Fairweather

if you got brown skin, then you is guilty. and that aint racism, neither. just ask nitrox and his fairweather friend... no brains = no headaches Read the law, dumbass.

Nope. Not at all. Are you suggesting you don't have to show your driver's license when pulled over? Are you suggesting that if a police officer suspects a crime has been committed he should stand down so you can sate some lib version of PC run amok?

So, I've thought about this some more. Actually, I'm OK with so-called "sanctuary cities." Well, actually, it's complicated. I think there is a big difference between deciding not to enforce a law, and deciding to enforce an additional law. For example; I'm totally in support of the City of Seattle deciding not to enforce marijuana laws relating to simple possession. I feel like this sort of "look the other way" allows cities and states to rebel against overreaching federal control. This isn't really the same as enforcing a law in opposition of the federal government which disenfranchises citizens. There seems to be an important distinction there. In the former example, nobody is being oppressed as a result. So, is it OK for states and cities to "flout" federal law? I guess my answer to that is, it depends. What's the effect? Is the flouting of the law protecting civil liberties, or threatening them? Because when it comes down to it, that's more important than "the law." Thanks for the response, but that's some seriously convoluted logic. You spoke of disenfranchising "citizens", but, of course, that's not at all what we're talking about here. The AZ law does nothing that federal law doesn't also provide for--if only those laws were enforced.

30,000 artillery pieces pointed at Seoul--who needs nukes! A pretty bad situation all around. Not sure why China doesn't finally reign in its little pit bull, other than they want to keep a dagger pointed at the heart of Japan.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8689810.stm That's Makalu in the background. Was this picture taken from the south col? Also, I bet she has a really hot accent.

Here you go, champ: http://www.king5.com/news/investigators/Investigators-Local-college-pays-for-home-to-sit-empty-and-unused-81992452.html The president of the Evergreen State College in Olympia is getting extra perks that some say are out of touch with today's reality. Since the inception of the college in 1971, each president of Evergreen State has lived in the official residence of the college. It’s a five bedroom, three bathroom home with a view of the water and Mount Rainier. It’s already paid for as well. But for the last five years the home’s been empty; collecting bills and dust. President Dr. Les Purce, who declined to be interviewed for this report, moved into a new home to be closer to a bus line to accommodate a family member with a disability. "The current house simply would not work for the Purce family, so that was the impetus for this move," said Jason Wettstein, Evergreen State College Public Information Officer. Needing bus service is a perfectly legitimate reason to relocate, but the KING 5 Investigators looked into whether the cost should be passed on to taxpayers. A mortgage expert tells us the payment for the president's new house would be roughly $2,500 a month. His housing allowance, authorized by the Board of College Trustees, is $5,000 a month. That adds up to $270,000 and counting in extra housing dollars since the move. Dr. Purce's salary is about $246,000 a year. Students on campus just saw their tuition go up 14 percent and expect another hike soon. "That's crazy to me because if he's getting more than the house is worth, then that's just extra money that he's being given by the taxpayers," said student Jeff Konen. The spending doesn't stop at the president's new doorstep. The old home is racking up expenses. The KING 5 Investigators obtained billing records for the official residence; expenses since the home’s sat empty and unused: $15,000 for utilities, $10,000 for repairs and upgrades, $15,000 to paint and furnish the home to try to sell it, $3,000 in yard maintenance. "Housing affordability and access is constantly an issue for students so it would have been nice for that to go to some affordable housing. Maybe we could rent out that extra house for some students to live in for a while," said student Josephine Jarvis. Expenses for the old house, plus the housing allowance for the new one, has cost taxpayers an estimated $313,000 so far. "You know what they say, $300,000 here, $300,000 there. It begins to add up to real money eventually," said student Alexandre Chateaubriand. Amber Gunn, Director of the Economic Policy Director of the conservative political watch-dog group Evergreen Freedom Foundation, suggested KING 5 look into the story after she ran across a Request for Quotes put out by the college. The request was for companies to bid on cleaning the president’s new home twice a week. "It just shows, (they’re) completely oblivious to what is happening around the rest of the state by the unemployment rate and budget problems,” said Gunn. The cleaning contract is a detailed one which includes: twice a week do the dishes and take out the trash. Once a week wash the floor with wood-friendly soap. Once a month clean window sills and the range hood. That’s an extra $300 a month, not to exceed $778 a month. "The cleaning service is basically a way to keep the house presentable for public events and to clean up after the public events and these public events in a private home are a regular part of the president's job," said Wettstein. Records show nine or so events are held at the home each year. The additional costs come on the backdrop of the state's financial problems: a $2.6-billion deficit. "And yet we see instances like this where we have a public university with a president who can't do his own dishes and take out his own trash and is asking taxpayers to subsidize that. I see that as highly problematic and symptomatic of other things that are happening in government as well where we have waste like this in small amounts and it adds up and it adds to our budget problems as well," said Gunn. According to county records, the assessed value of the old home is $773,000. The school first tried to sell it four years ago when the housing market was hot. It's not clear why there were no takers. It's now on the rental market, offered at $2,000 a month. We checked with Western Washington, Central and Eastern Washington Universities. Each requires the president to live in the official residence as a condition of employment.

Rob, we know where you stand vis a vis Arizona's supposed 'flouting' of federal law, but do you apply this same set of principles to municipalities that have declared themselves 'sanctuary cities' in clear violation of the same?

Windows 7 has made the Mac an even more irrelevant fashion statement.

60%

I'm not sure those Brit soldiers were as unsympathetic as you think. The colonists were pretty split in 1770, with 20% patriot, 20% crown, and 40% who just didn't give a shit. Kinda like today. Frankly, I'm not sure there was a very good case for revolution.

I need the space for when I have the Gores over for dinner. Keep a close eye on Tipper. I hear she's a klepto.

Um, yea. Did I say otherwise?

Not back in the day they weren't. Of course, those Brits were just defending themselves against an angry rebellious mob, eh? Good call.

That was his son, John Quincy Adams. (If, as I assume, you're referring to the Amistad defendants.)

1500 square feet! There ought to be a huge resource depletion surtax on anything over 500^ per person!

How do we know that you're not just trying to find out who among us has WiFi so you can park outside our homes with your laptop and surf free porn?

So, in j_b's world: Republican looters = bad; Democrat looters = wonderful. There is an almost identical scenario in Olympia right now w/ a K$$ vacant rental for the president of TESC. What a dumb shit.

The technology to drill in deep water is not as safe as that for shallow water. Environmental groups don't want these safer oil platforms close to shore and have successfully lobbied/sued to get drilling operations moved to deep water. Now they are upset that an accident has happened due, in part, to the rules they antagonized for. They are, in part, to blame.

I miss this shit:

Yea. I'd like to get into night-sky photography too, but there aren't too many P&S cameras with a bulb feature. An optical viewfinder is a non-negotiable IMO as well. The G11 is a sweet rangefinder, but I'll probably keep using my little 8mp Sony. I missed a lot of good shots when it was raining like shit on the Ptarmigan Traverse last year, so a weather-proof camera would be nice too. A man can only have so many toys...

Where do you stand on the trade off between a nice camera with a decent sized CCD (not talking about mega-pixels) and a pocket-sized one that will actually get used? I'm looking at the Canon G11, but I'm not sure I'll take as many pictures as I do with my little Sony W-somethingarather.

Where's your TR from that JoshK trip?

I'm gonna use that one.

Knowing what you know about Choadaboy, do you believe he is the best (pardon the pun) poster child for this crusade?

Yes; yes; and yes. As a parent, I would have scheduled an appointment with the teacher and tried to determine the degree to which his political ideologies (if any) were being imparted. Basically, is this guy teaching or preaching? If I found him to be preaching, I would remove my child from his class.