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[flowerpetal]

Thanks GT. Is that the corner where the KeyBank is now?

[Jiggers]

And the Rocksport will be gone soon too. :(

[ellenater]

Wendy,

Thanks so much!! Looks really great. I put a call in to Steve…

I think you nailed the West Seattle vibe as being sort of small towny feeling. But then it has all the great beauty and some great amenities too. I grew up in Rock Creek which was very small at the time. My husband grew up in rural Maine and Albany, NY.

We are very eco-minded BTW. If we’d stayed in Eugene, we would have had a cob house. They have a great alternative building community down there…

Thanks again!!

[GT]

West Seattle hospital was on California/Alaska on top floor of a bank, my brothers were all born there.

A new hospital was built on Holden St, and I was born at that one in ’64.

[saney]

i was less than impressed with Squid and Ink. terrible service, so-so food, unappetizing environment.

[flowerpetal]

I have called and filed complaints on line for abandoned vehicles. It has done no good because the truck and the mobile home get moved after the orange sticker is placed.

With regards to the Aloha Towing reference, I’m not sure what you are suggesting here.

[charlabob]

NR, Beato is open every day except Monday — 5-10 weekdays, 5-11 weekends. I’m anxious to hear what you guys think when you finally get there.

http://www.beatoseattle.com/about.php

We still haven’t made it to Springhill because we’re carpooling these days and tend to drop by for early dinner after work — by 5:45 we’ve eaten leftovers at home and settled in front of the Tivo and computer screens, respectively. Maybe I’ll drive more slowly tonight.

[shihtzu]

I like Blackbird for dinner and really liked their breakfast. We always go to the Thai place in the junction (by curious kidstuff), but I’d like to try Buddha Ruksa. When I can ignore the TVs I’ve really liked Talaricos too.

I also really like Luna Park cafe, and of course Charlestown Cafe.

[beachdrivegirl]

Oh I forgot we got the chocolate cake and it was to die for!:)

[rs261]

Nader (and the green party in general) have horrible economic policies. Maximum Income: Build into the progressive income tax a 100% tax on all income over ten times the minimum wage.

You will never get a majority of people to vote for you if you limit earnings.

Socialism is a step backwards for the US, not a step forward. Even Europe doesnt have a 100% income tax bracket.

Nader is crazy. I did vote for him once upon a time, in order to try and get the green party federal funding. Thankfully I’ve always lived in a state with an overwhelming majority of voters in one direction or the other…so I could waste my vote.

[kestricker]

We went for dinner on Saturday night. The salmon was wonderful. BF had the burger which was good, the fries so so. We really liked the look and feel of the place, although a bit loud, hard to have a conversation with normal talking tone. We will go back for sure- I must try the chocolate cake with PB ice cream next time.

[changingtimes]

there is also a campfire girls camp in lincoln park. I am actually in the middle of doing the same thing, i was looking at the camps at the science center! they look pretty cool and not as pricey as i thought it would be.

[walfredo]

Best sports bar in West Seattle hands down is RockSport. They have a 100+ inch HD projector screen that will have the game, plus plasmas all around. Great bar food, especially the nachos, and reasonable drinks.

[changingtimes]

Aloha Towing

253-508-1366 they supposidly do it for free you can leave that number on there windshield.

i know 253 number but they work in this area.

i personally would just call the abandoned vehicle line at

206-684-8763 there was an empty van parked outside my house for weeks i called this number and they took it away.

[keleeso]

Golly – I almost forgot: The Squid and Ink. It is a little vegan place in Georgetown. The staff is pierced and tatooed, the place is small, the music is loud and the food is fantastic!

[walfredo]

Jak’s, and La Rustica are tough to beat.

Also a big fan of Ama Ama, Blackbird, Mashiko, and thought Springhill was very good.

[charlabob]

Any ideas on local sports or normal bars likely to have at least one television connected to the Celtics-Lakers series that starts Thursday? Yeah, I’m a die-hard Celtics fan — I even have a chunk of the original parquet floor — but this is also a historic game IMNHO — we’d love to watch it out and about with friends (or, barring that, with people who know a basketball from a soccer ball.) Sorry, but people who are used to the Sonics might not be longing to watch basketball…so I thought I’d ask here.

[flowerpetal]

Thanks JT. It was fun rereading that link. Seems that more than one person remembers the hospital being on one of the corners of California and Alaska. I wonder which corner.

[walfredo]

Ralph Nader is completely right about his criticisms of the two party system. He has long established himself as a strong advocate of consumers, and government regulation to hold the corporate power structure accountable.

He should be commended for his lifetime of achievements. But, as far as being a presidential candidate, he is a terrible one. He is not a strong speaker, does not inspire people to coalesce. He is even older then McCain now. His ego destroyed the Green Party’s emergence after 2000, and he has done nothing in 20+ years to build the groundwork for a feasible third party, which most folks would agree would be more successfully built at the district and local level, then with continued national presidential campaigns…

Nader has a point that Obama is not perfect, and there are still many issues that are dominated by the two parties, where views overlap.

There is no candidate that would win Nader’s endorsement, as he runs himself every year and always endorses himself. This is I believe, his 5th presidential run? He got .5 percent of the vote in 2004 against Kerry and Bush. I would expect him to get less then that this time around…

[GreenSpaces]

I have been looking at rentals for almost three months – I do this for a living for my work as a relocation consultant for the Port of Seattle.

I saw a house Saturday that would be PERFECT for you. It’s at 5606 46th Ave SW. Call Steve at 406.690.0191. They have done a nice job in restoring an older home. Two bedrooms on the main floor and there is finished space and an office in the basement. Detached garage, tons of gardening space, if you like that sort of thing. They are pretty eco-conscious, too, if that’s your thing (I found I had a lot in common with them). Charming house, charming people. Tell them Wendy sent you.

PS My husband is from ALbany, OR and I am from Monroe, WA, both small country towns, and when we found West Seattle in 1997 when we were getting married we settled here and wouldn’t dream of moving! We love it here.

[Ken]

RE Barry Goldwater: I got yer liberal fanatic right here…

Barry Goldwater :

“I don’t have any respect for the Religious Right.”

“Every good Christian should line up and kick Jerry Falwell’s ass.”

“The religious factions will go on imposing their will on others,”

“A woman has a right to an abortion.”

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“I am a conservative Republican,” Barry Goldwater wrote in a 1994 Washington Post essay, “but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state.”

When Sandra Day O’Connor was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1981, some Religious Right leaders suspected she might be too moderate on abortion and other social concerns. Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell told the news media that “every good Christian should be concerned.” Replied Goldwater, “Every good Christian should line up and kick Jerry Falwell’s ass.”

The five-term U.S. senator from Arizona was equally unimpressed with TV preacher Pat Robertson. When Robertson sought the GOP nomination for president in 1988, Goldwater wasn’t about to say amen. “I believe in separation of church and state,” observed Goldwater. “Now, he doesn’t believe that . . . I just don’t think he should be running.”

A few years later he told The Advocate, “I don’t have any respect for the Religious Right. There is no place in this country for practicing religion in politics. That goes for Falwell, Robertson and all the rest of these political preachers. They are a detriment to the country.”

While some Americans might find Goldwater’s stand against all interaction between religion and politics too sweeping, many would agree with his strong commitment to individual freedom of conscience on issues as diverse as religion in schools, gay rights or abortion. In 1994 he told The Los Angeles Times, “A lot of so-called conservatives don’t know what the word means. They think I’ve turned liberal because I believe a woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.”

Goldwater, an Episcopalian, had theological differences with greedy TV preachers. “I look at these religious television shows,” he said, “and they are raising big money on God. One million, three million, five million – they brag about it. I don’t believe in that. It’s not a very religious thing to do.”

But Goldwater was also deeply worried about the Religious Right’s long-term impact on his beloved GOP. “If they succeed in establishing religion as a basic Republican Party tenet,” he told U.S. News & World Report in 1994, “they could do us in.” In an interview with The Post that same year, Goldwater observed, “When you say ‘radical right’ today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.”

But most importantly, Goldwater was deeply concerned about the Religious Right’s relentless war on the Constitution and basic American freedoms. In a Sept. 15, 1981 senate speech, Goldwater noted that Falwell’s Moral Majority, anti-abortion groups and other Religious Right outfits were sometimes referred to in the press as the “New Right” and the “New Conservatism.” Responded Goldwater, “Well, I’ve spent quite a number of years carrying the flag of the ‘Old Conservatism.’ And I can say with conviction that the religious issues of these groups have little or nothing to do with conservative or liberal politics. The uncompromising position of these groups is a divisive element that could tear apart the very spirit of our representative system, if they gain sufficient strength.” Insisted Goldwater, “Being a conservative in America traditionally has meant that one holds a deep, abiding respect for the Constitution. We conservatives believe sincerely in the integrity of the Constitution. We treasure the freedoms that document protects. . . “By maintaining the separation of church and state,” he explained, “the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars . . . Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northem Ireland, or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?”

Goldwater concluded with a waming to the American people. “The religious factions will go on imposing their will on others,” { he said,} “unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives. . . We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of state separate from the uncompromising idealism of religious groups and we mustn’t stop now” { he insisted}. “To retreat from that separation would violate the principles of conservatism and the values upon which the framers built this democratic republic.”

[Jiggers]

Talarico’s..by the way, I don’t know how people can read in the dark in a restaurant or bar, I think its stupid because your hurting your eyes without using regular light.

[keleeso]

Hillside quickies on 15th, the Healthy Headonist and a little noodle house (on John, just off Denny) are all on Capital Hill. My favorite place of all is Arayas – it is in the University district. These are all vegan resturaunts

[Jiggers]

LOL…..

[Ken]

Just for comparison, Abe Lincolns accomplishments before being elected President.

http://www.nps.gov/history/logcabin/html/al1.html

Does he seem closer to one candidate than the other?

Note: the Republican party was started as the “progressive reform” alternative to the Democrats at the time. They did not become the party of big business until the late 19th century.

Of course the terms progressive and reform had different meaning in those days so while the party was formed from the free soil movement (anti slavery in new states )and the Whigs (Legislative power should trump executive power as long as it is ours )it was conservative pretty much in the meaning that they wanted no slavery because they wanted no Blacks allowed in the western states (which included Ohio in those days). It was progressive in that it fought the consolidation of executive power in the hands of the president. The Whigs, Liberty party and the free soil party all pretty much imploded at the time of the Missouri compromise and their respective bases plus the conservative Dems of the time formed the Republican party.

The original Progressive party had similar chaotic roots as a splinter of the Republican party of 1912. (See Teddy Roosevelt) This is the party some pundits try to associate with those who currently use the progressive label. The progressive party had some good anti oligarchy platforms but also embraced eugenics based on an imperfect understanding of humanities place in evolutionary theory.

Enough history for today. Use google if you want more.