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[ghar72]

My mother-in-law is in town and has a color slide of her parents from 1958. She’d like to get prints made from it but it’s too dark and grainy. Is there anywhere in WS to get the slide cleaned up and prints made off it? If not, recs off the peninsula? I read good reviews of Panda Photo on lower QA. We had some B&W work done with old photos at Moon Photo many years ago but I remember them being very expensive. But maybe that’s just the way with it when it comes to old images like this. Thanks for any leads!

[carrieann]

Not a super-new twist, anonyme, as I’ve been dealing with people’s poo bags in our front shrubbery for the past 6+ years. Every time I go out to rake leaves, or trim the branches, I come across all sorts of trash (soda cans, fast food cups, candy wrappers, etc.) and always at least a few blue or green plastic baggies of old animal poop. Though I suppose it’s slightly better than those who choose not to bag it at all. My shoes are currently air drying after I raked leaves on Thursday, and had to scrub/hose them down from the doggy landmines I hadn’t seen.

What continues to perplex me, though, are the piles I find IN our yard… which would require you to go up a set of stairs to access. Not exactly pleased with that, since we have kids who like to roll around and play. I don’t own dogs, so I wouldn’t think I’d have to look out for such things. Sheesh.

[terravia]

JanS – are they seriously doing that? :'(

[DBP]

hh, I’ll go in with you on this, but you have to coordinate with me and be open with the kitten lady about what we’re doing. No “playing stupid.” So call me if you’re interested . . .

The craigslist kitten lady seems to have good intentions and knows a lot about cats. Perhaps she simply doesn’t understand what feral trapping groups do. (Before I met you, I didn’t know what they do either.)

–David

P.S. I disagree with you on the craigslist flagging thing. Flagging might not help with this particular situation, but it definitely discourages people from selling on cl.

anonyme: Good karma!!

 

[Alex]

We gave it 2nd chance today. The food is just OK, and the service is really slow. I could have been to Kokoras & back by the time we were served. I really don’t get why what is essentially fast food takes so long.

Heads up for those with food allergies! I asked the waiter to leave off an item I can’t eat. They didn’t, but still gave me the so-what shrug when I pointed it out.

-Alex

[kootchman]

The state spends more than it collects. Budget accordingly. If these are the governors hand picked targets, she is in the tradition of Ron SIms… threaten to do the most grievous things before we look at things like the state aircraft fleet?. If ALL the citizens want these programs, then ALL the citizens will vote for the increased sales tax. Maybe we should try to stop our downward slide as a “favorable” place to do business? Index state employees to the general populace. We have all seen our average incomes drop the last three years… bet the salaries of the public employees haven’t gone down..eh? Sorry, we adjusted our budgets accordingly, the state can do the same.

[hammerhead]

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/pet/2743410401.html

These are the type of people FAF/FCAT have to deal with. This lady doesn’t want them to go to a “rescue” to sell them, really? Well as least us “rescues’ would responsibly get them fixed, vaccinated and other necessary issues.

She can’t even hold them herself so that means they are feral. She can’t afford to get the mom fixed and guess what there are at least 3 local rescues that can do that for free. So if this person sounds familiar to ANYONE. Tell them to do the RIGHT thing and get a hold of FAF, FCAT or Furry faces. Again another human making the feral cat issue look bad and not doing anything to fix it.

I can’t even try to contact her as I would loose my cookies. SO if anyone can just get all of the cats under her “conditions” I do believe the 3 rescues mentioned above can take it from there.

Please contact:

FCAT or FAF

[kayo]

I live in North Delridge and I have heard some very loud sounds similar to what is described here off and on. It does seem worse when there is an inversion. It almost sounds like a jet taking off or airplane noise except it goes on for too long. It is loud enough that I can hear it through the skylights in my house. I first noticed it a few weeks ago. I thought I was going crazy, but maybe not. I think it must be something industrial over on Harbor Island.

[nuancedream]

Looking for someone who can get sliding closet doors back on track. I can’t do this by myself and my friends haven’t been able to help. Thanks.

[jakejaramillo]

Trying not to get too upset but seriously, it is hard to “chill” when it’s loudest in my office where I’m trying to work, and it’s been ceaseless since before I opened this topic at 1PM (it’s now 7PM).

This is by no means the only occasion. If it’s Nucor maybe they can think about sound-deadening materials to put around it.

[jwws]

Chill folks, it’s just part of living in WS!!!

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Play Xmas music very loud and get in the spirit ( or do what my hubby does and go to Crystal for the weekend…..:-)).

Seriously I think it is related to the air inversion we have been experiencing and the “normal” sounds that a working waterfront produces – this too will pass.

[cathyjaramillo]

Seriously, I got home at 6:00 and immediately asked what is that load hum/whining noise. It appears to be undulating at times. Is do to air quality issues or is someone running a generator? How far can people hear it? On top of Genesse hill its very evasive, and irritating.

[jwws]

I think it’s from the industrial area – either Nucor or Harbor Island, just louder due to air quality perhaps. Their were some loud aircraft this a.m. but this humming has been pretty constant throughout the day.

[Jrichtback]

Not sure what it is Jan. I live right behind the sanislo element school.

[DBP]

Thank you, jj. Didn’t want you thinking this post had gone unnoticed.

From the speech:

Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate. Only the unloved hate. The unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers, don’t fight for slavery. Fight for liberty.

As you note, this film was released in 1940, and in the context of the ascendant fascism of the time, “The Dictator’s” words about hatred were very much to the point. However, fascism aside, much of the evil done in this world is not, in fact, done from simple hatred. Much is even done in the name of love. Or altruism.*

Take the war in Afghanistan, for example. A project most loving in theory, but most hateful in practice.

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* This was one of Ayn Rand’s theses, in fact. One that liberals often misinterpret or ignore.

[JoB]

one of the largest difficulties in talking about homelessness is the assumption that some people just “want” to be homeless.

well, some people do want to drown their sorrows in booze and illegal drugs. Heck, some people want to drown their sorrows in legal drugs. But not all of those people live on the streets.

those who live on the streets do so because they don’t have homes to live in.

When we decided to abolish our mental institutions we literally dumped the mentally ill on the street and placed the responsibility for seeking and adhering to mental health services on the mentally ill.

does that make sense to you?

then we agreed to homeless services that treat the homeless like some kind of degenerate that simply needs to be warehoused overnight… caging them n locked down facilities without services where predators are free to take advantage of anyone weaker than them and dumping them onto the streets in the early morning hours … mostly unwashed and possibly unfed.. to fend for themselves until nightfall.

Does that make sense if our goal is to return homeless people to productivity? We may as well throw them int he drunk tank to “sleep it off” till morning.. whether they have anything to sleep of or not.

There are exceptions to this shelter scenario.. but they are sadly, the exceptions.

And there are incredible day programs where the homeless can wash clothing and shower and find resources.

but again.. if you have to carry everything you own on your back and be in a shelter for lockdown by early evening and find a daysource that still has room and wait in line at each service.. just surviving consumes your day.

I am not saying that camps like Nickelsville are the answer. I personally think 24 hour shelters… like the one being tested at the Lake City Firehouse this winter… are a better answer…

but in the meantime.. we have 100 homeless people who woke up this morning in Nickelsville with ice on the inside of their tent and no common shelter to gather in to warm themselves by the fire or cook their meals.

Last night they had little or no water.

I don’t know if they were able to find a resident or volunteer with a car to fill water jugs at a local church tap last night or not.

i hope so.

[cadbury]

Thanks Kootch. But your 25% number doesnt hold up at all unless you’re talking only about durable medical equipment, which you weren’t. The number is closer to 10%. Even using your numbers above.

As you said in post #52

“When you pull numbers out of thin air, or use MSNBC talking points it pays to do some fact checking.”

“How widespread is Medicare fraud? The government is now reporting Medicare fraud rates almost three times higher than previously accounted for, at 47 billion dollars this year”

Total medicare spending for 2007 $440 bil. 2008

$599 bill

I trust you can do the math.

No doubt there is a lot of fraud, mostly by doctors, and there should be much more oversight.

But “The government never wants to find fraud, .. it’s political grease. ” is just not true.

Fraud is just as prevelant in private insurance as it is in medicare.

Interesting article attached

http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/50670.pdf

[kootchman]

I posted a link months ago. But even a cursory “farud, medicaire, medicaid” google search will do.

Just one all time favorite.. UW billing for services while the billing physician was on vacation in Europe! It’s tough to feel sympathy for UW when they spend 10 million in attoney fees, a 30 million dollar fine, for a “partial” settlement. Not one UW physician went to prison… and this from the Seattle Weekly… not even a “conservative” source. enjoy another “isolated case” This one of your “phantoms” redblack?

Everybody Knew

“State. Sen. Mike Carrell of Lakewood is sponsoring a bill to prevent the use of Washington’s welfare cash cards from being used at strip clubs, tattoo parlors, gun shops and taverns The station earlier found that about $2 million in welfare cash was withdrawn in one year at casinos. … Now, KING has found the welfare benefits — known as EBT cards — are being cashed at strip clubs and sex shops.” Yippee… makes a taxpayer feel great.

or

“These are staggering numbers, but so are the actual accounts of fraud. For example, in 2007 alone, the Medicare system made $10.8 billion in improper payments. In 2006, almost 30% of the claims that Medicare paid for durable medical equipment was incorrect. Even more appallingly, from 2000 to 2007, Medicare paid 478,500 claims to dead physicians; these claims totaled $92 million.”

or

“How widespread is Medicare fraud? The government is now reporting Medicare fraud rates almost three times higher than previously accounted for, at 47 billion dollars this year”

or

“The Inspector General’s report for the Department of Health and Human Services in 2008 reported that 29% of Medicare claims for durable medical equipment were in error in fiscal year 2006.”

or

“The American College of Radiology, in a 2004 report, claimed that private insurers and Medicare pay more than $15 billion per year for needless imaging tests.”

or, the sublimely ridiculous…

That final report included such absurdities as walkers for patients with purported sinus congestion, paraplegia or shoulder injuries

The government never wants to find fraud, .. it’s political grease.

[jamminj]

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business: I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible: Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another; human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there’s room for everyone, and the good Earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful.

But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say, “Do not despair.”

The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die. And the power they took from the people will return to the people, and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Soldiers, don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel; who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder.

Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate. Only the unloved hate. The unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers, don’t fight for slavery. Fight for liberty.

In the 17th chapter of St Luke it is written, “The kingdom of God is within man.” Not one man, nor a group of men, but in all men. In you.

You the people have the power: the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let us use that power: Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie. They do not fulfill their promise. They never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.

Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

[evie]

Leslie Rosen teaches three fabulous belly dancing classes at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center on Wednesday nights. She’s a great teacher, and the classes are a blast. I cannot recommend them enough!

[chrisma]

Politicians, I suspect, are most concerned with their political careers. That’s how it works.

I’m sure it’s more than just a matter of money, but couldn’t Nickelsville start fundraising for the money it would need to get connected to city services in it’s current location? I know that’s probably a tall order, but it would seem if there are enough advocates for NV to collect the needed funds, that’s pretty strong evidence of community support and it eliminates at least one excuse for the Mayor and the City Council not to act.

I’m sure there’s all kinds of reasons that this isn’t a viable suggestion, and you’re all welcome to shoot me down on it. It’s just the thing that came to mind. Obviously, it’s going to be a long cold wait for the city politicians to do anything on behalf of NV, on their own.

[DBP]

I was at the Highland Park Action Committee meeting last night (the one JoB referred to in her “I forgot to make my point” post). I’m posting these comments separately for reasons of clarity.

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The HPAC meeting demonstrated once again how futile Seattle politics can be. It’s no wonder some Highland Park residents are upset about Nickelsville, given that it appears to be in a permanent state of limbo, somewhere between “jungle camp” and “decent place to live.”

After 8 months, people are getting fed up and are starting to vent their frustration on both politicians AND Nickelsville residents. A common theme from the residents at the meeting was “It’s time for OTHER parts of the city to bear their share of the burden.”

If this state of affairs continues, we will no doubt see another mass eviction. Bummer.

Unlike some HP’ers, I don’t blame Nickelsville or the people who live there. But I DO blame the politicians. There’s been an appalling failure of political leadership here, both from the Mayor and the City Council.

At last night’s meeting, Deputy Mayor Darryl Smith said, “We’re not going to evict people at Nickelsville.” At the same time, however, he would not commit the Mayor’s office to trying to formalize Nickelsville at its current location or deliver any utility services there. Nor could he offer any ideas for where Nickelsville could relocate to – other than “churches and non-profits” which is obviously not a long-term solution.

Apparently Mayor McGinn had only one trick up his sleeve (the Sunny Jim site) and the Council quashed that, so now it’s like the Mayor’s washed his hands of it.

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Tim Rasmussen was there too. He agreed with the Highland Park folks who wanted Nickelsville out of Highland Park and off city property. But just like Deputy Mayor Smith, Mr. Rasmussen did not offer ANY alternatives. In regard to the Sunny Jim proposal from the Mayor’s Office, he said that the property would have needed to be rezoned before even a temporary occupation permit could have been granted. Ergo: It was an illegal site (as if the current one isn’t!) Ergo, the Council vetoed it.

Note that Rasmussen was also one of the councilmembers who voted AGAINST Seattle Public Utilities setting aside money ($39,000) to hook Nickelsville up to water and sewer services. Licata, Bagshaw and O’Brien voted for this proposal. All other councilmembers were against.

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I’m still waiting for someone from either the Council or the Mayor’s office to start proposing ideas for where the residents of Nickelsville can stay PERMANENTLY. Failing that, they could at least have the decency to say: “OK, let’s get some water and services to those folks while we figure out what to do.”

These are human beings living at Nickelsville.

How can we say to them: “We don’t know what to do with you exactly, but no, we’re not going to give you a warm place to sleep at night. And no, we’re not going to let you have safe water to drink or wash in.”

For God’s sake, people! We treat our motherlovin’ PETS better than this.

 

[anonyme]

I was just about to pay HD a visit, so I’m grateful for this post as a reminder as to why I hate shopping there. That store has had serious issues for years, and yes, I’ve taken them up with both the store managers and corporate offices.

McLendon’s is a bit more expensive, but the service is almost always excellent. On many occasions, staff members have taken the time to talk me through projects. They also carry a lot of hard-to-find items that you’d never find at HD. The main difference is in the quantity on hand, and the size of the aisles. That said, I’ve actually had the experience of visiting HD only to find they were out of 2×4’s (WTF?) or drywall corners, and ended up at McLendon’s anyway.

[WSB]

Seriously, I think you may have to drive east. WAY east.

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/data/zone_report.KOTX.html

[TammiWS]

Scam is a scam but I find it amusing these two people were wealthy and scamming the system – they obviously arent your sterotypical ‘welfare queen’ the right likes to use in every welfare scam story – this in my mind is actually worse than a person who really needs the help and the food to survive. These two were just con artists.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20111206/us-welfare-million-dollar-house/