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Beacon Hill Housewife and municipal career gal Born and raised in the rolling hills of… more »
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- Will in Seattle or Fnarf
- Where's your hairiest square inch?: oh my!
- What do you like to read when you poop?: how vulgar!
- Frank Gehry or Rem Koolhaas
- What is your sweetest taboo?: butter
Catalina Vel-DuRay is finally back up north.
8:56 PM yesterday
Catalina Vel-DuRay commented on Is Brett Hamil the Most Attractive Person In Washington State?.
Catalina Vel-DuRay commented on Is Brett Hamil the Most Attractive Person In Washington State?.
2:30 PM yesterday
Catalina Vel-DuRay commented on Is Brett Hamil the Most Attractive Person In Washington State?.
Catalina Vel-DuRay commented on Is Brett Hamil the Most Attractive Person In Washington State?.
Don't question Fnarf's credentials when it comes to either Aerobics or Jazzercize. In fact, I first met him when he was teaching both at the Lake Forest Town Center in the late 70's. He came into I. Magnin looking for some Capezios, but we didn't carry that brand. I had to send him over to the downtown Penney's.
12:34 PM yesterday
Catalina Vel-DuRay commented on The Pleasures of Twitter.
Catalina Vel-DuRay commented on The Pleasures of Twitter.
So we are now calling pantsuits "trouser suits"?
May 23
Catalina Vel-DuRay commented on Showbox Sodo Cracked, FareStart Guest Chef Spectacular Tonight Cancelled.
Catalina Vel-DuRay commented on Showbox Sodo Cracked, FareStart Guest Chef Spectacular Tonight Cancelled.
Will Dear, the building to the south of the "Sounders Stadium" is the Centurylink Event center, 800 Occidental Avenue South. It does have 100kw of solar (manufactured by SOLYNDRA!) installed.
Showbox SOS is in the 1700 block of 1st ave s. No solar installed.
Showbox SOS is in the 1700 block of 1st ave s. No solar installed.
May 23
Catalina Vel-DuRay commented on Seattle Times Lies to Its Readers in Advocating to Fix a Workers' Compensation Crisis that Doesn't Exist.
Catalina Vel-DuRay commented on Seattle Times Lies to Its Readers in Advocating to Fix a Workers' Compensation Crisis that Doesn't Exist.
If only the 25 shut-ins, 63 senior citizens and 37 unemployables who still read The Seattle Times knew the truth!!!!
May 23
Catalina Vel-DuRay commented on A Pope at Peace With Atheists?.
Catalina Vel-DuRay commented on A Pope at Peace With Atheists?.
Is it just me, or does Slog have a pontifical obsession recently?
I enjoy when the Pope says things like this, because I know how it sets conservative Catholic's teeth on edge. If he came out for birth control and gay marriage, the Catholic hospitals would be too busy dealing with all the aneurysms to worry about abortion.
I enjoy when the Pope says things like this, because I know how it sets conservative Catholic's teeth on edge. If he came out for birth control and gay marriage, the Catholic hospitals would be too busy dealing with all the aneurysms to worry about abortion.
May 22
Catalina Vel-DuRay commented on Tornado Truthers.
Catalina Vel-DuRay commented on Tornado Truthers.
My dear late Aunt Ellanora Vel-DuRay and her husband retired from farming in the mid-70's, and bought a bar in Valley, Nebraska. Ellanora tended the bar in the daytime. Since she knew everyone in town, and was a very upright, straightforward lady, she had very little problem controlling the regulars.
One of those regulars was a guy who, when he got a few beers in, would start talking about how "the CIA" was practicing cloud seeding in order to shut the farmers down. One time I was in there, sipping my coke at the bar, when he started in on me about it. Ellanora came over, took his beer away, and said to him firmly "you had better go home now"
After he left, she said to me "when Charlie starts in on his CIA. Talk, I send him home to his wife. She knows how to handle him"
Could it be that my dear Auntie and Charlie's wife, were CIA agents, suppressing the truth about government weather tampering?
One of those regulars was a guy who, when he got a few beers in, would start talking about how "the CIA" was practicing cloud seeding in order to shut the farmers down. One time I was in there, sipping my coke at the bar, when he started in on me about it. Ellanora came over, took his beer away, and said to him firmly "you had better go home now"
After he left, she said to me "when Charlie starts in on his CIA. Talk, I send him home to his wife. She knows how to handle him"
Could it be that my dear Auntie and Charlie's wife, were CIA agents, suppressing the truth about government weather tampering?
May 21
Catalina Vel-DuRay commented on There Are No Atheists In Foxholes.
Catalina Vel-DuRay commented on There Are No Atheists In Foxholes.
I saw an interview with one of the teachers tonight. What she did in sheltering the children in her charge was undoubtedly heroic, and I will not take that away from her. But I was annoyed when she said "I did what you're not supposed to do. I prayed out loud for us"
I'm not an atheist. I don't really know what I am, and i'll admit that there have been times in my life when I have said a prayer (including a few tornadoes I sat through). I respect people's faith, but the whole Christian Martyr thing just leaves me cold.
I'm not an atheist. I don't really know what I am, and i'll admit that there have been times in my life when I have said a prayer (including a few tornadoes I sat through). I respect people's faith, but the whole Christian Martyr thing just leaves me cold.
May 21
Catalina Vel-DuRay commented on Puggle: Love It or Shove It.
Catalina Vel-DuRay commented on Puggle: Love It or Shove It.
What Julie said. It's not the dog's fault it was bred into something weird. All dogs, given half a chance in life, are wonderful.
Owners are another thing entirely.....
Owners are another thing entirely.....
May 21
Catalina Vel-DuRay commented on Morning News: An Even Bigger Tornado.
Catalina Vel-DuRay commented on Morning News: An Even Bigger Tornado.
The Catholic Church is just doing what its always done when it comes to hospitals. The real problem is that beginning in the 1970's, a company called Hospital Corporation of America (started by Bill Frist's daddy) began buying up public hospitals and taking them private. That same company was the one that Rick Scott was CEO of when they were busted for massive amounts of Medicate fraud.
The Church didn't want or need to sell, so they held on, making them one of the major players in the industry.
In a normal country, with national health care, the government would just buy out the Catholic hospitals, like they did in Canada.
The Church didn't want or need to sell, so they held on, making them one of the major players in the industry.
In a normal country, with national health care, the government would just buy out the Catholic hospitals, like they did in Canada.
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