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Adding Insult to Injury. The Left has no limiting principle.

On By rushbabe49In Authoritarianism, business, Crime and Punishment, Culture, Economics, elections, Energy/Petroleum, environmentalism, government, History, Law and Justice, Media and the Internet, Media bias, Politics in the Age of Trump, Progressive "Thought", social mediaLeave a comment

The day after the Washington State DemocRats passed an unconstitutional income tax, the public is pummeled again. And again. https://twitter.com/pnwconservative/status/2031545885121982819?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ https://twitter.com/stevemgordon67/status/2032081605628739626?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ And in Socialist Seattle: https://twitter.com/pnwconservative/status/2031541143675220042?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ The communists of Seattle have a long history of piling taxes upon taxes on themselves. The highly-credentialed residents will probably approve the library levy when it is on their …

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Fall colors are still around in my neighborhood.

On By rushbabe49In Culture, Nature, photography, Random Musings About LifeLeave a comment

I feared that the recent winds would have brought down all the colorful leaves from the trees around here. But, happily, I was wrong! Yesterday I took a short walk around my house and found some bright colors still hanging around (literally!). Let’s start with our own backyard. We have three Japanese maple trees, which …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #163: Keep Walking

On By rushbabe49In Nature, Photo challenges, photography, Travel and Vacations8 Comments

When I go for a walk in a scenic location (or even just around my neighborhood), I try to pay attention to my surroundings.  I live six blocks away from my local Costco store, so if I just want to pick up a prescription, I walk there and back. [let me put in a pitch …

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Are We Citizens? Or Are We Subjects?

On By rushbabe49In Culture, Economics, Health care, Politics in the Age of Obama1 Comment

This is a very pertinent question these days, when we hear daily of transgressions against us by our Intelligence Services, the Tax-collecting agency, and our own Justice (?) Department. When the powers-that-be on all levels of government are delegating more and more quasi-legislative power over us, to un-elected bureaucrats. When even the federal Department of …

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