Alexie YMCA, the NAACP and Torture HQ

Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP was in Spokane this weekend, he marched, he spoke and we’re still in Obama’s Vietghanistan.

More on that after Libya.

The must stop on any Spokane visit, back in 1992 or so, was the Spokane YMCA.  I call it the Sherman Alexie Y, because he was fast on the court, but the Lens could jump higher.

The Sherman Alexie Y is now just about gone.  The property will be returned to its natural pre-1974 state…a huge rail yard, with leaking diesel fuel storage tanks added to ensure a polluted river and a new novel from Sherman.

Spokane Torture HQ

I think the Spokane Visitors Bureau would be upset with me, if I were to not mention the former site of Mitchel and Jessen’s torture HQ.  I stopped by, neither the CIA, or either of the cowards two were any where to be found.

Interestingly enough, the site of the attempted MLK Day parade bombing back in January, is only about a block away.

Like the demise of Alexie YMCA, the relationship of the bomb bench and torture hq, to hope and change, are just metaphors that no one in Spokane media has bothered to mention.

Lets go to MSNBC for a liberal take on war, hypocrisy and the trouble with media and profit in general.

Back at it soon.  Be Vigilant.