Washington State

For Whom The 20th Tolls…It Tolls for…US!

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ontheway

Shoreline Room, Shoreline Conference Center
18560 1st Ave NE Shoreline WA 98155
Open to the public – everyone welcome!

Watch the Presidential Inauguration live on the Big Screen with friends old and new!

Come together with your community and view the historic Inauguration and swearing in of Barack Obama as the 44th President to the United States of America!
Coffee, snacks and excitement available!

Open to the community, $10 donations appreciated but not required.

and that evening…

Please join Washington State for Change and the Agents of Change Inaugural Committee, as we watch history & celebrate the Inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States.

This will be a night to remember: come enjoy an evening of dining, dancing, live music by the Three Chord Progressives and watching our 44th President taking the oath of office on the big screen. Tickets are limited, and are sure to sell out. Reserve your spot early, and witness history with your best Democratic friends.

[ Order Tickets Online ]

Questions? Contact Marsha Scutvick

She Has…a blog

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kittyroarredone

I would like to take this time to thank

my good friends

in

The Washington State Democratic Party

who troll my  my blog and drive the stats through the ceiling

when we are holding internal Party Elections.

What David Tennant, Babies born with two faces and Fiji Mermaids have to do with

Politics

escapes me.

I don’t blame you though- those Doctor Who Pictures  are pretty neat.

Still.

While I have you here may I suggest you visit the following links listed below? There are no  Billy Connolly youtube clips or stories about mentally ill guys chasing people around the street with a hammer on theses sites- and there certainly are not any pictures of David Tennant  but you’ll actually learn something.

And that is always a good thing- so here it goes:

Mark P. Hintz

Washington State Democratic Party Candidate for State Chair

Candidate Hintz

Hello Candidate Hintz!

Luis S. Moscoso

 Washington  State Democratic Party Secretary (incumbent)

 

Yes It Is.

Yes It Is.

 

 Sharon Smith

 

Washington State Democratic Party Candidate for Vice Chair

psst- the tall guy next to Sharon is going to be President

psst- the tall guy next to Sharon is going to be President

 

And now we will now return you to our I.B. regularly scheduled program.

YAYAYAYAYAY!

And now back to your regularly scheduled program

 

 

Meet Cooper

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COOPER!
COOPER!

Today in the Seattle P.I. I read a story about the one of the most interesting cats – so what made Cooper- you may be thinking- so interesting to a woman who has cats-one of whom got into a fight witha Pitbull and won?

Cooper is a photographer – the humans that keep his food bowl restocked are filmakers Michael and Deidre Cross. And given that Cooper has taken some very interesting  pictures I’m willing to guess that Michael and Diedre have learned a lot from him:::

Cooper Cam
Cooper Cam

 

Cooper Cam
Cooper Cam

Cooper Cam!

Cooper Cam!

One of the comments I’ve run across asks if Coopers pictures are art- he doesn’t control the camera after all.

Look, this is what Cooper sees and not only is there art in that, there is poetry and there are stories too.

So you go Cooper, if anything it will drive home the point that the world is more interesting when we’re able to see it through something other then then our own mind’s eye.

::: More On Cooper’s Pictures At:::

The Seattle P.I.

The Seattle Weekly

Cooper Will Be Featured On Animal Planet Cats 101 Episode 1

December 6, 2008

 

Have You Hugged Your Governor Today?

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nope

I’ve had a lot of fun at Sarah Palin’s expense…which must at least give a chuckle to those Vampires at the RNC who got stuck buying Palin a bunch of new clothes and her husband’s silk boxer shorts…

but in the middle of the train wreck that was Sarah Palin-

 my State re-elected our Governor- Chris Gregoire- and Gregoire is a Governor we can be proud of.

Here in Washington state we don’t have to wonder what Gregoire will do to us on the world stage everytime she opens her mouth- and we can also not worry about the fact that a very large percentage of the population sits around praying like crazy for her to say something stupid for a cheap thrill.

When Gregoire’s  challenger- a Bush Light chucklehead who thought he could win a campaign by saying Chris Gregoire released sex offenders in the community  who in turn were waiting to molest your children-Gregoire didn’t go nasty back on them.

I would have.

And it would have involved toilet paper, eggs and underwear hanging from somebody’s trees.

But then again, no one would ever elect me to anything.

Anyway.

Governor Gregoire stuck to the issues, she acted with class and she has always done right by us here in Washington and in the end she won the election.

Which makes me feel good to know that if you do the right things good things will come back to you.

So

Gov. Gregoire if I haven’t said it before I’m glad you’re our Governor

and Alaska all I can say is…

Thank You

for Sarah Palin

in these trying times we could all use a laugh- a good one- and in

 Sarah ‘Caribou Barbie’ Palin you have given us that.

obama-seattle

Governor Chris Gregoire

and

President Elect Barack Obama

In Seattle Washington

February 2008

:::additional stories:::

From PBS:::Washington Gov. Gregoire Wins Re-election

Rossi’s loss to Gov. Gregoire leaves state GOP in dire straits

Gregoire Wins; Democrats Increase Majority to 29

Gregoire campaign manager on her ‘decisive win’

Oh Yes We Will!

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Join the 1st Congressional District and Snohomish County Democrats as we celebrate Democratic Victory! 

Start Time:
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 6:00pm
End Time:
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 12:00am
Location:
Nile Center and Golf Course Ballroom
Street:
6601 244th St SW
City/Town:
Mountlake Terrace, WA

Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
Buffet Served from 6:00 to 8:00
Party continues until midnight!

Musical Entertainment Provided by the Three Chord Progressives

 Election results from TV and Internet projected on large screens

Appetizer and Salad Bar Buffet No Host Bar Raffle/Auction

Cost & Reservations

SUPPER  TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT

HOWEVER

DOORS OPEN FOR ELECTION WATCH AT 8:OOPM
QUESTIONS:

 e-mail Marsha Scutvick at

marshascutvickatyahoodotcom

Caribou Chuckles

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According to some map on CNN Washington State is ‘ up for grabs ‘ because all of us out here in the Pacific Northwest are SO in love with Caribou Barbie.

So here’s some insight from:

a woman

who is from Washington State

and can take a joke- which is what this survey must have been:

Okay CNN guys…good one but here are some facts about Washington State-

First of all:

The last time we had a Republican Governor was in 1980 and the last time our state went to a Republican Presidential candidate was in 1984. I doubt if we would entertain the thought of supporting a Republican candidate like  McCain who has to date told 52 whopping big lies that are now plastered all over Youtube and the internet and his VP Pick Chick who thinks that being able to see Russia from her back yard counts as Foreign Policy Experience.

Washington state has given things to the world like Jimmy Hendrix, Mount St. Helens and the Lady Washington– that bitchin’ ship that was used in  the Star Trek Movie ” Generations ” as well as the  “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies 

and 

FYI one of the ” Founding Fathers ” of Seattle was a woman named Lou Graham  – she was a Madam.

Like Frank Sinatra said, we do it our way in Washington State.

 We’re not  going to get into lockstep with a bunch of Republicans from Alaska. I’m not saying anything bad about Alaska but Hell the reality is, we’re not even in lockstep with the Eastern half of our own state.

So whatever it was they were drinking at CNN when they came up with that factoid- share it with the rest of us.

We could all use a good laugh about now.

Every Step Of The Way

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c.a.d.

denver, co

Photo: THE OREGONIAN/ROB FINCH

I went back and searched for pictures of the lines- of any one of the many lines- I stood in with my friends from Washington State and California to  attend the Obama Nomination Acceptance Speech in at the Mile High Stadium in  Denver, Co.

There are pictures of neat lines that went somewhere, but there were none of us standing in the lines that went in circles or pictures of the other lines that  we got into that led down dirt trails to the street that we crossed  so that we could cross the street again and go back to the stadium and go through a security line.

Those images are committed to memory just like the ones I have now of how we walked around and around we told each how one day we would tell our Grand kids what we did so that we could be there the day President Obama accepted the Nomination.

I’ll remember how hot it was, stories about the people we met- the determination we all had to make it through that line- how people didn’t bicker or fight or snap at each other when things got confusing.

I remember law enforcement officers in riot gear handing out bottles of water and asking how people were feeling. I remember that we all enjoyed joking around with them.

In those wonky lines we told each other that were sorry that we were missing the music and speeches, but we were also telling ourselves that whatever it took, we were going to be in the stadium in time to see our Candidate acccept the Nomination.

So was it worth the dust, the heat, the weird lines that went nowhere? Was it worth the uncertainty, the aching feet the sore legs?

I think that line, that walk, represented what our Country has been through for the past  eight years- and I’ll tell you something else, at some level I think that’s what kept us going.

We are on a journey to end all of that.

When me and my friend got into the Stadium we sat about six rows down from the very top row at the stadium I’m from Seattle so that hike up was a challenge and at one point I tried to take a breath and couldn’t get air into my lungs.

But in that packed section we were assigned to I saw a place for us- and that did it, we made it to our row and when we sat down we started to laugh.

We Made It

at last.

 

Anita Marie

Mountlake Terrace, Washington

It Only Hurts When You Laugh

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The men who attached the picture at the bottom of this post to an e-mail as a joke are not sitting in a basement lined with tin foil –

they don’t visit sites like:

CTRL Forums where nobody knows your name

and

they don’t listen to The Conspiracy Channel On Line.

No, the people who passed this picture along via the Internet are NOT sitting in a room with five deadbolts on the door and that door is not monitored by a 24 hour surveillance camera. They are not sleeping on  boxes of sardines in crates and their electricity is not provided by a gasoline generator

They are sitting on the Snohomish City Council in Washington State and from their elected positions they say certainly don’t harbor any ill-feelings towards the Hispanics living in our county.

Really.

Let’s take a look at this ‘joke’…shall we?

“Leaving Mexico. Entering Meximerica “Welfare Dept. (1/4 MI),

 Social Security (3/4 MI), Free Medical (1 1/4 MI)

 

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Do you know what?

 I beg to differ…

and I would also hazard to say that Snohomish does not deserve the black eye that Councilmen Doug Thorndike and R.C. “Swede” Johnson have given it.

We ALL deserve so much better

LINK to one ( but somewhat anemic story ) HERE:

 

Statement from

 The Diversity Committee of the Snohomish County Democratic Central Committee.

 

The Diversity Committee of the Snohomish County Democratic Central Committee takes a stand against “white privilege” in our county.
Recently two Snohomish City council members used the Internet in an inappropriate manner and must be held accountable for their actions.

      These two members of the council, Council Member Thorndike and Council Member Johnson recently sent an inappropriate email message to another Council Member that was an example of “white privilege”.

      “White privilege is the advantages given freely to white people for no other reason than being born with the “right” skin color. If their skin color had not been white, they would not have been making these jokes. This is no way for an American to treat another American.

      Mr. Thorndike and Mr. Johnson have left question marks with most people about their decision-making process. If either were my employee, this behavior would not be tolerated. As an elected official, I expect a higher standard of leadership than what they displayed.

      It is time that this attitude is removed from our society and the respect of all people be truly adopted.

-Mark Hintz-

Mark is the chair of the Snohomish County Democrats in Washington State. He is also the vice chair of the Washington State Democratic Chairs Organization.

You Do The Math

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The attacks in this story have been taking place over a two year period. The first version of the story  is mine and I’ve edited it to make a point: 

SEATTLE — Seattle police are still on the hunt for a man who is accused of groping 21 women over a three-year period. And now police believe the man is getting more violent.

… reports that the man appears to be targeting COLLEGE GIRLS as they walked to and from three CAMPUS PARKING LOTS AFTER CLASSES

Now a story like this would have been all over the Cable News Networks with wall to wall coverage…so why hasn’t that happened?

MIGHT it be because this is the way the story actually reads:

SEATTLE — Seattle police are still on the hunt for a man who is accused of groping 21 women over a three-year period. And now police believe the man is getting more violent.

Our newspaper partner, the Seattle P-I, reports that the man appears to be targeting Asian women as they walk to and from three bus stops in the Beacon Hill area.

~ ~ ~

This was a comment I found on one of the stories and it’s a back-handed one, but given the way the press has ( not ) covered this issue I guess you can see why the Media doesn’t feel there is an audience receptive to this sort of story:

 

Sounds like a game of
Whoops-There-It-Is…
Only this is no laughing matter. They need to send out some undercover asain (SP by commentator ) cops to catch this creep before he strikes again.
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