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[credmond]

I’ve been in many of the same situations and sympathize with pretty nearly everyone’s comments – but, wow, when you step back a yard or two and realize what’s going on, it’s like this:

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if we all lived in apartments/condos we’d be bitchin’ and moaning about the noise next door or upstairs or the shouts or arguments or the trash left in the hallway or the rumpled phone book piles near the main entry.

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if we ride the bus we’re always griping about the frequency or missed runs or full buses or surly drivers or rude or bizarre fellow passengers.

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we live in single family neighborhoods and we complain about neighbors trash cans and weird parking habits and strangers who invade our street and dogs which don’t quit barking.

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it’s almost a comedy, really!

[karen]

I’m not a dog person and I think it would anoy me some to have someone drop the poo in my can. However, I would much rather that than be hit with it the next time I am out mowing.

OK. On the subject – how about this one. On recycle day there is a gentleman in the neighborhood who goes around and digs through the recycle containers. He has a little cart with buckets and long handled thing and who knows what. Obviously he takes this really seriously and I wonder if he is supplementing his income with recyclables. The thing is – it drives me nuts! I hate having his dig through my trash.

I have no problem with him having the cans or whatever instead of the city. I just hate having him out digging through my can.

Anyone else have this in their area?

I just wanted to mention it, I know it’s illegal and I could write a note or talk to him. I just don’t feel comfortable confronting him and it would be silly to call the police over something like this.

[squareeyes]

Has anyone made progress on an anti-freeze schedule? I’d love to meet up for another one.

Perhaps we can do two per month to encompass diversity of schedules – one weekday, one weekend.

I can attend weekends or evenings, at coffeehouse or bar.

[WSB]

I think we’ve had this discussion before :) Nonetheless, we always like to chime in that New Teriyaki and Wok in Morgan Junction is our fave – one member of the family prefers the Chicken Katsu, another the General Tso’s, another the Kung Pao Chicken. Nice people too. Although once in a while, the teriyaki half-chicken from Yasuko’s at 35th/Fauntleroy just hits the spot.

[Ken]

A valentine from George W. McCain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE3jLCC_rwo

[JoB]

new resident.. his title was agitating enough to some that they haven’t read it yet:) which is why you and i have been able to talk so freely.

and agitating enough to me that i won’t go look at the video… and i don’t think that’s because i am a liberal. i think it’s because i don’t support sensationalism at any level. Nor do i need to see one more protest abut a war. been there. done that.

and the kids of the video… re JT’s description… are not bleeding heart liberals. they are angry kids.

now, i am a bleeding heart liberal. the bleeding heart part is because we want to make things better for everyone:)

you give house a lot more benefit of the doubt than i do. You are sweet to do so.

You assume he is informing. But if he was, what was he informing us of? That he found a video online and he didn’t like it? Because the subject matter wasn’t news to me… was it to you? You did know that kids have been protesting recruiting centers and opposing the war didn’t you?

And his title didn’t inform. it inflamed. The only reason we have had reasonable conversation as a result of his “information” is that you and i chose to do so. Not because that video added anything to anyone’s information.

BTW.. i have enjoyed the conversation. but i think i am headed back out to the yard now… and i think you and i have probably exhausted this topic anyway:)

i have been pulling weeds and have the most incredibly dirty fingernails ever:)

[beachdrivegirl]

Ken- I applaud you for caring. Not enough people do. Great job!

[beachdrivegirl]

Do you have room to bring your trash cans in at night? I know that when I was living in my old town house I had run into the same problem- of bringing trash out to a full can–with stuff that was not mine. So, we brought the cans in for a couple fo weeks and just put them in the back of the garage after doing this a few times whomever was using our cans stopped even when we started leaving the cans out again. Onto the dog poop–typically I woudl never dump it in someons private garbage can; i have at one time in particular dumped it in an aparmtetn complexs dumpster after finding a hole in the bag i was using. Other than that I figure I go out fo the way to find public cans to throw the poop out in so my trash doesnt fill up full of poop so I cant imagine my neighbors wanting my dogs poop in their cans.

[Keith]

Sue, if your neighbors just moved in from an apartment, they might have no idea that those cans are yours and that you pay for them – they’re probably just used to putting their garbage in with everyone else’s.

I’d leave a nicely-worded note, although it might take a few weeks for them to actually notice it unless your cans are well-lit. I had a garbage can issue with a neighbor – I knew who it was but I never saw them in person, so I just wrote a note explaining my issue and hoping they’d understand. The problem was resolved. If that doesn’t work for you, try contacting them in person next. Leave the police out of it.

[CMP]

Never leave dog poop in someone else’s trash can! It’s completely rude. Either dispose of it in a public trash receptacle or bring it back to your own house. Non-dog owners don’t have dogs for a reason and carrying around big loads of poop might have something to do with it. Thankfully I live in an apartment with a dumpster (that I’m sure non-residents utilize, given how ridiculously full it is sometimes), but I would be pissed to open my personal can to find smelly dog poop in it. I have no problem cleaning up cat poop in a litter box and leaving it in my garbage, but at least it’s not inconveniencing someone else. Be considerate of your neighbors! And good luck to Sue with the neighbor issue, I hope the advice posted above works :)

[Ken]

Charisma is codified by the social sciences. Especially concerning presidential elections.

Here is the authors web site of the original study the “keys” are based on.

http://www.forecastingprinciples.com/Political/commentary-lichtman.html

The following “keys” have proven accurate predictors in the past.

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The Keys are statements that favor the re-election of the incumbent party.

When five or fewer statements are false, the incumbent party wins.

Note how some of the “keys” can still be manipulated between now and the election.

Expect it.

When six or more are false, the challenging party wins.

I score it as nine false keys even while leaving three unanswered, meaning we could win even with Gravel. But manipulation of perception via propaganda and false flag operations could shift the balance even now. This is why the Charisma key could be important.

How do you score it?

[1] After the midterm elections, the incumbent party holds more seats in the U.S. House of representatives than it did after the previous midterm elections.

[2] There is no serious contest for the incumbent-party nomination.

[3] The incumbent party candidate is the sitting president.

[4] There is no significant third party or independent campaign.

[5] The economy is not in recession during the election campaign.

[6] Real per-capita economic growth during the term equals or exceeds mean growth during the previous two terms.

[7] The incumbent administration effects major changes in national policy.

[8] There is no sustained social unrest during the term.

[9] The incumbent administration is untainted by major scandal.

[10] The incumbent administration suffers no major failure in foreign or military affairs.

[11] The incumbent administration achieves a major success in foreign or military affairs.

[12] The incumbent-party candidate is charismatic or a national hero.

[13] The challenging-party candidate is not charismatic or a national hero.

[JoB]

new resident…

if what happened in that video is inflammatory (and i agree it is)…

then so is posting it so that it inflames others.

and why told house he was an agitator.

What i think is shameful is worrying more about a flag than the Americans who are defending it/our country/our freedoms.

and yes, just like in America, there are soldiers on both sides of the theoretical question about whether we should stay there…

but there are very few soldiers anywhere in that kind of battle zone who wouldn’t take the first plane home if it was offered to them.

And we should worry about them if they thought any different.

The realities of war and what it does to those who have to wage it are horrendous.

and that, i think we can all agree on.

[Anonymous]

It’s interesting that “showing our troops they care enough about them to want to get them out of there”, isn’t necessarily what they want or agree with. I will admit, I’m not as computer savvy as most of you on this site(meaning, I don’t know how to post the links), but I have seen our soldiers state in interviews that it would not be the right thing to pull out of the war right now. Top generals who have been on the front line have stated this.

Of course we can agree to disagree. I certainly agree that there are more un-patriotic things that could be done. What happened in that video is just a shame.

[JoB]

i just wish those biodegradable poop bags were a little better at containing odor. i don’t want to enshrine my dog’s poop in a landfill in plastic that won’t biodegrade .. but i don’t want to carry it home in the car smelling like that either.

i look for public trash cans.. but confess.. i have been known to utilize a private dumpster on occasion.

charlabob you are a better woman than i.

As for using someone else’s trash can for your trash.. you wouldn’t just throw your trash over the fence, would you? same thing.

write a note and tape it to your can. assume they don’t know any better and let them know there are rules to follow.

I think you are right to be suspicious of the new neighbors tho… if it wasn’t them.. how did they know to return that bag to your trash can?

make nice first. call landlord second. call trash carrier next. call police last.

and good luck!

[JoB]

can we agree to disagree on that one?

i think there are things far more unpatriotic and harmful to our soldiers than burning a flag. And they are not fighting for a flag. They are fighting for our country and rights every citizen is guaranteed by our constitution.

It may be an abuse of those rights to burn the American flag, but it is not a crime. It is inflammatory to burn a flag (not meant to be a pun) but that’s the point, isn’t it. It gets attention. I wouldn’t choose to do it, but i can certainly see why some people would.

I think our troops know how we feel about them by the things we do that directly affect them.. and the huge increase in suicide attempts in Iraq by our troops there tells me a great deal about what we aren’t doing for them. And that doesn’t even begin to address the suicide rate once they return home.

We show them respect and support by supplying them with the best equipment, the best physical and mental health care, paying them well, honoring their discharge dates, honoring the same commitments as to length and number of tours for the guard troops as for the regular troops… etc…

so far, the only “troops” in Iraq to be so guaranteed to be outfitted and treated with respect are the mercenary core under Blackwater… and by the way, the American taxpayer directly foots the bill for the majority of them. We pay them very well.

We are funding and treating mercenaries who are not accountable even to the US Military better than we treat our own soldiers. And those mercenaries are creating some of the problems our troops face there. Not cool! I think that tells our soldiers more about how we feel about them than whether someone at home protests the war by burning a flag.

Those rights are what our military is supposed to be fighting for… even in Iraq.

we show our respect for our soldiers when they get home by providing them with timely and first rate services rewarding the sacrifices they made for us. because there is no getting around the fact that serving in the Iraq war in our military is a huge sacrifice… the extent of which we hadn’t imagined. The brain traumas from the blasts alone will impair thousands for the rest of their lives.

There are sacrifices we are asking there that really are too much to ask of anyone.

I think we need to put our money where our mouth is and actually support our soldiers… because they are fighting for us. We may not agree with this war… but we can’t dismiss our responsibility to them because of that. That is patriotism in action.

As for the agreeing to disagree… another way of looking at protests at home against the war is that patriotic Americans are showing our troops they care enough about them to want to get them out of there.

just another point of view.

[Anonymous]

I try to think about how I would feel if I found a random bag of poop in my trash, and I don’t think I would mind. I would probably think that it was nice they picked up after their dog. However, every time we are out walking and come across this situation, whether we should just drop it in someone’s garbage can or not, we can never do it. It feels, somehow, like a violation. This brings me back to the original question on this thread. I can’t imagine dropping a little bag of dog waste (and we have a tiny dog) in someone’s garbage can, much less, ALL of our trash!

[felicialh]

yes we left a note… a very nice one and pointed out a spot down the street where no one is currently living so they should not be disrupting anyone’s parking. I really appreciated everyone’s stories, especially from the perspective of being the “parker” so we tried to be very kind and provide an alternative. The more we thought about it we realized they really had no idea what the street looked like at night when all of us got home from work, from their perspective it is an empty street with plenty of parking. We hope that they are not offended, especially since there is a solution for all of us. I will let everyone know if they are back when we get home tonight!

[Ken]

The receptacles should all have an address written on them. (otherwise I would never get mine back after a wind storm.)The city contractor does it here.

Have you called the 6843000 number for SPU customer service?

Look up the owner of the duplex if you’re shy.

http://www.metrokc.gov/gis/mapportal/iMAP_main.htm

Especially if it is rented via an agency.

If you get over your shyness, knock on the door.

Approach it as a new resident unfamiliar with the system and offer to help.

If that fails call the cops and get a report for “theft of services”. :)

This may not work for recycling only since the service is listed as “free”

Remember: Carrot first, then stick.

[spana]

Ken, Seattle Schools adopted a new program this year called Everyday Math (this is the publisher info: http://www.wrightgroup.com/index.php/programsummary?isbn=007608972X). This is now used in all of their schools. This might be part of the change you noticed, but the rest is probably differences between teachers. I would recommend talking to the current teacher (or emailing) and I’m sure they would happily provide you with the info you are looking for. Seeing it in context everyday, they probably don’t realize how unclear it seems to you!

[Anonymous]

Sue.. This has not happened to me, but I have had experience with this issue as being on the other side, in a way. When we first moved here, we had no idea about recycling and separating everything. Where we moved from, they don’t recycle like they do here. Obviously, just moving in, we had a lot of trash (recyclable and otherwise). For a couple of weeks, they weren’t picking up our stuff because we were doing it wrong! Well, we needed to do something because we had NOWHERE to put it!!! However, never in a million years would we have considered using a neighbors trash! We took care of it, but I think you should contact the city trash/recycling people and go from there. If those people moved from out of state, they probably don’t know all of this stuff (like you can be charged for their trash). Hopefully they don’t know and aren’t just that inconsiderate. Good luck!

[spana]

I lived right off of Alki Ave for a few years and parked in mostly the same spot on Alki Ave because there was no parking at my building. At one point I received a note (written in a friendly tone) on my windshield saying that the residents of the place I parked right outside of would like me not to park there anymore because it was a convenient spot for them due to rain and groceries, etc.

I stopped parking on that side of the street after I received the note, but it was very frustrating. I wasn’t just some random beach visitor (which seemed apparent because of my “repeat offending”), it was the closest I could get to my apartment — and I had to carry groceries in the rain sometimes, too! At the time I wished I could talk to whoever had left the note to explain it was just as inconvenient for me to park somewhere else than it was for them — but of course I wasn’t sure who it was, and I knew they’d assume I was just an arrogant asshole if I kept parking there.

If the same happened today, I wouldn’t have changed my habits. If the spot was open, I would park in it, if it wasn’t, I’d park somewhere else. It was Alki Ave, for pete’s sake.

[Sue]

I rent a house here in WS. My garbage service is included in my rent, but my landlord pays the bill for garbage (and I will be billed for anything over the basic service they’ve selected). Everything has been working out well since we moved into this house in May – the one garbage can is enough for the two of us without going over (and incurring more charge) and I love having a large recycling bin for us to use without sharing it (like we did in the old apartment complex). Some weeks we fill it full, other times we don’t, but it’s nice to have the option.

About 2 months ago, I went out on Sunday night to put out recycling. That’s when I found our recycling bin (plastic/paper) was stuffed full. Not only was it not our stuff, but it was filled with non-recyclable things like styrofoam and platic bags. I did not see who did it, but I find it coincidental that it was the same week that the duplex next door had a new family move in – the styrofoam and plastic was along with boxes for furniture that presumably had been put together, as well as moving boxes. Since I had not enough room for my own stuff, and I didn’t want my landlord (or us) to get in trouble for putting trash in there, I took out the non-recyclables, put it in a bag, and put it with the neighbor’s garbage that I suspected it belonged to.

The next week I went to put garbage in my single can and found that it was half full with a bag that was not ours. (I don’t use that type of garbage bag.) I took it out and also left it next door, on top of their stuffed-full mini cans. A week later, there is more stuff in our recycling bin, and more stuff in our garbabe.

I am very frustrated by this. Garbage pickup is a paid service here, so in essence, somebody is stealing my service. It’s inconvenient for me to have to try and cram my own stuff in there because someone thought they had this sense of entitlement to use a neighbor’s can without permission. Now, if the same person came to my door and said “gee, I see that you have a lot of extra room, and I’m out – can I use your can?” I’d be more than happy to help out (if I had the room). But the fact that this is being done on the sly, and without regard for anyone but themselves, is what is most frustrating. Plus I never know if, after I put out my garbage, if someone is going to add to it – and incur a larger cost for my landlord (which they’ll blame me for), or getting us in trouble for putting the wrong thing in the wrong can.

I feel uncomfortable knocking on the door and blaming a particular family (even though it started as soon as they moved in) because I’ve never actually seen anyone do it. Besides, I don’t know which part of the duplex they live in and don’t want to knock on the wrong door. I’ve thought of putting a sign up, although I’m not even sure what I’d say.

If this were happening to you, how would you handle it? Do I confront someone? Put a sign up? Contact non-emergency police about it? Call the city trash/recycling people? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

[charlabob]

Interesting question. I suspect that it is so personal and individual that an aggregation of the responses won’t tell us much. In other words, everyone may want someone who inspires them, but what actually inspires us is all over the map.

For example, I find geeks like Gore, with powerpoint presentations and endless facts, very inspirational. And the first public figure I responded to emotionally was Fidel Castro when some CBS show interviewed him in the Sierra Maestro Mountains — I was 7 and wanted to sign up.

In some way, I find Obamamania as disturbing and inexplicable as I found the notion of drinking with Bush.

Bottom Line, JoB, responding to charisma doesn’t require study or research or thought or trips to the library. Not being able to simply respond, was why I was awake at 1 a.m. this morning, posting to another forum. I heard something very disturbing about Obama on a radio call-in show and spent half an hour doing the research (to find out what I heard wasn’t true.) If I was just responding to his charisma, I could have rolled over and gone to sleep.

The short winded summary of my long winded response is that charisma doesn’t take much work, on the part of the responder. AND many of us, on all sides, are desperately hungry for some kind of inspiration.

[Anonymous]

I do not think protest is stupid. I think it is hypocritical to burn the flag of our own country because you’re upset that we are at war. How would our troops feel to see the citizens they are fighting to protect, burning their country’s flag? That is what is bothersome about the video to me. That’s what I meant by “stupid”. I think that is a little like “booing of soldiers”.

If you are against the war, make a sign. Burning the symbol of America is as un-patriotic as you can get.

[JoB]

obviously flower petal, this is a mother who wasn’t thinking about anything other than the photo opportunity it presented. What if the coyote had actually approached and her little angel had “tamed” a wild beast?

If his fingers had gone with the coyote, something tells me we wouldn’t have been seeing that clip.

This is why it is so important that we are educated about the wild creatures living around us… and that we learn how to interact with them responsibly… so that our children will know the difference between wild and domesticated creatures and will not try to interact with them.

wild animals don’t get used to humans by simply watching them.. they get used to humans because someone thinks they are cute and feeds them and encourages them to hang around… and thinks it’s cute to get the animal closer and to get it to play. Generally, they are not the one who suffers for that behavior because they are a food source.. but the next person who comes along without food and uses the same gestures often does pay.

And the animal is killed. Not because it wanted to hurt humans but because some idiot taught it to see humans as a food source.

ok.. i will get off this soapbox now:)