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[guidosmom]

AlkiDebbie, way to go! :) Thanks also for posting about the film festival. I wasn’t aware of it.

I love the Admiral Theater, but would like to see fewer “teen” type movies. I’d love to see a mix of what they currently have, as well as independent, foreign, maybe older movies for fun. I’d also love to see “adults” only after a certain time. The theater near my parents house has an “adults only” section that serves beer and wine as well as food.

[Aim]

OK, Seriously, you guys. This community makes me so proud to be a part of it.

I had three people drop movies off yesterday, and no fewer than 5 emails asking if I needed any more.

I am going to see if I can make an appearance on Sunday – it’s really going to depend on how I feel. However, after I’m better, I am TOTALLY buying a round of beers.

[JenV]

good thought, Homer – I have been to the Baghdad Cafe and Theatre in Portland where they sell beer and pizza and show second-run movies. Great place, and it would be neat to have that here…but they would have to retrofit it somehow to have someplace to set your food and drink down.

[Caduceus]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912

Was sent this link this morning after my friend said;

“Ryan you have to watch this, it’s like I’m listening to a less stubborn version of you.

Your thoughts?

[Homer]

I completely agree but I would like to see the Admiral Theater play the movies that they do bring in for longer, say over at least two weekends with later showings. They always seem to come and go so quickly and while on a weekend, their latest showing is sometimes 6pm!

One other suggestion while I’m on my soapbox, how about after 7pm, make it adults only by selling pizza and beer/wine to enjoy while watching your show. They do this down in some Portland theaters that are set up such as the Admiral Theater and it works great. Tons of adults at night but still plenty of shows to take the kids to as well. Just a thought. Could bring in more business and money with the overhead that’s on beer/wine!

[GenHillOne]

I think that’s part of the problem too, hopey, because to those who don’t use RSS, it’s barely noticable…doesn’t make it top of mind. I’m sure there will be some new options after the upgrade.

[AlkiDebbie]

We need to support local businesses like the Historic Admiral Theater. I don’t like the crowds of newly released movies anyway. It’s much more enjoyable to watch movies after all the promotion has passed. I don’t mind waiting in order to patronize our local establishments.

This weekend I’m going to go see Wall-E. : )

[Diane]

many of these will be apts, much needed as folks lose their ability to buy homes/condos

~

I think Admiral Safeway is planning apts, not condos

[OlMom]

As the news of the financial crisis continues day after day, I look around West Seattle and see large condo building after large condo building being constructed. Add to that, all the plans for more condos – above the Admiral Safeway for example. My two questions are these:

Who is going to live in these condos?

and

Which banks/mortgage companies are going to lend the money to people for these condos?

[inactive]

I’ll rave with you!

Rave for affordable, live local music!

[CP]

Oooo you know what, Zenguy. I think the brigade wouldn’t have to come back for angry Obama fans. When liberal hippies get mad we just stick flowers in their guns. Rednecks, however, are known to revolt when their guy doesn’t win (Kennedy anyone?) I think it could go either way. Neither of which is particularly good, but I would have assumed that they were coming home to quell the angry midwesterners with their guns and religion (haaaa! ziiiing.) Oh the caffeine is kicking in…

[WSB]

We have a problem I can’t solve by Googling.

There is a songbird – I used to know which species this is, kind of a striped body, sizable bird the size of a house sparrow (but NOT that species) – that clearly is in distress.

Since yesterday afternoon, it has been perching in our front yard and flying toward our front windows, not flat into them, but just up to the window like it wants to get in, bumps into the window, flutters a bit (there’s no window ledge outside, so nowhere for it to sit against the glass), goes back to a plant or front-yard fixture, then starts again. I thought maybe overnight it would get over it or go elsewhere – but this morning it’s back at it. Entertaining for the (indoor) cats but I imagine it’s eventually going to hurt itself and die. Any clues? Let nature take its course? This is happening 2 feet behind me as I type so it’s hard to ignore. – TR

[angelescrest]

And, then, you do agree that the morass was caused by bush–right?

And, true, my kids aren’t in Iraq or Afghanistan, but y’know, when my son turned 18, he HAD to sign up for something (for a future draft?), and I (and many friends) were and have been nervous. aND, is there such a thing as moral suffering? And, the guilt knowing your child isn’t there, but someone else’s is? The guilt of knowing that we are responsible for the utterably and horribly changed lives of innocent people? Whaddya call that? Or the fact that so much of the world looks upon us with such disdain? It’s a suffering, to me, though not as pronounced as what you might have been thinking.

[Anonymous]

JohnM, there will always be those intent on shouting you down for having a different opinion. That’s probably how they handle conflict in general and I imagine it spreads into much more than politics. Challenging beliefs can be threatening.

Take up your space and ignore the static. You’ll never change people, but hopefully you can choose to not let them affect you.

[beachdrivegirl]

JohnM,

After last election I realized I had to take a look @ all candidates running for the Democrat and Republican Parties and decide on the best candidate to support. Months ago I chose Obama. I chose Obama because although I do not 100% agree with his economic plans I think they are better than the Republican running. I chose Obama because I believe he has the charisma and class needed to gain back the respect from world leaders that Bush has managed to destroy. I chose Obama for many other reasons too. I hear your concern about the shortage of the McCain voice on the WSB and I agree. I enjoy to learn and to question my beliefs. As of today I am glad I have chosen to support Obama. If I was not supporting him I would be supporting either Barr or Nadar. I do not believe McCain can run our country. I despise not only his healthcare plan but his tax plan as well. And if he gets elected, i will be disappointed. I will be disappointed because my brother and his family will not come home from Australia. My brother sees the hurt our country is in (due to Bush and McCain policies), and he will not subject his family to that. If McCain gets elected I will work harder to assure we do not have the two party system that exists anymore. Both parties are in shambles and need to get over themselves and stop arguing and pointing the figure at the other. If McCain wins, I will work harder and longer hours to pay my bills because I don’t think McCain has the plans to get us out of the recession we are in.

Now JohnM, is that enough rambling for you?

[JoB]

John M..

i think it’s far too easy to decide that this is some big contest and focus on the contest and not the outcome.

it does matter who is in the white house..

we have just experienced an inexperienced president who may just now be learning his job after nearly 8 years..

but was elected the first time because people liked him..

and the second because maybe he would get around to doing what he said he would do the first term. (Honest to god, that was exactly what the endorsement in the largest newspaper in St Paul gave as their reason for endorsing him for the second term.)

This isn’t about them and us.

It’s no longer about one party being better than the other.

It’s about getting someone in the white house who realizes there is a problem that needs to be fixed and is willing to look for the best solutions.. not the most popular sounding solutions.

If John McCain wasn’t a republican, even republicans would be hard pressed to say that he is the man for the job.

And if Sarah Palin was on the democratic ticket.. you would be leading the comments on her inappropriateness for the job.

I am really sorry the republicans didn’t field better qualified candidates…

but when does the time come when the outcome is more important than the game?

For your own financial welfare, it might be now.

[JoB]

John M

Here’s what i don’t understand.

We have a failed foreign policy. War first and diplomacy later just isn’t working… and changing the tune in the last year of a 8 year presidency is too little too late.

We have a failed economic policy. Our national debt alone weakens our nation beyond anything that could have been imagined.

Our president is so worried about domestic unrest that he mobilized an entire battalion on American soil and that is where it will be stationed.. . something that hasn’t happened since just before the Mexican American war…

and that’s the least reactionary explanation for why he has mobilized that force.

BTW.. using that force in Iraq or Afghanistan would free up National Guard forces that are supposed to be doing the job of disaster assistance…

We spent a 100 million dollars on security for the two political conventions…

We employ a private army in Blackwater and other security forces that is better paid and better provisioned than our own armed forces.. and is at least as large as our armed forces in Iraq..

and they are not held accountable to either our laws or the Iraqi laws.

We just bailed out major financial institutions without insisting that they comply with any kind of federal oversight.

We are headed into what is expected to be a severe recession at the least and a depression equaling the great depression at the worst.. and we have taken the world economy with us.

And we have been fed the lie that everything is just fine for the last 8 years.

At what point do you say something is wrong with this picture?

Now you may believe John McCain when he says he is going to do something about the mess we are in.. but at what point did he actually begin to admit that we had a problem?

He still thinks we have no problem in Iraq. He says the surge is working… and we should do the same thing in Afghanistan.

Suddenly he is behind regulation.. but he was one of the leading forces for deregulation.. especially the legislation that erased that little line that used to keep personal and commercial banking separate.

And his VP pick isn’t exactly reassuring.

I know more about the state of our economy, our national institutions and world affairs than Sarah Palin… and i am exceedingly unqualified to be president should something happen.

She will be next in line for the presidency should something go wrong for John McCain whose medical issues alone make it highly likely that she will be sitting in the Oval Office for at least limited periods of time.

What about that works for you?

[GenHillOne]

bcollins – huh? was I not clear?

“We’ll have to start all over, working to get better people into office that can make a difference. And we will.” I do participate and expect that I will continue to do so. If McCain wins the presidency, which was the question, I will work to get someone better next time, which was my answer.

And I think you would be very surprised at what many are going through. It is presumptuous for you to think that people here aren’t having problems and that they are not afraid.

[JanS]

as I said in another thread, I remember bringing my daughter into this world on Oct. 21, 1980, a few weeks before Ronald Reagan was elected president. I remember holding her ad wondering what kind of world I had brought her into. I was not then, nor have been since then, a fan of Ronald Reagan. I don’t rever him as some in our country have. But…the world did go on, and we are still here.

I am much, much more afraid of the McCain/Palin ticket. I think his age is showing, and I truly don’t think that he has the stamina, nor expertise(he has stated publicly that he doesn’t have any economic expertise), to lead us in the next 4 years out of the morass this country is in. Add to that Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan. He will be 85 before the first year is out.

And…Sarah Palin can be a hockey mom, and a Governor…but she doesn’t have the expertise to deal with these tough issues no matter how much the Repubs backing her wish that she did. And if something happens to John McCain, what then? He overlooks her now, she’s just an appendage to him. He doesn’t seem to communicate with her on things, to wit, her reading about pulling out of Michigan in the newspaper , for goodness sake.

We need the top two people to be able to communicate, to work together. These are damned tough times. If, by some slim chance, that duo wins, the world will go on, but I wonder exactly how well our world will do that. And holding feet to the fire will take on a whole new meaning. It’s an extremely sobering thought.

Or…we’ll read things like this :(tongue firmly planted in cheek)

Immigration Crisis on our Northern border

Op-Ed Essay from the MANITOBA HERALD, Canada

A flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has

intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to

stop the illegal immigration.

The possibility of a McCain/Palin election is prompting the exodus among

left-leaning citizens who fear they’ll soon be required to hunt, pray,

and agree with Bill O’Reilly. Canadian border farmers say it’s not

uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, animal rights activists

and Unitarians crossing their fields at night.

I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood

producer huddled in the barn,’ said Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose

acreage borders North Dakota. The producer was cold, exhausted and

hungry. ‘He asked me if I could spare a latte and some free-range

chicken. When I said I didn’t have any, he left. Didn’t even get a chance

to show him my screenplay, eh?’

In an effort to stop the illegal aliens, Greenfield erected higher

fences, but the liberals scaled them. So he tried installing speakers

that blare Rush Limbaugh across the fields. ‘Not real effective,’ he

said. ‘The liberals still got through, and Rush annoyed the cows so much

they wouldn’t give milk.’

Officials are particularly concerned about smugglers who meet liberals

near the Canadian border, pack them into Volvo station wagons, drive them

across the border and leave them to fend for themselves. ‘A lot of these

people are not prepared for rugged conditions,’ an Ontario border

patrolman said. ‘I found one carload without a drop of drinking water.

‘They did have a nice little Napa Valley cabernet, though.’

When liberals are caught, they’re sent back across the border, often

wailing loudly that they fear retribution from conservatives. Rumors have

been circulating about the McCain administration establishing

re-education camps in which liberals will be forced to shoot wolves from

airplanes, deny evolution, and act out drills preparing them for the

Rapture.

In recent days, liberals have turned to sometimes-ingenious ways of

crossing the border. Some have taken to posing as senior citizens on bus

trips to buy cheap Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a

half-dozen young vegans disguised in powdered wigs, Canadian immigration

authorities began stopping buses and quizzing the supposed senior-citizen

passengers on Perry Como and Rosemary Clooney hits to prove they were

alive in the ’50s. ‘If they can’t identify the accordion player on The

Lawrence Welk Show, we get suspicious about their age,’ an official said.

Canadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are

creating an organic-broccoli shortage and renting all the good Susan

Sarandon movies. ‘I feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian

economy just can’t support them,’ an Ottawa resident said. ‘How many

art-history and English majors does one country need?’

[angelescrest]

While we don’t let our own dog ride in the newish Subaru (relegated to the older van), three other loose dogs had the privilege this summer, as my daughters will NEVER let me pass a dog running loose. And I can tell a friendly pooch if it hops right in… On the other hand, we had to stall traffic to help the poor caught-in-the-headlights and the traffic median greyhound, and those people who honked at me were, at best, annoying. (Hello, I’m trying to save this dog, not trying out my Cesar skills!) Yep, it was wonderful to deliver all three to grateful owners, but an up-to-date phone number would have caused us less hassle in one case.

Also, my sister’s Weimraner (sp.) was killed when she got loose back in San Diego. It was awful, so I’ll do what I can.

[datamuse]

Squareeyes, my thoughts exactly. It’s still pretty gross, but not all that surprising really.

[squareeyes]

This is by no means meant to be considered a defense of AIG.

This type of event has to be planned months in advance, large deposits paid, and contracts signed guaranteeing a minimum amount spent, even in the event of cancellation. As management has obviously known for a very long time that they were imploding, they should never have planned the event and, after the bailout, it would have been the right decision to cancel the event and pay the penalties. But even if they had, it would still have cost close to the same amount.

Considering AIG managements apparent lack of morals, they couldn’t be expected to consider canceling this. I can just hear the conversation “hey, it’s already paid for…”.

[JenV]

HAH! thanks ace! I actually work for AWESOME people now and could not be happier!

[acemotel]

oh, Jen, I sympathize. After AIG and Java Bean, you are DUE for a good employer!

[JoB]

This is why the bailouts should have come with some real oversight built in…

and who is going to pay the money back?

as a shareholder .. all americans are shareholders now.. i think we should have fired these guys.

instead, they threw themselves a party to celebrate what suckers we were…