HAVE YOU SENT IN THAT BALLOT YET? DID YOU BOTHER TO VOTE FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD? The Seattle School Board is a mess. Lousy leadership is what you get when you create an unpaid board and give it too much power. Even worse is our two phase “non partisan” election where we vote for a [&he[...]
Archive for August, 2013
August 3rd, 2013 - 12:33 pm § in Misc.
Slur of the Day
Kala the nonspecific racist slur of “kala” (Burmese: ကုလား; MLCTS: ku. la:) is used against Muslim and Indian immigrants in Burma, especially when referring to Burmese Muslims.[...]
August 3rd, 2013 - 11:34 am § in Misc.
Africa as a new center for tech?
Next Hotbed of Innovation?[...]
Have you voted yet (for Mayor of Seattle?)
I Endorse Peter Steinbrueck Your vote is due Tuesday. …There are four viable candidates .. McGinn, Harrel, Murray and Steinbrueck. Why Steinbrueck ? Seattle is at a juncture where it may become a major world class city where no one lives or visits except for business. The Vulcanizarion[...]
August 2nd, 2013 - 4:58 am § in Politics
An Iranian View of the Syrian Rebels
Click the image to read Iran’s view. Who lost Syria? This may seem contrarian, but … the Iranian view is not all that different from other views of the revels as comprised of Taliban style radicals. Of course, Hazbolla hs no better and it is Hezbollah, backed by Iran that is fighting[...]
August 1st, 2013 - 1:02 am § in Misc.
First Nevada legalizes whores, then Colorado legalizes joints, then Norway ….
Norway mulls tolerating heroin smoking The Norwegian government said on Friday it wants to decriminalize the inhalation of heroin, a method considered less dangerous than injecting it, to reduce the number of overdoses in the country. READ (COMMENT) »[...]
Michael Jordan: Always been part of the problem and never cared about the solution.
Michael Jordan could do no wrong in my eyes growing up. I remember wanting a pair of his coveted shoes growing up but my family was more concerned with feeding my 3 siblings and Ik properly, rather than making sure we had the most expensive pair of shoes like m. Most families in the [&h[...]