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Derek Young
Gig Harbor, WA
Derek's worked in an around local and Washington State politics for 12 years.
Interests: politics, soccer, reading, soccer, writing, soccer. Take 'em all Sounders.
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Now that I can definitely understand. Might be an interesting re-match to the Open Cup final as well.
I just don't see raising a EC banner next year and thinking "yeah, this is great!" That seems to be Garber's main justification for conferences and I don't get it.
Commented Sep 13, 2010 on Updating the MLS Playoff Race at Soccer By Ives
Updating the MLS Playoff Race
The Chicago Fire and Toronto FC are running out of time to grab hold of an MLS playoff spot and both dropped precious points on Saturday in losing matches they had been favored to win. TFC's 1-0 home loss to D.C. United, the worst team in MLS, puts a major dent in the team's hopes of reaching...
While we hear complaints that the CCL and Open Cup are meaningless or wastes of time, I'm hardpressed to figure out how I'm supposed to get excited about Seattle making an Eastern Conference title run.
Commented Sep 13, 2010 on Updating the MLS Playoff Race at Soccer By Ives
Updating the MLS Playoff Race
The Chicago Fire and Toronto FC are running out of time to grab hold of an MLS playoff spot and both dropped precious points on Saturday in losing matches they had been favored to win. TFC's 1-0 home loss to D.C. United, the worst team in MLS, puts a major dent in the team's hopes of reaching...
Spot on Matt.
Commented Sep 3, 2010 on Breaking Up With Politicians at Gig Harbor Issues
Breaking Up With Politicians
Breaking up is hard to do. It’s even harder when it’s not mutual. Love can make people do irrational things like driving by their ex’s house late at night or playing terrible love songs over and over. If they just got one more chance it’d work out this time! Right? Wrong. Unfortunately th...
Thanks.
Maybe that's why I'm a politician, I'm so used to rejection now. :)
Commented Sep 2, 2010 on Breaking Up With Politicians at Gig Harbor Issues
Breaking Up With Politicians
Breaking up is hard to do. It’s even harder when it’s not mutual. Love can make people do irrational things like driving by their ex’s house late at night or playing terrible love songs over and over. If they just got one more chance it’d work out this time! Right? Wrong. Unfortunately th...
The few employees I've spoken to seem to have the same feeling. So far the feedback is good. Should be interesting to see what the rest of the Council thinks.
Commented Aug 29, 2010 on Council Retreat - Shorter Workweek at Gig Harbor Issues
Council Retreat - Shorter Workweek
At the end of next month the Gig Harbor City Council will have it's annual "retreat." Retreat is a term to be used loosely here since we always have it at the Civic Center. A lot of cities go away somewhere together, sometimes even here in Gig Harbor. The purpose is to throw around ideas the...
Hmm, you might be onto something RR. Hopefully Providence has an underground cartoonist on the case.
Commented Aug 25, 2010 on Candidate Interviews – How Not To Do Them at Gig Harbor Issues
Candidate Interviews – How Not To Do Them
Question: Worst candidate interview of all time or worstest? Technorati Tags: Politics,Providence,Mayor,Chris Young,FAIL del.icio.us Tags: Politics,Providence,Mayor,Chris Young,FAIL
The scary thing is that he's actually being reasonable compared to the rest of the right-wing bloggers who responded to this meme. Most of them have settled on Carter and Obama at the top along with FDR and Wilson.
Commented Aug 14, 2010 on If You Did Not Think UCLA Law Professor Steve Bainbridge Had Lost His Mind--or Perhaps Had No Mind to Lose--You Do Now... at Brad DeLong
If You Did Not Think UCLA Law Professor Steve Bainbridge Had Lost His Mind--or Perhaps Had No Mind to Lose--You Do Now...
Wow! Just wow! UCLA law professor Steve Bainbridge: >20 Worst Americans - ProfessorBainbridge.com: John Hawkins asked a bunch of right of center bloggers to list the "20 Worst Americans of all time."... I was one of the bloggers Hawkins polled, but as you'll see my list differs in a number of res...
Does anyone know if there's even the remotest chance of Feilhaber coming to MLS? Don't really care where, though Rave Green would be lovely, just enjoy watching the guy play. Has he ever shown interest at all?
Commented Aug 14, 2010 on A closer look at American players in club limbo at Soccer By Ives
A closer look at American players in club limbo
As European soccer moves into full swing in the coming weeks there are still a handful of American players with uncertain club futures across the pond. Whether it's members of the U.S. World Cup team, players on the national team fringe, and at least one former prospect at a career crossroads...
Going to take a reprieve from the heat and watch LA-NY, been looking forward to this one. I like NYRB with LA stumbling lately... then to celebrate another Sounder victory tonight.
Take 'em all boys!
Commented Aug 14, 2010 on MLS Week 20: A Look Ahead at Soccer By Ives
MLS Week 20: A Look Ahead
By TRAVIS CLARK The midway point of August is here, and the pressure continues to mount on those teams on the fringes of playoff contention. One team that hasn't won much for the past two months is the San Jose Earthquakes, winners of just one games since the end of May. Since then, injuries ...
I'm hard pressed to figure out why anyone would pay her to write for them.
Commented Aug 14, 2010 on Guest Post by Benjamin Strong: Stock Market Valuation/Atlantic Monthly Catastrophic FAIL Department at Brad DeLong
Guest Post by Benjamin Strong: Stock Market Valuation/Atlantic Monthly Catastrophic FAIL Department
A guest post by the late Benjamin Strong (1872-1928), sometime president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York: Back when I was alive, it was taken for granted that there was an equity return premium: that investments in stocks would, on average and over time, have significantly higher retuns ...
I could be misreading this, but it seems like this is largely a symptom of our reliance on sales tax versus an income tax since that is a huge chunk of the burden.
If that's the case, shouldn't the business community be supporting an effort to create an income tax with a constitutional cap on sales tax?
Commented Aug 13, 2010 on New Research Council Brief on Business Taxes in Washington - They're High at WashACE Blog
New Research Council Brief on Business Taxes in Washington - They're High
A new policy brief by the Washington Research Council reviews a recent study of business tax burdens across the country. The crux: Defining the effective tax rate on business as the ratio of state and local business taxes to private sector gross state product (GSP), Ernst & Young estimates that ...
Yup. The expense and waste has always disgusted me. I reused the second batch once but they were falling apart and ended up in a landfill.
Plus I'd rather utilize volunteer hours on something more productive.
One thing I'd kinda miss though... signwaving. Perhaps we'd just end up with homemade ones.
Commented Aug 12, 2010 on Imagine Gig Harbor Without Political Signs at Gig Harbor Issues
Imagine Gig Harbor Without Political Signs
Seems like every campaign season we see new letters to the editor or "Jeers" about the political signs that pop up. Candidates view them as a necessary evil because they're not only annoying and expensive, but it's hard to win if your opponent uses them and you don't. None of this is intended ...
Thanks Matt. I've actually been kicking around the idea for a while but really it's the organizing power of social media that made me think it would be possible. It makes free what used to take a pile of dollars to accomplish. Wish I'd brought it up earlier but maybe being political season it'll be more on people's minds.
Commented Aug 12, 2010 on Imagine Gig Harbor Without Political Signs at Gig Harbor Issues
Imagine Gig Harbor Without Political Signs
Seems like every campaign season we see new letters to the editor or "Jeers" about the political signs that pop up. Candidates view them as a necessary evil because they're not only annoying and expensive, but it's hard to win if your opponent uses them and you don't. None of this is intended ...
It's also important to remember that some of us had significantly more inbreeding than others, skewing the results... Sharron Angle
Commented Aug 12, 2010 on Human Demography and the Power of 2^n at Brad DeLong
Human Demography and the Power of 2^n
Jason Kuznicki asks a question: >I Learned It on Wikipedia: >>Using mathematical models, it is easy to demonstrate that every human being alive today is likely to be a direct descendant of Confucius, even using mathematical models that assume an extremely small amount of cross cultural mating, si...
Somewhat related, I read something I thought fascinating about journals from back in the day. Apparently journals, until recently, were expected to be public. This historian compared them to blogs and talked about how most were heavily edited and shared with others.
Commented Aug 6, 2010 on Hello, platform at Nathalie's Notes
Hello, platform
I've been working toward clarifying my writer's platform for over a year. Ever since I read Christina Katz' "Get Known Before the Book Deal." She advised me to be patient with the process. She even talked me out of an idea that was a good one, but not for me, not at that time in my life. I'd...
New Yorker - Just How Broken is the Senate?
Previously I noted in a post about Elizabeth Warren's candidacy to run the new Consumer Protection Bureau the severe dysfunction of the US Senate, who would ultimately need to confirm her appointment. To dive in a little deeper I'm linking... Continue reading
Posted Aug 4, 2010 at New American Paradigm
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Guess I'm just used to UEFA.
Commented Aug 4, 2010 on CONCACAF Champions League: Your Running Commentary at Soccer By Ives
CONCACAF Champions League: Your Running Commentary
Toronto FC and the Seattle Sounders can move a step further in the CONCACAF Champions League tonight as they both take on Central American opponents in second legs of their two-game series. Toronto FC takes on CD Motagua (8pm, Fox Soccer Channel) in Honduras after winning the first leg, 1-0, w...
Remember, away goal rule doesn't apply to Extra Time in CONCACAF for some strange reason.
Commented Aug 4, 2010 on CONCACAF Champions League: Your Running Commentary at Soccer By Ives
CONCACAF Champions League: Your Running Commentary
Toronto FC and the Seattle Sounders can move a step further in the CONCACAF Champions League tonight as they both take on Central American opponents in second legs of their two-game series. Toronto FC takes on CD Motagua (8pm, Fox Soccer Channel) in Honduras after winning the first leg, 1-0, w...
The Curious Case of Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren, architect for the recently created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is widely regarded as one of the brightest minds in corporate and bankruptcy law, honest to a fault, a relentless crusader to protect consumers and the country from the... Continue reading
Posted Aug 2, 2010 at New American Paradigm
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Ugh. That makes me ill. I still can't forgive our FO for letting him go.
Happy for Seba... but still weird to watch him doing so well for another team.
Commented Aug 1, 2010 on Soccer Saturday: Your Running Commentary at Soccer By Ives
Soccer Saturday: Your Running Commentary
Photo by Howard C. Smith/ISIphotos.com The Thierry Henry era in Major League Soccer will officially begin tonight in Houston. The French star will make his MLS debut tonight when the New York Red Bulls take on the Houston Dynamo. Henry is slated to start and will look to build on his impres...
I had a friend once tell me that riding a bike increases carbon output... because you breathe harder. Seriously.
Commented Aug 1, 2010 on Incentives and the Environment: Ryan Avent Critiques Jim Manzi: at Brad DeLong
Incentives and the Environment: Ryan Avent Critiques Jim Manzi:
RA: >The Bellows » Innovation, and the Gas Tax: I’m not sure why anyone would argue that the imposition of a carbon price, even a relatively modest one, wouldn’t spur innovation. Price increases — the market’s signal for scarcity — lead to a range of human responses, among the most important of w...
Recently I decided that I was a communist because of Facebook. It seems almost all of my political beliefs are Maoist, and probably racist (which really twists my pickle).
Not sure how this ball got rolling but it's all right there from my "friends."
Facebook is evil but I guess it did lead me to your post so....
Commented Jul 24, 2010 on Re-post this at Nathalie's Notes
Re-post this
If you're on Facebook very much, odds are, you have an opinion on those status updates that feel a little like the emails that say if you don't forward something to ten people in, like, ten minutes something really bad, or something really good will happen. I hate, hate, hate stuff like that. O...
Never seem to find time to catch these live but always enjoy them.
Commented Jul 24, 2010 on SBI Live Q&A (July 23rd Edition) at Soccer By Ives
SBI Live Q&A (July 23rd Edition)
It's that time again. Time for you to send in your soccer (and occasional pop culture) questions for me to try and answer. There is plenty to discuss, as always, so let's get started: SBI Live Q&A (July 23rd Edition)
Seems like the reaction and subsequent course correction are natural parental decisions.
Commented Jul 22, 2010 on Fear doesn't win here at Nathalie's Notes
Fear doesn't win here
Note to readers: Thank you, first of all. For your support, comments and encouragement while I figured out which direction to take my writing - personally and professionally. To some extent, I've realized it's only partly a conscious choice ... most of it is what I feel compelled to do - some da...
I say Nkufo only because the need is so much more glaring for Seattle. Though I'm really excited to see Henry play in the MLS.
Commented Jul 15, 2010 on Which new MLS player will have the biggest impact? at Soccer By Ives
Which new MLS player will have the biggest impact?
Thierry Henry is the biggest name joining MLS during the July transfer window, but he's far from the only one. Henry joins Anthony Obodai, Branko Bošković, Giancarlo Maldonado and Blaise Nkufo on the list of incoming talent to MLS. Each is joining a team in different circumstances, and each ...
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