he thinks he’s being very funny but he’s simply a disgrace. One day, Johnny Depp and his cronies will face the judgment of our Lord and they will burn in hell for this filth.”
via Christians take aim at Depp for Christmas song | Celebrities | Entertainment | Toronto Sun.
