Seahawks Rise, as Does Seattle, in Hometown Tycoon's Vision

Listen to this interview with our own Brian Baird about daytrading in the halls of congress and what he intends to do about it.

Check out this dKos diary.

Benefit for Medical Aid for Iraqi Children Injured by U.S. Weapons

Sunday, January 29, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

St. John’s Episcopal Church, 19th & Capitol Way, Olympia

Enjoy a variety of music at the “Sing for Peace

I am working on a screenplay about the 1919 Centralia massacre.

I went to Centralia to walk the walk of Westly Everest, hear people tell me about the event... I was interviewed by Aaron a reporter from the Centralia Chronicle paper. I recieved several emails and phone calls from several people of Centralia and Chehalis... eighty years and some people still have a hard time talking about the massacre...

Nothing but great responses... look what people had to say about the website and the film, in progress. Don't forget to sign my guestbook.

www.ghostofhangmansbridge.com

Ursula

In the 1920- 40s, here in Olympia, a Captain Greenwood "for many years had an unusual 'boat' moored along West Bay Drive he said he was getting ready for the next flood from God.".

What with this current weather, I think we are due for some more ark building.

Captain Greenwood & Ark
(From Shadow Catchers and Susan Parish collections)

Simple Survival Steps

To make the best of a bad situation, think along the following lines:

• My money is insured, the only thing at risk is my safety 
  
• Let the guy have what he wants, the sooner he gets it the sooner he’ll go away
• He’s probably done this before or he’ll do it again – the more often he does it the better his chances of getting caught

Although it may be difficult to control your anger in such a situation (after all, you have to work for a living don’t you?), the best thing is to just get the robber out of there so that everybody is safe. Desperation leads to bank robberies, and you don’t want to mess with a desperate and scared person.

From: Surviving a Bank Robbery 

Word Spy has a good run through on how the term chickenhawk is used, along with its possible history.

Included is the definition I grew up with in Seattle, chickenhawk referred to an older adult man who preyed on boys. When I run across the word as it is more commonly used now, I still often do a double take.

The crime wave continues. From the Olympian:

OLYMPIA — A man robbed a downtown bank of an undisclosed amount of money Tuesday, the third such crime in less than a week.

The man walked into the Bank of American branch at Fifth Avenue and Water Street, approached a cashier window and handed the teller a note demanding cash and implying he was carrying a weapon, according to police. No witnesses saw a weapon.

Police were dispatched at 11:20 a.m., but the robber had fled the bank before officers arrived. No one was injured.

The teller reported that she thought the suspect got into a car in the parking lot and drove off. But she couldn’t provide a vehicle description, Olympia police Cmdr. Tor Bjornstad said.

Blah, blah, blah -- let's hear the important stuff! What was he wearing?

The man was described as white, in his mid- to late-20s, about 5 feet 10 inches tall and 175 to 190 pounds. He had a neatly trimmed goatee and was wearing white athletic shoes, blue jeans, a dark leather jacket and a black baseball cap.

Boring!

From KOMO News:

SEATTLE - It's 0.02" of rain for the record books.

That's how much rain fell between 8 and 9 p.m. in Olympia Thursday evening to officially tie their record for number of consecutive days with measurable rain at 33. The rainy streak began with snow just before midnight on the night of Dec. 18.

The original record was 33 days set from Jan. 6 through Feb. 7 in 1953.

That is the same record Seattle was chasing, but fell short on Sunday and their streak ended at 27 days. (Incidentally, it has rained on each day since, so Seattle can take solace that they were 31 of 32 days with rain -- the Seattle streak began a day later than Olympia's.)

Shelton is also the proud owner of a 33-day streak, while Forks and Tacoma are still going at 32 days. Tacoma is the only one close to a record (theirs is also 33, set the same time as Olympia's). Shelton's record is 41 days while Forks' is 51 days.

Olympia has an excellent chance to break the record Friday, as rain is still in the forecast, but with drier weather expected over the weekend, the streak will likely end then.

Is it time to start doing some sort of sun dance?