*I wish I didn’t have to keep writing these posts on Washington State, but the depressing news just keeps coming.

Have Dementors taken over my state of Washington? It certainly is depressing, reading news stories of taxpayer money thrown away with both hands; big companies that have been here for decades announcing moves to other states; local restaurants, individual and chains, closing down for good; illegal aliens being treated better than taxpaying citizens; heavily-taxed roads …

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Does your local government use red-light cameras to issue traffic tickets? This story out of Florida might interest you.

Copied in its entirety, link at the bottom. Judge dismisses red-light camera ticket, rules law is unconstitutional | Eric Weiss & Antoinette DelBel, WPEC A Broward County judge has dismissed a red-light camera ticket, ruling that the state law used to issue the citation improperly shifts the burden of proof onto vehicle owners. In a …

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It’s the Month of April. Do you know what that means? The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival is on all month.

So Hubby and I drove from our home in Everett to see the tulips. It was a perfect day too. Bright and sunny with not a cloud in the sky. Our first stop was not for anything but for Hubs to get out and stretch his legs. I got out and got my first photos …

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Resilience, or…Starting a new career in middle age

Any complete career change is a crapshoot when you’re a middle-aged person. I have a Master’s degree which I never used, and from the time in the mid- 1970s when I graduated, I spent twelve years as a hospital pharmacy assistant, gaining one of the first licenses given out after they were required by Washington …

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You Can’t Make This Stuff Up…

Here are three items from the local and national news: 1. The traffic report on our local conservative talk-radio station is now sponsored by.....get this......Al Jazeera News! So, along with your morning and evening drive-time Talk Radio from the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Michael Medved, you now hear plugs from Jihad Central. …

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