Ah, late October…leaves turning into a riot of wondrous color, kids turning into ghouls, political yard signs springing up like unholy daffodils… …former sponsors and endorsers fleeing from Lance Armstrong and the Tea Party like the Black Plague. Voters here in Washington State and all across the land have finally torn the mask off the…
Somebody wake me up from this nightmare. In 2008, an amazing 45% of voters chose John McCain and Sarah Palin, despite the recession and the disasters of the Iraq War and the rampant corruption accompanying Bush’s presidency. Then in 2010, the Republicans made a huge come back, giving the Dems a “shellacking” and taking over…
Yes, Romney’s a Liar, but This Is Getting Ridiculous
Hurricane Sandy is remarkable in several respects. It is the most powerful storm ever to hit the NE States. It had the largest size prior to hitting landfall of any storm at one thousand miles in diameter. It also had the lowest barometric pressure when it hit landfall in New Jersey. It is also the…
Upcoming Actions: 6:30 PM, Thurs., Nov. 1: Â Envelope stuffing and mailing to all Seattle families whose homes are up for auction between now and the end of Nov. 6:00 PM, Tues., Nov. 6: Â ELECTION PARTY at Bethany!!! Lot’s of food and drink. If you’d like to bring along a potluck, please let us know. Last…
Lots of news coverage of Frankenstorm, but not much mention of the role that our carbon economy plays in the production of this storm. Hey, mainstream media, can you say Global Warming? Here is what Joe Romm has to say about Hurricane Sandy: Why Hurricane Sandy Has Morphed into a ‘Frankenstorm’ — And Why We…
On the Washington State ballot, there is confusing wording for “Advisory Vote No. 1: Engrossed Senate Bill 6635” : The legislature eliminated, without a vote of the people, a business and occupation tax deduction for certain financial institutions’ interest on residential loans, costing $170,000,000 in its first ten years, for government spending. This tax increase…
The threatened transformation of the Pacific Northwest into an energy corridor for fossil fuels may be the region’s defining issue of our time. The battles against the pipelines, coal mines and coal plants, coal trains and coal ports, tankers, fracking and LNG export terminals in the Pacific Northwest are heating up. The Defend Our…
I guess we can try to get the word out.
Maybe the megastorm threatening the East Coast is punishment from God for ignoring global warming, for militarism, and for economic policies that favor the rich and cause tremendous death and suffering.