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I forgot to blog this, but at DL last Tuesday night I bumped into Hillary!
Notice the LED timer she is wearing. It was counting down.
No word yet on the explosion…
[...]Barack Obama apologized Wednesday to a Michigan 
TV reporter after he called her "sweetie" and dodged her question about autoworkers. WXYZ-TV's Peggy Agar shouted a question to the Democratic presidential candidate during his appearance at a Chrysler LLC plant in this auto-making suburb of Detroit. Agar asked Obama what [...]
Earlier this week, I mentioned that third-grader Cassie Hoots/Atlas Elementary was a finalist in the "Doodle for Google" contest. Seems kids were asked to draw a "doodle" for the google website. The winner (in each category) receives a $10,000 college scholarship and the school gets a $25,000 computer lab, [...]
The general public and some members of the press were barred from the taping of Wednesday's Republican debate among candidates for the U.S. Senate by debate organizer KTVB-Channel 7. The event, recorded at 7 p.m. at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa for later broadcast, was open only to those on [...]
The National Weather Service has issued a Flood 
Watch for North Idaho. A flood watch means that flooding is possible but not imminent in the watch area. Unseasonably warm temperatures combined with above normal mountain snow pack are forecast to produce significant rises on the Coeur d?Alene River and [...]
I know that as a scientist, I am expected to loathe all imperial measurements--inches, cups, quarts, gallons and Fahrenheit. Whining about the United States' failure to embrace the metric system? Default behavior for dim bulbs seeking to seem sophisticated.
You know what? I don't like metric measurements for [...]
Via Ben Smith:
Barack Obama has always believed that same-sex couples should enjoy equal rights under the law, and he will continue to fight for civil unions as President. He respects the decision of the California Supreme Court, and continues to believe that states should make their own decisions when [...]
There were four new state head-to-head polls released today:
In Kansas, Sen. John McCain leads Sen. Hillary Clinton 53% to 39%. The race has tightened ever so slightly over the 57% [...]
I wish I had much to say about Sony's coming-someday MMO, The Agency, after attending their online division's reveal party last night in Bellevue. That won't happen. My e-mail invite said the game would be demoed, but the only thing that was shown was a months-old video clip of incomplete [...]
Complete copy of Tony Stewart's retirement speech
"I will be joining and collaborating with the PBS TV affiliate KSPS TV Channel 7 in Spokane to produce and host PBS programs. In our preliminary discussions as to my future role at PBS, I have begun the research and drafting a plan [...]
?Plugged pumps have become a recurrent problem as the number of users increases, and with this increased use, the number of people flushing baby wipes and diapers also increases,? Gerry House, Hayden Lake Recreational Water and Sewer District chairman re: today's sewage spill in Hayden Lake. ( [...]
Up to 11,000 gallons of raw sewage may have spilled into Hayden Lake near Cooper?s Bay this week because of a plugged pipe, perhaps from residents flushing diapers and baby wipes, according to the regional sewer district. A Hayden Lake Recreational Water and Sewer District employee discovered the leak this [...]
... Joseph Duncan is found incompetent?/Betsy Russell, SR Eye On Boise
More Info: ?The law is that if you are incompetent, the proceedings are suspended,? said Rodney Uphoff, a law professor at the University of Missouri and an expert on death penalty cases. However, he said, ?I would say that [...]
A Christian group out of San Diego has foundgrounds for outrage over the new retro-style logo for Starbucks Coffee. The Resistance says the new image "has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute," Mark Dice, founder of the group, said in a news [...]
Ng Han Guan/AP Photo
Workers carry an earthquake victim evacuated by boat from Yingxiu to the Zipingpu Dam near Dujiangyan in southwestern China's Sichuan province. The boat was used to circumvent inaccessible roads. China warned the death toll from this week's earthquake could soar to 50,000, while the government issued [...]
Complete copy of Tony's speech
1. To: NIC employees, students, trustees and community -- Always embrace and celebrate the concept of collaboration, shared governance, and participatory decision making with the recognition that the final legal respnsibility for governing NIC lies with the Board of Trustees.
2. To: NIC decision makers -- [...]
Once new construction occupies the hundreds of empty lots in South Lake Union and the Denny Triangle, Denny Way will essentially run through the middle of downtown. Cranes flanking the street, and design proposals filed with the city, show that Denny will be home to thousands of new residents and [...]
I will be away from the blog until Wednesday morning as I properly celebrate my older son’s graduation from college.
Other Times staffers will fill in here while I'm away.
This is what passes for wall art just down my street:
("I just wanted the rush of putting something on this wall ... Coincidentally, I didn't get a rush - - - ain't that a bitch")
And this stop-motion video shows the wall art they get in Buenos [...]
Over at (u)SP, my good friend Eric thinks that in gloating over the ass-kicking his party got in MS-01, I may have lost some perspective.
So much so that even Josh Feit at the Stranger has weighed in, noting the hypocrisy of poo-pooing results in West Virginia while cheering [...]
Dates when elected officials among Washington's superdelegates endorsed a candidate:
April 2007 -- Congressman Adam Smith says he backs Barack Obama; formal endorsement came in July.
June 21 - Congressman Jay Inslee endorses Hillary Clinton
Sept. 4 -- King County Executive Ron Sims endorses Clinton
Oct. 8 -- Former Gov. Gary Locke endorses Clinton
Dec. [...]
The allegedly meddling mom has been indicted. Take it away, Associated Press:
A federal grand jury indicted a Missouri woman Thursday for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide.Megan Meier, 13, hanged herself in her bedroom after [...]
Clinton defends Obama and slams Bush's attack, saying:
President Bush?s comparison of any Democrat to Nazi appeasers is both offensive and outrageous on the face of it, especially in light of his failures in foreign policy. This is the kind of statement that has no place in any presidential [...]
I don’t know if I’ll be supporting Rich Semler for State Superintendant of Public Instruction yet. I simply haven’t talked to him. But he’s setting a good pace in fundraising.
Superintendent of Public Instruction: Incumbent Terry Bergeson has raised $79,000 to challenger Rich Semler’s $60,000. A third major candidate recently joined [...]
Of the legion of harms done to this nation by this presidency, one of the worst has been the elimination of our capacity to be appalled. The administration has just raised the bar too high.What could Bush possibly do or say in these remaining months [...]
No clubs have taken any of our writers hostage lately, but here's what has happened in the last day...
Groovy-Ass German Funk!: Compliments of Terry Miller.
Slats vs. the S.L.U.T.: Which would you rather ride? Ew, that sounds dirty.
Props to DJ Riz: For all his rare disco and [...]
Recently a commenter on this site asked me how I defined ‘a conservative’. I didn’t respond because it’s not up to me to define it.
Something liberals seldom understand is that words have meaning. If we try to change the meaning of a word we end up misrepresenting something or someone, [...]
