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[JoB]

hey guys…

i am as green as the next girl..

in fact probably greener because i have been practicing for 40+ years now…

but the laundry room is one place where green is not winning the battle…

if your goal is to get clean clothes and use less water and detergent… so far every green detergent and dryer sheet i have used fail the soiled white towels test:(

I am still looking… but so far seventh generation beats everything else green i have tried for clean… and it needs added bleach to produce bright whites ;(

as for dryer sheets… scentless bounce outperforms everything else i have tested..

I generate more static electricity than most ;) so performance matters to me.

I honestly wish someone would provide better products than those we currently use.

There is a reason our mothers moved away from those currently offered to the “newer better” detergents.. and it wasn’t just advertising:(

[JoB]

Well put.

if tax cuts produced jobs every American would be employed by now.

the only tax cuts that are effective are those to the middle class who spend them thus creating commerce and helping to save some jobs.

the patriot act certainly hasn’t produced more freedom for Americans… or more security.

In fact it was used to gut FEMA to the great dismay of the city of New Orleans.

smitty has a bridge he wants to sell us…

it’s a good thing we aren’t buying here.

[Carson]

WWJD. If I had to guess, he wouldn’t be voting for any republicans or tea baggers……shame on the wealthiest country on earth and they way they treat the vulnerable.

[JoB]

we are each judged by how we treat the most vulnerable around us.

worth thinking about when you vote.

[JoB]

HMCRich…

i don’t think i am a better person than the tea party attendees Taibbi interviewed..

but i sure do think i am better informed

in fact.. i know i am better informed.

So.. just what was the crack about Taibbi spending too much time in Russia supposed to mean?

That his brain froze there?

That he is a communist?

That’s one way to respond to an article when you can’t counter it’s points.. but it isn’t terribly effective…

When you decide ahead of time that anything someone says has to be wrong without weighing the evidence yourself .. you are doomed to perpetual ignorance. We don’t learn unless we question.

The trouble with articles like this is that they tell the truth. Yes, it is a truth filtered through Taibbi’s preference for evidence…

but the evidence he presents is accurate.

While there are exceptions to every rule… the impression he presents fits that of most tea party advocates i have personally encountered.

Sad.. but true.

As for Rand.. he presented an accurate reflection of his campaign. Rand is in bed with the big boys now and he might just win because of it.

The big boys have big cash and are teaching him not to offend their voters.

the tea party movement has been little more than a manipulation of big business and right wing republicans since it’s resurgence during this election… and the sooner you realize that the sooner you can move on to something that actually reflects your views.

[Ken]

The only thing to worry about afik is power consumption. I knew a guy in the salvage business that set up 50+ sparq 20’s in the 90’s to use for seti@home. He had to take them down when his power bill exceeded the value of the computers.

Sparq 20s are real power pigs compared to current systems though.

I use a rack of servers to heat my garage in winter. I had to retire the sparqs and the pentium D’s due to power usage a few years ago.

Core2 with sata drives run much less power in use and when idle. Atom cpus run on even less.

[Escondido]

How does the saying go?…. a society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable?

[JanS]

I’m sure there are quite a few people in the community that will be affected by this:

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/09/30/1362348/state-medicaid-cuts-devastating.html

I especially like the deep cuts in the pharmacy program. For those of you who have to pay, you all know what the prices of some of these drugs are, esp. if there’s no generic. Wonder how many people will simply stop taking medications?

And, they’re gonna make drastic cuts in the Apples for Kids program, just when Regence Blue Shield is pulling out of insuring children in separate policies without having to be in a family plan. How scary for those people. But, hey, the Steve Ballmers and the Jeff Besos’s of the world are against 1098..heaven forbid that anything ever be cut from their lives. These cuts will do a great deal of harm to the people of this state. I’m dumbfounded.

[redblack]

you know, jo, 8 or 10 years ago, ann coulter said that the only argument that liberals have is, “you’re stupid.” she complained that liberals never actually debate the merits of conservatism, they only trash conservatives as intellectually incurious.

so after debating conservatism online – in usenet, on thom hartmann’s web site, on the PI, and in many other dark recesses of the internet – for 10 years and finding conservatives to be largely incurious, lazy, and selfish, i have come to the conclusion that ann coulter was right.

there are none so blind as those who won’t see.

[redblack]

jiggers: sorry, but your post is a religious post. you can’t say the word “infidel” without invoking religion.

and DOC is right: what proof do we have that bin laden is alive? rumors were that he was lugging a dialysis machine around the hills and caves of waziristan almost a decade ago.

as far as the 9/11 hijackers, though, i don’t understand why anyone would impugn an entire religion just to condemn a bunch of loosely-organized criminals.

as an example, tojo was buddhist. do we then accuse all buddhists of being authoritarian fascists?

i’m mostly curious about your “worthless trillion dollar war” comment, though, and i have a follow-up question (which might be a trap):

was the iraq war worthless? or are just wars of “obama’s choosing” worthless?

does it matter if they’re off-budget or not?

[JoB]

and from the same issue..

an interview with Obama with his perspective on the tea party..

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/209395

“One closing remark that I want to make: It is inexcusable for any Democrat or progressive right now to stand on the sidelines in this midterm election. There may be complaints about us not having gotten certain things done, not fast enough, making certain legislative compromises. But right now, we’ve got a choice between a Republican Party that has moved to the right of George Bush and is looking to lock in the same policies that got us into these disasters in the first place, versus an administration that, with some admitted warts, has been the most successful administration in a generation in moving progressive agendas forward.

The idea that we’ve got a lack of enthusiasm in the Democratic base, that people are sitting on their hands complaining, is just irresponsible.

Everybody out there has to be thinking about what’s at stake in this election and if they want to move forward over the next two years or six years or 10 years on key issues like climate change, key issues like how we restore a sense of equity and optimism to middle-class families who have seen their incomes decline by five percent over the last decade. If we want the kind of country that respects civil rights and civil liberties, we’d better fight in this election. And right now, we are getting outspent eight to one by these 527s that the Roberts court says can spend with impunity without disclosing where their money’s coming from. In every single one of these congressional districts, you are seeing these independent organizations outspend political parties and the candidates by, as I said, factors of four to one, five to one, eight to one, 10 to one.

We have to get folks off the sidelines. People need to shake off this lethargy, people need to buck up. Bringing about change is hard — that’s what I said during the campaign. It has been hard, and we’ve got some lumps to show for it. But if people now want to take their ball and go home, that tells me folks weren’t serious in the first place.”

If you’re serious, now’s exactly the time that people have to step up.

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[Smitty]

Tax cuts.

Patriot Act.

[bsmomma]

Oh My!! What does this consist of?! I have a visual………

[JoB]

maplesysrup…

i let myself be distracted by a non-argument:(

i went back and read the abstract you dismissed the minute you saw where the study was done.

the study in question looked at alcohol availability and crime rates within Camden, NJ and found..

“Each type of analysis showed that those areas with high alcohol outlet densities experienced more violent crime than low-density areas, after controlling for neighborhood social structure. In the multivariate regression analysis, alcohol outlet densities explained close to one fifth of the variability in violent crime rates across block groups— more than any one of the neighborhood structural variables included in the analysis. “

It doesn’t matter where the study was done.. what matters is that the determining factor for violence was availability of alcohol.

As for whose behavior is “regulated” because alcohol is sold in state regulated stores instead of being available to steal off grocery store shelves… I am pretty it is the criminals we are regulating.

Since we regulate criminal behavior for public safety..

do i assume that you think it is a worthwhile trade-off to be less safe so that you can pick up your hard liquor with your eggs?

I don’t think so. I don’t think the family of the man beaten to death in Roxhill Park thinks so and i don’t think anyone who has ever lost a loved one to a drunk driver will agree either.

I didn’t just jump to conclusions on this one as i am a strong proponent of individual rights… but the evidence doesn’t lie.

while you vote for convenience you also vote for increased violence, teen drinking, alcoholism and traffic fatalities…. and the increased public costs associated with them.

if the ballot measure were printed that way it would be a pretty tough sell… wouldn’t it?

DP..

hard alcohol is available in Washington now..

in controlled environments where it is difficult to steal and where valid ID is required to purchase it.

most teens get their alcohol from their parent’s liquor cabinets.. the same place they get prescription drugs they sell and abuse….

not from the local convenience store…

right now… they can only get beer and cigarettes at the convenience store … if only they would buy more contraceptives while they are there :(

[christopherboffoli]

I’ve always wondered how people in the culinary profession can smoke so much and still have enough of a palate. I suppose that if you are working a line long enough, cranking out the same menu, then you can get away with not having to continually taste what you’re cooking. But it seems like chefs who really need to maintain their capacity to taste delicate, subtle flavors would be dulling some of the finer tasting capacity. Maybe the body adjusts somehow.

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[dawsonct]

Republican leadership doesn’t care about America or the American people, just power and money.

Conservatives, please point out legislation your Republican heroes have enacted over the last 35 years that have been beneficial to society as a whole. And that certainly excludes their one and only economic policy of giving trillions of our tax dollars to the hyper-wealthy and trans-national corporations in hopes that they will create jobs with it. That doesn’t work, Republicans have been proving that since Reagan.

The latest example of this: “(the Creating American Jobs and End Offshoring Act) under consideration Tuesday would have ended tax deductions for expenses incurred when companies shutter U.S. operations and shift the work abroad; imposed a new tax on products once made in the United States but now manufactured by foreign workers; and offered employers a two-year payroll tax holiday on jobs repatriated from overseas.”

Their openly stated object from the moment President Obama was elected was to stop every bit of legislation put forth, their greatest fear being that the President would find success improving our lives in some way.

They are ideologically opposed to the good of the American people, and when you vote Republican because of social or economic issues, you are their useful idiot.

How’s that workin’ for ya?

[JustSarah]

GHO, agree! I kept my mouth shut, but you’re absolutely right that this is a “jobs *offered*” category. I can’t help inferring that the people posting their desired jobs are unemployed for a reason; many of the posts make the poster look pretty lazy, honestly. This particular post wasn’t as bad, in my opinion, but definitely qualifies as advertising.

The ones that are really annoying are those from the people who post saying they want such-and-such job, asking others to e-mail them if they know of any such jobs. Really? Do your own research. Find your own job. (Or work with a placement agency.)

[dawsonct]

Job, you are correct, ours IS a rather difficult profession. As one of the few non-cigarette smoking cooks in Seattle, I just LOVE getting paid for working my whole shift while my co-workers wait for every free moment to rush outside and smoke. So while I am cleaning the line and preparing for the next push, they’re outside hacking down a couple of cigs. It can be so bad that I have actually taken to proclaiming my non-smoking status as a valuable asset in a kitchen. I don’t spend my whole shift focusing on my next opportunity for a ciggie.

Jiggers, most cooks I have worked with, the overwhelming majority in fact, are obsessive about hand-washing and gloving up.

Some of us actually take pride in our profession; in the kitchen burns and cuts are routine, there are numerous repetitive and mind-numbing tasks we perform to ensure a uniform dish from the first to the last meal. Every customer thinks they are the only ones in the restaurant, every server agrees with them. There is NO speed that is fast enough, and you simply can’t start skipping steps to get things out faster.

It isn’t a job many could or would do for more than a few days or years; to make a career out of it takes quite a bit of dedication, the hours are long and the pay is lousy. I do it because I love the work, don’t have dependents, and was in the Army, so I have socialized, government provided health-care at the VA, so am not trapped in an unsatisfying job just for the benefits.

How many Americans get to say that?

[GenHillOne]

You keep posting this over and over and I’m only guessing here, but I suspect it keeps getting removed because it’s basically advertising and not within the forum rules. This particular one isn’t going to get you many customers without contact info anyway, so I guess it’s moot.

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Aside from the OP, I’ve seen a lot of people missing the fact that this is a “jobs offered” category lately…as in you have a WS job opening that you are looking to fill…and it’s mildy annoying. Perhaps my own issue, lol, but since I know so many people looking for work (who aren’t misunderstanding the category), it annoys me. *steps off soapbox*

[JoB]

Jiggers..

are smokers the new pariahs?

all food handlers are required to wash their hands..

not just smokers.

culinary arts are one of the more stressful occupations… you show me a great kitchen where someone isn’t huddled out back finishing a cigarette …

johnnyblegs..

can’t wait to sample your product.

that alone is enough to get me back in the door of the swinery.

[JoB]

Austin

thanks for stepping in there… i couldn’t agree more with your statements

DP

legalizing and controlling marijuana would do a great deal to cut down on the violence surrounding the marketing of marijuana.

and go a long ways towards emptying our prisons…

that one looks like a win win to me.

alcohol is already accessible enough to cause some pretty serious problems. we don’t need to pass laws to make it more accessible.

maplesyrup..

You refute the statistics linking alcohol availability with violence with the information that as a whole Seattle has a much lower unemployment rate than Camden, NJ…

while ignoring that there are sections of Seattle whose unemployment rate equals that of Camden and that this wouldn’t apply only to the wealthier areas of Seattle… but to the entire state.

Should i pick a city in Washington whose unemployment rate exceeds that of Camden as an example? That’s not so difficult to do.

if you find my links broken or unconvincing… do your own research.

show me the evidence that when alcohol was made more available… violence, teen drinking, alcoholism and traffic fatalities didn’t increase.

[DP]

anonyme: You’ve got me pegged. In fact, I’m not sure what I believe in from one day to the next, but I do believe in God.

Atheism doesn’t bother me, though, and there’s nothing I enjoy more than discussing the question of God in a thoughtful way, like we’re doing now.

As to Voltaire, what I think he was saying is that without God there is no way to understand the mischief that men get into.

There’s a certain determinism that runs through Voltaire, too — a sense that historically, things pretty much had to turn out the way they did.

What if we had a really big laboratory and we could run this grand experiment of Life on Earth a hundred times over just to see what would happen? I’ll bet that for each one of those trials, the result would be roughly the same, give or take a few million years.

• After a series of “explosions” and extinctions, intelligent life would evolve.

• After a period of social and cultural development, religion would appear.
• After a period of interesting experiments with polytheism and animism, monotheism would develop.
• Finally, after a great and bloody struggle, atheism would arise and become established as one of the major worldviews.

But just as one species does not have to be destroyed for it to evolve into another, a new idea (like atheism) can coexist with its antecedent (theism). And just as species evolve to fill niches in living ecosystems, ideas can evolve to occupy competing systems of thought that collectively help us make sense of history and the world around us.

To relate all this back to the question of theism vs. atheism, it seems to me that these two systems of thought need each other in ways both logical and emotional. Since you are a thoughtful non-believer, anonyme, I expect that you would occasionally ask yourself: Why do some people still believe in God? Similarly, I would expect a thoughtul believer to ask herself: Why doesn’t everyone believe in God?

And with that I pass the Devil’s Advocate Talking Stick back to you . . .

—David

P.S. sarelly: Stop making sense. We’re trying to talk religion here. ;-)

[mightymo]

I’ve gone to Budget Cuts a few times since I moved to West Seattle and I always get a good cut at a great price. One thing that I think needs improvement is that there’s no sign-in sheet. If you don’t take appointments and a lot of walk-in customers start piling up, this puts the responsibility of knowing whose turn is next on the customers. The last time I was there I couldn’t remember for sure if the guy next to me had been there when I arrived 10 minutes earlier.