Hundreds of homes, rentals in this town empty, rents too high... first last and deposit and perfect credit ... is almost 5,000 just to rent..
Everyone holding out for the 'right' tenant to fly into town and give them the bucks.. And they can 'write off' the lost rent at a 'high' price on taxes as profit and loss...
people, men women and the youth... walk the streets ... faces drawn with long term hunger.. the junior high kids... single moms probably moved in with a man and they are on the street... it is so sad.. we had good weather until today.. rainy windy and cold.. when it turns this far north.. it stays until next June..
I am working on writing and doing what I can to help them..
I am scared.. I am at risk of losing 3 bedrooms of furniture because I do not have $157 for storage... it will be due again $132 on the first.. on the 10th it will have a lein and will be 'inventoried' and sold... they just dump it... and you have a lein for $2,000 or $3,000 because they 'inventoried' at $10 per hr every bottle cap in a 30 foot storage unit.. I am just sick with worry over it..
for $300 I could save myself all that. I get Soc Sec because of my heart.. I could pay back some a little at a time... I am overdrawn and when my check goes in ... I hope to have $300 left for my xxx xxxxx that I am sleeping in.. I am terrified.. so little could save me..
I am a Realtor, with a $1.4 Million listing... and my car is parked behind the art studio in a vacant lot... no money for gas since the 10th and I have been riding a bike to show property... I can't get away with that now.. the rain has started.... I passed it off as fun and yuks before now..
I am worried about the others on the street that do not have a dry place to hold up in.. I am at my desk on the net on my computer... I hope to keep my position until the end of the year..
I will check the other story you sent tomorrow. I have 2 miles to ride across town and it is almost ten pm.. I wore shorts today... it will be a cold wet ride.. thats the news... V.
I woke up to Rush Limbaugh....cough cough cough....that's what he does when he is about to make a derogatory statement....to get the maximum attention and phony disdain going....
Just bashing in general terms that were not substantiated...'...she's unmarried,...I'm not discriminat'tin because she's female or Hispanic,...which is a way of doing it while decrying that you are not....the worst of it for me was the ...."...worst judge on the appellate bench there is...."....[why?]...[...for real...what makes it so?...]
Time for the American People to say ....ENOUGH...of these self appointed ....can't say it here...the site is moderated now....but goes a little like this....'...burned out old...#$%@'s.....'
you get the picture.....they raped and robbed the country and the middle class...are responsible for wars,...medical and insurance costs,...looted Social Security...dumped the funds into the general fund...then LOOTED ...the treasury with war contracts....they send young men out to wars...to people who do not hate us...YET.....to kill, maim, and degrade them....to lower the numbers of competition for POWER AT HOME....that was all Vietnam was about...they HATED us.
They called us FLATBELLIES....because they were PORKERS....and used the young women left at home like a box of tissues....divorced there wives...and neglected their own children....emotional and financial abandonment....
TIME TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK....FROM THESE BLOW HARD LOSERS....
WE PICKED OBAMA ....AND HE IS THE 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES....
WE PICKED HIM...TO MAKE JUDGEMENTS AND DESCISCIONS...AND SUPREME COURT PICKS FOR US...END OF STORY....
Me....?....I am just another Republican that left the party....to support and elect Barack Obama.
MEDIA....DON'T YOU HAVE THE MESSAGE...YET?
Yours always....V.
My daughter lost job at the end of the year....the Company lost its contract to Aetna...WA employees health provider..
7 1/2 years she as commuted in all weather about 30 Freeway miles. During which time she had a child and drops him off to day care then drives to work....
No fault of her own...her Christmas Present this year is ...no job Dec 31st.
250 employees, mostly women,....affected.
She just this minute sent a text message. ....Yep, Aetna signed.
The owner of the house I live in....the 2 floors on the only hospital in the county...no longer will have that service...May 1 he was out of work after over 7 years...no fault of his own....
When will the true numbers of the ....Financial Flu....be counted. 2 other people have died...stress, and bad decisions....after job loss in the town....WWIII ....Financial War.
My daughters Mother's Day is going to be sad...and a sadder Christmas....V.
NO HANDSHAKE, ...JUST WAVE...SALUTATION...ANYTHING BUT TOUCH...HISTORY IS FUNNY....
The history of the wave from a distance...gave permission to approach...I have no spear..my spear hand is empty....
The history of the handshake is ....here is my weapon hand...it is empty...approach....
It was permission to approach without harm...
Do we still need a ...pressing of the flesh in handshake form....to reach an agreement?
The worst shysters I have ever met ...were the most eager to '...HANDSHAKE...'
We can fore go the '..antiqudated..' custom...and stand on our own word and character.
I was fearful for Barack in the election season....I hope he will fore go any and all ..touching in the future...and I am a great fan of President Barack Obama....V.
Bank of America online banner....reads.....FREE CHECKING.....no service charge
The gimmick is put and maintain balance of $300.
If your balance of YOUR MONEY in YOUR ACCOUNT goes below $300 they can charge you $5.95
monthly service charge ...on ....MY MONEY.
MY MONEY in their pocket...but if is use ...MY MONEY...they charge me.
That means....I should just GIVE THEM ...$300 for life...as a CHARGE for a FREE CHECKING ACCOUNT.
I would be better off than to think it was still ...MY MONEY...as I would not be tempted to use it if it were not in MY ACCOUNT,...and get CHARGED...to use it.
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Then there is FREE OVERDRAFT...up to $300 .....that cost.....$36 ...on approved credit.
I was GIVEN ...FREE OVERDRAFT...after passing a CREDIT CHECK...on one account.
DENIED IT ON THE SECOND ACCOUNT......member of the bank ...for decades....V.
Good Morning Media...need some fresh stuff...All of mankind is INTERDEPENDENT...and INTERWOVEN.....
I have been off the O site for a while...the MSM is getting so ...STALE I am finding it hard to watch even my Faves...on MSNBC.
Here Goes:
HELLO WORLD;
All of mankind is INTERDEPENDENT...and INTERWOVEN.....
The latest Swine Flu Scare shows us just how interdependent and interwoven we are....just the thought of a scare like this and how many industries are affected by the news....
Just when we are seeing a rebound in the economy we have this....
Travel Industry, Air Lines,....Shopping Malls...Entertainment Venues....on and on
We have to pull out of this...the over whelming lesson in this is ....
YES...EVERY PERSON ...EVERY COUNTRY...COUNTS...WHAT HAPPENS TO THE LEAST OF THEM
HAPPENS TO ME....
Did we not learn our lesson in the CORPORATE GREED SCANDALS?
When the ROBBER BARONS Greed exceeded the limit...it came back to bite them were it hurt most...stock market....and their personal wealth....
Did we not learn that to hurt the what they thought was the least of us....affected them too....
INTERDEPENDENT...INTERWOVEN...WE ARE MANKIND....LIKE IT OR NOT...V.
Also can Twitter the updates....just today the number of updates for cities with flu...was amazing...minute/hourly....the stuff you will not get in the regular news outlets...
healthmap / HealthMap.org
CDCemergency / CDC Emergency
also interesting are the following:
bbcnews / BBC News
bbcworld / BBC World News
bbcbreaking / BBC Breaking News
EQWatch / Earthquake Watch
And for out of this world new design homes and intesting wild stuff:
webist / Webist Media
Just posted to Lisa my JfkFAN friend from the O site...he is witty...
http://jfkfan.wordpress.com/
http://blip.fm/jfkfan
SO MANY HAVE LEFT.....WE NEED TO STAY TOGETHER...JFKFAN AND OTHERS HAVE BEEN TEXTING, TWEETING....CALLING....FACEBOOK...TALKING ABOUT THE TIMES WE HAD....
CONNECT WITH JFK FAN ....AND SPREAD THE WORD WHERE HE IS...HE IS LONELY AND HE LOST BOTH HIS DOGS IN JUST SIX MONTHS...THE LAST ONE JUST THE OTHER NIGHT...HE NEEDS US
HE MADE US LAUGH, THINK..AND STAY TOGETHER...V.
Hope you had a great Easter too,...I did....
H is worried he will lose the house...his job is over the end of April...the only hospital in town is closing the Inpatient Alcohol and Drug Treatment 2 floors and counseling center. H has been there 7 years...no job....in 3 weeks. No opportunity for a Counselor to find work here. The entire nation will lose because of the people it helped...multiplied by the impact on the state from the families and children for decades to come....when one is helped....multiple are helped...for decades.
Another victim a dad in the community had lost his job, wife had multiple cancer surgeries, 14 boy, 10 girl,...the dad rode his motor bike out to the Lake Whatcom neighborhood to sell it...must have been taking a last ride on it and looking at the lake...ran into the back of a pick up truck and broke his neck...died instantly....uncounted victims of the financial fall out....
What will be the reckoning for those that caused this...That is just two that I know of this week....V.
We have a beautiful First Family in the White House, Barack attending to the Nation, Michelle tending a garden with children...to set an example of how to teach children..and nutrition...and all of her wonderful outreach to the several depts....being a Champion on the International Trail...and Barack did some more things too....LOL...
Things are as they should be....the Big Dogs have had their ears laid back from unchecked greed.
Credit lines are going to be more normalized, the former business tact was wrong,...
Housing Industry ....overinflated prices and greed pared down....we had a 4 Transaction day in our office of 25 agents...Wee Hooo...
The sun if finally out for a few minutes in the Great NW WA.
Pray for the folks in Okla and Texas....PRAY FOR RAIN FOR THEM AND THE WILDFIRES....
Blessings...to ...All...rest well America....it is a good day....we will help the Fire victims....V.
I clicked on CNN online and opened the live streaming video for ...it was named...Texas fires....but it was Oklahoma....and the flames headed straight for a town and High School...Choctow...
We must pray for rain and the fires to stop....
No news on any channel....the weather channel had short flicks of it because the smoke was showing up on radar as clouds...
Pray for rain for Oklahoma.....what a sad passover and Easter weekend.
They are clean, hard working people and neat little towns....
Anyone should not go through a fire like this...V.
I would seem to reason....that the stocks in these companies would be a good idea....if the prices in the stores are any indicator in the value of the stocks in the makers of them.
But you never know what the bookkeeping would be before the profit reached the investors.
The prices of cheap food choices have gone from ....'up' to 'unreasonable'
$3 for a CAN of chili?....$1.29 for a BOX of macaroni mix?.....not 10 for a $1....
Because more people are having to feed families cheaper food stuffs.
Now add to that ....the people seeking out stress relief foods,...
and the new non-smokers PIG OUT....
Did the Sunday evening run to the market for Microwave Popcorn...pastry for Monday Morning
and canned cat food to give the cat a treat of something different.
Seldom do this...just wanted to 'veg' out....every few months have to be 'normal' and take a
'little' vacation from being sensible.
$21 and change...for:
2 Boxes Microwave Popcorn,
10 cans of cat food,
2 trays of the cheapest pastry available, no jam on it to speak of...only slight traces.
1 small can of spice to cook with....1 oz plastic jar...did not know they made them
That's it.....$21 .....shock....just a few things ...not even a meal....
MY PIG OUT....SELF INDULGENCE PRIVATE PARTIES....EVERY FEW MONTHS ARE OVER.....V.
Now that is something to writie about...that was the news from the Realtors on the 790 radio program......YEA!!!!!
Our county, and our company,...has had closings and is actively showing and listing....YEA!!!!!
Our real estate admin lady left the state and gave the office her plants....
I have watered and tended to them....but the Ficus Tree.....no leaves....but alive.
This morning in the sales meeting, ...see the connection?....realty....economy...
One particular agent, an old crone from another company that moved to our office....with old ideas and atitudes.....wanted to get a committee together to remove the 7 ft Ficus from the converence area.
This is important:
It has had CHANGE, of dirt, light, care, oversight and opinions of it.
It has lost all of its....OLD LEAVES....OLD DIRT....OLD MANAGER
It has nimble green limbs,....and will sprout soon.
I told them...NO....I named the tree....'Economy'
It is alive and will have leaves soon....I will keep you posted......V.
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http://www.seattlepi.com/local/404451_alcoholic01ww.html
Study: Seattle home for alcoholics saved taxpayers $4 million
Wednesday, April 1, 2009Last updated 7:13 a.m. PT
By VANESSA HOSEATTLEPI.COM STAFF
For years, Nathaniel Porter began his day with a pint of vodka or whiskey, which often made him throw up, which made him reach for a beer. He was off his schizophrenia medication, going to the sobering center a lot, and living in shelters, which made him want to start the next day the same as the last.
But a year ago, Porter moved into the 1811 Eastlake house, a subsidized apartment building near downtown Seattle for homeless alcoholics. He now often starts his day by sending his friend Jim to the corner shop for a six-pack of beer or a couple of tall boys, and settling in for "The Jeffersons" or "Good Times." But he's off the "hard stuff," takes his medication regularly, stays out of the sobering center, and goes to a meditation group.
"It's wonderful," said Porter, an amiable 51-year-old, of his current home. "I stay out of trouble. I come in, go to my room. It's nice and peaceful."
Porter's progress is echoed in a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study, led by a University of Washington researcher, found that the once-controversial 1811 program -- which provides housing and services without demanding sobriety -- saved taxpayers more than $4 million in one year.
"It was perceived that we were opening a party house where people could drink and run amok and generally set their hair on fire," said Bill Hobson, executive director of the Downtown Emergency Service Center. The agency opened the home in 2005, after years of protests.
"This research shows that this is not the case."
Researchers followed 95 chronically homeless alcoholics, who, before moving into the home, had run up a taxpayer bill of $8.2 million in hospitalizations, emergency services, jail time and sobering center visits.
After one year of being in the program, the same group cost taxpayers only $4 million, the study found. Each resident also drank less the longer they lived in the home, and their toll on publicly funded programs decreased as time went on.
"One of the overwhelming sentiments was just how much better life was at 1811," said Mary Larimer, a UW professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and lead author of the study.
"Certainly, it is much easier (to change) when you are not cold, hungry and scared, and have a few meaningful events in your life."
Larimer also compared residents against a control group of 39 homeless alcoholics on a wait-list to get into the home. She found that the residents, after six months of being in the home, cost taxpayers 50 percent less than the wait-listed group.
The research represents the first controlled study to look at the Seattle program, which is part of a national model called "Housing First," in which people can live in subsidized homes and get services without having to give up drinking or attend treatment.
"This is an extraordinarily successful program," said Ron Sims, the outgoing King County Executive. He admitted Tuesday that he was among the many initial skeptics of the program, and that he had been concerned about it "enabling" alcoholism. He reluctantly allowed the county to fund it, with an initial investment of $2 million, followed by $240,000 a year in operational support.
"It was a doggone good thing to do," he said. "Our return on investment has exceeded any expectation."
For Porter, the home has given him stability in what had been a chaotic life, leading him to drink less. He explained it simply:
"Out there, I wanted a roof over my head. I got to drinking heavy when I was thinking about getting a roof over my head. I came here. I got a roof over my head."
Read the study here.
Vanessa Ho can be reached at 206-448-8003 or vanessaho@seattlepi.com.
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Thank God and thank you for putting it in print one more time....
.... that the country is not going thru this with JMcC at the helm...
..."my friends".... would be all the talk we would get...and not even kissed...V.
I support the local new building for Women and Children Shelter. It needs beds and sheets and towels to open. I share the linki to their web site. They are here local and in downtown and a registered charity with a big men's shelter of over 20 years across the street.
I think the solution is each local area looking for Obama people having a hard time. The local groups, and to share babysitting, day care, buy in bulk and divide, chores shared. Like a senior that will do laundry but can't mow the grass stuff. Just helping interaction. That makes people a little more cheerful, and their dollars go further.
I think I will share this online again. I do not like to go on the site anymore. I just check my groups, but when I get a good idea I want to put it out...We can show the Repubs we care about others.
Right 'Wing Nut ' Watch....WACKO REDNECKS....HATRED, RACIST...LISTEN UP....
Take that sun tanned arm and hand out of the window of the pick up truck and lay it next to the other hand.
Ask your right hand if it hates your left for being a different color.
Ask your right hand if it hates your left for the thumb being on the other side of the hand from the right hand,.
just a thought.....V.
REMOVE THIS PERSON FROM THE BLOG....Jack Beauforte
His acusations to my as comments on my posts are neither correct nor sane....
his posts are the same rhetoric....
Of all the people that have been removee and to let the BLUE PAINT COMPANY and this
RACIST, ......Jack Beauforte to stay.....now has to explain why....
WE THE BLOGGERS WILL FIND OUT WHY THE CONTROLS ARE MESSED UP ON THIS BLOG.
THE ....ENVY OF THE WORLD....AND MAYBE...A TECHNO....WORLD WONDER THIS BLOG....
'nough said...V,
