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[beachdrivegirl]

Democrats throughout the country, and right here in Washington state, need to wake up. Despite the state of Washington voting more than 2 to 1 in favor of Barack Obama, our state’s “superdelegates” gave Sen. Hillary Clinton a 2-to-1 victory in “superdelegates” from this state.

Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, Reps. Jay Inslee, Tom Foley and Norm Dicks, and King County Executive Ron Sims all believe that they as party insiders are more important than the voters, and democracy in general. This arrogant, disenfranchising behavior is happening all over the country.

In fact, Hillary Clinton’s “superdelegate” lead nets her more delegates by 2 to 1 than her win in California.

Party insiders will steal this election, disenfranchise a generation of voters, and lose another winnable election for the Democrats if the people of this party don’t stand up for change, and do it today.

If superdelegates’ pledges stay consistent through the convention in Denver, I cannot ever support them for any further public office, and I will do whatever I can with my time and finances to support any and all candidates who oppose them.

The superdelegates, in the end, are responsible to the people and should abide by the decision that is made by the voters, whatever that decision may be.

[k]

glad you guys know your stuff! it’s all confusing to me. just as long as they don’t see names of any other info to “find” people. i understand the IP address info. hoping the security on my laptop helps!

[WSB]

No one sees IP addresses but me, your site owner. They’re recorded, as is website IP, for everyone who leaves a forum post or site comment. This makes it possible to search and crossreference “hmm, 11.222.333.444 is behind those five user names.” Now of course there are some flaws in the system, such as the fact that your IP address MAY change in the future – Comcast switches ours every so often, for example – or your ISP may have a variable IP for you. But it’s a helpful tool for a variety of reasons. One last note: If you didn’t already know this – whenever you send e-mail, the recipient can get the sending IP address from its “headers.” So don’t EVER think that you’re sending e-mail to anyone “anonymously.” Most e-mail software or webmail readers hide the headers but they can be revealed with a simple click somewhere. Try it – you may be a little confused at first because there will typically be several IPs in there, including one for the mail router, but one of the numbers is that for the original IP the sender was using.

[k]

back to some things mentioned earlier in this rant. can people find you based on your isp address? i am confused when people say they have that info based on the fact that you have made comments. am i naive? i thought that information was blocked. it just makes me nervous that people can find that out. any help?

[JanS]

daughter gave me some chocolate necco wafers for my BD today…sat and ate them going back and forth between CNN and MSNBC….when this is all decided on the dem side, I certainly hope neither dem candidate has given “election fodder” to Mr. McCain. He WILL pay attention, and dish accordingly after the convention has decided our candidate (or whatever does).Whoever we’re for now, we have to be ready to back that candidate no matter what, be it Hill (or as a friend calls her “Hillbilly”), or Barack. Neither needs to give Mr. McCain ammo…lest we get shot in our foot one more time…

[JoB]

i think i will join house in outing myself..

Hillary’s still in the race:)

this links to a story profiling me for the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome FACES campaign in 2006 in Minnesota.

My illness isn’t the first thing i want people to know about me… but it is a reasonably accurate piece and it looks pretty much like me tho the hair is now grayer … and you have all met the real me already:)

sorry about the commercial on the video.. just wait it out. i am not the little old lady on the sofa… at least not on the outside:)

wcco.com/topstories/chronic.fatigue.syndrome.2.360760.html

[Anonymous]

Well happy coming out day to you.

[JoB]

A wedding can be such a disaster for the bride but it sounds like you had one of those weddings tht you will always remember.

I am glad to know so many local businesses went out of their way to make it special…

and glad to know where to go for my makeover:)

congratulations… may every anniversary be as special.

[JoB]

Bonnie.. you stole my rave.. and all because i thought it tacky to rant and rave on the same day:)

i love the internet. I love being able to be connected to others no matter what time of day or how i am feeling… or for those lurkers out there.. whether i am dressed or not ;-)

(ok…truth in advertising :( .. the jammies are fleece)

I especially love the West seattle Blog. I have lived here less than 6 months and i already know where to take my car, find sushi and pho, do my dry cleaning and a hundred other little things i would never have been able to find this quickly… just because of the west seattle blog…

I know what’s happening in my community and where i can go to make a difference…

but more than that.. i am well on my way to making friends… and all because of a topic telling me how hard it might be to do here:)

[TheHouse]

I debated for days and finally told the WSB that I’m coming out of the closet.

What better day to do it than when McCain wins the GOP?

I hope it will give you all great pleasure to put a face to the name you despise.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=713054684

[JoB]

i’ve been eating licorice and sesame-honey almonds… no chocolate in the house when i need it:(

[charlabob]

msnbc, not cnn — other than that, you are right, JoB — what happened to the offer of chocolate? (Buttermilk just isn’t making it…)

[AdamOnAlki]

I accidentally watched it. It was horrible. I am disgusted and out-raged. I don’t suggest watching it. It makes me feel far too much anger towards my fellow man.

[Bonnie]

Congratulations!

[JoB]

Charlabob.. you are suffering from an overdose of CNN. Back away from the televison before you are sucked right into that black hole.

it is too early for any democrat to be calling McCain…

New Resident… I don’t discredit McCain because he is a republican… I once thought i admired him.

My husband (who happens to come from Arizona) went postal on me when i said that i had once admired him and proceeded to give me an Arizona viewpoint on McCain politics.

Then, my father-in-law.. who was mucky muck enough to be a republican delegate from the state of Arizona for two presidential elections followed up with a few choice words last week on how he felt about his party’s candidate. And he is no friend to the party’s religious right… so this wasn’t an uber conservative bashing. He saw McCain’s tactics from the inside.

It’s what he has done since the Hanoi Hilton that we ought to be concerned with… not that he spent time there.

I don’t remember John Kerry’s war record doing him much good in the last election… in fact… it was turned into a liability… and he was a hero. (Being shot down and surviving a prison camp is was not the only way to become a hero in vietnam.)

besides.. that was a long time ago and McCain has been riding on the credits from that experience ever since.

This is why i said that whoever gets the democratic nomination had best be prepared to play hardball… John McCain is a tough political opponent.. and it isn’t because he is a war hero… it’s because he is willing to do whatever it takes to get elected….

[Jerald]

I didn’t watch it, but just reading about it made me nauseous. At least I hope that’s what’s making me feel sick. I’ve heard several reports of stomach flu going around.

[charlabob]

Actually, NR, I’ve been known to speak snarkily of candidates on my side whose only or main qualification is some notion of heroism — Tammy Duckworth was a helicopter pilot who lost both legs and ran for congress from Illinois in 2006. I’m sure she’s a fine person, and I’m also sure she’s a hero, but I’m sure that was no reason to elect her when she ran to the right against a powerful progressive candidate. They split the Democratic vote and a Republican won the district. (She’s now head of Veteran’s affairs in Illinois and doing a fantastic job — when we elect a Democratic president, I fervently hope she’ll be appointed the head of the VA. That’s a job directly related to her heroism.

As an aside, my second hottest button is the meaning of words and I really fume when words like “hero” and “coward” are cheapened because every “X” is one. Every POW is not a hero. Every war protestor is not a coward. Some of each are.

I do hope you’re right about the outcome in November, NR — I keep remembering the inevitabiliy of Hillary and Rudy (and even having discussions with my NY friends about whether that would be as bad as a Mets/Yankees World Series. The notion that whatever Democrat was nominated would just win seems to fall into the same dangerous category.

If we win, I’ll buy you a beverage of your choice and vice versa; not the usual bet, but it works for me.

the c half

[Anonymous]

Btw.. nothing wrong with a cheeky old broad!

[Anonymous]

Very well put, charlabob. I agree with your assessment of the “untouchability” of particular candidates. However, being black or being a woman is on no scale, whatsoever, to being a prisoner of war. That doesn’t make him “better”, it is just a fact. I suspect that, because he is Republican, this is why you are so quick to discredit this fact. Or, not give it much merit.

[charlabob]

http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/trafficsignals.htm

Start here and you can find out more than you want to know about how Seattle makes decisions about traffic signals. I couldn’t find specific links to your questions, but it’s all in here — you do have to get through paragraphs about algorithms and weighting, but it’s worth it — and there are email addresses for questions and concerns.

We’ve tried to get a signal at the corner of Admiral and 47th (the site of the fatal pedestrian accident two years ago) and the list of excuses was admirable. Seems that putting a signal there would screw up traffic as far away as Omaha — well, almost. They do have tons of flashing yellow lights, flags to carry across the street for drivers who can’t see moving human beings, and a very visible police presence. But that doesn’t stop me from seeing my life flash in front of me whenever I cross.

[JanS]

Pamela…it was a wonderful wedding and reception. The best I’ve been to in a long, long time. The food was delicious, the “entertainment” superb…hehe…and who knew you had two gorgeous, gorgeous brothers ;-)

love you…

[charlabob]

Hi NR,

I tend toward exaggeration, but my real belief is that anyone who goes to war and is “in harm’s way” (where *did* that come from?) is a hero.

Frankly, if I had to rate the actual heroism of Senate POWs, Chuck Hegel would be far ahead of McCain in any heroism scale, because he continues to show amazing courage. And I wouldn’t vote for him either. McCain’s heroism seems to have piqued in the Hanoi Hilton.

There may be more or less degrees of heroism, but in a political race, annointing one candidate as a “hero” (or a saint) puts everyone else at a disadvantage and that’s the reason to do it. (I have the same feeling about the untouchability of black or woman candidates — I can dislike and dis Hill or Barack and not be a sexist or a racist. The worst you can say is I’m wrong.

I’m not at all surprised when Republicans refer to the heroic Senator McCain and practically nominated Reagan for sainthood. (a) Many of them probably believe it and (2) It’s in their enlightened self-interest that other people believe. But I don’t understand when Democrats go along.

It’s up to the Democratic opponents to point out what McCain has done since 1974 and how much of our current economic disaster stems directly from Reagan’s work. In essence, McCain is the descendent of wrong-headed Republican ideas that started with Reagan and unless we’re willing to take on the heroism of McCain and the untouchability of Reagan, we’re doomed.

As I said, I tend toward hyperbole and I am exceptionally daring and cheeky for an old broad, so “How dare you” is high praise. And, strangely, some of my best friends are Republicans — but none of my living relatives :-)

[ALS]

I don’t know, but I would love to see the traffic light on Delridge and Genessee changed to a sensor light instead of a timed one! All too often I have sat on Genessee for-e-ver waiting to turn left onto Delridge, while zero cars were actually coming down Delridge. I admit, I have decided to just run it on occasion!

[charlabob]

Good grief, I go to work for a day and look what happens??? I thank the moderators and the vocal majority who banded together to make something good happen. It’s easy for these communities to turn into a shouting match; eventually no one listens except the shouters. (That’s probably the point).

Now, when’s the next informal get-together?

[Anonymous]

charlabob – Not only as a Republican, but, also, as an American, I cannot let it go by without comment that you would question McCain being a hero. He was a prisoner of war! I know that you state that you can’t imagine being in that situation, but to fault McCain for anything he did in that situation is out of line. How dare you.

As far as Republican’s taking it again… I’m not so convinced. I have said before that I do believe this year, there are Republicans that will vote Democrat. Don’t get too discouraged yet.