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You make the case against the internet. The University of Google does not exist. While it's a useful steering mechanism, it often leads to invented places and your use of it absent very much foundational knowledge, along with your fantastic sense of self and fraudulent internet resume, makes it the domain of the substantially uninformed wherein reside tools--like you. Sorry TTK, but you're not fooling anyone. Which is it this week? Furniture craftsman? CTO of a major corporation? Entomologist? Professor of Constitutional Law? Soldier? Doctor? Wealthy retiree? Endurance Athlete? Designer of medical equipment? Literary Critic? Or just plain old race-baiter? It's one thing to have an opinion, but to continuously present yourself as the authority on everything is just plain disturbing. But hey, this is the web! Indulge your fantasies.

"...being tortured as I write this." Please. With the exception of the Jose Padilla case, I don't think Bush has stepped over the constitutional line at all. Intent/spirit? Maybe. But not the letter. I wonder if your hero, FDR, would treat these inmates any better. Actually, we need not wonder at all: http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-german-saboteurs-invade-america-in-1942.htm/2 "Roosevelt realized that neither the death penalty nor secrecy could be guaranteed in a civilian trial, so he issued a proclamation that established a military tribunal consisting of seven generals, the first to be convened in the United States since Lincoln’s assassination. The prosecutor was Attorney General Francis Biddle. The chief defense lawyer was Colonel Kenneth Royall, a distinguished attorney in civilian life and later President Harry Truman’s secretary of war. The trial, which was held in secret at the Justice Department, occupied most of the month of July 1942. Biddle accused the Germans of coming to America to wreak havoc and death, basing his accusations on their own confessions. The would-be saboteurs pleaded innocence, denounced Hitler and insisted they had had no intention of actually engaging in sabotage. The prosecution asked for the death penalty, the punishment required of spies during wartime, but it had a hard time making its case against Dasch and Burger, who had confessed so quickly and collaborated so completely. On July 27, the defense rested. The seven generals quickly prepared a report and sent it–and the 3,000-page trial transcript–to Roosevelt who, under his proclamation, was responsible for determining the time and place of execution if that was the tribunal’s sentence. Now, finally, Roosevelt found out exactly how Hoover had managed to catch the saboteurs so quickly. He never made any public comment about it, however. On August 8, six of the eight German agents were electrocuted at the District Jail in Washington, D.C. Burger was sentenced to hard labor for life; Dasch was given 30 years. "

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Results. And you, Ms. Tvashtar?

The National Park Service needs more good people like Mike. Hopefully, he'll one day return as the superintendent of one of our parks right here in Washington. Well done Mike!

With a few exceptions like you, today's parasite is tomorrow's producer--but until they make the transition they have little right to complain about their perception of inadequate bike paths that they've been given.

Like never having to worry about which spouse is going to do the laundry?

Like I said, I don't really support this tax but I do enjoy watching hypocrisy at its finest. Based on the composition of your statement above, we still have a long way to go regarding schools.

Drivers pays a pittance, considering the wear on the roads, the pollution, and the thousands of bystanders killed annually. When is the last time a bicyclist has killed a bystander? You're kidding, right?

A cyclist who does not also drive a car likely pays no property or business taxes either. He or she is also, possibly, a heavily taxpayer-subsidized student. Ok, he likely pays sales tax on that Big Gulp that he buys down the street from campus. A pittance, really. His parasitic social standing remains.

Oh really? You must mean cyclists who also drive or pay taxes for roads in some other manner--but, of course, bicyclists themselves do not pay for roads via their activity. It's surprising you're so unwilling to step up and contribute even while you support fees and taxes for others via the RTA, viaduct replacement, and the 520 bridge.

Isn't that a quote from GGK's babushka?

Nice try, but your strategy of bolstering your arguments with personal fictions should be apparent by now even to the most brainless tool here. BTW, did you ever get that HTML issue figured out?

Yes, as in "me work, you don't". Me smart and independently self supporting. You not. You're an idiot. Get a job. Stop the charade. Dumbass.

Pitcher, or catcher?

I've spent 30 years talking to the people you describe and the vast majority fall well inside the IQR. What we have on this site are a bunch of outliers who found a home. I'm here to provide a faint voice for reality. Charity work, really.

your distate for the forces of capital is practically Democratic! Um...TTK's tall tales about his personal resume have been revealed as "inaccurate". Where ya been?

I didn't know I had to choose a side. Are you saying that if I don't support Crux' proposed violence against the president then, by definition, I must hate the environment?

Um...they liked the revolution they saw over here, tried it, and let it go horribly wrong? :head in basket emoticon:

Yer a reel tough guy. Grrrrrrrrrr.

You guys are idiots. If you bothered to read my two initial posts on the subject, you would understand that I'm really not for this tax. But I do think the indignation about this proposal from the same knee-jerk libs here who regularly argue more taxation for the common good is pretty funny. What a bunch of freeloaders. Espacially TTK--who doesn't even have a job, for God's sake!

Yes, as in "me work, you don't".

I hear what you're saying, but in Washington State sidewalks are built/maintained with property taxes paid by homeowners and businesses or mitigation fees paid by developers. In fact, in the town where I live I recently had to shell out $1100 to rebuild the sidewalk that passes in front of my house because it was being uprooted by a tree that the town had planted in the right of way. So I'm not sure your argument works well. But you're right...where does it stop? Don't forget--motor vehicle drivers are paying for those bike lanes, and those cyclists still require energy to move from point A to point B. Chances are that energy was grown with the help of carbon-based fuels.