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		<title>BJ’s BLOG 10/31/2011 “Seattle Weather”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we talked about the 15-year-old girl who stabbed two freshmen girls at Snohomish High School.
An unnamed 15-year-old decided she wanted to go to school last week, armed with two knives including an 8 inch butcher knife with the intention of stabbing someone who was “at the wrong place at the wrong time”.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week we talked about the 15-year-old girl who stabbed two freshmen girls at Snohomish High School.<br />
An unnamed 15-year-old decided she wanted to go to school last week, armed with two knives including an 8 inch butcher knife with the intention of stabbing someone who was “at the wrong place at the wrong time”.<br />
Luckily the 14-year victim, who was in critical condition after being stabbed 20 times, is said to be ok.<br />
Now I’ve read a lot of news stories that have come out saying that the 15-year-old has a history of mental illness. According to one report, she has been suspended from school before after she reportedly became &#8220;obsessed&#8221; with two other girls, refusing to &#8220;let them have other friends,&#8221; and threatening to kill the boyfriend of one.<br />
Does it take an outsider to say what really a big issue here is?<br />
I’ve lived here for 12 years and I’ve lived in different areas of the country and I know the weather here has an adverse affect on the people. We have more suicide per capita, more use of heroin and meth, and more use of prescription drugs for depression here.<br />
So when are we going to realize that as soon as a child experiences or shows signs of dangerous behavior, we have to keep them monitored?  Seriously, how does someone let a girl like this loose in the school?<br />
 I hope that the parents of the two stabbing victims sue the government so that our stupid governor can start implanting programs to make sure things like this never happen again at a place we have to send our kids to.<br />
We really need to come to grips with the fact that people in Western Washington should be in therapy and the only people who argue with me on this are people who self medicate and/or are out of their minds. People just don’t want to believe that they should be talking to someone when studies have shown that this area messes with them due to the lack of sun.<br />
This 15-year-old girl should get a minimum of 20 years in an institution where she gets therapeutic help.<br />
I’m tired of this; some poor parents have to deal with this horrific situation just because we don’t want to face the facts that this weather makes people crazy.<br />
How many more kids have to get stabbed because people here are too proud to face the facts?</p>
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		<title>BJ&#8217;s BLOG 10/26/11 &#8220;Guns!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We read an email from Kathryn who was worried about her 13-year-old son going hunting with his dad. He has gone hunting with his dad before, but Kathryn is worried because this will be the first time he goes with his own gun.
Kathryn wanted to know at what age is it appropriate for a kid [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We read an email from Kathryn who was worried about her 13-year-old son going hunting with his dad. He has gone hunting with his dad before, but Kathryn is worried because this will be the first time he goes with his own gun.</p>
<p>Kathryn wanted to know at what age is it appropriate for a kid to go hunting with a gun?</p>
<p>At the very end of the segment, we talked to Mike, the only listener who called in siding with Kathryn on not letting her son use a gun.</p>
<p>Mike’s argument was that we have laws that say that we are not allowed to drive a car until 16, you’re not legally an adult until you’re 18, and you’re not allowed to drink until you’re 21, so he doesn&#8217;t understand why it should be ok to let a 13-year-old carry a gun.</p>
<p>Mike also tried to argue that those are the kids who bring guns to school and do heinous things with them. There are responsible gun owners; it’s the irresponsible human beings who don’t know anything about guns who usually are the ones to bring them to school.</p>
<p>Mike also argued that they should change the laws regarding hunting ages and I don’t understand why.</p>
<p>If a parent is there hunting with his kid, teaching him how to respect the gun and the animals they are hunting, what is the problem? If a person is being irresponsible and leaves a gun lying around for a kid to play with and they end up hurting someone, then yes, come down on that idiot parent for their stupidity.</p>
<p>We shouldn’t punish everyone else who is being responsible for the stupid actions of the few! There are plenty of people who break the law even though they are the proper age! How many people drink and drive when they’re 25 for example? Should we change the drinking age limit to 26?</p>
<p>I’m so tired of living in a country that wants to punish the majority for the actions of the minority! If the majority of gun owners were idiots, then sure, but the majority of them seem to be responsible with their gun safety habits.</p>
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		<title>BJ&#8217;s BLOG 10/25/11 &#8220;South Park vs. Scientology&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marty Rathbun has posted a copy of an internal Church of Scientology document on his blog that suggests that the church has launched an intense investigation into the lives of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park.
Rathbun, who is the former Inspector General of the Religious Technology Center (RTC), (the organization that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marty Rathbun has posted a copy of an internal Church of Scientology document on his blog that suggests that the church has launched an intense investigation into the lives of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park.</p>
<p>Rathbun, who is the former Inspector General of the Religious Technology Center (RTC), (the organization that controls the copyrights and trademarks of the materials relating to Scientology), says that Scientology was so enraged after the 2005 South Park episode called “Out of the Closet”, that a “witch hunt” was ordered.</p>
<p>The document reads that they are trying to find a direct line to Stone and Park and even their friends and family were targeted.</p>
<p>&#8220;There are some strings that will be pulled on the PRC on Stone,” the document states, &#8220;Otherwise the special collections will be debugged in order to get some viable strings that can be pulled&#8221;. Rathbun then explains that &#8220;Special collections&#8221; is Scientology code for &#8220;trash digging.&#8221;</p>
<p>What a creepy organization; if you’re a religion that was formed by a guy who used to write science fiction novels and is now your new messiah, how can you not get made fun of?</p>
<p>What do you expect? I wish I could sit down with John Travolta and/or Tom Cruise and ask them what they are thinking.</p>
<p>I have no problem with anyone wanting to be religious, but this is another example of religious nut jobs taking things too far. This is an invasion of Trey and Stone’s privacy and I hope something gets done about it!</p>
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		<title>BJ&#8217;s BLOG 10/24/11 &#8220;Victoria Liss&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kisw.com/bjshea/2011/10/24/bjs-blog-102411-victoria-liss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we talked about some new revelations to the Victoria Liss “horrible tip” story. For those who don’t know, Victoria Liss is the waitress from Bimbo’s in Capital Hill who posted a picture of a tip she received that said, “You could stand to lose a few pounds” and has received nationwide attention.

The newest [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week we talked about some new revelations to the Victoria Liss “horrible tip” story. For those who don’t know, Victoria Liss is the waitress from Bimbo’s in Capital Hill who posted a picture of a tip she received that said, “You could stand to lose a few pounds” and has received nationwide attention.</p>
<p><a href="http://s61.photobucket.com/albums/h73/stevemigs/?action=view&amp;current=loose.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h73/stevemigs/loose.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" width="452" height="261" /></a></p>
<p>The newest revelation was of an online review from an unidentified person who describes the night of said incident.</p>
<p>The reviews states:</p>
<p>“My girlfriend and I had without question the worst restaurant/bar experience of our lives. The woman who was supposed to be serving us seemingly ignored us for 25 minutes.”</p>
<p>Also according to the reviewer, they were served double-decker tacos, which they didn’t order and they asked for regular tacos, the reviewer says that their waitress shot back with the snarky comment about how he “could use a little weight.”</p>
<p>That is a big part of the story that Victoria Liss left out and if that’s true, that’s pretty lame on her part.</p>
<p>So basically he was given too much food after receiving bad service, and then was insulted by Victoria which led to his response.</p>
<p>Victoria responded saying that she didn’t do anything to offend this person and as a feminist she thinks it’s completely uncalled for a man to pick her apart physically when angry.</p>
<p>Didn’t you say something to offend him first?</p>
<p>Why is ok for a feminist to comment on a man’s appearance but it’s not ok for a man to recommend back on the woman’s appearance?</p>
<p>Aren’t feminists about equality? Then why is it that you believe that you should be treated better?</p>
<p>By the way Victoria, maybe everyone else in the city won’t grill you the proper way, because you’re a woman and you’re not supposed to do that but guess what? I will! If you are an idiot, male or female, I will grill you!</p>
<p>Victoria really sounds like a smarmy, Facebook, internet troll, who only likes to go and make other people’s lives miserable even though she caused the miserable interaction in the first place.</p>
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		<title>BJ&#8217;s BLOG 10/21/11 &#8220;Family Finance&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kisw.com/bjshea/2011/10/21/bjs-blog-102111-family-finance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a survey that found that 19% of married people do not know how much their spouse makes. That is 1 in 5 people who have no idea about their partner’s income, or they don’t reveal how much money they make themselves.
Also it says that 14% didn’t know until they had a child together.
They [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read a survey that found that 19% of married people do not know how much their spouse makes. That is 1 in 5 people who have no idea about their partner’s income, or they don’t reveal how much money they make themselves.</p>
<p>Also it says that 14% didn’t know until they had a child together.</p>
<p>They are saying the main reason why people keep quiet about their income is because if the other person knew how much their spouse made, it would cause imbalances in the relationship.</p>
<p>What?!</p>
<p>What idiot came up with this theory? You’re supposed to be a team when you are married; everyone is supposed to know how much money is coming in to the “family business”!  </p>
<p>This country is so good at coming up with political speak; here is the real reason they don’t want their spouse to know how much they make: it’s so they can steal money from the family! They want to go shopping, blow money on stupid things, and/or spend it on their drug habits! I’ve seen this before with many people.</p>
<p>I’ve been married for 26 years and I can tell you that if you want a successful marriage, you need to work together as a team in all aspects of your lives. If you can’t do that, that means someone is hiding something and it will hurt you both when it comes out into the open. </p>
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		<title>BJ&#8217;s BLOG 10/20/11 &#8220;Howie Kendrick&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a story about Anaheim Angel’s player Howie Kendrick that shows how ungrateful some athletes can be. 
Allegedly, Howie and his wife made an 8-year-old boy cry when he refused to sign a baseball card for him.
According to an Orange Country woman, Howie moved into their neighborhood for the remainder of the Angels’ season [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read a story about Anaheim Angel’s player Howie Kendrick that shows how ungrateful some athletes can be. </p>
<p>Allegedly, Howie and his wife made an 8-year-old boy cry when he refused to sign a baseball card for him.</p>
<p>According to an Orange Country woman, Howie moved into their neighborhood for the remainder of the Angels’ season and out of respect, they didn’t bother him until the day that he was moving out. When the 8-year-old asked for his autograph, Howie refused by saying, ‘It’s not going to happen’ and that we were rude for asking.”</p>
<p>The mother claims that Howie’s wife Jody then came out of the house and said, “I can’t believe you’re still standing here. This is really rude and it’s not going to happen. It’s sad that you’re still standing here.”</p>
<p> Can you believe that? It drives me insane to see how big of a-holes some of these sports players are today. It’s usually the American players who are the worst; they act like spoiled rich brats and don’t try to provide the best customer service possible to their fans! </p>
<p>I would understand if Howie did this to an adult because more likely than not they just want to sell the autographed item, but this was an 8-year-old kid! Is there anything more iconic then a kid with his baseball or baseball card in his hands, hoping to have one of the big stars to sign it? It is the beautiful family friendly image and yet Howie allegedly acted like a jerk about the whole thing, probably ruining it forever for this kid. </p>
<p>I have something to tell you Howie Kendrick, if I was the owner of the Angels or if I was manager Mike Scioscia, we would having a meeting where I tear you a new one for not understanding that this is not what you want to be in the news for! Whenever you do something that doesn’t shine you in a positive light, it will hit the news almost instantly! </p>
<p>The reason you get to go out and play ball for a living and get paid a ridiculous amount to do so is because of fans like that little boy, and by not signing one card and being a jerk, you just lost the respect of hundreds, possibly thousands of fans. </p>
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		<title>BJ&#8217;s BLOG 10/19/11 &#8220;Fantasy&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We received an email from “Jane” who needed some Group Therapy. She has been married to her husband since August and they’ve been together for three years.
Recently they had a conversation about fantasies, which they have never done before, and it left Jane a little freaked out. 
Her husband told her that his hottest fantasy [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We received an email from “Jane” who needed some Group Therapy. She has been married to her husband since August and they’ve been together for three years.</p>
<p>Recently they had a conversation about fantasies, which they have never done before, and it left Jane a little freaked out. </p>
<p>Her husband told her that his hottest fantasy he has is to have her get it on with another guy while he watches.  </p>
<p>First off, nothing good ever comes from talking about your fantasies if you’re married. Steve suggested making up something that is very safe like, “my fantasy is to wake up next to you every day,” because she will most likely get put off or mad at anything else. </p>
<p>Men, I’m telling you right now, DO NOT tell your wife something about you that is a little “off” in your life. Don’t tell her the truth about her appearance and don’t tell her truth about something about you that is a little “freaky”. Subscribe to the rule that if you can’t tell your mom something freaky that you enjoy or are interested in , don’t tell your woman. </p>
<p>Reason being, there are two things you will most likely never find: Sasquatch and a non-judgmental woman. </p>
<p>Sadly it’s the way it’s become, and if you ladies really want true honesty from your man, then spread the word to your fellow woman get of their high horses and stop putting down men for liking something that is encoded in their biology. </p>
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		<title>BJ&#8217;s BLOG 10/18/11 &#8220;Charity&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kisw.com/bjshea/2011/10/18/bjs-blog-101811-charity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, during Group Therapy, I read an email from Justin who was having problems with his company.
His company is a part of a charity and even though participation was required, donating is not; however, he has to respond to emails saying he doesn’t want to donate. The only reason Justin thinks they are being pressured [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday, during Group Therapy, I read an email from Justin who was having problems with his company.</p>
<p>His company is a part of a charity and even though participation was required, donating is not; however, he has to respond to emails saying he doesn’t want to donate. The only reason Justin thinks they are being pressured so much into donating is because their CEO of their company is also a chairman for the charity. </p>
<p>Justin wanted to know if it was right that he had to go out of his way to say that he doesn’t want to donate, or if other companies do this as well.</p>
<p>The fact that he has to respond to these emails just to say “no” is a very lame, strong armed tactic by the boss. </p>
<p>I believe that charities are like religion; it should be something personal and you shouldn’t be questioned or forced to participate in a charity that you don’t think is for you…just like you shouldn’t participate in a religion you don’t think is for you. </p>
<p>We had a listener named Tim call in telling us the company he used to work for used to chase him around just to donate; at that point, you know it’s no longer a charity, but a religion.</p>
<p>Whenever somebody thinks they have an idea that everyone should follow and then forces it on them, it becomes a religion, and religions can be dangerous. Don’t believe me? Look at September 11th. </p>
<p>Never donate to a cause you don’t believe in, find a charity that suits your life and give to that; don’t let anyone push you to do otherwise. </p>
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		<title>BJ&#8217;s BLOG 10/17/11 &#8220;Hackers&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we talked about Chris Chaney, the 35-year-old Florida man who was arrested for hacking into the email accounts of several celebrities, including Scarlett Johansson and Christina Aguilera. We all remember this incident because it is how the nude pictures of Scarlett Johansson surfaced. 
Chaney has now come out claiming that he didn’t hack [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week we talked about Chris Chaney, the 35-year-old Florida man who was arrested for hacking into the email accounts of several celebrities, including Scarlett Johansson and Christina Aguilera. We all remember this incident because it is how the nude pictures of Scarlett Johansson surfaced. </p>
<p>Chaney has now come out claiming that he didn’t hack into their accounts for “monetary gain” but because he became “addicted” to looking behind the curtain of famous people’s lives. </p>
<p>Chaney said, “It started as curiosity and it turned into just being, you know, addicted to seeing the behind-the-scenes of what’s going on with these people you see on the big screen every day.I was almost relieved months ago when [the authorities] came in and took the computers… because I didn’t know how to stop doing it myself.”</p>
<p>I can’t stand it anymore; everything is a freaking addiction now! We’ve created a society of losers by basically saying they can make an excuse for anything. </p>
<p>They should make an example of Chaney because as much as people like to see pictures of Scarlett Johansson, it’s still an invasion of her privacy and she doesn’t deserve something that awful happening to her. </p>
<p>He faces 26 counts of computer hacking and can spend up to 121 years in federal prison, and I say go ahead and give him the whole 121 years! </p>
<p>We need to start teaching people that no, you are not special, that you can’t get away with everything, and you will be punished when you behave like an idiot.</p>
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		<title>BJ&#8217;s BLOG 10/14/11 &#8220;Coupons&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BJ Shea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a survey from&#160;Couponcabin.com that found that bringing a coupon on a first date is no longer frowned upon.
Of the people surveyed, 26% of them said they would react positively to a coupon on their first outing. Also, 73% of them said they that if their date used a coupon, they would stay on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read a survey from&nbsp;<a href="http://Couponcabin.com" title="http://Couponcabin. " target="_blank">Couponcabin.com</a> that found that bringing a coupon on a first date is no longer frowned upon.</p>
<p>Of the people surveyed, 26% of them said they would react positively to a coupon on their first outing. Also, 73% of them said they that if their date used a coupon, they would stay on the date and go out with them again.</p>
<p>Here is what the survey found when they asked under which dating circumstances they find acceptable for coupon use:</p>
<p>&#8211;Anytime: 73 percent</p>
<p>&#8211;When you&#8217;re married: 37 percent</p>
<p>&#8211;When you&#8217;re a student: 32 percent</p>
<p>&#8211;As long as it is not on the first date: 16 percent</p>
<p>&#8211;Never: 4 percent</p>
<p> This is very interesting because it shows that thriftiness may now be a quality people are looking for in a partner. </p>
<p>It wasn’t always like this; I’ve heard so many women who are well educated and intelligent talk about this, and it just frustrates the hell out of me because they just open their big fat mouths and complain that a man should never use a coupon on the first date! </p>
<p>When I’ve asked them why a man shouldn’t use a coupon on the first date, they have given me the dumbest response: “Oh because everybody knows that!” </p>
<p>That’s when I tell “little Miss Educated” that her “reason” is just an emotional rant, not an answer.  </p>
<p>I don’t think a man ever gets a fair return on the free meal he gives to a woman, unless he gets to have sex with her that night. Some men might disagree with me because they are looking to form something long term eventually, but if you take a look at the amount of all the first meals we’ll see that most of them didn’t pan out into anything. </p>
<p>Look at this economy! It would be stupid to not try and save a few bucks here and there, especially when it comes to something that can be fairly expensive like dating.</p>
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