Above: A meetup with newspeople who ask questions.
Sponsored by a local Invisible Veteran chapter.
KOMO News
2 men killed, woman injured during downtown Tacoma shooting; residents beg for more police presence
Many comments are posted with the video above.
Welcome Home Troops
KING 5 Seattle
The Fantasy Newsperson Asks
Has any WA gun control measure or public policy effort of the past 20 years slowed down the gunfire between say, Everett and Tacoma?
What works? What fails?
The weak-minded culture expects very little from its newspeople.
Newspeople remain silent.
Trouble on Okinawa
Young Americans growing up in the post 911 era may witness the ongoing breakdown of society.
How does life back home relate to adult life/behavior in distant lands?
In The News
US Marine is arrested over the killing of a woman on Okinawa. More here.
Armed Forces Recruiting – 1980s
Part of what made it work:
In past decades, people could do time in uniform, then return to the US with a feeling that they were living in the best country on the planet.
They believed it and their parents and grandparents believed it.
Those who did may have wished to hand down a better version of the modern American society to their kids and grandkids.
Today-
Standards back home have deteriorated. The troops return to an ongoing breakdown of society.
Emergency/crisis/chaos mode is what we get now.
Related:
Does the US Dept. of Homeland Security prevent cartel product from entering Seattle? This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US.
More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?
If OD numbers are lower, is this because DHS is able to keep cartel product from arriving in US communities, or because drug addicts are now fogged down with Narcan, buprenorphine, Naloxone, etc. to combat overdoses?
“…King County continued to see hundreds of fatal overdoses.”
Seattle Blue Tarp City – Drug War Scam Rolls On
Seattle drug situation any different today than it was under Biden?
1960s and 70s
The WWII Generation had a modern society up and running. Seattle was a world-class city in the last century.
2026:
Seattle Street Scenes – USA 250
WA State Ferries
KOMO News
Local Oddities & Funding Priorities
In the news:
$6.3 million in federal cash for a used Ocean Shores hotel.
Any questions from newspeople?
December 8, 2022 The Daily World
Dept. of Ag invests $6.3M to purchase Ocean Shores hotel
$6.3 million “to fund the acquisition of an existing hotel. Marathon Enterprises Inc. is located in Ocean Shores, Grays Harbor County, Washington. The project is expected to result in saving eight jobs and creating one full time job.”
Zero questions from small or large newspapers. Zero questions from TV newspeople.
Several years back, I started the Old Man Blog category. It involves thoughts on changes in American culture relating to those born roughly in the late 50s & early 60s.
Original Old Man Blog here: https://oldmanblogdotcom.wordpress.com
New updates here: https://oakbaystarfish.com/category/old-man-blog/
Possibly of interest:
Generation Jones 1954 to 1965