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[Jiggers]

I remember when you could rent the Chandalier for $350 a month 8 years ago. $700 to live in a an 50 year old brick building that can crash on your head during a big tremor, no thanks. At least Soundview Apts across is much newer but small, very samll units and even more ridiculous in price to rent. My friend is 6-3 and saw one of those units in Soundview a few years back, and said it made him feel like he was living in a jail cell they were so small. Its all about greed and location.

[Kayleigh]

Edited as I am losing my coherence.

[flowerpetal]

The Lost and Found phone number for Seattle Parks is 684-4075. Perhaps the camera owner has left a message there detailing his/her loss.

[Anonymous]

It’s possible it belonged to tourists who are long gone by now and not seeing your ads. Your efforts to return it, however, are very commendable.

[JoB]

rs261..

i think the poor ignorant racist masses made a better story than the fact that Obama didn’t bother to campaign in those states… especially when democrats bought it and chose to run indignantly with the story themselves.. thereby alienating those voters.

and they will righteously defend that story to the death.. no matter how many voters it costs them…

i think that one works better for the republican strategists than for democrats.

I can understand choosing not to actively campaign in your opponents home state earlier in the race to conserve resources….

but if Obama is truly campaigning against McCain as he had already presented himself doing.. wouldn’t it have been a wise strategy to begin in states which are more likely to vote republican with him as the nominee?

he certainly has ample funds.. so it is not a matter of conserving resources for him.

I think it was matter of saving face for him … if you don’t campaign.. you didn’t really lose…

but he did so at the cost of votes that democrats might not be able to regain this fall… votes we will need.

if we need all voters.. as he says. and he is campaigning against McCain now.. as he says… then he should be actively pursuing all voters… even those he thinks might be difficult to win over.

[Anonymous]

Hillary is held to a higher standard. Oh please. Could the media have played the Rev. Wright tapes any more than they did? They’ve dug up every person he’s met in his whole life to try and paint him in a bad light. The news is still discussing whether or not he has a stupid flag pin on. And people, no thanks to as far as I know Clinton, still think he’s a Muslim.

She should have known assassination is an inappropriate term because it has historic precedent and any one with half a brain, even me, knows not to bring it up.

I am getting really tired of being told that the Republicans are framing my thought processes. As if I am not capable of discerning what is factual and what is propaganda. I absorb everything from MSM, foreign press, blogs, national papers, radio, right and left, periodicals, weeklies, etc. Why is there the constant implication that Obama suporters are ill informed.

Talk about elitist thinking.

[beachdrivegirl]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-rosen/rupert-murdoch-says-obama_b_104018.html

WSJ owner and McCain friend predcits Obama as the winner of the general election!!

[Jerald]

Sounds like you have yourself a new camera. Sometimes it’s just the cosmic trade-off, making up for the time you lost something valuable. That’s how I see it.

[Jerald]

That wins the LOL prize, Huindekmi!

[JoB]

Kayleigh…

I didn’t say that education isn’t a core liberal value.

I said that lack of education has been used by the conservative press to blame those who are unemployed for their unemployment and to drive a wedge between those who are still making it and those who don’t.

and democrats are buying into that blame game when they begin to make distinctions between those who have the ability to make decisions in their best interests and those who don’t based on their educational status.

[JenV]

Aim- that’s the one. It’s called “the Chandalier”. I lived there for four years (1996-2000) and only moved b/c I had the opportunity to rent a house, and I wanted a cat. It really was/is a neat building.

[JoB]

beachdrivegirl…

I did not vote for Hillary just because she is a woman. I don’t support her just because she is a woman.

I do admit to a preference for her because she is a woman.. because of the inherent and social differences in thought process and priorities between men and women… and not just because of her sex. I had a dream .. of a woman in the white house who felt the well being of individuals was a priority and who had the political clout and experience to actually realize some of her goals… a shift in the direction of substantive change… So yes, her sex did matter.

I will admit there are those who would vote for her purely because of her sex… any woman for president.

However, the statistics don’t show that a preference for sex is the overriding factor with women that a preference for color is with blacks.

So explain to me why that statement can’t be made without being labeled racist?

That was the only point that Bill Clinton made in Mississippi about the high percentage of black vote when you came unhinged about his racist remarks.

There has been a huge unacknowledged double standard in this campaign…

[rs261]

Regarding secret service protection. They (the feds) offered it to Obama before anyone else. The reason? well, I imagine it has something to do with groups like the KKK. I can not think of a “organization” that tries to kill women on a regular basis. (not that the Klan, or aryan brotherhood, or Nazi’s try and kill blacks/jews/others on a “regular” basis either).

Racism exists, sexism exists, one is just more covert then the other.

As far as her comment about stayin in the race because of JFK’s assassination, I didnt read into it like the media did. Nor have I called for Hillary to drop out.

Also, glad you’re back Jo, it was boring here without you :-)

Why didnt Obama campaign in WVa? Probably the same reason why Hillary didnt in Illinois other then 1 rally, when you know a state is going to vote one way or the other, isnt it better to spend your time somewhere else…its a close race, get votes where you have the highest likelyhood of doing so.

[Kayleigh]

“Get an education” is a liberal value, IMO. Republicans often sneer at academia and intellectuals. Bush admits to being a proud C student.

I’m not going to buy into the dumbing down of America. We have to ask more of people or we will continue to get trounced by other countries in terms of emerging technologies, a competitive economy, outsourcing, etc. I don’t see many people working to protect American manufacturing jobs from going overseas, do you? (and yes, I wish people were fighting harder to keep the jobs here.)

As far as race goes, Leonard Pitts speaks far better than I could on this very topic in WVA:

http://www.miamiherald.com/living/

columnists/leonard_pitts/story/548895.html

“Thing is, that’s not what happened in West Virginia. Not unless you’re going to tell me with a straight face that that vote reflected marginalized whites (an oxymoron if ever there was one) seeking a seat at the table. No, all the evidence, statistical and anecdotal, tells us those folks did not vote for Clinton because she is white; they voted against Obama because he is black. There’s a difference.”

[Aim]

JenV if that’s the building I think it is (SE corner?) it is such a lovely building. We were just saying the other day we’d love to live there had we not found this place we’re in.

To the original poster as well as Jiggers: it CAN be done. We rented this place 4 years ago for $650. It’s a 2br on Delridge. Quite honestly, had I had the address and driven by it first, I would have passed on it because it’s really ugly from the outside. However, I had made an appt with the LL and when I walked inside and saw it was over 1k sq ft with a HUGE kitchen (bigger than kitchens in some of the 40’s homes in the area) I was sold.

The appliances are not new, but when they break down the LL replaces them. He also redid my kitchen flooring once it started to crack, and he let me paint it however I wanted (adobe and brick colors in the kitchen. The rest is going to be painted this summer) In 4 years he has only raised the rent once, and apologized profusely and gave us a ton of warning when he did. It’s still only $715.

My suggestion: wait until you see the inside before declining a place. Rent from a family or someone with one or two small investment properties, not a big company, as a private owner will often negotiate with you. Look in the paper as well as all the usual places. Mine was hidden away in the “duplexes” section of the Sea Times.

I didn’t even have to go through a credit check – I had just gone through identity theft, explained that to the LL’s daughter when she showed me the place, and she said “since the credit check will clearly be a waste of time and money I will go with my gut feeling on you and rent to you, but don’t make me look bad with my father.” No deposit, no last month’s rent. Just the first, and she let me move in early.

We rarely have openings, because most tenants just don’t leave, but if we ever do I will keep you all posted.

[JoB]

kayleigh…

i wouldn’t trust the results of a poll until i saw the actual poll and evaluated the questions that were asked.

I can frame a poll to get any result i want.. and if i can.. i know they can.

and that still doesn’t answer the bigger question..

why did the story become racism and not that Obama did not campaign at all in those states?

Don’t you think his choice not to campaign there at all.. not to try to change minds… might have had an effect on the outcome?

Don’t you think that factor should have been part of the discussion?

It wasn’t.. so why not?

I tend to look at the results and then ask myself if those results could have been predicted. What would you do if you wanted to split the democratic vote and market McCain to them? You would concentrate on racism.. because if you can alienate that group.. they are likely to vote for a “moderate and lovable” McCain.

It is entirely possible that many people in West Virginia voted for Clinton primarily because she showed up, talked about their concerns and asked for their vote… and still had reservations about voting for a black man that were reflected in the polls.

As for education…I agree that education gives you the opportunity to think… and i still believe education is the first step out of poverty… but it needs to start much earlier than college. it’s high time we put some back in our primary schools… we once led the world in education.. but not any more…

however, even higher education is no guarantee of critical thought. if it was, we couldn’t have had 8 years of Bush. I know many highly educated people who not only voted for him.. but will continue to vote republican… go figure:)

Blaming those who lack college educations for their own economic misfortune and making the assumption that their lack of education means that they are incapable of holding an informed opinion that differs with your own is simply another Republican tactic to divide and conquer democrats.

I am not against education.. i continue to educate myself every day of my life and certainly encourage not only my children but my grandchildren to do so…

but i am against the pervasive notion that is pedaled by the media that if those people just helped themselves by getting better educated.. they too would be on the have side of the column…

Not less than 5 years ago.. computer programmers.. especially those with advanced educations and experience.. were among the largest group of unemployed in this state… in fact.. on the West coast. Most of them were college grads.. more than a high number had masters… They all did the right thing and got educated.. and worked 12 hour days mastering their craft.

much of the work they once did is now done in India and asia… where the current crop of PhD programmers is coming from.

some of the lucky ones got jobs supervising the integration of their work from the states…

those who are currently employed in their fields consider themselves lucky to have jobs.

And that is just one well educated industry… i have heard similar stories from engineers, lawyers and doctors…

Perpetuating the myth that individual effort is all that is required for success may be comforting to those who are currently making it… and we are lucky to be among them… but that myth alone does more to still real conversation about class than any other.

[beachdrivegirl]

So Hillary’s voters that are voting for her just becasue she is a women are sexist??? Wow, looks like Hillary shouldnt pull the sexism card anymore.

[rs261]

from my take on the military spending

The WORLD (not just the US) without nuclear weapons is a good idea. Not only is it dangerous to everyone, the cost of maintaining them is high. Weaponizing space is also “bad”…but dont we need something to protect us from rogue asteroids? (kidding!)

Getting rid of the missle defense shield is also a good idea…although some cool tech like the High Energy lasers should still be researched. The whole missle shield thing has cost WAY to much money (100 billion + that could be spent on other tools/technologies, like teleportation, the military spends a measley 1-2 million on that a year, vs 9+ billion on the missle shield)

Cutting spending on new tech is not a good idea. As I said, many useful technologies from the military have made it into modern life, and DARPA to me is a huge source of potential commercial ventures later. (Autonimous cars, robots, all kinds of other stuff)

Language training would be nice. I do believe that we can talk our way out of most things. People, even your enemies, do not want a fight.

I’m all for having a modern military, and spectacular technology along with it. To me our priorities should be a focus on updating old tech, and making sure our soldiers have the best things available to them, to minimize casualties on both sides.

Now, as far as McCain misspeaking of present day events vs past events…he should be held in a stricter standard. If I did something today and “misspeak” about it, vs me telling a story about you 3 years ago and misspeak, which would you think is worse? Its a lot easier to forgive something that took place many years ago (like the whole Hillary landing under sniper fire, I didnt really care that she lied about it, I thought the worse part was using it as foreign relations experience.)

I think I’m all over the place in writing this…but well, I hate to proofread!

[hopey]

Wow. A troll already, and just 17!

And here we thought you were genuinely looking for feedback or answers to your questions. Imagine that.

I guess we really are the stupid ones. You’re so smart, you’ll probably go to a Big 10 university, and then you’ll really show me up. Oh. Wait. *I* went to a Big 10 university too. Right.

</sarcasm>

It’s hard for me to believe that a teenager would *bother* to troll here, and on such a banal subject to boot.

[JoB]

i think what is bothering me most is that so many of you are allowing the media to frame your story…

“get an education dude” … is a republican storyline.. it was their solution to the loss of manufacturing and high tech jobs.. “if those people would just educate themselves they would be just fine”…

and this from the mouth of the man who didn’t know that gas was rapidly approaching $4 a gallon….

the reality is that those who did educate themselves are finding themselves in as precarious a job situation as they were prior to assuming 40,000+ in debt.

It’s just blaming the victim… creating a false sense of security for those who are still on the positive side of that shrinking line…

and i hate to hear it coming from democrats as truth…

“those people are just ignorant racists”… and we are shown video clips of white people who hesitantly say they just can’t trust a black man..

a black man who didn’t make an effort to change their minds by the way… Was his lack of effort the story? No.. those ignorant racist whites are the story.

And democrats buy it.

But what about the other side of racism? The blacks that are voting for Obama because of his color? That is equally racist and yet not mentioned at all while the Republican press frames our primary.

So why is it ok for democrats to dismiss one group of voters on the basis of implied racism and elevate another for the same reason?

Great republican story line.. turn one group of whites against the other… to their own advantage. And democrats are buying it.

“she should have known the fear of assassination in the black community”…

Why is it that whenever something like this comes out.. the shoulds surface about Hillary. She should have been better.. said more.. done more. She is held to a much higher standard than he is… He misspeaks.. she lies. She could have made the gesture and said that religion doesn’t matter when he was accused of being muslim… yet he should just deny it without comment. anything he says can be explained away.. but anything she says has to have sinister motives…

part of the answer is simple. you hear those motives from the republican press and then they have been picked up and echoed by the anti-Hillary blogs… another part is pure sexism… she is a woman.. she should… the final part is the one that puzzles me… Why is she held to such a higher standard than he is by his own supporters?

And why do you assume his assassination risk has been any higher than hers or that his supporters are somehow more worried about it than hers? If Hillary had not been the wife of a past president and therefore already covered by the secret service, she would have had the same protection he got for the same reason.

So why should we be more sensitive to his risk that to hers?

All good questions.. but I am not expecting them to provoke much thought.

[Huindekmi]

I spread my shopping around a bit, getting various items from the stores that do them best. This strategy was reinforced by an experience I had at the Admiral Safeway one day.

I was picking up a bunch of basics there, but was also planning on making a nice pasta recipe for that evening. To save a little time and energy, I decided to see if I could get everything I needed there. One item I needed was some thick sliced pancetta. The following conversation ensued at the Safeway deli counter.

Me: <scanning the case looking for pancetta>

Deli Clerk: May I help you?

Me: Yes. I would like to get some pancetta.

Deli Clerk: Cheddar?

Me: No. Pancetta.

Deli Clerk: Cheddar. You need cheese?

Me: No. Pancetta. It’s Italian cured ham.

Deli Clerk: Cheddar isn’t ham. It’s cheese.

Me: Nevermind.

I stuck to the basics and went across the street to the Met Market for the rest of the ingredients. :)

[gambaru]

Caduceus-

With all due respect, don’t you find it a tad bit interesting that several professionals from the field of education who went to college and have made careers longer than your lifetime find your flippant, novice, unresearched remarks rediculous?

It’s quite clear, the chip on your shoulder has to do with being proven wrong and showing compassion for those who are not as successful as you are. Do you have issues with people who weigh more than you because YOU can keep trim so they should be able to as well?

Obviously anything we “professionals” say to you is not going to convince you, so, go out there and study the brain research yourself. Look up Blooms taxonomy, the hierarchy of needs, differentiated instruction, multiple intelligences, and yes, I am going to say it: ESL. Brain research shows children who are raised bilingually, typically have brains that literally operate differently (not better, not worse, just differently). While it gives them a very worth while skill as an adult, grammatically we cannot expect the same things from them as a child who is raised and educated in the same language.

Not to mention the cultural issues that come into play. Parents have a lot more pull on their child’s success in life than prevously thought. The first 3 years of life are key due to, again, brain development. Brain research also shows ethnic groups learn differently. (As an educator, ethnicity is not race, it is the culture in which a child is raised.) You may notice that some of your peers are more mathematical, while others are amazing writers. Some students learn better kinesthetically, while others are extremely adept at navigating social the arena. Don’t under-estimate the importance of being able to relate to others, Caduceus. Studies have shown those who have a better rapport with co-workers are more likely to be promoted.

Standardized tests are normed for a specific demographic. Therefore if you do not fall into that demographic, you are at a disadvantage before you even begin. For example, the “feminine gender” (Gender does not equal sex)is already at a disadvantage when it comes to multiple coice testing.

These are just a few reasons why your “If I did it, everyone else should do it too” mentality doesn’t fly with educators. It is very easy to criticize our education system. A lot is wrong with it. We are under staffed, underfunded, and under appreciated.

The fact that some of your peers cannot read in high school indicates to me, an educator specializing in reading education, there are major learning disabilities getting in the way. The same goes for the inability to grasp positive and negative numbers. The peers you are describing and ranting about seem to be the special needs students you want to make exceptions for…

Therefore, unless you are privy to those specific students’ IEP’s and screening results, I would stop blaming them for lacking in educational inspiration and show some compassion. If you truly care about how they do educationally and in life, that will get them much further than ranting about their failures.

As far as your comment about students with low achievement, “You do not belong in high school. You should be tutoring in all of your free time, you should paying 100% attention not talking about how awesome Grand Theft Auto was, and how you waited outside for 2 hours to get it before anyone else, etc.” — The very definition of a learning disability is “a gap between intelligence and achievement”. Young children all love to go to school at first. It is exciting, interesting, and fun. However as they get older and progress through the grades, the work becomes more demanding and process oriented. Even being able to utilize your fine motor skills can become demanding as students are expected to write on smaller and smaller lines. The gap continues to get bigger and bigger as kids get older. The learning disabled child has an extremely high chance of growing frustrated that they are making little to no progress compared to their peers and begin to resent school. Pile several years on top of that, and adolescent tendencies to rebel (Ahem Caduceus. Pardon me but you were the one who admitted to being a dick for the sake of being a dick.), and you get a student who is checked out of school and has poor skills. Kicking them out to “tutor 100% of the time” will further discourage them and drop out rates will sky rocket. I’m not sure what the current stat is, but the percentage of drop outs ending up in prison is astronomincal. Is that what you are suggesting we do? You want us to kick kids when they are down and punish them for having a learning disability? The best thing we can do as educators is to KEEP them in school, and accomodate their needs as best as possible and take them as far as THEY can go. NOT COMPARE THEM TO HIGH ACHIEVING PEERS! Often times we are working against the tide as by the time they get to high school they have been beaten down by achievement tests, a broken system, and have no motivation left.

The fact that you think your ripe little age of 17 has no bearing on your maturity, life-experience, and therefore your perspective, just illustrates how young, immature, and inexperienced you are.

Many of us have dedicated our lioves and careers to our students’ achievement so don’t be surprised if you offend us with your casual, hollow, surface-level remarks. It is a much more complicated issue than you can comprehend just by resenting your peers who talk about GTA rather than do math homework.

The truth is, you resent that you have been “good” and made responsible decisions by not blowing off your school work while many of your peers have. Well, rest assured little one, you will go to college and will probably earn more long term. Feel better now?

[Kayleigh]

JoB, I have to disagree: education *does* make you smarter than you were before. By definition. It certainly made *me* smarter, a better writer, more empathetic and compassionate, more aware of the world around me, and a more critical thinker.

No, education is no guarantee of a better paying job, but it offers people the *best* chance of that. You have a daughter…would you ever have told her, “don’t bother with college because there’s no guarantee…”? Of course not.

I think everybody should go to college or trade school, or learn something specific they can do to put food on the table. It’s hard to make it otherwise. Community colleges offer great two-year training programs for LPNs, chefs, etc. Not everybody needs to be Ivy League. But we all have to pay our bills.

OK: Clinton beat Obama 67% to 26% in WVA. Two in ten people admitted to not voting for Obama because he was black. Keep in mind those are only the ones who admitted it. If those 2 in 10 had voted for Obama instead, Hillary would have barely won (47% to 46%) If even half had done so, it would have been 57% to 36%. Hope I did the math right…:-)

[beachdrivegirl]

“the interviews that were published on television with West Virginia voters were with racists… That doesn’t mean the state was full of racists… and therefore those people should just be written off.”– Sorry but I have to disagree considering the polls stated that 1 in 5 voters stated that race was in issue when deciding on who to vote for (the state was 90% white) so yes I do think that when 20% of voters in one state ADMIT in the exit polls that race was a factor in whom they vote for I would consider that a racist state, IMO. The scary thing is that this 20% of voters that publicly stated that imagine how many more voters just would publicly admit they werer racist.

[JenV]

this makes me miss cat’s eye cafe. they had the best smoothies. I haven’t been able to find a comparable one since they closed. i will have to give hotwire a try…