On This Labor Day…Proudly Working and Supporting Myself at Age 68

Today is a holiday for me.  At age 68 (two years past my full retirement age of 66), I am working full-time (actually, more than full-time with all the overtime I put in), at a job I love, and with a side interest for my professional association.  As a Planner/Buyer for an aerospace company, my …

Continue reading On This Labor Day…Proudly Working and Supporting Myself at Age 68

We knew the managements of Facebook and Google were Liberal

People are probably quite familiar now with the big story of how a Google software engineer was summarily fired for circulating a memo around his company, positing the viewpoint (taking into account verifiable scientific studies that confirm this) that a reason why more women don't work as software engineers could be that most women don't …

Continue reading We knew the managements of Facebook and Google were Liberal

The Governor of the State of Washington needs to be Committed

For years, we residents of the State of Washington have been hearing about the woes of our largest state psychiatric institution, Western State Hospital in Lakewood (south of Tacoma).  This institution has had numerous escapes of dangerous inmates, reports of employees attacked by inmates (and sometimes attacking, themselves), and staff shortages and resignations.  Once, a …

Continue reading The Governor of the State of Washington needs to be Committed

Some thoughts on the King County (WA) Ballot Proposition 1, “Sales tax for Cultural Access Program”

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 …

Continue reading Some thoughts on the King County (WA) Ballot Proposition 1, “Sales tax for Cultural Access Program”

State of Washington to Taxpayers: All your money are belong to us.

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.

Independence Day! Celebrate the Miracle that is America!

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 …

Continue reading Independence Day! Celebrate the Miracle that is America!

Little Charlie Gard..A Horrifying Tale

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 …

Continue reading Little Charlie Gard..A Horrifying Tale

The Trump/Sessions Department of Justice just did “Justice”!

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”!

Be Very Careful What You Wish For, Seattle

Tomorrow is May 1, or May Day, or "Workers of the World Unite" day. In Seattle, in the everlasting spirit of the WTO Riots of 1999, various leftist student, activist, and Anarchist groups get together and march for workers' and immigrants' "rights".  They normally start in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, and march down Pine Street …

Continue reading Be Very Careful What You Wish For, Seattle

Borrowed with permission from a Ricochet friend. How many of these phrases do you Disagree with?

Hello, Visitors and Followers of RushBabe49.. I’m hoping you’ll help me with a very simple data-gathering project! It will take maybe five minutes, and should be painless. Instructions a.) go down through the following list of statements and count up those with which you DISAGREE. b.) don’t overthink it. Even if the phrase doesn’t precisely …

Continue reading Borrowed with permission from a Ricochet friend. How many of these phrases do you Disagree with?