Currently Seattle funds parks through a levy system. Personally I hate levies because they make any sort of long term planning impossible and tend, rather like prop 1, to accumulate different issues to get enough votes. The current levy means the owner of a $450,000 home pays about $85 for the p[...]
Archive for April, 2014
April 11th, 2014 - 12:15 pm § in Misc.
Photographic Free Speech: Hungary
Hungarian law bans photos taken without seeking consent A new law in Hungary makes it illegal to take a photograph of someone without their express permission. Learn more Idaho passed a similar law for pictures of cows.[...]
April 11th, 2014 - 9:59 am § in Misc.
Is Tesla A Bubble?
From The Daily Beast: Now, think about all the rules of math (and human nature) that would have to be violated to reach these goals. To get to 370,000 cars by 2020, Tesla would have to enjoy a 50 percent compounded annual growth for seven straight years. And in 12 years, we’d have a system [&helli[...]
April 10th, 2014 - 7:27 pm § in The Ave Scene
Boeing : Seattle gets the wings, with ranch dressing!
Despite $9,000,000,000 tax break, Boeing is moving the crown jewels, the 1,000 engineering jobs that support the world wide fleet, to California (where TAXES are higher). Management: Chicago Bodies: North Carolina After market support: California Wings: Seattle Boeing’s view of what will [...]
Anti Semitism in Sweden
The graffiti on the Vasa Real school’s facade in central Stockholm. Photo: Private Jewish kids face Nazi graffiti at Swedish school A central Stockholm high school with special classes for Jewish pupils was covered in Nazi graffiti on Monday morning, leaving a parent in tears and fearing the r[...]
Putin threatens to darken Europe.
Putin: Ukraine debt threatens Europe gas supplies MOSCOW (AP) – Vladimir Putin warned Europe on Thursday that it may face a shutdown of Russian natural gas supplies if it fails to help Ukraine settle its enormous Russian gas bill – a debt that far exceeds a bailout package offered by the[...]
April 10th, 2014 - 10:18 am § in Hypocrisy
Sometimes the right is right
Over at HorsesAss, Goldy complains that “Governor Inslee has absolutely nothing political to gain from appointing a justice from the other side of the mountains. Either way, he will not receive a single Eastern Washington daily newspaper editorial board endorsement in 2016, regardless of his[...]
April 10th, 2014 - 9:53 am § in Misc.
What $10,000 Can Buy In A College Degree
Historically, academic degrees were created to recognize expertise in religion, law, and government. The terms “Rabbi” and “Doctor” were both pathways to careers dependent on book learning. Similar titles recognized elite expertise in Confucian, Islamic and Buddhist cou[...]
April 10th, 2014 - 9:21 am § in Misc.
Buchenwald 33. Brandeis should be ashamed.
This week, 70 years after the liberation of Buchenwald, Brandeis University has brought shame on itself. This shame, a shame to all the Jewish people, comes from the decision of the University to withdraw an offer of an honorary degree to Ayan Hirsi Ali; the offer was withdrawn, because Ayan Hirsi A[...]
BUCHENWALD 34: Anniversary of the liberation
Today, April 11, three days before Passover 5774, is the seventieth anniversary of the American Third Army officially liberating Buchenwald. The evening of March 28th, 1945 was the beginning of the last Passover celebrated by the inmates of Buchenwald. I do not know if any one recorded the l[...]