Good evening, Netizens... After some prolonged introspection, a bit of meditation and some considerable prayer, I have belatedly come up with the things for which I am most-thankful in 2009. They are presented in no particular order, but are submitted more for the sake of…
Good morning, Netizens... Here is the old pre-October 2008 questions for citizenship of the United States. How many can you accurately answer?
Good morning, Netizens... It is early on a Saturday morning, and while the fog hovers near the brackish river while we sit, high and dry, above the worst of it all. Our lives move onward, nonetheless, as we have jobs and businesses to maintain, bills…
Good morning, Netizens... [Picture credit: KREM-TV] If you think I am going to drive to my nearest shopping center to capture a live picture of insensibly insane people willing to stand in long lines in the rain for hours, waiting for the doors to open…
Good morning, Netizens... I don't know why David Horsey chose today, Black Friday, of all days to write about a history of religion, but so be it. It is a hot enough button, and it is done well enough that it should inspire either some…
Good morning, Netizens... Happy Thanksgiving to you and all whom you hold dear. Over the last week I have been distracted from any proper celebration of Thanksgiving Day, although in my quiet time each day I have been increasingly mindful of how many wonderful things…
Oooooo, Antonio Banderas AND Hotel AND wine! Can you beat this wonderful combo – oh, and add Madrid to the mix! Antonio, a hunky 49, has a vineyard in northern Spain and wants to build a hotel there. The 620-acre property, called Anta Banderas, is…
Good evening, Netizens... We have until this Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, and there is little more needs to be said than the macabre and often delusional pre-Christmas Shopping Day known as “Black Friday” has already begun a bit earlier than usual and it appears to be…
Good evening, Netizens... November 20, 2009 AP Photo/Paul Sakuma Demonstrators struggle with police with a barricade in front of a closed off building on the University of California, Berkeley on the Berkeley, Calif., campus, Friday,. Nov. 20, 2009, during a demonstration against university fee hikes…
Good morning, Netizens... I'm flying beneath the radar today, actually running to catch up with whatever I was supposed to be doing, and upon reading several comments about Cathy McMorris-Rogers in another message thread, and since one of my anonymous contributors sent me this picture,…
Good morning, Netizens... November 19, 2009 AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Sam Riche People carrying their copies of the former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's book, "Going Rogue," wait in line Thursday morning at the Borders Bookstore in Noblesville, Ind., for a chance to see…
Good afternoon, Netizens...[Picture of the Royal entrance into the combined Houses of the Lords and Commons, courtesy of AP]Yesterday in the House of Lords, Her Majesty presented the Queen’s Speech 2009 to both Houses of Parliament. This is what she said:
Good morning, Netizens... As David Horsey suggests in this morning's cartoon, the world's leaders are hemming and hawing over climate change like a group of farmers sitting around the Grange after a bad harvest is complete and they are wondering if they have enough profit…
Feel rich??? Several months ago, I noticed a little increase in my payroll check. Not a lot, mind you. But I’m on a "budget" where I notice a few dollars here and there. But all is not a fairy tale ending for a lot of…
Good morning, Netizens...Here we have David Horsey's cartoon of the day, featuring a lot of journalists all standing in the unemployment line together. Then, at the end of the line we have a young woman dressed in a cheesecake blue bunny costume who is what?…
Good morning, Netizens...This Nov. 11, 2009 booking photo made available by the Hillsborough County, Fla. Sheriff's Office shows Joshua Basso. Florida police say Basso, arrested for repeatedly calling 911 looking for sex, claimed it was the only number he could dial after running out of…
Good afternoon, Netizens...Sergeant Brad Thoma of the Spokane Police Department was recently charged with drunk driving and hit-and-run after leaving the scene of an accident at Farwell and Highway 2. For a brief moment here, let us pretend like we were in fantasy land. Let's…
Good morning, Netizens...Through the razor-sharp drawing of David Horsey, this morning we fire right off with President Obama and the War in Afghanistan. Recently President Obama sent his “think tank” of advisors back to the drawing board, suggesting that he didn't feel he had enough…
Good morning, Netizens...Earlier Jeanie mentioned offhand that she uses Wordpad in Windows to cut-and-paste into the administrative panel and when I tested it (using the only Windows box I own) it worked just as it should NOT. I should never be held captive against my…
Good morning, Netizens...This is Friday the 13th, supposedly an unlucky day, and probably a good day toturn off the alarm clock, call in sick or otherwise go hide beneath a rocksomewhere that no one would ordinarily find you. On second thought, since weare about to…
Good morning, Netizens... [Portions AP Press, Salt Lake City Tribune] Tuesday night Salt Lake City, Utah City Council passed legislation that bans discrimination against gays in housing and unemployment, and the legislation was passed with the endorsement of the Mormon Church. This is not to…
Good afternoon, Netizens... It is Veterans Day 2009, and now that I have cleared my desk of various other things too cumbersome for discussion, I am going to lean heavily on what this day should mean to us all. The AP picture of President Obama…
Good morning, Netizens... [Rio de Janeiro, Brazil] Last month the International Olympic Committee chairman announced that Brazil will host the 2016 International Olympics. Late yesterday the electrical power for most major cities in Brazil, including Rio de Janeiro, went out, casting an estimated 60 million…
Good afternoon, Netizens... Eric John Rick Vogel, a former radio announcer in Libby, Montana, will not be broadcasting any more shows for awhile. That's because he is doing 40 years at the Montana State Prison for sexual assaulting five out of his seven children. I've…
Good morning, Netizens... Picture Credit : AP/Mukhtar Khan Has it been that long? A Kashmiri woman gathers up leaves in Srinagar, India, Sunday. Kashmiris collect the leaves in the fall which are then burned in fire pots in winter to keep themselves warm. It was…
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