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[Sue]

Well, this isn’t WS, it was at 3rd & University right now – a woman riding a bike down the sidewalk with a red lace veil on her head, sunglasses, and a white plastic tiara, carrying tons of stuffed plastic shopping bags.

[Anonymous]

austin – That is extremely odd.

When we first moved here (October), we noticed a particular light pole in our neighborhood that was always covered with fliers for lost pets.

One day, as we drove by this light pole, we noticed a flier that had a picture of a gold fish in a tank with the word “LOST” above it.

Not really ODD, but also not something you see everyday and we got a kick out of it.

[charlabob]

OK, the best search can’t help me — but you guys can: A while back someone mentioned a family-owned grocery (Italian). I think the person who mentioned it actually worked there, and other chimed in about how good it was. What was it?

I *love* Tony’s — and the WS Farmers’ Market — which will be the closest place to get Herban Feast goodies now that they’ve moved.

The longer we stay on our month of Atkins, the more I want the veggies and the fruits, and, of course, bread and cupcakes — except they’re never coming back.

[Anonymous]

From an outsider (not involved in this discussion) looking in, I have to agree with JanS.

Why is no one talking about ISSUES?

Who cares about polls, ratings, percentages, etc.? It’s boring and tiring.

JoB certainly has had her work cut out for herself. Although I don’t always agree with JoB’s opinion on things or how she comes about to have a particular opinion, she is doing a wonderful job of questioning Obama and his entire campaign.

At the very least, for anyone who may be undecided, she is casting doubt and raising very legitimate questions regarding Obama’s message, his past, his work ethic, etc..

For people that want to look at every aspect of this election, every option they have to choose from and is willing to educate themselves of all issues, JoB provides a good foundation.

I know that Obama supporter’s want to talk about “CHANGE”. Nothing specific is every illustrated to support the change Obama will bring. HOW will he bring change?

What I know so far is our taxes will go up, our military will be weakened, Government programs that have been proven not to work will continue to not work.

Obama can say whatever he wants about the war or how he felt about engaging in the war because he didn’t vote either way. He wasn’t even in the senate.

I find it amusing, also, that besides never mentioning military service as a noble way to serve your country during his *Memorial* Day Commencement speech, he spoke of giving back and not aspiring to attain the “American Dream”.

Isn’t America founded on living the American Dream. To become successful and prosperous? Yet, Obama is telling America that we shouldn’t want that. And he’s telling us this in his $3000.00 Armani suit and then goes home to his 2.0 million dollar home.

He’s a hypocritical fraud and no link to some liberal website, no poll and rating statistic and no name calling will ever change my mind of that fact.

My $0.02

[austin]

I see bizarre stuff every time I walk out the door. I don’t see the homeless or road rage incidents to be odd exactly. I did see a guy riding a bike on the upper bridge a few days ago, that was sorta odd.

My most memorable recent experience with oddity was a couple of weeks ago on the bus (I was on the bus; the odd thing was not). I took the 54 out of downtown and was heading towards bev place. We (the bus) were stopped at the light at alaska & fauntleroy when I saw an otherwise normal looking adult male exit the shell station with a gallon of milk. The light was about to change so he hurried across fauntleroy, darting suspicious glances all around while he opened up the milk. He then continued in a rapid fashion down alaska and proceeded to pour the milk out onto the sidewalk very carefully, in segments about six feet long and six feet apart as he continued his rapid gait. He continued to do this as long as he was in my range of vision (the light changed, the bus went on its way). Questions that persist include, Why was he pouring the milk out? Why was he being so careful about where it fell despite obviously being in a hurry? What was the nature of his suspicion? Does the Shell station even sell milk by the gallon?

[pbgirl423]

Are you open to taking your kids to a private home where a stay at home mom with two of her own school age children live? My neighbor is currently taking care of a 1.5 & 3 year old until August and is looking for one or two more children to take care of . Reply back here if you’d like me to ask her to contact you!

[charlabob]

Clinton is very lucky that people fixated on whether or not she was recommending the assassination of Barack Obama (she wasn’t!) Not even subliminally!

In the very same sentence, she used her husband’s nomination as an example of something that wasn’t settled until June. Her husband had the nomination sewn up in March. As I said before, I was a die-hard Jerry Brown supporter — so I know, only too well, when it was over.

BTW, Jerry is now Attorney General of California and his office, doing background research, is one of the reasons that single-sex couples will be able to marry in California, starting June 17.

BTW II — the privileged classes have tried, for decades, to pit the under-classes (women, minority, gays, the disabled) against each other. I thought we’d learned better. I really didn’t expect to see white women making the “we’re more oppressed” argument again in my lifetime. (There is plenty to go around — we just take it away from smug white men.) Apparently I lived too long. :-)

BTW III: I lied earlier — I don’t fit the demographic; I am college educated. That must be my fatal flaw.

[Bikefor1]

OMG, Huindekmi, that’s frickin hilarious! You need to submit that to http://www.overheardeverywhere.com/. I think it’s ok that you were in the conversation and didn’t actually overhear it. ;-)

[WSB]

We get lots of e-mail about interesting sightings and post many of them on the main page, and also get sightings that require some followup, which we then do. The forum’s open for that too — it’s why we keep “open discussion” and several other topic areas rather than silo’ing everything off into very specific topic areas — you never know what amazing, interesting, helpful, annoying, heartening, whatever’ing post will pop up next! – TR

[walfredo]

JoB- When you are in a hole stop digging.

I think that is a pretty controversial statement to say that white women in America, from a historical context have had it much worse then black men…

“I don’t think its that Hillary ran a bad campaign, the media created a hostile environment?”

Oh my lord! 3 of her top staff that SHE HANDSELECTED either got fired or resigned in disgrace during this campaign. She stated, the race ends Feb. 5th, and was fully onboard with the plan not to compete in caucas states, not to have a plan for the elections after Feb 5th… She ran out of money a dozen times, didn’t pay bills, borrowed money from her husband and his sketchy foreign business partners to keep her campaign going.

But most importantly, and may we never forget: She decided to support this war. She positioned herself as the “inevitable candidate”, the incumbent who’d be “ready from day one”. She refused to apologize for her Iraq vote, directly positioning her as the most hawkish of all the primary candidates on Iraq. A position she devined as a way to be “tough” in the general election, thinking she would easily win the primary anyway. The media didn’t do any of this… It’s delusional to suggest it.

People, especially egg-headed liberals, who sip lattes, and you know read the paper and stuff- saw her recent switch as a completely hedged “anti” war candidate, to be completely insincere, and they voted against her. In large numbers. In fact, in Iowa- Mrs. Ineviatble got 26% of the vote and finished 3rd.

That is why she lost this election, make up whatever story you want, but us egghead, moron, latte-drinkers remember how ineffective it was to have a candidate argue 4 years ago that they were voting for the war, before they were voting against it. That they stood by the president, for in her case 6 years; but now brought a real division from him and his failed policies.

Now that is why she lost, but why she is starting to be hated, is everything that she has done since she lost this race in early March. And everything she continues to do.

Please justify for me the current proposition to award Barack 0 votes, and 0 delegates in Michigan that her campaign is proposing Sunday. Please explain to me how that would be a victory for democracy… How using North Korea type election results, to position a candidate closer to a position where “super people” can overturn the results of the elections and place her in office. Please explain how that is a victory for democracy…

[JanS]

my take on the RFK thing…allthe above rhetoric aside. The primaries used to end in June with the biggie, California. What Hillary was trying to say was…no one should drop out at another’s urging because, after all, so many things were decided then…in Calif. There are many many examples of campaigns that went into June…and she was right to say it shouldn’t end now, but be seen to the end. She used extremely poor judgement in the example that she used…and she said almost the same thing a few months ago, but it was glossed over. I understood what she meant. But, still, she’s a smart woman, and should have known that it wasn’t brilliant on her part to actually say the “a” word. She could have been more general than that. People who are so against Hillary jumped on it immediately. And a slow news day became frantic for the media. Never did I think that she meant that she was waiting in the wings, etc.

Havinf said that..we all know that in this country there are people who just need a glimmer of suggestion…that’s why you don’t verbalize something like that, even if you didn’t mean how it’s portrayed…so, yes, very poor judgement on her part.

And…education is everything. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a college education…there are many ways to get it. My daughter has a 50K a year job with a highschool education. And, there is probably room for her to move up…how nice is that.

But let’s get real..the “racism”, the “sexism”…the belief that he is Muslim, despite information to the contrary, the belief that women support her just because she’s a woman (or that men vote against, because she’s a woman)…it all comes from ignorance…just my opinion.

In all of those posts this morning, I didn’t see one discussion on issues…are they that unimportant? I guess I don’t get it…and people, people…please stop taking things so personally…there’s a lot to be done between now and August, between now and November. The more that I hear John McCain in the news going from place to place, stumping, telling me that how dare Barack even mention the military because he didn’t serve (nor did Hill, but no one brings that up), or the more I hear about how he will continue the policies that exist now, the sicker I get. And we’re creaming each other here, for what? to make a point?

Hillary has my respect…always has…Kayleigh has my respect, as does JT, and Charla, and JoB, and anyone else on here who puts thought into the important things facing us.

but it’s getting petty…and that, IMO, is beneath all of us…we’re better than that…

going to my corner now…

[JoB]

Kayleigh..

just for fun..

how is all this transcending supposed to take place?

Or is it that America needs to transcend it’s feelings of disenfranchisement when a much smarter and wiser and better Obama decides what’s best for them?

Labeling people as racist or ignorant isn’t a good promising start at anything resembling national conversation…

Most people don’t like being talked down to..

as many of you have been so willing to point out to me when i tried to provide an alternative point of view…

or another way of saying that..

when i told you what you didn’t want to hear…

toodles.. i have errands.

[Anonymous]

OMG!! I love Hilary too!! She spells her name with one L though, Hilary Swank that is.

[JoB]

beachdrivegirl..

you are verging on being abusive…

i don’t know how old your mom is.. but from your age i would guess that she was married some time after the return of World War II vets made a real change in the perception of romance in this country.

There is no other factor i can think of that had such an impact on women’s lives.. and ultimately on yours…. than World War II.

I would guess she was married after women got a taste of what it was like to hold jobs and make decisions on their own… and then were told to go back to the kitchens like good little girls and let men make decisions for them when their men returned from the war…

of course, if they didn’t have a man.. they were supposed to find one.. because they sure weren’t going to be paid a living wage for their work… widowed or not… they weren’t even paid equally to men during the war…

In fact, I would guess she was even married after 1960… because i am the child of a woman who only got to watch her much older sisters taste freedom during the War… I wasn’t married until 1969… and i suspect my grown children are substantially older than you…

You might ask her about some of the things i related before you decide that if my mouth is moving it must be a lie…

You might actually read some of the wide body of literature that is finally surfacing about what it was has been like to be female in this society..

in fact.. even more entertaining is to look at a history of law right here in Washington… which by the way.. was known for being one of the more progressive places to be a woman.

I am positive you would find even an honest conversation with your mother pretty enlightening…

if she is much younger than i.. she will have only heard about the abuses i lived in their last years…

but i am sure she will still have plenty of stories to tell.

we all do.

[squareeyes]

I’ve always been satisfied with the alterations (primarily trouser hemming) at the cleaners near Yummy Teriyaki and feel that $10 is reasonable.

Can anyone advise what other tailors are charging to hem a pair of trousers/jeans?

I guess if I were having an evening gown altered I would probably try Mrs. Kim based on the other recommendations. She sounds wonderful.

[meg]

So perhaps saturday june 7th…maybe around 530pm? Lladro? Or C&P (can get coffee or wine/beer there)? Or any other suggestions?

[Anonymous]

An idea popped into my head the other day for what I think might be an interesting topic. Can people report odd, weird, strange, unexplained (etc) things they have seen around West Seattle? For example, last night, I saw a guy walking up the eastbound hill of the West Seattle bridge as in he was heading up to 35th on the narrow curb.. how did he get there, there was no stalled vehicle anywhere. Homeless are beginning to beg for money at intersections like other areas of downtown. Or, maybe you have seen acts of road rage like I have seen or confrontations at construction sites, UFO’s, El Chupacabra, etc..

[JoB]

kayleigh..

Hillary didn’t raise the ugly possibility of harm to her opponent.

The media did. The backlash from the Obama campaign did. The blogs did. They chose to make a lot more out of her comment than was in it.

Hillary simply defended her choice to stay in the race by naming another very popular candidate who still had not earned his party’s nomination by June.

But then this won’t be the first thing that Hillary has been accused of that has become part of the folklore of what passes as truth here…

I am not the least bit blind to Hillary’s faults.. and to say that i would defend her for harming animals totally ignores the fact that i have taken two dogs into my home who would have otherwise been euthanized and have gone to both the expense and the actual work of providing a safe environment for them and for my neighbors…

That was an exceedingly bad choice of examples.

But that you would even choose such an example does say a great deal about how you view Hillary… and why i have spent the last few months doing little more than defending her.

there are things i know about Hillary that i think are indefensible.. but i am not about to share any more of that here because i don’t have the same freedom to talk about what Obama has done that i find equally indefensible…

The response to Hillary’s right to even campaign on this site has stilled a great deal of what could have been passionate and positive conversation..

As for who would defend their candidate no matter what they did.. i think you don’t have to look further than the mirror for that..

it is really telling that the only way anyone replies to any question about Obama is by attacking Hillary…

And yet every time i point out that this is an anti-Hillary campaign i get a chorus of boohoos for her presenting herself as a victim…

I hear a lot of “i respect her, but”…

and then i am treated to one more interpretation of the intentions behind something she has said or done… which are always construed as malicious.

after all, she is a woman who will stab puppies…

What i don’t hear is any respect for her right to be a candidate…

I also don’t hear any respect for the rights of others to hold opinions differing from your own.

That example was far from respectful Kayleigh…

and yes.. i do expect better from you. I suspect that you expect better from yourself.

[beachdrivegirl]

You are absolutely right JoB Hillary is a Goddess and the *perfect* person to represent the Democratic party for the next election because she is the only won who will get the womens vote. These women, that including my mom, all had arranged marriages.( I was shocked to learn this myself here my parents had this love story about how they met when they were 16-but she grew up in that generation and JoB said it so it must be…)And furthermore she should get the nomination because not only has she not run a winning campaign or mismanaged her finances but because the majority of voters out there just are elitist bullys that were just plain biased towards her. Because we have no idea what is best for us. I am not quite sure how I didnt see the bigger picture in time to go to the Cuacus for her…(Yes the cuacus that President Bill Clinton does not think should count now.)I am going to start campaigning for her now….

[Kayleigh]

My armchair psychoanalysis of Hillary, worth what you paid for it: ;-)

She is stuck in a place where she alternately plays the 3 sides of the triangle: Victim, Perpetrator, and Rescuer. She plays whichever one she thinks will work to get her what she wants.

First, she’s a victim of the media, of sexism, of Obama, of Obama supporters, of anything.

Then, she victimizes Obama with her very ill conceived remarks, ads, gutter campaigning, etc.

Then she offers to rescue the people that the Republicans (and Obama) have victimized, what with all the arugula-eating elitism and outsourcing and all.

Maybe politics in 2008 has come to this, to a large extent. But Obama offers the hope of another way,a way of personal power and hope and transcending the hate and pettiness.

He has his work cut out for him.

[JanS]

jiggers…unfortunately, you’re limiting yourself by what you can afford…I understand that…but sometimes you have to go with something small until the right thing comes along. I know that the SeaTimes used to have a huge “sharing” section….you might look to see if they still have it. :)

[charlabob]

OK, we want to talk about anger? I am a white woman of exactly the Clinton demographic and I am mad as hell–that Clinton and a *small minority* of her supporters are making women look like idiots and making it likely that the Democratic party will lose an election they should have won.

Notice I acknowledge that it is a small minority of her supporters — but, because the story is “interesting” and because they have a lot of clout, they appear to be a majority.

I have no idea what that does to the notion of media bias. But I also know that if anyone who claims to be a progressive isn’t railing against the absolute PASS that the media is giving McCain, they should sit down, shut up, look around and think about what they’re doing. That’s where the damned media bias is.

Every time I see Geraldine Ferraro, I want to throw something. Yeah, a lot of horrible s**t happened to women. And still does. And to me. And that doesn’t have a damned thing to do with entitlement or with who is the best candidate. (Interesting that the major whiner about sexism from the Clinton campaign is that little old bubba, Bill.)

I am angry because this is desperate BS that is destroying the Democratic party’s possibility of winning an election that should be a run-away.

I do not doubt that the small minority of very angry women are, in fact, very angry. And that they are entitled to that feeling. But the rest of us are to call BS on this whole thing — as I do.

[JoB]

JT..

you hit the nail on the head.. tho i think you have the perspective a little wrong…

i know you were talking about comments about Obama when you said..

“*you’re being mean, you’re being mean*. How do you communicate with that mind set?”

but i would ask you….

how you do communicate with that mind set?

She’s a liar.. she lies.. she cheats.. she dirty… she is stealing the election from the people… she is a war monger… she is a closet republican… She is in bed with republicans.. she is no better than a republican… she can’t even run her family… she was no more than a wife…

do any of those phrases ring a bell? I heard each and every one of them at the democratic caucus in this state… and those are the phrases that were fit to print.

I don’t think it is so much that Clinton ran a bad campaign.. but that the media created a hostile environment that allowed Obama to campaign on Clinton’s platform.

it is no coincidence that there are frequent comparisons between Obama’s campaign and Bill Clinton’s campaign… Take a good look at it and you will find a great deal of comparison…

Add in a lot of “she’s a racist.. they’re racists…”

Throw in the bloggers.. and heck.. you have a winning combination…

Talk about taking apage out of the Krl Rove playbook. spend an hour or so on Huffington’s site with a critical eye and you might have a hard time distinguishing it from similar republican sites…

and she has the full cooperation of the Obama campaign.

The problem is that most of the media campaign.. both in regular media news and on the blogs has been an anti-Hillary campaign.

so while everyone thinks they know a great deal about Hillary, the same can’t be said of Obama. This leaves us with a possible candidate that noone knows…

and quite frankly his campaign has offended enough that many aren’t interested in getting to know him now.

His strategy worked great for a primary…

Will it work this fall? and will you like who you have become if it does?

good questions…

[Kayleigh]

Jo, I honestly think you would defend Hillary no matter what she did. If they caught her stabbing a small animal, you would find a way to defend that. After all, men stab small animals all the time. And someone Obama rode a plane with once stabbed a small animal. And the animal probably deserved it because it was sexist. And everybody knows that animals like Socks the Cat were part of the vast right wing conspiracy.

Now you are reaching to justify the very worst thing that Hillary did: to raise the ugly possibility of harm to her opponent.

[charlabob]

Pat Schroeder had quite a bit to say about being lumped with undereducated white women last week.

Sounds pretty damned elitist to me.