Here is the text of the ballot measure on the primary ballot in King County, Washington, that includes Seattle and surrounding suburbs. King County Proposition No. 1 Sales Tax for Cultural Access Program The King County Council passed Ordinance No. 18513 to establish and fund a cultural access program. The program would expand access to …
As usual, the latest session of the Washington State Legislature (third "special" session) has found ways to forcibly extract more of their hard-earned money from taxpayers. Yes, to your ostensible "representatives", all you are is a bottomless source of funds for them to spend (waste?). And when a small tax reduction was attached to the …
Continue reading State of Washington to Taxpayers: All your money are belong to us.
This particular dinner table is....wait for it...Both! The people at this table journeyed from miles away to meet with the Honored Guest, a remarkable young man from Romania. This Gentleman (capitalized because he is the epitome of Gentleman) is known to all of us online, and the friends at this table, along with dozens of …
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Cherish your Liberty, today most importantly, but do so all year round. The country that you live in is the greatest miracle that has ever taken place in the history of Humanity. A group of intrepid, well-educated men and women journeyed across a forbidding, mostly unknown Ocean to a new land, where they could live …
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Edit: Here is a story from today, July 11, regarding the beautiful little boy pictured below. This is sickening to me. UK Judge Gives Parents Two Days to Prove Son Should Be Kept Alive. Little Charlie is a ten-month-old baby, who suffers from a rare genetic condition, Mitochondrial-DNA-Depletion Syndrome, that has robbed him of sight …
Last week was the Leavenworth (WA) International Accordion Celebration. Leavenworth is known as "Washington's Bavarian Village", and most of its buildings are dressed up in Bavarian Village style. LIAC consists of four days of accordion competition, performances by local and international groups and individuals, an accordion parade through town, and all sorts of impromptu and …
Democrats just love talking night and day about getting the big money out of politics. They constantly rail about elections being "bought" by "special interest groups" and rich donors (they love to demonize the Koch brothers and Wall Street). Their cure for the big money in politics is often "public financing", meaning government support of …
Continue reading So, Democrats…Let’s Talk Money in Politics, Shall We?
See the differently-colored punts, all lined up on the banks of the River Cam, in Cambridge, England. They are just waiting for some people to come along and rent them for a lazy trip down the slow-flowing river. Perfect for a summer afternoon. https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/order/
The DOJ has communicated to Congress that it is ending the Obama-era corporate shakedown regime, where it forced corporations who paid huge settlements to resolve conflicts relating to the financial crisis, to pay (liberal) third-party organizations as part of those settlements. Billions of dollars were siphoned off to various Obama special-interest groups, in violation of …
Continue reading The Trump/Sessions Department of Justice just did “Justice”!
Today is June 6. 6/6. It is the 73rd Anniversary of D-Day, that momentous day in 1944 when the Allies invaded France to re-take Europe from Hitler's evil forces. But that's not what I remember. In June of 1966, I was a junior in high school in Seattle. I was taking a ceramics class, with …
Continue reading It’s weird the things you remember from days gone by…Tricks of Memory
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