Ever heard of the Free Stehekin? Perhaps not. It's a little known high school news paper that has recently gone under ground to escape the oppressive thumb of the man. The man being the principal who's wish is to have final editorial say in what is printed in the paper.
I say print on in the murky depths of the underworld young, freedom lovers. Why start so early with, arbitrary censorship of your thoughts?
Speaking of censorship, kids, keep in mind that low priced music sold at Wall Mart comes with a heavy price as well. What?! you say? Yes, this is just a friendly reminder that Wall Mart, the larges retailer of music on the planet, will not shelve music with lyrics that they find too objectionable.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Sunday chores
BLAh Blah, paid taxes. Darn that government getting all in my grill and stuff. Finished the Pixie move and all. For a pixie her stuff sure is heavy! Hung, (well) some shelving to house all Pixie's dust. Attempted to order replacement parts for sun-glasses. I guess technically cool glasses technically break easily. Two in one morning. Of course that could just mean that I have a fat head.
That's all. PS, Steve and co. are getting fat!
That's all. PS, Steve and co. are getting fat!
Friday, October 27, 2006
TOP POT
Due to the title of this particular blog entry, TOP POT the ATF, DEA, and other administration puppets are no doubt hanging on every word here in this little ol' blog, salivating over potential leads to the yet another unnecessary small time bust. Well, I hate to burst you bust bubble boys (and fed. girls as well) but, I'm speaking of the doughnut kind.
Which really brings me to the point of this whole entry. There really isn't much better than sitting in Top Pot on a Friday morning with a fresh cup of coffee and an freshly made, old fashion, chocolate doughnut.
PS, I can't be bothered to rant and rave about any particular issue this morning, except to say that TOP POT represents all that is good about choice. It's a local company that bakes in store, using wholesome ingredients. OK, I know a doughnut isn't generally the ideal of healthful eating, but the model of their production is good. Tasty too. Let me beat all the potential commenters to the punch. I am aware that TOP POT sells (some would say, sold out) to Starbucks. To that I say, so what? Can you really blame some coffee modeling corporate hack for wanting to profit off a blissful doughnut experience? So what if some dude in Duluth is eating a three day old, air freighted cruller?
Which really brings me to the point of this whole entry. There really isn't much better than sitting in Top Pot on a Friday morning with a fresh cup of coffee and an freshly made, old fashion, chocolate doughnut.
PS, I can't be bothered to rant and rave about any particular issue this morning, except to say that TOP POT represents all that is good about choice. It's a local company that bakes in store, using wholesome ingredients. OK, I know a doughnut isn't generally the ideal of healthful eating, but the model of their production is good. Tasty too. Let me beat all the potential commenters to the punch. I am aware that TOP POT sells (some would say, sold out) to Starbucks. To that I say, so what? Can you really blame some coffee modeling corporate hack for wanting to profit off a blissful doughnut experience? So what if some dude in Duluth is eating a three day old, air freighted cruller?
Thursday, October 26, 2006
The Truth
The truth is that your vote is important. Blahh Blahh Blahh...I know, it's nothing that MTV hasn't spewed out in their rock the vote campaigns. However, let me point out one glaring truth: Republican control of all branches of government. Which means a rubber stamping Congress, which is un-willing to check the power of the Executive office, and a stacked Supreme Court that views, favorably, the policies of the Executive. In other words, the Executive has more power to exert influence directly on you now than at any time in the history of the United States.
What is the importance of this looming election? If people vote their dissatisfaction with the current administration by voting out Republican seats in the senate and house, then the Democrats can regain control of the legislature and start holding the administration responsible for a laundry list of grievances. Do you need a reminder?
1) 300 billionish dollar blunder in Iraq.
2) Suspension of Habeas Corpus in the name of national security.
3) Spying on American Citizens.
4) Complete failure to follow up on election promises of helping the disadvantaged through "faith based initiatives."
5) Stalling approval for completely safe medications, and various birth controls for religious/political agendas.
6) Rampant cronyism (think Katrina and the appointment of Brownie.)
7) Jack Abramoff, need I say more?
8) Torture, Secret CIA Prisons, and wholesale suspension of basic human rights at home and abroad.
9) Shameless corporate influence and profiteering at the highest levels of the administration. Think Dick Cheney's energy policy, or the companies were awarded lucrative contracts in Iraq.
10) Lying about WMD and the real reasons for warning in the Middle East. What is the real reason?
Perhaps this list isn’t Letterman Quality but you get the picture. Don’t you?
The current administration loves to hold poor welfare receiving people responsible for the meager Welfare to Work dollars they earn. Your vote will help to hold the administration responsible for the lives, values, freedoms and money they have spent.
What is the importance of this looming election? If people vote their dissatisfaction with the current administration by voting out Republican seats in the senate and house, then the Democrats can regain control of the legislature and start holding the administration responsible for a laundry list of grievances. Do you need a reminder?
1) 300 billionish dollar blunder in Iraq.
2) Suspension of Habeas Corpus in the name of national security.
3) Spying on American Citizens.
4) Complete failure to follow up on election promises of helping the disadvantaged through "faith based initiatives."
5) Stalling approval for completely safe medications, and various birth controls for religious/political agendas.
6) Rampant cronyism (think Katrina and the appointment of Brownie.)
7) Jack Abramoff, need I say more?
8) Torture, Secret CIA Prisons, and wholesale suspension of basic human rights at home and abroad.
9) Shameless corporate influence and profiteering at the highest levels of the administration. Think Dick Cheney's energy policy, or the companies were awarded lucrative contracts in Iraq.
10) Lying about WMD and the real reasons for warning in the Middle East. What is the real reason?
Perhaps this list isn’t Letterman Quality but you get the picture. Don’t you?
The current administration loves to hold poor welfare receiving people responsible for the meager Welfare to Work dollars they earn. Your vote will help to hold the administration responsible for the lives, values, freedoms and money they have spent.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
End of the day! Humpy Blog
Ok gang, here are a few items for your digestion.
First, the CIA is reading this blog.
Second, do you care?
Third, I-933 is a big pile of crap! Yes, I'm aware that various pundits will comment on yet another shameless reference to poop, but in this case it is true; I-933 is crap. Why you say? Well, kids, I-933 is retroactive back to 1996, which means that many land and resource protective measures will likely be repealed.
What were you doing in 1996 besides electing cigar/Monica chomping Clinton for another term?
Back to the poop. The Farm Bureau (FB), an insurance company, according to vol. 16 no. 6 issue of The Stranger, supports I-933. Why? Why would an organization that purports to support property rights and the plight of the farmer vote for a support an initiative that effectively dumps out the window any regulation that protects lands for all? Because folks, I-933 is a double edged money grabbing attempt that serves greedy developers who happen to be salivating over the limited farmland now being encroached upon by the wealthy, sprawling Puget Sound suburbia. And, the FB is in the pocket of greedy developers. It’s about the money! Here is the simple breakdown: Greedy developers want to get paid for land that they develop regardless of the long term consequences of their actions. And, Greedy developers want to be paid in the form of "compensation" for undeveloped land that has potential value as developed land. IE, they want to make sure that their investment is risk free. Last time I checked, no investment of mine is risk free. Why should, mega land deals on the minds of greedy developers be any different? Furthermore, currently designated farmland is sold at a high price of around 2,000 dollars an acre. I-933 would likely repeal the regulations that protect the low (read farm subsidy by tax payers) price of farmland. Greedy developers who either own or have speculative options on farmland stand make insane volumes of money on farmers who suddenly want to cash out of the farming business. Imagine if you owned 100 acres of land that is currently worth $1800-$2000 and are making a modest living selling, say, pumpkins. Enter I-933 and suddenly the land is now worth 100,000 or 200,000 an acre? How fast can you spell jackpot! Say goodbye to farmland. Say goodbye to locally produced produce. Say hello to mc mansions and sprawl. Say hello to e-coli in your spinach from industrially process spinach produced somewhere else. You remember e-coli don't you; think Jack in the Box, and deadly diarrhea. Which conveniently brings me back to the point that I-933 is a big pile of crap!
First, the CIA is reading this blog.
Second, do you care?
Third, I-933 is a big pile of crap! Yes, I'm aware that various pundits will comment on yet another shameless reference to poop, but in this case it is true; I-933 is crap. Why you say? Well, kids, I-933 is retroactive back to 1996, which means that many land and resource protective measures will likely be repealed.
What were you doing in 1996 besides electing cigar/Monica chomping Clinton for another term?
Back to the poop. The Farm Bureau (FB), an insurance company, according to vol. 16 no. 6 issue of The Stranger, supports I-933. Why? Why would an organization that purports to support property rights and the plight of the farmer vote for a support an initiative that effectively dumps out the window any regulation that protects lands for all? Because folks, I-933 is a double edged money grabbing attempt that serves greedy developers who happen to be salivating over the limited farmland now being encroached upon by the wealthy, sprawling Puget Sound suburbia. And, the FB is in the pocket of greedy developers. It’s about the money! Here is the simple breakdown: Greedy developers want to get paid for land that they develop regardless of the long term consequences of their actions. And, Greedy developers want to be paid in the form of "compensation" for undeveloped land that has potential value as developed land. IE, they want to make sure that their investment is risk free. Last time I checked, no investment of mine is risk free. Why should, mega land deals on the minds of greedy developers be any different? Furthermore, currently designated farmland is sold at a high price of around 2,000 dollars an acre. I-933 would likely repeal the regulations that protect the low (read farm subsidy by tax payers) price of farmland. Greedy developers who either own or have speculative options on farmland stand make insane volumes of money on farmers who suddenly want to cash out of the farming business. Imagine if you owned 100 acres of land that is currently worth $1800-$2000 and are making a modest living selling, say, pumpkins. Enter I-933 and suddenly the land is now worth 100,000 or 200,000 an acre? How fast can you spell jackpot! Say goodbye to farmland. Say goodbye to locally produced produce. Say hello to mc mansions and sprawl. Say hello to e-coli in your spinach from industrially process spinach produced somewhere else. You remember e-coli don't you; think Jack in the Box, and deadly diarrhea. Which conveniently brings me back to the point that I-933 is a big pile of crap!
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Seeing
I don't know about you folks out there, but I keep seeing Brad Lewis. It's really strange. I don't ride so much any more but, often when I do, I'll see him in a crowd, riding with others, laughing, friendly and as genuine I remember. He looks into me with his head cocked slightly to the left and smiles. Generally, I'll look again, and he'll be gone or in his place it's just a person who is kinda tall, lanky and blond. I guess Brad's passing left a big void in all of our lives.
Monday, October 23, 2006
Gas
Price of a gallon of gas - $2.40ish.
Bet the price goes down a few more cents prior to the elections and within a week of the elections, some event will cause a spike, then the price will go up gain and stay up for the holiday season because of higher travel rates.
So, what the hell is new? I just wanted to write it down so I could say I told you so when it happens.
Bet the price goes down a few more cents prior to the elections and within a week of the elections, some event will cause a spike, then the price will go up gain and stay up for the holiday season because of higher travel rates.
So, what the hell is new? I just wanted to write it down so I could say I told you so when it happens.
Friday, October 20, 2006
Fear
I just watched the movie, "Bowling For Columbine" again. Fear is the key as more points out. We are trained in fear like no other society. I've blogged about fear, which lead me to be suspicious of street activity around my house. What is it that we fear? As I write this, a siren wails in the background and my feet stink. Now there is something to truly fear. Stink, that is.
I've recently spoken to some friends about gun ownership. My stand is that if you own a gun you should be prepared physically and more importantly mentally, to kill the person on the business end of the gun. I'm not prepared to point a gun at a person and kill them.
I'm going to take a walk - unarmed - out and about my dangerous (read in heavy sarcasm) in the dead of night.
I've recently spoken to some friends about gun ownership. My stand is that if you own a gun you should be prepared physically and more importantly mentally, to kill the person on the business end of the gun. I'm not prepared to point a gun at a person and kill them.
I'm going to take a walk - unarmed - out and about my dangerous (read in heavy sarcasm) in the dead of night.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Population
Dateline - USA
The population of the United States just tipped the 300,000,000 mark. That's 300 million for those of you who are numerically challenged. Just a quick little bit of arithmetic here. For the 300 billion or so that we are currently spending on the war (remember the war,) every man woman and child could be given $1000.00. So, the next time the brainiacs in the Republican Party say they want to give you back 300 bucks in the form of a tax break for middle America, know that you are truly getting a raw deal.
The population of the United States just tipped the 300,000,000 mark. That's 300 million for those of you who are numerically challenged. Just a quick little bit of arithmetic here. For the 300 billion or so that we are currently spending on the war (remember the war,) every man woman and child could be given $1000.00. So, the next time the brainiacs in the Republican Party say they want to give you back 300 bucks in the form of a tax break for middle America, know that you are truly getting a raw deal.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
habeas corpus ... what?
While moves by this administration may seem like American Freedoms are being stripped away from your American Hands.....Wait a minute, that's exactly what is happening!
WAKE UP!!!
W and Co. have stolen your Habeas Corpus. Habeas Schmabeus you say. FYI, habeas corpus is a judicial mandate to a prison official ordering that an inmate be brought to the court so it can be determined whether or not that person is imprisoned lawfully and whether or not he should be released from custody. In other words, when you are accused of being terrorist for, say, blogging negatively about W, and are subsequently arrested and thrown in to a secret CIA prison, habeas corpus mandates that imprisoned blogger-X can request that a court determine if he/she should be locked up. Not any more. Habeau Corpus has left the building!! thanks to W, Cheney and Co.
WAKE UP!!!
W and Co. have stolen your Habeas Corpus. Habeas Schmabeus you say. FYI, habeas corpus is a judicial mandate to a prison official ordering that an inmate be brought to the court so it can be determined whether or not that person is imprisoned lawfully and whether or not he should be released from custody. In other words, when you are accused of being terrorist for, say, blogging negatively about W, and are subsequently arrested and thrown in to a secret CIA prison, habeas corpus mandates that imprisoned blogger-X can request that a court determine if he/she should be locked up. Not any more. Habeau Corpus has left the building!! thanks to W, Cheney and Co.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Abe
"Capitalism is the fruit of labor." "Without labor there would be no capital." Abraham Lincoln.
Without life there would be no labor. Labor is the exchange of your time or life for some form of compensation. The question is, What are you worth?
Without life there would be no labor. Labor is the exchange of your time or life for some form of compensation. The question is, What are you worth?
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Broken
Heard through the grape vine that the mighty have fallen. That Sucks.
Anyhow, is a photo for your digestion.
It appears to be a bicycle accident in progress. It's not wet. There are no railroad tracks. Everybody is on foot? How strange!
Ya gotta love men in tube tops!
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Just in!!!
I'm back after a delay much too long. You see, I've been busy with photog stuff.
For my two readers:
COME TO SHOW OCT 19, 2006.
Edmonds artwalk, 5 pm to whenever. 108 5th Ave S. Edmonds WA!
Also, you'll note a new addition to the site. Lots of money scrolling by to the right. Hmmm what could I do with 300 billion?
For my two readers:
COME TO SHOW OCT 19, 2006.
Edmonds artwalk, 5 pm to whenever. 108 5th Ave S. Edmonds WA!
Also, you'll note a new addition to the site. Lots of money scrolling by to the right. Hmmm what could I do with 300 billion?
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