Washington state thread for slugs, thugs, and metro pugs

I started a WA state thread purely for the purpose of this article.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420ap_wa_sex_emporium.html

Developer suggests sex emporium for Olympia
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A developer says if he can't build a new grocery store in Olympia he'll build a sex emporium on the site.

The Centralia businessman, Levi Bussanich, says he's been working with city planners for more than a year, trying to build a store that would be operated by WinCo Foods. He says he's frustrated he hasn't been able to get a wetland buffer reduction.

He already operates an adult video store next to the site and says the emporium would be an expansion.

The Olympian reports the sex emporium could include strippers, a fetish and bondage area, an adult motel and a drive-up window for customers.

Bussanich will meet next Wednesday with city planners.

Levi is of course a genius. If there is a way to get anything you want, it's "sexporium"

haha, welcome Olympia WinCo!

Lawyers being yellin and cussin at Dino's deposition

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/governorsrace/2008329127_rossitestimony30m.html

So much for the smiling face of the Prefers Smiling Face Party candidate.

So anyway, since this would come up anyway.

In no way do I think Gregoire is an outstanding governor, but I think she's far better than Rossi would be. She's been really good on social/liberty issues, and she's a bit underrated in disaster management i.e. Centralia/Chehalis cleanup. She was already better than Locke, which really isn't saying that much to be honest. The problem is: Gregoire is just the WORST campaigner ever. She can run a million ads, but all of her ads suck badly. Rossi was such an easy target this year, and yet Gregoire allowed him to become a difficult target again. WHY?

Even some deployed analysis trucks at the viaduct would have been enough to swing Seattle heavily toward her, since that seems to be the main beef with Seattle Rossi supporters... it's not that she's a viaduct-rebuild supporter, but there hasn't been an impression of any action whatsoever toward the issue. It's a fair issue to call her out on.

It's almost a coin toss, but the coin is slightly weighted in favor of Gregoire given recent polls. Hopefully, Obamania will help tilt in her favor. It's not so much that I think Gregoire will walk on water, but I think Rossi will retard things in Washington far moreso.

Shifting gears a bit -- what the NY Times thinks of Ballard and Fremont:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/10/31/travel/american_600.11.jpg

some deployed analysis trucks at the viaduct

They've been all over it, off and on, for the past month.

NY Times' insistence of not mentioning ease of bus use is unsurprising but still annoying. Also they chose the blandest locations in Fremont. Then again, I figure the NY Times Travel Section target market is a different breed altogether.

re: viaduct. Well, good. Still, how much analyzin' do they need to do?

No matter who becomes governor, I predict that the Viaduct will fall apart in a disaster before it gets rebuilt.

The Snoqualmie Casino opens off I-90, North Bend.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/386785_Casino07.html

Does anyone live in Kitsap County or have any opinions about it?