The Christ Child and the spawn of Satan, a.k.a. secularists, have been duking it out in Lakewood about who gets to claim "that major event in December involving an evergreen tree and lights on a string." Though Andrew Neiditz, the Lakewood city manager, says he wants to use inclusive language whenever possible to avoid offending non-Christians, he is firmly in Baby Jesus' camp: Neiditz declared that at least on his watch, said wintry event shall ...

tags: jesus camp, lakewood city, baby jesus, christ child, secularists, evergreen tree, christmas tree, satan, christians, christmas

Found in our Theo Chocolates promotional newsletter this morning: "Sales of existing houses dropped more in Washington than anywhere else in the nation last quarter, compared with a year earlier, according to a new report. King County's median sale price also dropped roughly 10 percent from a year earlier." Who was saying that Seattle wasn't immune to, but typically lagged the national trends? With the drop, 57 percent of the state's first-time buyers have enough ...

tags: theo chocolates, first time buyers, median sale price, median home price, national trends, last quarter, number 1, seattle

"Heather / Carrie" by Shawn McClung Know what Halloween needs? A last gasp. And this one comes courtesy of our Flickr pool. re experimenting with when to schedule our photo of the day. Should Seattlest Pix come first thing in the morning, sometime around midday, or in the early evening? Or do you care? Comment away and let us know. ...

tags: last gasp, mcclung, seattlest, early evening, midday, photo of the day, carrie, heather, halloween, pool, first thing in the morning

Now you can take your Guitar Hero with you. The pocket-sized version of the musical game comes with 3 levels of play, 10 track segments and 5 wav tone buttons. The Guitar Hero Carabineer has an LCD screen, a foldable neck, a whammy bar and a handy clip. Songs include “Rock This Town,“ “Heart Shaped Box,“ “Killer Queen” and “Smoke on the Water.“ The portable game comes with a MSRP of £14.95 ...

tags: whammy bar, track segments, guitar hero, musical game, pocket game, handy clip, carabineer, tone buttons, lcd screen

And now, some news that'll hopefully brighten your day:A grand jury in South Texas indicted U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and former attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday for "organized criminal activity" related to alleged abuse of inmates in private prisons.The indictment has not been seen by a judge, who could dismiss it.The grand jury in Willacy County, in the Rio Grande Valley near the U.S.-Mexico border, said Cheney is "profiteering from depriving human beings ...

tags: rio grande valley, civil service positions, attorney general alberto gonzales, vice president dick cheney, private prisons, dick cheney, vanguard group, government secrecy, bush cronies, former attorney general, president dick cheney, related enterprises, abc news, texas jury, washington college of law, legal trouble, alberto gonzales, money trail, george w bush, mexico border

Now you can take your Guitar Hero with you. The pocket-sized version of the musical game comes with 3 levels of play, 10 track segments and 5 wav tone buttons. The Guitar Hero Carabineer has an LCD screen, a foldable neck, a whammy bar and a handy clip. Songs include “Rock This Town,“ “Heart Shaped Box,“ “Killer Queen” and “Smoke on the Water.“ The portable game comes with a MSRP of £14.95 (~$22.00.) Tags: carabineer, guitar, guitar hero, guitar ...

tags: whammy bar, track segments, guitar hero, musical game, pocket game, handy clip, carabineer, tone buttons, lcd screen

A nonprofit that works on behalf of all trails -- including those for bicyclists-- recognized the Underground Railroad Bicycle Route at its annual meeting that ended Monday in Little Rock. American Trails issued its 2008 Partnership Award to Adventure Cycling Association and the University of Pittsburgh and the Center for Minority Health, who worked together on the project. The bicycle route takes cyclists along the path to freedom used by many slaves before the Civil War. It stretches 2,100 ...

tags: bike route, bicyclists, underground railroad, american trails

Who would have thought the biggest import car lots in 2008 would be the ports? Import cars stuck at the port with nowhere to go. The screencap from CNN below is like a daylight graveyard. With the current state of the economy, it’s no surprise people aren’t buying new cars. The car you’re already driving can probably make it another year or two. Buying a new car is usually a luxury purchase versus buying a ...

tags: cnn, screencap, import cars, car lots, import car, graveyard, current state, ports, mercedes, economy

Just two weeks before Amanda Knox is set to go to trial on murder charges, a new witness has come forward, putting the former UW student's alibi in doubt. The new witness claims to have seen Knox in the household supplies section of a store near her home three hours earlier than Knox had said she was there. If the witness is credible (and you have to wonder, seeing as the person waited a year ...

tags: amanda knox, kercher, murder charges, alibi, meredith, witness, household, doubt

SMALL BUSINESS SKILLS: SeattleSCORE, the people who help small business people learn stuff, have put together a 4-hour seminar, Marketing 101. On the syllabus! Identifying your customers, packaging your product or service, creating effective marketing tools, and getting repeat customers. Now, in this market none of this will help, but it will get you out of the office for a bit, and you might meet some new people. noon-4 p.m. // SCORE Office, 2401 4th ...

tags: thor hanson, elliott bay book company, gorilla journal, bwindi impenetrable forest, shara worden, score office, clare and the reasons, seminar marketing, singer songwriter, marketing 101, effective marketing, marketing tools, n7, sufjan stevens, interdependence, chamber music, business skills, companionship, biologist, mash

Why wasn't Andrea Vece's Layne Staley bio, Itch, Love Stories About Heroin, published this August as planned? Because the "author" decided "there couldn't be a greater tribute...than compiling a book of memories...and publishing it on the date of [Staley's] passing [April 5]." Blabbermouth recaps Vece's curious plan: "The first half...will now feature the original journal writings of the author...[the] second half will be titled "Memory Layne" and will contain stories from fans...as well as her ...

tags: layne staley, alice in chains, book of memories, journal writings, blabbermouth, vece, alice in chains singer, love stories, aol, occult, heroin, second half, andrea, experiences, tribute, memory

Nurses and child City Hospital's Tuberculosis Division, 1927 by Seattle Municipal Archives Hospitals in Washington State will adopt federal standards for tracking MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), thought to be one of the most widespread illnesses spread in hospitals. The Seattle Times wrote an in-depth three part article documenting the situation, and apparently it made an impact. The state’s initiatives follow a Seattle Times investigation, “Culture of Resistance,” which reported this week that MRSA infection rates ...

tags: wa state, mrsa, nurses, hospitals, child city

A new report released yesterday named Washington as one of five top states leading the way in reshaping the United States economy and encouraging entrepreneurship. Gee, isn't that something Dino Rossi claimed we were failing at?Five states -- Massachusetts, Washington, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey -- are leading the United States' transformation into a global, entrepreneurial and knowledge and innovation-based New Economy, according to "The 2008 State New Economy Index," released today by the Ewing ...

tags: ewing marion kauffman foundation, ewing marion kauffman, marion kauffman foundation, barack obama, economy index, united states economy, global entrepreneurship, quality police, federal investment, al gore, new economy, common wealth, blue states, john kerry, public investment, business groups, recreation centers, leading the way, prime example, innovation and creativity

The screen on the iPod nano isn’t exactly huge with its 2-inch display. The Nano TV converts your 3rd generation device into a mini-TV. Designed to look like a TV/VCR player combination, the screen moves to a whopping 2.8 inches, ready to compete with the bigger iPods. Lightweight and compact, pop your nano into the top and it will play through its included speakers. Small enough for traveling, pre-order for £14.99 (~$22.00) for an early ...

tags: ipod nano

Afraid you will lose your chump change now that the economy is down? Program the shock safe with a 4 digit code and anyone trying to break in will be greeted with a decent buzz. The bank has flashing LED lights and sound effects to further annoy amuse your family, friends, or co-workers. At a size of 20 x 10 x 10cm, the sadistic safe has a coin slot and collection tray, and runs on ...

tags: chump change, aa batteries, coin slot, digit code, family friends, sound effects, co workers, buzz, shock, economy

Because of security reasons, no doubt, the DOD has restricted overseas military use of sites such as YouTube and MySpace for its personnel. Delve Networks and the DOD’s Military One Source have launched TroopTube. The social site allows active duty, guard and reserve military folks and the families to share videos but they will not be able to embed them elsewhere. The Defense Department will monitor what is shown on the site that could be ...

tags: no doubt, security reasons, dod, youtube, myspace

Look who just took himself out of the race in 2012.  Mitt Romney writes: Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check. Actually, the title of piece says it all – Let Detroit Go Bankrupt If this weren’t an op-ed, I might blame the editor for the attention-grabbing headline. But this must certainly be Mitt’s own work. Re: that presidency thing, thanks for playing, Mitt. In all seriousness, I still haven’t made up my mind if I support a ...

tags: mitt romney, turnaround

_uacct = "UA-1907164-1"; urchinTracker(); Priorities Tennessee Adopts $9.5 Million University Piracy Measure Despite School Layoffs By David Kravets November 18, 2008 | 6:19:14 PMCategories: Intellectual Property Combating music piracy at Tennessee's public university system is more important than hiring teachers and keeping down tuition costs. Just-signed legislation requires the 222,000-student system ...

tags: phil bredesen, recording industry association of america, recording industry association, music piracy, campus music, instructor positions, kravets, staff positions, network traffic, threat level, tuition costs, mitch bainwol, urchintracker, layoffs, monitoring software, shortfall, riaa, 5 million, priorities, ceo

Barack Obama is almost certain to be the president who appoints the nation's first Chief Technology Officer.In some sense it is shocking that America doesn't have one yet. We have a Chief Medical Officer (the Surgeon General). We have a Chief Safety Officer (the director of FEMA). Yet, we have no Chief Technology Officer (CTO). No one who oversees the nation's increasingly critical digital infrastructure.Every major corporation in America, and countless ...

tags: chief technology officer, local government offices, wisdom of crowds, barack obama, digital infrastructure, network service providers, state and local government, network neutrality, director of fema, technology agenda, business productivity, national technology, government data, open government, safety officer, technology strategy, medical officer, network technology, fema, surgeon general

Hot Chip's Al Doyle: 'LCD Soundsystem haven't disbanded'Hot Chip's Al Doyle, who has played as part of James Murphy's band LCD Soundsystem, has made a clarification about an interview he recently gave, suggesting that the collective may have disbanded.In the clarification Doyle confirmed that the band were not winding down, referring to a recent article in which James Murphy confirmed a new LCD Soundsystem album was on the way.Writing on Hot Chip's website, Hotchip.co.uk, Doyle ...

tags: lcd soundsystem, hotchip, recent article, second chance, time off, clarification, news article, pipeline, prince, truth, music

Lou Reed- Berlin: Live At St. Ann’s Warehouse (Album Review)The release of an audio version of Lou Reed’s 2006 reappraisal of Berlin, which was staged at St. Ann’s in collaboration with Julian Schnabel as a film documentary, might seem like an odd move unless you’ve seen the painfully dull results – Schnabel desperately trying to inject some excitement into the performance with quick cuts and arty camera angles. I’d say Reed’s Berlin rerun is better ...

tags: lou reed berlin, julian schnabel, film documentary, camera angles, berlin live, lou reed, quick cuts, rerun, brutality, original version, antony, visuals, excitement, musician, candy, collaboration

Help from above? The lone survivor of a plane crash that killed seven people in British Columbia is not deeply religious but he must have received help from above to survive against staggering odds, his brother says. [...] Tom Wilson, 36, walked away from the Sunday morning crash that killed seven others, including the pilot and six of his co-workers. The Pacific Coastal Airlines plane, a Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft, went down on Thormanby Island, off the ...

tags: pacific coastal airlines, grumman goose, british columbia coast, staggering odds, lone survivor, morning crash, amphibious aircraft, broken bones, plane crash, internal injuries, john reid, tom wilson, grumman, ndr, co workers, sunday morning, burns, vancouver, pilot, brother

Chuck reviews Chinese Democracy. Grade: A- (At midnight on September 16, 1991, Chuck and I waited in line outside Budget Tapes and Records in Grand Forks, ND to buy Use Your Illusion I & II. Standing outside a Best Buy in New York, NY on November 22, 2008 sounds less enticing.)

tags: chinese democracy, grand forks, september 16, illusion, budget

Would you like your Obamraham in yellow or red? Gary Wills, like so many others of his smitten cohort, returns to the myth of Finding the Lincoln in Obama, and yet refuses to see -- with millions of others -- that the making of Lincoln was not in his election, but in the Civil War that followed in its train. No acolyte like Wills seems wants to underscore this brute fact of the Lincoln/Obama debate. Certainly not ...

tags: brute fact, obama debate, nno, acolyte, fates, cohort, solace, bob dylan, preachers, president of the united states, wills, abraham, myth, civil war, lincoln, gates, train

tags: destroy all humans

Space Needle by E Rose. Sure there are hundreds of photos of the Needle in our Flickr Pool, but this one really captures the surrealism of the structure. West Seattle Blog has the "final, FINAL" numbers on usage of the Elliott Bay Water Taxi. Our West Seattle compatriots promise these aren't fake final numbers and that they are larger than the previous final/unofficial numbers. We've always wondered how they built the Space Needle and Vintage Seattle ...

tags: woodland park zoo, seattle city light, photo retrospective, unofficial numbers, seattlest, gorgeous photo, neighborhood news, water taxi, west seattle, rainier valley, elliott bay, bay water, nwest, capitol hill seattle, party photos, space needle, katelyn, woodland park, hipsters, compatriots

The Seattle Times reports that JP Morgan will lay off as many as 3,000 WaMu employees in the Seattle area, cutting the local WaMu workforce to just under a third of its former glory. Layoffs begin this week, and by December 1--in the thick of the holiday shopping season--all of the decisions will have been made about who stays and who goes. This doesn't come as a surprise, but the numbers are breath-taking and the ...

tags: seattle times, jp morgan, seattle area, wamu, former glory, holiday shopping, times article, layoffs, workforce, decisions, economy, surprise, jobs

Washington State hit a milestone when it came to voting and voter turnout on November 4th. According to the official ballot count, over 3 million voters cast their vote in the general election and there are still over 50,000 ballots to be counted. A spokesman for Secretary of State Sam Reed said this is the first time in Washington history that voter participation has reached 3 million and that so far 83% of registered voters ...

tags: sam reed, voter participation, ballot count, washington history, time thing, nall, registered voters, ballots, voter turnout, milestone, general election, washington state, secretary of state, spokesman, photographer, elections, vote

Al Qaeda No. 2 Insults ObamaWith Racial EpithetAlso Insults Powell, RiceSJ comments:sad that American Black revolutionaries, in an effort to return t their roots and divest themselves of the overlay of the slave master's religion, have urned to Islam. While it is true that Islamic and Jewish dogmas both accept the converted as a part of the people, the evangelims of Islam like that of of the Christians has committed a kind of cultural ...

tags: arrow of god by chinua achebe, abrahamic faiths, black revolutionaries, chinua achebe, arrow of god, slave master, elitism, dogmas, millenia, deity, insults, evils, evangelism, al qaeda, christians, islam, chaos, devil, breaking news, roots

31. Proud to be SeattleJew Today spews: The key idea, missing in this discussion, is that the government MUST switch from the now failed model of free market capitalism to a model more like that lf Europe and Japan where the government itself is a major investor. The essence of 19th century capitalism was the concept that entrepreneurs would do the tight thing by ...

tags: free market capitalism, imperial spain, horsesass, capitalist systems, religious belief, purchasing power, blog archive, consumer goods, communism, lf, 19th century, productivity, citizens, investor, failure, economics, japan, china, europe, money

Hitler HAD only got one ball | The Sun |News: "By ALEX PEAKEAN extraordinary account from a German army medic has finally confirmed what the world long suspected: Hitler only had one ball.War veteran Johan Jambor made the revelation to a priest in the 1960s, who wrote it down.The priest’s document has now come to light – 23 years after Johan’s death.The war tyrant’s medical condition has been mocked for years in a British song.The ...

tags: army medic, german army, jambor, war veteran, medical term, sun news, albert hall, testicle, own eyes, 23 years, hitler, medical condition, johan, tyrant, 1960s, revelation, world war, proof, horror, alex

Supercomputers Break Petaflop Barrier, Transforming Science | Wired Science from Wired.com: "When the Top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was announced at the international supercomputing conference in Austin, Texas, on Monday, IBM had barely managed to cling to the top spot, fending off a challenge from Cray. But both competitors broke petaflop speeds, performing 1.105 and 1.059 quadrillion floating-point calculations per second, the first two computers to do so.These computers aren't just faster ...

tags: international supercomputing conference, number crunchers, fastest supercomputers, transforming science, seattle firm, point calculations, massive number, quadrillion, cray, two computers, forefront, austin texas, simulation

I’ve been way too busy at my current day job during the past year to play real estate mash up games at the level Galen has been playing at. However, it appears Windermere has decided to up their game and yesterday they released an improved & simplified property search feature on their web site. On the plus side, I like the improved site’s ability to see multiple photos of listings alongside the Virtual Earth map-based ...

tags: windermere

This year, a Massachusetts company, FloDesign, won a couple of Clean Energy prizes with their new windmill design. Instead of huge, fragile prop-based windmills, they have much smaller ones, based on jet engines. Put those together with the electronically-switched generators from ExRo which Slashdot linked to last night, and we could be seeing major changes in the wind power industry soon.

tags: windmill design, new windmill, wind power industry, exro, massachusetts company, changes in the wind, jet engines, clean energy, generators, prizes

Apparently, I Am Robot and Proud makes the loveliest, snazziest electropop in the whole entire universe. I looked into this, and turns out - it's true! From the 2008 release Uphill City. I Am Robot and Proud - Something To Write Home About I Am Robot and Proud - Uphill City Recently on Comfort Radio: Yuka Honda - Night Diving Citay - Last Days Last Eighty Mile Beach - What We Did Last Summer

tags: night diving, electropop, last days, robot, honda, universe, radio, mile beach

An environmental group dedicated to protecting and restoring the Chesapeake Bay is launching a campaign -- Cyclist for the Bay -- to get people out of their cars and onto their bikes. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is asking people to pledge to use their bicycles whenever possible, bike to work at least once a week, and spread the word about the need to protect the bay. The Chesapeake Bay on the East Coast is one of the ...

tags: chesapeake bay foundation, h l mencken, protein factory, natural wonders, environmental group, clams, oysters, crabs, bicycles, east coast, bicycle, pledge, bikes, pollution, fish, cars

Cardiology heart disease has become one of the major causes of death throughout world. Generally men suffer more from this disease rather than women. This is due to the reason that men acquire... Brad Online Journal about losing extra pounds with various diet reviews and latest news and tips about obesity, diets and weight loss

tags: heart disease prevention, diet reviews, causes of death, heart disease, obesity, diets, weight loss

Amazon CloudFront. content delivery network for s3 with edge points in 8 US cities, 4 in Europe, 2 in Asia.

tags: content delivery network, edge points, amazon, s3, asia, europe

Fill'er up: CARPE DIEM: $1.45 Gas in Kansas City! Stuff White People Like: Black Music that Black People Don't Listen to Anymore BrothersJudd Blog: WHEN ARE THEY CARBON-DATING THE SHROUD OF DARWIN?: "If you didn't have the relics people might not believe the Prophet had existed." NASA and Google Successfully Test Deep Space Internet @ Universe Today In October, America bought nothing and built nothing.Housing Starts at Record Low @ Calculated Risk. And, in the same month, we became ...

tags: same sex marriage, angry mob, internet universe, calculated risk, space internet, universe today, throwing a party, google, store food, thomas sowell, dollar store, nand, black music, carpe diem, shroud, deep space, relics, reading list, swipe, prophet

Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, Book 1) (tags: reading) The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals A sickening and depressing account of how our country has been dragged through the mud. (tags: nonfiction torture politics book book2008) A flashing question mark appears when you start your Mac (tags: macbook) The Far Wilds (tags: toplay) VMWare Knowledgebase Document -VMware Virtual Disk Manager Does Not Expand Partitions (tags: vmware)

tags: fleet book, macbook, american ideals, virtual disk, disk manager, wilds, war on terror, question mark, nonfiction, mud, torture

Content: A Kingdom for KeflingsPrice: 800 Microsoft PointsAvailability: All Xbox LIVE regionsDash Text: [ESRB: E (EVERYONE) MILD CARTOON VIOLENCE] Xbox LIVE Multiplayer 2-4, HD (High Definition). Unlock the full version of A Kingdom for Keflings for even more homes, buildings, and workshops to build! Join up to three of your friends via Xbox LIVE to cooperatively construct the kingdom of your dreams. The full version of A Kingdom for Keflings includes achievements to earn, more ...

tags: xbox 360 hard drive, cartoon violence, xbox live, memory unit, 512mb memory, xbox 360, high definition, xbox, 360 hard drive, hd, dreams, arcade, storage, microsoft, game, love

So, I'm busy fine-tuning a column for The Stranger, but here's a local resource question for you Seattle people: Monk is looking for someone who's an expert on fixing/maintaining Maytag washing machines. He uses them in his shop - you know, the place where he makes bondage rope? And he just really doesn't want to deal with unsuspecting repair people walking into his place and getting all flipped out because of what he does there. ...

tags: maytag washing machines, bondage rope, bondage furniture, dungeon space, occasional work, service person, maytag, monk, stranger, atmosphere, seattle, toys

This is stop motion music video for singer/songwriter Paul Steel directed and animated by Andy Martin. It is for the song 'Honkin' (On Your Crack Pipe)' from his album 'April & I'. It contains explicit lyrics that some people may find offensive.

tags: paul steel, singer songwriter paul, andy martin, nit, music video, crack

Don't you feel like in a puppet teather sometimes? A cute music video directed by Moh Azima.

tags: cute music, azima, puppet, music video

The non-sensical short story of a boy who had a unicycle for a leg. Directed by Alan Cook and Philip Rodrigues.

tags: alan cook, unicycle, rodrigues, short story

The Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies investigates 'Fail'

tags: internet studies, rocketboom

An already silly music video based on Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' is made more silly with subtitles that make it look like the singer is saying totally ridiculous things in English, instead of whatever was said in Urdu.

tags: silly music, indian thriller, michael jackson, music video, subtitles, lyrics

A personal profile of Robert De Niro by Quentin Tarantino. He looks at Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, and Raging Bull. First shown on Cinefile, UK Channel 4, 1994.

tags: quentin tarantino, deer hunter, taxi driver, raging bull, robert de niro, personal profile, channel 4

Rap mogul Snoop Dogg appeared on Martha Stewart Living this week to give her a little vocabulary lesson and show off his cooking skills. Oh, yeah, and he was also promoting the second season of his highly entertaining reality program, Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood. Continue reading Snoop Dogg Brings a Little Shizzle to Martha Stewart Tags: (T), (T), (T), (T), (T), (T), (T), (T), (T) Read ...

tags: martha stewart living, vocabulary lesson, martha stewart, reality program, shizzle, snoop dogg, second season, mogul, nrap

When Trey Parker and Matt Stone decide to pull the plug on South Park, they won’t quietly fade from the scene with a single half-hour TV stint. These two comedy masters will say good-bye in a way the fans can appreciate (and spend a lot more money on): with another big-screen version of the show. Don’t worry, avid Park fans, the show isn’t scheduling to end itself anytime soon. Parker and Stone are ...

tags: trey parker and matt stone, comedy masters, last hurrah, trey parker, ndon, la times, park fans, hour tv, south park, stint, good bye, sequel, half hour, money

You’re not getting bailout money and I’m not getting bailout money. So if you or I want to buy a house or car, exactly what incentive do we have to buy stuff at this moment in history? Hell, I’ve snapped my wallet shut as a matter of principle. If ordinary Americans are going to be completely ignored while a trillion dollars flows to the very people who created this mess, basically they can bite me. ...

tags: consumer goods

Here’s a big surprise: teen superstar Miley Cyrus would like to spend even more time in front of the cameras. The Disney sensation was promoting her work in Bolt when she stopped to chat with E! News about her own career desires. “I would want to do a reality show like ‘The Real World’ because I think that’s crazy,” she told reporters. “Anyone who would do that has some serious guts.” Or issues ...

tags: miley cyrus, e online, e news, photogs, nso, reality show, mtv, junk food, paparazzi, guts, bolt, sensation, real world, cameras, disney, surprise, worry

This recently discovered (by me) video on YouTube hits a nerve when it comes to how many are affected by the current market dynamics around the country.  I found this a bit funny, if not unnerving, considering how many people I’ve been talking to lately that are in short sale position.  The discussions are because I’m not just acting as an agent but because of my involvement in a real estate investment group that is buying these ...

tags: market shift, market dynamics, current market, hitler, nerve

Last night’s episode of Dancing with the Stars was dramatic on many fronts. With the finals hanging in the balance, the competition was already intense. Then Brooke performed…and the whole game changed. After weeks and weeks of being near or at the top, Burke did something unthinkable right off the bat: she scored a 21 for the Jive. That was the lowest score she had ever received during the whole season. Although she ...

tags: dancing with the stars, loser

A seven pound box of jules destrooper biscuits and cote d'or goodies from Antwerp via Berkeley arriving on your doorstep.Waking up at 4 am to pill a sleepy dog and have you TH offer to do it.A chocolate cake with mocha buttercream frosting and a glass of cold milk.Finding a dress three months before a wedding that all your friends and your mother agree on.Having your basset sit on you feet while snoring quietly.Nm Sent ...

tags: jules destrooper, biscuits

It looks like Ted Stevens' political career has finally come to an end. Congratulations to Senator-elect Mark Begich, who will represent the Last Frontier on Capitol Hill for the next six years:The Democratic Anchorage mayor widened his lead to 3,724 votes in today's counting of absentee and questioned ballots. The only votes left to count are approximately 2,500 special absentees from people living outside the U.S. or in remote parts of Alaska with no polling ...

tags: alaskan families, united states senate, incredible journey, last frontier, senate race, u s senate, ted stevens, absentees, alaskans, polling place, political career, ballots, capitol hill, thirty years, democrat, anchorage, elect, six years, tubes, victory

[NB: This is a companion essay to the one below, "He Wasn't In His Right Mind." It was written about a year later.] There's a lot of it being bandied about these days. Change, that is. Mostly in the realm of the Politics of life. Despite all the hand-wringing and introspection that goes on in this area, I've come to believe that the Politics of life are easy. It's the Poetics of life that are tough. ...

tags: companion essay, visions of the world, live ammunition, political outcomes, individual control, blood sport, change of heart, nall, political beliefs, nand, great game, poetics, introspection, fates, factions, butcher, hand wringing, splits, warriors, politicians

Pop that really nice bottle of champagne you've been saving folks, because the Seattle P-I is reporting that Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican in Senate history, has lost his re-election bid. To add injury to insult, his ouster came on his 85th birthday. Just think of it as a birthday present for the rest of us, Ted. ...

tags: senate history, ted stevens, 85th birthday, ouster, champagne, republican, seattle

I commend to you: Revolution of the Soul @ The Doctor Is In It’s time for a counter-revolution. There is an alternative to our current cultural narcissism with its corrosive, calloused, destructive bent. It is not a new government program, nor a political movement; no demonstrations in the street, no marches on Washington. Its core ideology is over 2000 years old, and the foot soldiers of the revolution are already widely ...

tags: core ideology, life choices, revolutionary force, spring into action, foot soldiers, christian soldiers, government program, narcissism, difficult times, desperation, profanity, express gratitude, time and money, marches, demonstrations, christianity, when was the last time, tattoos, tongue, relationships

Could someone with Foreclosure sale experience answer the question below?  Or, at least discuss the possible outcome? Scenario: A homeowner has a Federal Tax lien against the property.  The homeowner is delinquent on their mortgage and it goes to Foreclosure.  At the Foreclosure sale, the property then goes back to the lender because there were no bidders for the home. 1)   Is the Lender required to pay off the Federal Tax lien at Foreclosure or resale of the ...

tags: federal tax liens, attorneys

Join us at the Seattle chapter of Drinking Liberally for an evening of politics under the influence. We start at 8:00 pm at the Montlake Ale House, 2307 24th Avenue E. Some of us will show up early for dinner. Tonight we will raise a toast to Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, who

tags: senator ted stevens, alaska senator, ted stevens, seattle chapter, ale house, toast

hurricane is the first grace jones cd in almost 20 years. it's currently available on import. as a bonus, you can get the album without having her actually coming into your house and taking a swing at you, as she...

tags: jones cd, grace jones, hurricane, bonus, swing

What a difference a few months makes. Last May, CBS was still deciding whether to renew How I Met Your Mother. This November, the comedy has shown considerable growth. Last night, HIMYM‘s new season high helped its network take the win with the demos. ABC, in the meantime, was again on top with the viewers. 8pm Approximately 19.7 million watched the final four compete on Dancing with the Stars (4.2/10 in 18-49). The Big Bang ...

tags: comedy, cbs, how i met your mother

"washer sextet" by Saul This photo makes us want to play the window washers as notes on a piano. (Maybe it's the word "sextet.") Thanks for sharing.

tags: window washers, sextet, saul, photo

Shakespeare’s King Lear is widely considered one of the finest works in all of Western literature, but until