Good morning, Netizens... Leonore Annenberg, the widow of billionaire publisher Walter Annenberg who continued his tradition of philanthropy and patronage of the arts, died Thursday. She was 91.Annenberg died of natural causes at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., family spokeswoman Kathleen Hall Jamieson…
Good morning, Netizens... While we are out dancing in the streets with ecstasy over Jay Olsen coming out of the closet, we might want to dance a lick or two for Bernie Madoff who arrived at the lower Manhattan courthouse just after 7 a.m. today…
Good morning, Netizens... Having dabbled briefly in the wild wonderful world of Spokane Police politics, and having spent the better part of two days making certain, in my mind, that former policeman Jay Olsen is a simpering self-serving nincompoop who would shoot someone with drunken…
The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City
Good morning, Netizens... The Jay Olsen trial, currently nearing its logical end, has opened Pandora's box and revealed how discredited the Spokane Police Guild truly is. There are lapses, and then there are huge gaps of fact which never have been allowed to happen, were…
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Man invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.Elayne Boolser
Good morning, Netizens... Thus we begin week two of Jeanie-deprivation and she is serving out a sentence as a juror-candidate for our own beloved malformed justice system. Of course, while she is thus engaged, she is forbidden from being active on the Internet and a…
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.Former President Bill Clinton (1946 - ), announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave the world a little bit better for my having been here. It's a wonderful life and I love it.The…
Good morning, Netizens... Yet we cannot forget, even in this glad hour, that while all men of every race, and clime, and condition, have been invested with the full rights of citizenship under our hospitable flag, all women still suffer the degradation of disfranchisement. (Susan…
Good evening, Netizens... The Spokane Police Department is about to garner some fairly substantial grant money, and tonight we're going to help them spend it. That isn't officially what is expected to happen. In fact, I can hear the sounds of machinations taking place at…
Good morning, Netizens... In this morning's David Horsey cartoon we have the first time that David Horsey has violated the air space of Barack Obama's sacredness. Of course, that isn't to say that President Obama is sacred, no; rather it speaks to the truth about…
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.Abraham Maslow (1908 - 1970)
Good morning, Netizens... A peacock spreads its wings at the state zoological park in Gauhati, India, Thursday and announces proudly, it's FRIDAY! Oh thank goodness it's Friday! Hitch on your flippers, fasten down your hat and let's tap dance our way down the boulevard. Perhaps…
Good morning, Netizens... In Jonathan Brunt's article here http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/mar/06/city-says-bus-benches-must-go/ states, we may not have bus benches to sit on much longer, and upon reading further into the story, it does appear as if we have a classic brouhaha pitting our beloved Queen Mary of City…
Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Thomas Paine, 1789: "I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution."Thus begins my first jury duty experience. I'm in the…
I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for…
Good morning, Netizens... Tanya WHO? I only vaguely recall President Obama mentioning skater Tanya Harding, as in this YouTube video, but it didn't take Harding very long to come out of her seclusion swinging for the fences. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNgeWDir404 Remind me to never mention her name,…
Good morning, Netizens... Here we have another bird story, this time a bit closer to home. An Oregon driver hit a red tailed hawk on Interstate 5 the other day, but figured after colliding with the bird at 70 MPH the bird probably didn't survive…
Good morning, Netizens... Matthew Roberto Gonzalez of Opa Locka, Fla., was driving on U.S. Interstate 80 in northeast Nevada near Wells, about 60 miles west of the Utah line, when the eagle came crashing into the cab of his truck through the windshield. "I heard…
Good evening, Netizens...I read a short while ago that although former First Lady Barbara Bush was hospitalized earlier today and open heart surgery performed, what nearly eluded me was that actor/comedian Robin Williams is also hospitalized in Florida with unnamed heart issues, as well.According to…
Good afternoon, Netizens…A Canadian who demanded courtesy from a U.S. border security guard says he was pepper sprayed and held in custody for three hours for asking the disrespectful officer to "say please" when ordering him to turn his car off during a search.Yes, you…
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Good evening, Netizens...The question, as posed by Bob Kirkpatrick (http://www.deludia.com) in his mini-cartoon from the annex (http://yak.deludia.com/viewtopic.php?id=28) seems to be whether or not mothers should be allowed to breast feed their infants while they are piloting their ways down the freeway. Should a State Patrol…
Good morning, Netizens... Before this week gets moving along too quickly, I should extend a warm thank you to Dave Oliveria and the various netizens of Blogfest 2009 for the warm and fascinating afternoon, not to mention the pizza, the pop and the camaraderie. Since…
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