Great job winning the Leagues Cup.
https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/champions-seattle-sounders-win-leagues-cup-2025-over-inter-miami
2025-09-02
Sometime in the future - when those beings who inherit the planet after all living beings have been destroyed due to climate change - an explanation will be needed as to how it all happened.
And it can be summed up by two right-wing groups of people in society.
Those that are truly crazy and are in positions of power with ability to do great violence, destruction of everyone and everything around them; including themselves (perhaps not coincidentally, unlike cancer).
And then there those who also serve in positions of power who pretend to do something about it, and do nothing.
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/09/02/vijay-prashad-liberals-paved-way-to-the-far-right/
https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/far-right-neoliberalism/
You have surrendered whatever limited ‘neutral’ function the state had in the class struggle between capitalists and workers. The oligarchy now runs the state, with regulations set to a minimum and worker rights set to near zero.
You have watched as the oligarchy has set fire to society, breaking up the old factories, sending the machines to countries where labour is cheaper, and making money off the factory land through speculation. There are no jobs left in the wasteland, only servile jobs to tend to the whims of the oligarchy and uberised jobs to provide mediocre quality services to each other.
You have urged the compromised state to cut taxes and reduce its social services at the same time as unemployment and poverty have increased. Old liberal ideas of helping the less fortunate have dissolved in the acid of individualism and personal ambition, the money that used to be spent on social welfare now vaporised into the financial markets for the oligarchs’ race to become the first trillionaire. What would have been recycled through the tax system is now mired in the casino-like money markets, the whoops and razzle of the monied concealing the howls of the poor.
2025-08-30
End of my last vacation. End of Summer.
For me, Summer ends when kids go back to school.
But that aside, got lots of outdoor time (hopefully more to still come), finished some songs, wrote music for a few more.
Back to work soon. But for now I'll enjoy the time I have until Tuesday.
2025-08-29
Time for the Fair?
That is, the Washington State Fair?
Of course, I always knew it as the Puyallup Fair; and still refer to it as such.
2025-08-27
The image that should forever be associated with Microsoft.
https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/microsoft-sign-protest-2048x1367.jpg
Why?
Microsoft under fire for silencing Gaza dissent with FBI help
The actions came as tensions over Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza spread into the corporate world. At Microsoft’s annual Build developers conference in May, an employee interrupted CEO Satya Nadella’s keynote address, accusing the company of enabling Israeli war crimes through its Azure cloud services. The worker, Joe Lopez, was later dismissed, according to CNBC.
FINALLY - someone says it out loud!
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-the-un-could-act-today-to-stop-the-genocide-in-palestine/
A UNGA resolution adopted under Uniting for Peace could -
1. Call on all states to adopt comprehensive sanctions and a military embargo against the Israeli regime. While it lacks the power to enforce sanctions, it can call them, monitor them, and supplement them as required.
2. Decide to reject the UNGA credentials of Israel, as the UNGA did in the case of apartheid South Africa.
3. Mandate an accountability mechanism (like a criminal tribunal) to address Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity, apartheid, and genocide.
4. Reactivate the UN’s long-dormant anti-apartheid mechanisms to address Israeli apartheid, and
5. Mandate an armed, multinational, UN protection force to deploy to Gaza (and, ultimately, to the West Bank), acting at the request of the State of Palestine, to protect civilians, open entry points via land and sea, facilitate humanitarian aid, preserve evidence of Israeli crimes, and assist in recovery and reconstruction.
That's right - take away their UN membership and kick out Israel, as was the case with Apartheid South Africa.
It was 20 years ago today, that disaster struck for millions in New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina.
A disaster that could've been prevented.
https://blackagendareport.com/why-we-remember-katrina
Hurricane Katrina first struck the United States on August 25, 2025 making landfall in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane, the least powerful storm in that designation. But after being downgraded to the category of tropical storm, it gained strength as it traveled into the Gulf of Mexico and again reached hurricane status, making landfall again in Mississippi and Louisiana on August 29, 2025.
Residents of Mobile, Alabama, Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi, and New Orleans and other Louisiana cities were all devastated by the storm surge. Twenty years later when we think of Katrina it is the images from New Orleans, where large portions of the city are below sea level, which come to mind. Those who were unable to evacuate were stranded and the levees which were constructed to protect New Orleans were either topped by the storm surge or gave way altogether. The Lower Ninth Ward, home to a majority Black population, was flooded. The official number of deaths caused by hurricane Katrina was 1,392 people, mostly in Louisiana and Mississippi, but also in Alabama and Florida.
2025-08-26
2025-08-25
A real winner parking at my youngest's school opener.
This one person (WA license BWN5997) evidently thinks they and their children are immune to parking procedures, and violating fire safety laws.
Wow - detailed and exhaustive research confirms what I suspected all along.
The Maxwells and Epstein's ties to both the CIA and the Mossad.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/maxwell-family-epstein-mossad-cia/290379/
2025-08-24
Well, at least we were in the shade.
Went to a Tacoma Rainiers game at Cheney Field.
They lost 6-3.
Still it was fun to watch. Incredible all the changes to the game - the strike zone call challenges, the pitch clock, no ball girls, etc.
Most people were surprisingly not being drink or stupid either.
2025-08-22
I think the real lesson here is - any single nation can combat Global Crapitalism only so far.
The reach of it and the 1% is so powerful and patient to a degree.
While this video makes a lot of good points, it neglects something critical.
A Canadian (the Toronto Blue Jays of the American League East division) team had won two consecutive championships - 1992 and 1993. And with the Montreal Expos sitting 34 games over .500, they were in very good shape to make an appearance in the World Series; and thus a third consecutive championship won by a non-American.
I think MLB colluded with the union to deliberately create the labor dispute - which served as the catalyst to shut down the 1994 season; and thus prevent another Canadian team from winning.
Starting my last vacation of this fiscal year.
Somehow I don't find myself celebrating much.
That being said, there are no vacations this year. So I have to make the most by doing some things for the family.
A ballgame. Perhaps some day trips here and there. We'll see.
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