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The Seattle Fishwrap (AKA Times) does a front-page article on Puget Sound Energy’s electricity rates exploding. I critique that article.

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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 …

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Welcome to the Glorious State of Washington

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From the header photo, you can see that Washington is blessed with abundant natural beauty. From the Pacific Ocean to the Cascade Mountains to the Mighty Columbia River, God has endowed our state with every possible kind of wild and scenic landscape. Well… Maybe not all of the landscapes are quite as scenic as they …

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One Western Washington Resident’s Reaction to Another Tax Proposal from Olympia

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After the election, wherein the Republican presence in political offices in Washington State was considerably reduced, we are aware that our Lords and Masters have vastly increased costs of living ready to lay on us. This comment on X was in response to a conjecture that the DemocRats will be instituting a "delivery tax" on …

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Kamala Harris’s America

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It isn’t Biden’s anymore, he is gone. This now belongs to Kamala. https://twitter.com/alphafox78/status/1829348042949943549?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ Migrants welcomed by Biden and Harris https://twitter.com/shelleygldschmt/status/1829224854094291157?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ Kamala’s policy. https://twitter.com/jackposobiec/status/1829252127757349196?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ First interview https://twitter.com/leslibless/status/1829347802675134822?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ They asked for it https://twitter.com/stephenm/status/1829327730518675890?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ Policy https://twitter.com/emeraldrobinson/status/1829156209745899942?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ Communists all https://twitter.com/behizytweets/status/1829231857931571677?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ Are you getting the picture?