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- Danny Westneat | Homeless: new growth industry
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Something is ragged in the Emerald City. We've had our frenzies, like the dot-coms and real estate. Now it feels like there's an anti-boom, an echo of the others. A week ago Friday wasn't especially cold or windy or any of the other things that drive street people inside. But at Operation Nightwatch, a ministry for the homeless, it was a night for the record books anyway. Near midnight, after finding spots to sleep for 175 people, workers gave bus tickets and blankets to 42 more. Then sent them wandering off down the street.
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- Seattle Places Released Sex Offender Under Bridge
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Sex offenders are the new lepers. She fitted him with a GPS bracelet and drove him to the 88th Street bridge. "At least we could check on him," she said. "We could keep trying to find him a place. I'm sorry to say it, but it was the best we had to offer." On the fourth night, he cut off his monitor and fled.
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- Feds catch radioactive cat on Interstate 5
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Wow that the government now has the ability to detect radiation in a cat inside a car going by at 70 miles per hour. And wow at this world we live in, where we feel compelled to sniff, at random, inside the traffic coming out of Bellingham. What else is the government watching? Is it all too much?
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- Senate Candidate McGavick Builds Lame MySpace page
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  The real problem is it's only August. The election isn't until November. To be blunt, we voters already know way, way too many personal details about you. Not only do we know all of your secret failings, but we know of your fondness for Batman. That you dig "ska." That you've never, ever once gone skinny-dipping. We've got a war on, and you're turning into the Oprah candidate.
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robynoratocom comments on:
Seattle Places Released Sex Offender Under Bridge

Sign of a breakdown, indeed. Dangerous to both offender and general public.

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2:15 pm 5/05/08
nomorelaws comments on:
Seattle Places Released Sex Offender Under Bridge

Sex Offenders are the other form of terrorist according to the government, because you don’t know who they are or where they are. So the government says to protect us and our children they will implant V Chips, not only in us, but in our cars, passports, identification, and run surveillance on our streets, homes, friends, and conversations. 96.5% of sex offenders are family members or friends to the victim, 97% are male, and only 3.5% of convicted sex offenders reoffend… Therefore the odds are YOU are more of a threat to commit a sex offense than a "sex offender". Mull over that for a moment.
What will the next set of laws be? Will they treat us more like criminals than they currently are over statistics like these? Will we again support them for the reasons or justifications of “good intentions”?
How can we prosecute people for life knowing how easy it is to be charged and convicted of a sex offense? Do you realize how many death row inmates have been found innocent due to D.N.A.? They convict sex offenders every day with merely ones word against anothers, today, a simple lie can wreck your life! How do V Chips, satellites, surveillance, and treating us like criminals stop our children from having a sexual encounter, or save us from terrorists that our government antagonizes?
There have however been thousands of vigilante attacks that have gotten an estimated 4000 innocent people hurt and even killed by mistaken identity or wrong addresses all together. In one case a pregnant woman was burned alive for nothing she had done. Now we harass or kill his/her family and friends as well? Is this what we have become? We now allow rights to be ignored?
There are now about 600,000 registered sex offenders, that is about the same number of truly patriotic men who died for those rights that you are ignoring. Anyone who would support breaking them is NOT patriotic Americans!!! As Americans how can we allow the government strip rights because they feel it’s (justified)?

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9:11 am 5/05/08
Jeff comments on:
Feds catch radioactive cat on Interstate 5

Personally, I’m glad to hear the U.S. is deploying (and has the capability) these devices. I’m skeptical of the casual anecdote that this agent shared at a community meeting.
I would like the government to be more forthcoming about their domestic spying – at the very least with Congress – so we can have the appropriate Constitutional checks and balances.

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2:19 pm 3/24/08