Good morning, Netizens...Indeed, Marty has sounded the breakfast gong so on or about 7:00 AM this morning we will be meeting at our appointed Mystery Place for breakfast and all, at least those who know where we meet, are invited. Who knows what we will…
Good morning, Netizens... Washington State Initiative 1033: (short description, full text available) http://www.secstate.wa.gov/elections/initiatives/people.aspx?y=2009 This terse description of I-1033 states in part that it will limit state taxes in Washington State. Written and submitted by Tim Eyman, it has acquired enough signatures to make it to…
Good morning, Netizens... "I'm mad as hell as I'm not going to take this anymore!” In this morning's cartoon, David Horsey demonstrates just a few of the reasons what many working-class and some lower-middle-class Americans seem to be yelling in a series of public input…
Good morning, Netizens... A judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to stop selling Microsoft Word products in their current form in the United States. However, before you panic, remember legal appeals or technical work-arounds make an actual halt of sales unlikely. If you understand the “nuts…
Good evening, Netizens... Tonight and tomorrow night are slated to be peak viewing nights for the Perseid Meteor Shower, an annual celestial event that has been eons in the making. In this picture, a meteor streaks towards the horizon during the annual Persied shower in…
President John F. Kennedy's sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who carried on the family's public service tradition by founding the Special Olympics and championing the rights of the mentally disabled, died early Tuesday surrounded by relatives at a Hyannis hospital. She was 88. (San Francisco Chronicle)http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/08/11/national/a033248D69.DTLI…
Good morning, Netizens... Do YOU remember Woodstock? Were you there? Or did you sit transfixed before a glowing TV set watching the news as Woodstock Nation, as it became to be called by the news media, unfolded? Ah, the memories that unfold whenever I remember…
Good morning, Netizens...In our most quiet moments this morning, we should take a bit of time and remember Eunice Kennedy-Shriver, who passed away overnight at Cape Cod Hospital at age 88. She epitomized her family's tradition of giving in her life by founding the Special…
Good morning, Netizens... Until yesterday it has been decades since I last attended an old-fashioned marriage ceremony. Please note I did not use the word wedding, for that implies the surreal episodes of semi-lackadaisical frolics that precede the ceremony, more white lace than any other…
Good morning, Netizens... There's good story in pictures being told by a veteran Spokesman-Review photographer, Dan Pelle, at http://www.spokesman.com/photosets/2009/aug/08/grant-county-gangs/ Having worked in the Mattawa and Othello areas for over a decade, I have witnessed steadily-increasing gang activities, from the gang signs that adorn practically every…
Good morning, Netizens...As some may know, there are two Oaths of Office when swearing in a Federal Court Justice. The second, which most of us have seen already, was administered by Chief Justice John Roberts in an ornate conference room, beneath a portrait of the…
Good morning, Netizens... Cartoonist David Horsey opens our collective eyes to a recurring Republican Party nightmare-- the continuing evolution of extremist right-wing based theories that, upon close examination, bear no basis in fact. It is almost as if someone is saying, 'Don't upset the apple…
Good morning, Netizens... This insightful quote comes to me from George Sands, and having read a bit more about the author of the quote thought perhaps others might enjoy reading it too. "Then there is the phenomena I call "blogulgation" -- when a group of…
Good evening Netizens... ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Just because she is no longer the Governor of the State of Alaska doesn't mean that former governor Sarah Palin off chasing big game and fishing in the Alaska wilderness. Earlier today Palin called President Barak Obama's health plan…
From great article written by the S-R's Jim Camden: The Spokane Park Board approved a 50-year contract Thursday with a group trying to put a science center on the north edge of Riverfront Park. Read more at: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/aug/07/mobius-deal-approved/On the Web: The Park Board’s contract with…
Good morning, Netizens... Have you ever worn a set of stiletto heels? Bear with me a minute here...I meant to say have any women reading this ever worn stiletto heels before? Somehow the mental picture of two funky old graybeard males needing shaves wearing color-coordinated…
Good morning, Netizens... Mobius of Spokane has been characterized by a local blogger as Riverpark Square 2.0, which by itself is a controversial condemnation of the stilted process the Spokane Park Board has started. Now that the lease is public, there are even more reasons…
Good morning, Netizens... I am certain few would argue with me when I say our country has a diversity of opinion nearly unequalled anywhere in the World. That is probably because we are a sum of the mixing pot, that undefined melange of races, creeds…
Good morning Netizens...Mssr. Hibbs and I will be meeting for breakfast at 7:00 AM this morning. While I apologize for the short notice that is somehow the ways our surreptitious gatherings take place, not planned. The usual hidden place, of course.Dave
Good evening, Netizens... As we welcome cartoonist extraordinary David Horsey back from his vacation, he would have us waiting with bated breath beside the Democratic Health Care Pool trying to decide whether to take the big plunge right away. The reason the kid in the…
Noodling is a new term. Have you heard it? It means to think upon, wonder about, share your thoughts, brain storm. So - what are you noodling todoay?~Jeanie~
Good morning, Netizens...Free at last! Thank God they are free at last!To say that the 2 US journalists that were once held by North Korea learned quickly how to make an entrance onto US soil at Bob Hope International Airport is an understatement by itself.…
Good afternoon, Netizens...BREAKING NEWSAccording to the Associated Press, thanks to Bill Clinton's visit to North Korea, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the 2 American journalists being held prisoner in North Korea have been pardoned and ordered released. Dave
Good morning, Netizens... Two reasons why former President Bill Clinton flew to North Korea to meet with North Korean government officials. American journalists Euna Lee (L) and Laura Ling are shown in this undated file photo. According to a pocket survey performed yesterday, Monday, in…
Good morning, Netizens... When all else fails, and there are no other avenues for covering news, always contact the source. That advice was given me years ago as a news journalist, and it has stood ever since. This morning I contacted KREM by phone, and…
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