Good morning, Netizens... Suddenly the word “pirate” is being tossed around with great frequency by various heads of American state, including President Barack Obama. In this morning's news there is even talk of bringing back privateers, who were employed against pirates in America's past: pay…
Good morning, Netizens... Did you have fun in this morning's little renewal of winter? Well, if you thought this morning's snow storm was truly odd, guess again. Because I remembered a Spring day about ten years ago, I went and looked it up in my…
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.George Burns (1896 - 1996)
Good morning, Netizens... Yesterday was Easter Sunday and if you believe David Horsey, there must be a reason why the churches in Spokane were filled to overflowing despite the fact overall church attendance is declining steadily. However, in his analysis of churchgoers, while David Horsey…
Good afternoon, Netizens...[Picture Reuters via the U.S. Navy, story portions from CNN and The New York Times]Richard Phillips, captain of the U.S.-flagged cargo ship Maersk Alabama, right, after his rescue, with Cmdr. Frank Castellano, the commanding officer of USS Bainbridge.Captain Richard Phillips of the U.S.…
Good morning, Netizens... We take a lot for granted in our great country. Most people reading this probably ate at least one good meal yesterday; even our homeless can eat a good meal occasionally. We can worship our Gods in a church of our choosing,…
Good morning, Netizens... Perhaps we have discussed this issue in the recent past to exhaustion, but this link was presented in another conversation and upon watching the UTube video, as jaundiced as I might be from discussing gay marriage, I felt compelled to comment further…
Good morning, Netizens... David Horsey's cartoon of the day certainly hits a sore spot in my repertoire, because although I spent years talking to total strangers on the CB radio, a shortwave radio, Usenet news and e-mail, for some strange reason I have avoided these…
Good afternoon, Netizens... Last Friday, a depressed and angry Jiverly Wong used a 9 mm and .45-caliber handgun to kill 13 immigrants and service-center employees in Binghamton, N.Y., police said. Earlier that day, the ethnic Chinese immigrant from Vietnam mailed an envelope to a Syracuse…
Good morning, Netizens... You have approximately 29 minutes, during which time you can tell your wife and children how very much you love them. You have 29 minutes to sit down over English tea with your next-door neighbor and make amends for all the times…
Good morning Netizens...06 Apr 2009 11:22:00 GMT Gioacchino Giuliani, an Italian seismologist, is my kinda' guy. Sensing radon emissions rising, combined with increased seismic activity, he made a prediction several weeks ago, that a major earthquake would strike in the vicinity of L'Aquila, Italy. Gioacchino…
Good morning, Netizens... As we creep forth from our repose in the beginning of yet another week, I cannot help but be mindful of the number of innocents that were killed last week in a flurry of murders across our country. The shootings came during…
Good morning, Netizens... Of all the political cartoons I have viewed over the last week, David Horsey perhaps has captured the essence of how the Europeans view President and Mrs. Obama. It is NOT the same as when George Bush was President; frankly speaking he…
Good morning, Netizens... Since it is an otherwise lovely spring day out there, what better time nor place to take a brief trip down the road toward irreverence as we view a picture of President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama as they are…
Good morning, Netizens... Long ago I wept for Jo Ellen Savage who, as everyone knows, did a pile drive from the River Park Square Parking Garage, for she was a delicate, sensitive and wholly engaging woman of infinite skill sets who had a gentle smile…
Good evening, Netizens... Dawn BarbouRoske, second from left, of Iowa City, leans towards her partner, Jen BarbouRoske after learning of the Iowa Supreme Court ruling in favor of legalizing gay marriage in Des Moines, Iowa on Friday. Between them is their daughter Bre, 6. Their…
Good morning, Netizens... A picture of Canadian Leonard Cohen, whom I met briefly back in the late 60's and a snip of what some say is one of his more beautiful songs: Like a bird on the wire,Like a drunk in a midnight choirI have…
Good evening, Netizens...Rod Blagojevich, former governor of Illinois has been indicted on a stack of federal charges. United States v. Rod R. Blagojevich, et al includings the following:Defendants: Rod R. Blagojevich, 52, of Chicago Christopher Kelly, 50, of Burr Ridge Alonzo Monk, 50, of Park…
Good evening, Netizens... I have been following this story for several days now and now that the IRS has begun moving in on some of those behind-the-scenes in the offshore tax-evasion business, I cannot help but hope and wonder what we might be seeing. MIAMI,…
Good morning, Netizens... It's just another day in our snowbound paradise, and despite the fact we are already warming up to the idea that we might actually have a real Spring buried somewhere beneath this noxious wasteland of snow this morning, it snowed overnight again!…
Good morning, Netizens... I'm with David Horsey. I do not claim to understand our national economy, nor do I necessarily understand how it works. What little I do know of it you could put in an economic thimble, except for the fact I know when…
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)When I first saw this quotation come up, I froze both the word of…
Good morning, Netizens... I rise from the depths of sleep, pour myself a cup of something meaner than my latest Avista bill and immediately peruse the news that's fit to print on the Spokesman web site at 3:00 AM. What? Another blast in Bozeman, Montana?…
Good morning, Netizens... Our Quote of the Day: Storms make trees take deeper roots. Dolly Parton If what, as Dolly Parton states, is truthful, is it not plausible that despite our present economic hardship, our nation is merely being rebuilt and rethought into substantially stronger…
Good morning, Netizens... This afternoon I am going to take a road seldom-traveled and RANT. It's bad enough that our state and federal governments are taxing cigarettes to the point where an ordinary citizen in strictest obedience to the laws of the land can no…
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