Cheese with my whine

Almost got run over again by a car. Twice. Walk signals are hard to understand, I suppose. Both times it was an Audi SUV. Maybe we need to ban them and until our questions are answered. I'm somewhat kidding, but if the right was actually consistent with their fear mongering they'd pick on something like this (they usually pick topics that don't make a difference in terms of actually mattering to America, though one does have to appreciate how they will scream about something until people pay attention just to shut them up).

But, of course, they don't.

The lady who almost ran me over, proceeded to then almost run over another pedestrian going the other way. I mean, what the hell are you on?

That's a double attempted murder[1] right there. 

I only slightly jest. It is something of a truth that a place like Bellevue that plays to research that shows people in rich cars are more likely to behave aggressively to pedestrians, especially in times of high inequality.

This, also with the background that as we're trying to improve our public transport a vote (statewide the shitkicking rural counties have tried to take Seattle's money for public transport... which we voted for in this area and are willing to pay for but somehow was a statewide vote to cancel). Hopefully we do something like tell these counties they only get the money they put in for their roads and see how far they fall from there.

Time to teach em a lesson. But it shows the pro-car aspect of even a state like WA.

Well, I've  contacted Bellevue City to see what they could do about it.

On other notes, few in the corporate media (Fox or the center right, which is CNN, MSNBC, the Times et al) are talking about all the protests around the world. Mainly they focus on Hong Kong and forget that there are plenty of others (our allies, usually with our tacit backing, get away with worse than what our enemies do. Think of the body counts in HK vs IRaq or Haiti and try to think about why that isn't being reported as much.

Also remember Occupy where the NYPD crushed a protest movement. Wonder how they would have reacted if Occupy actually damaged property? Yeah, they would have been a lot more violent than HK currently (not to say that it's right, just add some self awareness to these topics, people).

And again, RT is problematic (I mentioned them talking about Turkey, Syria and the Kurds and not once mentioning Afrin) but this news source is still better than anything we have (outside of the small leftist sites like truth dig/out). The Times has an article on Iraq (300 dead so far and note that it's spreading around the country like I predicted. It's only going to get worse because that gov is corrupt and it seems that militias are only  hurting things) but it's not front page news, my friends. Why?

Nevertheless, nevermind the Center rights MSM and their reaction. Something is really happening around the world. This on the 30th anni of the Berlin Wall falling. Remember the Warsaw pact countries fell because Gorbachev said he wouldn't interfere as previous Soviet leaders had (with tanks, at that). [2]

AND they were running austerity programs because they had loans due to the west. Now we have some austerity on the poor in many of these countries as well as austerity via corruption. Will a major change come of this? We'll see.

Your thoughts?




[1] this is what the right should say, right? Again, the level of crazy with the right is impressive. Some people are just idiots, but imagine 99% of scientists in any field believed some right wing talking point. What would the news be showing?

[2] With regard to US interference, it doesn't have to be as direct, not with our style. Plus we usually have a more patient game (see Egypt etc for more recent examples)



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