http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:04:00 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:04:00 Our order of Teese arrived yesterday and we made pizza tonight. It was really good. We made our own crust and Isa's sauce from VWaV, then topped it with red onion, black olives, mushrooms and the Teese.

Here it is before going in the oven:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v180/neilfenris/pizza1... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/506 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:00:14 Source: [b]Seattle Post-Intelligencer[/b]

King County Sheriff's Office investigators have discovered at least six bodies at a rural property near Carnation, apparent victims in a multiple homicide.

Deputies have located the remains of six men and women at the densely wooded lot in the 1800 block... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/503 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:11:26 OLYMPIA -- The state Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Initiative 747, a Tim Eyman property-tax limit, is unconstitutional.

Voters approved the measure in 2001 to cap property tax increases at 1 percent a year.

In a 5-4 ruling, the high court said that while the interests of initiative prop... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/502 Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:00:43 I couldn't believe this news at last. I grew up with her younger brother (mentioned in the story) and this case is the reason I became interested in true crime, specifically cold cases. To say we've all been waiting for this day for a long time is the understatement of the century.

http://seattle... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/501 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:32:25 By KEVIN SITES

Jill Leovy's war isn't thousands of miles away. In fact, without traffic, she can drive from her office to the front lines in about ten minutes.

It's being fought mostly in the tough, minority neighborhoods of Los Angeles County, where three people are killed each day on average... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/500 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:04:53 I love her early books too. She was a devout Episcopalian and for years was the writer-in-residence at Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. Rest in Peace.

Here's the NY Times obit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/08/books/07cnd-lengle.html?ref=arts... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/499 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:31:15 King County Councilwoman Jane Hague has been hit with a new problem that, like her recently revealed drunken driving charge, could be damaging politically as well as financially.

The staff of the state Public Disclosure Commission, in an administrative complaint Friday, accused her of multiple vi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/498 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:33:00 King County Councilwoman Jane Hague faces a drunken driving charge stemming from a June 2 incident near Bellevue, authorities said Tuesday.

Hague, a Republican representing Council District 6 in the Bellevue-Kirkland area, is running for re-election this fall.

Hague, 61, was stopped by a Stat... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/497 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:59:02 A few hundred protesters, with some donned in pirate outfits, rallied Saturday outside Regence BlueShield's headquarters and called on the Seattle-based insurer to reverse course after raising individual rates an average 19 percent last month.

"We are here to demand an end to insurance piracy," s... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/496 Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:23:05 The Alaskan Way Viaduct and 520 bridge are bad enough, but drivers who brave one of the worst spans in Washington state are flirting with disaster.

The steel on downtown Tacoma's Murray Morgan Bridge is so corroded, state engineers want the 1911 drawbridge closed. But the city has balked, arguing... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/495 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:35:46 I try to have some compassion for other people with chronic illnesses. I'm sure she was having a bad day when she said that, but sheesh, Ann, try to have a little compassion for people like us who are really suffering with cancer. It's no walk in the park, trust me.

My type of cancer is generally... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/494 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:26:34 My favorites are "Wild Strawberries" and of course "The Seventh Seal."

I had a wonderful Scandinavian Studies prof at the University of Washington who wrote a couple of books about him. Her name is Birgitta Steene. I think she retired and moved back to Sweden.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/493 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:50:04 Source: [b]KIRO-TV, Seattle[/b]

SEATTLE -- Police have arrested a suspect in the killing of radio host Mike Webb, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News has learned.

Scott White, 28, was previously described as a "person of interest" in the case, KIRO 7 first reported on July 5. Police said he was arrested with... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/492 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:01:03 It's this weekend and if anyone gets a chance to go, you should. It's a great festival. I've been several times. :)

Friday, July 13
7:00 THE STUDENT PRINCE IN OLD HEIDELBERG (1927, Ernst Lubitsch) with Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Philipe de Lacy
Introduc... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/491 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:45:19 As someone who is battling cancer, I am in awe of her energy and enthusiasm. I appreciate her openness about cancer and her treatment and I really enjoyed seeing her on Ted Koppel's special on the Discovery Channel a couple of months ago.

Thank you, Elizabeth. :patriot:... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/490 Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:49:16 Thursday afternoon Seattle police released a bulletin looking for a man police say they believe to be one of the last people to see radio host Mike Webb alive.

Seattle police are considering the man a "person of interest."

Former KIRO radio talk host Webb was found dead in a crawl space of his... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/489 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:06:21 http://www.kirotv.com/news/13591684/detail.html

SEATTLE -- Seattle Police were at the home of missing radio host Mike Webb Thursday afternoon conducting what they call a “death investigation.”

Webb, a former KIRO radio late-night talk show host has been missing for two months, according to his... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/488 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:02:14 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v76/flamingyouth/danzig.jpg... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/486 Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:51:06 The King County Council on Tuesday will select one of Prosecuting Attorney Norm Maleng's top assistants to assume his office on an interim basis, while the county Republican Party submits three nominees to the council for a longer-term successor.

But voters will decide in November who will serve ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/484 Fri, 25 May 2007 19:41:04 http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/20070525/schrammie.jpg
A "Schrammie," the bobble-head doll that television commentator Ken Schram hands out to blundering public officials, won a dubious achievement of its own Friday morning: Forcing the evacuation of 350 state employees.

After a package con... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/483 Fri, 25 May 2007 15:31:12 "The Overlook."

Publishers Weekly
Bestseller Connelly's dazzling 13th Harry Bosch novel (after 2006's Echo Park) reunites Bosch with his former flame, FBI agent Rachel Walling. Bosch must break in a new partner, rookie Iggy Ferras, when they're called to look into the execution of physicist Stan... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/482 Tue, 22 May 2007 16:01:40 http://media.komotv.com/images/070504_broken_soldiers1.jpg
First came reports of shoddy conditions and allegations of second-rate outpatient treatment at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Then complaints of excessive medical red tape at Fort Lewis.

Now, the KOMO 4 Problems Solvers have learned the Pent... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/481 Sat, 05 May 2007 14:42:24 http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2007/05/03/2003691357.jpg
Author Terri Jentz as a teenager. After her college freshman year, Jentz and a friend were brutally attacked in Redmond, Ore., by an ax-wielding man, whom she says has still not paid for his crime.

In the summer of 1977 two young w... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/479 Fri, 04 May 2007 19:20:37 Source: [b]komotv.com[/b]

SEATTLE (AP) - Former U.S. Attorney John McKay's name was on a list of federal prosecutors to be fired in March 2005, 18 months earlier than previously reported and during the height of the controversy over the contested gubernatorial election in Washington, according to a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/478 Thu, 03 May 2007 18:25:56 A street south of the University Bridge collapsed this morning when a large water main broke and sent two cars into a ravine and water gushing from the hole.

Mayor Greg Nickels was on his way to work when he got a phone call about the break, and he went directly to the University Bridge.

He sa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/flamingyouth/472 Wed, 02 May 2007 15:09:51