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Re: Bicyclist, pickup collide at intersection

SweetRose — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:00:15 -0000

We don't need no stinkin rules.

Re: Bicyclist, pickup collide at intersection

SweetRose — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:59:23 -0000

No no. Al Sharpton is funny and funny equals smart. I see neither here.

Re: Compass Center plans 7-story building

SweetRose — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:54:54 -0000

One of the few things I have learned in my VERY long life is that nothing ever remains the same…other than human nature of course. Today I was in the CD talking to a store owner about the changes there. She said it is a very angry and also a very confused neighborhood right now. The old CD is angry and the new CD does not understand why they have not been welcomed with open arms. Cities grow and neighborhoods change. Do I always like it? No but sometimes I do like it. The CD is a perfect example. Look at the mansions built at the turn of the century that were made into tenement apartments by the 50s that are now being renovated back into mansions. In another 50 years they may well be tenements again.

We often make our choices in life based on the idea that the factors we used to determine our choice will never change. Plans are what we tell god to make her laugh. I do plan for the future, very carefully in fact, but I also plan for the future to be drastically different than what I think it might be.

Houses and neighborhoods are places to live. They do not define who we are.

Re: Compass Center plans 7-story building

SweetRose — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:43:02 -0000

Karen see list of shelters and areas
Roots : University District
Peace for the Streets: Capitol Hill
Downtown Emergency Service Center
Aloha Inn: Queen Anne
Catholic Community Services: CD
Sacred Heart: Lower Queen Anne
Jubilee Women’s Center: Capitol Hill
Teen Hope: Shoreline
Interfaith Hospitality: Beacon Hill

Re: Compass Center plans 7-story building

SweetRose — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:01:13 -0000

Ballard is part of Seattle and does not have a right to some sort of special privilege. In case you have not paid attention downtown is also a residential neighborhood.

Re: Compass Center plans 7-story building

SweetRose — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:57:21 -0000

Agreed SP. I have no issue with the military but I do have issue with the military enlisting and then training petty criminals.

Re: Family of bicyclist files wrongful death lawsuit

SweetRose — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:45:46 -0000

Except entering a center lane to make a Uturn is not the same thing as actually making a Uturn.

That said, not a single person posting here was an eye witness so every statement is speculation.

Re: Healthcare reform vigil tonight

SweetRose — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:14:52 -0000

With the billions we pay now for private insurance of course. It's very simple really.

Re: Salmon Bay Sand & Gravel faces $12,000 fine

SweetRose — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:26:56 -0000

exactly my point board.

Re: Salmon Bay Sand & Gravel faces $12,000 fine

SweetRose — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:26:31 -0000

Yeah right. You watch too much TV.

Re: Salmon Bay Sand & Gravel faces $12,000 fine

SweetRose — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:15:16 -0000

$12,000? Cost of doing business.

Re: Restaurant moving into Olsen’s spot on Market

SweetRose — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:20:33 -0000

Oh yes! Ezell's is better than my mothers and she agrees. You can smell it along 23rd. Nom!

Re: Restaurant moving into Olsen’s spot on Market

SweetRose — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:16:56 -0000

The creampuffs come from the French influence in Vietnamese culture. They are traditionally served in Vietnam.

Re: Library closed next week

SweetRose — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:29:31 -0000

That's exactly right SPG. It is easy to overlook the human factor.

Re: Library closed next week

SweetRose — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:55:04 -0000

The cost for a family of four is about $50 to visit the zoo, SAM or the
Museum of Flight. That will also buy a week's worth of food. Do you REALLY think many low income families visit Spider? Not too many rent rooms is also my guess.

Re: Library closed next week

SweetRose — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:58:45 -0000

Low income people don't visit SAM, the zoo, the Children's Museum, and the Museum of Flight.

How do you think we might determine who has to pay and who does not? What will be the cost to implement that plan?

The fact that charging for libraries existed BEFORE Carnegie is WHY he made his free. He made millions and gave a lot back. You can’t give a lousy $83? Certainly I want to go back to the ways things were in 1854 doesn't everyone? Life was so good then for so many. Nothing like a step backward..

Re: Library closed next week

SweetRose — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:16:45 -0000

Is charging school tax fair to all the people who don't have kids? $83 seems a small price to pay. If you choose to not use what you pay for that is your issue. I use the library all the time and they are always busy.

The idea of charging will surely close them instantly. Basically they would no longer be a library; they would be a book store. I lived in Albuquerque for many years and used the library system there. Albuquerque is a poor city with a very low tax base yet their libraries had books that were in better shape than does Seattle. AND get this, they charged no late fees. I was shocked but was told they had experimented and found that with no fees they had more books returned and in better shape meaning they had to replace them less often.

Who knows, maybe Seattleites trash or steal books more often. All I know is three of the last four I ordered were in such bad shape I could hardly read them. One I did not even check out being worried I would be charged for trashing it. I have been disappointed in the Ballard branch. The selection is terribly limited, seems like mostly cook books and ‘ screwed up kids on drugs etc. ’ books in nonfiction and nothing but mysteries and romances in fiction. I read two or three books a week and have to order everything from other branches. (I agree there is a great system online to do this)

I moved here with 60 cartons of books and after getting rid of most of them, I only use the library. Charging for library….Carnegie would spin in his grave to see the thinking of Americans today.

Re: Interbay Whole Foods to open in October

SweetRose — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:09:09 -0000

If you had read some of the links I posted you would see that thery HAVE tried to organize.

Re: Three-way tie for mayor, bag fee rejected

SweetRose — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:06:54 -0000

I always thought chopper was one of those ‘stop asking government to do everything for you’ types. Yet he whines over elected officials doing nothing.

Re: Interbay Whole Foods to open in October

SweetRose — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:53:50 -0000

Most things are fairly simple really Nora. Certainly people are. The complications are mostly manufactured and are just tossed in to confuse things and gain control.

Re: Interbay Whole Foods to open in October

SweetRose — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:51:15 -0000

I am very willing to pay a little more and have a little less in order for my fellow workers to live a decent life. It's a price worth paying to live in a civil society.

Re: Interbay Whole Foods to open in October

SweetRose — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:21:20 -0000

Reform comes one baby step at a time. Americans are infantalized and that's all they are capable of.

Whole Foods, by their usury and blatant exploitation of customers and workers alike makes them a good early target.

Re: Interbay Whole Foods to open in October

SweetRose — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:18:19 -0000

Chopper you most certainly can force a business to be union. How do you think unions were started to begin with? Osmosis? What cannot be forced is the ability for people to think in their own best interest. That takes hard work and sacrifice, something few Americans are willing to do right now. Americans learn slowly. The power belongs to the workers if they choose to use it. Sadly too many today sold their power for a big car and a bigger TV and a cheap mortgage. Basically Americans choose empire over republic and are being pacified with bread and circuses but the times they are a changin’.

And Ballarddog the employees did not vote it a good place to work, Fortune Magazine did that. Based on what? Who knows what criteria was used.

Re: Interbay Whole Foods to open in October

SweetRose — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:08:05 -0000

Good example.

Re: Interbay Whole Foods to open in October

SweetRose — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:08:36 -0000

See below.

http://uprisingradio.org/ho...