Because he just read the latest polls — read story here. [...]
Archive for June, 2016
June 17th, 2016 - 11:35 am § in Politics
Alabama county refuses to honor Orlando victims
“Alabama county officials refused to lower flags to half-staff to honor the victims of the Orlando mass shooting this week even after President Barack Obama and Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley ordered flags to be lowered.” Read story here. The best way to deal with this is by avoiding Baldw[...]
June 17th, 2016 - 8:51 am § in Misc.
Chinazor: Buhari is a disaster
I was engaged in a debate with my cousin, Ken Eso Adigwu all night yesterday. He is diabolically in love with this man which is quite sad. He thinks any critic of Buhari is born out of hatred. No! It’s hatred of your country to condone mediocrity, folks. Buhari Is Nigeria’s Problem, Not Its [...]
Why should any highly qualified kid go to the UW?
Perhaps the time has come to question the purpose of the UW. If we are here to serve our state‘s best students, then why should they go here when the ivies now offer full boat scholarships to any kid good enough to get in? Perhaps instead Washington should be investing resources on helping [...]
June 17th, 2016 - 7:52 am § in The Ave Scene
Best of Seattle – Car Wash
Christopher Goodwin FACEBOOK Sea Suds on 23rd and Union, used to be Chester Dorsey’s car wash. The location and the fact that it is a car wash are the only commonalities. The new owner completely rebuilt this place and he’s not shy about soap. Most car washes have a hint of soap, this[...]
June 17th, 2016 - 1:49 am § in Misc.
Who are “we?”
At my age I remember a lot of people who made the claim to be able to speak for “the people.” Before my birth in 1942 we wanted to keep the Jews out of the US and the US out of the Jew’s war, the we won that war. After WWII “we” s that the US […][...]
June 17th, 2016 - 1:07 am § in Misc.
Nicklesville on the UW Campus
My own main argument for having tent city on campus is that it is another form of teaching. That said, I feel guilty abut how little I expect the UW to actually do about the underlying issues. I may recommend reading Major Barbara before reading the exchanges here about the Tent City. There ha[...]
June 16th, 2016 - 1:08 pm § in Misc.
Slur of the Day
Polack a Pole or a person of Polish origin,[150] from the Polish endonym, Polak (see Name of Poland). Note: the proper Swedish demonym for Polish people is polack[151] and the Norwegian equivalent is polakk.[152][...]
Bernie Needs Someone To Light Him
Bernie said some important things in his final campaign speech, BUT whoever controlled the lighting needs to be fired.[...]