To be blunt, a large part of Obama’s ideas are Jewish and these ideas are precisely why the President and I find Bibi to be a disgusting Jew An Israeli friend of mine, a friend who sees the Israeli turn to the far right as inevitable, sent me a depressing essay from the Tablet. […][...]
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July 23rd, 2015 - 5:21 am § in Uncategorized
UPDATE: Is my home racist?
Edward Alan Clark , Biobuddhist DOES SEATTLE’S TRADITION OF SINGLE FAMILY HOMES REFLECT RACISM? Page 25 of Seattle Mayor Ed Murray‘s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda report cites the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project’s research on racially restrictive coven[...]
Call me Honky
This began as a discussion with a Jewish friend, someone I respect greatly. I will call my friend Aaron. Aaron, of course is a pseudonym. The words below the picture (of John Carridine as Aaron) are an edited version of an email sent to me. Aaron is a socially committed and very learned Jew. He[...]
June 22nd, 2015 - 9:10 am § in America
UPDATE: Despicable Comments in Defence of Racism in South Carolina
William Quick (my brother in law, comment in TA): It is absolutely despicable that you repeat this racist nonsense speculating about flying the Confederate flag at half-staff in SC. The tragedy that occurred at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. deserves respect and sympathy, not your bigoted [...]
June 4th, 2015 - 6:38 pm § in The Ave Scene
Sawantism: The नेता* Explains Her Stand on Hamas Vs Israel
David Goldstein, a friend and fellow Jew, has castigated me for criticizing Kshama Sawant’s support for the Boycott Israel “Peace” Movement. (नेता* is leader in Hindi) He challenged me to react to the motion she unsuccessfully tried to get the Seattle City Council to pass c[...]
A Letter to the UW Faculty About Sawant
Faculty tend to avoid demagogues, an avoidance that McCarthy, Hitler, Huey Long, and the Tea Party have shown is very risky. Now Kshama Sawant is running a very well funded campaign for reelection to the Seattle City Council from our neighborhood, District 3. My wife and I voted for Kshama i[...]
June 2nd, 2015 - 6:05 pm § in The Ave Scene
District 3: The REAL Issues
Is it possible to discuss the real District 3 issues in the election for a city council member for District 3? Over at Facebook there is a group for District 3. When I posted there about the problem created by Sawantism .. her use of crowds to block discussion nf real issues … I was [&hell[...]
June 2nd, 2015 - 8:11 am § in America, The Ave Scene
UPDATE: My $700 bet against Sawant
This post originally appeared a few weeks ago after Sawant packed a debate meeting at Mt. Zion Baptist … filling it with white supporters from outside the District. While I admired and supported Kshma’s campaign for the $15 minimum wage, she has become a demagogue and shown absolu[...]
January 14th, 2015 - 11:46 am § in America, The Ave Scene
A Great Loss .. Kingfish Cafe
The Kingfish Cafe, our neighbor, is closing. This is a huge sadness. When we moved here, a huge plus for Capital Hill was that it was a mixed neighborhood … mixed meaning a good community of Blacks, Jews, Nuns. Priests, Catholics, other misc. “White folks,” artists, UW faculty, b[...]
October 5th, 2014 - 5:33 pm § in America
Book Review: America’s Gulags
America has places that resemble police states, but most Americans don’t notice, because these conditions — a mix of KGB-style surveillance and third world-style tinpot tyranny — mostly exist in poor minority neighborhoods. Places that middle class Americans don’t visit, do[...]