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Pressured to Name Leader, Occupy Denver Elects Dog Denver Mayor Michael Hancock insisted that his city's occupation name a leader in order "to deal with City and State officials." And he got his wish! Occupy Denver has elected Shelby, a border collie, as its leader. Long live Shelby! Shelby, on whose noble visage you can gaze here, was elected in a "landslide vote" on Sunday night. One of Occupy Denver's organizers, Al Nesby, was inspired to nominate Shelby to the position after the director Michael Moore showed up one day and rubbed him the wrong way by refusing to follow general assembly rules; with Shelby, who's three and a half, the occupation should have no such problems. Her bodyguard and closest confidante is a filmmaker named Peter John Jentsch

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Another class act. from the Blog: Using software!!

And that minor group the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - minor group that oversees commercial ocean fisheries, endangered species, weather and climate research and forecasting. Jeesh, what a waste. I can't think of a greater pack of idiots up for the GOP primary in recent memory.

Not a big fan of recalls, but in this case he tried to play bully and deserves the boot. Also, good news in Ohio: MADISON, Wis. — The resounding rejection of an anti-union law by Ohio voters provides a huge boost for Democrats and union officials preparing for their next major battle -- the attempted recall of Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker -- but their prospects could be clouded by the differences between the two Midwestern states and their election laws. After the nearly 2-1 defeat of the Ohio law, union opponents of Walker are finalizing plans to gather the more than 540,000 signatures needed to put his recall on the ballot next year. The petition drive is expected to start next week.

Back to orginal topic: One thing I noticed distinctly missing from the 1183 discussion was what would have happened if it did not pass regarding SB 5942 - which was already pass by Olympia back in April. It would sell liquor distribution and warehousing to the highest bidder - basically a one time revenue boost (WA would maintain control -whatever that means), while 1183 provides a long-term revenue source. So the default would lose us a pile of future revenue for a short-term, temporary boost.

No. Actually he takes the media to task - didn't say anything about liberals.

Meanwhile... Washington (CNN) -- GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain faced a new claim of sexually inappropriate behavior Monday as a Chicago woman told reporters the former head of the National Restaurant Association groped her after a dinner together in 1997. Sharon Bialek, who worked at the restaurant group's education foundation until shortly before the alleged groping incident, said Cain unexpectedly put his hand on her leg beneath her skirt "toward my genitals." She also said he pushed her head toward his crotch.

Hook, line, and sinker.

Hey, it was my only way into the Mile High Club. Whatever happened to our agreement/settlement? Good luck - I'll try and tune in.

I'm going to call in and ask about that airplane lavatory/gerbil incident you were involved with. Privacy indeed!

I'm all for realigning such roads were they can be done so reasonably. In these cases I believe there are decent options. Somewhat related - there has been a constant drop in use of trails by folks, maybe everyone is getting more enamored with their electronic toys. And taking a ride up the old Stehekin road allowed folks not otherwise inclined to see the beauty of the NCs. Yea, maybe they were a bit portly and that's why they were taking a ride - or maybe they were phyched to take their kids into the wilderness for a couple of nights. That's how you build future advocates for our parks and their budgets.

Connelly leaves out a few key facts in the discussion of both the Suiattle and Stehekin Roads, maybe he was just trying to simplify the discussion to meet column space limitations. I don't know. Having worked on the natural resource issues for both - here is what I came across. The Suiattle road is not in a good place, that combined with long term land use (timber) has caused a more dynamic patter of erosion and aggradation. FEMA provided some funds for the project as did the county. But - because FEMA was recently sued regarding their affects on floodplains/ESA listed fish, there is much more scrunity regarding puting roads and facilities back where they are susceptible to repeat damage (read - floodplains)which doesn't make sense regarding policy or budget. So moving the road requires a USFS permit/environmental clearance - which also opens up a more robust public process. So it's more than throwing a bunch of rip-rap in the river, adding fill, and resurfacing. If access is going to be continued, then it's is a new road alignment. For the Stehekin it's even messier. That road also is susceptible to multiple flood events, and is likely to get worse give the flahiness of NC rivers - due to global warming and effects on lower elevation snow pack (See the UW Climate Group papers). Plus - the favored new alignment is decent, but it is in the designaged Wilderness! So to get a road there they will have to either 1) pull that sliver out of the Wilderness designation, or 2) get an exception. Good luck getting Congress to act on either.

Given I live in WA and we still have the Electoral College, you are correct.

Are you serious? He has a 43% approval rating, we have 9% unemployment and most importantly, the election is still a year out. Yea, and given that, plus the early game stage, we still have this, not the make-believe thing you posted. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/president_obama_vs_republican_candidates.html I'll take a bet on Obama now, no problem. Though last time I did this and won PP welched on me.

Unless OBL shows up alive and living in Camden NJ, this show is a dunk fest for Obama.

Given the vulnerability of Obama and the state of the economy, how come the GOP can't find someone intelligent to run. Oh, I guess they did but Huntsman didn't pass the wacko litmus test. Or maybe it's a GOP scheme to keep Obama in the White House 'cause they figure he's doing a pretty good job upholding their platform anyway.

We're definantely in an energy pickle these days, with the knuckle draggers keeping us from considering alternatives. Really, we need a new energy policy. The one item I would agree with the free-market folks about is that subsidies are an inefficient way to produce desireable outcomes. It would be more market efficient to do what other countries do - tax carbon, or at least petroleum fuels, to make alternatives more competitive. But the arument about not providing subsidies to alternative energy kinda falls flat give all the tax breaks that are given to oil and gas companies and the very cheap access to leases on federal terrestrial and aquatic lands. As usual, we'll do the right thing after exhausting all the alternatives and a crisis is upon us.

I wish you well Dane, hang it there. I've thanked you before for your informative postings and patience with my, and other's, less informed questions. And big thanks for the education lesson. Anyone with kids should be prompted into a vaccine discssion with their family physician. Raising one for you and hope to meet you in person on some ice flow soon.

I'm worried. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/10/23/magazine/mag-23-wtwt.html?ref=magazine

Another one bites the dust. http://www.americanrivers.org/our-work/restoring-rivers/dams/year-of-the-river.html

I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.

What about "I am a yam" ?

regardless, "i am" is just 3 characters, and thus shorter - "stop" and "ouch" are longer. now what's the judge's ruling on "no?" related query: what is the shortest bible verse? My boss keeps saying irregardless - drives me crazy! And "Jesus wept" - also cited in the Turkish post-slaughter scene in Lawrence of Arabia

Trip: Rainier - Muir Date: 10/15/2011 Trip Report: Took advantage of the weather window and tromped up to Muir with about 20 of my friends, mostly skiers. I thought my time of 3:20 wasn't bad for geezer speed until a couple, chatting away came by me on that last 500 feet - man that seems to take forever. I was tempted to show them my subscription card to Modern Maturity to ease my pride, but they went by too fast. Having made the mistake of dawdling too long at Muir only to be greeted by 1K ft of refrozen snow, I didn't stay long and had quite a nice ski down to P Point. I put the skis on the pack there but a couple other folks milked it a bit more by taking on and off the skis. There was not a wisp of wind all the way up and it was a great ski. Variable packed powder and a melted thing crust made for some good turns - and for my 1st TAY. I was greeted by a group of Japanese tourists on the paved path, about 100m from the parking lot - "Is this the way to Mt. Rainier?" - Ah, yes, just past those trees it will come into view. "How long does it take to get to the mountain?" --- Well, technically, you are on it now - and about an hour to get to those snow slopes you can see - but I wouldn't suggest that as your nice shoes will get pretty wet. So I suggested a short hike on Skyline for a glacier view. Gear Notes: good skinning from just above Pan Point Approach Notes: Pebble Creek -