I have a happy story. I was going to be trapping in Pacific, well it flooded. I just got a call that 3 of the 8 were on a roof, they were trapped and coming to me to be fixed and held till the waters recede. I truly believe that all animals have sixth sense about nature and her furry. At least they get it.
HECK YES! I’m in. I’ve always wanted to see what those Growlers are all about. :)
I second Nancy’s (and the lush ribbon collection, and the knowledgeable and courteous employees), and wish it, or something similar, would come to our little corner of the world.
I do hope for Hancock’s return, also.
I’d also suggest that Pacific Fabric near Northgate has a more extensive collection of interesting fabric than does the outlet store on 4th (albeit farther away, so it depends what you’re looking for).
“nobody was beating up on poor little rich white kids in general… just on that one particular poor little rich white kid.” – JoB
Gosh, I would love to join in this animosity and bitterness-filled conversation, but I have determined that I am far too white and financially secure to participate.
Carry on, bacon lovers! :)
Hi,
My Yorkie that goes by the name Sammy got out today. He is about 6.5 pounds and is wearing a green and brown striped sweater. He is a little shaggy since he has not has his grooming yet. Please email me if found, we are worried so about him being out in the cold
beachdrivegirl…
i posted a comment that was made in response to an article for which i posted the link.
of course that comment would seem out of place if you didn’t bother reading the article detailing David Iron’s resume and his parent’s comments about some of what was included on that resume.
My posting of that comment had nothing to do with the generalities of classism, but a great deal to do with the specifics of David Irons managerial experience.
All you have to do to figure that out and understand the context in which the remark was posted is go back and read the linked article.
nobody was beating up on poor little rich white kids in general… just on that one particular poor little rich white kid.
Just for giggles, be sure and read this bio of David Irons, originally cited in #14; a rich person even his parents can’t love :-)
Goldy is an acquired taste — but reading him plus Sound Focus provides great opp research no matter what side you’re on. And if you can read this and still want to vote for Irons, well…all I can say is I DO support the universal franchise, but sometimes I wonder :-)
http://tinyurl.com/9wln3g
Cait, maybe we should hang on the corner and drink 40’s (I won’t smoke) in their stead :)
Or just hang in the living room and drink a growler of EBB’s finest. You in?
It means they have discretionary funds. Which I’m all for btw. I’m just commenting on how people rationalize there own splurges but are quick to judge another if it doesn’t seem appropriate to them.
LOL Aim to the convenience store antics. Mine would be all over that.
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This is me hugging Soclwirhaohrnakjnd–> (io).
If you don’t want to talk about socioeconomic issues, there are plenty of threads about dogs and bacon that I think avoid the SE issue… maybe.
I don’t read that anyone was doing that. Pointing something out doesn’t mean blaming any one individual. And as for that discussion, we need to have it often and regularly. And discuss it like adults with a plan to do something about it.
Nonetheless, class inequality is a big deal in politics and life. And until we realize it and do something to address it, it is gonna keep coming up.
Jealousy isn’t the issue–justified anger is. People who their tails off and still end up in debt, or homeless…that’s a problem. And ignoring it on the political realm doesn’t make it go away.
And politics goes hand and hand with classism. Access to political power, services, etc…money and privilege is a big part of it.
Tracy posted more info about this in White Center Now:
http://whitecenternow.com/2009/01/11/need-to-buy-books-wait-a-few-weeks-and-help-new-start/
Thursday, Jan 29 all day at Barnes & Noble Westwood Village
All purchases that day will have a portion of the sale go to New Start Alternative High School. The school has been putting together a library from scratch, so this money will go to buying books and reference materials and all the other wonderful things high school libraries should have.
Everything counts, including stuff in the cafe, BUT YOU HAVE TO MENTION THE SCHOOL-the easiest way to do this is to download the flyer from the link above, or email me and I can email you a copy. We also have some at Full Tilt.
The evening of the 29th, 6:30-8pm, there will be work by students on display and a raffle of Full Tilt prizes.
If you have any questions, please let me know! Thanks everyone!
-Ann (the half of Full Tilt that also teaches at New Start:)
The election of Elections Director has already had a deleterious affect on KC Elections, and it concerns hiring a key position there.
The position of Superintendent of Elections has been vacant since 2005, an after effect of the 2004 irregularities. The Superintendent position handles the day-to-day running of the department, much like a chief operations officer in a corporation.
At first, candidates shied away from the position because the tenure of Dean Logan, Sherril Huff’s predecessor as Director, was in serious question, that controversy resulting in his 2006 departure from the department for a position with Los Angeles Elections.
Since then though, there have been candidates for Superintendent of Elections who were favorable impressed with the department, but still declined the position before offers were put out. Why? Because the prospect of the Director position becoming an elected one, and a Superintendent appointed by an outgoing Director becoming dead meat to a new incoming, elected official.
This has nothing to do with any of the personalities running for Elections Director, it is only prudent that a person moving cross country to accept a post here think he or she has a shot at three or four years to prove themselves before facing a new regime.
If electing a Director had resulted in a plethora of qualified candidates, maybe a long vacancy would have been a reasonable handicap to place on the department. The fact that the elected position has mainly turned out to be a jobs program for failed pols and disgraced bureaucrats reveals it as a foolish attempt to repair what had already been revitalized.
The only bums to throw out are the five who oppose Sherril Huff. Retain the best director elections has ever had. Vote for Sherril!
Nancy’s is GREAT, and indeed pricey. The staff there were always so helpful with projects, and their ribbon collection is extensive. Since my projects have always tended to be kid-focused, I’ve been able to shoot low-end, mostly, hence the PFO leaning. If you’re doing nice stuff, Nancy’s is definitely a place to go.
I’m not a big sewer. At all. So, I only have occasion to shop a fabric/notions place probably a couple of times a year.
Even so, and maybe I’m just getting too old and sentimental or something, but it strikes me as weird that a small fabric store (aside from strictly upholstery or strictly quilting fabrics) is not to be found in WS or Burien.
I do go to Pacific Fabrics now, because I dislike Southcenter. Maybe my POV is skewed from having lived on Queen Anne for so long, where Nancy’s is. Nancy’s is a very, very nice, rather tiny, high-end store. It makes me assume that WS, or at least the peninsula at large, would have a little place like that. But a volume place like Pacific is definitely more economical.
If you have someone on ignore, it can mess up the numbering, as well as the pages. Often I go to the last page of a thread and it’s blank. I have to go back one in order to see the most recent. I’ve figured out this mostly happens when someone I have on ignore has posted.
JoB:
Yes, I have driven the the port lately. There is far less containers and shipping activity then there was two years ago. The port has had many upgrades in recent years to accommodate what was thought to be a never-ending growth of imports. Then the US dollar fell, …then the ballon bursted. Now we have multi-million dollar cranes sitting idle most of the time just rusting in the wind. Tacoma has the same problem. My point is to reduce spending on port facilities when it comes to using transportation funds.
Tunnel grade: I was a truck driver for many years and can’t tell you how pissed off people get at trucks on hills durring rush hour. Best example is to observe loaded trucks stop and start up on the South Center I-5 grade. They don’t accelerate like cars. This has an amplified effect on rush hour traffic. You are absolutely wrong about most of the truck traffic exiting for downtown. There are statistics available through SDOT.
Offset from old 99 route: There is not a huge distance between 99 and first avenue when you look at how the majority of the traffic enters the corridor at the 1st Ave South Bridge. There is actually less stop lights between the 1st Ave South Bridge and the starting point of our proposed SoDo Express Way (at Diagonal St.) than there is on the original 99 route. There are also no railroad crossings either on 1st. Even without the SoDo Expressway, it is easy to get from the 1st Ave South Bridge to 4th via the Michigan St. Exit. – not that it is ideal. Also remember that SDOT is in process to adding a 2-lane west bound exit from the West Seattle Freeway to 4th Ave.
Freeway Integration: Our proposed SoDo Expressway does just that. It makes it easier for Ballard and West Seattle to reach I-90 without getting on I-5. – Thus reliving pressure on I-5. But also, by virtue of the I-90 interchange, it also makes it easier for Ballard to get to south bound I-5.
Money: I would like to have trust in our leaders to make prudent decisions balancing both the short term and long term needs of our city. It seems to me that Seattle has been plagued over the decade with short sighted decision making which has lead us to now having to contemplate such large scale projects. If the city had only kept some of its road and transit rail line right of ways that it had in the early part of the century, then these things would not be such a problem. We think the upland route can be more than just a fix for the viaduct, but rather an integrated solution to fixing a number of costly traffic problems that are suppressing our ability to effectively use the city.
JoB, I followed this thread in the early days, and have just now returned. I also missed the meeting and this is helpful to catch up. There’s a lot of data to sift through and you have done much research. Just to base line me, which of the three alternatives do you support?
Jenny12:
What you describe is the exact reason I expelled Comcast for the house completely and forever.
As a customer paying for the highest level of service for more than ten years, I blew up when the “Tech” told me I had too many tv’s in my house. The 40% signal drop and insane SNR (signal to noise ratio) I could measure (since I have access to that sort of equipment) indicated that the “tech” was either lying at the companies behest or he really did not know how to locate and fix the problem with the feed to my street.
Comcast wants to make sure your are paying the maximum for every reciever in your home even though the signal for basic cable (at the time) did not require a box with a monthly recurring lease. I was paying for two of the boxes for more than a decade, but when the choice came down to restoring the level of signal I had for the last decade or lying to me about it and trying to charge a “truckroll” fee just to come into my house and count tv’s, I threw the bastard out and cut the cord off the house. I had terminated comcast internet 4 years before when they started blocking port 25 traffic transiting their network and did not tell their “tech support” drones about it or even explain what it was. (Port 25 is the port all SMTP (mail) servers use)
I had dish network three days later.
When I look north from the end of my street, I see 80% dish or direct receivers on what was once a 100% cable street. (We were in the beta rollout area for Comcast internet in the early 90’s.)
what the…
are you sure that means jaeger burp in ha’ole???
sounds more like a melodious jaeger fueled brain fart to me ;~>
i once had a dog named mele haole… roughly translated.. song of joy…
but she didn’t drink.
are we going for 7 pages?
CaptainDave…
Have you driven the roadways connecting to our port area much lately? i did during the storm and have to agree that the area is in dire need of improvement.. and that need will only increase with the investment currently going into SoDo… investment that has little to do with our uber-competetive port…
and.. isn’t that a moot point anyway? That work will be done regardless of which, (if any) option, is eventually built…
so what we are really looking at is cost above and beyond… not eliminating that cost with either plan…
as for the tunnel grade… is truck traffic during rush hour really going to be a huge issue there? my understanding is that the majority of the truck traffic on the viaduct now service the downtown core area which wouldn’t be likely to be in tunnels that have no access to the core area…
and.. there is a huge distance between 6th av and hiway 99.. so something would have to be built to take traffic from the existing 99 to 6th to enter the tunnel…
from the standpoint of integration to the existing freeway network in Seattle, i can see why a 6th Av bore would make sense…
but any way you look at it, it looks like a lot more money by the time you build all of the connecting arterials that would make this plan make sense… and right now i am not so sure it is money well spent…
i have to wonder if it wouldn’t be a better idea to do a future plan for a tunnel that bypasses the downtown core area and connects to the other freeways (the 6th Av bore) … actually relieving I-5 congestion..
instead of using the current need for a viaduct replacement to construct a bypass tunnel that connects up to aurora avenue….
because without substantial federal dollars.. any other use for that tunnel is a future projection that may well come to nothing…
and without public transit options… (or trains as you propose) those dollars seem less likely…
scrolling back i can’t see any messing.. but the tag at the top doesn’t seem to have kept up with the number of posts…
i love bettas.. but they are far too active and enticing for my curious dogs… if i put them high enough.. the dogs would knock over the stand jumping up to see them.
