I agree that keeping to the right except to pass makes great sense on freeways.. but on city arterials using the left hand lane as a passing lane works only until someone has to turn left.. and then those speeding up to pass have to come to a screeching halt…
i love to watch the road jockeys speed up to wait for me to catch them at the next light.. or better yet to come to a screeching halt behind someone turning left.
i try to resist the temptation to wave at them as i pass ;-)
it’s easy to become disillusioned
but anyone who thinks the outcome of this election doesn’t really matter has forgotten that in the end the law of this land is determined by our Supreme Court.
the likelihood of four vacancies not including the present one in the next 4 years is pretty high.
better is always better than worse
wait for it … wait for it … a federal judge (Gonzalo Curiel) in a [no-]class-action suit has ruled that internal documents from Trump U must be released by June 2 (a separate suit alleging deceptive business practices brought by the NY AG is underway as well.) Trump, citing his comments about the Wall (no, not the Pink Floyd album,) accused the ‘Mexican’ judge of being biased because of his presumed Mexican heritage (let’s see, a square is a wrecked angle, so anyone with a Hispanic sounding name who appears to dislike rump must be Mexican,) Even still, rump said that being presumably Mexican is ‘great’ and ‘fine.’ (The judge was born in Indiana, which in Trumpworld is a ciudad in Mexico.) Trump suggested that the judge recuse himself because he has made so many ‘negative, negative, negative’ rulings that he must be ‘a hater’ of Trump. Due to the code of judicial ethics, the judge cannot respond.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/internal-trump-university-records-must-be-released-federal-judge-rules/ar-BBtB9Lf#image=1 (warning – put your orange-blocking sunglasses on; when I opened this page, it defaulted to a YUGE picture of rump, which is now burned into my retinas. btw, MSN is a great place for articles from a variety of papers that might otherwise charge for viewing articles.)
and, if you feel the American Dream is more of a nightmare, you shouldn’t read this NYT article … how many palatial homes does vulture capitalist Mittens Romney own while he off-shores his money to avoid paying for his fair share of what makes America grate? (yes, the misspelling is purposeful.)
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/a-worrisome-pileup-of-dollar100-million-homes/ar-BBtAI9F?li=BBnb7Kz
can’t wait for his taxes to be released … anyone remember that the IRS audited Tricky Dick when he was the sitting president? Over 3 years, his income totaled around $900k but he had only paid $6k in federal taxes. He was required to pay something like $450k in taxes, interest and penalties. Spiro got audited too with similar results. This was how the ‘time-honored tradition’ of candidates releasing their returns got started. (thanks to Rachel Maddow!)
Exactly, VVT. I thought the keep right signs were ridiculous until I moved here and became acquainted with Washington drivers. Might as well post the entire drivers’ manual on roadside signs. It would be the first time some of them had ever read it. If they bothered to look up from their phones, that is.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
I have looked for Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness only to find a career, a mortgage and managing to keep my head above water. The latter being available to me in such an unpalatable form that it excludes the former. The american dream is being corrupted into the corporation nightmare. I don’t know if I will vote in November but I certainly did not caucus or vote in the primary stuff. Republican or democrat, small handed lying misogynist or lying cuckold lush, tv personality or career politician, they are part of the problem. I include Bernie because he ran as a democrat and now harvests the consequences. They are the weeds that have grown in the vineyard. I am disgusted that they are given the time and attention that they get. It is wrong that we vote with hope instead of consequences. We reward politician promises with our future rather than assessing them on ability and past choices and then wonder how they fooled us again. I can only get some solace in seeing the emptiness in their eyes when they glimpse that they are even more mired in the nightmare than the people that vote for them.
WINTER IS COMING
“Free College ? Really ? If i walked up to any Liberal downtown…”
Yes, downtown, where only the liberals go. Oh, I forgot to capitalize the L in Liberal like all the RWNJ emails do. Are people really so dense that they think “free” public education is actually free? Ever hear about “taxes”? We pay taxes and then that money is “redistributed” (as the Liberals would say) for functions that our representatives in Gov’t decide are priorities. Some people think education is a really smart way to use our tax money to improve society for all of us, even the non-liberals. Hence, extending tax funded “free” public education thru college. Sheesh!
Mostly, I just feel sorry for her kids.
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if we stopped giving immensely profitable corporations all our free stuff there would be plenty left to fund things like education…
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I did file a complaint with the FCC. I guess I didn’t give them my phone # as I did receive a letter in the mail from CL stating that the could not do any research without it.
I do find that a little hard to believe. The account that I had with them for the last 20 years, 14 of which were at my current address, were billed to my name and address that is on the letter itself. Seems like a simple search in their database would give her the phone # I had for this address.
I emailed her today with the phone # that I had with them. I’ll update this thread with any response I receive.
I don’t see free college as being any different than a public K-12 education. If Betty had completed either one, she might be able to present a more rational argument, free of spelling, grammatical, and judgment errors. The United States is no longer the world’s greatest nation, and our declining status has a lot to do with lack of education – not too much of it. More civilized countries, like Sweden and Norway, offer free college. They also are highest on the happiness index. Can’t say that for most Americans these days. The fact is that the safety net and benefits of all kinds have shriveled to nothing, except for the very rich.
Smitty, I do agree that there is a struggle, but I just didn’t really imagine that after having 10 years of experience in my specialty career that I would still be walking a fine line. My car is very used and gas efficient, I don’t take expensive vacations and I bought far below the market price for West Seattle homes selling today. I am aware that I am doing better than most which makes me want a better system for everyone. We all know that trickle-down doesn’t work. The evidence is there that building your economy from the ground-up strengthens the community and fuels a successful economy.
LT, you have a mortgage – and a two income household – which is more than most can say in this city. From the sound of it you are relatively young (30?).
We can’t have everything we want right away. Maybe you bought too much home? Maybe you lease new cars every 2 years? Maybe you take expensive vacations? Maybe none of those are the case.
My wife and I struggled until about our early 40’s when after work promotions and cost cutting we finally stopped living check to check. Now we are catching up on retirement savings. It CAN be done, albeit not easily and without sacrifice. Not everyone can be a CEO, and regardless, reducing CEO salaries by 90% won’t make a bit of difference anyway as it’s not a zero sum game.
Just remember that a lot of those high-end German cars are leased by people living in rented housing. You are probably doing way better than you think.
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I would recommend reading the thread on Cenutry Link before going with them. Buyer beware!
Jan, yes, I do worry a lot about medical catastrophes and any major issue that may go wrong with my home. I’m not sure I could fully recover and would lose the cash value I have paid into the home if I had to sell quickly.
Betty, I’ve worked very hard, harder than a lot of people to get to where I am today. When I was 18 and I held my mom’s hand as she died from cancer, I didn’t give up on my school or my bills or my health. I kept going because I had a vision of having my own family that I could support financially and emotionally. I am not sure what world you are living in, but you would think in a Capitalist Society, where you have paid your dues and worked tirelessly to put yourself through Bachelor’s school and Master’s School and have been a Structural Engineer for 10 years that you would feel safe from the stigma of losing everything. I’m treading water and if I lost my job due to sickness or an accident or the economy, everything I’ve worked so hard to achieve could be gone in an instant. Are you telling me that the American dream is to work hard to achieve all your dreams but ONLY if your life is free of emergencies or some tragic catastrophe? That’s not the American dream I believe in. I do hope that you do more research, talk to your friends and family and discuss their life hardships to begin to get a picture of the daily struggles people are dealing with. I consider myself in the upper echelon of income even though I am barely holding myself above water.
I also think it would be a valuable experience for you and your kids to go live abroad in a Socialist-Democratic Scandinavian country for a few months and come back to let us know how evil it is.
LT….then throw in one or two medical catastrophies…that’ll kill your “budget” in an instant…and it’s very difficult to come back from that, sometimes. If you have a mortgage, children, it can be devastating, speaking from experience. Financially, it’s very difficult to recover.
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This is sad to watch this Liberal infection permeate this latest generation.
Teaching the Classic left wing idea that every Tyrant in History has used to secure power which is that they aren’t prospering because of the ” Rich guy on the Hill ” that has stolen it and that if you give them ( Chavez, Hitler , Stalin etc..) Complete control that they will ” Make it Right “. I would ask if you feel like suckers for believing a former Pornography author that has never had a real job ( Bernie ) but you really are that sad.
Free College ? Really ? If i walked up to any Liberal downtown and was handing out something of significant worth for ” Free ” you would all look over your shoulder and Hopefully ask me if it was Stolen. Yet Someone promising Free College makes sense. See that is what the Liberal sickness does. It makes you deny reality and rationalize things that you normally wouldn’t even consider.
See in the Real world of Economics when something is ” Free ” Demand Skyrockets and Supply plummets. So, What do we do when 30 million more people decide that they want to attend college since it is ” Free ” ? In a Socialist/ Communist system they solve that problem by allowing the Loyal Party members to be first in line and then let the system of payoff’s and corruption handle the rest.
In England they solved this problem by having Children take a test and those that do well get the opportunity to better there lives by attending college and those that don’t do well… Well… Sorry , Here’s a shovel.
Let’s see how that fly’s in Liberal-ville when the test scores reveal that a majority of those given the opportunity of free college are of the Evil white persuasion ? That will certainly Fly won’t it ?
Please help your children out by making them work for there allowance rather than convincing them they deserve it because someone else worked hard and Stole it from them.
This is Sad to watch.
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I am a full-time working mother with a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering. I live in Seattle, in a two income household and I surprisingly live paycheck to paycheck. The level of wealth inequality in our country is disastrous. The cost of childcare, for one child, is more than half of my mortgage. I did not get any paychecks when I “decided” to take 12 weeks of maternity leave to nurture and nurse my infant daughter. I don’t have any extra money to save for my daughter’s future college expenses. We are told that if we work hard our entire lives that we can live the American dream, we can buy a house, we can save for our future, we can have ample time to spend with our families. What a lie. I don’t want my daughter to be in debt before she graduates college and before she has a chance to start a successful career. People are overworked and underpaid. There are many more millions of people who are not even as lucky as I am to have a family, a house, a job and education that was not free.
This is a really interesting article that I came across. It’s long but worth the read. http://www.stirjournal.com/2016/04/01/i-know-why-poor-whites-chant-trump-trump-trump/
“Their”, not “there”, and improper use of caps. Education, indeed.
Speaking of hallucination, it’s gut wrenching to see how many working people have once again swallowed the propaganda that drives them to vote against their own interests while supporting a welfare state for the rich. What an ugly country we have become.
Is the Bernie Sanders Hallucination of ” Free ” Everything Finally over ?
How do I explain to my 8yr. & 10yr. children that they are Actually going to have to Work Hard for a living and earn there own way ?
The Horror of it All !
I think CenturyLink said we would have to go with the more expensive fiber optic if we went with them.
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We have had our internet service with Comcast for the past 10+ years. They keep raising our rates and I think we have finally had it with them. The best they can offer us is $49.99/month for 75 MB internet + $10/month cable model rental. We do stream videos, so I am thinking we would need greater than 25 MB speed.
Any recommendations on high speed internet providers in West Seattle?
