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[JoB]

Carson,

this is no time to be philosophical..

as though this was some sporting event.

Our country is in deep financial crisis right now because of the predatory business practices promoted by the right for the last decade.

As they keep pointing out.. this recession has not ended. Unemployment is not only at an all time high but the length of time qualified individuals actively seeking employment remain unemployed is unprecedented.

And you think this election is no big deal?

The right has used the power of filibuster to severely limit and even block legislation that would have eased the burden of this recession for the average American.

They believe in bailouts for big business but not in programs to stimulate the growth of small businesses or programs to extend unemployment for those who can not find work…. and this is when they are in the minority.

What do you think they will do if they regain the majority?

If we stand by idly and give those clowns back the keys to the national cookie jar…

we won’t be crying in our beer..

we won’t have any beer to cry in.

[JoB]

Carson…

you might want to recount the number of wingnuts..

the republican party has

political pundits have

and they have already called the election.

maybe it’s time to take this seriously…

or should we just wait till after the elections and hang our heads in shame at the antics of our elected officials…

like we did with Bush?

[KBear]

I think the real issue here is NOT whether there was a violation (almost everyone seems to agree that there wasn’t), but whether what the cashier did was reasonable. Since the cashier has to worry not only about the letter of the law, but also whether the police, LCB, or store manager might be watching, it seems perfectly reasonable that they err on the cautious side. I’d say the safety of cashier’s job is more important than the slight inconvenience of re-doing the transaction. Why is this such a big deal, anyway?

[JoB]

Carson…

too many people do take Glen Beck seriously…

Glen Beck’s job is to inflame anger through any means possible..

because an angry electorate kicks the incumbent to the curb.

it never deals with the problem…

but kicking a.. feels good..

even better when you think you are being righteous about it…

and glen beck is all about making people feel righteous.

truth? integrity?

just buzzwords to Glen Beck..

the oldest trick in the book is to blame someone else for what you are doing.

and people are falling for it :(

I would like to think Glen Beck is just a sick joke…

but he is a very real threat to our political future…

worse..

he is a threat to our economic future.

the greedy bastards haven’t milked every penny out of the middle class yet…

he is a threat to our environmental future

deregulation means open season on dumping toxic waste in your neighborhood

he is a threat to our public safety

at this point every penny saved in deferred maintenance increases the odds that you will be a victim of a roadway collapse

he is a threat to our moral integrity

when lies are passed off as truth without challenge.. the difference between right and wrong is translated as might makes right..

he is a threat to our legal system…

the latest supreme court ruling on campaign contributions just put our electoral process up for sale .. in a totally blind auction.. you don’t even get to see who is buying you…

this man and what he is doing is no joke.

Unfortunately, it’s too late to educate those who have bought his personal toxic blend of lies and fiction before the coming election. They drank the kool-aid and are true believers…

reason is wasted.

The only way we can neutralize Glen Beck and his cronies is to make sure that we show up at the polls in numbers way to big to ignore.

This election isn’t over unless we give it to them through indifference… and we do so at our own peril.

[Carson]

When he stands in front of posters that mock Obama, and the posters are all slave owners its tough to take him serious.

[Sue]

Skylark is going to open on Mondays starting 9/20. However, they will be stopping weekday lunch after this week. From Skylark’s email newsletter:

“We’re closing for weekday lunch. Fear not! We shall keep our extraordinarily long happy hour (3pm to 7pm all seven days of the week) and just open right up with said happy hour on weekdays. We shall most certainly keep our popular and delicious weekend brunch (9am to 3pm Saturday AND Sunday).

THESE NEW HOURS ARE EFFECTIVE AS OF TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. So weekday lunch ceases at the end of this week, and Monday, September 20 at 3pm is your first day to come hang out with us.”

[Carson]

JoB,

Do you actually watch Morton Downey Beck Jr? I thought he was just a Comedy Central reject act? If you are not sure he is a total, 100% racist just check out his “heros”. Of all the Founding Fathers he could have picked, he picked all slave owners. What the left needs to do, and they have started, is to make him the label of the right. He wants to take us back to a better, simpler time for sure!!

[dawsonct]

JoB, thanks for the info, re:#26. I had been wondering how much of the Koch family’s donations were considered tax deductible. It would be interesting to know how much they and others like Richard Mellon-Scaife have been able to save over the years in taxes supporting non-profits which are created solely to tear down our government and enrich the already super-wealthy.

These bogus foundations they set up are often simply barely disguised front organizations designed to employ relatives and funnel cash back in to personal accounts on low-interest, open-ended “loans.”

Mike Leavitt, HHS secretary under Gee Whiz, had one of the more public airings of laundry in recent years concerning the Leavitt Family Foundation. I remember it being resolved as all TECHNICALLY legal, and so the rank-and-file happily forgot as their handlers swept it under the rug:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/20/AR2006072001906.html

As far as I can tell, Grassley was unsuccessful in getting his reforms passed.

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End wealthcare now!

[Al]

Oh JoB, I do appreciate your responses. And yes, I am going to defend my “right” to be on the roadway and use the roadway in my legal rights as a cyclist (or motorcyclist or driver). However, I’ll re-iterate, this doesn’t mean that I give up my right of way just because someone else wants to pass me.

If I, or whomever, is riding a bit futher to the left than YOU want, that doesn’t mean I HAVE to pull over for you. Fauntleroy is fraught (yes, fraught) with parked cars, opening vehicle doors, buses, etc. that a cyclist has to manoeuver around, while simultaneously negotiating with passing traffic. This demands defensive RIDING ergo the lane position. It’s more dangerous to keep swerving in and out of traffic, riding unpredictably than to maintain a consistent route down the roadway.

Just because you, or any other person, think that riding a bicycle is dangerous business doesn’t make it right to think that they don’t belong on the road. What makes cycling dangerous is most often the very drivers that are sharing the road with the cyclist. If everyone drove defensively and followed the rules of the road (and I don’t think you did anything wrong here – you weren’t comfortable passing and you didn’t which is correct) then we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.

[johnnyblegs]

Good luck trying to communicate that to fellow drivers on the bridge! The gridlock at the top of the ramp isn’t really the merging traffic’s fault, it’s the exit to 99. The semi sharp right turn to get on 99 slows down the approaching traffic on the WS bridge which creates the long back-up in the right lane. After midspan there isn’t a whole lot of time to merge over before the merge lane becomes a bus only lane, hence the crazy weaving of cars to get over because that’s where the line starts. VERY bad design on these lanes but it most likely didn’t accommodate for the increase of population/cars for the years to come and the importance of 99 as a major city thoroughfare. The good side is that there shouldn’t be much of that problem once the viaduct gets torn down. The whole bridge will be a mess!

[DP]

(Be patient. I promise this will turn out to be West Seattle-related.)

I just finished the X-Treme Customer Frustration Marathon, sponsored by a local airline whose name you’d probably recognize. (I’m not naming names, but long ago, this company’s slogan was “kindly skies” or something like that.)

See, my 84-year-old, wheelchair-bound dad is flying into town this month, and I wanted to meet him at the gate, so I tried to contact the airline he’s flying in on to set it up. Nothing doing. They don’t have a published number that you can call and actually talk to a human being, and when I tried their so-called “customer service” 800-number, all I got was one of those cruel automated menu recordings. You know . . . the kind that make you want to seek out Alexander Graham Bell’s grave just so you can desecrate it.

Anyway, after taking several wrong turns in the maze, and after shouting a variety of off-menu expressions into the telephone receiver at the top of my lungs, I finally gave up in disgust and called home to break the news.

“I guess I’ll see you in the baggage claim area, Dad,” I said. “If you wind up LA, it means you got on the wrong shuttle.”

The airlines and the government want us to travel, right? So why do they make it so godawful hard? When I was a young man, some twenty years ago, you could get on a plane without having to show anyone your private parts. And if you had a question or problem with your ticket beforehand, you just dialed a number, and within seconds a human being would answer and get you the help you needed.

Sure, it wasn’t high-tech by today’s standards. But it worked pretty well, right? I guess the low-tech days of things working pretty well are gone, though. No use living in the past . . .

Now here’s the West Seattle angle, folks:

When my wife and I were looking for a place to leave Iowa for, lo these many years ago, we used the following principle as our guide:

Let’s move somewhere that’s so beautiful, we’ll never need to go anyplace else—just in case we’re not able to go anyplace else someday.

Well, it looks like the days of not being able to go anyplace may be here sooner than we thought. Fortunately, we made the right choice of places to end up. We’ve been here in West Seattle for more than twenty years now, and we’ve never seen of a greener pasture to graze in than this.

And to the airline that gave me all the grief, I would just say this:

Keep your “kindly skies” and telephone house of horrors for some other mule. As for me and my house, we’re staying home.

—D.P.

 

[BBGuest]

Oh Pam, I am so sorry.

A friend recently referred to putting an animal down or to sleep,’active euthanasia’ as EXECUTION.

I was horrified by the term and yet….

It takes a lot of chutzpah to say what you say and to identify the face & reality of no kill. The term no kill and ‘adoptable’ as criteria leaves a lot to be desired. If a place will not take a problem animal, isn’t that the same thing as killing them?

You can not save them all. Society can not save them all. Shelters can not save them all. Money can’t save them all. It has to be a work in progress and a resolve to fix the problem.

In the mean time, thank you.

[Kevin]

If you are pinching pennies, then try the frozen crab cakes available at Winco down in Kent. They come vacuum sealed in a package of six. Can’t remember the price, but they were a very good value.

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Stepping up a notch or two, the QFC crab cakes (made with Rock crab) run around $2.50 or so. Again, not bad for the money. I have had them for breakfast a few times. Not sure why, but they do seem to pair well with a good cup of coffee. Crab cakes and scrambled eggs – yumm!

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Thriftway is at the top of my list at the moment. Large cakes made with real Dungeness crab! Typically selling for about $3.50 each.

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I have yet to try the Seattle Fish crab cakes – thanks Keith.

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Lastly, Safeway carries their own slightly spicy crab dip / sauce, which I find great on just about any fish entree. Normal price is around $4 for an 7oz tub, and frequently is on sale for $3.50.

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[hammerhead]

As most of you know I am in rescue. You need to know the dark side of rescue. When the “no kill” places are full where is the general public to take their animals? To the shelter where they will might be put to sleep. Why? To full, to old or aggressive, or maybe human doesn’t want them anymore. The reason for this is because we can NOT save everything, people NEED to know this.

I have made very difficult decision in my rescue this year more than any other year. I will NOT deny of having to put animals to sleep because of health mostly, but most recently aggression. I had to take a rescue back and it is not going to work. The dog has attacked my dog 3 times. NO RESCUE can or WANTS to help. I don’t blame them. It is a huge liability. I again have to make the difficult decision to put an animal to DEATH.

I do not call myself a no kill nor will I ever. When I can’t take in a animal then I send to them to some shelter. Well truth be told, they may end up dead. As to not get myself into trouble I won’t say any more about the shelters I deal with.

I have a heavy heart and it is never easy to put an animal to death. That is the reality of things in the shelters, they can spin anything to justify to put animal to death. I won’t put a spin on it, it is the truth.

FCAT

[LisaM]

I have a very large orb spider that has taken up residence under my patio umbrella that I now call “Scary Spice”. It’s really fascinating to watch it weave a new web each evening, eat all the bugs that would prob end up in my house, and sleep under the umbrella all day.

[lesleyt]

Welcome to Nia! Free Class Saturday, September 11, 2010 from 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m. Start your day with a free introductory Nia class led by Jill Pagano and Lesley Tinker, Certified Nia Instructors. Nia is a cardiovascular and whole body conditioning practice. Done barefoot to music, each Nia class provides a unique focus for warming up, moving, and cooling down. Experience the benefits of Nia for yourself. Immediately, you will feel more invigorated, vital, and refreshed. Keep practicing Nia and you will feel more flexible, agile, mobile, strong, and stable. Pre-registration required: http://www.NiaDivas.com

[JoB]

AlkiCabCompany…

shame on you for implying that married women “let themselves go” because they think they don’t have to try any longer.

that’s a shabby little stereotype….

Most married women i know didn’t “let themselves go” until their mates lost interest…

it’s really difficult to invest the time in looking and feeling sexy when the person whose attention you seek has stopped looking at you.

btw… that whole idea of “letting yourself go” which usually translates to another way of saying “she got fat” is another shabby little stereotype.

There is nothing sexier than a twinkle in the eye

and nothing guaranteed to keep it there like a loving and attentive mate.

[Carson]

Bottom line is marriage is not for everyone. If you can’t compromise and give a little, the single life might be perfect for you. On the other hand, I love to listen to my wife sleep at night and nuzzle up next to her. She is easily the best chef in West Seattle (serious) and with great joy I built her a kitchen to match her skills! We travel well together, she has her bathroom and I have mine. We do have TV issues on the weekends, but that’s easy enough to solve!

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Stay single Jiggers, it seems to fit you!

[dmc]

CPAP Machines:

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/hab/1939679570.html

Dishwasher:

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/app/1939673033.html

Backrest:

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/bab/1939710714.html

Contact me via Craiglist postings for additional photos. I was having a hard time posting photos. Thanks!

[JanS]

My parents will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary on Oct. 20th of this year. They are..old..85 and 86. They have been through a lot together. When you love someone, truly love them, you stick with them, thick or thin, good and bad. You compromise, you talk, you argue, you sometimes gain and lose weight, you sometimes have an ugly side. Too many people treat marriage like it’s “going steady”…it’s not..it takes work at times.

Someone who cuts and runs at the slightest imperfection, illness, etc..isn’t worth holding onto in the first place. We are more than arm candy for some guy. Men who think that the person they married has gotten complacent and “doesn’t take care of herself” need to seriously look in the mirror a bit.It’s a two way street on that one.

[JoB]

Al…

whoa nelly.. what a lot of focus on rights…

i didn’t fault the cyclist.. i fault the system.

however, i do think the rider would have been a lot smarter to utilize the options she had to safely pull to the side without losing either speed or flexibility…

the rider is safer if they ride in such a way that facilitates faster traffic whenever possible… because if they don’t drivers will try to pass..

the ugly truth is that while i might have the patience to follow a bike using the entire roadway for an entire mile..

i am the exception.. not the rule.

in the Sunday newspaper..

a noted biker was quoted as saying that he no longer bikes to work because of increased traffic and the increasing number of new bikers who do not understand the rules of the roadway…

i contend that the rules of the roadway include far more than what is printed int he driver’s manual.

and have to add that i see examples of that behavior on the part of bicyclists every time i get in my car,,,

or share a path on foot with an ever increasing number of bikers who think they are on a speedway track designed for racers.

there are paths in Lincoln park that are no longer safe to walk dogs on because it is nearly impossible to get both yourself and your dog out of the way when a bicycle speeds up from behind you without bothering to let you know they are coming.

though to be perfectly fair.. runners are as inconsiderate on the trails in Lincoln park as bikers…

it doesn’t seem to matter whether people are on foot or on skates or skateboards or bikes or motor cycles or cars or …. they seem to be universally focusing on their own rights and completely unconcerned with yours…

if i am against anything… I am against people everywhere who are so embedded in getting everything they have a “right” to that they are totally insensitive to those with whom they share space…

sorry about the typos and slipped keys.. i am too tired to edit this mroning

[Al]

“i read Traffic when it came out…apparently i focused more on the safety part of the book than the part about taking advantage of free pavement regardless of how you cause brake lights to flash behind you .. thereby causing the traffic tie-ups you contend to avoid ;->”

Aha. Then you should re-read it. In the very first chapters it explains the use of roadways; i.e. they are not exclusively for motor vehicle use, but for “transportation” purposes. “Traffic” is not exclusively a term for motor vehicles which is a huge point of the book. And what’s also interesting is that the psychology of driving is discussed in detail. You PERCEIVE you are held up when in all actuality you are not really slowed down all that much. That person in front of you has every right to use “his” bit of roadway, just as much as you and he does not have to yield the right of way and his safety just so you, in the faster, bigger, more dangerous vehicle can proceed as if you alone owned the piece of property you are driving over. As for those cars behind you, you are still ahead of them – and proceeding safely. You have no way to inform them of what’s going on, they will need to drive safely as as well with no communication between anyone (also discussed in the book). That is not the “fault” of the cyclist who, as far as I can tell, was riding safely and properly.

[JoB]

Julie…

the sharrow lane may only extend for 1/2 a mile.. but i followed that cyclist for a full mile…

and i wasn’t so worried about the time as i was about the impatient drivers behind me…

one of whom chose to pass both the rider and myself and nearly caused a collision that would have taken both of us out in the process…

the same impatience on the part of drivers that necessitated the turn lane in the middle of the street rears it’s ugly head when anything slows the progress of traffic.

I am not anti-bike at all…

i think we need to invest in safe separate bike lanes to facilitate traffic and encourage more bike traffic.

Al…

i read Traffic when it came out…

apparently i focused more on the safety part of the book than the part about taking advantage of free pavement regardless of how you cause brake lights to flash behind you .. thereby causing the traffic tie-ups you contend to avoid ;->

[JoB]

how about this…

David Koch’s tax free charities and tax free foundations have dumped 176 million into campaign contributions in the last decade… funding candidates who are “pro-business” … which in his case translates to “against any environmental controls or pollution restrictions”…

* $120 million from the “David H. Koch Charitable Foundation,”

* $48 million from the “Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation,” and

* $28 million from the “Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation,” Charles Koch controls.

Yup.. we the taxpayers subsidized his campaign donations… to the tune of at least 35 million dollars.

This year with contribution limits lifted he is on track to dump $45 million into this election cycle backing republican “pro business” candidates…

pro business sounds so much more American than polluting, tax avoiding, stealing business doesn’t it.

Those campaign contributions are paying off for him… for $176 million :

he was awarded over $100 million in government contracts..

http://mediamattersaction.org/search/tag/americans_for_prosperity

He was allowed to settle huge oil industry pollution fines for pennies on the dollar.. by the administration headed by George W Bush..

lots of interesting reading here..

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Industries

He was allowed to successfully avoid paying royalties owed to the US government for oil leases on federal and Indian lands by $210 million…

http://www.roberts-partners.com/false_claims_cases_index.html

He was just convicted for this one.. so you can bet he wants to stack the deck when it comes to settling the resulting fines…

and that’s just the short list.

A quick read of the link for his recent conviction is illuminating. Koch may be the most visible businessman investing a government he can control.. but as that list shows he is not the only business in the business of scamming America.

The reason businesses invest so much money in campaigns and in lobbying firms is that those investments pay off.. guaranteed at something like 3 to 1.

He has a vested personal financial interest in convincing America to vote for the candidates he promotes through political advertising…

and through all those tea party functions funded by tax-exempt organizations that form to fund them and fold immediately afterward…

and through his investment in the freedom foundation..

http://politicalcorrection.org/factcheck/200908060005

To put the amount of money Koch is dumping into campaigns in perspective… the amount PACs have donated so far in this campaign season is 200 million…

those are the organizations that were legally able to donate prior to the recent supreme court ruling that opened the floodgates for corporate money … the mechanism Koch used to invest that $176 million that was his limit in the last 10 years…

before the supreme court ruling that allowed corporations to dump unlimited cash into political campaigns… Koch’s political influence was limited to 17.5 million a year funneled through tax exempt organizations… now he is contributing $45 million in a few months .. and that doesn’t count his behind the scenes transfusions to the tea party.

Koch is counting on the best outcome his money can buy in the coming election.

It’s up to us as individuals to ask ourselves if his best outcome is really in your best interests.

And lest you think i am only speaking to the republican half of this equation…

i would like to remind you that every democrat… every liberal.. every independent… who does not bother to vote in this election contributes to his victory…

In light of the disaster that just happened in the Gulf of Mexico.. that should be a sobering thought.

[The Velvet Bulldog]

These are the crabbing season rules: http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/shellfish/crab/area.php?id=17

“Timeslid” noted how to report a violation.

They do point out that they have very few resources for enforcement, but if this is a regular occurrence, they may be able to address it eventually.

It’s up to all of us to protect Puget Sound and its critters.