ballardinc

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born in chicago, raised in the burbs...12 yeaRS in the pacific NW...10 years as a commercial crabber out of vladivostok and dutch harbor and now a federal firefighter...41 states and 16 countries and counting

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6,000 things you can't say in Seattle (or Portland)

Posted Wed, Jun 17, 6:28 a.m.

the "ballard hipster" is just a belluvue yuppie is SO right on...wow did ballard go down fast the last 5 years...from blue collar to white collar /blue collar wannabes

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Humor: We need to do a better job at lying

Posted Tue, Jun 16, 6:12 a.m.

what would politician's do? Especially during election years?

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Starbucks has a G.M. moment

Posted Thu, Jun 11, 6:24 a.m.

niece piece but even though its a seattle based company who cares about starbucks? any coffee lover knows the drip coffee blows. the worst is on weekends when I go to buy the NY sunday Times and middle aged ballard-ites with infants and kids are streaming out the door buying ...

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Torture, Nixon, Obama

Posted Sat, May 9, 12:02 p.m.

yeah? what other country are you a citizen of? and do you speak the native tongue?..i am calling you out if you don't comprehend this post as you have made it clear you can't in my others. i expect an answer...don't BS me either cus i will sniff you out...

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Torture, Nixon, Obama

Posted Fri, May 8, 5:13 p.m.

PJS, our exchanges are humorous but spend 3 years as a peace corps volunteer in a 3rd world country like i did before telling me i have "no understanding of the real world and it's history"...you might have read some books, but no more than i easily,... i suggest you ...

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Torture, Nixon, Obama

Posted Fri, May 8, 4:22 p.m.

of what use is law or the constitution to an anarchist? to point out the absurdity of our so called democratic society and use of force to install "multi ethnic democracies" thru out the world. (for example we established a constitution and laws in Iraq, did we not? by a ...

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Torture, Nixon, Obama

Posted Fri, May 8, 1:16 p.m.

yes very humourous indeed...thanx for the grammar lessons though...i write like kerouac - no editing and 1st thought best thought...i didn't know this blog required the nuances of english 101...i don't lecture me on tort law and especially the 10 amendments.

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Torture, Nixon, Obama

Posted Fri, May 8, 10:05 a.m.

forestas was a typo if you couldn't deduce i meant forest...and what is your point you think you made? clarify please? that you still offer no input to the intellectual discussion, just edit peoples postings? thanks for being my editor cus i don't have the time to find the "sic's" ...

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Torture, Nixon, Obama

Posted Fri, May 8, 6:25 a.m.

PJS, i agree with bkochis on the charge of murder on kissinger and mcnamara...and if u or they want to sue me for libel i relish my day in court! thats will be an easy victory for democracy ! why do you think kissinger can't even travel to europe and ...

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Torture, Nixon, Obama

Posted Thu, May 7, 9:08 p.m.

PJS if you can't connect the dots or understand the metaphors i am sorry for your illiteracy level...you dish out diss on 3 posters and offer absolute no input of any intellectual insight or value. I suggest you get off your high horse and offer some substance - in the ...

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Torture, Nixon, Obama

Posted Thu, May 7, 12:31 p.m.

mine is a world view, not an american view - especially one "fanned in large part by the press"...we live in an age of dinosaurs. all around us social, economic, and political behemoths lumber thru destroyed environments, casting life threating shadows over the entire planet. there is a gigantic struggle ...

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Torture, Nixon, Obama

Posted Thu, May 7, 6:41 a.m.

the "public hysteria" mentioned by dbrenaman was manufactured by the regime and the new "homeland security department", not the public as suggested...we were told to duct tape windows, narc out our neighbors, and saddam had WMD's massed on kuwait's border and were mobile and ready along with chemical weapons we ...

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