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Open Thread Friday

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 9/18/20, 7:32 am

Congratulations to the Attorney General’s victory in the Post Office case. Long term, we’ll have to staff the Post Office with people who aren’t dedicated to destroying it.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

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Wednesday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 9/16/20, 7:18 am

Are you surviving the smoke? It’s pretty gross. I live in the urban core, and according to Google Maps the farthest building I could see from my window is less than half a mile. And even that is an improvement from earlier in the week.

If you have to work outside, or go outside for any reason, I feel for you. Gross, gross, gross.

And, you still have to wash your hands. So wash your hands right now.

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Monday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 9/14/20, 7:45 pm

Gaaah, look at how late this post is.

Wash your hands right now.

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Friday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 9/11/20, 7:26 am

Another day, another threat from Amazon. I don’t know if it’s pandemic, or otherwise business related. Or trying to scare Seattle once again. The article mentions that they are moving some things to Redmond, a city with a head tax.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

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Wednesday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 9/9/20, 5:47 am

Are you surviving the fires? Jeez it seemed like it happened all at once. And all of the smoke. Stay safe and follow any evacuation orders.

And wash your hands.

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Friday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 9/4/20, 8:41 pm

Sorry it’s so late! I had to get up early for work and then I forgot to write this. So I thought that I would write it at lunch, but that slipped my mind when I was making lunch. Then I went for a walk right after work and now it’s past 8:30…

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

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Wednesday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 9/2/20, 12:01 pm

The people who make police accountability more difficult make defunding more likely. Now we find out more about the investigation of the King County deputy who shot a man in the back. It’s pretty grim stuff. From an investigation clearly meant to exonerate to lying to the media, this investigation was no good.

As the article mentions, Initiative 940 passed since then provides more accountability. So I hope that will prevent situations like this from happening again. But if it doesn’t, I don’t know what to do other than defunding.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

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Open Thread 8/31

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 8/31/20, 7:36 am

I had missed it earlier, but what great news that the continent of Africa is wild polio free. It’s a huge milestone even as more work needs to be done. Congrats on the decades long effort.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

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Open Thread 8-28

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 8/28/20, 7:10 am

Did you go against my advice and watch the Republican convention? I saw clips and it seemed like they didn’t know what to do with speeches without an audience. The speakers would build and build and pause to a second of awkward silence.

The President solved this problem with massive norms and probably legal violations. That’s probably also going to be remembered more as a super spreader event than for anything he said. Disgusting.

But not disgusting is you washing your hands right now.

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 8/26/20, 8:26 am

Parents of school age children, how are you holding up? It seems like it’s going to be a difficult learning from home start of the year. Just the uncertainty. And goodness knows how long it will be before kids can go back.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

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Monday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 8/24/20, 7:31 am

Will you be watching the Republican convention? I will not. It’s probably irresponsible to watch when there are people there live. Is it encouraging a potential super spreader event? And of course it will be a hate filled event for an awful people. I say give it a pass.

But don’t pass on washing your hands. Do it right now.

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Open Thread Fri. Aug. 21.

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 8/21/20, 8:10 am

I think that the Democratic Convention went pretty well. Probably too many Republicans, but as long as they were just talking about Biden is good people and not pushing policy, whatever. Kamala Harris and Barack Obama probably had the best speeches by politicians.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now.

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**Open**Thread**

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 8/19/20, 8:27 am

It’s good to have an Attorney General like Bob Ferguson. I was a constituent of his on the King County Council. I have to say I was not really a fan then.

But whatever my skepticism looked like then, he has been great as AG. So it’s no surprise that he is leading a coalition of attorneys general to save the Post Office. Hopefully there will still be something to save.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

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Open Thread Monday

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 8/17/20, 8:28 am

Did you survive the too hot? I was able to go outside and find shady spots in the worst of the afternoon. But my apartment never cooled down. It’s already gross today, but the worst is over.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

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Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 8/14/20, 8:27 am

It looks like a new county with a coronavirus outbreak. This time Okanogan County. Again agricultural work seems to be a major reason for the outbreak. Obviously we need food. I hope they can get better testing soon.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

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