JayB

"I never said both criminal justice systems are equally flawed. I said both systems of capital punishment ought to be abolished and are morally unjustifiable." If that were really the case, you would have started with this statement and left it at that. So either you are: 1)Lying about your intentions. 2)Completely incapable of translating your thoughts into words in a manner that is consistent with your intentions.

there is nothing wrong with stretch marks alone. pregnancy is cool, so stretch marks are legit there. as are old faded ones from when a girl got thin and hott after being tubby early in life. there is nothing hotter than a chick that used to have some LBs and then lost weight and got really hott. thats just my opinion though Opinion noted. But it reminds me of people who are all, "Oh, fake boobs are so lame" until they find out the reason the woman has them is b/c she had breast disease and then its all, "Oh, that's ok". Same bullshit, different part of a woman's body that gets pointed out, graded, accepted or rejected. And as for that nastyass cottagecheesiness: Most women over 30 or 35just get that. Sure, not to the degree that an obese woman does, but most of us get it from one degree or another. So if you are looking to get laid when you get older by a woman with some life experience, you may want to relax your unrealistic expectations of us. Oh, and if you want women to stop being so hard on themselves, shy with the lights on, and stressing about diet, then you may want to stop judging them for being human. Just my opinion. Seems like having low bodyfat and big muscles is a tougher standard to live up to than simply not putting on excess weight. I also think that men have little or no impact on or responsibility for the way women perceive themselves, or their various body-image related neuroses. On the whole, I'd rank the male contribution to female body-issues right up there with the female contribution to men's propensity for violence (indistinguishable from zero).

If both systems are equally flawed, and he had a son or daugther who had committed adultery - then I'm sure it would be a matter of indifference to him whether the matter was subject to US law and the American justice system or Iranian law and the Iranian justice system. I suspect he's so sincere in these convictions that if someone proposed to settle the question of which laws would apply and where the case would be tried with a coin-flip he'd greet the proposal with cool indifference and a shrug.

Yeah we should teach them our civilized ways. You realize that you are arguing that using means explicitly selected to be both horrifying and excruciatingly painful to execute a woman for having consensual sex with a man outside of marriage is morally equivalent to using methods that were developed to minimize pain and suffering to execute those convicted of committing violent and sadistic murders. "5.March 13, 1985. Texas. Stephen Peter Morin. Lethal Injection. Because of Morin's history of drug abuse, the execution technicians were forced to probe both of Morin's arms and one of his legs with needles for nearly 45 minutes before they found a suitable vein."

I'm guessing that capital punishment in this country would be subject to much more acute consideration, on both sides of the argument, if it were implemented in similarly "hands-on" fashion as in Iran. Instead of the sterile, invisible way it is currently handled. There's also the minor distinctions between the nature of the offense for which she was convicted and the acts which typically bring about the death penalty in this country, and the manner in which the conviction was rendered, that one might also include in the said reflections. With regards to our own system, I can't support the death penalty in practice because it's too easy to convict the wrong man, and it's too expensive to carry out even in those cases in which there is no doubt whatsoever concerning the defendant's guilt. However, I have no problem with the death penalty in principal, or the notion that there are offenses for which the most just punishment is death, and would have no problem whatsoever yanking the lever, flipping the switch, or pulling the trigger in the case of someone like Timothy McVeigh.

You're just bitter because you were too young to get a guided tour of the Asarco plant before it was torn down...

When I moved to Seattle and found myself beyond the random-violence distribution range of Ponders Corner, Parkland, Tillicum, Hilltop, etc it was a very happy day. Colorado Springs was even better. Never even bothered locking my car there.

Nonthreatening, recreational, ornamental, dining-out-at-an-ethnic restaurant diversity is one thing, high-school friend's little brother having a passenger shot to death in the back of his car because he pulled over too quickly for the driver behind him's liking diversity is quite another. I could car less what the people around me look like, eat, etc so long as they obey the law.

Check this footage from the Burke Gilman Trail during rush hour... NwUIntJnBRI

You've just sealed your fate. The Kent Strikeforce will have their vengeance shortly. I think that we can all agree that Spanaway is the only way to go.

Waiting for the indignant members of the "Kent Booster's Association" to chime in with an all-caps rebuttal any second here....

I don't think I've said there's anything wrong with West Seattle, it's just not at the top of the list for places I'd recommend to certain people. I really don't understand why this is so upsetting.

How's the commute? Probably better than driving in from Kent, but looked like a drag in comparison to most other neighborhoods.

What the fuck is your deal with Lake City BITCH You may be a fellow mod, but I should teach you a lesson. Lake City has some good restaurants and a farmers market. Now go back to Boston and your big dig. Lake City Way, for starters...

It's more a question of convenience than proximity. That's a relatively minor consideration next to having to contend with the WSB megacluster and the absence of anything other than relatively lower prices for residential properties to warrant consideration over the other neighborhoods that I mentioned.

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There's nothing particularly wrong with West Seattle, but I'd have a hard time recommending it to a single guy in his thirties who's into the mountains and will have to commute to and fro each day. Married guy with kids who works by modem and has no hobbies outside of family life and/or those that require leaving the yard - perfection.

Maybe you should move in with Layton. I'd avoid: Ranier Valley, First Hill, White Center, Anything South of SCCC on Capitol Hill Anything north of Greenwood Lake City Anything within 1/4 mile of Northgate Mall. West Seattle if you are single and/or don't care for having your access to the rest of the universe constrained by a single cluster-prone stretch of highway. Or, if you happen to know anyone that has worked at the Harborview ER, simply ask them where they get the majority of their admissions for stabbings, shootings, beatings, and OD's and avoid those areas, which will probably mirror those that I listed above. I'd consider Ravenna GreenLake Phinney Ballard Freemont Greenwood Possibly Wallingford The parts of Capitol Hill north of SCCC If you are into downtown apartments/condos and don't mind either not having a car or paying a ton for parking, and don't mind paying quite a bit for a small space, then perhaps Belltown. Of all of these Ravenna/Greenlake/Ballard/Phinney and Capitol Hill probably offer the easiest access to downtown via car, bike, and all except Ballard offer easy access to highways. Car break ins, drug-deals, urination on doorsteps, needles in gutters/flower-beds, etc diminish in direct proportion to the distance from Broadway and Aurora avenues if you are considering either the R/G/B/P area or Capitol Hill.

"Tempest in a molehill." "Making a mountain out of a teapot."

"The cows are coming home to roost." "The chicken's already out of the barn."

"No use crying over spilled water." "That's milk under the bridge." "Sharp as an ice cube." "He could sell razor-blades to an eskimo."

Examples: Tip of the Mineshaft... The canary in the iceberg... A couple more courtesy of the Big Lebowski: "Pope shit in the woods?" "She's gotta feed the monkey, man."

There was an interesting article in the NYT the other day about various models that weren't instantly identifiable as hybrids weren't actually selling all that well - such as the now discontinued Camry hybrid. Says quite a bit about the relative importance of which motives hybrid buyers claim to be acting upon, and those that they are actually acting upon. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/business/04hybrid.html?em&ex=1183694400&en=79e79252e593d8e7&ei=5087%0A

One thing I'm kind of surprised that no one has mentioned yet is the intensely "regressive" effect of higher energy prices on those with lower incomes. The more you make, the less you spend on a percentage-income basis on things like food and energy, and vice-versa.

Is that you in the photo, Eric?