Chicago is known as The City of Big Shoulders and The City that Works.
New York is The City that Never Sleeps and The Capital of the World.
San Francisco is The City that Knows How.
I haven't heard an analogous nickname for Seattle. Although yesterday's Seattle Times article about Greg Nickels' clue-free quest to replace the Viaduct with a multi-billion tunnel suggests a suitable nickname: "The City That Is Not Living In The World As It Exists"
That name would fit for a variety of reasons.
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**Other People's Money.
"Seattle- Leave Your Rights at the Border City"
"Seattle- Choke The Red State Blue"
"Seattle- Home of The King County"
"Seattle- We'll Vote For You County"
"Seattle- Bring your money, leave your votes to us city"
"Seattle- We got Marxist Lennon and your rights"
Posted by: Son of Liberty on June 27, 2005 11:58 AMUp is down and down is up, huh? Do you know that the sky is blue, or is it the asphalt that you stare up at each day?
Conservatives are to blame, and liberals are kept around as scapegoats? Would you care to offer some examples?
When I look around, I see the fingerprints of Gary Locke, Christine Gregoire, Ron Sims, Dean Logan, Patty Murray, Maria Cantwell, and Jim McDermott all over the f-d up politics in this city. Pray tell, what incompentant powerful conservatives are controlling the strings of these puppet liberals? Or could it be that there really are none, and it's the liberals that are completely incompetant and clueless??
Posted by: Larry on June 27, 2005 12:10 PM"If anything, conservatives are more to blame because it's the money and power politics that have brought Seattle down to the status of a tenement dump surrounding a Potemkin Village Convention Center tourist trap. Liberals are kept around as scapegoats for the incompetence and corruption of powerful conservatives."
Artie, who are these powerful Seattle conservatives who have managed to take full control of Seattle, bringing it to its current state of Monorail/Sound Transit insanity and Ron Sims-styled incompetence, all the while making it APPEAR as if liberals are actually holding a majority in elected office?
I wonder if Headless is dating Artie? That sucking noise is the brains of Arie and pals going out to sea.
I can't believe you Artie, are you that dumb? Are you that liberal? Look at what you wrote, read it carefully.
Posted by: Local Dude on June 27, 2005 12:56 PMAfter all many cities already have the requisite statue of Lenin?
Posted by: JCM on June 27, 2005 01:03 PMFear the conservatives who've ruined Seattle!!
booga, booga
Posted by: jimg on June 27, 2005 01:10 PMhttp://www.reason.com/0503/bagge.shtml
"The Boondoggliest Town Arround!"
Posted by: amber on June 27, 2005 01:20 PMSeattle: A parking ticket around every corner!
Seattle: Driving the entire state of Washington! (into the ground)
Seattle: We support our troops! Unless they come to any of our schools, fight terrorists, or defend freedom!
I'm surprised that the intellect and sophistication of liberals could be manipulated so easily by such ignorant buffoons. Maybe the great intellect is a myth? or, perhaps, is it just the fairy tales the libs spin that would make anyone say something so poignant?
Posted by: fred on June 27, 2005 01:35 PMSeattle: You'll get your good home training!
Posted by: Joe on June 27, 2005 02:16 PMI have to say that your post may have been the funniest I have ever seen posted here! You had to be joking, right?
The Tunnel of Luv City
This thing is Nickel's Tunnel of Love. He wants something that will be a testament to his largesse. And, since he seems to be growing by the day (at least is wasteline), we are talking about a lot of largesse.
Posted by: BananaLand(aka Iguana) on June 27, 2005 02:58 PMThere aint gonna be no federal dollars to pay for Nickels' Tunnel of Love.
Posted by: BananaLand(aka Iguana) on June 27, 2005 02:59 PMTrue, Seattle does reject Republicans...look what that has accomplished!
Posted by: Mark D on June 27, 2005 03:13 PMno wonder we keep losing.
Posted by: exile on June 27, 2005 03:35 PMGood one!
Posted by: BananaLand(aka Iguana) on June 27, 2005 05:05 PMHey! Good one Headlice!
(Only you misspelled "offends" ;'}
Posted by: alphabet soup on June 27, 2005 07:17 PMI'm certain that liberal legislators and agency heads are equally incompetent in these fields, but their motives are sound - mass transit and sensible development patterns are essential. But, even if their motives for failure were graft and their paychecks, how could they call themselves liberal?
I see plenty of incompetence, but failure of mass transit designs, (and we must include development), is most likely the result of those interests who derive their income from automobile sales, financing, insuring, fueling, maintaining, advertizing, and building roads and parking garages to support cars. In short, the most powerful interests.
The top of my list is Boeing. You'd think the engineers there must have some clue why Seattle transportation planning always fails, but they never speak up. Also, their Tukwila headquarters (and many thousands of other Tukwilans) could have been served with Link LRT, but I suspect Boeing nixed Link service, just as they nixed building a more useful Sounder/Amtrak station: Boeing doesn't want to mix with the commonfolk.
Posted by: Artie on June 27, 2005 08:32 PMSeattle - The Tiananmen Square of the west!
Seattle - Home of the Progressive oppression.
Posted by: Deborah on June 27, 2005 08:46 PMIs he saying the used car salesmen are to blame?
Or is the guy taking your parking money?
Could he mean the DOT when he says Road Builders?
I am befuddled
Seattle - European Union outpost of the Pacific NW.
Seattle - The Red Square at UW is Tiananmen Square of the west.
Seattle - Once the center of commerce of the Pacific NW has become the center of transportation boondoogles and legitimized voter fraud for the region/ranked among the top in the this once great country.
Posted by: KS on June 27, 2005 09:21 PMSeattle - "Consider your bank account...raped"
Seattle slogan: "With a County that's King, and a fraud who is queen, it has to be Seattle."
Seattle - "Home of the Royal Flush. King County and Queen Khriztine."
Posted by: Sailor Republica on June 27, 2005 09:29 PM
I never went to UW, nor any other high-filutin, smarter-than-you smug fests for wimp pricks, strutting jocks and debutantes. Just like high school, college is a social integration ritual judged by the high priests of genetic order.
Posted by: Artie on June 27, 2005 10:34 PM
One great thing about college is, a degree, so I can start my own business and hire and fire the likes of you.
Hey, that date ever show up? You ever stop picking your butt? Artie... I know you..
Posted by: Real Men on June 28, 2005 07:12 AMBUT you blamed Conservatives. And then you pointed to the GOP as being the party of business. While those two constituencies overlap, they are not one in the same.
Blame big business for much of the mess. I agree. Boeing complains about the business climate, packs up their toys and moves to Chicago - but it was this very same Boeing who contributed greatly - through Olympia - to the lousy business climate they complain about.
There's a lot of blame to go around for a city which USED to be a great city and worth a visit once in awhile, but conservatives are at the bottom of that list.
In my opinion, the tech boom changed (ruined) Seattle more than anything since the Gold Rush, and the area is worse off for it. And judging by the politicians and causes many of those instant millionaires support, I'd pin that blame on liberals.
Posted by: jimg on June 28, 2005 09:00 AMTruly, I love the area; however, the sensible, efficient and honest governance of the same leaves MUCH to be desired; why is that? the natural order? roses have thorns, lobsters have pincers?
Posted by: Jimmie-howya-doin on June 28, 2005 09:54 AMSeattle: Pride of the Chigago Daly's!
Seattle: Corruption is KING of the county.
Seattle: Formerly a great city.
Posted by: Cheryl on June 28, 2005 10:25 AM"I never went to UW, nor any other high-filutin, smarter-than-you smug fests for wimp pricks, strutting jocks and debutantes. Just like high school, college is a social integration ritual judged by the high priests of genetic order."
If you have never been how would you know this to be true? or is this just a bigot talking with wild generalizations? Besides the libs are the ones that are supposedly so enlightened and educated that they feel they should be the rulling class.
Maybe if you did get some formal education your vocabluary would progress beyond the gutter.
Posted by: fred on June 28, 2005 10:28 AMHe called Seattle "85 scenic square miles surrounded by reality."
Posted by: JJB on June 28, 2005 11:15 AMNot so in the Frank L. Baum novel the movie was based off of. In the book, each citizen, as well as Dorothy and her companions, upon entering the city had green goggles placed on them, whether they liked it or not. Not sure, but Toto might even have had a pair.
Those goggles/glasses were secured by a lock keyed by the guards, who wore goggles themselves. None were allowed to ever take off the goggles inside the city for their 'safety'. Only after Dorothy and Toto exposed 'the great Oz' was there 'reforms' to allow the populace to 'safely survive' without the 'protective' green glasses.
The irony of the sitution has bugged me for some time, and I'm suprised that nobody has seemed to comment much on it. The fact that the kids aren't asking these questions as well is a testament to the degeneration of the educational system and abject lack of analytical reason and enthusiasm brought on by the de-education of apathy.
Posted by: mogura on June 28, 2005 12:14 PMIMO, the Dotcom crash was inevitable because of its transportation element; gaining global market access, dotcoms required a massive increase in transportation infrastructure, (trucking, shipping, roads, ports, fuel). Most say Dotcom marketing competed unduly with traditional markets, and disrupted tax mechanisms.
Educated liberal inventors, engineers and innovators may have had the greater part in building computers and organizing the internet, but it was reckless, free market capitalists that pushed beyond sensible limits.
Still, through the years of growth in the computer and electronics fields, Seattle sprawled, as have all US metropolises, while plans for transportation infrastructure were futile road expansion or insufficient, half-baked mass transit.
No, the onus is still on transportation-related special interests: Big Business, Halliburton, Boeing, GM, Globalization, George Bush's base and thee ruling class.
Hey Peggy! Here's one for ya: Remember when George Bush was overturning furniture in the White House pretending to be looking for WMDs? Well, he really was looking for WMDs. He was looking for his stock portfolio.
Leftist Communist Scum are to blame.
Liberals do not exist.
Artie is a moron.
Posted by: Sailor Republica on June 28, 2005 02:40 PMI could do this for awhile. Thanks for the opportunity to vent.
Seattle is...
“The City of Empty Pockets”
“The City that Wants to be Everything, but Can’t Afford to be Anything”
“City Headed for a Federal Bailout”
“La La Liberal Land”
“Land of Tolerance, as We Define It”
“Mecca for the Brainwashed and the Unwashed”
HAH! The jokes on you pal.
We ARE staying home in droves.
We are staying home and not spending usury gas taxes on trips to Seattle.
We are staying home not paying parking in Seattle.
We are staying home not spending money buying goods in Seattle.
We are staying home not spending money supporting Seattle athletic venues.
We are staying home not spending money supporting Seattle theatrical venues.
We are staying home not spending money supporting Seattle restaurants, bars, clubs, attractions, museums and hotels.
We are staying home making damned sure Seattle is not on the receiving end of one extra penny of sales tax revenue.
You arrogant city folks better get your liberal heinies out into the market place and spend, spend, spend to make up for the tax dollars we "little town" folks refuse to grant you anylonger. It will be an interesting study to see how soon the major and lib lackey's trot out a new VISIT SEATTLE campaign.
In the meantime the shopping, restaurants, hotels, attractions are GREAT in Portland and up in BC!
Posted by: Cheryl on June 28, 2005 10:43 PMI think I'd rather spend time with the people in Mayberry than the people on Capitol Hill, for example.
Posted by: Beth on June 29, 2005 02:53 PMOur city council is da best.
We cater to any clown's behest.
Just scream a lot and we will listen.
The taxpayer purse we enjoy a-pizzin.