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  • Name: Jurjen Smies
  • Location: Auburn, WA, USA
  • Job: SAHD/part-time student
  • Tell us about yourself: Dutch immigrant to the US, recently naturalized. Stay-at-home dad and part-time Evergreen student.
On January 4, 2009 11:37 PM in More Than One Tragedy in UW Student's Shooting Death, they said:

Quoth the KOMO commenter: "the policemen never saw him shoot one shot." What, the cops are supposed to wait until you actually put a bullet into someone before they can try to stop you? That's not an...

On November 20, 2008 12:26 PM in Our 'Third Senator' Loses Re-Election, they said:

Wait, I have the same birthday as Ted Stevens? Ack!...

On November 5, 2008 3:34 PM in Rossi Conceding Right This Second, they said:

Oooh, the grapes are very sour, aren't they? Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, Dino....

On November 4, 2008 6:11 PM in Weekly Writer Concerned for Simple-Minded Obama Voters, they said:

Okay, let's be fair. Let's take "The Question for Obama Supporters," replace Obama's name with that of any other presidential candidate in the present cycle, and pose that question to people who suppo...

On November 4, 2008 5:49 PM in Mail-In Voting Is a Travesty of the Democratic Process, they said:

I'm with Dan on this one. I'm all in favor of alternative methods of people who can't spare the time to go to the polling station, but voting in a booth and dropping the completed form into the ballot...

On October 25, 2008 4:57 AM in Why Seattlest Loves Paris: It's Where the Girls Are, they said:

Eh. A Dutch weekly summed it up perfectly over twenty years ago when it wrote "'Sloggi' sounds like your underwear is filled with yogurt."...

On October 25, 2008 4:54 AM in Chris vs. Dino: The Deuce—Tim Eyman, they said:

In all honesty, I'm inclined to vote against anything Eyman is associated with, for that reason alone, regardless of its merits (not that there's much to worry about there)....

On October 20, 2008 4:17 PM in McKenna Challenges Nickels on Gun-Free Zone Policy, they said:

No matter how you feel about private citizens carrying firearms, there's nothing to like about Nickels' plan. If we allow Nickels to ignore state law governing firearms, what basis will we have to obj...

Frankly, what leaves a bad taste in my mouth are mealy-mouthed "all sides are equally guilty" platitudes in a lame, misguided attempt at even-handedness, prompted by the absence of any substantial kno...

On December 12, 2007 5:34 PM in A S.L.U.T. Is Born, they said:

I'm originally from the Netherlands; lots of bicycles, and tram systems in several major cities (one of which I lived in). The risk of getting your wheel caught in a tram rail is just one of the thing...

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