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[wsnannysearch]

We are two professional couples looking for a caring, responsible and experienced nanny to care for our two young children (one boy and one girl, each will be 4 months old in May). We both live in Gatewood, west of 35th Street. The two houses are within walking distance of each other and both are convenient to public transportation. If interested, please email us at wsnannysearch@gmail.com.

[captainDave]

JTB: Who is proliferating a rant here? I posted more positive suggestions than anyone else if you bother to read. Reducing regulation to spur job growth and providing methods for private sector development of affordable low-rent housing are positive solutions. Crying about not being able to steal enough money from hardworking citizens to fund ineffective programs is rather negative in my view. Show me policies that actually work without causing undue harm to others, and I will be onboard with the idea.

My ordeals with the city bureaucracy are not an anomaly. Otherwise, OED would not be spending so much money trying to retain businesses despite the despotic anti-capitalist activists in our local government.

In case you haven’t noticed lately. Most of the country is getting fed up with politics as usual. People who advocate for increasing socialist policies need to understand that they are not the only ones living in this City. All it would take, for instance, is one or two big companies to crash or leave town and you will have an enormous homeless problem that can’t possibly be solved with the current and proposed policy methods because there is not much of an economic base to fall back on anymore.

[sbre]

My 12 year old gas water-heater is not running up to snuff and think its time to replace/update*, so I’m again asking my fellow WSites to share their recommendations, knowledge and thoughts on this topic.

*However I am open to ideas and such for repair if you know of something or someone.

As usual; I thank you in advance for any and all you wish to share.

Peace…

[maddy]

I’ve used Steve Lauritsen of Sunnie View Window & Gutter Cleaning for over 25 years. He does an excellent job. Has a website where you can sign up for a free estimate. His phone number is 206-963-9113

[JKB]

Of course it’s okay that the young ethnically diverse single mom in a ’99 Honda Civic is on her phone.

[JTB]

captainDave, I appreciate that the experience you had with the City over your business venture was infuriating and financially ruinous. I think anyone would be challenged to go through that sort of ordeal and not wind up bitter and angry. Nevertheless, it is always preferable to do the hard personal work to approach life in a positive way rather than succumb to negativity. The rancor you exhibit around anything that involves local government policy and the people who receive its services overshadows any reasoned discussion of actual facts and details—-it becomes a tedious rant. That’s unfortunate for all concerned.

[captainDave]

JoB: The simple answer is for people to wake up to facts and stop voting for liberal politicians and their failed policies. Seattle has been under leftist democrat control for a couple decades now. Where has it gotten us? The prosperity gap is wider here than almost anywhere in the country because the middle class got pummeled out of existence by over regulation. That means there are fewer people creating and supporting diverse jobs, competitive housing and charitable services. So, now you want more rules, higher taxes and more government to solve the many problems that it creates. Until you can see the vicious cycle of lunacy that eventually destroyed places like Detroit and Baltimore, you won’t find a way to fix the escalating homeless problem.

[suzanne]

Franci, the same thing happened to me. I thought I’d need to fight for the refund, but they were very prompt. Apparently, they WANT to get rid of customers.

[JoB]

Captain dave..

the homeless shelter that reported empty beds is a faith based substance rehab center.

if you don’t have a substance abuse problem they don’t care what your belief system is.. they don’t have a bed for you.

Which… wait for it.. leaves people who don’t have a substance abuse problem on the streets.

It also pretty much leaves out families with children.. though i suppose if one of the parents had a substance abuse problem they would take them and if the spouse with the substance problem was the male.. the wife and kids could go to a family shelter.. if there was room.. or they could go back to the streets.

I don’t know how much more clearly i can put that.
No alcohol and/or drug problem.. no bed.

And pretty much no room in other shelters.

As for those bus tickets.. some of the shelter systems do have single ride bus tickets available.. but they are limited and won’t let the homeless ride on the bus all day.

check out the stats on homeless kids in our state’s school systems.
in 2014 they topped 30,00.. and that number has gone up.
that’s a lot of homeless kids.

http://www.k12.wa.us/LegisGov/2015documents/HomelessStudentsJan2015.pdf

then there are the elderly who are being evicted from what were once low rent apartments they could afford and have no place to go. i

if they qualify for subsidized housing the waiting list is measured in years..

then there are the disabled and mentally ill who are turfed out of medical facilities and left on our streets without the physical and/or mental resources to survive.

of those with addiction problems, some became homeless due to substance abuse…

but the majority acquired their addictions as a coping mechanism to living on the streets.

If you really wanted to know.. the information is out there…

heck. you can find homeless people in the junction on any given day if you just know where and how to look.

[captainDave]

JOB:

While chlorine is currently the choice for treating Seattle the tape water, there is no assurance that chloramine won’t enter the sewer system via industrial and home cleaning products. So no, piping more synthetic drug chemicals into Puget Sound still does not seem like a good thing to do. Little is known about other effects from the massive increase in methadone contaminated effluent.

You stated: “no. the homeless problem is not predominantly a drug problem.” If so, then many should not have a problem getting into the Salvation Army shelter. The article link I posted for you says that the Salvation Army does accept people of any beliefs. Perhaps they are lying and violating discrimination laws?

What percentage of homeless people in Seattle right now are parents with children? Doesn’t social services take children away in situations where parents cannot care for them?

With regard to it being a drug problem or not, PBS Frontline did a nice job of showing the state of Seattle’s homeless condition. Her is the link for those who have not seen it: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/announcement/chasing-heroin-a-two-hour-special-premieres-feb-23-on-frontline/ Illegal drugs are clearly a big part of the homeless problem.

I disagree with the idea of not enforcing the laws. If the majority of people in Washington want to legalize heroin, then that’s different. Otherwise, users and dealers should be prosecuted and locked up away from drugs for as long as the law allows. The City of Seattle is doing a disservice to drug users and citizens by enabling illegal drug use.

Yes, it looks like homeless can get free bus tickets:
http://www.kingcounty.gov/elected/executive/constantine/News/release/2012/September/28bustickets.aspx

[JTB]

captainDave—Good news! You can drop your concern about a methadone-derived carcinogen, Nitrosodimethylamine being released into Puget Sound from Seattle’s wastewater processing. That chemical is formed by an interaction of methadone (some of which remains in urine) with chloramine, a chemical many municipalities use as a disinfectant. Seattle, however, continues to use chlorine which does not interact in a similar way with methadone. Aren’t you relieved?

Otherwise, I would encourage you to retrieve the recent Frontline piece on opiate addiction which is based in metro King County and with a heavy emphasis on the rationale for the approach adopted by SPD to deal with chronic users and which has been an inspiration to other cities in the United States. It doesn’t really delve into the homeless problem as a problem in and of itself, but it does provide some compelling data and illustrations of how routine us of medical opiates for pain management has fostered an epidemic. FWIW, I heard Sheriff Urquhart yesterday make a case for innovative approaches to drug treatment if we expect to get anywhere in dealing with the problem.

[msteff]

Found at the corner of 45th Ave SW and SW Graham Street. No car keys; looks like all house, mailbox, and small lock keys.

[JoB]

i was feeling feisty this morning… normally i ignore this poster but every once in a while the little snark in me peeks out…

i am glad someone takes the time to identify sources and counter the info but i don’t have the energy for this….

no matter how much good info is posted this particular poster just keeps posting away :(

[CO2isPlantFood]

Simple Definition of prediction

: a statement about what will happen or might happen in the future

Simple Definition of projection

: an estimate of what might happen in the future based on what is happening now

The Maldives, a strand of coral atolls south of India, is just about the most tenuous country on Earth. No patch of land in the island chain, where the population has risen from 200,000 to 400,000 in the last 25 years, is more than six feet or so above sea level. Even modest projections for a rise in sea level from global warming would increase flooding from storm surges. A higher rise could render hundreds of islands uninhabitable.

From 2009

The Minister further said the construction work of these airports have been handed to Airports Investment Management Company which is a company established for this project. There will be a 200 bed hotel, a yacht marina and a transit hotel in every airport in order to make the airport viable and facilitate tourism and travelers. The airport in Alifu Dhaalu Maamigili is already under construction.

Problem, what problem ?

COLOMBO — Chinese investment is expected to help triple passenger handling capacity of the Maldives international airport with the addition of a new runway, an official said on Thursday. Minister of Economic Development Mohamed Saeed said efforts were underway under the direct supervision of President Abdulla Yameen to secure financing for the projects.

Fast Forward to 2015

Tourism accounted for 28 percent of GDP on average over the past five years, and generated 38 percent of government revenue in 2012, according to Xinhua. A total of 331,719 Chinese tourists visited the Maldives in 2013, a 44.5 percent increase from 2012, accounting for around 30 percent of all tourist arrivals. Home to a group of over 1,000 islands, the Maldives is visited by more than 750,000 tourists each year, according to Reuters.

Real Crisis, not crisis, for Maldives

“Pictures of flooding you see on the news have more to do with poor shoreline management and people settling on marginal land than with sea-level rise,” says Simon Donner, a climate scientist at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in Canada who has examined sea-level variability in South Tarawa.

In the meanwhile

Projected sea level rise for the 21st century: The projected range of global averaged sea level rise from the IPCC 2001 Assessment Report for the period 1990 to 2100 is shown by the lines and shading. The updated AR4 IPCC projections made are shown by the bars plotted at 2095, the dark blue bar is the range of model projections (90% confidence limits) and the light blue bar has the upper range extended to allow for the potential but poorly quantified additional contribution from a dynamic response of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to global warming. Note that the IPCC AR4 states that ” larger values cannot be excluded, but understanding of these effects is too limited to assess their likelihood or provide a best estimate or an upper bound for sea level rise. ”

See the Chart

Further Study

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[KBear]

Sounds like they are taking more action than they used to. Good to know.

[KBear]

Unfortunately, unless they’ve changed their policy, no citation will be issued unless you make your own name known to the offender. Anonymous complaints will only result in a warning (if they do anything at all.)

[Metropolitan Market]

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Currently at our West Seattle location we are searching for:
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[advntrplz]

I am in a temporary/long term rental (month to month) while I am house hunting. I found it on airbnb, and it is less than most of the comparable rentals in the area. I have a dog as well and was lucky to find someone who didn’t mind.

Try airbnb or vbro.

[JoB]

Captain Dave..
you do realize that the Salvation Army shelter with empty beds does not accept families, don’t you?
Nor does that shelter accept people who do not have a substance abuse problem.

it’s clear that you are far more interested in making what you think is your point than taking any evidence that refutes it into account.

[Living.in.the.Wild.West]

Seriously lady in the silver Nissan Murano with your two black labs at Greg Davis park this morning? I don’t understand why you feel like you are above the law. Just so you know, I will be meeting with an animal control officer later today and sharing the video of you with your off-leash dogs, as well as your plate number and a description of your vehicle. I sincerely hope they issue you a citation. Listen up West Seattle: if we don’t start doing something about this issue ourselves, its not going to change! Stand up for your parks and sidewalks and gardens! Take action! Call animal control or non-emergency if they aren’t open. Try to get as much of a description as possible, video really helps! Of course, be safe, and don’t put yourselves in danger.

[JanS]

capt.Dave…because the Salvation Army Shelter dictates what you will wear, what you will believe as far as religion, they don’t allow couples to stay together, , and many more “rules”
that have nothing to do with putting a roof over someone’s head. What if I’m Buddhist? Why should I have to go through an indoctrination like that. If you want to help homeless people, help them for fu*k’s sake. Feed them, clothe them, give them a roof over their head. And then, if they want to believe what you believe, fine. But don’t make it a prerequisite for being there.

Got another question? Well, I have one. Where are these homeless persons going to get a few hundred dollars per month for rent if they’re living in a tent now.If they are drug addicted, will treatment be provided, so maybe some day they’ll be clean and be able to get a low paying job? And another question…you are aware that there is no free zone for bus riding downtown, aren’t you? Hasn’t been for quite sometime. So, no, they’re not riding his bus all day long for free.

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[fleeceandfire]

Anyone know of a place in or around West Seattle to take horseback riding lessons that they would recommend.

[WSB]

Have you reported it to SPD? Might increase the chance of someone eventually getting it back, so I’ve started recommending that to people who send in “found bike” reports, though those (like yours here) are important too. – TR

[captainDave]

JOB: Then why do shelters like the Salvation Army on 4th avenue have so many vacancies? They are reporting that many of the homeless prefer to live in tents because they don’t want to abstain from drug use. Perhaps you missed this article?:

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/some-shelter-beds-go-empty-even-right-next-to-seattles-jungle-encampment/

In reality, the homeless problem is multifaceted. I don’t disagree that there are certainly increasing situations where non-drug users become homeless in our regulation-constrained economy.

Like I mentioned before, why doesn’t the Port of Seattle lease out a bit of its unused properties and let people like me build and rent low-cost homes made from shipping containers?:

http://tinyhousetalk.com/wp-content/uploads/shipping-container-tiny-home.jpg

Homes like this can be built by industrious carpenters for a few thousand dollars and rented for a few hundred dollars a month. Tons of outfitting materials are available through places like Habitat for Humanity. This would be an instant, highly-scalable and dignified fix to the family/elderly homeless problem that would not cost the City hardly anything compared to other programs. Plus, it could empower lots of independent carpenters to produce rental housing income without enriching some deep pocket crony developer.