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[seattlealkiguy]

We’re holding a multi-household garage sale this weekend (Sat. & Sun.) December 3rd and 4th, in West Seattle. The location is covered in case of inclement weather.

Included in this sale will be:

Tools
Estate & Costume Jewelry
Art Glass and Glassware
Men’s and Women’s high-end clothing &Accessories
Furniture
Housewares and Decorations

…and more quality items for everyone.

Located in a nice neighborhood in West Seattle:

7525 28th Ave SW
Seattle WA 98126

[Slim]

Come join Circa, a fast-paced family owned restaurant that is in need for an enthusiastic, friendly host. Must be over 21 and be available nights and weekends. We are offering about 30 hours a week with no experience needed.

If interested call or email Slim to set up an interview.
206.457.6618
slim@circalove.com

Circa
2605 California ave sw
Seattle, WA 98116

[JoB]

redblack..
i can’t speak for Jan but i love your huge bolshevik heart

[JanS]

Dear MIWS…yes, I still love you :)

[JoB]

Captain Dave..

perfect illustration of an argument based on an unsupported assumption

” The US could have only been proven to be a plutocracy if Clinton was elected. She wasn’t, therefore the plutocracy was an illusion. ”

there’s a name for that argument but i am too tired after trudging up to Harborview this morning to remember it..

[SeattleGrrl]

Jan – This was near California & Andover. Anonyme – I probably should have just dialed immediately at the first cursing, you are right. I did file a report with SPD afterward though, and sent them a photo I took of the person. My stupid brain didn’t think to turn on the video, rather than the photo capture, drat it! I’m very much thinking about installing a camera over our door. manymoonsago – I wouldn’t doubt there is some kind of pressure selling sort of operation going on if this is legit, but cursing and threatening people is certainly no way to accomplish any kind of goal. Plus this is the second person, and the second year, we’ve had these ‘magazines’ sellers hit our building and exhibit this kind of behavior when denied. It’s very frustrating and frightening. I’ve ordered extra large no soliciting signs to put out instead of our smaller ones.

[TanDL]

Geez Josh… Sort of sounds like you might be the creepy person trying to spy on what your neighbors are doing. Why don’t you knock on his front door and introduce yourself. Welcome this person into your neighborhood and get to know him before you assume creepiness. Could be that raccoons or possums or other have moved into that garage at night. Could be he has a legitimate hobby. Could be that a homeless person lives in there and the house occupant knows nothing about it. Maybe he’s creating a nice Christmas present for you. Could be a water pump. There are myriads of possibilities. My advice would be to give this person the benefit of the doubt first, reach out in genuine friendship and let the chips fall where they may. And what the heck does removal of a Trump sign have to do with anything that might be your business?

[JoshN]

First-time WSB poster here. A friend recommended I post this matter here.

Directly across the alley behind my house is my neighbor’s garage which is an unattached building separate from his house where he’s lived for only 6-ish months. For the last several weeks I’ve been hearing some truly mysterious sounds coming from his garage. It sounds mechanical yet human and is sometimes downright creepy. It’s not loud, so it’s not exactly disruptive other than being pretty hair-raising. I’m relatively certain it’s not a TV or radio. There are no windows on the building and the only door appears to be sealed shut. I seriously don’t even know how he’s getting in there.

Last week my neighbor Lee and I knocked on the sealed door (not sure where else to knock). The noises stopped and didn’t reappear for several days. Now they’re back and creepy as f*ck. It sounds like if you blended the sound of an elastic material being stretched with the occasional muffled fluid running and stressed nature sounds. There are no noticeable odors that I can detect.

Also weird: we never saw him move in. While the house was previously unoccupied it was never for sale or on the market (that I know of). I initially noticed the house was occupied again because of a car parked in the driveway along with a few worn-out yard toys, and the occasional inside light. Oh, and a small Trump sign in a side window which has since been removed.

I’ll try to record audio the next time I hear it and post here. I just want to know what he’s doing in there. Any advice is most appreciated.

Josh

[manymoonsago]

This was many years ago (30+) but I used to work for one of the airport hotels and these groups of young adults, I’d say all under 25 were trailered in from the mid-west. They were put into rooms of 2 beds with at least 4 to 6 each in a room. And this is what they were there for, to go out around from neighborhood to neighborhood and sell these magazines and also cleaning products. Now I know this has nothing to do with these current “solicitors” being overly aggressive but back then it was a legit (???) business and back then those “young adults” were over worked, (long hours) mistreated by the living conditions they were put in and also under paid…I believe commission and “room and board”…yes they may have been “trouble makers” and or abused when at home and thought this was their only means of getting out of a bad situation…least that’s what a few of them told me.
I’m not condoning what these people are doing I’m just saying…

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[PLS]

Don’t worry, Jan – Palin won’t get the nod. Trump will choose Concerned Veterans for America’s former CEO Pete Hegseth. He’s already put one of CVA’s top guys, Darin Selnick, on the VA landing team.
So good news is likely no Palin. Bad news is that CVA’s recommendation was to dismantle 75% of the VA infrastructure and move to a voucher/medicare model to “allow” vets to seek care at public hospitals. Great in theory until you know enough about the VA to understand the amount of time and effort spent on coordinating care and transportation that will all fall back on the patient. Plus the loss of the community. And they want to strip the employee unions out, which I’m not against as I’d love to see more accountability, but recruiting talented people to the VA is already hard enough. But if you only need 1 out of the existing 4 people, maybe it’ll work. It’ll certainly be a cluster for a long while though.

[captainDave]

JTB: The observation isn’t relevent. The US could have only been proven to be a plutocracy if Clinton was elected. She wasn’t, therefore the plutocracy was an illusion. So no, I don’t believe that the redistribution of wealth through taxation and welfare makes a more productive society because getting stuff for free makes people lazy.

[JTB]

JoB. Well said. But I fear we are at a point where decay of the system will be the operative force with which we will have to concern ourselves. Specifically, local and regional action to defend the rights and freedoms you identify will be necessary in order to withstand the systemic forces gnawing away at our collective spirit. How odd that the notion of a West Coast entity, a federation including California, Oregon and Washington seems so perfectly sensible in nature and function to the us versus them sentiment, the anti-government mindset that has understandably been embraced by much of the country. It seems we western states have gone through a series of clearly defined political stages which ultimately informed a collective appreciation that we have to work together. The remarkable changes in California over the last ten years are illustrative for what can be accomplished when ideology is dropped and people come together to work on problems.

[SeattleGrrl]

At 5:10PM on Nov. 30, someone knocked loudly on our apartment door repeatedly, and kept ringing the doorbell. We have had issues with aggressive solicitors lately, and so we did not want to answer the door. Finally, we did just to stop the ringing and knocking. Looking through the peephole, we saw a dark-skinned female, approx. early to mid-20s. I asked what she wanted through the door. She started some pitch about raising money selling magazines. I politely pointed out that there are no soliciting signs on both approaches into the pathway where our apartment doors are.

She immediately launched into a profanity filled tirade calling me various unsavory names and using the F word repeatedly saying she didn’t care what kind of signs there were and she would do whatever the “F” she wanted. She then went right on to the next door and started pounding on it and ringing the bell. When they didn’t answer, she cursed at their door, and then went to the third door, where our neighbor opened the door and she started on her pitch again. He told her that we’d had someone with the same schtick pounding on our doors just a few days ago, which we had (a dark-skinned man mid to late 20s?) and no, not interested thank you.

I stepped outside at that point, being able to hear all this through our open window, just in case the woman got ugly, I wanted to make sure our neighbor wasn’t by himself. When she saw me, she started cursing at me again loudly. My neighbor shut his door, and I very politely told her once again that there was no soliciting on the property, and there were signs posted very clearly on either entrance to our walkway. She pushed past me, nearly knocking me into the bushes, cursing me and calling me foul names and saying ‘what, you going to call the police? they ain’t going to do nothing you go ahead’ foul name foul name F you, etc. etc. etc. I did my best to stay as polite as possible and tell her to please leave and pointed out the location of the no soliciting sign she was literally right next to.

She finally started stomping toward our back parking lot, cursing and calling me terrible names, acting very threatening. At which point I backed into my doorway and took several photos of her front on in case she should attack me, or if she should come back at some point and attack me or damage my property. When I got back through my door, she was still cursing in the parking lot. I waited about 10 minutes until it was quiet, and went and asked my neighbor if he knew who the woman had said she was with, and he said it was something about magazines and had all been weird and sketchy just like the guy not many days ago.

We’ve been well aware of scams in our neighborhood of people collecting credit card information and checks for ‘magazines’ and other things for charity or for raising money for school and stuff, and then having huge charges on their cards or identity theft issues. So most folks around here are very wary of this kind of suspicious activity. If this is some sort of legit fundraising effort, someone needs to figure out what it is for and contact the organizers because their people are frightening and intimidating people. If it is not, then there is some kind of scam going on here, and we’ve had two different people in just a few days come pounding and pounding and pounding on our doors trying to scam us.

[tbwithers]

Thank you Rambo Total Pest Control! My regular pest control company was “out of town” when I needed them most! I called Rambo on Tuesday mid-day, and they sent a technician out to my WS home first thing Wednesday AM to remove a rodent that had been trapped in my basement. Prompt courteous service – good job Rambo!

[JoB]

Captain Dave..

I don’t know what you think America is.. but i am pretty sure that it is not the United States of America that my great grandparents and grandparents and parents were willing to give their lives to defend… nor is the one in which i have invested my entire life.

You may be willing to cede our state department to someone who intentionally violated national security laws.. or our education department to someone who has fought to defund public education.. or our health and welfare department to someone who is more interested in figuring out how to hand more of our publicly funded healthcare dollars to insurance companies than to the citizens who have paid into those accounts.. or our banking system over to someone who at the very least benefitted hugely from helping to engineer the financial crisis that almost tanked our nation… or our Presidency over to someone who thinks it’s just another business deal… but i am not.

I am not willing to live in some sanitized fantasy version of post apocalyptic America in which might makes right and only a few survive…

I can see that pisses you off.. after all you think you and yours won some kind of mandate in the last election… if that is so.. and i don’t think history is going to show that this election was won fairly and squarely… you did so by taking on some pretty ugly bed partners… and you think that should win you something.. like some kind of validation.

Nope.. sorry.. it doesn’t.

Patriots are people who will stand up for their country… for the democracy for which it stands.. not a bunch of bullies who hide the ugliness of their beliefs and policies behind cherry picked definitions and limited portions of the constitution… as though the only thing of value that has ever occurred in this country happened over 200 years ago… as though they would actually be willing to take up those arms they so vigorously defend even when they take away the safety of our public spaces.. in defense of any life other than their own.

You keep on blaming everyone but yourself.. because by the time they get around to you.. and trust me they will.. you are likely to find that there aren’t many left to defend you.

And i will fight for the nation that starts with our preamble

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

I know i have made the better choice. it is the one i have invested a lifetime in.. 5 decades of serious political, social and financial investment…

I am not willing to give that away to someone who does not understand the basic tenants of democracy.

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[JoB]

Captain Dave..
I wonder where you get the idea that democrats don’t understand the system and you double down and counter with this unsupported statement…

“You can’t be serious? That is the most hilarious statement I have read in this forum. Democrats know how the system works all right. They use it to create poverty so that they can build more government. However, places like Detroit and Baltimore prove Democrats have no idea how to manage a system that provides prosperity to all members of society.”

i say unsupported because the actual stats don’t agree with your analysis..
but hey.. who needs facts and figures when you can engage in circular logic built on unsupported assumptions?

http://www.salon.com/2015/12/28/these_5_charts_prove_that_the_economy_does_better_under_democratic_presidents/

[captainDave]

JTB: Let’s not play the game of creating absolutes just for attacking fictitious straw men. Yes, I know that “crony capitalism” was probably around since the first musket balls were ordered by the third regiment in 1776. It is the degree of which and the spillover into common consumer markets that has greatly affected individual freedom in recent years.

I have advocated for a long time that we need updated thinking in antitrust concepts to prevent the centralization of wealth just as was the concern a century ago. As you are well aware, Marx’s predictions for the failure of capitalism were thwarted with the Sherman and Clayton Antitrust legislation. Today however, the growth of crony capitalism has made government regulation the primary tool for monopolists to block competition. Modern antitrust needs to break the virtual trusts created between politicians and corporations–ie drain the swamp, enforce ethics and curtail bribery.

Seattle bureaucrats are working to purge traditional business people out of the city because they tend to oppose leftist politics. I know many who have been targeted by the City through bizarre lawless schemes. If the swamp draining works at the federal level, it may happen here someday and your victorious comrades will be out of work.

Here is a good read for you about Thomas Piketty: http://victimsofcommunism.org/thomas-piketty-and-the-coming-marxist-moment/

JoB: You said: “i am not sure where conservatives in general and conservatives with a far right leaning in specific get the idea that democrats are unaware of how the system works..”

You can’t be serious? That is the most hilarious statement I have read in this forum. Democrats know how the system works all right. They use it to create poverty so that they can build more government. However, places like Detroit and Baltimore prove Democrats have no idea how to manage a system that provides prosperity to all members of society.

[JoB]

there is something about taking videos and posting them on you-tube that weirds me out..
i am not sure why.. it’s not as though i think people should get away with this stuff..
and i am not above a little public shaming..

but.. it sort of feels vigilante to me …

[Greystreet]

OMG 2 Much Whine ^^ best post ever and oh so true, giggling over here LOL

[JTB]

JoB and JanS, I think the confusion stems from Cd’s awkward writing and confusion about the regulatory changes introduced by successive administrations following Reagan. He seems to consider those later presidents to be more or less of the same cloth, a point of view I actually agree with although I’m sure for very different reasons. But I confess I’m unable to follow the bit about the failure of those administrations to preserve free market capitalism through (failing to use?) antitrust regulations. Did they eliminate or obstruct antitrust regulations that somehow changed the nature of the market? Is he suggesting we need more enforcement of antitrust regulations to protect free market capitalism from the plutocracy?

First, all of those administrations, from Reagan through and including Obama, advanced neoliberal “reforms.” Steady deregulation of banking, media and environmental controls and standards, lowering taxes particularly for the rich, increasing privatization—–those occurred under all of those Presidents.

The notion that somehow “crony capitalism,” appeared only after Reagan doesn’t quite square with the fact that Reagan oversaw a massive build up of the military industrial complex, one of the most long-standing examples of crony capitalism we have. Dave, they all do it; that’s the way the system works. Certainly Reagan’s administration became caught up in several scandals involving defense contractors. But if you can cite any particulars for how the market changed in some fundamental way from Reagan through the others to clarify your opinion, that might be helpful.

Of course, Reagan’s most significant deregulation involved savings and loan banks, leading to the collapse of that industry and biggest recession since the Great Depression, only being eclipsed by the Great Recession, 2008-2009 which resulted from Clinton collaborating with Graham and Greenspan to lift limitations on investment banks. See the similarities on setting conditions more favorable to finance capitalism versus investment in productive enterprises? Clinton also advanced austerity measures in accordance with neoliberalism, something that helps expose the minor differences between “progressive” and “conservative” advocates of neoliberal policies.

Dave: I’m at a complete loss to understand what I said that leads you to conclude I “seem to believe the answer to equality is based exclusively in the Keynesian macro economics theories . . . .” Macroeconomic models have been exposed as unreliable for a number of decades (although plenty of economists strive to construct additional methods and measures to hopefully make it more useful).

As to Marxists not understanding how new wealth is created, I might remind you of Adam Smith and Karl Marx on the labor theory of value. Interestingly, that takes us to Thomas Piketty’s

Capital in the 21st Century

which provides a historically compelling review of how capital becomes less productive, less efficient when it is concentrated to extremes through discriminatory distributive policies. In short, the elite don’t tend to invest in new productive ventures as much as rent taking or trades.

Of course, I understand your opinion about the slow rate of growth (as related to new business) is not because of economic factors, it’s entirely because of the intimidating effect of government regulations. My sense is that perhaps you were so upended by your experience with the City of Seattle bureaucracy over your floating farmers market venture that you simply don’t have the emotional wherewithal to try anything again—the system has beaten you down. I can appreciate how that might leave you cranky.

[Seattle Scofflaws]

Wasn’t able to safely make a right turn back on to California Ave again this morning (see my other video) but I guess I’d take an illegally parked car over an SUV or big vehicle like this UPS truck. At least you can kind of see around a car. UPS truck was parked for a while not just pausing. It’s a no stop zone with sign and red curb. I wonder if UPS would be liable in an accident? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WETJytRarcQ

[JanS]

Dave…”That is why I say we are running on the same course as Detroit a half century ago.” If true, you’d better get the hell outta dodge before you go under, too.

“JoB: Where do you see that I made such a claim?” did I read your post above that entirely wrong? “Reagan’s neoliberalism was transformed into crony capitalism in the decades following his presidency by the corrupt leftist establishment who failed to preserve free market capitalism through the antitrust tools that existed at that time.” So…am I seeing things? Or was your comment about something else entirely? Or do you just ramble on with anything and hope it sticks?

Oh, and..yer bitchin’ about wholesale dismissal of what you have to say goes both ways. So far you have been delightfully rude to just about every poster on here except William64. He already has enough rudeness himself…he doesn’t need yours. He honestly adds nothing to the conversation. But then, you don’t think any of the other posters do either, unless they fawn all over you and agree wholeheartedly with what you are putting forth. Mirrors are wonderful things. Look in one every now and then.

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[captainDave]

JoB: Where do you see that I made such a claim? Crony capitalism was advanced under the Clinton-Bush dynasties and was reciprocally accelerated for them by Obama. Nobody during Reagan’s time would have thought an American president could conduct such subversive acts against the country. Reagan gave relief from government oppression, but inadvertently opened the door for the left to extensively corrupt the system from within. You are obviously not able to see this because you are a product of the cultural marxism that was designed to obscure reality. Enjoy your fantasy. The majority of us who voted for Trump will be looking forward to draining the swamp and having a look at what crawls out from the slime. :)

[MtStVincentJobs]

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[captainDave]

JTB: You are a one-trick marching pony. You seem to believe the answer to equality is based exclusively in the Keynesian macro economics theories of the academic left which completely ignores the element of entrepreneurialism. You seem to be emotionally convinced that capital is an appendage of the “hated” one-percenters. When, in fact, capital holds no allegiance to anyone when people are free to create wealth through innovation. The wealth gap you want to abolish is a product of the very system you embrace.

Case and point: Amazon was once one of those insignificant pieces of entrepreneurial sh*t you would have scrapped off you boot in the early 90s. Yet, it now underpins the entire Seattle economy in just two decades. How many Amazon’s have been stomped out in recent years because of our local socialist policies? Now Seattle is just one boardroom decision away from total economic chaos.

All business goes through birth and death cycles. Like growing crops, if you don’t seed, then nothing will grow next season but weeds. Seattle is enjoying the fruits of the entrepreneurial risk taking from previous decades, but there is very little seed planting now (other than things that serve the current aging regiment). That is why I say we are running on the same course as Detroit a half century ago.

A significant portion of the US economy is dependent on the vitality of innovation that “magically” grows when people have incentive and motivation to take risks. I only use the word “magically” because people who are indoctrinated in Marxian socialism have no mental capacity to account for the creation of new wealth.

Capital is not as scarce as you believe. It’s just hiding because the return on investment nor the intrinsic motivation is there to drive it out. Over-regulation and anti-business socialist policies are directly responsible for reducing projected return on investment, eliminating intrinsic motivation, and increasing risk of catastrophic government reprisal.

I have my own capital and lots of access to other people’s capital. But unlike the 90’s when I was involved with raising millions of dollars for various projects, the risks and hassle of dealing with the animosity towards entrepreneurialism are too great to justify the effort anymore.

To say that my perspective contributes nothing to your discussion shows how arrogant and ignorant you are about reality. To wholesale dismiss what I am saying because I don’t use your accredited terminology displays your intolerance and incapability to grasp concepts outside your narrow understanding of MMT evolution.

Reagan’s neoliberalism was transformed into crony capitalism in the decades following his presidency by the corrupt leftist establishment who failed to preserve free market capitalism through the antitrust tools that existed at that time. An no, I don’t consider RINO’s to be anything but leftists in disguise. Why do you think nearly every major corporate monopoly supports the left? While competition is a hallmark of free market capitalism, it’s the bane of you lefties.

Despite your blind love of socialism, the US under Trump will likely be embarking on an entirely different course. Neoclassical economics is being replaced by Austrian economics out of necessity because the system you embraced failed so miserably. Get over it. Better yet, go buy a shovel and get yourself a business license and figure it out for yourself.