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Counter-demonstrators dressed as zombies outnumbered protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church at a military base near DuPont, Washington over the weekend.

Melissa Neace, 27, launched a Facebook group to organize the zombies event after she learned that the radical ant-LGBT church would be picketing Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Seattle.

"We wanted to turn something negative around, into something people could laugh at and poke fun at," Neace explained to The News Tribune. "It was the easiest way to divert attention from something so hateful."

Over 200 people committed to attending the event on Saturday, which she called "Zombie’ing Westboro Baptist Church AWAY from Fort Lewis!"

The specific reason for Westboro's protest was not immediately clear, but church members at the event ranted that God was killing U.S. soldiers because of LGBT rights.

"Amazon’s founder said today he’s going to put $2.5 million in the kitty," one protester told KIRO-TV. "Amazon.com’s founder (donated) to push for fag marriage in the state of Washington."

"And you think God kills soldiers because of that?" the reporter asked.

"Absolutely, he does," the protester insisted.

(h/t: The Huffington Post)

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After the popularity of the movie Kick-Ass last year you knew it was only a matter of time. The citizens of Lynnwood, Washington are now being protected by Phoenix Jones.

From KIROTV:

LYNNWOOD, Wash. -- A local man said he came within seconds of having his car broken into, and perhaps stolen, until a real-life “superhero" came to his aid, wearing tights, a mask and a skin-tight super suit.

The encounter started in Lynnwood Sunday evening when a man, who asked to be identified only as Dan, was walking back to his car in a parking lot when he saw a man with a metal strip trying to pry open his car.

“He started sticking it down between the window and the rubber strip,” said Dan.

Dan began to call 911, but said help arrived before he even finished dialing.

“From the right, this guy comes dashing in, wearing this skin-tight rubber, black and gold suit, and starts chasing him away,” said Dan.

What Dan didn’t know is that just about every night, an anonymous Seattle man strolls into a comic store, enters a hidden back room and emerges transformed.

KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Monique Ming Laven met him.

“My name is Phoenix Jones,” said the man.

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David Gregory has a Freudian slip and admits what we all know already: That the "Tea Party" is nothing but a force "within" the Republican Party. This interview is from Seattle's KING5.

Anchor: How significant do you think the Tea Party is as you travel across the country and it's not just Christine O'Donnell...

Gregory: It's not.

Anchor: It's the Tea Party-ism everywhere.

Gregory: It is the most animating force right now in the Republican Party as it tries to figure out what it wants to be. It really captures the frustration that government is spending too much, borrowing too much and doesn't seem to be getting a lot done and in many ways it's a call for a return to more tried and true conservative values, the entrenchment of government. It's not dissimilar from Ross Perot in 1992, focused on debt, focused on borrowing and focused on some of the insanity in Washington D.C.

Anchor: So a good decision on the part of the Republican Party to embrace some of these Tea Party candidates?

Gregory: Well, I mean they don't have much of a choice. I mean they're riding a tiger. In some cases they've rather not. I mean in Delaware it certainly is not helping their chances of picking up that Senate seat.

They're in a position where they've got to try to manage this. They want the enthusiasm the Tea Party brings and then the long term is a little more problematic in terms of what happens if they actually get elected.

This was a welcome admission by Gregory -- whether he meant to or not -- that there is no daylight between the Republican Party and the movement by the extreme right wing of their base that's labeled itself the "Tea Party," a wing co-opted by the astroturfers like Dick Armey and Tim Phillips.

That "tiger" Gregory is talking about is nothing more than just that, their base and that "problem" he's acknowledging is that these wingnuts aren't going to care much for governing if or once they get elected. This "Tea Party" has managed to get the media to pretend like they're some new party instead of a problem for the Republican Party, since they're moving them way to the right when they were too far to the right already.

Since the media have now decided to re-brand them as something separate from the Republicans, it looks like they've won the PR war with the corporate media. No shock there, but every once in awhile they let one slip and tell the truth like Gregory does here. These teabaggers are a force within the Republican Party and anyone who pretends like they're not is either willfully ignorant or lying.

h/t Kathy

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December 28, 2009 KOMO 4 News

Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson, a Seattle Democrat who is sponsoring the legalization bill in Washington state, said that she "wanted to start a strong conversation about the pros and cons of legalizing marijuana."

Under her bill, marijuana would be sold in Washington state's 160 state-run liquor stores, and customers, 21 and older, would pay a tax of 15 percent per gram. The measure would dedicate most of the money raised for substance abuse prevention and treatment, which is facing potential cuts in the state budget. Dickerson said the measure could eventually bring in as much to state coffers as alcohol does, more than $300 million a year.

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