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[MargL]

Oh duh – sorry! Don’t know how I missed that except maybe I was so distracted and enthralled by the dancing banana! Peanut butter jelly time!

[KBear]

Well, tsunaminw, we disagree on global warming.

I am glad you saw “An Inconvenient Truth”. Perhaps we can agree on this much: Who would have thought that ANYONE would pay to see a movie of Al Gore delivering a slideshow, AND that it would win two Oscars?

Regarding your posts in other threads, I agree with you 100% about emergency sirens and True Value Hardware.

[pixel pusher]

The insurance is from PLIA. Here is the website, http://www.plia.wa.gov/. It is free and covers $60,000 for cleanup of contamination from active heating oil tanks.

We have an oil furnace and also looked into NG conversion. It was roughly $6000 for PSE to run a line from the street and to hire a contractor to install pipes inside the house. Plus the cost of the appliances, which PSE gives you a break on install for adding more appliances that use gas. Our estimate was based on converting to a gas furnace, stove and dryer. So you could add a water heater and maybe get the install cheaper.

We are sticking with oil for now and are considering buying a used furnace on craigslist. They are sort of out of style right now and are really cheap on craigslist.

[hopey]

I just read through the current plan draft. Honestly, it does not seem very different from the existing system. The only difference is that there will be a default assignment to the “local school” based on your address. There is still the option to apply to other schools, and schools with special programs. The difference seems to be that a child is always guaranteed a seat at the local school if they decide not to attend the option school for whatever reason.

One thing I’ll be very happy about if it comes to pass is the promise of a Spectrum program at EVERY middle school. My stepson should really be in Spectrum, and he’ll be in middle school soon enough. Maybe with this change we can finally get him into that program at a school that’s nearby instead of across town.

[alki_2008]

Problem is…it’s not all garbage. Most of the stuff going into park garbage cans is compostable or recyclable (paper plates, napkins, paper towels, drink bottles/cans, etc).

With the “powers that be” forcing everyone to be green, then they either have to put out sorted containers at the parks or take away the garbage cans entirely…or pay people to sort the garbage that’s collected at the parks. Yucky job.

[vincent]

If people didn’t post that water was wet in the WSB there would be no content in the forums. People are complaining that a construction zone, thats signed as such, with MULTIPLE alternate routes A SINGLE BLOCK AWAY, is “dirty and dangerous” and that the city, “NEEDS TO FIX THE HOLES”
what do you think they are doing? and PS when you see a construction sign go around if your afraid if dirt and holes.

[Sue]

Despite the availability of great burgers here, I do wish we had White Castle . . .

[Sue]

Jeffro, I’ve been in Jaks with shorts and tie-dye and have never felt unwelcome there – but I’ll admit I assumed the same thing about them until I went in. :)

[JustSarah]

pbgirl423: parking at Zippy’s is a breeze! There’s a huge amount of street parking around it. They encourage people to not park in their lot. and I don’t see a reason why one would need to (with the exception of the disabled, of course.) It actually bugs me when I’m there, after parking a block away out of courtesy, and I see someone pull into the lot to come in and eat their burger… I understand parking there to pick up a to-go order, but if you’ll be there eating it wouldn’t kill you to park 50 feet down the street.

Also: yummmmm to Zippy’s…

[vincent]

I want to know whats better, Angus burgers or bk sliders. Thats a real question.

[vincent]

They are tearing up the whole street and have plans to repave, so the holes will stay till its over. Whats with all the complaining. I keep reading about how people like the freedom of driving their own cars, and how alternative transit is communism.

[WSB]

Despite having been on one of those lists myself (Seattle Magazine “Power 25” last November) I would agree. Apparently magazine formatting requires a lot of numbers: 5 Tips for a Happier Marriage, 27 Ways to Avoid Watching “Jon and Kate Plus 8,” 564 Ways to Cut Your Credit Card Into Tiny Pieces, 36 Non-Edible Birthday Cake Decorations, 16 Reasons Rachael Ray Was Better Before She Went All Hollywood …

Only been to Zippy’s once but it did rock. By the way, speaking of food, about to link this to the home page – White Center Now breaks the news, new pizza parlor going in across from Full Tilt.

[tsunaminw]

The fact that living in Iraq is a worse alternative has nothing to do with a dumb event that serves little purpose and does damage to local business. That is irrelevant.

The businesses did not “do fine”, and why deal with stupidity if you dont have to.

And you just throw a bunch of clutter into the conversation that does not in any single instance address any issue mentioned. Not once.

I did see Inconvenient Truth and am happy to debate any issue you learned from watching it Kbear. It was liberal propaganda.

Now I challenge you to watch The Great Global Warming Swindle, but I’m sure you’d tell me it’s hysterical liberal propaganda. You see what you want to see.

Faster than ever before? No, faster than we have seen on record with the limited equipment and only recently recorded data that doesn’t go very far back in relation to the overall lifespan.

[Jeannie]

Good choices – I love Zippy’s – but you’ve gotta wonder: Where would these glossy “lifestyle” magazines be without their ever-present lists? Or their ads for cosmetic dental procedures, facelifts, breast enhancement, and other “necessities,” for that matter? Well, at least they don’t use the f- word in every article, like our friends at The Stranger.

[Zenguy]

Smokie’s is all I am gonna say on this subject!

[datamuse]

i suspect that will change as there is certainly a need for services in that area…

There’s been a need since I moved there, but it never quite seems to work out. I think people mostly drive over to Westwood or down to White Center.

I’ve got to give them props for setting up there, as it means there’s finally something walking distance from my house that isn’t a convenience store.

Anyway, my snark at the “middle of nowhere” language was mostly at Seattle Met’s use of the phrase, but thattaway lies off-topic ranting so I’ll leave it at that. :)

[Mayor Quimby]

I also think dumb luck.

Yesterday I was headed southbound on 35th somewhere just after the Morgan junction and a woman was in a small Honda CRX, or the likes, facing downhill opposite direction of me. She was stalled on the cell phone just after the crest of the hill so you could not see her if you were approaching from behind but…there she was stalled facing down hill on a phone.

Luckily, and most coincidentally, a larger SDOT maintenance vehicle pulled up behind her and put its larger than normal flashers on or else a serious accident would have followed. Why someone would stall facing downhill and just stay in the road is beyond me.

Good job SDOT! Crime never sleeps

[KBear]

I didn’t contradict myself. I said all along the merits of car-free day and its usefulness are debatable.

The difference between climate change as it is happening now, and all the previous eras of natural warming and cooling, is that it is happening MUCH more rapidly than it EVER has before.

I’d suggest you watch “An Inconvenient Truth”, but I’m sure you’d tell me it’s hysterical liberal propaganda. You see what you want to see.

[pbgirl423]

Zippy’s location isn’t the easiest to get to but the worst part is the parking! Great food, horrible parking. They could use a drive through. Maybe with all of this attention they’ll get another W Seattle location with a bigger parking lot (fingers crossed!).

[WSB]

Thank you. Here’s our nutshell rule explanation:

It’s OK to tell me my rules are idiotic.

It’s not OK to call me an idiot or say I am idiotic.

Very fine line. But that’s where we draw it. Criticize, critique, disagree with, agree with, applaud, whatever, the ideas … not the person who voiced them.

[tsunaminw]

I will do my best to not use the word crazy, but will continue to disagree when someone is unreasonable.

[tsunaminw]

I think you contradict yourself, if the event is to raise awareness and yet they hurt business and just make people park further away then it is self defeating.

there have been over 700 ice ages in the lifespan of the planet, and cars have been around for maybe 100 years out of a few million or so. Thinking that now that we humans are here that we have to keep everything exactly as it is is unreasonable and unrealistic. We don’t need to blatantly damage things without cause, but assuming if sea levels rise a few inches that we caused it and/or could stop it is silly to me.

Growing up in san diego on the beach erosion constantly had pieces of people backyards dropping into the ocean, its a constant ebb and flow.

Even the polar ice caps grow and shrink. Temps have been much higher and much lower in the past thousand years. And those ice formations that we thought were drastically shrinking have recently been blown apart after finding that our instruments that measure were way out of alignment and misread the data entirely. We really have little understanding of science and we see a small piece and jump to conclusions in many areas only to find later we had only looked at a few hundred years of measurable data out of a few million. Species come and go and have done so before we were here.

I teach martial arts, and in this area we see traditional and modern arts arguing between themselves. The traditionalists feel that modern arts are the end of them, and they must preserve the old ways.

And yet to get here in this day and age, those traditional arts had to constantly adapt and grow to be what they are now. Over a few thousand years change was invaluable.To stay effective in combat they had to change based on terrain, metallurgy knowledge, and even the enemy you fought.

But now there is a sense of honor in putting the form as it is now in a jar and preserving it, in effect letting it grow stagnant and die. This is laughable and silly, and encourages following something that has died and contains no real value in practical everyday use. Sure there is a beauty, but it isnt a martial art any longer but a flowery dance.

My point is, change is constant, and keeps things fresh the same way a desert floods and dries up every year. Forest fires clear dead wood, disease culls the weak, change is constant.

Also constant is the fearful who try and keep everything the same, to the point of being so arrogant as to think we have caused something that has happened hundred of not thousands of times before we were even here. We have adapted, and if the planet were 100% covered in ice we would adapt and change. There is a beauty in nature and fighting it is denying the nature of the earth itself.

And I am sorry but the statement “most scientists agree” is misleading and untrue. It may be a popular thing to jump on this bandwagon but we see many large numbers running away from this. You see what you want to see. But it is far from the whole picture.

[WSB]

Tsunami, if you don’t want to follow the rules of our site, your posts will be removed. Simple as that. Seems like you have some important things to say but there is no need to say them insultingly. Lots of places online where they don’t have these rules — but we are proud to be a site where people can disagree and discuss WITHOUT getting singed in the process.

[biankat]

WOW! Being a SoCal girl I’m very familiar with Carl’s. Glad to see they’re making their way up here. I’ve had many a serving of their fried zucchini in my time. Alas, I do wish In-n-Out would follow suit, but I fear it isn’t gonna happen.

[JanS]

to the posters like tsunaminw…nuni is far from crazy. I may disagree with her, but that’s my prerogative. The personal crap on here is uncalled for. Who are you to judge this person, or any of us. I suggest we all look in the mirror, and when we find perfection, then maybe we can unload on another person on here.

Having been on the receiving end, I totally understand where you’re coming from, Nuni.