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May 16 Breadbaker commented on It Doesn't Matter if You're Black or Gay; It Doesn't Matter if You're at a Lunch Counter or a Bakery.

May a Catholic baker refuse to bake a cake for a couple where one is Catholic but marrying out of the faith? May a Jewish baker refuse to bake a cake for someone marrying in a Jewish ceremony but not Orthodox enough for the baker? And why leave it with weddings? Can a Catholic baker refuse to bake a cake for someone who is divorced and remarried, just a birthday cake?

Mar 30 Breadbaker commented on Two Wonderful People.

Post_Mortem's comments exactly mirror our sense of her when she was at Garfield. A lot of platitudes, a lot of really good teachers leaving. If she had good qualities, being a high school principal in Seattle was not one of them.

Mar 19 Breadbaker commented on Hospital Calls Police on Patient for Possessing Pot Legally.

Assuming she actually did think he was impaired, there is a huge difference between "let me call you a cab, or why don't you grab yourself a cup of coffee until you come down?" and calling the cops.

Mar 7 Breadbaker commented on Center School Students, Alumni, Parents Testify at Packed School Board Meeting, Board Members Signal Support of Controversial Curriculum.

I agree with Sameoldnobodyloggedin. The problems I most recall as a parent in the Seattle Public Schools was how hard it was to get anyone's attention on really obvious things: kids assigned to classes they were not going to learn in, rules for who got into classes changing year after year, making it impossible to complete a course of study by graduation, no notice of mandatory and very narrow windows to add or drop classes that interfered with long-planned family vacations. My son had two well-educated parents who had the communications skills and were willing to devote the time to get his problems solved, but that is not the norm or the standard for admission to Seattle Public Schools. Every child's problems should get appropriate attention, on a triage basis if needs be. But a single family's complaint about a curriculum that is clearly well-liked by a large number of students should not get this kind of immediate and irreversible response. The kids who have been spinning wheels in this class while this trumped-up controversy is being played out will not get that learning time back, ever.

To use a legal analogy, ordinarily when a party seeks an injunction, one important factor is preserving the status quo during the pendency of the dispute. In this case, the students have been basically put in deep freeze while the complainants have been basically given everything they asked for. When private parties seek an injunction, they have to post a bond in case it turns out the relief was improperly granted. This family has no downside here; they've already won and if the decision is reversed, the time taken away from these students is not recoverable and they pay no price for taking it away. That this is typical of the Seattle School District administration, under every superintendent as far back as I remember, will come as no surprise to any parent, student or teacher in the district.

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Feb 7 Breadbaker commented on I Am a Proud Catholic.

I think there's the kernel of an idea here. We recruit a bunch of "suddenly enlightened" Tea Party members to run for Congress in 2014, they are Opus Dei Catholics or evangelicals or even Likudniks depending on the district (Goldy knows damn well which one he gets to play). We get them all elected in safe Republican districts and then, before the next Congress meets, they all declare themselves to be caucusing with the Democrats and establish voting records that would make Jim McDermott blush. Think what we could accomplish in the last two years of Obama's term.

Oct 8, 2012 Breadbaker commented on We Really Showed Paul Allen.

"An irregular terrain of swamps and bluffs, punctuated by rocky outcroppings, made the land between Fifth and Eighth avenues and 59th and 106th streets undesirable for private development. Creating the park, however, required displacing roughly 1,600 poor residents, including Irish pig farmers and German gardeners, who lived in shanties on the site. At Eighth Avenue and 82nd Street, Seneca Village had been one of the city's most stable African-American settlements, with three churches and a school. The extension of the boundaries to 110th Street in 1863 brought the park to its current 843 acres." That sure sounds like the Cascade District. Unless, say, you ever actually were there.

Sep 29, 2012 Breadbaker commented on Seattle Times Urges Court to Ignore the Constitution on I-1053. Why Do They Hate America?.

The "people" have the right to change the Constitution by changing the Legislature to have it propose a constitutional amendment to the people to change the vote required. The people have consistently NOT thrown out the legislators who have refused to bring such a constitutional amendment before the people. The people are entitled to be inconsistent in what they do and the courts should take that into account in following the Gerberding precedent and telling McKenna and Eyman to stop wasting their time.

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Jan 31, 2012 Breadbaker commented on Truth Needle: Seattle Times Mainlines McKenna.

I have a real problem with the layout of the so-called Truth Squad on the page, where its headline essentially made it sound like this was fact, not opinion. This is sort of the flip side of the brouhaha the NYT public editor caused by asking about fact-checking and its role in the news pages. "Taken out of context" is an interpretation, not a fact about which truth can be told. Leave something like to a quote from a McKenna campaign official, not to a column allegedly devoted to truth.

On the other hand, when I see a news article that calls into question the unchallenged assertions about Obama's record in the GOP presidential debates, it will be the first time.