Good morning, Netizens... I once lived and owned a business in the ghetto area where four young police officers from the Oakland Police Department died; I know the neighborhood quite well and have long since made my peace with it. Unfortunately, four brave officers died…
Dave Laird just called in to report there is a bad three-car accident about ½ mile west of Barker, west bound lane of I-90, blocking traffic back to Liberty Lake Exit. More later.
Good afternoon, Netizens... YAY! It's Friday! [SPOKANE VALLEY] A large child care center in Spokane Valley was shut down by the state on Thursday after the owner and a parent allegedly got into a fight, which was witnessed by a child, state records show. The…
Good morning, Netizens... In case you were trying to read the Spokesman this morning online, it has been notably offline since about 8:45 AM or thereabouts, but has recently returned to the forefront. FreeBSD-Python can do that to you, as several in my little community…
Good morning, Netizens... Our quote of the day, which comes to us from television icon and sometimes-funny man, David Letterman, bespeaks how bad the air in Los Angeles is. Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from…
Good morning, Netizens... Recognize this guy in the mug shot? But about eight hours ago, the billionaire who led the team that developed Microsoft Word did just that -- and then some. With the successful launch of a Soyuz-TMA spacecraft from Kazakhstan, Charles Simonyi became…
Good morning, Netizens... SPOKANE - Disciplinary records for a Spokane County Sheriff's sergeant arrested in February show that Pete Bunch has a long history of misusing his authority and even cheating taxpayers on his time sheet. In 2003, former Sheriff Mark Sterk wanted to fire…
SHEBOYGAN, Wisc. -- A Spokane woman visiting Wisconsin last year was arrested for drunken driving three times in three days, according to court records released Wednesday. Jo A. Trilling, of Spokane, Wash., who was sentenced on the final two cases last week, was arrested in…
Good morning, Netizens... In one of David Horsey's pointed cartoons this morning, we have an Iraqi official warbling on and on about Democracy like a jaybird with its balls in an electric fence out behind the Virtual Ballroom. Meanwhile the American diplomat tells the Iraqi…
Good morning, Netizens...I carefully slid back into my favorite bar stool at the Virtual Espresso Bar very early this morning, noting with some degree of interest, that the Virtual Ballroom has its usual collection of ghosts, spirits and various other dignitaries floating around the ballroom…
Good morning, Netizens... First, we delve into some essential truths about ourselves through the quote of the day: A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. Caskie Stinnett…
I always wake up to my radio - usually the news, sometimes music - some song that will rattle around in my head over and over and over - but it beats the shrill siren of the buzzer. This morning, however, I think I'd prefer…
Good morning, Netizens... Yeah, tell me about it! It sounded so nice, so respectable, so dependable when they signed us up for our 401k's, didn't it? However, now that we have wandered down David Horsey's Carnival Midway where the real wheeling and dealing takes place,…
Good morning, Netizens... We have a picture of Maugham, the author of our quote of the day, and what he wrote: Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 Perhaps if…
Good morning, Netizens... The New Jersey Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling recently attempted to pass a law which would prohibit Brazilian Waxing after several women filed complaints of infections caused by this hair removal procedure. Consumer Affairs informed them they could not go along with…
Good morning, Netizens...Coming off a hard two-day plague of work and being forced by my spouse to leave for most of an afternoon I hereby declare this to be a free fly day, so if you have topics you'd rather discuss, whip them out and…
Good evening, Netizens... It is obvious Spring is drawing close upon us. If not the obscenely-raucous hordes of robins in my front yard, then it has to be the appearance of what I term utterly illiterate Comcast outsourced sales people needing a shave and a…
Good morning, Netizens... There are some days when it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. I believe this is one of them. From Dave Oliveria at Huckleberries Online we learn: Earlier this morning, the SR newsroom learned that three respected, veteran reporters have…
Good morning, Netizens... Our randomly-chosen quote of the day today: “The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.” This bit of truth comes to us from Jean Kerr (1922-2003) Writer and playright, who once wrote, "It's pretty…
Good morning, Netizens... After some considerable research and introspection of the case of the Citizenry of Spokane versus City Hall, and upon hearing of the woman in Arlington, Washington who stole $73,575.18 from the church where she was the administrative assistant, (http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090319/NEWS01/703199921/0/FRONTPAGE) and blamed it…
Good morning, Netizens... While we're busily flagellating the leadership of our local law enforcement for perceived errors if not bad intentions, today's David Horsey cartoon gives us yet another target for our angst: AIG. The inner machinations of credit default swaps, derivatives and other exotic…
Good morning, Netizens...Rather than simply post the quote of the day, after over a year of quoting some of the great thinkers, poets and raving mad of our times, I have decided to make the quote of the day part of my morning ritual by…
The jury has announced the verdict in the Shellye Stark murder trial: Guilty of first degree murder and guilty of conspiracy to commit murder.This is the case on which I was a potential juror. I strived seriously and sincerely to wipe my mind clean of…
Good morning, Netizens... And such a fine and otherwise excellent day it is, with the exception of our beloved Spokane Police Department whose star has been inexorably sinking lower in the public opinion than ever before. They could have finessed this entire affair of Shonto…
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal,…
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