Property Tax Increase Shocks Already Struggling King County Home Owners

 The average property tax increase for King County home owners is $1000.Overall, countywide property tax collections for the 2022 tax year are $6.79 billion, an increase of $190 million --3% -- over last year's total of $6.6 billion.

Think about it, First they lock you down and ruin your private business then they cause massive hyper inflation and while you are barely making ends meet they steal more money from you in taxes.  

Over the past 2 years most government employees  continued to receive full pay, benefits and retirement contributions. During that time most of these "workers" worked from home doing who knows what. 1000 of citizens complained about lack of service and a recent audit revealed only 15% of "working from home" government employees answered the phone when a tax payer called.

It's really amazing how liberals will complain about shortages in the grocery stores (mostly about the lack of wine) but they are fine with taxing people out of their hard earned money and possibly their homes. 

Conservative Parents Sweep Texas School Board Elections on a Theme of Transparency

 

Conservative Parents Sweep Texas School Board Elections on a Theme of Transparency, No Masks, and No CRT in the Classroom

Saturday, school board elections were held for four suburban Fort Worth, Texas, school districts. Candidates backed by a conservative parents’ organization won all 10 seats they contested and unseated at least three incumbents. 

 Yesterday’s elections were just a continuation of the revolt over CRT  that started last year. Even though we all know it is only taught as an elective in law school and a total non-issue in school board elections, teaching children to observe racial stereotypes and judge classmates based on their skin color is deeply offensive to thinking people.

This election, like the one last year, teaches several lessons. First, if normal parents organize, they are a formidable force. Too often, we parents are too caught up in our lives to pay much attention to school board candidates. If you care about your kids and the country, pay attention.

 

 

New Ballot Initiative Aims To Create ‘Social Housing’ In Seattle And Wage War On Property Owners

The city clerk’s office will review the new ballot initiative to ensure it has been filed correctly. Once that has been settled, the initiative will receive a ballot title and then members of the coalition will begin collecting signatures from Seattle residents. The coalition needs almost 27,000 signatures to qualify for the ballot.

If the initiative hits that, voters would get to weigh in on it this fall. 

A Discipline Policy Based Upon Race/Ethnicity

Washington state school district will encourage teachers to consider students' race when dishing out punishments: Critics say new policy will result in harsher punishments for white students

 A school district in Washington state has passed a new policy that critics say encourages administrators to factor in race when disciplining students.

The Clover Park School District board approved the new policy on a 3-2 vote on March 14, over the objections of board members who expressed concerns that it was ill-conceived. 

The district in the suburbs of Tacoma will now use 'culturally responsive discipline' that encourages school staff to impose disciplinary policies that 'may be adapted to individual student needs in a culturally responsive manner.' 

The Clover Park School District, which is the 28th largest in the state with an enrollment of 12,022, is 35 percent Hispanic, 28 percent white, and 13 percent black, and 4 percent Asian.

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10663977/Clover-Park-school-district-passes-policy-consider-race-punishing-students.html

 

The Fall of Seattle

 

 " This February, Bruce Harrell, newly installed as mayor of Seattle, made it official that his city has gone into decline. “The truth is the status quo is unacceptable,” he said in his first state of the city address. “It seems like every day I hear stories of longtime small businesses closing their doors for good or leaving our city.” But it’s not just small businesses. In mid-March, Amazon announced that it was abandoning a 312,000-square-foot office space in downtown, citing concerns over crime.

That such woes should afflict one of the richest cities in the country, with a median household income of over $100,000, cannot be blamed on economic decline. Yet much of Seattle’s core looks like a pockmarked ghost town. Businesses on both sides of Third Avenue, a major thoroughfare, are boarded up. Blocks from the Four Seasons hotel and the Fairmont Hotel, tents crowd the sidewalks, and drug users sit under awnings holding pieces of foil over lighter flames. Traffic enforcement is minimal to nonexistent. The year 2020 saw a 68% spike in homicides, the highest number in 26 years, and the year 2021 saw a 40% surge in 911 calls for shots fired and a 100% surge in drive-by shootings. Petty crime plagues every neighbourhood of the city, and downtown businesses have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund their own security.

What happened to Seattle? The answer, of course, depends on your politics."

https://unherd.com/2022/03/the-fall-of-seattle/

The CDC Greatly Exaggerated Covid Deaths By Over 72 Thousand And Still Counting .

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently lowered the total COVID-19 death count by more than 72,000.

According to the agency, the government's algorithm over-counted COVID-related deaths by 72,277 across 26 states, specifically including 24% of pediatric deaths (416).

 The agency's updated overall death count due to the coronavirus stands at approximately 969,000. The change was close to 7.5%, which represents a significant difference with the total number hovering so close to one million deaths.

The large drop in the figure of pediatric deaths due to COVID-19 puts the total number at 1,341 nationwide. Children have accounted for about 19% of all COVID-19 cases, though just 0.00%-0.01% of all child COVID-19 cases resulted in deaths.

To this day, the CDC's COVID death count does not establish a clear difference between individuals who died as a result of COVID-19, and those who died with COVID-19. A more specific differentiating standard between the two distinct types of death could lead to a further downward revision of the country's COVID death count.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/03/21/chil-m21.html

FDA Wants Covid Vaxxine Data Hidden From The Public For 75 Years

 The FDA

Update 3/24/22: Pfizer has issued a recall for a high blood pressure medication distributed under three names, according to the company. You should question all their products.

Oh Boy

 

The newly formed Seattle Student Union, a group of student activists that organized the rally, have been demanding stronger safety protocols since January, including district-issued high-quality masks. The group has been threatening a walkout since Gov. Jay Inslee announced plans to end mask requirements in schools, child care facilities, and most other businesses. 

The student union sent the School Board and Jones a letter last week asking that mask requirements continue, or they would take action. Students from schools around the district showed up, including from Franklin, Chief Sealth International, Roosevelt, Lincoln, Nova and Center high schools.

“Every time we try to get hasty and toss our masks off, we have another spike and another thousand people die,” said Eridon Stewart, a 17-year-old senior at Nova High, who spoke at the rally. Stewart said her mother has asthma, and could die if she caught the virus. Other students also talked about the threat COVID-19 poses to family members who are immunocompromised. 

 

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back In The Water.

 Wouldn't it be nice if Seattle Public Schools (SPS) could be about education? If staff could work to improve outcomes for all students. It used to be that way. Something changed and that change started when you had individuals with no skin in the game influencing student outcomes by manipulating school board elections and curriculum choice. These individuals don't have children attending SPS and many don't even reside in Seattle.  What they have in common is a petty and childish long running feud. 

Seattle Public School's resident malcontent has returned to Seattle and is determined to used her scorched earth tactics on anyone and everyone who disagrees with her and her allies agenda.

She has publicly stated that she will use her influence and connections to defeat those who run for school board in the future if  she doesn't approve of those candidates. Apparently she  has been spreading uncorroborated information against current and past SPS employees and her self documented history of manipulating board elections speaks for itself.

On the other side you have the agenda driven far left crazies threatening to use cancel culture against current and past SPS employees, parents and anyone else that gets in their way. 

These two groups and their respective allies have caused far more harm than good for SPS and both need to stop what they are doing.

Too Funny

The person running another Seattle school blog is apparently also a conspiracy theorist. Seriously you can't make this type of crazy up.

Here is a post made on March 13, 2022