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	<title>Comments on: Mallahan concedes mayor&#8217;s race to McGinn</title>
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		<title>By: Fauxnothing</title>
		<link>http://www.myballard.com/2009/11/09/mallahan-concedes-mayors-race-to-mcginn/comment-page-2/#comment-6465</link>
		<dc:creator>Fauxnothing</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I totally agree with your estimation of his complete lack of credentials, but I guess it&#039;s completely outside of my abilities to ever consider him suave, definitely not articulate, and about as charismatic as a chimpanzee. Like you say, it&#039;s all a POV thing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I totally agree with your estimation of his complete lack of credentials, but I guess it&#39;s completely outside of my abilities to ever consider him suave, definitely not articulate, and about as charismatic as a chimpanzee. Like you say, it&#39;s all a POV thing.</p>
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		<title>By: SPG</title>
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		<dc:creator>SPG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Depends on your POV. If you believe that all guvmint is evil, than anyone who can speak to you on your level can be fairly charismatic. Bush&#039;s speechwriters were also very good at slipping in the dog whistle quotes like &quot;wonder working power&quot; where educated secular people shrug and the evangelicals get a boner. &lt;br&gt;Based on the resume, W should never have been elected to any office, yet millions of people thought he was great.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Depends on your POV. If you believe that all guvmint is evil, than anyone who can speak to you on your level can be fairly charismatic. Bush&#39;s speechwriters were also very good at slipping in the dog whistle quotes like &#8220;wonder working power&#8221; where educated secular people shrug and the evangelicals get a boner. <br />Based on the resume, W should never have been elected to any office, yet millions of people thought he was great.</p>
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		<title>By: Fauxnothing</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fauxnothing</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;...suave, articulate, and charismatic figure who harnesses the widespread assumption that anything must be better than what we have today...&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What about GW fits into this description?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;&#8230;suave, articulate, and charismatic figure who harnesses the widespread assumption that anything must be better than what we have today&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>What about GW fits into this description?</p>
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		<title>By: SPG</title>
		<link>http://www.myballard.com/2009/11/09/mallahan-concedes-mayors-race-to-mcginn/comment-page-2/#comment-6462</link>
		<dc:creator>SPG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>uh, we just had one of those for eight years.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>uh, we just had one of those for eight years.</p>
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		<title>By: Ytoo</title>
		<link>http://www.myballard.com/2009/11/09/mallahan-concedes-mayors-race-to-mcginn/comment-page-2/#comment-6457</link>
		<dc:creator>Ytoo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Silly.  I am an observer never a fighter.  I figured out a long time ago to do as I please and what I think is right and what works for me and watch the rest waste their energy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Silly.  I am an observer never a fighter.  I figured out a long time ago to do as I please and what I think is right and what works for me and watch the rest waste their energy.</p>
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		<title>By: Bangoskank</title>
		<link>http://www.myballard.com/2009/11/09/mallahan-concedes-mayors-race-to-mcginn/comment-page-2/#comment-6452</link>
		<dc:creator>Bangoskank</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Will do, oh, while we are suggesting things... have you ever entertained the idea of moving?  It&#039;s always an option.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Peace, love, dope.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Will do, oh, while we are suggesting things&#8230; have you ever entertained the idea of moving?  It&#39;s always an option.  </p>
<p>Peace, love, dope.</p>
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		<title>By: Ytoo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ytoo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh yes Faux.  A favorite quote form a recent blog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;One of the problems with the continual use of fascism as a bogeyman by political extremists is that it becomes far too easy to forget how promising fascism looked in the 1920s and 1930s to many good people disgusted with the failings of their democratic governments. It’s not the “cornpone Hitler” James Howard Kunstler has predicted that we have to fear, much less the imaginary conspiracies that occupy so much space in today’s alternative discourse, but a suave, articulate, and charismatic figure who harnesses the widespread assumption that anything must be better than what we have today, and replaces a dysfunctional democracy with an all too functional tyranny.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Such a figure, it bears remembering, could as easily emerge from the left as from the right. &quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh yes Faux.  A favorite quote form a recent blog.</p>
<p>&#8220;One of the problems with the continual use of fascism as a bogeyman by political extremists is that it becomes far too easy to forget how promising fascism looked in the 1920s and 1930s to many good people disgusted with the failings of their democratic governments. It’s not the “cornpone Hitler” James Howard Kunstler has predicted that we have to fear, much less the imaginary conspiracies that occupy so much space in today’s alternative discourse, but a suave, articulate, and charismatic figure who harnesses the widespread assumption that anything must be better than what we have today, and replaces a dysfunctional democracy with an all too functional tyranny.</p>
<p>Such a figure, it bears remembering, could as easily emerge from the left as from the right. &#8220;</p>
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		<title>By: motorrad</title>
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		<dc:creator>motorrad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That is precious. How gullible do you think we are? Easy to badmouth McGinn but can you say anything substantive about mallahan? I would rather have someone with no experience than someone that is lousy at it. I won&#039;t bother with details as it seems you are a perfect example of where the  the Backfire Effect  kicks in.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That is precious. How gullible do you think we are? Easy to badmouth McGinn but can you say anything substantive about mallahan? I would rather have someone with no experience than someone that is lousy at it. I won&#39;t bother with details as it seems you are a perfect example of where the  the Backfire Effect  kicks in.</p>
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		<title>By: Fauxnothing</title>
		<link>http://www.myballard.com/2009/11/09/mallahan-concedes-mayors-race-to-mcginn/comment-page-1/#comment-6460</link>
		<dc:creator>Fauxnothing</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ll add another one to your list of suggested reading, Ytoo: The Long Descent by John Michael Greer. His blog is amazing, too: &lt;a href=&quot;http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#39;ll add another one to your list of suggested reading, Ytoo: The Long Descent by John Michael Greer. His blog is amazing, too: <a href="http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/</a></p>
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		<title>By: Ytoo</title>
		<link>http://www.myballard.com/2009/11/09/mallahan-concedes-mayors-race-to-mcginn/comment-page-1/#comment-6446</link>
		<dc:creator>Ytoo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sooooo you paid a mil for a house and ride a bike to work.  That makes you what?  A mil poorer and today.... it makes you very wet. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What does any of that have to do with being prejudice?  Stereotypes do exist.  They are very real.  Accepting reality is prejudice?  Hmmmm…..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sooooo you paid a mil for a house and ride a bike to work.  That makes you what?  A mil poorer and today&#8230;. it makes you very wet. </p>
<p>What does any of that have to do with being prejudice?  Stereotypes do exist.  They are very real.  Accepting reality is prejudice?  Hmmmm…..</p>
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		<title>By: motorrad</title>
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		<dc:creator>motorrad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I want to see a cage match between ytoo and Kwame K!</description>
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		<title>By: Kwame Kilpatrick</title>
		<link>http://www.myballard.com/2009/11/09/mallahan-concedes-mayors-race-to-mcginn/comment-page-1/#comment-6445</link>
		<dc:creator>Kwame Kilpatrick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There&#039;s that ugly prejudice again. I know you don&#039;t think you have a bone of prejudice in your body but you do. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For the record my house costs over $1M, paid for in cash and I&#039;m an ex CAT 2/3 bike racer so chances are quite high that I&#039;ve ridden more miles, including commuting miles, then both of you combined. That&#039;s just a guess though - but at least I will say as much.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#39;s that ugly prejudice again. I know you don&#39;t think you have a bone of prejudice in your body but you do. </p>
<p>For the record my house costs over $1M, paid for in cash and I&#39;m an ex CAT 2/3 bike racer so chances are quite high that I&#39;ve ridden more miles, including commuting miles, then both of you combined. That&#39;s just a guess though &#8211; but at least I will say as much.</p>
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		<title>By: Ytoo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ytoo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>“No management experience. No business experience.”  Neither is important.  Government is not business and  cannot be managed.  “No government experience.”  Now that IS important.   Understanding how bureaucracy works is important in a representative.  I lot of time. Energy and money can be wasted trying to fight it.  Instead use it.   That’s what is hurting Obama right now and what was so valuable to Johnson.    Obama needs to study Johnson’s administration closely.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“No management experience. No business experience.”  Neither is important.  Government is not business and  cannot be managed.  “No government experience.”  Now that IS important.   Understanding how bureaucracy works is important in a representative.  I lot of time. Energy and money can be wasted trying to fight it.  Instead use it.   That’s what is hurting Obama right now and what was so valuable to Johnson.    Obama needs to study Johnson’s administration closely.</p>
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		<title>By: Ytoo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ytoo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You‘re exactly right.   The race with anything at stake was the country race and thankfully we avoided the lunatic reporter.  (amazing I think she really thought she was gonna win)  Constantine is a decent bean counter and we need that with the terrible shortfall we face.   The cuts we face this year will be nothing compared to what we see in the future.   The cuts proposed to human services will create a nightmare in neighborhoods.  Think you have a homeless issue now?  Just wait.   Things are gonna get MIGHT tight around old Seattle for awhile.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Both transit and school will suffer over the next few years.  Taxes will go up.   Call it a recession a down turn or a correction whatever.  It’s real and it’s here now.  We will see a major shift in jobs sources and business.  It’s all good though.   Change is life and without it we die away.  Change is here no matter who is elected.  It’s how we adapt to change that matters.   &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Read Return From Nowhere by Kuntsler and The End of Work by Rivkin.   I see a great future.    Poor foolish Seattle will suffer for awhile.  The teabaggers are funny certainly but they hold more power over you than you think.    When we become a fascist state blame the so called elite educated class that Seattle likes to think is it base.   I voted for Obama but he will be a one term president unless he makes some major changes at the midterm elections.    Remember this quote.  &quot;Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.&quot; - Benito Mussolini</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You‘re exactly right.   The race with anything at stake was the country race and thankfully we avoided the lunatic reporter.  (amazing I think she really thought she was gonna win)  Constantine is a decent bean counter and we need that with the terrible shortfall we face.   The cuts we face this year will be nothing compared to what we see in the future.   The cuts proposed to human services will create a nightmare in neighborhoods.  Think you have a homeless issue now?  Just wait.   Things are gonna get MIGHT tight around old Seattle for awhile.  </p>
<p>Both transit and school will suffer over the next few years.  Taxes will go up.   Call it a recession a down turn or a correction whatever.  It’s real and it’s here now.  We will see a major shift in jobs sources and business.  It’s all good though.   Change is life and without it we die away.  Change is here no matter who is elected.  It’s how we adapt to change that matters.   </p>
<p>Read Return From Nowhere by Kuntsler and The End of Work by Rivkin.   I see a great future.    Poor foolish Seattle will suffer for awhile.  The teabaggers are funny certainly but they hold more power over you than you think.    When we become a fascist state blame the so called elite educated class that Seattle likes to think is it base.   I voted for Obama but he will be a one term president unless he makes some major changes at the midterm elections.    Remember this quote.  &#8220;Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.&#8221; &#8211; Benito Mussolini</p>
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		<title>By: SPG</title>
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		<dc:creator>SPG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Aren&#039;t you a bundle of joy. You should remove your reference to Kevin Black as it is incredibly insensitive and offensive, especially since his friends and family read this site.</description>
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		<title>By: SPG</title>
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		<dc:creator>SPG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...and your car is the same one from the Flintstones where you kick your feet underneath to get around?&lt;br&gt;You are so incredibly clueless about life. Why do you care whether he has a regular bike or an electric assist (if he even does since it looked like he was riding a regular bike when I met him) what difference does it make to your life?&lt;br&gt;It&#039;s ridiculous to pin a minor cost on a major savings and declare that it&#039;s invalid because of the minor cost. For example, if a person switched from driving an SUV to work to riding a bike for three days a week do you look at the 60% fuel/traffic savings or do you look at the remaining 40% of fuel/traffic use?&lt;br&gt;This is the same reason that nobody is telling you to sit in the dark, but switch to a compact flourescent bulb to use 90% less electricity. &lt;br&gt;I realize that subtlety and shades are lost on your absolutist worldview, but try to understand that the reality based world exists with more than the extremes of o or 100% of anything.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;and your car is the same one from the Flintstones where you kick your feet underneath to get around?<br />You are so incredibly clueless about life. Why do you care whether he has a regular bike or an electric assist (if he even does since it looked like he was riding a regular bike when I met him) what difference does it make to your life?<br />It&#39;s ridiculous to pin a minor cost on a major savings and declare that it&#39;s invalid because of the minor cost. For example, if a person switched from driving an SUV to work to riding a bike for three days a week do you look at the 60% fuel/traffic savings or do you look at the remaining 40% of fuel/traffic use?<br />This is the same reason that nobody is telling you to sit in the dark, but switch to a compact flourescent bulb to use 90% less electricity. <br />I realize that subtlety and shades are lost on your absolutist worldview, but try to understand that the reality based world exists with more than the extremes of o or 100% of anything.</p>
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		<title>By: stopthebuzz</title>
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		<dc:creator>stopthebuzz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not rich, but at least it&#039;s paid for!</description>
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		<title>By: Ytoo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ytoo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>But they are not really liberal honey.  They just wear fleece.   Laurelhurst  is redder than Kansas.</description>
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		<title>By: SPG</title>
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		<dc:creator>SPG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank Jehovah!</description>
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		<title>By: SPG</title>
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		<dc:creator>SPG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not to get too off topic, but unless you bought at the absolute top of the market, you&#039;re still doing ok in Ballard. This isn&#039;t Las Vegas or Detroit where everything collapsed to below pre-boom prices.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not to get too off topic, but unless you bought at the absolute top of the market, you&#39;re still doing ok in Ballard. This isn&#39;t Las Vegas or Detroit where everything collapsed to below pre-boom prices.</p>
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		<title>By: SPG</title>
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		<dc:creator>SPG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What&#039;s an &quot;off white&quot;?</description>
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		<title>By: SPG</title>
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		<dc:creator>SPG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Malahan changed his position from &quot;the missing what?&quot; to &quot;uh, sounds good&quot; to &quot;we need to study it&quot; to &quot;I can&#039;t comment on pending litigation&quot;. Guess where in that evolution he talked to the Ballard chamber and got some campaign donations. &lt;br&gt;With McGinn in office we&#039;ll have one less roadblock to getting it done.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Malahan changed his position from &#8220;the missing what?&#8221; to &#8220;uh, sounds good&#8221; to &#8220;we need to study it&#8221; to &#8220;I can&#39;t comment on pending litigation&#8221;. Guess where in that evolution he talked to the Ballard chamber and got some campaign donations. <br />With McGinn in office we&#39;ll have one less roadblock to getting it done.</p>
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		<title>By: SeaSpider</title>
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		<dc:creator>SeaSpider</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I voted for McGinn but it was very much a lesser of two evils situation. I know too many people who have worked at T-Mobile in Director and higher positions and have heard too many stories about Mallahan&#039;s combative management &quot;style&quot;. Add to that the fact that T-Mobile is now in a world of hurt and as a VP Mallahan has to be at least partly to blame for that (though most of it falls squarely on the shoulders of Robert Dotson!) Bottom line is I don&#039;t think Mallahan could pull people together and get things done as well as McGinn though I don&#039;t expect much from McGinn either. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For me the two  biggest issues are schools and transit and the reality is the mayor has very little say over either in this town. Transit is largely a county issues and the mayor has little power over the school board. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I really don&#039;t think this election is going to have much of an impact. I don&#039;t see things changing in a major way for the better or worse. Seattle will continue to do some things well and other things with astounding incompetence. Yawn.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I voted for McGinn but it was very much a lesser of two evils situation. I know too many people who have worked at T-Mobile in Director and higher positions and have heard too many stories about Mallahan&#39;s combative management &#8220;style&#8221;. Add to that the fact that T-Mobile is now in a world of hurt and as a VP Mallahan has to be at least partly to blame for that (though most of it falls squarely on the shoulders of Robert Dotson!) Bottom line is I don&#39;t think Mallahan could pull people together and get things done as well as McGinn though I don&#39;t expect much from McGinn either. </p>
<p>For me the two  biggest issues are schools and transit and the reality is the mayor has very little say over either in this town. Transit is largely a county issues and the mayor has little power over the school board. </p>
<p>I really don&#39;t think this election is going to have much of an impact. I don&#39;t see things changing in a major way for the better or worse. Seattle will continue to do some things well and other things with astounding incompetence. Yawn.</p>
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		<title>By: Ytoo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ytoo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Amazing there are still a few Ballardites who think their houses will make them rich  : )</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amazing there are still a few Ballardites who think their houses will make them rich  : )</p>
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		<title>By: Ytoo</title>
		<link>http://www.myballard.com/2009/11/09/mallahan-concedes-mayors-race-to-mcginn/comment-page-1/#comment-6444</link>
		<dc:creator>Ytoo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why do you care what he tells you?  Just live as you have always lived.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;He is an overgrown soft boy.  That type can’t do a thing without others to support them.   Look at how crappy their townhouses look after a few years.   Next time you see one in an auto repair shop watch and laugh.  Ever watched one try to launch a boat?  Heck the one next-door o me is a riot just trying to mow his lawn.   His wife has to fix it when he is gone.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;  Eventually their jobs will move out of state and we can wait it out.  The Pacific Northwest will still be here when they are long gone.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why do you care what he tells you?  Just live as you have always lived.  </p>
<p>He is an overgrown soft boy.  That type can’t do a thing without others to support them.   Look at how crappy their townhouses look after a few years.   Next time you see one in an auto repair shop watch and laugh.  Ever watched one try to launch a boat?  Heck the one next-door o me is a riot just trying to mow his lawn.   His wife has to fix it when he is gone.  </p>
<p>  Eventually their jobs will move out of state and we can wait it out.  The Pacific Northwest will still be here when they are long gone.</p>
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		<title>By: Ytoo</title>
		<link>http://www.myballard.com/2009/11/09/mallahan-concedes-mayors-race-to-mcginn/comment-page-1/#comment-6454</link>
		<dc:creator>Ytoo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Really Seattle has just reelected Nichols.  An overgrown soft boy is quintessential Seattle so that’s what they choose to represent them.  It makes perfect sense and also makes little difference. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I voted for him.  I figured he would be just about as ineffective as Nichols and do little harm.   I loathe the Sierra Club connection but it is better than the business connection of the other guy and really environmentalists are pretty ineffective too when they are Seattle style environmentalists.   They think ‘green ‘ means Whole Foods.  : 0&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The tunnel will happen and create lots of jobs and be better than the Viaduct.    Maybe after all the lawsuits are over the bike trail will get extended but really it will just look good and make no real difference to anyone.   The Lance Armstrong wannabes will still get killed in traffic and folks will wail and lay flowers on the street and keep on living their lives.   More heavy industry will move to Tacoma and take its tax money along with it.  Property taxes will increase in Seattle.  Boeing will move to Charlestown and then to Asia.  Microsoft will move to Texas then to Mexico or India.    Technology will continue to improve and eventually replace nearly every job as we know it now.  All this will happen no matter who is elected and we will adapt.  Ho hum.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Really Seattle has just reelected Nichols.  An overgrown soft boy is quintessential Seattle so that’s what they choose to represent them.  It makes perfect sense and also makes little difference. </p>
<p>I voted for him.  I figured he would be just about as ineffective as Nichols and do little harm.   I loathe the Sierra Club connection but it is better than the business connection of the other guy and really environmentalists are pretty ineffective too when they are Seattle style environmentalists.   They think ‘green ‘ means Whole Foods.  : 0</p>
<p>The tunnel will happen and create lots of jobs and be better than the Viaduct.    Maybe after all the lawsuits are over the bike trail will get extended but really it will just look good and make no real difference to anyone.   The Lance Armstrong wannabes will still get killed in traffic and folks will wail and lay flowers on the street and keep on living their lives.   More heavy industry will move to Tacoma and take its tax money along with it.  Property taxes will increase in Seattle.  Boeing will move to Charlestown and then to Asia.  Microsoft will move to Texas then to Mexico or India.    Technology will continue to improve and eventually replace nearly every job as we know it now.  All this will happen no matter who is elected and we will adapt.  Ho hum.</p>
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		<title>By: Kwame Kilpatrick </title>
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		<dc:creator>Kwame Kilpatrick </dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So again, why does it have to be electric at all? Because the new mayor is too fat to just pedal? Because he&#039;s too lazy? Because he&#039;s a hypocrite? What is the point of loading up a bicycle with lead, plastic, and negative energy consumption, especially if you are an environmentalist? &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You are done. You are also clueless. Enjoy the next 4 years, they are going to suck.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So again, why does it have to be electric at all? Because the new mayor is too fat to just pedal? Because he&#39;s too lazy? Because he&#39;s a hypocrite? What is the point of loading up a bicycle with lead, plastic, and negative energy consumption, especially if you are an environmentalist? </p>
<p>You are done. You are also clueless. Enjoy the next 4 years, they are going to suck.</p>
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		<title>By: Fauxnothing</title>
		<link>http://www.myballard.com/2009/11/09/mallahan-concedes-mayors-race-to-mcginn/comment-page-1/#comment-6441</link>
		<dc:creator>Fauxnothing</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Electric bikes DO require pedaling. Okay, you&#039;re obviously a know-nothing blowhard with nothing useful to say. I&#039;m done.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Electric bikes DO require pedaling. Okay, you&#39;re obviously a know-nothing blowhard with nothing useful to say. I&#39;m done.</p>
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		<title>By: Kwame Kilpatrick </title>
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		<dc:creator>Kwame Kilpatrick </dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If he was really that &quot;big&quot; of an environmentalist he&#039;d be actually peddaling the bike, not charging it up. I get really tired of people like McGinn telling everyone else how to live. It is oppressive and hypocritical. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I believe he&#039;s riding what should be considered an electric moped which makes him even more of a pussy than if he just rode a moped, and that&#039;s saying something.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If he was really that &#8220;big&#8221; of an environmentalist he&#39;d be actually peddaling the bike, not charging it up. I get really tired of people like McGinn telling everyone else how to live. It is oppressive and hypocritical. </p>
<p>I believe he&#39;s riding what should be considered an electric moped which makes him even more of a pussy than if he just rode a moped, and that&#39;s saying something.</p>
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		<title>By: Fauxnothing</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fauxnothing</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And a poing would be kind of a cool thing to have, too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And a poing would be kind of a cool thing to have, too.</p>
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