Happy New Year to all of our cherished readers!
Here are some of my resolutions for 2006 --
* I will try to follow up on even more Sound Politics reader tips.
* We will redesign the web site
* On a few occasions last year I may have inadvertently referred to Mrs. Gregoire 1 as "Gov. Gregoire". I promise not to do that again.
* I will install a three-headed Nautilus II Showerbuddy in my master bathroom.
* I will have some deservedly cruel fun at the expense of those in the Washington State Legislature who this session seek to blow our money, curtail our liberties and erode the integrity of our sacred electoral franchise.
* I will buy a home espresso machine (recommendations welcome).
* Out of respect to the late Pol Pot, I will refrain from comparing him unfavorably to King County Executive Ron Sims.
* I will take my family for a vacation in Italy.
* I will keep up my public records case against King County Elections until the bastards capitulate and release all of the data and documents that the public deserves to have about the 2004 and 2005 elections. Since the trial ended last June, my motivation has been to report on the integrity of the ballot processing and the people in charge of it, with the goal of preventing another 2004-like abomination. Understanding the pitfalls of processing 700,000 mail and provisional ballots is especially important now that they aspire to impose mail ballots on all of us and increase the mail ballot workload by 50% (hint: ballot accounting is still not in compliance with state law and mechanisms for preventing double voting don't work like they're supposed to). Sunlight is the best disinfectant and Dean Logan is still hiding a lot that needs to be disinfected.
* I will work hard to campaign for Dwight Pelz as Washington State Democratic Party Chairman.
* I will lose the pounds I gained last year (I'm the overweight guy with the beard in this photo).
* I will be even more skeptical than I was last year about what I read in the local newspapers.
* I will finish concocting an anagram for "Seattle Post-Intelligencer", which starts with the words "TOILET SEAT" (reader help welcome)
* Now that the Seattle Monorail Project is dead, [un]Sound Transit will find itself in the hot seat.
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1 Of the two candidates for Washington governor in 2004 whose vote totals were within the margin of illegal votes as determined by a trial judge, Mrs. Gregoire is the candidate whom most surveyed state residents believe received the smaller number of legal votes.
I'm sick to death of this kind of crap when it comes from the left, and it's no better from the right.
Posted by: ScottM on January 2, 2006 12:33 PMMaybe:
Toilet Seat Spell Regent Inc.
Posted by: Grog on January 2, 2006 12:41 PMSorry for the double post. Trying to link again...
Posted by: Grog on January 2, 2006 12:45 PMI would have to agree with ScottM. I don't think Sims has done a good job in his position. But he's no Pol Pot or Mugabe. I expect to see this kind of rhetoric from the left leaning blogs, but not here at SP.
Otherwise, cheers and Happy New Year.
-Jeff
But above all, I hope that it continues to expose the truth that is concealed cleverly by the MSM.
Posted by: KS on January 2, 2006 01:35 PMScottM, Jeff B.,
06 is going to be politically tough enough as it is.
Conservatives will need their sense of humor because the liberals are completely out of their minds.
We're not bigoted hide-bound liberals so come on guys, it's a joke (Pol Pot) . . . lighten up.
Yes Happy New Year!
Yes Happy New Year!
REPELLING TOILET SEAT SCENT
:)
others not as good:
toilet seat neglects pilsner
toilet seat penciller gents
selling toilet seat percent
gentler toilet seat pencils
prints toilet seat cell gene
toilet seat stinger cell pen
toilet seat serpent gin cell
TOILETSEAT CELLS REPENTING
GREEN PILL TOILET SEAT SCENT
toilet seat leper cling nest
ten toilet seat lepers cling
TELLING TOILETSEAT PC SNEER
ENTER TOILETSEAT SELLING PC
SPELLING TOILET SEAT CENTER
But you are right "REPELLING TOILET SEAT SCENT" may be the best.
Posted by: Mike P on January 2, 2006 03:17 PMYeah, I don't really think Stefan is comparing Sims to Mugabe, but still, this is the kind of joke I expect from a juvenile blog like HA, and not from SP. And I don't think it's good to give the competition anything they can point to and complain about.
I don't think we would ever see that kind of langauge from PowerLine, Hugh Hewitt, Malkin, etc. and I think that's part of the reason they have gained the credibility they have.
Stefan's investigative work is too important to be lost in a sea of sniping and jokes about Sims.
Toilet Seat Secreting Pen Ill.
or
Toilet Seat Generic Tell Spin
Happy New Year.
Posted by: SouthernRoots on January 2, 2006 03:28 PMYes by all means put the seat down turn on the fan when you are done because liberal you really stink!
Posted by: dcat on January 2, 2006 03:46 PMI don't care for Lame stream media anymore I have had enough listening to the corupted King county elections! I think all the other conservatives have too!
Posted by: dcat on January 2, 2006 04:27 PMIt's only our system of government that is holding him back from complete tyranny.
Posted by: Frank on January 2, 2006 04:30 PMGo see what happened to me with my ballot! I am not making it up either! I have all the proff I need!!! I didn't believe it before that is probably why it happend to me! I refuse to shut up about it too!!!
Funny how much trouble I stired up. Gee I was then randomly chosen for the 5th time to jury duty! Oh yes that made it to my house with no problems at all! Kirkland municipal this time! I will probably talk about it to others too! The more that know about it...oh wait that won't work with liberals though they turn a blind eye and make up excuses about the insident! Or turn the deaf ear on ignor! I guess that is where the word DEFOCRATS came from on the blogs!
Posted by: dcat on January 2, 2006 05:18 PMGeez.
Posted by: ScottM on January 2, 2006 05:59 PMKudos to sunlight and disinfectant.
Posted by: dl on January 2, 2006 06:03 PMPoint taken.
Posted by: Amused by liberals on January 2, 2006 06:20 PM"As a wingnut, I promise to read, sign, and abide by the terms of the following contract:
"I (the undersigned) believe President George W. Bush when he says that the United States of America is fighting a 'new kind of enemy'
that requires 'new thinking' about how to wage war. Therefore, as a loyal citizen of President Bush's United States, my signature below indicates my agreement to the following:
"1. I believe wholeheartedly in the Patriot Act as initially passed by Congress in 2001, as well as the provisions of the Domestic Security
Enhancement Act. Therefore, I grant the FBI access to:
"a. my library records, so it may determine if I am reading material that might designate me an enemy of the nation;
"b. my financial records, including credit reports, so it may determine if I am contributing monetarily to any governmentally proscribed activities or organizations;
"c. my medical records, so it may determine if my prescriptions,injuries, or other conditions are indicative of terrorist activity on my part;
"d. any and all other personal records including, but not limited to, my store purchases, my school records, my web browsing history, and anything else determined as a 'tangible thing' necessary to engage in a secret investigation of me.
"I agree that I do not need to be notified if my records have come under scrutiny by the FBI, and, furthermore, I agree that no warrant is needed for the FBI to engage in this examination of my personal records. Additionally, I agree that the FBI should be allowed to monitor any groups it believes may be linked to what it determines to
be terrorist activity.
"2. I believe that the President of the United States has the power to mitigate or set aside any and all laws passed by the Congress and that
he has such power granted to him by his status as Commander-in-Chief in the Constitution as well as the 2001 Authorization of Military Force, passed by the Congress, which states that the President can use 'all necessary and appropriate force' in prosecution of the war.
Therefore, I grant the United States government the following powers:
"a. that the National Security Agency, under the direction of the President, may tap my phone lines and intercept my e-mail without warrant or FISA oversight;
"b. that the President may hold me or other detainees without access to the legal system for a period of time determined by the President
or his agents;
"c. that the President may authorize physical force against me or other individual detainees in order to gain intelligence and that he
may define whether such physical force may be called 'torture':
"d. that the President may set aside any and all laws he sees as hindering the gathering of intelligence and prevention of terrorist
acts for a period as time determined by the President, including, but not limited to, rights to political protest.
"I agree that the Judicial and Legislative branches should be allowed no oversight of these activities, and that such oversight merely
emboldens the terrorists. I also agree that virtually all of these activities may be conducted in complete secrecy and that revelation of
these activities amounts to treasonous behavior on the part of those who reveal these activities to the press and the citizenry.
"3. Finally, this document is my statement that I believe the President of the United States and the entire executive branch, as well as all departments and agencies involved, as well as all of their personnel, will treat these powers I have granted them with utmost respect. I believe that these powers will not be abused, nor will any
of the information I have given them permission to examine be misinterpreted. However, should such abuse or misinterpretation occur, I agree that such actions are mere errors and no one should be subject to investigation, arrest, or employment action as a result.
"My consent freely given,
"(Your signature)"
with thanks to Comment by Dr. E— at HA
Posted by: My Left Foot on January 2, 2006 09:31 PMHere ya go Katomar-> Click on this and you will see what I think about resolutions!
Posted by: dcat on January 2, 2006 09:32 PMI'm not really into resolutions, but since you are, may I suggest a couple for your list?
1) Refer to Sims Transit only as Sims Transit. If it's really such a great thing, let us hang it about his neck so that he may take all of the glory he so richly deserves.
2) Refer to "Brightwater" by its more appropriate name: the Ronald C. Sims Sewage Treatment Facility And Family Recreation Center. Same rationale.
Posted by: TB on January 2, 2006 09:54 PMI thought this was a republican blog! I see I may be wrong!
Posted by: dcat on January 2, 2006 10:13 PMYour complete disregard for the laws of the lands belies all of your other arguments.
By refusing to refer to our duly elected governor (which, by the way, your buddies tried desparately to overturn but was SLAMMED down with prejudice), you indicate to all that you are not willing to follow the laws of the land or court decisions -- if you don't like them.
That is a scary precedent...but since you have continually laid your self-serving, above-the-law self out for everyone to see we are all better off. It's better to know about the anarchist in our midst than be surprised at an inopportune time.
The only really scary thing is if you have any "facts and laws be damned" followers who love your kool-aid and repeat your lawlessness ad infiinitum.
PS...I'm amazed anyone listens to Rush either -- after his "Drug users should be jailed" crap once he was found to be a drug user.
Posted by: LovinUSA on January 3, 2006 11:15 AMI was unaware that Washington State had be taken over by a fascist cabal who passed a law regulating how private citizens may refer to their elected officials.
Read the First Amendment, you totalitarian-minded creep.
Posted by: ScottM on January 3, 2006 12:19 PMBut that's the only thing that is holding back from being like Castro or Pol Pot.
Liberals aren't merely wrong. They really are Evil.
Posted by: Frank on January 3, 2006 01:27 PMhttp://markhumphrys.com/modern.left.html
Look at who they have supported over the years!
And of course in Washington State Ted Bundy worked for Dan Evans. Ted Bundy was a Mainstream (liberal) Republican.
Posted by: Jeff on January 3, 2006 03:51 PMHence...YOU and Stefan and your buddies are the creeps of which you speak. Unless, of course, you didn't mean it...
Frank: Evil? That means YOU and YOUR ilk are evil since I used the logic that you folks used about Bush. Unless, of course, you didn't mean it...
Posted by: LovinUSA on January 3, 2006 05:49 PMStalin, Castro, you name it, they have all been on your "A-list" at one time or another.
Here is the proof.
http://markhumphrys.com/modern.left.html
So I really don't give a damn what you have to say hatinUSA. Your History speaks for itself. A history of lies, a history of DEATH!
Posted by: Jeff on January 3, 2006 06:12 PM"ScottM - You forget -- the argument I used was EXACTLY the same argument your ilk used when people said George Bush wasn't the president."
Care to cite a source, or are you just lying?
Personally, I don't recall a single person who ever said that the law required people to refer to George W. Bush as "President Bush."
Liar.
I certainly never did, so why you think you've scored a hypocrisy point against me escapes me.
Moron.
Posted by: ScottM on January 3, 2006 06:23 PMI point out your insincere hypocrisy and you:
1) accuse me of hating America
2) being a liar -- though the preponderance of two years of evidence shows I'm not
That's what's wrong with the crazies on the far right....you disagree wiht them, they accuse you of lying and being unpatriotic.
Same things happens with fundamentalists of all stripes. You don't agree with somehting...that person is evil.
You scare many people. Guess that's why Bush has such low ratings...
Posted by: LovinUSA on January 5, 2006 01:15 PM