April 25, 2007
Ron Sims, superstitious idiot

Ron Sims has dedicated the nation's first public reflexology paths

Boost your health- one bumpy step at a time- with a visit to cobblestone "reflexology" footpaths at King County's Marymoor and White Center parks.

"Health and wellness are vital to the residents of King County and many are turning to complementary therapies, such as reflexology, as a way of maintaining health, in addition to traditional Western health practices," said County Executive Ron Sims as he helped dedicate the footpaths at Marymoor Park today.
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Reflexology is an ancient practice based on the belief that reflex points exist in the feet, hands and ears which correspond to all parts of the body. Walking on specifically placed, uneven natural stones is believed to stimulate acupressure points in the feet that lead to improved circulation and reduce overall stress.

Of course, "Reflexology" is just a bunch of goofy pseudo-science.

This isn't the first time Sims has demonstrated his gullibility to superstition and faddish pseudo-science.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at April 25, 2007 08:01 PM | Email This
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1. or you could just twist your ankle and sue the county.

Posted by: Andy on April 25, 2007 07:57 PM
2. re #1: That's exactly what I thought when I saw this at White Center park a few weeks ago.

Posted by: Seabecker on April 25, 2007 08:11 PM
3. Does he have a license to practice?

Posted by: who do the voodoo like ron do on April 25, 2007 08:21 PM
4. I'm waiting for Bloodletting to be offered
or Alchemy classes

why in the world should government have anything to do w my desire to eat fat or sit on my rear (unless of course medicine and everything else is socialized, which of course now is partly true))

Posted by: righton on April 25, 2007 08:30 PM
5. I am sure you are all going to watch Bill Moyers on channel 9 at 9:00 right.

Remember. Reality is known to have a left wing bias.

He is going to talk about what was said in the runup to the war, and why the press did not question out and out bold faced, easily disproven lies.

We all know why. Some just won't admit it....

Posted by: Facts on April 25, 2007 08:38 PM
6. Hello Stefan,

At least he isn't promoting Seattle's other pseudo-science:

The Discovery Institute

God created the Earth is six days. Homo sapiens destroyed the Earth in five hundred years.

Praise God for pollution, SUVs, and America's big fat bellies!

In other words: Praise God for Capitalism!

Posted by: David Mathews on April 25, 2007 08:41 PM
7. Mr Mathews

Why don't you get your own blog.

Posted by: chris on April 25, 2007 08:51 PM
8. Is that man, allegedly the leader of our county, standing in a park with his shoes off?????

Posted by: Voter on April 25, 2007 09:22 PM
9. We had these in Singapore when I lived there. They do have some validity. Steph - your great and I donate to your causes, but this particular complaint is weak. Sims has so many other weaknesses as a leader; this isn't your strongest argument.

Posted by: Htet2 on April 25, 2007 09:25 PM
10. But I thought you Republicans loved superstitious politicians?

Or maybe its just that competing forms of superstition aren't welcome among the Christian right?

Posted by: LOL on April 25, 2007 09:29 PM
11. Foot rubs make me roll over, purr and give up all free will... I doubt that's what good ol King Ron had in mind....

Posted by: Ragnar Danneskjold on April 25, 2007 09:34 PM
12. Ron Sims is like a story you read in National Lampoon and laugh so hard you begin crying.

Unfortuneately once you realize Sims is for real and actually belives the foolishness he spews, you begin crying again, because Sims represents the best and the brightest in King County

Posted by: Not Amused on April 25, 2007 09:39 PM
13. I keep forgetting....
Is Sims a DOOFUS or a DOOFAE??

Posted by: Mr. Cynical on April 25, 2007 10:09 PM
14. What is your source for this claim about Sim's.

Great new mag serving West Seattle with a photojournalistic approach: WestSeattleMag.com

Posted by: Matt Durham Editor on April 25, 2007 11:16 PM
15. Well that was a dumb question of mine. I submitted and afterward figured out how you linked your story.
Sorry.
Ron Sims is the source.

Posted by: Matt Durham Editor on April 25, 2007 11:20 PM
16. And, to think that Ron Sims is an ordained...gasp...baptist minister... Brrr...

Posted by: DopioLover on April 25, 2007 11:21 PM
17. We afford utter BULLCRAP!!!!!!
But can't afford the POLICE!!!!!!

Okay this is for you moonbat lefties out there:
When the home invasion rapist has the knife to your throat, and you can't defend yourself because GUNS ARE EVIL, and it takes the police 20 minutes to arrive, long after the rapist who has had his way with you and your family has left. You can go down and walk on the reflexology foot path to heal from the experience. You have no place to complain, because you and your kind voted for and got what you wanted.

$#*&^%@*&%!#@$ * SPIT *

Posted by: JCM on April 26, 2007 07:11 AM
18. There needs to be a new word added to the dictionary: "Simbecile".

Posted by: Smoley on April 26, 2007 07:46 AM
19. "Simbecile".

Oh my God, that's hysterical! KING Simbecile.

Posted by: Ragnar Danneskjold on April 26, 2007 08:18 AM
20.
Executive Moonbeam?

Sims is trying to out do Gov. Jerry Brown's place in history as the Politician from Outer Space.

Posted by: John Bailo on April 26, 2007 08:33 AM
21. what next? re-do the MLK name change & re-design all county offices in conformance with feng shui?

i saw these devices in a kid's playground---they are ridges on a slide--intended to stimulate a little future King county leader's mind.

18: term of the year! (but bad home training)

Posted by: jimmie-howya-doin on April 26, 2007 10:21 AM
22. i would have combined the Seattle Art Park art with this concept. beautiful, dual uses!

itching poles, artful (outdoor) back scratchers, undie-creep puller/removers tongs sculptures, ear cleaners a-la Renior, & colorful Chagall nose-pickers.
saving yet more money, because the health, comfort and art requirments are all met in one fell swoop.

Posted by: jimmie-howya-doin on April 26, 2007 10:38 AM
23. Just remember cops cost lots of money and are unionized. Conservatives hate unions and hate spending money on taxes. Now if you want to pay taxes and support unions maybe we can get afford more police. =)

This stuff is cheap in comparison. It lasts for like 30 years, it doesn't ask for pay raises, doesn't ditch town for a better paying job, it doesn't need training or health insurance. In the long term reflexology paths a better investment. =P

Posted by: Cato on April 26, 2007 11:00 AM
24. Cato: Okay, so if I get your drift, next time someone gets mugged in the park, he just needs to push the mugger down a reflexology ridged slide, which will then stimulate his brain through his arse, and he will rethink the evil path upon which he has embarked and leave the intended victim alone. Right? My preference is for an efficient police force, for which I pay my taxes, and which is supposed to be priority funded, rather than spending that same money on reflexology bumps and other nonsense.

Posted by: katomar on April 26, 2007 11:06 AM
25. The county has money to spend on this, but puts EMS up for a vote?

Facts - Are you a Moyers fan?
Under the Johnson administration, the FBI was used to gather and report political intelligence on the, administration's partisan opponents in the last days of the 1964 and 1968 Presidential election campaigns. In the closing days of the 1964 campaign, Presidential aide Bill Moyers asked the Bureau to conduct "name checks" on all persons employed in Senator Goldwater's Senate office, and information on two staff members was reported to the White House. 9 Similarly, in the last two weeks of the 1968 campaign, the Johnson White House requested an investigation (including indirect electronic surveillance and direct physical surveillance) of Mrs. Anna Chennault, a prominent Republican leader, and her relationships with certain South Vietnamese officials. 10 This investigation also included an FBI check of Vice Presidential candidate Spiro Agnew's long distance telephone call records, apparently at the personal request of President Johnson.
From INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES AND THE RIGHTS OF AMERICANS

Oh, and DM, your autoblogginbloaviator mistook this topic for one involving gorebal warming - better check out the system!

Posted by: Ben Doverferon on April 26, 2007 11:14 AM
26. Okay, so if I get your drift, next time someone gets mugged in the park

When was the last time you saw a cop in a park? Besides Westlake Plaza and Myrtle Edwards park during Hempfest I can't say I've ever seen a cop in a park.

Posted by: Cato on April 26, 2007 11:56 AM
27. Cato: My point exactly. Maybe if our tax dollars were spent on essential services as they should be rather than non-essential nonsense, we would see cops in parks!

Posted by: katomar on April 26, 2007 12:13 PM
28. how about massaging toilet seats in those $600k Seattle homeless bordello-toilets? heck--for another few hundred thousand $ more, we can make them "porta-spas."

Posted by: jimmie-howya-doin on April 27, 2007 07:32 AM
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