I am saddened to read that the NFZ ordinance might soon be repealed. The ordinance imposes no harm, and it opens discussions between a few nuclear-armed countries and Olympia. Those discussions might not occur without the ordinance. Olympia continues to do business with corporations that are invested in nuclear despite the ordinance. The port of Olympia continues to accept US military shipments despite the ordinance. The bombing of Japan helped China grow to become one of the most successful communist nations and enabled Indonesia to become a muslim haven despite the ordinance. Meanwhile the US economy is declining and the attitude towards nuclear weapons is softening. Why? What are the implications of repealing the NFZ? How can this be good? I challenge supporters of repealing the NFZ to show the statistics that demonstrate why the repeal is financially or statistically warranted.

While walking the quiet city streets last Friday night actualizing a different reality for myself by clearing my mind in anticipation of the arrival of different thoughts, I encountered a flier that actuated my intentions of finding new thoughts. The white flier had a native symbol on the top, a picture of historical natives looking displeased and holding rifles in black and white, and then a phrase that said something like "Let the Buildings Burn Again". I looked for tape around the flier, but there was none. The flier was apparently glued to the lightpost (?) so that it could not be removed without leaving remnants behind. I wondered who is calling for this action and why. Where are the walls of classifications that elude me? What are the sections' connections?

Olympia made a major correct move with Quixote. I watched as an outsider evolution of Quixote from tents on grass to tarps on chips. A contribution to the local economy is only possible once exterior motives like shelter, relaxation, and food are satisfied.

The intentions are to invest in the economy in order to promote maximum potential growth for the most amount of people as advised in The Bible. Whether you agree with The Bible or not you should agree that money is good and the key to worldly success and better health for you and the environment when done correctly as it does. I'm for groups in Olympia who are contributing to our local economy by providing local services directly to our local citizens. Olyblog is an avenue to increased wealth an economy. This can be utilized as enhanced connections and understandings in the local community and as an increase in self respect. Respect is my first priority, and I am writing this particular blog in an attempt to replace disrespect with respect. Lets get that done by increasing the money flow here. Any ideas?

As we face another 30 years of carcinogenic reliance on fossil fuels, our economy must be rebuilt now. What should our economy do to end reliance on fossil fuels? Any ideas? Replace monofarms with diverse scatter plots? We don't need gmo for this. Natural, free products work fine to keep insects away there. Harvest is more reliable on a diversified plot and you don't need to worry about field rotation. So what do we pay when money exchange is required? How many farms are stocking up on canned goods? Or is all that coming from the government? What do Olympians feel is worth purchasing? Protection? Fresh food? What should we pay for a cup of soup at Traditions? When we pay that price how is that money distributed? How is a bill for a cup of soup distributed at a larger establishment? What about a frozen cup of soup? I am guessing that lots of us have found amazingly economical ways to live happily here. I just wondering about other ideas.....

food not bombs

On charging Bush with murder as was discussed on the locally popular radio show "Democracy Now" by a famous author whom is also an authority figure on war crimes and the host who was once the Graduation Speaker at TESC: Retroactive, symbolic, half in the past. You trace the inhumanity all the way back to the invention of gun powder. Before gunpowder, wars were settled in the nude with swords and shields on designated battlefields between designated participants and blessed by priests/teachers/shamans/druids just prior to battles on the battlefields. That was the US Western European way of life and the Native American way of life until gun powder became cheap good legal followed by roads for land pirates. That's why we use designated drivers- so that innocents survive to keep producing the women and children.

TESC's degrees prepare students for school more effectively than many other traditional universities due to the nature of interdisciplinary studies as opposed to non-interdisciplanary approaches. Also, faculty-student ratio is much lower at TESC as is typical in upper classes in ug/grad schools. I expect certain grads to do very well in the future as a result of the better training available at TESC.

Thanks to the People for Puget Sound for showing The 42 minute film "The Inland Sea: Where have all the Orcas Gone?". It contained some realistic scientific evidence regarding the dangers of polychlorinated biphenyls in sediments.

Where is the worm-safe packaged tuna boycott? Who killed that cause? Did it go underground to hang with celtic Christians?

Worms and bottom feeders rate higher than dolphins and orcas in many marine life risk assessments; attention rests where attention is due.

I nearly fell asleep watching a half-hour of a slow motion great white shark attack on a seal during the Discovery Channel film, but the local films were top-notch. They generated interest, emotions, and inspirations. Filtering rain water through neighborhood rain gardens was one great idea. Why drain directly into the bay at all?

Let us filter dangerous plastics' entrance into the ecosystem too. Containment cruxes constituation. Now we safely contain nuclear waste in earth-quake-safe permanent containers and hand-feed plastic to worms, ocean bottom feeders and ourselves over and over again, as if nuclear is the problem.

Solutions presented by the City of Olympia and People for Puget Sound during the films at SeaCinama Film Festival 2008 included bikes, busses, rain gardens, regulated whale watches (instead of unruly watches), and classification of species high on the food chain as endangered.

Over all, Ocean Day was a great event. I wondered why there were any empty seats!

Outside "security" hijacked the dead prez concert due to lack of police presence at that event, and outside "anarchists" hijacked mayday due to the lack of policy enforcement there as well. TESC responded to the concert riot by banning concerts instead of recognizing their lack of professional presence, and Olympia outcasted the goals of the mayday event instead of acknowledging the wolves in sheeps' clothing. Everybody can do better.