July 14, 2005
Sound the alarm

The P-I reports that "New downtown sirens will warn Seattleites of pending disasters".

I guess they'll be blaring on July 29, the filing deadline for the 2005 election, when it's clear that no credible candidates have stepped forward to challenge the fiscally incontinent Mayor Greg Nickels.

So far, the best of the fringe candidates running against Nickels is Richard Lee, host of the public access cable TV show "Kurt Cobain Was Murdered". I met Lee earlier this week when he was out at Green Lake gathering signatures for his filing petition. I asked him what he thought about the Monorail. He said it cost too much money and should be killed. That alone makes him more qualified to be mayor than the unswervingly pro-Monorail Greg Nickels.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at July 14, 2005 07:38 PM | Email This
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1. Actually, this could prove useful.
When the Islamo-fascists detonates dirty nuke in Belltown, whoever survives can use them as a sort of high tech replacement for the old "Bring out your dead" bellringer...

Posted by: alphabet soup on July 14, 2005 08:43 PM
2. Say---didn't they blare that disaster siren the day Mrs. Gregoire was sworn in as Gov?

Posted by: Michele on July 14, 2005 09:52 PM
3. Disaster sirens...will we hear them on election day? In honor of King County's disastrous inability to track voters, count ballots, or fill out legal documentation.

Posted by: dl on July 14, 2005 10:39 PM
4. The first should go in Ron Sim's Office, it would be ringing every day as everything that man does is a disaster.

Wonder if he is still tooling around town in a Limo while he tells us all we should be riding on mass transit?

Posted by: Gs on July 14, 2005 11:19 PM
5. Hmmm....
Emergency clauses and disaster sirens.....? And these are the groups who fear the Patriot Act?

Oh..wait a minute...it was the Democrats who first introduced the Patriot act ......(the 1996 Antiterrorism act)...hmmm.. I wonder why they try to blame the Bush admin for it?

Just like a liberal. - Make it easy for terrorists to walk into your city - take away the cops ability to question them...then spend tax payer money on sirens to warn us (too late) that the terrorists have done something....Lovely.

Posted by: Deborah on July 15, 2005 12:20 AM
6. Stefan,

You should run. There's probably enough recognition of your name now that if you put together a decent campaign, you could win!

Posted by: Jeff B. on July 15, 2005 12:42 AM
7. They should have to sound these alarms if they declare an "emergency"...if its enuf of an emergency to pass some special bill, then its enough to alert the citizens. Imagine the commies in Fremont being woken from their drug induced naps...

Posted by: righton on July 15, 2005 06:21 AM
8. Stefan has my two votes and I don't live in Seattle.

Posted by: swatter on July 15, 2005 07:31 AM
9. Some thoughts: Hamtramick, MI brodcasting a particular religion's calls to prayer; and the ROTC guy in the Animal House (movie) yelling "Remain Calm!" I feel so much safer. How about Ron Sims yelling "Run like hell!!" when we are attacked? Maybe these speakers are for the retraining camp brodacasts for diversity issues and the liberal party line--like noise torture alleged by the liberals in Gitmo. It will be aimed at conservatives.

Posted by: Jimmie-howya-doin on July 15, 2005 09:52 AM
10. ok-ok--I'll buy it---as long as they don't continuously blast "It's a Small World After All!"

Posted by: Jimmie-howya-doin on July 15, 2005 10:29 AM
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