<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196243712083956100</id><updated>2011-10-27T16:14:29.829-07:00</updated><category term='Going Postal'/><category term='U.S. Postal Service'/><category term='Seattle Mafia'/><category term='Campaign 2011'/><category term='David Blomstrom'/><category term='corporate corruption'/><category term='Mark Kudlo'/><category term='Video Voters Guide'/><category term='Post Office'/><title type='text'>The Seattle Mafia Blog</title><subtitle type='html'>Chat about the corporate crooks that rule Seattle.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.seattle-mafia.org/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9196243712083956100/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.seattle-mafia.org/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>David Blomstrom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15625375616919298101</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196243712083956100.post-21074571663870900</id><published>2011-10-27T16:07:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-27T16:14:29.846-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Liberal Seattle on Gaddafi</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="pfirst"&gt;I have tremendous respect for the freedom fighters who have fought so valiantly against U.S. terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. But maybe it's time they go behind enemy lines and draw a bead on the media whores who continue to brainwash Americans into believing all the bullshit about Team USA's phony war against terrorism.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;The world would be a much nicer place without right-wing media whores like Anne Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. Even liberal Seattle is crawling with sewer journalism. Consider the following:&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;div style="margin: 10px 0; padding: 5px 25px; background: #000; color: #fff;"&gt;&amp;quot;In better news, today brought the fatal shooting of &lt;strong&gt;Muammar Qaddafi&lt;/strong&gt;, the 700-year-old Libyan head of state and one of the original Islamic terrorists, whose decades of murdering dissenters and organizing mass rapes ended today after a NATO air strike sent him scrambling to hide in a large sewer drainpipe, where Qaddafi was subsequently and fatally shot. Congratulations to the people of Libya.&amp;quot;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;p&gt;No, I'm not quoting the right-wing &lt;em&gt;Seattle Times&lt;/em&gt;; this comes from the right-wing rag that promotes itself as a community-based liberal alternative to the &lt;em&gt;Times&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Stranger&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;How many errors can you count in the above two sentences - just TWO sentences?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;I won't count citing Gaddafi's age as 700 years, as that obviously wasn't meant to be taken seriously.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;But decades of murder - and organizing mass rape???&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;The corporate media have repeatedly tried to brand Libya as a global sex deviant, even claiming he provided his troops with Viagra. Various individuals and organizations have asked &amp;quot;Where's the proof?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;As for the sewer pipe story, well, the only people who lived to testify are the craven cowards who murdered Gaddafi, with NATO's help. OF COURSE they're going to claim they found him hiding in a sewer pipe.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Wikipedia's article &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Muammar_Gaddafi" title="Death of Muammar Gaddafi"&gt;Death of Muammar Gaddafi&lt;/a&gt; cites his refuge as a DRAINAGE PIPE, but even that's just a claim.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;The claim that Gaddafi was MURDERED in a sewage drainpipe is a bald-faced lie. Several videos show Gaddafi, bleeding from his wounds, being manhandled and abused. It's absurd to think that a mob pulled him out of a sewer pipe, roughed him up, then shoved him back inside the sewer pipe for his execution.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Perhaps the sickest statement is the last sentence: &amp;quot;Congratulations to the people of Libya.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Yes, congratulations to the people who enjoyed the highest standard of living in all of Africa, living in a debt-free nation that was relatively free of the oppression of women that people associate with the Middle East.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Don't take my word for it. Read Wikipedia's article &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaddafi" title="Gaddafi"&gt;Gaddafi&lt;/a&gt;. There are many other references where you can verify my claims, starting with the &lt;em&gt;CIA World Factbook&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;I encourage &lt;em&gt;The Stranger&lt;/em&gt;'s staff to visit Libya six months from now and ask &lt;em&gt;the people&lt;/em&gt; how they're enjoying that change. Maybe they can share the local brew as they exchange jokes about Gaddafi being sodomized and murdered in a sewer pipe.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, holding &lt;em&gt;The Stranger&lt;/em&gt; accountable might be difficult, as its staff are so invisible they might be mistaken for CIA operatives. The clip quoted above was written by an asswipe named David Schmader. But the clown who attacked me during my last bid for public office was named &amp;quot;Unpaid Intern.&amp;quot; Another sewer journalist is named &amp;quot;Goldy.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;As a former teacher, I pray that one day everyone working for &lt;em&gt;The Stranger&lt;/em&gt; is sodomized and murdered in a sewer pipe and buried in a mass grave with the pedophiles they're so hard to distinguish from. Keep these assholes and their vile lies away from my children.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;P.S. Muslims take note: &lt;em&gt;The Stranger&lt;/em&gt; is clearly anti-Muslim, even if they flippantly pretend to care about &amp;quot;the people&amp;quot; - the way it cares about the children it helps the Seattle Chamber of Commerce screw.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9196243712083956100-21074571663870900?l=blog.seattle-mafia.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.seattle-mafia.org/feeds/21074571663870900/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9196243712083956100&amp;postID=21074571663870900' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9196243712083956100/posts/default/21074571663870900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9196243712083956100/posts/default/21074571663870900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.seattle-mafia.org/2011/10/liberal-seattle-on-gaddafi.html' title='Liberal Seattle on Gaddafi'/><author><name>David Blomstrom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15625375616919298101</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196243712083956100.post-6459270143069299779</id><published>2011-06-21T17:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-21T17:48:56.706-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Video Voters Guide'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Campaign 2011'/><title type='text'>Campaign 2011 Speech</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="pfirst"&gt;Well, here's my campaign speech. I taped it for the Video Voters Guide about an hour ago.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My performance wasn't that great. I've been so overwhelmed with things, I completedly spaced it out. I forgot all about my speech until someone called me to remind me about submitting a copy for the tele-prompter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yikes! I hadn't even begun writing it! So I quickly wrote it just yesterday. I did a pretty good job memorizing it - but not good enough; I had to read most of it during the taping.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, well - I'm not a professional speaker, anyway. Ultimately, it's the words that count and I'm happy with the way it came together. What do you think?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 25px; background: #000; color: #fff;"&gt;Greetings,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most people find school politics boring. After all, there are more important things to deal with, from the economy to endless war to Japan's nuclear meltdown, right? In fact, Seattle's children are affected by all these issues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We're fighting WWIII right now as multinational corporations attack one nation after another. We should all thank the protesters and freedom fighters in Europe and the Middle East who have fought back so courageously.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We share common enemies with Europeans and Muslims alike, from oil barons and banksters to our own Bill Gates. The nerd who gave us crappy software and computer viruses is now promoting nuclear energy even as Japan's crippled nuclear reactors spew radiation. Gates has also been telling teachers and health care workers how to do their jobs. Mr. Arrogance has even declared war on environmentalists and scientists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not surprisingly, the schools Bill Gates has been "helping" for years are going downhill, along with Microsoft. Let's wake up and protect our children from the Gates Foundation, with its phony philanthropy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you care about the economy? If so, how do you feel about the school district losing your property taxes in a black hole of waste and corruption? What about derelict superintendents who are now paid over a quarter million dollars a year?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, let's talk about war. I'm sick of the stupid excuses people make for our endless war crimes. "They were only following orders." "They didn't know what they were getting in to."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, DUH...let's give them a clue: Our troops are fighting for some very rich, powerful and corrupt sickos who want to exploit other countries. It's that simple.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't support Obama or his stupid wars, and I do NOT support the troops. I support children, in Iraq, Afghanistan and here in Seattle, and I do not want them trained to murder other children for Bill Gates and his friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I discuss many more issues and solutions at www.seattle-mafia.org; check it out with an iPad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you, and vote smart.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9196243712083956100-6459270143069299779?l=blog.seattle-mafia.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.seattle-mafia.org/feeds/6459270143069299779/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9196243712083956100&amp;postID=6459270143069299779' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9196243712083956100/posts/default/6459270143069299779'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9196243712083956100/posts/default/6459270143069299779'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.seattle-mafia.org/2011/06/campaign-2011-speech.html' title='Campaign 2011 Speech'/><author><name>David Blomstrom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15625375616919298101</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196243712083956100.post-5919540322846029913</id><published>2010-04-20T20:21:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-20T20:21:35.791-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mark Kudlo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.S. Postal Service'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Going Postal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Post Office'/><title type='text'>Mark Kudlo</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="pfirst"&gt;If you smell a stench in your mail, it may have been handled by Mark Kudlo (Kudlow?), a supervisor at the U.S. Postal Service's big central processing warehouse near Boeing Field (aka PD&amp;amp;C). I recently learned that people have been hitting that twisted asshole with grievances right and left. So why do I care?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I worked for the Seattle School District for sixteen years until I was laid off at the end of the 2001-2002 school year. I was unemployed for about two years before I got a job during the holiday season as a &amp;quot;Christmas Casual&amp;quot; at a Post Office unit in Kent.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The next year, I worked as a Christmas Casual at Seattle's PD&amp;amp;C. I worked there for about a year before I was forced to abandon ship by a gang of thugs headed by Mark Kudlo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite the name, there's nothing casual about working for USPS during the holiday season. It's hard physical labor. Which isn't to say I don't like that kind of work; in fact, I love it. But I'm very much in the minority.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the holiday season, management decided to retain one Christmas casual and let the others go. I won, a fact I was very proud of. After all, I was about fifty years old, and I was competing against people in their twenties. I simply outworked them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The work was tedious, but it paid the rent, and I liked the freedom of working night shift. I got along with both the supervisors and co-workers very well (with a few exceptions). Some supervisors regularly complimented and thanked me for being such a hard worker.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But I wasn't officially a full-time employee, with benefits and union protection. Every six months, employees without that special status are required to rotate between working as a mail handler and a clerk in the North Building.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What a nightmare! I know what shit work is like. I've worked in a gas station, a fish cannery and the classroom. I spent four years in the Navy. I've experienced boredom, frustration and harassment, but that experienced ranks as one of the worst jobs I've ever had. I'm not talking simple harassment here, folks. What those SOB's did to me and my co-workers was criminal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Pre-emptive Training&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Very briefly, clerking is a fairly complex job. It isn't rocket science, but there are a lot of details to learn, a lot of things to take care of - nothing a decent training program can't handle.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And that's the problem; the PD&amp;amp;C's Clerk training program was a sick joke. They simply assign each new recruit to a Clerk operating a gargantuan letter-processing machine that looks like something out of Blade Runner for some on the job training. The people doing the training have no manuals or even notes to go by. They just wing it, struggling to keep tabs on that Big Brother of a machine they're virtually chained to while trying to teach a new employee.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The supervisors in that area were almost unanimously ASSHOLES. I'm talking about Cliff Wind (recently retired), &amp;quot;Pussy&amp;quot; Pete (I think he's Puerto Rican; can someone tell me his last name?), Ben &amp;quot;Can't Get Enough Pussy from Anyone but his Wife&amp;quot; Ishmael and Virginia Bigting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how Virginia spells her last name, but some people consider her the PD&amp;amp;C's #1 atrocity. Her stupidity is hard to comprehend; why she isn't working as a Seattle Schools principal I'll never know. But don't let anyone tell you she's a nice person who's just a little soft in the head; she's another asshole begging for an ass-kicking.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Cosmic Shithead&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;But Mark Kudlo is the star of the show. (Can someone tell me if his name is Mark Kudlo or Mark Kudlow, with a W?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to tell you Mark Kudlo is more evil than Paul Schell, Bill Gates, Don Nielsen or any of the thousands of other assholes who call Seattle home. But Kudlo is one of the most SINISTER individuals I've ever met. He wears his evil on his sleeve.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first time I ever associated with him was while I was still a Mail Handler. One day, Kudlo came into the South Building on some sort of errand. He asked me to help him as he went about taking stock of something or other.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He wasn't rude. He didn't do anything to antagonize me. Yet some sort of sixth sense screamed DANGER. I remember asking myself, &amp;quot;What's wrong with this guy?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He just didn't seem to have any emotional content, as if he was a robot or a giant reptile.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My first day on the job as a Clerk was the last day for the people my crew was relieving. As everyone said their goodbyes, the supervisors said kind words, like &amp;quot;I'll miss you,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Take care&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Good luck!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mark Kudlo said something similar, but, once again, it sounded utterly devoid of sentiment. His kind words sounded almost like a taunt or a threat.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="asterisk"&gt;* * * * *&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, but that's all I have time to write right now. I'll try and finish this tomorrow or the next day. I'll tell you about Mark Kudlo the ex-military (reportedly kicked out)/frustrated psychiatrist interrogator whose reputation for hitting on women got him an ass-kicking by a USPS employee one glorious day. I'll tell you about the almost unbelievable face he made at me one day - like a four-year-old kid who had just shit his pants.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, I'd LOVE to hear from anyone with complaints about Kudlo or who can give me ANY information about him. If the USPS and the union combined cannot or will not deal with this freak of nature, then maybe he needs another ass-kicking...starting on the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you contact me, I promise I won't divulge your name without permission. Nor will I write anything that will point a finger at you. I'd especially like to learn the name of the guy who kicked Mark Kudlo's ass. I suspect he could tell us a lot about Kudlo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I welcome information about other postal scum, Virginia Bigting to Carlos &amp;quot;Daddy's Boy&amp;quot; Salazar to the Postmaster General &amp;amp; CEO.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stay tuned!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9196243712083956100-5919540322846029913?l=blog.seattle-mafia.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.seattle-mafia.org/feeds/5919540322846029913/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9196243712083956100&amp;postID=5919540322846029913' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9196243712083956100/posts/default/5919540322846029913'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9196243712083956100/posts/default/5919540322846029913'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.seattle-mafia.org/2010/04/mark-kudlo.html' title='Mark Kudlo'/><author><name>David Blomstrom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15625375616919298101</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196243712083956100.post-2597136766132238444</id><published>2008-06-02T22:28:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-05T20:01:31.341-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='David Blomstrom'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Seattle Mafia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='corporate corruption'/><title type='text'>Welcome!</title><content type='html'>This is one of two blogs I've launched in association with the website Seattle-Mafia.org. Until I get everything squared away, comments aren't allowed here. However, that will likely change soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the meantime, you can learn more about the Seattle Mafia by following the links on the right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for visiting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;David Blomstrom&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9196243712083956100-2597136766132238444?l=blog.seattle-mafia.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.seattle-mafia.org/feeds/2597136766132238444/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9196243712083956100&amp;postID=2597136766132238444' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9196243712083956100/posts/default/2597136766132238444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9196243712083956100/posts/default/2597136766132238444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.seattle-mafia.org/2008/06/test.html' title='Welcome!'/><author><name>David Blomstrom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15625375616919298101</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
