Good morning, Netizens... Late yesterday and throughout the night last night, parts of Alabama and Mississippi were decimated by a series of violent tornadoes that ranged from an estimated F4 or F5 on the Fujita Scale that hit Tuscaloosa, Huntsville and Birmingham, such as this…
Good morning, Netizens... Occasionally Spokesman-Review writer Jonathan Brunt hits a news story dead on, and in this morning's paper, his coverage of last night's City Council meeting just about got the job done. The Red Light scenario, of putting red light cameras on as many…
Good morning, Netizens... Mssr. Hibbs and I will be holding one of our impromptu meetings at our favorite breakfast eatery this morning beginning about 9:00 AM. Military coups, City Council uprising and other states of affairs are on the agenda, so come if you dare.…
Good afternoon, Netizens... Here we have the Unofficial Earth Day flag, by John McConnell: the blue marble on a blue background. It has come to represent Earth Day, which has been observed since April 22, 1970 and is now observed on April 22 each year…
Good morning, Netizens... Donald Trump as a Republican candidate for President? Say, come to think of it, Trump might trump all the other Republican candidates who are running for office. He’s not a repeat candidate from 2008, like Huckabee and Romney. He’s not a plodding…
Good morning, Netizens... This is Disaster Preparedness Month. In keeping with Governor Christine Gregoire's request for a statewide earthquake drill at 9:45 AM Wednesday morning, promptly on time I crawled beneath my desk, covering my head with one hand, and held onto the desk leg…
Good evening, Netizens... I think I might have an issue, our dysfunctional congress, where cartoonist David Horsey and most of the people reading it may agree. Granted, I do not know for a fact that the event as depicted by Horsey actually ever occurred, but…
Good morning, Netizens... Living in the Pacific Northwest, there are many who wonder at people who, after loading down their vehicles with an imponderable stack of highly-technical equipment, and taking their lives in their hands, go chasing severe storms in other areas of the country.…
Good morning, Netizens... The headline in this David Horsey cartoon reads, “Americans keep Confederates in the attic, Slaves in the cellar,” but unfortunately, the picture depicts the American family in the attic, yet the younger generation has uncovered the desiccated skeleton of a slave in…
Good morning, Netizens... According to cartoonist David Horsey, the art of hostage taking as taught by Republican U.S. House Speaker John Boehner is a good study in brinksmanship, in my opinion. Given the amount of hyperbole and grandstanding involved over the previous weeks, it would…
Good evening, Netizens... One of America's most-nauseously self-serving members of the right wing ideologues has left the television stations that launched him into American hearts and minds, and with his departure from Fox Television, Glenn Beck has closed the door on what I personally felt…
Good morning, Netizens... The Department of Justice has informed the Seattle Police Department they are investigating whether Seattle officers have engaged in a pattern of unnecessary force and biased policing. Police Chief John Diaz (pictured) met with the Seattle Times Editorial Board Friday and informed…
Good evening, Netizens... If the Obama administration had chosen to ignore the potential massacre of the rebels in Libya, Republicans would right now be having a field day, condemning him for weakness and moral cowardice. The deafening howls of outrage from the Republicans would make…
Good morning, Netizens... It seems like a decade has passed so quickly I barely can remember the first time I heard Jim Faddis, a former detective of the Spokane Police Department, singing from atop the Floating Stage in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho on a hot summer…
Good evening, Netizens... Michelle Bachmann is a source of genuine fright to me, not because I am necessarily terrified of her, but I find she is a larcenous vile-mouthed woman who cannot seem to keep her mouth shut at appropriate occasions in my opinion. However,…
Good morning, Netizens... Yesterday, quite by accident, during one of my business-related trips, I encountered the ubiquitous Mhibbs and, at his urging, he and I agreed to meet for coffee far off our typical beaten path. Given the number of news topics that have garnered…
Good morning, Netizens... I admit, with a certain degree of chagrin, that I never was particularly an Elizabeth Taylor fan. In fact, I had not seen any of her movies until long after they went into syndication and were appearing on late-night television and there…
Good morning, Netizens... We seem to be in a quagmire in Libya, or so cartoonist David Horsey suggests. We are either damned if we do or damned if we don't. We cannot simply turn our backs on Gaddafi and allow him to continue killing his…
A woman who died after being struck by a car on Interstate 90 on Saturday has been identified as Dana M. Barton, 37, of Coeur d’Alene. Barton was standing in the right lane of eastbound I-90 when she was hit by a 2008 Toyota FJ…
Good evening, Netizens... David Horsey observes in his cartoon that the depths of Libya's political wasteland is accompanied by lots of international finger-pointing, which probably was true prior to when the United Nations Security Council spread the responsibility for cleaning up the mess to parts…
Good morning, Netizens... I am sick to death of listening to the half-truths and outright lies being told in the news media, if not the alternative news media sources about unfolding events in Japan with regard to the nuclear crises. Over the previous 72 hours…
Good morning, Netizens... I have not been ignoring the news from Japan of the earthquake and tsunami; rather I have been hoping against hope that it might begin to clarify itself, to begin to fall into some level of stability. Here we are at day…
Good evening, Netizens... In David Horsey's cartoon today, we are not looking into the future world of women, but perhaps a grim view of the present and past, for there is little of the past which has changed over the millenniums. What Horsey left out…
Good morning, Netizens... Earlier this week, Brandon Davies, the star forward on Brigham Young University's nationally ranked basketball team was suspended for the season after violating the school's Honor Code. The 6-foot-9 sophomore didn't plagiarize any term papers, nor did he commit any felonies. No,…
Good evening, Netizens... I'm mad as hell about the court ruling on behalf of former police officer Jay Olsen but I don't know if there is anything anyone can lawfully do about it at this late stage of the game. Olsen purportedly shot Shonto Pete…
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