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if by oldschool you mean posting pictures of fat-assed transvestites or of hepatitis-infected plastic surgery victims, please don't. Those pics actually make me nauseous.

agreed - lame - but the quote/counter-quote/counter-counter-quote jerk-off cycles all ya'll tend towards are warning signs enough of Deep Mental Instablity The work involved. I don't get it, either. Addictions should be easier than that.

Not bad, not bad. Bit a the old Pinkie's back....

Does anyone here, other than SummitChaser of course, still believe that: A) Global warming is not happening B) The invasion of Iraq was a good idea C) Gay marriage should not be legal ?

Is he a corporate weasel? What does he do for a living, anyway?

I've flipped many a kitty in my day. They always land on their feet.

Yeah, probably that the citizens of Seattle don't want to get ripped off by the likes of the Carlyle Group to the tune of a few billion dollars! But hey, when isn't it a good time to take a backhanded stab at longshoremen, you P.O.S.? I think the nation would be money ahead by offering every longshoreman in the country an immediate retirement at 100% of salary for life, and making up the difference and then some through increases in automation and efficiency - but that's really neither here nor there. For reasons that are unclear to me, the public has seen fit to allow them a degree of control over port operations that would start riots if it was brandished by the likes of Walmart - but that's not likely to change soon, and anyone running the ports will get stuck dealing with them and transfer the costs of doing so onto port clients, and by extension, the public. West coast ports are already highly automated (that happens to be my nephew's job). It sucks that longshoremen haven't yet checked their balls at the door regarding protecting their living wage. Hopefully, though, all of the American workforce will someday be emasculated per JayB's specifications. I invite you to give a talk to them down at the port JayB. I'm sure your reception would be warm, to say the least.

Highest bidder? I think you mean lowest. We only turn vital services over to whoever is the cheapest. According to Comrade Prole, the interstate highway system is useless anyways. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess picking up on sarcasm was never your strong suit? The dude is so nutty, you never know. Libtards on this forum have bitched about the Interstate Highway System before, BTW, and there was no doubt they were not utilizing "sarcasm". you can just say 'use' rather than 'utilize'. pet peeve

Back in the real world... ...who's going to buy the port, JayB? No one? (most likely correct) Guess we'll have to close it. Would that cost the state more than 70 M? Yup.

LULZ - I think this was its altitude record.... [video:youtube]

Ahh, good ol' Jeff Bozos, proving you don't have to be even mildly intelligent to get incredibly rich. The same dumbass that was spamming constantly how the segway scooter was going to change the course of human history and have "cities redesigned around it." Then there is Steve B, who has done a great job proving that Microsoft without BillG isn't exactly the same as the Microsoft that made lots of us good money. Have you seen Bezos' X Prize losing rocket? LOL

right back at you. Oh, did I direct that at you, or are you just Bill's lap dog? hawt moron on moron action

The B&O tax is a real hardship for lot of new and struggling small businesses. Having a few fat cats pay this instead would do much to increase employment in WA.

We ran into a route like that near Aspiring in NZ. We looked up, looked at each other, then my buddy asked "Anybody wanna climb this?" We spent the rest of the day in the hut sipping whiskey.

the problem with any ideological silver bullet, like the Kochsmoker's Free Market mantra, is that, free market or no, if the joint is run by dumbshits, the results will be less than stellar. "But, but...government can't innovate!" To which I answer: JPL, the Manhattan Project, Apollo, and the AMC Pacer. Let's see, which one was private.... You put morons in charge of anything and they'll fuck it up, regardless of the 'ism' they're in charge of. The Kochsucker Party self selects for stupidity, so, regardless of what they're put in charge of, if anything, ever, the results will predictably suck. Ideology is a poor substitute for smarts, experience, in depth knowledge, and judgement. That's why the best that party can come up with is a couple of lazy, know-nothing cunts with spending issues.

Well, bruthah, hope to see at the party this year. Don't know when it is though. I'd love to meet you and your old man closer up than through Josh's long lens.

The last thing you'd want is to fall asleep on your way home and wake up right back where you came from.

Yes, it would be SO much better to have a bunch of cops that don't even want the job. You mean like Internet Tough Guys? especially ones with 30,000 post Hey, its tough to get that many. Trust me, I'm tryin' (apparently).

Trust me, you don't want to climb anything steep on Booker. Its the walk up from Buckner Basin.

Very true, yet more reason why it's a perfectly valid government service for our state. Thanks for getting my back on this one kk. One word: Tourism. You may as well ask a planarian to design a starship as ask a Kochsucker to grok anything from a systems perspective.

Yeah, totally busted. Book 'im, Dano.

We'll take you to the hospital, but we'll have to dump you in the parking lot...

Funny, you lecture reading comprehension but then turn around fail yourself. I never said they generated 2.2B with written tickets, just that they were "digging the state out of a 2.2b deficit with written tickets". It emphasizes the revenue generating potential of large departments that the state would call on the department in such a manner. Obviously its a single example (which you seam to like) but still the norm in states like OR and WA. Being a bidness numbers kinda guy, I don't usually call a sub 2% number 'digging out'; I call that 'noise'. That's more like 'tea spooning out'. Or 'tea bagging out', perhaps.

and drivers licenses.

And denying them SS and unemployment benefits.