Posted on 05/30/2004 7:57:50 PM PDT by sionnsar
BTTT GREAT ARTICLE JOHN CARLSON! Congratulations on being a delegate Mrs. Lisa Carlson! I was fortunate enough to listen the day John presented this show. I have to say, John has been on an awesome roll lately. Wonderful local stuff and I've even tuned out the seemingly bi-polar Michael Savage whom I previously enjoyed. KVI BUMP
Seattle is an embarrassment. Boeing after moving out and downsizing decided to go right back and award the city with a new contract of planes. That means unions and unions means more demoncrazies. Too bad an earthquake doesn't swallow the city along with San Francisco. WA state would be a lot better off without Seattle. CA would be a lot better off without San Francisco.
good one!
:)
??Lenin???
"Seattle Post-Intelligencer" (what do you have after all intelligence has departed? the "P-U!")
LOL
I think they have been smoking too much of that BC Bud.
I had fun in the time leading up to the primary here, when I'd drive by a group of Kucinich posters each morning on the way to work. They were on the corner of Grand and Morrison, and each morning I'd honk and give 'em the ol' three fingered salute: The big W and a hearty "Four More Years, Baby, Four More Years!" I tell you, it's hard to be worried when the opposition has nothing to offer beyond Kerry, Kucinich and Nader!
Lenin's statue needs some panties on the head.
Seattle is a stupid place.
Don’t worry folks....
They are surrounded by massive military to the west, south and north.
And they're back is up against the mountains with a hoard of gun loving patriotic Americans just past lake Washington all the way up and over the Cascades.
We will keep them enclosed in there decadent liberal babykilling perverted homo city for fear of infecting other parts of the state and the world
:o)
Im not joken
I was there for a year. That place is EXACTLY what liberals are all about: Racism. There ARE few minorities so everyone make a big deal about "protecting" them. But spend 10 minutes and you realize this is tokenism taken to its logical conclusion. These people HATE non-whites worse than the KKK, pray feverently "they" don't move in next-door, then feel guilty. Part of the reason they keep Seattle super expensive is to keep the unwashed masses (i.e. non-whites) out.
Yes, Seattle is the home of Bagdad Jim McDumb-wit, D congressman from the soviet of Seattle. Yes Seattle has a very liberal political bias to it.
However, Seattle is a bit different than most cities.
As someone born and raise in the Puget Sound area, when I was in Chicago a few years back and a policewoman was on the sidewalk looking at people j-walking, I asked if it was OK to cut in the middle of the block if there wasn't any traffic. She looked at me and firmly told me that "she had a real job to do, and it was more important than handing out j-walking tickets." In Seattle, the police hand out lots of j-walking tickets. I would J-walk in NYC, Chicago, SF or a lot of cities, but not in Seattle!
Another episode comes to mind based on your posted story.....It is Seattle where police were ordered to pull back during WTO, which allowed the streets to be taken over and occupied by tens of thousand of demonstrators.
My wife works on Capital Hill and during the WTO riots she was coming home and trying to get on I-5 freeway when the rioters were being driven up from downtown toward Capital Hill. There she was in the middle of the road with rioters come up the entire street toward her in her little car. She was very close to the freeway entrance. She was scared, then all of a sudden she realized that the rioters weren't crossing the street toward her, they had ALL STOPED BECAUSE THE TRAFFIC LIGHT HAD TURNED RED! She ran the red light at the intersection and got onto the freeway before the crowd crossed the street. Only in Seattle!
Don't do it. You'll find yourself a basket case. The article above only scratches the surface.
I moved far away (lived in Seattle for 10+ years). Now I live on the east coast.
I have heard that one can be so open minded as to have their brains fall out or so broad minded that their head is flat.
Thanks for the northwest geographical recommendations, folks.
North Idaho is honestly what got me looking at the NW in the first place. I saw the movie DANTE'S PEAK, and at the beginning when they pulled back on that idyllic little downtown area, I said, "I don't know where that is, but I want to live there." When I saw the lake in front of Grandma's cabin, I stared with my mouth open. I did a lot of research and found that the little town was Wallace, Idaho. Grandma's cabin was in some entirely different area, but still North Idaho. Spectacularly beautiful.
Any certain areas to recommend within North Idaho, TLI?
MM
What sort of stuff would you do if you were Mr. Potts?
Stay Safe !
I can't speak to Oregon's system, but we have this in the Seattle area and I think it's great! Once you know how the numbering system works you can almost always find a house with no information other than its address. We bought a map of the area when we moved here 21 years ago, and didn't buy another until two years ago when we had to doordrop campaign literature in a very rural area (the system can break down when the only access route twists and turns).
Last time I saw it, a few weeks ago, it had a little yellow rubber duckie perched on the cap, and another on the shoes. I gather even the locals (and this district is known for being, um, different...) don't afford it much respect.
LOL! Seattlites are good at that, no? Seattle is also the only place I know where riders routinely thank the bus driver when they disembark. Residuals of an earlier, politer culture?
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