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by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 7/25/18, 8:44 am

You can’t blame every heat wave on global warming. But it is to hot. And Seattle is going to have more of these. Ugh. I feel especially strange wearing short sleeves to work. At least I am not buying an air conditioner.

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Open Thread 7-23

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 7/23/18, 8:34 am

I know that Twitter can’t kick Trump off its platform permanently as long as he is the President. But! Surely a 12 hour ban after he threatens war with Iran. I mean some consequences are surely in order.

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Open Thread 20 July

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 7/20/18, 8:42 am

Your ballot should be coming soon if it’s not already in the mail. Is there any election you’re looking forward to? I will be interested to see how the 8th District shakes out. What are you excited about? Anyway, get your ballot postmarked or dropped off by August 7.

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Open Thread July 18

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 7/18/18, 8:45 am

Where are the gun nuts after the government started kidnapping children?

I mean they have been saying for years that they need to assemble an arsenal to avoid a tyrannical government. Some of them even formed a militia. And then they hear news that that same government has separated thousands of children from their parents. The government is missing court deadlines to fix the problem.

If their argument had been anything but complete bullshit, they would surely be at detention facilities. I don’t think that guns are the way to make political change in a democracy, but they do. Probably has something to do with the fact that they happily voted for a fascist President in the first place.

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Open Thread [today’s date]

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 7/16/18, 7:17 am

So. Trump and Putin met. Hopefully it will prove at least as successful as the meeting with Kim. Maybe instead of an Elton John CD, they traded a DVD of the peepee tape.

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Open Thread Friday the 13th

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 7/13/18, 8:30 am

Seattle, we have to figure out how to line up for the bus. A bus comes to the crowded stop and there’s a scrum for the door. And it more or less works out until some asshole comes in from the side and they’re always let in.

I don’t know how we fix that. Maybe just social stigma.

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Open Thread (The OT)

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 7/11/18, 5:19 pm

I’m glad to see the opening of the all women tiny house village in the city. It will be a much better place for the residents than on the street. Longer term we need a lot more housing and more programs to get people off the street.

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by Carl Ballard — Monday, 7/9/18, 7:55 am

I hope that the next Supreme Court nominee gets questioned about how racist Donald Trump is. It seems to me that only 5 people think Donald Trump’s Muslim ban might not have been a Muslim ban. Unfortunately, they made up a bare minimum of the Court majority. How we figure out how racist Donald Trump is going forward will determine how many acts of collective punishment the United States takes under his Presidency.

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July 2 Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 7/2/18, 7:09 am

This administration is still depressing as all hell. But! For the first time in a long time, I see maybe something. Being with 10000 people who oppose kidnapping children. I would probably feel better if my country wasn’t stealing children from their families, but I saw a little something.

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Open Thread?

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 6/29/18, 8:29 am

The Special Olympics kick off this weekend in Seattle. I don’t know how they were awarded, but if it’s anything like the other Olympics, I imagine that the corruption was glorious. Bribes and kickbacks galore.

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Openthread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 6/27/18, 8:41 am

Since China has stopped taking our filthy recycling, can we all try to be better at recycling? Like, your congealed orange juice doesn’t belong in the recycling bin just because it’s in a plastic bottle. I will try to get better at keeping my recyclables dry.

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Open Thread June 25

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 6/25/18, 8:27 am

I hope you all enjoyed Pride if you went. I enjoyed the parade, but I had other things to do, so I couldn’t watch the whole thing. It’s not my place as a cishet guy to tell them how to change the parade, but it was pretty long.

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Open Thread!

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 6/22/18, 9:00 am

I don’t know how America recovers from the Trump era. Impeaching him isn’t going to be enough. Even if everyone in the administration goes to jail for war crimes and crimes against humanity, I don’t know that it would be enough.

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Open Thread!

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 6/22/18, 9:00 am

I don’t know how America recovers from the Trump era. Impeaching him isn’t going to be enough. Even if everyone in the administration goes to jail for war crimes and crimes against humanity, I don’t know that it would be enough.

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Op’n Thread.

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 6/20/18, 8:53 am

I hope that y’all can make it to the protest of Trump’s immigration policies. Of the separation of families. Of the denial of refugees rights. This is America, but it doesn’t have to be. You can find info on the Seattle protest here. Or other locations here. Move On will ask for your info, and give it to them or not, you can still go to the protest.

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