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Community Comment archive for May 2011

TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2011

David Horsey,davidhorsey.com,seattlepi.com

Racism of the future? 

Good evening, Netizens... I have always had a somewhat unusual approach to racism perhaps because I may never truly know what racial mix makes up my background. Of all four sons my mother bore, I was the only one who had dark brown curly hair…

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FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2011

David Horsey,davidhorsey.com,seattlepi.com

Are the good times really over for good? 

Good morning, Netizens... Scared of the current economy? This morning's David Horsey cartoon speaks volumes about one of the key components of the current employment situation in our country. There is hardly a day that goes by but what I remember the number of former…

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TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2011

The lessons of Joplin, MO for Spokane... 12 

Good afternoon, Netizens... Having watched the news regarding the F4 tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri, and given the number of times I have chased tornadoes through Tornado Alley, my heart is heavy with sorrow for those who died or were injured during this record-breaking multi-cyclonic…

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David Horsey,davidhorsey.com,seattlepi.com

Gimme old time religion... 

Good morning, Netizens... With the morning news that Oops!! the Reverend Harold Camping, who predicted the end of it all on May 21, he now states that his calendar got screwed up and the date of the Rapture will fall on October 21, instead. This…

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SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011

David Horsey,davidhorsey.com,seattlepi.com
David Horsey on college graduates

Where college graduation leads us... 

Good morning, Netizens... Back when I attended college, wise students could economically survive obtaining a four or eight year college degree, and if they were truly astute, with little debt left over when they set forth into the job market to find employment. Modern-day kids,…

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We're still here... 

Good morning, Netizens... The fact that you are reading this Blog this morning is but one piece of evidence that Harold Camping's prediction of the Rapture arriving at 6:00 PM yesterday did not work as planned. Perusing the news sites early this morning, I have…

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FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2011

Doug /Floyd is retiring... 

Good evening, Netizens... As I told Jeanie earlier this afternoon, on June 30, the end of next month, we will both have a reason to make special note of the day, for that will be Editorial Page Editor Doug Floyd's last day at the Spokesman-Review…

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THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2011

David Horsey,davidhorsey.com, seattlepi.com
Repost of David Horsey's cartoon on bureaucracy versus insurance companies

The faces of the faceless bureaucrats... 

Good morning, Netizens... Now that I have arrived in the throes of Social Insecurity, and having waded my way through all the garbage it takes to acquire health care insurance on such a feeble premise as the government says is the future of Social Security…

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2011

Seattle PI--Grant M. Haller

Three decades ago this date... 

Good morning, Netizens... Where were you when Mount St. Helens blew its stack more than thirty years ago? I've always wondered how the Seattle PI got some of its breathtaking photographs of the early stages of the volcanic eruption, and in retrospect now I know…

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FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2011

David Horsey,davidhorsey.com,seattlepi.com
The great American time-waster called texting.

Is texting communications? 

Good afternoon, Netizens... If you are a fan of text messaging, you might as well ignore today's cartoon by David Horsey, or for that matter the personal muttering that accompanies it, for I do not use nor even appreciate text messaging for a number of…

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FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2011

A moment of reverie...

Good morning, Netizens... Quite frankly, I was both deeply touched and somewhat surprised at the responses to my message last week about the late Reverend David Wilkerson. Having studied his life and studied his book, Cross and the Switchblade in theology school, I could not…

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David Horsey,davidhorsey.com,seattlepi.com

The one fact that matters: bin Laden is dead... 

Good morning, Netizens... Cartoonist David Horsey depicts the press conference held in the White House Press Briefing Room. White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan began adding details about the raid before the true facts were known, before the debriefing of the Navy Seals involved in…

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MONDAY, MAY 2, 2011

David Horsey,davidhorsey.com,seattlepi.com
Osama bin Laden meets his end

Bin Laden's last moment on earth... 

Good evening, Netizens... Osama bin Laden's last moment. Here Osama bin Laden is confronted with a nightmare I am certain he never considered in his “perfect” world, when the Evil Empire he has portrayed the United States as being suddenly leaped up from the ashes…

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Reuters image of bin Laden

Osama bin Laden killed in Pakistan...

Good morning, Netizens... Osama bin Laden is dead, killed by a U.S. Navy Seal Team Six in Pakistan and, in keeping with Muslim tradition, his remains were buried at sea. No one has stated where bin Laden's body was buried. "Justice has been done," President…

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