Report from the Seattle-area War Zone, September 2024

As has been usual for years, crime is becoming more common all over the Seattle area. The police departments of Seattle and other local cities are under-staffed, for multiple reasons including the "Defund the Police" movement that took hold in 2020, the hostility of the City Council to law enforcement in general, and King County …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #314: Shorelines

Living in the Pacific Northwest, we have lots of shorelines within a few minutes, or hours drive. And we have lakes and rivers, which also have shorelines, along with the oceans. The shoreline closest to me is along Silver Lake. This was early in the morning on my way to work. About 50% of the …

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Hello, young people. What do you know about Communism?

What are you taught in school about the history of Communism and its primary promoters in Russia, China, North Korea, and East Germany? Did you read about and discuss the revolutions that brought about the Iron Curtain and the Holodomor in Russia and Ukraine? Did you see photos like this in your history textbooks? Let …

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This is the President of the United States

There are wars in the Middle East and Europe; the Communist Chinese are ramming ships of our Philippine allies in the South China Sea. The US Navy is sending most of its assets to the Middle East and leaving few to counter China in the Pacific. Gangs of Venezuelan illegals are taking over entire apartment …

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Have you ever heard an alphorn? Have you ever seen one? Well , it’s time you did.

We took a drive up to Leavenworth today, since I missed the Accordion Celebration back in June. It was a beautiful, warm day, in the 70s near us on the west side of the Cascades, and in the 90s in Leavenworth on the east side. When we arrived in town, we found a place to …

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Kamala Harris’s America

It isn’t Biden’s anymore, he is gone. This now belongs to Kamala. https://twitter.com/alphafox78/status/1829348042949943549?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ Migrants welcomed by Biden and Harris https://twitter.com/shelleygldschmt/status/1829224854094291157?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ Kamala’s policy. https://twitter.com/jackposobiec/status/1829252127757349196?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ First interview https://twitter.com/leslibless/status/1829347802675134822?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ They asked for it https://twitter.com/stephenm/status/1829327730518675890?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ Policy https://twitter.com/emeraldrobinson/status/1829156209745899942?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ Communists all https://twitter.com/behizytweets/status/1829231857931571677?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ Are you getting the picture?

How can anyone with half a brain vote for this Fraud?

That would be, current Vice President in the (absent) Biden/Harris administration. Every day, new information comes out about what kind of person she is, and what her record is in the political sphere. It is common knowledge that she failed the California bar exam, the most difficult in the country. Here's some more information. https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1829137693982503123

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #313: Cool colors

Way back in the 1970s, a favorite phrase describing something you liked was "Cool, man!" Living in a place with abundant bodies of water, and the nickname of "Evergreen State", you'd think that cool colors would be everywhere. You would be correct! Sometimes, though, you get too much of a good thing, with vegetation run …

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Freedom of Speech = Freedom of Thought

For, what is Speech, but the expression of Thought in Words? The words can be written or spoken aloud, but they still convey Thought. If you are prevented from Speaking for long enough, then you are prevented from Thinking. Thinking and Speaking are what makes us humans different from all other animals on the Earth …

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