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Conservative Band Names #conservativebandnames

2013-05-20T23:31:00.000-07:00

For fans of political humor, here's a bunch of contributions to the Twitter hashtag #conservativebandnames - a couple of them are my own creation.... A Flock of Evils Average White Klan Bad Air Supply Barefoot and Pregnant Florence and the Washing Machine Being Petty & the Factbreakers Below Average White Band Big Bad Voodoo Economics

4freeCLE: The Free CLE Newsletter! May 19, 2013

2013-05-20T14:34:00.002-07:00

4freeCLE: The Free CLE Newsletter! May 19, 2013 In This Issue Webcast CLE In California In Illinois In Massachusetts In Minnesota In New York In Ohio In Oregon In Pennsylvania In Washington On-Demand CLE Past 4freeCLE Issues Does Your State Offer Free CLE For Pro Bono? Several states offer free CLE credit in exchange for pro bono service, e.g.Minnesota, Washington.

June 22/Seattle: Litigating the Right to Peace

2013-05-16T07:11:00.000-07:00

Litigating the Right to Peace A Free Continuing Legal Education Event By the WSBA World Peace Through Law Section Saturday, June 22, 2013 7 PM - 9 PM At the Seattle University School of Law [map] Come and hear international human rights attorney Luis Roberto Zamora Bolaños talk about his successful litigation against governmental practices violating Costa Rica's "Peace

4freeCLE: The Free CLE Newsletter! May 12, 201

2013-05-12T06:01:00.000-07:00

4freeCLE: The Free CLE Newsletter! May 12, 2013 In This Issue Webcast CLE In Alaska In California In Illinois In Massachusetts In Minnesota In New Jersey In New York In Ohio In Oregon In Pennsylvania In Texas On-Demand CLE Past 4freeCLE Issues Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Project:Register NowTo Serve and Earn CLE!The Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Project offers a practical way

Kubota Gardens in Seattle

2013-05-11T21:08:00.000-07:00

Saturday Kris and I visited Seattle's Kubota Garden. Words cannot really describe just how wonderful this is, so let's just see a few photos: More Photos

The Most Interesting Turban In The World

2013-05-09T17:16:00.003-07:00

Actual Photo! Turban-wearing Man/Crossing Border With Mexico!!! Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) on Thursday alerted his colleagues in the Senate that people who were “wearing some form of turban” were illegally immigrating into the United States by crossing the Southern border. Here's the video!!! This is serious ... but MUCH MORE SERIOUS than we thought. The UNIVERSAL SYMBOL for "cross" is an X.

4freeCLE: The Free CLE Newsletter! May 5, 2013

2013-05-06T17:28:00.000-07:00

4freeCLE: The Free CLE Newsletter! May 5, 2013 In This Issue Webcast CLE In Alaska In California In Colorado In Illinois In Massachusetts In Minnesota In New Jersey In New York In Ohio In Oregon In Pennsylvania In Texas In United Kingdom In Washington On-Demand CLE Past 4freeCLE Issues Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Project:Register NowTo Serve and Earn CLE!The Veterans Consortium

Seattle Rainwise Class at Chief Sealth

2013-05-03T08:34:00.003-07:00

Wednesday (May 1, 2013) Kris and I were invited to talk at a class about Seattle's Rainwise program; it was the last in a series about urban gardening put on by Seattle Public Utilities and held in the library at Chief Sealth School. The lady leading the class wanted some people who had actually gone through the experience to be there to tell our story and answer questions. This was really fun!

4freeCLE: The Free CLE Newsletter! April 28, 2013

2013-04-29T08:53:00.002-07:00

4freeCLE: The Free CLE Newsletter! April 28, 2013 In This Issue Webcast CLE In Alaska In California In District of Columbia In Florida In Illinois In Massachusetts In Minnesota In New York In Ohio In Oregon In Pennsylvania In United Kingdom In Washington On-Demand CLE Past 4freeCLE Issues The Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Project offers a practical way that you can use your talent

Battery Recycling Collection Tubes

2013-04-28T06:31:00.002-07:00

Simple collectors for used batteries I stopped by the Redmond Library the other say, and saw these in the hall. In puzzling out why these seem so much better than the little cardboard boxes I'm see for the same purpose, I came up with: They're self-supporting; they don't take up shelf space or table space and can be tucked in small areas. Note how the green one in particular makes use of a

Chicken George's Lie Bury

2013-04-25T07:46:00.002-07:00

It's Called a Lie BuryBecause It's Where They Want To Bury His Lies This week, the worst president of the United States gets to have a building dedicated to rehabilitating his actions. It's worth remembering that he chose to invade Iraq based on "intelligence" that he knew was false and that as a result, over 4000 Americans (and God knows how many Iraqis) are dead, over 300,000 Americans have

Just Say Nay To Decaf!

2013-04-23T07:51:00.002-07:00

The Mighty Thor Speaks True! Many of my Facebook acquaintances (misnomered as "friends", but that's FB for ya!) are conservatives. They almost all are of the "I believe it regardless of facts" sort, and many are of the "Violent Christian" sort: they love guns and hate anyone who's not Christian (although they sometimes figure Jews are o.k. so long as they move to Jerusalem, so that the 2nd

April 26 Free Webcast: Home Solar In Washington State! #earthday

2013-04-22T11:40:00.000-07:00

Join us in this free webcast! Some say the wars of this century will be sparked by resource and energy shortages. What can we and our clients do in a practical way to reduce this risk? What are the legal aspects? A panel led by Kevin Moen of Solterra Systems will discuss the practical side of home solar (net energy production, how easy/hard to install) and the legal side (taxes, permits,

Fix Something on #EarthDay

2013-04-22T09:22:00.000-07:00

Can you tell which one is repaired? It's Earth Day. There's a lot of ways we can make this a better world. One small way is to change what we do when something breaks. Stuff is so cheap, it may not seem worth the time to fix things that break; just toss them and get another. But on the other hand, is it really a waste of time? Is it any more wasteful than watching television? Isn't any

4freeCLE: The Free CLE Newsletter! April 21, 2013

2013-04-22T09:07:00.000-07:00

4freeCLE: The Free CLE Newsletter! April 21, 2013 In This Issue Webcast CLE In California In District of Columbia In Florida In Illinois In Massachusetts In Minnesota In New York In Ohio In Oregon In Pennsylvania In United Kingdom In Washington On-Demand CLE Past 4freeCLE Issues Laws by Plato Free Kindle Edition The classic is now a free book for your

WSBA World Peace through Law Section Newsletter April 2013

2013-04-20T22:27:00.002-07:00

WSBA World Peace through Law Section April 2013 April 26, 2013:Sunshine Over The Energy Wars: Home Solar In Washington State Join us in this free webcast! Join us for the second brown bag and webinar in our monthly series:"Sunshine Over the Energy Wars: Practical and Legal Aspects of Home Solar in Washington State."Some say the wars of this century will be sparked by resource

Chard And Strawberries Snuggling In Our Yard

2013-04-17T08:24:00.001-07:00

Chard and StrawberriesSeem to play together nicely! Today I saw that the white strawberry I planted last fall is flourishing under the chard I started from seed around the same time (give or take a few months.) Both survived our mild winter quite well and are leaping into spring, but at different heights. They seem to take the sunlight at different heights and seem to be playing together

Hair Donation Time!

2013-04-14T10:37:00.000-07:00

Saturday I went to our local barbership to have my ponytail cut off. I grow it out so that every couple of years, I can cut it off and send it to a charity that makes wigs for kids undergoing chemo. It's an easy thing to do, but it means that I don't see the barber very often. Last time I did this, my niece Taryn was in hair school, and did the cut as a training project. She did a great job! This

Jack Kegley's Experience At Seattle's VA Raises Questions About Patient Care

2013-04-09T08:27:00.001-07:00

Jack Kegley USMC is a 100% disabled Veteran (Vietnam) currently receiving treatment at the Seattle VA. With the use of treatment such as MIST therapy, skin grafts, negative pressure therapy and specialized boots to offload the wound, his wound shrunk to the size of a pencil lead and was continuing to heal. Then the VA decided to give up on him. Why? In 2007 Jack sought treatment of a diabetic

Washington State Legal Assistance to Military Personnel (LAMP)

2013-04-09T02:54:00.007-07:00

The lawyers of Washington State help with Legal Assistance to Military Personnel through a variety of programs. For Our Warrior Community The Washington State Bar Association's Online Lawyer Directory has a way to locate lawyers who have picked Military Law as a practice area. Go to http://www.mywsba.org/default.aspx?tabid=177 In the scroll box labelled "Area of Practice" pick "Military" You

Search Washington State Law Sites Easily

2013-04-08T13:31:00.000-07:00

Many important topics include information that spans multiple sites. For example, information on lawyers in Washington States is spread across one State Bar, multiple County Bars, various specialty organizations and the state courts. You don't want to use plain ol' Google, because that tends to mix results from Washington State with Washington D.C. and Washington University in St. Louis.

4freeCLE: The Free CLE Newsletter! April 7, 2013

2013-04-08T10:29:00.001-07:00

4freeCLE: The Free CLE Newsletter! April 7, 2013 In This Issue Webcast CLE In California In District of Columbia In Florida In Illinois In Indiana In Massachusetts In Minnesota In New York In Ohio In Pennsylvania In Utah In Washington On-Demand CLE Past 4freeCLE Issues Does Your State Offer Free CLE For Pro Bono? Several states offer free CLE credit in exchange for pro bono

Saluting The Speechless

2013-04-03T21:04:00.004-07:00

Yesterday at the VA Hospital I was working with a client. He was there with two family members, I was with another volunteer from Veterans And Friends of Puget Sound, and jointly we were shepherding this elderly veteran through the process of getting the basic exam necessary for medical assistance there. He was certainly deserving; he was a member of The Greatest Generation and I won't go into

You Are Here, And So Am I

2013-04-03T10:08:00.001-07:00

New information about our Milky Way galaxy shows yet more features, but the basic lesson is the same: we really aren't that far apart.

Satellite Parking Enforcement Work System (SPEWS) Tickets

2013-04-01T08:08:00.001-07:00

SEATTLE - Today Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn of Seattle announced the implementation of an advanced satellite-based system for detecting cars that have overstayed their parking meters. The functioning of Satellite Parking Enforcement Work System Tickets (SPEWS-Tickets) is simple: every 15 minutes, a surplus Russian EBYUTEBYA spy satellite transmits a photo of the Seattle area to a computer