The counties that make up Western Washington, dominated by Seattle-majority King County, have drawn the entire state toward the Hard Left for decades. This tendency has accelerated lately, with big corporations and small businesses closing down or leaving the state entirely. The dark cloud of the so-called "Millionaires Tax" that is really in Income Tax …
Continue reading It’s Time for another Dispatch from the Socialist Western Washington
Just recently, the Everett, Washington School District lost a lawsuit brought by a Christian group, alleging that it denied students their religious liberty in an egregious way. This story made the national news in more than one place. It is well known that all cities in Western Washington are very Leftist, and my town is …
Continue reading Happening in My Town. In the news for the wrong reason.
The ballots have gone out. Most voters have received theirs, but some have not. Already this week, ballots have been found in a ditch, lost by the Postal Service (whom few trust anymore, due to multiple cases of lost or discarded ballots). Some people complain that they did not receive a Voters Pamphlet, which is …
Continue reading *It’s Down to the Wire Time in Washington State
The Empty part is downtown, which as of now has a 38.5% office vacancy rate. Yes, that's 38.5%!!! Office buildings for sale have sold for 20-30% of their assessed value; restaurants are closing every day; entire chains of stores have been closed due to high theft and vandalism risks. That "high-cost" part? Well, on January …
Continue reading *Welcome to the Empty, High-Cost, City of Seattle. Parking downtown? Think again!
We got a city-view room at our hotel. Here’s the view, now that the heavy rain has stopped and the sun is out. Our window leaked badly in the heavy rain, and it took five towels to sop it all up! Brooklyn city view We walked out to pick up our rental car, so I …
We are staying in today, Hubby is not feeling well. So my “picture-taking fool” persona is primary. We slept late, so missed breakfast. I went down to the King’s Court restaurant, got a lemonade, and sat at a window table reading. When they opened for lunch, I had some pizza, then went outside on the …
The Queen Mary 2 sails out the mouth of the St Lawrence, and heads down toward Nova Scotia. We have a Sea Day with no port calls. From our balcony. Sea and Sky Sea https://videopress.com/v/WmTXTKxL?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true In the morning, gray sea and sky When we returned to our cabin after lunch, conditions had changed a bit. …
Continue reading Once again, just the Sea and the Sky…….Oh, wait! Tanker!
Anyone familiar with Seattle is aware that the Chinatown area on the southern end of downtown is an open-air drug market, where junkies and dealers clog the sidewalks, along with numerous homeless tents and other temporary structures. Thousands of low-income elderly live in the many local apartment buildings, and they have been complaining for years …
The lesson is: The State of Israel and all Israelis, at home or abroad, are on a solid WAR FOOTING 24/7/365. NEVER denigrate a Jew or an Israeli for trying to "run the world" when they are simply trying to stay alive, work, raise families, and be net contributors to society. The United Arab Emirates …
This is also called "Dynamic Pricing," and it couldn't exist without the new electronic shelf tags that most grocery chains are now adopting. Those electronic tags enable up-to-the-second price changes, almost invisible to shoppers. Walmart has strenuously denied doing this "surveillance" pricing which takes into account how THEY calculate the "willingness to pay" a higher …
Continue reading Surveillance Pricing in stores where you shop
