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June 10, 2009
Eat Like the President
Last week NBC aired Inside the Obama White House, and about halfway through, Obama decided to make an "impromptu" visit to the local burger joint Five Guys. He went around asking White House employees what he could pick up for them, as if this sort of thing were not out of the ordinary, but he was g ... More >>
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June 16, 2009
Nickels' Buck Banging
Following his decision to skirt (a.k.a. cross) a firefighters' union picket line in Providence that Obama administration officials wouldn't, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels yesterday said he and other mayors will eventually meet with the White House, in part to discuss distribution of stimulus funds. H ... More >>
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August 18, 2009
Obama-Nazi Signs Hit Seattle
Yes, the crazies who have been demonizing Obama's health care plan are here too. Even as the President was backing away from a nationalized insurance plan yesterday, a couple of middle aged guys were assailing passersby on Alaskan Way with a poster of Obama as Hitler, a little fuhrer-moustach ... More >>
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September 9, 2009
Food Section: A Tougher FDA, a Larger Tomato
While New York state's proposed 18 percent sin tax on sodas failed to pass, the New York Daily News reports that President Obama says it's an idea still worth considering. You know how last year, everyone you know threw away their "reusable" Nalgene bottles in favor of Sigg metal water bott ... More >>
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September 9, 2009
Bellevue School District: "We're Really Sorry"
With an abrupt about-face, and a move that's likely not to please people on either side of the debate, the Bellevue School District has reversed its decision to block President Barack Obama's "back-to-school" address. After it aired yesterday morning. Furthermore, district administrators are very, v ... More >>
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September 14, 2009
What's Bad for Obama Is Also Bad for Patty Murray
While it' s uncertain whether President Obama will win the furnace-hot fight on health care, what is certain is that his honeymoon in public opinion polls is effectively over. But just as Obama had coattails for D's last November, a similar effect--albeit in the opposite direction--has taken ... More >>
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September 15, 2009
Obama/Kanye "Jackass" Audio Leaked
I know, I know. Enough with Kanye right? There's no publicist in the world that could have landed the guy this much press in a two day span. His album's don't even warrant this much attention and it would seem that we're all buying into something by continuing to write/tallk about the guy. We ... More >>
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October 28, 2009
Trick or Vote
I know, I know. Enough with Kanye right? There's no publicist in the world that could have landed the guy this much press in a two day span. His album's don't even warrant this much attention and it would seem that we're all buying into something by continuing to write/tallk about the guy. We ... More >>
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November 20, 2009
Hybrid Vehicles to Become Even More Annoying on Seattle Streets
As previously mentioned, our state contributed accident data to a recent federal traffic safety report that concluded that the Prius and other silent hybrid vehicles were striking a disproportionate share of pedestrians and cyclists. It seemed a cruel irony: Those eco-conscious Prius drivers ... More >>
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December 18, 2009
Obamitas = LOCO
Does this look like President Obama to you?Normally, I am a big fan of the website Eat Me Daily. Their observations about food and culture are sharp and witty, and they consistently put out some of best cookbook and food book reviews around. However, yesterday's Eat Me Daily admission that th ... More >>
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January 28, 2010
The Future: Hawks, Rock, and a McKagan/Novoselic Ticket In 2012
Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what's circulating through his iPod every Monday.Sometimes I just can't find that one defining thing to write about. It is often at this point, when I can't focus, that I realize that a bunch of stuff is all going on at once ... More >>
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February 16, 2010
Is Barack Obama the Leader of America's Great Third Party?
Clifford K. Berryman ReduxIs there a major third party in the United States? And does its leader live in the White House? Barack Obama was the Democratic nominee for president in 2008. At the same time, he spearheaded a groundbreaking campaign organization outside the Democratic Party--Obam ... More >>
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February 22, 2010
Washington State Offers Dismal Lesson for Obama's New Attempt to Save Health Care Reform
This is the direction insurance rates went even after new state regulation. President Obama's latest attempt to salvage health care reform, unveiled today, introduces yet another new twist--a proposed federal board that could veto excessive health insurance rate hikes. Politically, the propos ... More >>
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March 18, 2010
Patty Murray Opponent Chris Widener Slaps Her With a Scarlet "O"
Remember when that sunburst was a symbol of hope?Chris Widener, a motivational speaker with a working knowledge of Snoop Dogg's oeuvre, and one of Patty Murray's seven announced Republican opponents, launched a new attack against the three-term incumbent this week with the Web site notpatty.c ... More >>
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March 31, 2010
Obama's Pro-Drilling Announcement Alienates Northwest Enviros
They look so pretty at sunset."Today we're announcing the expansion of offshore oil and gas exploration," President Obama said this morning in the company of Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, and others that he described as his "Green Team". Obama justified h ... More >>
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April 7, 2010
David Remnick
They look so pretty at sunset."Today we're announcing the expansion of offshore oil and gas exploration," President Obama said this morning in the company of Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, and others that he described as his "Green Team". Obama justified h ... More >>
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April 16, 2010
Boeing Likes Obama's New Plan for Space
Conspiracy alert: Obama is a pawn of the powerful Mars lobby.To paraphrase this smart Tweet, the arguments surrounding Obama's new space plan are like those that engulfed health care reform, only backwards: the President is privatizing, while Republicans are demanding more government jobs. S ... More >>
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May 18, 2010
Obama's Inheritance, Two Books, and a Dog Make President a Modest Multi-millionaire
First Dog, Value $1,600 Barack Obama inherited up to $500,000 from his grandmother, former Seattleite Madelyn Dunham, helping push his personal asset wealth to a somewhat modest $2.5 million or more, according to a just-released White House financial-disclosure statement. The inheritance is seco ... More >>
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July 27, 2010
Meanwhile On the Daily Weekly: Kinky Friedman On Girls, Obama, and Jews Vs. the Death Penalty
Friedman on Obama: "The problem, Caleb, is that he's the 'Yes We Can' candidate. I agree that everyone in Washington is no better than Obama. But I'm saying that a great leader would be able to do something, he just doesn't have the chops. FDR was an aristocrat, but if he'd gone to talk to t ... More >>
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August 17, 2010
President Obama Is in Seattle, but Where?
Holy Commander in Chiefs! President Barack Obama is actually in Seattle, like, right now. So wherever you are, you're roughly 3,000 miles closer to the leader of the free world than you are on a normal Tuesday. Obama is only in town for a little bit, though, and parts of his schedule are bein ... More >>
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August 17, 2010
Primary 2010: Lowlights of a Middlin' Election
GoodspaceguyPrimary 2010 will be remembered as the election in which two candidates teamed up to run against each other - Republicans Clint Didier and Paul Akers in the race for the U.S. Senate - and, surprise, neither won. Or so Dino Rossi predicts. Meanwhile state Sen. Pam Roach ("crazy," " ... More >>
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August 17, 2010
President Obama Likes Our Baked Goods!
Listen. I'm no social critic. I can't explain the complicated ways in which we, as Americans, project all of our hopes, dreams and ugly insecurities on the guy we elect to run this joint. I am, however, qualified to get very annoyed at how obsessed I am with every little thing that President ... More >>
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August 17, 2010
UPDATED Adventures With Barack: Because Everyone Needs A Hobby...I Guess.
Photo courtesy adventureswithbarack.comI think that, by now, everyone knows that Barack Obama made a stop in Seattle today. I'm pretty sure that almost everyone knows that he sat down this afternoon with a bunch of small business people at Grand Central Baking Company in Pioneer Square (but i ... More >>
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August 18, 2010
The 2010 Primary's Best Campaign Lowlights
Photo courtesy adventureswithbarack.comI think that, by now, everyone knows that Barack Obama made a stop in Seattle today. I'm pretty sure that almost everyone knows that he sat down this afternoon with a bunch of small business people at Grand Central Baking Company in Pioneer Square (but i ... More >>
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September 21, 2010
President Obama Makes Compulsory Congratulatory Call to Seattle Storm
One of the perks of winning a sports championship - besides the potential to be named your city's most successful franchise - is the congratulatory call from the Baller in Chief. President Obama called members of the Seattle Storm earlier today to compliment them on winning their second WNBA ... More >>
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September 22, 2010
Robert Reich
One of the perks of winning a sports championship - besides the potential to be named your city's most successful franchise - is the congratulatory call from the Baller in Chief. President Obama called members of the Seattle Storm earlier today to compliment them on winning their second WNBA ... More >>
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October 8, 2010
Joe Biden Rallies Tacoma For Patty Murray: Gaffe Watch Begins Now
The streets are closed surrounding the University of Washington Tacoma campus, where Biden will rally support for Patty Murray from south sound Democrats at 10:30. The biggest question on everyone's minds: will he say something that ends up hurting Murray's chances on November 2?
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October 12, 2010
President Obama Is Coming to Seattle
Just days after his gaffe-prone second-in-command came through town, Patty Murray's campaign has announced that President Barack Obama will also be coming to Seattle. On October 21, Obama will speak at a get out the vote rally at the University of Washington's Hec Pavilion. Go to cheer. Go to ... More >>
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October 20, 2010
President Obama's Second Trip to Seattle May Be Quieter, But no Less Annoying
President Obama's second trip to Seattle this year will probably be quieter than his first. Back in August, a careless pilot breached the presidential airspace, causing a responding F-15 to trigger an ear-splitting sonic boom, heretofore known as "Obooma." (T-shirts still available!)
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October 21, 2010
The Closest You'll Ever Get to President Obama (PIC)
Let's face it, the odds are good that neither you nor I will ever be up close and personal with President Barack Obama. Short of saving a flaming school bus of orphans from plummeting off of a cliff (fingers crossed), you probably shouldn't hold your breath for that White House invitation. So ... More >>
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November 3, 2010
'Democrats Win, Continue in Power' - A Headline You Can't Get Anywhere Else
BoehnerEven if Patty Murray loses, even if Rick Larsen loses, even if a string of Democrat senators and congress members lose those toss-up races across the U.S., the pundits, pollsters, Fox News and the Tea Party all got it wrong: The Dems didn't lose. The New York Times also pushed the sup ... More >>
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December 30, 2010
Be Like Barack: Eat Some Shave Ice
President Obama might have had an extremely trying year, but damn, he looks happy sucking on some shave ice on his Hawaiian holiday. Shave ice is a cousin to the SnoCone, a lighter, fluffier version made by shaving a block of ice and drowning it in sugar-y syrup. Mmmm. It's like a solid form ... More >>
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January 26, 2011
W. Kamau Bell
President Obama might have had an extremely trying year, but damn, he looks happy sucking on some shave ice on his Hawaiian holiday. Shave ice is a cousin to the SnoCone, a lighter, fluffier version made by shaving a block of ice and drowning it in sugar-y syrup. Mmmm. It's like a solid form ... More >>
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January 28, 2011
Sarah Palin's Citation of Spudnut Shop in Richland, Wash.--a Counter to Obama's SOTU "Sputnik Moment"--Fails on Facts
Anyone lucky enough to catch half-term Gov. Sarah Palin's response to President Obama's State of the Union address on Wednesday was treated to a veritable smorgasbord of knee-slapping zingers, courtesy of the wildly unpopular would-be pol. After droning on about "Obamacare" and "Cap and Tax" ... More >>
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February 25, 2011
Conservatives Freak Out, Blame Obama For Boeing Win, EADS Loss
One could almost taste the happiness in the air around Washington state and much of the nation yesterday after news was announced that Boeing had won a $35 billion contact to build 179 refueling tankers for the U.S. military. Everyone was thrilled! Everyone, that is, except a whole bunch of c ... More >>
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April 14, 2011
Kate Michelle Young, Kent Meth Smoker, Arrested for Sending Fake Anthrax Letter to President Obama
Yesterday I joked about how here at Seattle Weekly we throw out all the mail we get that has bombs and/or anthrax in it. Of course, we don't really check our mail for bombs and anthrax (we have the interns do it). But at the White House, they actually need to check for stuff like that. So whe ... More >>
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April 27, 2011
Barack Obama's Seattle Mom Gave Birth to Him in Hawaii--It's Right There on 'The' Certificate
Not that it's likely to silence the Birthers (not to be confused with "the blacks"), the White House today released President Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate--the one that The Donald's hounds were supposedly trying to snoop out in Hawaii (he's already taking credit for its release) ... More >>
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April 29, 2011
Perkins Coie, Seattle Law Firm, Represents Obama in Personal Matters - Like, His Birth
With mom, Halloween in HawaiiNo need to thank Donald Trump, since he already thanked himself. But Seattle can take a little bow, too, for the disclosure of Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate and re-reconfirmation that he was born in Honolulu freakin' Hawaii, U-S-A! Ultimate thanks of ... More >>
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June 22, 2011
Obama Sends Cabinet-Pick Lackey to Take Sides in Boeing/NLRB Fight
With the 2012 Republican field taking shape and an electorate polling to the right, President Obama is hedging his bets along with it. The bitter battle over the National Labor Relations Board's complaint against Boeing and the company's decision to build a new non-union factory in South Ca ... More >>
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June 29, 2011
Seattle Storm to Meet President Obama Today--Will They Ask Him Why He Doesn't Support Same-Sex Marriage?
Last Friday, after the Seattle Storm beat the Minnesota Lynx 65-55, the team invited reporters into the locker room for questions. Sarah Toce from the Seattle Lesbian blog was there and reported that during the question-and-answer session, someone yelled out "They just passed [same-sex] marri ... More >>
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June 30, 2011
Spotted-Owl Plan Announced by Obama Admin Goes Too Far, Say Loggers; Not Far Enough, Say Conservationists
Today President Obama continued his knack for finding a controversial topic, splitting the difference between sides, and not satisfying anyone. The new plan for protecting the endangered northern spotted owl was released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the reaction so far is tha ... More >>
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July 12, 2011
Oregon Camper-Bumper-Sticker Wisdom: "Queer Satan Obama Bows Down To Satan"
"You will know queer Obama by his fruits." --The Book of Oregon Redneck Camper: Chapter Bumper, Verse Window.
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September 22, 2011
Obama'$ $eattle Vi$it I$n't Intended to $olve Economic I$$ue$, Other Than Hi$ Campaign'$
Portland is being left out of this weekend's West Coast swing by President Obama, but Sunday will be his second visit to Seattle in two months. It isn't our scenic beauty or political problems that attract him however, it's our money - or their money, that is, the rich folk. In August, it w ... More >>
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October 24, 2011
Obama's War on Weed: The President's Strange Flip-Flop on Medical Marijuana
Editor's Note: The following, written by Ray Stern of our sister paper Phoenix New Times, provides a beyond-Washington look at recent federal actions regarding medical marijuana. The new federal crackdown on medical marijuana announced on October 7 by the four California U.S. Attorneys sent ... More >>
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October 25, 2011
Comment of the Day: The Old Obama-Marijuana Support-Switcheroo
If President Obama could pick any type of footwear to put on when he takes up the issue of medical marijuana, it would most certainly be the flip-flop. The man came into office promising respect for states' rights on pot laws, only to eventually tell states that he doesn't like their laws and ... More >>
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October 28, 2011
Lauren Horwood, U.S. Attorney's Spokesperson, Tries to Claim Obama and Eric Holder Didn't OK Pot Crackdown--Why This Is Bullshit
This week Village Voice Media newspapers around the country, including Seattle Weekly, published an article by Phoenix New Times writer Ray Stern that examines President Barack Obama's bizarre flip-flop on the issue of medical marijuana. Among the revelations Stern delivers is that a group ... More >>
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November 21, 2011
Sen. Patty Murray and Rest of 'Supercommittee' Are About to Fail Miserably (UPDATE: Make That Have Failed Miserably)
FAILUPDATE: It's official, the Supercommittee has failed. Congress, it seems, no matter how it's sliced up, is and continues to be wholly ineffective at doing any fucking thing at all. More here.
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December 2, 2011
Sen. Patty Murray and Rest of Failed Supercommittee Blame Everyone But Themselves
It's both unfair and inaccurate to call the 12 members of the Congressional Supercommittee "total failures." They're not total failures. In fact, they are succeeding quite admirably in one regard.
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December 14, 2011
Comment of the Day: Hatchet-Wielding Lunatic Is Obviously Obama's Fault
Today's Comment of the Day is a special Comment of the Day. And by "special" I mean mean batshit crazy.
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January 16, 2012
Rep. Norm Dicks Wants to Put a Stranglehold on Burmese Pythons
Burmese pythons are multiplying and spreading at an alarming rate. There are tens of thousands of them in Florida, alone. They've swamped the Everglades. They turn up in backyard pools. Voracious, mammal-eating reptiles, these slithering behemoths can grow up to 20 feet long. And U.S. Rep. No ... More >>
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