Downtown Seattle condos are finally filling up The glut of condos that hit downtown Seattle right during the real-estate downturn is disappearing as buyers move back into the market.[...]
Archive for May, 2012
May 28th, 2012 - 8:57 am § in Misc.
May 28 .. Buddha’s Birthday in Korea.
Like Jesus’s birthday Buddha’s birthday is a matter of preference. One tradition is that the date is calculated from the lunar calendar. The method starts by finding the the first full moon day of the sixth month. Of course there are multiple lunar calendars to choose from. In China this[...]
May 27th, 2012 - 1:55 pm § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: How Man Invented God
Michael Shermer On pushing his book via Colbert and Stewart. ….. and then goes on to explain why we MUST believe in God because relgion is dumb. [...]
May 27th, 2012 - 1:25 pm § in Misc.
ROMNEYISMS
Romney told the website Breitbart TV that the media was involved in a “vast left-wing conspiracy to work together to put out their message and to attack me.”[...]
May 27th, 2012 - 4:16 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Seattle third least beieving city
Hey, Seattle, try harder May 22, 2012 at 2:33 pm PZ Myers In a list of the 10 least religious cities, my hometown of Seattle came in third, beaten by Tampa and Portland. Portland? Come on, Seattle, you can beat a town full of hipsters. Turn a few more churches into gay bars, OK? To […][...]
May 26th, 2012 - 11:17 pm § in Misc.
Illegal Aliens, Russian Style
Aleksandr Belousov, RT.COM The verdict in the case against Russian citizen Vladimir Sadovnichy and Estonian Aleksey Rudenko was issued on November 8. The pilots were sentenced to 8.5 years in prison. The story made headlines across Russia and, on the following day during a meeting with his supporter[...]
May 25th, 2012 - 8:04 am § in Misc.
Only in America … Latkes Benedict!
Image: Olivia Brent Stopsky’s Delicatessen Seattle Met Latkes aren’t traditionally a breakfast food. And yet their hash brown–pancake hybrid status makes them a natural to work the breakfast shift. At this Mercer Island delicatessen’s weekend brunch, compact cakes of shredded potato form t[...]
BREAKING NEWS
Spat with Iraq bares Turk plunge into regional power game ANKARA – A bitter rift with Iraq has exposed Turkey’s role in a wider Middle East power struggle, with Ankara acting to protect its stability and prosperity from an Iranian-Iraqi “Shi’ite axis” it fears in the wa[...]
Can China’s Urbanization Save the World?
Kam Wing Chan Last year marked a milestone in China’s several-thousand-year history: for the first time, more people lived in cities and towns than in the countryside. The country’s 690 million urban dwellers now account for 51.3 percent of China’s total population of 1.35 billion.[...]