Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: rants

  • house and condo prices continue to climb

    MercuryNews.com | 03/17/2005 | Valley house and condo prices continue to climb For all those waiting for a home-price “bubble” to explode: It hasn’t happened yet. The median price of Bay Area houses that sold in February was nearly 20 percent higher than it was a year earlier, reaching a new record of $569,000 paid…

  • Some thoughts on the recent debacle

    I don’t know if any other progressives reading this feel this way, but the past couple of days I find myself really, really angry at the Bush voters. To the point where if I drive by a car with a Bush sticker on it, my instant reaction is to flip them off. I don’t, mind…

  • What a moron

    Documentary on Kerry Should Be Broadcast – – The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register “Fahrenheit 9/11,” Michael Moore’s sleazy propaganda film targeting President Bush, was just fine with millions of liberals. Those who complained about the film’s many inaccuracies were accused of wanting to censor the movie, of somehow opposing Americans’ right to freedom of speech.” MM wasn’t…

  • Bush has no regrets. It’s regretful.

    Politics News Article | Reuters.com| Bush: Would give ‘Mission Accomplished’ speech again. President Bush said he had no regrets about donning a flight suit to give his “Mission Accomplished” speech on Iraq in May 2003 and would do it all over again if he had the chance, according to excerpts from an television interview released…

  • My Blog Rules

    I’m laying down some ground rules. First of all, if you read my blog please don’t read another word until you go to this site and read this disclaimer. Okay, now that you have read that, I have a few rules of my own to lay down. 1.This is my online journal. It is not…