Washington State Wildfires, waiting to happen

The video below is not the best, but I think you can see what I mean when I explain. (play video at 1/4 speed) On Tuesday, we drove down to Mount Rainier, and we drove through miles of National Forest. Literally everywhere we drove, the forest floor was littered with downed trees, fragments of trees, …

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Can you spot the media bias? Blue Angels vs Crazy Cat Lady in Seattle

Sigh…. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any crazier, opposition to the Navy’s precision flying team, the Blue Angels, breaks out in Seattle. The story gets covered in both the local and national media. There are actually two stories. The first one is the sob story of the woman who is suing the Navy …

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Wow! That was fast! New car in about four hours.

Yesterday afternoon, I went to the local Audi dealer, ostensibly to look at a car I might be interested in buying.  It turned out that the dealer had exactly the model and color that I wanted.  So, we took a test drive around the neighborhood, and I decided to buy it.  Since our Dictator has …

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Heatwave in Western Washington brings the expected responses

Yes, there is definitely a heatwave here in Western Washington.  Every local news web site has multiple stories about the high temperatures being felt here, where 80 is normal summer.  Here are a couple of screenshots of what I see on my phone right now. We have been in places where it was this hot, …

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