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[geronimo]

haven’t seen a link to this on WSB yet – lots of Alki beachfront in the background

http://youtu.be/MyYlYuaj_zU

[linasenzerrose]

yup, love dr. kae. Brought my 2 year old in yesterday and they were great with him. My son was a little hesitant and they were really patient and did not push it. I have been going there for years for my own dental care and have had positive visits every time and the hygienists have been great too.

[DBP]

Here’s an Op-Ed on I-522 from today’s Seattle Times . . .

http://tinyurl.com/bntkp3o

The writer is hostile to the idea of GMO-food labeling, but I think it’s a useful read, because it reminds me of how weak the argument against I-522 really is.

What it amounts to is this: GMO labeling is a hassle for the food industry.

–To which I reply: Too bad / so sad.

Complying with other labeling requirements is a hassle, too, but they still manage to do it.

The author’s premise is that before you can require food to be labeled for GMOs, you should be able to prove that GMOs are somehow unsafe or otherwise significantly different from non-GMO foods.

–To which I reply: Nonsense.

When people wanted organic food labeling, we didn’t have to prove that organic food was somehow better or safer than non-organic food. All we had to do was say that we wanted to know how food is produced so we could make our own decision about what to buy.

Consider country-of-origin labeling on clothes. That’s a hassle, too. Oh well . . . clothes manufacturers have to do it anyway. If I choose not to buy clothes that come from a certain country, that is entirely my business; I don’t have to justify it to anyone.

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Bottom line: As a consumer, I have an absolute right to know how the food I buy is produced and what it’s made of. If agribusiness companies don’t like that, they’re always free NOT to sell me their um . . . “food.”

[hammerhead]

2003 Hyundai Elantra 180,000 auto, air, upgraded stereo, cruise, maroon in color, set of snow chains, tires are about a year old, new timing belt, runs great.

I personally know this person, she takes GREAT care of her cars.

$3200.00

[DBP]

From Post #12 above. I wrote these words two months ago:

In theory, the City will weed out bad cops to protect its own interests (and the interests of the taxpayers) over the long run. In reality, several factors mitigate against that. For example, the Police Officers Guild and their lawyers have been very effective at preventing the City from disciplining bad cops.

And today we have yet another article from the Seattle Times describing how the Police Officer’s Guild wants to block key provisions of the reforms. The article is entitled: “Seattle police guild, manager group file court challenge to police-reform plan”

While federal and city officials have expressed their respect for collective bargaining rights, Bobb’s monitoring team has indicated they do not intend to follow the bargaining process set forth in Washington state law, they said.

The [Police Officers Guild’s] court complaint said the monitor’s plan violates state law and may further do so in the future. It asks the court to find that provisions of Bobb’s proposals are subject to bargaining requirements.

Source: http://tinyurl.com/ahvf7bc

So what the police union is saying is that reform is fine with them . . . as long as it doesn’t actually require the cops to do anything differently.

Good goin’ fellas. And you wonder why people don’t have respect for the law . . .

[DBP]

A relevant post on co-ops from yes! magazine:

http://tinyurl.com/yes-on-co-ops

The yes! article is specifically about consumer co-ops, but many of the same points apply to producer co-ops as well.

SHIFT CHANGE is about producer co-ops.

[dobro]

Here’s an interesting article that comments on the question of Iraq with some historical perspective. I made it into a tinyURL because the URL was so long. It’s from the Washington Post and is written by Andrew Bacevich.

http://tinyurl.com/b7b8y5s

Here’s an excerpt from a 93 year old article that shows how things never really change…

A Report on Mesopotamia

by T.E. Lawrence

Sunday Times

August 2nd, 1920

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiques are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public knows. It is a disgrace to our imperial record, and may soon be too inflamed for any ordinary cure. We are to-day not far from a disaster…

We say we are in Mesopotamia to develop it for the benefit of the world. All experts say that the labour supply is the ruling factor in its development. How far will the killing of ten thousand villagers and townspeople this summer hinder the production of wheat, cotton, and oil? How long will we permit millions of pounds, thousands of Imperial troops, and tens of thousands of Arabs to be sacrificed on behalf of colonial administration which can benefit nobody but its administrators?

Full article here…

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/lawrence.php

[kgdlg]

Hopefully others can confirm, but I am pretty sure that when your kid leaves the district, the funding for them goes away. So sorry skeeter, but this actually leaves the district less well off. This is why all the kids going to Vashon is an issue for Seattle, because the loss of funding is significant. Also, on balance, the kids leaving for private and parochial school are generally not special needs kids, so the district is left smaller, with less money, and higher needs kids. Yup, vicious cycle indeed no matter how we cut it!

[DBP]

wakeflood, thanks. I’ll work on my tan in a minute. For now, I should just tell you that I don’t like being invited to a “discussion” with the caveat that if I disagree with the you, I must be some kind of boob.

I’m a worthy debating partner, and I demand respect.

Back to your point:

You know, inequality is a funny thing. It’s quite true that where great inequality is perceived to exist within a group it causes unhappiness and other social problems. But the key word here is perceived.

In some groups, inequality can be extreme, but if it is not perceived as such by group members, its felt effect will be minimal.

There was extreme inequality during the Great Depresson, for example, but how many times have you heard someone who lived through that era say something like: “Yes, we were poor. But we didn’t KNOW we were poor.” (My parents used to say that all the time.)

Right now Bhutan is extremely poor on the economic scale, for example. On every scale of economic development they’re close to the bottom. According to the experts, they should all be miserable, but they’re not. They use something they call the “Gross National Happniess Index” to measure their output, instead of the GNP that everyone else uses.

Convesely, consider the following: Japan and Finland top the charts in two areas:

Social equality (http://tinyurl.com/alkxr4l).

Suicide (http://tinyurl.com/bcs7292)

–Which is not to say that we should ignore inequality in Bhutan, the U.S. or anywhere else. On the contrary, we should be working hard to reduce it. But at the same time we should understand that economic equality (like money itself) doesn’t buy happiness.

[DBP]

Try the PDF Binder program. It looks like a free program. Very simple to use.

Downloadable from here:

http://tinyurl.com/7zojoxx

[Myr-myr]

I am calling him now….Yup. He says all in one file. (Busy guy, highly recommended. Good price. I just have to make it as easy as possible for the fellow.)

[DBP]

Take a Book. Share a Book.

http://tinyurl.com/tiny-url-for-a-tiny-library

[miws]

This has me so upset, that oddly, I’m not even angry, just……emotionally devastated:

http://tinyurl.com/9wlmbau

It’s the final paragraph that has me most distraught….

Mike

[DBP]

JKB: Did you develop a debilitating infection from the wound by any chance? It might not be too late . . .

http://tinyurl.com/axd8foy

[JanS]

KL, I saw that about the Blue Angels. Kinda sad, actually. Many are saying the sequester isn’t that bad, but that’s one of many things I’ve heard about. Guess it’s not too bad if it’s not affecting them (the politicians – lol), huh.

Maybe we could turn the Hi-Yu Parade into a Mardi Gras thing…with balloons, of course :)

[DBP]

Oh look! Here’s a happy story!

It’s about this cartoon character who goes around bringing joy to hearts of disadvantaged children:

http://tinyurl.com/cl4xqvt

[DBP]

Y’all remember my friend RJ, right? Well we’d sorta deliberately lost track of each other (long story) . . . but a couple of weeks back he calls and invites me over to his new digs for some down-home, Noo-aaaawwwwwlins style Mardi Gras cookin’. So I decided to sign on again.

I never knew much about the Mardi Gras thing myself, so while we were chatting about the food, I figured I’d ask him about that, too.

RJ leaves the front door open while he’s entertaining, and it’s not unlike him to lean out from time to time and hail the neighborhood in his megaphonic drawl:

“Y’all need to get on ovah h’yeer and try some a this dirty rice!”

A surprising number of people actually take him up on his invitations. In the short time I was there, half a dozen folks dropped in and out of RJs kitchen, including the mailman, RJ’s wife, and a few other apparently random guests.

Oh! And another thing I should tell you . . . RJ is the kind of guy who, when you show up for dinner, will hand you a stirring spoon, point you to the kitchen, and tell you to keep an eye on the beans.

“Gotta get us some dinner rolls,” he says, slipping past you through the front door. “Ya know you cain’t have Mardi Gras dinner without the dinner rolls.”

“There’s some beer in the fridge. Hep yassef. I’ll be back in a little while.”

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RJ on his front porch. “Nobody else in my neighborhood has put up, by any means, carnival masks, or something that says ‘Happy Mardi Gras.'”

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DBP: “Hey, did you just make a gang sign?”

RJ: “Ha-ha. Yeah. Huh. No, what? Oh no! No! That’s an M. An M for Mardi Gras.”

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RJ and his wife, Red.

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New Orleans Style Chicken Gumbo

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Here’s RJ and me talking about Mardi Gras, Lent, Gumbo, and Wild Women:

http://tinyurl.com/rj-speaks

(About three-and-a-half minutes.)

In truth, I don’t really care that much about cooking. Or religion.

But Wild Women? —Well, hey! That’s kind of universal, ain’t it?

[DBP]

>> The sound doesn’t have the high, whining edge of the old hum, but has the same low, pulsing,vibrational quality.

I think I’ve heard it. It went a little somethin’ like this . . .

http://tinyurl.com/cxtxfv4

[JanS]

Cask has rec ently been named one of the best wine bars in Seattle, Matt told us. It’s 21 and over only. Very mellow (Beatles playing), very friendly. Bartender knew the names and preferences of some of the more regular clients, which I liked. And he made a point of remembering our names, for the next time.

The food was yummy…the clams were garlicky, and just delish, with macrina bread for dipping in the juices. The greens with the beet salad were lightly dressed, had the best goat cheese chunks and candied walnuts…and it was big, more than ample.

Dinner? He mentioned a steak…and sandwiches that are more attuned to cold weather, a stew/soup…heavier fare for our colder months. He did say the menu changes constantly, so hard to put it on the website.

Yes, will definitely go back :)

[JoB]

dood..

i gave it some thought while running errands yesterday.. and growing it in a pot wouldn’t make it portable :( not if i actually let it grow and produce apples.. it would quickly become unweildy.

i am thinking of growing an apple tree in a pot though after seeing the way apple trees are pruned in Italy and how well they produce…

i have this notion to reclaim half of my alleyway parking space for a container food garden… we will see.

i have struggled to find a way to protect my cucumber plants from Yuki.. who knew he would find prickly cucumber leaves irresistible :)

[funkietoo]

Utilized my introductory offer last night! Made six entrees in less than an hour. The staff is lovely; the throughput of each entree station is well thought out; it is a spotless, clean facility; they have yummy looking recipes.

Looking forward to seeing the look on my 81 year old mother’s face tonight when I take these meals to her. And of course, finding out if her taste buds ‘pop’ when she eats them!

Thanks Dream Dinners!

[DBP]

Do you guys believe in happy endings for trees?

Well, it turns out that a nice woodworker guy has volunteered to turn the wood from Mr. Baker’s poor ole tree into objects of beauty.

http://tinyurl.com/a9rweal

The woodworker, one Warren Weber, told Mr. Baker that “the life of the tree will go on because it will become an object of beauty in people’s lives.”

Weber said he will make products for sale and for charity out of 30 feet of the 24-inch-diameter trunk and its largest branches.

Baker will be especially pleased if Weber uses part of the tree to make a communion table, as he did for his own church.

That, Baker said, would be “a very redeeming thing to do.”.

 

In other happy endings, the Weyerhauser Corporation announced its intention to donate 1000 acres of prime company land, which will henceforth be known as the “John Olerud State Forest.”

http://tinyurl.com/olerud-st-forest

[DBP]

Huh!?!?

Is it just me? Or has the news been taking on a decidedly more surrealistic tone lately?

According to officials familiar with the plans, the White House is eyeing fines, penalties and other trade restrictions as initial, more-aggressive steps the U.S. would take in response to what top officials say has been an unrelenting campaign of cyberstealing linked to the Chinese government.

[…]

The White House plans come after a Virginia-based cybersecurity firm released a torrent of details Monday that tied a secret Chinese military unit in Shanghai to years of cyberattacks against U.S. companies. After analyzing breaches that compromised more than 140 companies, Mandiant has concluded that they can be linked People’s Liberation Army’s Unit 61398.

http://tinyurl.com/aeoz6g3

Twenty years ago these guys were working on better ways to burn cow manure. Now they’re breakin’ into our iPads and stealin’ our sheeeyitttt.

 

 

[DBP]

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

–H.L. Mencken

Also see this: http://tinyurl.com/cf2crqf

[Jeff H]

Yup…”too bad, so sad”…for drivers. I gotta say though…I do get pissed when cars hold me up going downhill on a bike (Admiral, Avalon, California, etc). It does give me a little “ride rage” thinking how cars are in the way. Funny how in the grand scheme of things that bikes are generally faster than all other modes of transportation. Not sure why more people don’t get this…errr…rather don’t take advantage of this.