Economic issues-taxes, freedom to do business, unemployment
July 1 is a very important day in Washington State. It is the day that costs increase, reliably, year after year, with no endpoint. First, the standout increase that affects every single resident of Washington State. That is the increase in the gas tax. Last year, the Democrat Legislature passed a law that increases the …
Continue reading The Day of the Cost Increases for Businesses and Individuals in Washington State
On Sunday, the Seattle Times did a long article describing how local residents are suffering from the high, and going higher, electricity rates imposed on them by their mandated supplier, Puget Sound Energy. Below, I provide quotes from the article, and my comments after each quote. The title of the article is "PSE customers hit …
If you have been paying attention to the news regarding new vehicles, you might have seen reports describing a Biden Administration law that has gone into effect. The reason given for passing this new law, a requirement for ALL new cars, was "saving lives by keeping drunk drivers off the roads." Now, we all know …
Kale, a dark green, leafy, "cruciferous" vegetable is a fad food. No one, absolutely NO ONE, ever considered it edible until less than a decade ago. People don't usually eat things that taste bad, especially those that taste bitter. Below is what one of my favorite food gurus has to say about Kale. Kale wears …
Continue reading Bitter herbs… On Kale, the bitter vegetable
A VERY popular phrase used by Republicans running for office is "Democrat Failed Policy." By this, they mean the urban devastation, drug overdoses, failing schools, exodus of productive people and businesses, and blighted neighborhoods found in mostly black Democrat-governed metropolitan areas. The Republican candidates always refer to those effects as "failed policies," but are the …
Continue reading Let’s talk about Democrat Failed Policies. Or are they?
Byl Holte is a black man, born in America in the 1960s, just on the cusp of GenX. He knows exactly who he is, and who he is NOT. I admire him greatly, for being very astute in his observance of current American culture. and I reproduce two of his recent comments on said culture, …
Continue reading Guide for the Perplexed-an American black man speaks
Madness is sometimes defined as "Doing the Same Thing Over and Over and Expecting a Different Result." Here are my opinions on the so-called "Iran Deal" that President Trump states he has "negotiated" with the Mullahs in Iran. Madmen cannot be "negotiated" with. Muslim Terrorists are directed by their holy book (Quran) to LIE to …
Continue reading Madness. I have to disagree with President Trump on any Iran “Deal”
This young man's hobby horse is human health, and how our conditions have changed with history. I'll bet you haven't looked at things quite this way before. Nasty, brutish and short. That is the phrase everyone reaches for to describe life before civilisation, and it may be one of the most successful pieces of propaganda …
Just today, from overnight, this is what went on in Pioneer Square, the downtown historic district. https://twitter.com/KatieDaviscourt/status/2065909744918007810?s=20 Street takeovers by young people who block off the intersection and drive their cars around, skidding and throwing people every which way. This is near the soccer stadium where the first matches will be played on Monday. By …
Continue reading Is Seattle really ready for the Soccer World Cup? Let’s check and see.
George Clymer was an orphan who made good. Very good. George Clymer, a grandson of an original settler of the Penn colony, became an orphan at the age of one. He went to live with a wealthy uncle in Philadelphia, where he received an informal education and he grew up working in his uncle’s mercantile …
