All the stories courtesy of the KOMO-Seattle Web site. Let's start with the ever-growing homelessness crisis in the city. Seattle has a policy, when dealing with homeless people (or, in their ridiculous phrasing "people experiencing homelessness"), to offer them services, but never require them to accept those services. Of course, the vast majority of Seattle's …
Continue reading Seattle being ruined by its own actions, and by the Health Nazis
That would be Andrew Roberts's book, Winston Churchill, Walking With Destiny, all 964 pages of it. All 964 thin, single-spaced pages. I figure it took me about six months to read it, in fits and starts. It lives on my bedside table, right where I can see it, so I just decided to push on through. …
It seems to me that, whenever you see a headline in the "Press" about Wuhan Coronavirus restrictions on the productive economy, there is always, ALWAYS a catch. Those who wish to control the population and rule by decree forever, appear to always find something to be wary or fearful about. Hey, People, Washington is now …
Continue reading Will there ever be real Good News regarding the Wuhan Coronavirus?
By now, most everyone is familiar with the tragic shootings in Atlanta last week. An obviously mentally-ill young man, who was worried that the massage parlors he hit were contributing to his "sex addiction", went to more than one such business in the Atlanta area, and killed eight employees, most of whom were of Asian …
Continue reading Some information, and helpful advice for my Asian-American friends
My readers will have seen my previous posts on trips to Uwajimaya, our local Asian grocery store. On previous trips, I just took photos of the vegetables, which the store arranges meticulously so they are very photogenic. Just today, my husband needed to restock his Udon noodles, so I went along to get a change …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #140: Change of Scenery
One of the Investment Experts over at SeekingAlpha.com posted an article today, about a newly-public Data Analysis company called Palantir Technologies (Nasdaq ticker PLTR). In the introduction to that article, he explored the history of the Big Tech companies who have been in the news lately, in relation to censorship on the Internet. This article …
Are you one of the American people who, because the Health Nazis in your government have convinced you that the Wuhan Coronavirus means Death around every corner, has a fear of strangers? Are you reluctant to go out into your world without your face behind a mask, because if you don't you will get infected? …
Continue reading Just a quick thought for the end of a week.
Life is full of Special Moments, if you will only open your eyes and notice. It's all in how you look at things. Just this past week, I was in my computer room, writing a post for this blog. When I write, I am pretty much oblivious to most of what's going on around me, …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #139: Special Moments
The following post was originally issued at Ricochet.com. I advise all my readers and followers to drop by Ricochet, and consider joining if you want more excellent commentary such as this. Mark exactly offers the same advice I would give to today's young people. His life story is instructive. Young people, HEED THIS ADVICE! THE …
Continue reading Guest Blogger: Helpful Advice for Young People by Mark A.
I'm just old-fashioned, because I love to receive paper catalogs in the mail. I don't consider them junk, and even if I don't know the retailer, I always look through every catalog I get before I throw it out. Most of the time lately, catalogs go into the recycle bin shortly after receipt with a …
