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[AndieMQ]

Fantastic! I just knew there had to be someone else out there looking for a play group.

If you’d like, we can try to connect this or next week at a local coffee shop.

We can create our own play group and hopefully more will join us.

[cruiser]

There were three Texan surgeons playing a round of golf. As they’re walking down the fairway, they strike up a conversation and the first surgeon says, ” I reckon I’m the best surgeon in the world”. The other two enquire why and the first surgeon says, “I had a patient brought to me recently who had lost both his hands in an industrial accident. I sewed them back on and today that man has an audience to play the piano for Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth”.

The second surgeon scoffs at this and says,”that’s nothing. Why I had a patient who lost both his arms in an automobile accident and I sewed them back on. At the last Olympic Games that man won a Gold Medal in the Field events”.

The third surgeon says, “that’s nothing. Several years ago a cowboy, high on alcohol and drugs, was riding his horse down a railroad track and collided with an oncoming express train. All I had to work with was the horse’s ass and a cowboy hat. Today that man is President of the USA.

[Sue]

My curse continues – whoever I support during the primaries never seems to make it to the end. I knew he’d never win, but it didn’t make me any less hopeful. :(

[Ken]

Well this will make the caucus less interesting. I suspect a deal will emerge since Obama will get a boost on super dooper Tuesday.

Not a rumor it seems, currently live on MSNBC.

[Kayleigh]

The past matters to me, Ken, and I’m not going to change my mind about Hillary. Until she shows me real, progressive plans and ideas that make sense, I won’t vote for her at all, even if she gets the nomination.

I’m so disheartened by the type of thinking here in this thread (and elsewhere in the country in the Democratic party), I’m tempted to not attend the caucus at all. We have a real opportunity to turn the country around with John Edwards–to really make gains in things like health care and income equality. The poor, working,and middle classes have already lost so much in the last decade. It’s time get some of those things back, not to compromise.

The Democrats have given Bush way too much of what he wants and gotten little in return. When are they going to stand up and fight for the people they’re *supposed* to represent?

[mlyn1375]

Hey All,

Again, I second the motion (started by me) that we schedule another time after the 3rd to meet again. Maybe early march?

My original plan was the Superbowl , but due to a family illness now I will be out of town. :-( Will check this topic again to see if there is an update on meeting another time after the 3rd.

[JanS]

hi to everyone here…here’s a link to a class you might all enjoy….and Harmony Hill is an absolutely wonderful place near Hood Canal in Union, WA…just down the road from Alderbrook Inn.

Sustainable Gardening

with Ann Lovejoy

Feb. 16, March 2, and March 15 – one-day workshops

Get your gardening year off to a great start by learning how to create a garden that offers year-round beauty, serves your changing needs, and becomes easier to care for each year. Ann Lovejoy is one of America’s most well-known and widely respected gardening authors.

Details & registration

http://www.harmonyhill.org/retreats/lovejoy.html

[AndieMQ]

West Seattle Toddler Play Groups?

I am a stay-at-home mom looking for a play group for my daughter. She is 18 months old and I would love to find something for her. Would anyone be interested in starting a play group or does anyone have one established that wouldn’t mind a newcomer?

[Ken]

Jonathan Tasini (author of the above link) was defeated by Hillary Clinton in New York’s Democratic Primary in 06.

The piece seems a bit long on allegation and short on links to supporting documents.

Hillary is my last choice but lets stick to her very real policy problems and current DLC affiliations.

[JanS]

kayleigh…I guess we all have our opinions. Ovaries are only a part of the package…but those without haven’t exactly done a bang up job in recent years, now have they? And if that’s the deciding thing that can put a candidate in there to beat whoever the Repubs put out there, then idealism may just have to sit in the second seat on the bus.

They are ALL politicians…they ALL have something or other from their past that’s not exactly the best thing for some…Hillary has Wal-Mart…others have other things. Mr. McCain has a not too wonderful past, too, despite his Vietnam service and imprisonment. Do his body parts( or that imprisonment) give him a get-out-of-jail free card? I think not…just MHO…

[JimmyG]

My experience with Ballard HW was less than positive, although it was back in 1999. It was a small refinishing job (kitchen) and the quote was reasonable.

What they didn’t tell me up front though was since it was such a small job they subbed it out. The guy showed up and told me he was a sub. He did a half-assed job and when I complained they said they always sub out the small jobs. Nowhere in my paperwork I’d received or signed did it disclose they wouldn’t do the job themselves.

I learned a great deal from that experience–I always ask all contractors what they sub out before I sign or agree now.

So, no W. Seattle refinishers?

[TammiWS]

I agree, Dr. Ferkel is great. I’ve been going to him for years – great demeanor, very knowlegable about mind/body/nutrition connection…Give him a call…

[Kayleigh]

I’m baffled as to why some of you are letting Hillary off the hook for Wal-Mart. It’s an assumption that she voted against the reeeealllly crappy stuff that Wal-Mart did–and even if she did, it’s a failure of leadership on her part, because they did the reeeeallly crappy stuff anyway.

Wal-Mart’s greedy suppressive acts didn’t begin with buying cheap sweatshop goods in China.

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0207-34.htm

I guess it’s OK to be a corporate greedmonkey if you have ovaries? Ovaries are now a get-out-of-jail-free card?

[JoB]

sometimes saving them from themselves is the only way to save us..

[Ken]

I read it online and try to give a vendor the dollar to keep the paper and sell it again. But I don’t get downtown very often anymore.

This issue has a story relevant to this thread.

http://www.realchangenews.org/2008/2008_01_23/harasment_v15n05.html

The rich are coming. Hide the poor

Excerpt

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After a shadow of public debate, the mayor will lay down a breathtakingly cruel policy of hounding human beings out of town.

By TIMOTHY HARRIS, Executive Director

How is one to respond when the most beautiful, affluent, and liberal city in America outlaws basic human survival? What are we to feel? What words could measure up to the sadness of this moment?

The Mayor’s staff has described their draft policy on homeless encampments as “consistent and compassionate.” Consistent, perhaps. But compassion requires action that is based upon understanding and empathy.

This is not that.

Seattle has joined the ranks of cities across America whose growing affluence will no longer tolerate the sight of extreme poverty. As urban living attracts those who can pay the price, the visible poor have come under attack in communities from LA to Boston.

Here in Seattle, in the few blocks that abut Pike Place Market, construction cranes mark four developments that will house 505 new condos with an average value of $2 million each. This represents about one-tenth of new downtown condo development.

The rich are coming. Hide the poor.

Until sometime last year, the City of Seattle mostly left homeless encampments alone until complaints forced action. This was as it should be. Last year’s one night homeless count — held in the dead of a cold January night — revealed about 1,600 people surviving on the streets. They slept in doorways and in cars. They rode the night buses. They walked to keep warm. They huddled underneath blankets and inside sleeping bags.

They made do without shelter because the shelters were full.

[swimcat]

Alright, this topic needs to be revisited since I just swam at Southwest and it amazes me that people won’t swim in the proper lane for their speed. I am usually the fastest person in the pool, and it is not fair or safe for me to have to continually pass people that are too clueless to get into a slower lane (I have been hit many times when passing people because they don’t know the proper way to be passed). So here is a hint- if you can not do a flip turn, or any stroke besides ‘freestyle’, you should NEVER EVER EVER go into the fast lane or very fast lane, even if no one is in there.

[Sue]

Ken, I really appreciate the time you spent explaining this further. Although I can’t be there at the caucus this year, I definitely want to be better informed so I can be more involved when and where I can. Thanks so much!

[Ken]

Just to clarify: The regulations on “free markets” were made after the crash of 29, to save capitalist and the corporations they invested in, from themselves. The boom and bust cycles throughout the 19th century and into the 20th, were the result of manipulation of most investors by the few insiders. Every cycle relied on a new crop of investors that could be roped into another “once in a lifetime opportunity”. Note they occurred at approximately generational intervals. Sometimes the unregulated businesses caused ecological disasters. The Dust Bowl of the 20’s could never have happened without wheat speculation during WWI driving investors to lease Midwestern grasslands sight unseen and pay crews to plow up the grass and plant wheat. After two years most of it reverted to it’s normal dry state, the wheat market crashed and the newly exposed dirt took to the winds in storms that brought darkness at mid day as far away as Washington DC.

Deregulation loosed these same actors on the public again and it is foolish to think any corporation will police itself. History can only teach us when it is not ignored.

[JoB]

Yesterday, i saw a man holding a sign on a street corner that said “homeless, need help”. had i encountered him in starbucks, i would not have been surprised because he was clean, well dressed in outdoor clothing and carrying a quality daypack. i nearly stopped just to ask him his story because i think there is probably a pretty interesting one there.

The assumption that the homeless are there by choice has driven a callousness about this problem that borders on cruelty.

There but for the grace of god… Any of us could suffer reversals of fortune that could bring us to that street corner. I know many women who are one step from that because of nothing more than chronic illness.

As a community, we need to address this problem whether it is an “artificial” problem landed on us by crackdowns in other parts of the city or a local problem. Once it is here, it is a local problem.

I am too new to be able to name the local agencies that take on this work. I encourage donations of money and goods… but the most important donation is time… both for those doing the work and those receiving help.

the greatest gift we can give another is to listen and acknowledge their story.

shame on me for only almost stopping to at least hear that young man’s story. i had the time.

[JoB]

ken, i would agree with your advice to the candidates… even to my favorite candidate.

As a woman with one of those voices that tends to go all high pitches i would bet that she has already had some coaching tho:)It’s a difficult thing to control. she should reflect on poor Dean whose one outburst and uncontrolled voice cost him any chance at the presidency… for good or bad, who knows.

However, she can control her stance on health care and she should come down on the side of universal health care. I think America is finally ready to talk about that option.

As for corporations, we need to roll back deregulation for sure, but i am not sure how to keep them out of campaigns.

I just read a totally unrelated book about Helga and Clara Estby’s walk across America (Bold Spirit) which mentioned the Bryan/McKinley campaign and that the campaign contributions of just two corporations for McKinley exceeded those of Bryan’s entire campaign($500,00 from JP Morgan and Standard oil.). McKinley won.

Corporate involvement in campaigns is not news and any attempt to keep them out of it has just resulted in the exploitation of loopholes.

As for our current concern with corporate greed, let me quote Wiliam Jennings Bryan’s campaign slogan, “Wall street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people for the people, by the people but a government of Wall street, for Wall street, and by Wall street.”

This too is nothing new. In reading history it seems that there were only a couple of times when Wall Street seemed to get the need for investment in anything other than making money and that was during the industrial revolution and the period after World War II when it became apparent after our investment in Germany and Japan under the Marshall plan that we had better do some investment of our own here or American Corporations were going to be left in the dust. Both times, investment was crucial to their own self interest… better a little now and a lot later than none now and nothing later. And both times America and Americans prospered.

I feel that concentrating on the injustice of corporate greed (including their involvement in our elections) we are missing the boat that would lead to a realization of the importance of actual production for profit…

just as America missed the boat on health care when they worried about the govt rationing health care when the insurance companies were exceeding anything our government could have done. At least the govt had public opinion to contend with.

We need to find a way to focus on the real conversation which is about actual production… even in service industries which have forgotten they relied on service to create their business.

I believe that Hilary has a grasp of that concept… and that is why i am supporting her. It may be a vain hope, but there you go.

:) In closing, I can’t resist mentioning Bold Spirit again and that these two women walked across America during a time when only one state (Wyoming) actually granted women the right to vote… a little more than a hundred years ago. Something to ponder.

[sw]

Call Mitch Monetti at Monetti Landscaping – 938-5400. He did some work for us last year that was great, and priced comparably to other bids we had. He’s also done some work for others around the neighborhood that has turned out nicely.

[Ken]

If you want to see why the entire Rapid ride program will be mismanaged to benefit the fewest number of people, especially here in West Seattle, check out the young earth anti science creationist view of the project. (Note: this is the same morons at the Discovery Institute that think Dinosaures wore saddles.

http://www.cascadiaproject.org/surfaceandmarinetransportation/busrapidtransit.php

It appears to be a super expensive express bus for Vashon Island.

None of the links above disprove this theory except the King county link that is already riddled with inconsistancies.

[Anonymous]

Dr. Bailey Ferkel on 35th Ave SW. next to the old West Seattle Herald Building, he is fantastic!! He uses gentle pressure, diet and exercise as methods of healing. He is very gentle, and soft-spoken.

[credmond]

Al, et al.

try this URL “http://www.metrokc.gov/kcdot/transitnow/” for present and past on the Transit Now initiative from the government perspective.

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try this URL “http://www.globaltelematics.com/pitf//transitnow.htm” for present and past on the Transit Now initiative from an PAC/non-profit.

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try this URL “http://soundpolicy.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/king-county-proposition-2-transit-now/” for bla-bla from the perspective of a blogger on the local political scene.

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fascinating stuff, actually. Tracking transportation stuff around here is more than a full-time job, and that’s an understatement.

[westie]

We have a son at Gatewood, we went out of cluster to send him there, and think it’s a great school. There is an acceptance there, where the kids can learn in different ways and come from different backgrounds- and have that be celebrated. Also it doesn’t seem clicky among the students or the parents. Those factors won’t show up on the WASL, but are just as important to me as a parent.