so i just read the king county voters’ pamphlet for the primary election on 8/7/18. yeah, i do that. i like to see who’s who before i vote, so i can call myself an informed voter. i even read the fine print for the initiatives!
anyway, did you know that there are 28 challengers for washington’s US senate seat? so, obviously, that doesn’t include maria cantwell (D-WA), who has won reelection twice since 2000. 29 choices! we should revel in our diversity, right?
love her or hate her, cantwell’s challengers are a colorful field, and among them is goodspaceguy, the perennial cascadia wannabe politician – who, ironically, claims to hate politics and politicians.
the guy who stands out, though – hands down! – is alex tsimerman (Prefers StandUpAmerica Party. because who doesn’t like being stood up? amirite?) he’s on page 19 of the king county voters’ pamphlet. he also (allegedly) has a web site at alexforamerica.com.
and what a refreshingly honest guy! from his statement in the voters’ pamphlet:
Are we better now than a few years ago? Stop Seattle fascism with idiotic face!
man, anybody who has enough honesty, humility, and sheer guts to admit that he has an idiotic face right there in the voters’ pamphlet gets my vote.
redblack out.
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I did not see anywhere in wsb1984 stating she/he was driving erratically and over the speed limit, all I saw was their concern about a 4 yr. old alone playing out in the street and the parent thinking it was ok because they put a slow down child at play sign out.
Dear wsb1984…here’s some advice – SLOW THE HELL DOWN ! Goes for the rest , too. Do we collectively no longer have common sense? It’s summer ! Kids will be playing on side streets. Yes, they could be inside in front of the TeeVee Machine, or the internet. They’re not. You have the big metal vehicle with a lot of tonnage. Use it wisely. Or go play in the street yourself. Good grief!
what on earth is the matter with some of you?
you shouldn’t have to be told to slow down on our city’s side streets but apparently you do
so stop getting pissed off about the signs on the street and take your foot off the gas pedal
if you hit someone else’s kid .. or elderly parents.. it is going to ruin a whole lot more than your day
Sunuva – thank you for being a voice of reason. With traffic getting worse, drivers are taking to the side streets as a means to avoid slowdowns, and many/most of them are in a hurry. This entire issue is not about kids – it’s about drivers being courteous of others and not thinking only of themselves. Slow down. Put your phone away. Drive like you care about the neighborhood and the people that live there.
Hear hear Sunuva!
I take side streets to get down to Westwood Village and back because it’s easier, there’s less traffic, and it’s a lovely drive (so many beautiful homes and awesome neighbors to wave hi to! Plus on the way back, I don’t end up causing a massive backup trying to make a left at a light off of Delridge). I cruise down the side streets going between 15-18mph and I don’t plan on changing that pattern any time soon.
It always frustrates me when some idiot is going 30+ or wants to and ends up riding my bumper but I’m still going to keep crawling along at my lower than the limit speed. If someone is late, they should have left earlier. Emergencies aside, people need to chill out and slow down to enjoy the views.
Ever instinctively chase a ball that flew out of the yard?
You know, this is a sad commentary of the environment kids grow up in. Parents walking thier kids to the bus stop. Parents getting into fist fights at Little League games. People not wanting to pay for infrastructure that they claim they are entitled to (yes, that includes parks).
There is a reason why residential streets are 20, that’s TWENTY miles per hour. If you don’t want to follow the rules, you deserve a first world problem like a plastic stick figure asking you to not ruin the life of a kid, parent, sibling, friend and yours after an accident.
Please slow down in the neighborhood. Thanks.
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Not sure how but my previous reply seems to have disappeared. Trying again!
1) The notion that some parents would use a sign in the street in lieu of teaching their children about safety is ludicrous. I know a lot of parents, and not one would stoop to that level of irresponsibility and laziness.
2) The people who are putting up these signs are likely doing so in reaction to people driving dangerously fast down the streets they live on. Go look at 39th and 102nd SW and you’ll see a dozen of these signs at different houses. The reason? Because people soar down that road and blow through that intersection regularly at dangerous speeds.
3) Getting the city to fix dangerous intersections takes a lot of time and effort and waiting for that to happen isn’t feasible. Families then take the situation on themselves by trying to put up signage since the city won’t.
4) I don’t know any parents that encourage their children to go play in the streets. Though there may be some exceptions in cul-de-sacs and special places like that.
5) Kids take a long time to develop a safe awareness of their surroundings and it takes repeated instruction and guidance from parents to teach them. You don’t just tell a kid once to stay out of the street and they mind. You can tell a small child to be careful around cars one minute and the next they’ll see a butterfly and chase it right into the street if nobody stops them.
6) Just slow down in our neighborhoods. This is directed at everybody. It seems we are all in such a hurry these days that safety takes a back seat to getting to your destination. Slow down and not only will you give yourself more time to react, but if you do happen to hit someone, the damage will be hopefully less severe.
7) I live on an arterial and just accept that people are going to drive it at higher speeds. I wouldn’t even consider a Slow Down sign because it wouldn’t do a bit of good. However, on the side streets around here I see others driving at dangerous speeds daily. I do wish people would mind their speed on these neighborhood roads, maybe then it wouldn’t be necessary for people to put up their own signage.
Last Saturday while walking on Alki, I tripped on a high edge of the sidewalk and went down hard! My left shoulder hit as well as my right knee and right elbow. The intense pain, fear and humility was overwhelming and I burst into tears. My Phone was in pieces(cover came off).
Along came two strangers, I believe Fran and Brad-hope I got the names right! They were so kind and tried to help me up but the pain in my left shoulder prevented me from doing anything but laying still. They offered encouragement and Fran reassembled my phone so I could call for my Husband. They were exactly who I needed at that time-I felt so alone!
I asked my two new friends to bow down so I could see their faces as all I could see at the time were their legs and shoes! As they did, I felt so touched to put faces to the kindness they gave me. Fran said “I know you! You’ve walked here years ago! I saw the man who revived you!” She was referring to the time and near the same place I fell down from a heart attack five years ago! I was without a heartbeat and survived! All my angels were in place to administer CPR, defibrillator and summon an ambulance that was just blocks away.
My husband finally arrived and called for an aid car. Fran and Brad wished me the best and left as the aid car arrived and EMT’s were gathering around to do the wonderful things they do for us. I was soon at Harborview ER and discovered I had fractured my left humerus bone. Fortunately, I didn’t need a cast but a specially knotted sling that enabled the bone to start healing. Painful week since then but my heart was warmed by the memories of my two friends and all the people driving along Alki who stopped to offer assistance!
I wish I knew more of what happened five years ago as I don’t remember anything after I passed out. Last Saturday showed me there are still angels out there among us. THANK YOU!
Am I the only one who thinks this topic deserves the worst post of the year award? You are seriously coming on a message board to complain about slow down signs? I agree they shouldn’t be in the middle of the road but I am not sure how a parent putting out a slow down sign while their kids are playing outside makes them a bad parent.
Do you get angry when you hear children laughing? Does a child’s smile bring pure rage to you soul?
I am just older than a millennial and all I hear about from the older generation is how great things used to be when kids played outside instead of playing video games. Now we have this post. How dare parents/kids ask cars to slow down while they ride a bike or play whiffle ball. Give me a break.
Obviously there are exceptions to this like putting the sign in the middle of the street or on a busy street but several of my neighbors use these signs and like anyone with basic understanding I do not have a problem with it.
Maybe try being a good neighbor instead of needlessly asking parents trying to make the neighborhood safer for their kids.
“Instead, teach your kids to stay out of the street (you know, where 2 ton+ cars drive), stop expecting drivers to be personally responsible for your children”
I cannot begin to tell you how strongly I disagree with this statement. The streets belong to everyone, not just cars. My child is seven years old and I’ve been teaching her how to ride her bicycle on the street since she was five years old. We ride bikes on the street to get to Walgreens. We ride bikes on the street to get to the library.
Drivers of 2-ton vehicles have an extreme responsibility to control their cars so they do not hit a child (or adult) who is using the street to travel. If signs help change driver behavior then I’m all for them.
Yes, these cars get in our way when we are trying to ride bikes to get to our destination. But that’s just how it goes — cars have a right to use the streets too. But car drivers – in control of a 2 ton vehicle capable of traveling 100+ MPH – have an absolute responsibility to drive very slowly and carefully anywhere there are children using the street.
Also, to those parents with kids, slow down when your on MY road just as YOU expect me to slow down on yours. Living near a school I see parents fly down my street with kids in the car and then fly back up without kids. It’s really annoying that you’d drive like that on someone else’s street when you know better. Maybe the better solution is to get people to stop using residential side streets as their own personal shortcut.
You know.., it’s illegal to let your kids play in the street and the parents can be cited for reckless endangerment…
Many years ago, Some kids thought it would be funny to un-roll a fishing net and drag it across the street.., I was driving slowly over, but it hooked underneath the car and the reel struck one of the kids..The kids parents called the police, Only to find out that they would be cited for reckless endangerment.
SLOW DOWN signs, held by a yellow stick-like man have started littering our streets all over West Seattle. I can’t imagine there is a driver in West Seattle who wants to hit a child on their way to or from where ever they’re headed, and I agree that some drivers are driving faster that the established speed limit. As a matter of extreme safety, I encourage you parents who think you’re doing something useful, STOP with the SLOW DOWN signs. Instead, teach your kids to stay out of the street (you know, where 2 ton+ cars drive), stop expecting drivers to be personally responsible for your children, and (if you’re any kind of parent at all) take them to the park. There are no shortage of them in West Seattle. I know I will be attacked for writing this, and as important as you think your opinion is, just consider, it will not bring your mangled, lifeless child back from the grave. I am a courteous, cautious driver who makes every effort to obey traffic laws and yield right-of-way whenever appropriate. That said, I almost hit a child the other day (again) avoiding a distracting sign placed in the road (not on the side). Shame on the parent who let their loosely attended 4ish year old depend on a SLOW DOWN sign for safety while riding erratically in the street. Save a child’s life, take her to the park and keep her OUT of the road. In the meantime, I’m going to report to the police every time I see a SLOW DOWN sign in the street.
Sincerely,
A Concerned Neighbor
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“PS…I’m a 55 yr old man and fireworks have been going off as far back as I can remember, do I like them, no, do they keep me awake at night, yes sometimes but they’ll probably keep going off until the day I leave this earth”
Seems like a very defeated attitude. Why? I don’t understand that. Public nuisances that a lot of people vocally dislike and want to end can be stopped. If 1 house on a block throws loud ragers every night, the police can step in with fines to address the problem. The same can be done with fireworks.
“so I can either ignore them or let my inner sole dwell on them and turn into a grumpy old man, what do you think?”
There’s a third option, work to get real enforcement of the issue. SPD could make a serious dent in their operating budget for the year in just two nights by ticketing anyone they see lighting anything bigger than sparklers. Set off a role of black-cats? That’s $5K. Set off mortar shells? That’s $5K for each round.
Taking a no-holds-barred approach for just one year would drive so much news everyone would know about it and maybe, just maybe, they’d drive or catch a bus south for the the 1-3 miles to WC/Burien to set them off instead. You know, where it’s actually legal? Here in my neighborhood during New Year’s the idiots across the street were setting off larger rockets (not penny-bottle rockets but not mortars) AT cars. SPD didn’t do anything about it even though I said I had video of them doing it repeatedly. That’s offensive. It shouldn’t take a serious accident before this changes but it’s only a matter of time before one of these tools sets a forest fire, or causes a car accident, or physically injures someone. Why is that an acceptable risk?
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“My worry is that once an income tax is started it will go up, up, up, and municipalities and state agencies will still charge or pass new taxes further burdening everyone.”
This is exactly why we will never improve our tax system. Even when voters have a chance to move toward a fairer, more progressive tax system the defeatist attitude prevails. Just a couple of years ago there was an initiative that would have levied a small income tax on the most wealthy corporations and individuals in the state (I don’t remember the initiative number, you could look it up). It would have been enough to completely cover the costs of a state sponsored healthcare program and only affect a tiny portion of the populace. And it was something we all got to vote on, not something cooked up by legislators. Result? Not passed. Because “once they start an income tax…”
So, always a good topic for complaining, but no stomach, even among voters much less legislators, to do even the slightest thing to alter one of the most unfair and regressive tax systems among the 50 states.
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So J242 did I say I was letting off fireworks as you commented, no I did not “The city already puts on a hell of a lot better fireworks show than you or any dozen people could hope to so why not appreciate it and let the rest of us get some sleep?!!?”
PS…I’m a 55 yr old man and fireworks have been going off as far back as I can remember, do I like them, no, do they keep me awake at night, yes sometimes but they’ll probably keep going off until the day I leave this earth so I can either ignore them or let my inner sole dwell on them and turn into a grumpy old man, what do you think?
