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[HMC Rich]

Redblack. Please look what happened when tariffs were raised in the 1930’s. It didn’t go well. Ask a Canadian apple farmer about NAFTA. Not real happy about that.

Why am I on deficit and debt kick? Because I have a four year old son who should not be burdened by our mistakes. Because entitlements are going to most likely fail. I will be paying into a black hole which has and will help many people but is not sustainable. Government cannot and should not be involved in all aspects of our lives. It is already too intrusive.

Social Security. Is it solvent? Ryan has a plan. Another lets people invest 1/3 into the private sector at their own risk while 2/3 would still go into a broken system that pays out to 53 million people a month. Both parties f^T^ed that one up.

I have never supported thieves. We all elected people to regulate various industries. I thought the financial industries were fairly heavily regulated but maybe someone in that industry could enlighten us. I am not a financier or a person involved, but Private Sector fraud is just as bad as government fraud. Were the payouts to the Fannie and Freddie crowd a bit excessive too? Hmmmmm

I support opportunity. Government is needed in certain areas but sometimes (usually) it hinders growth.

Also Redblack, the top two percent probably pay about 40 to 50 percent of our taxes. The top 10% pay about 50 or 70% (I can’t remember) Krugman wants them to pay 91% (how magnanimous of him). Next time you go to the grocery store, why don’t I just take half of what you bought, OK?

Which side of the coin works best?

I find it embarrassing to think with all of Obama’s “successes”, the Democratic Party is in complete denial. I find it embarrassing that the only way some of these candidates will win is to claim they (dems) voted against healthcare and are localizing their races. They are afraid of their voting record.

I find the struggle in the Republican party refreshing. RINO’s are going to become much more scarce. Conservatives. Get used to the term. Fiscal Responsibility just might return. Maybe even some confidence in our country will return.

I find it embarrassing for the mainstream media to say the dums are cutting into the leads of their Republican opponents when polling shows Republicans are gaining in the Senate races except for CA and CO. Wow, that could mean Republican control of the Senate. Even two months ago that was unthinkable.

I find it embarrassing that the Dums are losing 53 seats currently held by Dums and 20 more seats are within 5 points.

What is the Dum message? ? ? ? ? ? What? ? ? ? ? George Bush sucked???? Defending Obamanomics? Health Care? Cap and Tax? Porkulus? Except for slinging mud, those candidates are going to fail for what they have done in the last 21 months.

I did find it embarrasing to have Murkowski, Crist and Castle listed as Republicans. I am now convinced that the Progressive plague is finally being rooted out of parts of the Republican party. Even W grew the government. Shame on him.

I hope ODonnell casts a spell on you. Normally you secular fascists would be supporting a witch. Not Christine. Moonbeam probably didn’t need Allred throwing her client under the bus but she did. OK, I have to admit Paladino seems nuts to me. So did Mr. Green in South Carolina.

Global Warming. When the data is accurate, maybe I will believe it. Supposedly it went up this year, but it remained about the same for the past ten years. We are not Chicken Little (the sky is falling). There are good arguments for and against but I don’t see the seas rising 20 feet like Gore said. I will trust good science, not science that can’t find or threw out the original data and applied a formula which manipulates the data just to get more funding. I believe in climate change but let us not get too far ahead of ourselves. Lets be reasonable about this.

Lets compare rallies and litter. Beck Rally 4 to 500,000, very little litter, Union rally 200,000 or so and the place was trashed. Reality. The fiscally responsible people were more tidy. I bet some environmentalists were pissed.

Even George Soros knows this election is lost for his evil ilk. Bye Bye Pelosi. Say hello to Boehner and his sun tan. Bye Bye Reid, say hello to anyone who doesn’t think the American People STINK. Now that is embarrassing. Yes Harry, 14.4% unemployment doesn’t bode well for Nevada’s own Mr. Reid.

Let the Tea Party begin. In fact you had better get used to taking a lickin’ from the “tea baggers”. Did I say that?

[HMC Rich]

You guys sound jealous. Good old class warfare. I am certain there are a few people who inherited fortunes who are the stereotypical Rich fatcats that are so hated by progressives. But most are not. Spreading the wealth around through government is the wrong policy. Helping people out is a good thing but there has to be limits.

You business owners, you work hard don’t you. You are the engine that drives this country. Whether large or small, you work your butts off. Do you like getting demonized by non business owners who think you owe them a living and top wages, pensions and healthcare? Did they help you out with the start up fees? Do you like Mayor McSchwinn making it more difficult for people to park affordably therefore ensuring less people visiting your shop? Do you like having to pay for more government when revenues are down ? Do you like having to foot the bill for governments excess spending and waste? And did you cause this? No.

It is the business owner that hires people. They risk a lot and currently are treated like crap locally and federally by this administration. AND if Congress doesn’t come to its senses the OBAMA tax increase at the end of the year will affect not only the wealthy but will affect the lowest tax brackets too. $1100.00 is more than some can afford.

You may laugh at Supply Side but Obamanomics is hindering the confidence in growth of businesses and unfortunately is keeping unemployment high. (and he said unemployment wouldn’t go past 8% with the stimulus – No wonder his approval rating is near the previous Prez).

With tax hikes looming and worries about inflation this congress and President are making things much worse. They have been irresponsible in spending so much. (Why was it bad when W did it but O doing it is OK?). Even JFK used tax cuts to raise revenue. My My. Mellon got it right, Hoover and his tax cuts and tariffs got it wrong.

Ben Franklin was a wise man in my opinion. Here are a couple of quotes: Benjamin Franklin quotes:

… as all history informs us, there has been in every State & Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing & governed: the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less. And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the Princes, or enslaving of the people. Generally indeed the ruling power carries its point, the revenues of princes constantly increasing, and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of more. The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure. There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants for ever …

or

When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.

Almost 50% do not pay Federal taxes these days. Entitlements going broke. Debt rising. Healthcare premiums skyrocketing. If you were a business owner, would you be spending and investing a lot right now knowing that your costs are going to increase in the next year? Hey congress, how about a budget? Oh wait, you Democrats don’t want your constituents to see how much you are spending. Why is it when elections roll around Democrats care about spending?

By the way, Supply side doesn’t work when congress keeps spending and spending and spending. Limited is a word not found often enough in DC or Olympia or even locally.

Seems government is being greedy and I don’t want it to spread the wealth because that wealth comes from the people.

In the end, do you want to pay off Rossi’s credit card or Murray’s? You know Rossi’s balance will be much smaller. Smear him all you want but DC is out of control and Murray has been part of the porkulus problem for 18 years.

[HMC Rich]

You Seniors need to ride your bikes. It will benefit your health. I am surprised Mayor McScwinn hasn’t pushed that. If your reflexes are too slow I guess that ride to harborview emergency will pretty much wipe out your social security check!?

If this city would truly like to help people they would let the senior citizens ride for free within a city and charge them a quarter for going from one city to another. The seniors have given enough to this county. Granted they screwed up mass transit and the highway system by not wanting to expand but oh well. If they have affordable transportation they may just buy a couple more items and help out the economy.

[JoB]

digidoll…

i think congress tried one of those end runs last week.. sending a bill through at the last minute that would have made it impossible to sue a lender or repo organization who falsely filed repossession papers against you…

i am so guessing most of America isn’t for that one… Obama agreed and vetoed it.

when you have to mislead voters to get elected or to get an initiative passed… you probably don’t have a good cause to begin with.

people generally make pretty good decisions when given all of the info…

[digidoll]

If you read the whole post… candidates do not get the benefit of legislative end-runs to muddy (and ignore) voter opinion. It seems that any ISSUE we vote on gets plenty of that, clear advertising or not.

[JoB]

digidoll…

so it’s ok to mislead people if you are talking about ending a tax … and in the case of I-1107 and Washington products that would be closing a B & O loophole that was exploited by some Washington companies…

but it’s not ok to mislead people if you are talking about a candidate?

interesting ethical interpretation there.

[digidoll]

There are plenty of political ads out there that are completely false or at the minimum out-of-context misleading. A tax is a tax, whether it’s on a person or a business… it ends up coming out of an individual’s pocket in the end (through higher prices at the checkstand), and in this case the tax is singling out in-state businesses, big and small, and therefore WA residents.

Singling out the I-1107 ad is unnecessary, especially when the facts can be easily looked up – unlike highly-edited random video quotes of candidates saying something in response to an off-camera question. THAT truly is unconscionable.

It’s one thing if a TAX gets repealed because of voters not doing their research, but if a CANDIDATE loses because of misleading advertising, I’m not cool with it. There are no legislative end-runs second-guessing and muddying voter opinion on candidates after the election. That is reserved for clear YES/NO questions on the ballot (monorail, tunnel…).

[flowerpetal]

Most certainly pictures were taken if the truck was going so fast that it slid through the light which was turning red. Whether it captured the truck backing into your vehicle is questionable as the cameras catch only photos and video of the vehicle from the rear. Still, I believe MargL has an excellent idea and you should respond to the police department immediately. They have record of your 911 call. Call their nonemergency number, or the Deputy Chief for Administration at 684-5773. I can’t remember the name of person in charge of the red light camera program but he was super helpful when I was making inquiries about the cameras.

[Ken]

Just a note on internet service. When the power is out, your phone usually still works with old style handsets. If you have an inverter that plugs into your car or a car battery and inverter (or a huge ups in a rack like I do) as long as your dsl modem has power, it will work for internet on a laptop.

Newer type cable and dsl that use neighborhood distribution centers are probably vulnerable to neighborhood outages unlike the regulated copper direct lines with their mandated battery banks and generators in the CO.

Wireless signal for 3g,4g and others that use cell towers, depend on utility power and very few have any sort of battery or generator backup.

[captainDave]

Kevin,

Here are some of the items that I have ordered from Full Circle Farm, Growing Washington, Marshland Orchard, and Whistling Train Farm.

Vegetables:

Winter Squash (several varieties)

Butternut Squash

Super Sweet Corn

Apples

Celery Root

Swiss Chard

Gourmet Potatoes

Yellow Carrots

Pears

Spaghetti Squash

Yellow Zucchini

Hot Peppers

Brussels Sprouts

Watercress

Arugula

Radicchio

Garlic

Onions

Cauliflower

and more…

One of our vendors is planning on bringing a variety of beats, cucumbers, bok choy and chineses greens along with the wonderful varieties of Dahlias they brought last week.

We will also have artisan food products from McSweet (Olives) and a variety of things from two Whidbey Island Farms: Lavender Wind Farms and Knot-in-Thyme. I believe that they will be serving fresh pies from Seattle Pie Company again on the Carol M.

[anonyme]

I am absolutely sickened by the slick, glib, self-congratulatory spin put on this so-called “fare freeze” by the City Council. The reality is a THREE HUNDRED PERCENT ++ INCREASE on senior fares in just one year’s time.

[WSB]

Just got a news release about this. Cannot read it in full right now, gotta rush off to check something out but for those of you following this here – this is the news release in its entirety (from KC Council):

>>County Council eliminates 2011 transit fare

increase for seniors

Adopted legislation also approves creation of a senior regional transit pass

The Metropolitan King County Council today adopted legislation canceling the 25-cent fare increase for senior bus riders slated to occur in 2011. The legislation also begins the transition of replacing the Metro senior pass with an ORCA card, providing seniors with the ease of using one card for their public transportation needs throughout the region.

“Freezing senior fares and creating a regional senior pass should make riding the bus easier for seniors,” said Councilmember Larry Phillips, chair of the Council’s Environment and Transportation Committee. “This action keeps senior fares affordable and ends the confusion for seniors who use both local and regional transit services. They will now be able to use one pass whether riding on Metro, Sound Transit, Community Transit, or Pierce Transit.”

Senior/disabled ridership represents approximately 9 million of Metro Transit’s 107 million annual trips. In 2009, the Council adopted legislation approving a 25-cent increase in senior fares starting in 2011 to help fill the revenue shortfall in the Metro Transit Budget.

Today’s legislation repeals the fare increase, leaving the cost of a bus ride for seniors and passengers with disabilities at 75 cents. The legislation does increase the cost of a monthly pass from $18 to $27, but that monthly pass can now be used on any transit system in the region as part of the overall regional fare coordination effort. Consistent with other ORCA passes, yearly passes for seniors are also eliminated.

The adopted ordinance advances the Council’s priorities of Mobility for Goods, People and Services, Financial Stewardship and Equity and Social Justice. See the Council’s Priorities Scorecard at:

http://www.kingcounty.gov/council/issues/council_priorities.aspx

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[Diane]

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[Al]

SBAB 10/6/10

– Walk/Bike/Ride program goal is to make these methods an easy way to get around; save money, healthier, less infrastructure needed for single occupancy vehicles. Draft of new projects to be funded by car tab increase and parking tax increases. Most new projects are pedestrian related, not bike related. The new car tab increase seems to fund NO new bike projects. Core services come first, street cleaning, road maintenance, etc. Parking tax would provide primary funding for pedestrian and bike projects. But bike projects are first in line to be cut. If new funding is not found, the Walk/Bike/Ride group will exist in name only. No new funding for these modes of travel will be available and all projects will stop.

– SR520 reconfiguration taking cycling into account better. SBAB has been attending meetings and giving input and WADOT seems to be taking in into consideration.

– There was a GIS Bikeability Assessment of Seattle recently (by an independent party at no cost to Seattle). The finding was that Seattle is a more challenging city to navigate by bicycle than other cities known for cycling, like Portland. The top reason in terrain (hills), context of neighborhoods (how friendly they are to cyclists)/connectivity between neighborhoods, and downtown (challenge of traffic & need of infrastructure). Neighborhoods are often located on tops of hills surrounded by slopes of 15% or greater. Ballard/Crown Hill is the exception which looks more like Portland.

*Note that poor facilities was noted as high in downtown and second highest heading to West Seattle from E. Marginal/Spokane Street to Spokane/Delridge intersection.

*Major barriers were also noted at deterrants (freeways, major boulevards to cross, bridges, etc). Outside of downtown the next area full of major barriers was West Seattle.

– South tunnel planning along E. Marginal has updated the bike infrastructure near the Atlantic overpass. The alignment has changed to a wider 16′ path (rather than 12′) traveling under the overpass which could eliminate a problematic intersection crossing. Then the Multiple Use Path (MUP) will transition to bike lanes similar to how they are configured now along E. Marginal.

– the north end has a new bike signal. this makes three in the north end.

[DP]

redblack: You’re not being lectured on anything. You’re merely being asked to see the complexities of an issue and fully consider the consequences before making any far-reaching changes to the system. Does that seem “amazing” to you?

Slogans like “end corporate welfare yesterday” sound great, but they don’t mean anything unless you say which subsidies and why.

I think a more effective slogan to start off with would be: “Phase out subsidies for corporations that price gouge.”

What do you think?

[redblack]

what amazes me is that taxpayers subsidize big pharma while simultaneously getting gouged. and then we get lectured on profit driving innovation and competition, and what kind of costs the market will bear, and how we shouldn’t regulate what medicines go into our bodies.

record profits and record subsidies? unrestricted advertising? direct marketing of drugs by MD’s? direct marketing to consumers? enough rich-and-getting-richer lobbyists to populate west seattle? what a deal!

end corporate welfare yesterday.

and yes, smitty, we want to keep BPA, city light, and the water district not-for-profit. ask any californian how well deregulation and privatization work for basic utilities.

[Carson]

What is a greater threat to todays youth? Hard alcohol being sold at Safeway or a Big Mac for lunch every day? I am guessing if we lowered the drinking age to 16, the Big Mac would still be a bigger threat to the health of todays kids. If you want to legislate morality, start with the real threats…

[Al]

So sorry about your cat, that had to have been very difficult for you. Addressing your question about what to do, have you contacted animal control or any other city agencies with your questions? I would assume that they would have some input for you (hopefully) or you could give them your input. Coyotes are notoriously smart and adaptable to their environments. If wild animals become a problem some cities have instituted birth control methods, like for deer in an east coast area if I remember right. That way they aren’t outright shot but their numbers are in control…just brainstorming here…

[metrognome]

Earlier this year, the King County Council approved raising Metro’s Regional Reduced Fare Permit cash and pass prices effective Jan. 1, 2011 (the RRFP is for seniors and persons with disabilities.) The RRFP cash fare was increased to $1 from 75 cents; the monthly Metro-only pass to $24 from $18 and the annual pass from $99 to $150 (essentially buy 6 months, get 6 months free). However, County Executive Constantine has transmitted an ordinance to Council to “eliminate non-regional passes and modify senior and persons with disabilities transit fares.” Ordinance 2010-4098.2, if approved as amended, would eliminate the Metro-only RRFP monthly and annual passes as well as the Weekend/Holiday All Day Pass, Sunday/Holiday Family Fare, and the Weekday All Day Pass. The reason given for this change is to “further fare simplification and [regional fare] integration”; with this change, “seniors and persons with disabilities will pay a single cash fare or a single pass price to cover all of the bus and light rail transit trips they take in King County regardless of which service they use.”

The ordinance would repeal the earlier changes and the RRFP cash fare would remain at 75 cents. However, with the elimination of the Metro-only RRFP monthly and annual passes, RRFP holders would need to buy the $27 PugetPass (face value of 75 cents.) There would be no annual RRFP pass. Therefore, the cost of buying passes for a year would rise from the current $99 to $324. You do the math.

The County Executive requested that this be considered outside the budget process so that the changes could be approved prior to October 1, the deadline for submitting fare information to the printer for the January 2011 passes (the only reason I was tipped off to this change was a comment after a WSB article and a similar comment on the P-I transpo blog.) The Council was scheduled to approve this on October 4th; a public hearing was held, but no one testified. The public hearing was held open for the Oct 11th meeting; there was no Council discussion and no Metro presentation. Other than the publication of the mandatory hearing notice in the local papers, there appears to have been little or no public process surrounding this change (or the earlier increase, for that matter) and virtually no televised Council discussion. Hopefully, there will be a presentation by Metro staff at the Oct. 11th Council meeting, although this may be a done deal.

For details, see

http://kingcounty.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=766514&GUID=8EF41A3C-1A7D-454A-B34F-32CA408FFC64

As a side note, Meto has historically subsidized the RRFP fare well beyond the federal maximum (same fares during peak hours; off-peak fares to be half the average peak hour fare) and well beyond fares charged by other local transit agencies as well as at a national level. With this change, RRFP fares would still be well below the federal requirement.

[k]

It’s been brutally slow for 3 days. Tried to use on demand and it wouldn’t even load because the connection was so slow. Can hardly watch a video online it’s so slow!!!

[JanS]

Try some of these…

http://www.ci.bainbridge-isl.wa.us/documents/Mooring_buoy_hd.pdf

yes, it’s about Bainbridge, but I would assume that these entities would have info about near the Fauntleroy Ferry Dock , too.

[captainDave]

We just ran our first Farmboat Floating Market event at Lake Union Park last Wednesday. It was a bright sunny day and lots of people showed up to check out our old wooden boats and to buy fresh produce grown on local Puget Sound farms. We have three more Wednesday “pilot” markets to do in October at Seattle’s newest waterfront park.

I am looking for some old wood and canvas patio umbrellas to use for our unique dockside markets. We are trying to achieve a classic European market style rather than having the big white plastic tents that you normally see at local street farmers markets. Our goal is to create a warm, cozy and picturesque atmosphere that is enjoyable for people to visit.

Here is a photo of the market we did on October 6th at Lake Union Park:

I hope to eventually do a Farmboat Floating Market in West Seattle somewhere.

The idea of bringing farm goods to the dock is nothing new. That’s how it was done a century ago around Puget Sound. Before roads were built, thousands of small boats and ships transported people and farm goods around the Sound. We want to re-establish the traditional trade routes between local ports while providing education on the benefits of eating local foods.

Almost every community along Puget Sound once had a municipal dock within walking distance that was sort of like a bus stop. Every day boats would stop at theses docks to pickup passengers, deliver mail and distribute cargo. A few docks still remain. However, most have long ago rotted away. West Seattle no longer has much dock access along its shores, However, we think we might be able to do a unique market at Alki where we will use lighters (small barges) to bring fresh island produce ashore. Imaging coming down t Aliki to buy your fresh produce off a boat on the beach!

Anyway, if anyone has some old traditional looking canvas and wood umbrellas to donate for a worthy cause, let me know :)

For more info about our Farmboat Floating Market events, see: http://www.farmboat.org

[bailecyclist]

Off and on slowdowns are regular with our comcast service, including today.

[jollyroger]

Anyone else in WS experiencing horribly slow internet through Comcrap? There’s supposedly a wide-area outage, but I seldom believe what they tell me.

[JoB]

Smitty…

Let’s start with the basics.. that 3% you mention… if it is accurate … must be for a very narrow band of the health care industry…

there are at least 3 profit centers between you and your health care dollar.. and generally more.

Hubby just had two emergency surgeries and so far we are getting bills from 4 medical centers for the same surgery… each with their own overhead and processing firms and insurance brokers and …

this pig is suckling a lot of piglets.

Second.. what makes you think healthcare is a luxury?

Could you remain living without your healthcare?

People waiting for transplants..

or needing dialysis..

or what we now call the chronically ill..

you know people who used to die prematurely from illnesses like diabetes…

who depend on daily medication can’t.

has it escaped your attention that access to preventative health care (which now includes procedures such as dialysis and transplants and …) just might be the reason that the poor have such a shorter life expectancy?

if they are about to die our hospitals must admit them.. but the indigent are not entitled to the kind of care that actually saves lives… and our current economy is stretching that word indigent to include some of the nicest people you know.

The program in Washington that did that for healthcare just “downsized” so you didn’t have to pay more taxes.

there is no public or private fund stepping in to keep those who were cut from the safety net health care program alive.

there are both public and private programs that make it possible for people who can’t afford most basic necessities to at least get the basics covered … the utilities have indigent programs and there are many food banks and meal programs…

but even they can’t keep up with the demand.

this winter as we face weather that Cliff Mass says will be a very good bet for a seasonal ski pass… cold and snowy.. too many will be sleeping in cars and tents because there simply aren’t enough beds available for the growing population of homeless people.

those programs are barely adequate…except of course for housing. Neither public nor private resources for housing can keep up with the current rates of homelessness…

Wake up and smell the roses Smitty before some shark eliminates the security you think separates you from them and you find yourself relying on the kind of services you don’t think people need.

3 million more foreclosures are expected in America this coming year:(

how’s that for facts?