Economic issues-taxes, freedom to do business, unemployment
This past weekend, my hubby and I were watching TV (pretty rare for us), and he tuned in to the NHK World program, an English feature of the Japanese network NHK. They had a very interesting program dealing with how technology helps Japan deal with the many natural disasters they face, living on the Ring …
Continue reading A Pretty Good Argument Against Only Owning an Electric Car
It's a miracle of modern technology and medicine. See the picture below. This is me. I now look like this all day while I'm awake. Please notice that I am not wearing glasses. For the first time in 63 years, I can see the world without Coke-bottle glasses, and that's a miracle in my book. …
2017 was an "on the other hand" year for RushBabe49. For every great thing that happened, there was something disgusting in return. No good thing goes un-punished, and 2017 was a great example. Starting in January with the inauguration of duly-elected President Donald Trump. Election night in 2016 was the most fun I had had …
On January 1, Seattle initiates a new "sweetened beverage tax", of $0.0175 per OUNCE of sweetened beverage (Coke, Pepsi, Simply Lemonade, VitaminWater...). Below is information I copied off the City of Seattle Web site. Now, the reason for this tax in the first place is to make the citizens of Seattle healthier by making it …
Continue reading Seattle Liberals-stuck on stupid with their Sweetened Beverage Tax
Right now, the US Congress is hashing out a "tax reform" set of bills intended to change the ways taxes are confiscated from American workers and savers. Those on the Left often refer to "tax cuts for the rich", showing their basic envy of people who actually EARN their livings in the real world. Republicans, …
But it's just too important for me to miss. We (hubby and I) have so much to be thankful for, this year and every year. We both have been incredibly fortunate to have kept our jobs all through the financial crisis period after 2007, and even advanced. Hubby will celebrate 38 years at Big Aerospace …
Continue reading I wasn’t going to do a Thanksgiving post this year…
In the past 8 years, two major events have totally soured me on anything that bills itself as a "transformation". The first one happened back in 2008, when Barack Hussein Obama was elected president. His mission, stated boldly before the American people during his campaign, was to "totally transform America". He basically was dissatisfied with …
Continue reading Giving “Transformation” a bad name: why I’m not doing a photo challenge this week
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
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
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
