Welcome to the First Virtual Church of Our Lord and Savior, Steve Jobs. As you enter the sanctuary, please do not make eye contact with anyone. Keep your eyes focused on the screen of the mobile device of your choice. We are relevant and practice diversity here, which is easy since no one will even [...]

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“You oughta get better locks around here if you don’t want people taking your private information, Mr. Squirl. It’s up to you to do something preventive….” “Mr. Mercer, I’m Jack Squirl, President of Data Miner Servicing, y’ know, ‘Servicing You With a Smile.’ Our security guard detained you one hour ago, and we are holding [...]

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Yum! Mushrooms. Who doesn’t like them (if cooked properly, even kids will eat them). The problem? Well, the Epicurious blog has an article on the joys of mushroom picking. It seems that a lot of yuppies in the Pacific Northwest have decided that the economic downswing is a good reason to take up this hobby. [...]

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Paranoia kills. And the internet, which allows anyone to post any conspiracy theory without having to include minor things like facts, is a growing problem for doctors, because our patients who google sometimes end up at conspiracy theory sites for their medical information. And this ignorance is one reason why Bachman is now no longer [...]

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The current suspect in the Lakewood police murder case had his lengthy prison sentence commuted nine years ago by then-Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. Over the protests of law enforcement and his own state prosecutors, Huckabee commuted the sentence of Maurice Clemmons despite his long criminal record of violence and major concerns about his mental stability. [...]

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A single gunman walked into a coffeehouse in Pierce County, Washington, at 8:15 AM on Sunday, November 29, 2009, and fatally shot four Lakewood police officers who were doing paperwork and having coffee at the beginning of their shift. The Pierce County Sheriff’s office says that the assailant was male. There was only one shooter [...]

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So far, nearly three-quarters of a million people have signed an online petition designed to let our congress know that they (we) don’t want a government controlled/government run healthcare system. We have seen what happens to EVERY government social program (e.g., social security): they go broke because the congress has no idea what the words [...]

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A gruesome discovery was made today in a Graham, Washington landfill.  The body of a newborn boy.  His young  mother who is only 16 years old stands guilty of murdering the child by holding his face in the toilet and drowning him.  She then put him in a plastic bag and tossed him out with [...]

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I will never claim to be the perfect mother, but one thing I will claim is that I loved my kids. I remember crying from guilt when I once slapped my son and it left a little red mark. He wasn’t hurt at all, in fact he laughed but I was so hurt because in [...]

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 FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog September 16, 2006, San Francisco — In a show of bipartisanship, two powerful members of Congress sent a letter to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) demanding that the BBG reverse its decision to terminate Voice of America (VOA) radio programs in Hindi to India. The BBG is a bipartisan body which [...]

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A top aide to Senator Biden has sent a message to Mr. Putin that politics can be placed ahead of human rights and media freedom if there is little risk of a public outcry.  Edward “Ted” E. Kaufman, Senator Biden’s former chief of staff who now works on his vice presidential campaign, blocked attempts last week to resume Voice of America (VOA) radio programs to Russia. [...]

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A New Website Hides a Tale of Fewer Radio Programs to Tibet, China, Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog, September 10, 2008, San Francisco — Websites tell their tales, and the newly redesigned, flashy website of the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) tells a tale of hubris, waste, and reduced access to uncensored radio [...]

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FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog, September 8, 2008, San Francisco — Perhaps Paula Zahn, formerly of CNN and ABC, could have explained to the White House, the U.S. Congress and the American people why the Voice of America (VOA) Russian-language radio programs were not being heard in the war zone in Georgia, or in Russia itself, when the Russian troops [...]

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FreeMediaOnline.org Commentary by Ted Lipien, September 4, 2008, San Francisco – While the White House mobilized in just a few days to put together a $1 billion aid package for Georgia, and President Bush sent Vice President Dick Cheney on a trip to the region, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which oversees all civilian U.S. international broadcasts,  is still in the mode [...]

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Emergency dispatchers in Kennewick, Washington received a call late Friday night from 23 year old Phiengchai Sisouvanh Synhavong, telling them that she had just delivered a baby and she thought the baby had died. When the emergency crew got there they found her sitting in the car with a baby and she kept asking if [...]

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New Jersey art dealer, George Wieschenberg of Lambertville, was sentenced to six years of prison for being a marijuana “farmer.” According to MSNBC, Wieschenberg, pleaded guilty to “operating a marijuana production facility,” in which he grew marijuana plants, said State Attorney General Anne Milgrim. Back in October of 2007, New Jersey State Police officers saw [...]

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Building on last week’s “Potomac Primary,” Barack Obama (D-IL) and John McCain (R-AZ) kept their winning streaks going.     In WI, Obama and McCain won by comfortable margins over Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Mike Huckabee (R-AR), respectively (58 percent to 41 percent in the Dem primary; 55 percent to 37 percent in the GOP primary). Though [...]

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Wisconsin and Washington Hold Democrat Primaries, Hawaii Holds Caucuses this Week Consulting the Stars: How will Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama do? Who has the edge, Astrologically-speaking Between Clinton and Obama this Week? Another in the DBKP 2008 Political Astrology series. Under the star’s benevolence, who will receive celestial glad tidings and the key to [...]

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Talk about bad timing. On Friday, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) – who has endorsed Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) – called Fmr. Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) to make the case that dropping out of the race was in the best interests of the party. The next day, Huckabee decisively won the KS caucus (60 percent to [...]

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(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt.Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of York, Rt.Rev.Dr.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor and other senior church leaders to speak out on the suffering of some parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on Autism Sunday [...]

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Sometimes political correctness seems to lack common sense, but reading this article in the Seattle Post Intelligencer has so many cliches and exaggerations it makes me think of one of the “drinking game” stories: Take a drink at every cliche, and see who gets drunk first. The story is about screening donors for blood banks. [...]

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Last month, New York State Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced that the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) would reverse a post-9/11 policy by the Pataki administration to deny a driver’s license to anyone who could not prove legal status – immediately prompting at least a dozen county clerks who operate DMV offices as agents of [...]

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Were Clinton’s comment on Obama racist?  By Amin George Forji    Two key issues have characterized the2008 Democratic Party campaign for the nomination of the next presidential candidate: experience and change. Hillary Clinton has been qualified as the candidate of experience and Obama as the candidate of change. But lets face it: the central of [...]

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This week, a patient undergoing a gene therapy study in Seattle died from complications of the procedure, causing the government to suspend the study. The patient’s cause of death was not revealed. They were undergoing therapy for advanced arthritis. This is the third death since 1999 in the gene therapy field. Scientists do not know [...]

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After much success from their previous two albums, Animals and Robots and Mindwrestling, Das Vibenbass recently released their third, Fodakis through Hop Productions. Hailing from Seattle, the grunge capitol of the world comes a quartet that infuses a bit of that gritty edge into bass and Vibe driven jazz. Das Vibenbass is a local favorite [...]

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Washington DC is the place to be on July 3RD- Pape Diouf to play in DC!!! DC Banner coming soon Advertorial Piece Washington DC, the Nation’s Capital is the place to be on July 3RD, 2007. Enjoyment time again!!!No more “Ndaga fever.” The leading Senegalese “Ndaga Star” Pape Diouf  has some good stuff for the [...]

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Economist Tijan Sallah speaks!!! “It is  hard to make such blanket generalization as the single underlying motivation for the brain drain.  As  I mentioned, some did go back but find their respective countries inhospitable to them to live. They are now working abroad and sending remittances to their families. Ideally, they should have been home, but we [...]

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Despite its troubles, the double-decker Airbus A380 is enjoying its moment in the aviation world’s spotlight.   Even so, the giant aircraft still has some skeptics who doubt it will ever really take off especially in “the Blue skies of United.”   Yet, there are the so-very-rich who are salivating to go one-up on the [...]

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When the Freedom Newspaper reported few months ago about President Yahya Jammeh’s ailing mental problems, some of his so called Di-heart party militants dismissed our claims. They accuse us of being an enemy of the President. Today, we have been vindicated in the eyes of the world. President Yahya Jammeh of all Yahya Jammeh is [...]

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Today’s edition of the daily round up is starting in my home state of Washington State where a group that is in favor of same sex marriages has taken a drastic step towards getting their cause recognized. In an effort to open “discussion about the many misguided assumptions” of the same sex ban that was [...]

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This would be funny if it weren’t intended to be serious (and frankly, I’m not completely sure that’s the intent). Same-sex proponents in Washington State, in an attempt to get social conservatives “dosed with their own medicine”, have filed an initiative. OLYMPIA, Wash. – An initiative filed by proponents of same-sex marriage would require heterosexual [...]

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The ocean is polluted enough.  I hold my breath and scoop up my dog feces with a plastic bag.  At least that won’t find its way into the water. But I know it wouldn’t have made much difference to the ocean water off the Pacific Northwest.   Whatever goes into the drains eventually finds its way [...]

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News Item: Xmas trees removed from Sea-Tac Just last week we noted a story about Santa being replaced by Frosty the Snowman in a school program in New York state.  Now the Christmas trees have been removed from Seattle’s Sea-Tac airport, because of a protest by a local rabbi.  The rabbi wanted an 8 foot [...]

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I came across an interesting story about how a store detective at Target caught a group of traveling credit card fraudsters in Washington. The store detective noted suspicious behavior – customers purchasing large amount of gift cards and did a little checking. When he did, he discovered that the cards being used were counterfeits. When [...]

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The new identity theft protection and recovery service by Truston is live. The service is unique because it doesn’t require you to give up your personal information, which could be stored in a database, and used to commit identity theft if it falls into the wrong hands. In case you’ve missed the weekly stories, databases [...]

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Fresh perspectives on today’s news by: Whymrhymer It comes to light now (thanks to yet another White House staffer who leaked yet another classified document to the New York Times) that two days before resigning as Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld sent a memo to the President urging a change in the United States’ Iraq [...]

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Fresh perspectives on today’s news by: Whymrhymer The Inspector General of the The United States Department of Justice, Glenn A. Fine, has informed the leaders of the House Judiciary Committee that his department has already conducted “initial inquiries” into the NSA’s (National Security Agency’s) electronic surveillance program (officially the “Terrorist Surveillance Program”) and is about [...]

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First gypsies impersonate Dr. Phil and now someone is selling tickets to the Oprah show that smell a little “phishy.” Illinois Attorney General, Lisa Madigan warned the public in a official statement: In this case, e-mail recipients are asked to submit personal information and told they will receive tickets to The Oprah Winfrey Show after [...]

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Cops in Seattle are taking their fight to a whole new medium: ads on craigslist. Craig’s List is a popular no frills website service that allows users to post free classified ads, millions of users browse the site daily. Most of them are looking for general services, products or employment from other users but there [...]

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Fresh perspectives on today’s news by: Whymrhymer “With the resignation of Republican National Committee Chair Ken Mehlman, President Bush intends to fill the post with Florida’s Mel Martinez, a Hispanic who led the battle in the U.S. Senate for amnesty for illegal aliens.” That quote is the opening salvo in Pat Buchanan’s column this morning [...]

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by Craig Dimitri   One of the final pieces of Election 2006 fell into place in the Pacific Northwest, late Monday night.  As of the weekend, several U.S. House campaigns were still not officially resolved, but the Wash. St/8th CD, in suburban Seattle, is no longer one of them.  The AP has officially declared freshman incumbent Rep. Dave Reichert (R) the [...]

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I’ve had the opportunity to look at a lot of identity theft services, but until now – I’ve never run into one I considered “victim friendly.” I’ve written off most of the services I’ve seen — either because they were financial services products (created by those who had compromised victims themselves) — or they were [...]

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by Craig Dimitri Along with the 8th CD (see separate story, below), blue Washington State could provide some early-Wednesday-AM solace to DC Republicans.  Two freshman Republicans could pull out their races.  Rep. Cathy McMorris – in former Democratic Speaker Tom Foley‘s seat – even has a statistically significant, albeit narrow, lead over her challenger, Peter Goldmark [...]

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by Craig Dimitri   In light of the national political environment, and metropolitan Seattle’s Democratic leanings, it’s amazing that freshman Rep. Dave Reichert (R) has a fighting chance of quenching the challenge from former Microsoft executive Darcy Burner (D).  Reichert was elected in 2004 with just 51.5% of the vote, in a district carried narrowly by John [...]

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According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse — which tracks data breaches where personal and financial information was compromised — 97,148,596 million people have had their personal information exposed since February 2005. Now Starbucks has joined their list by compromising their “own.” Four laptops have mysteriously “gone missing” from their corporate headquarters – two of them [...]

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Afghanistan’s primary industry, its main export and the chief prop holding up its shaky economy is opium cultivation. For tens of thousands of Afghani opium farmers and their families growing the opium poppy that supplies Europe with an estimated 92% of its heroin is their only means of livlihood. The US supports the government of Afghanistan with billions [...]

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Daily news and commentary by: Whymrhymer With the 2006 election only two weeks away, the news media has already predicted a winner: the Democratic Party. They base their predictions partly on polls results from professional polling organizations and partly on a burning desire to see President Bush loose control of the House and Senate . [...]

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September 6, 2006 was a day like any other for most of us, but for Jeffrey Alan Ingram it was the day he lost his memory. It was not until September 10 that Jeffrey, a 40 year old man from Washington, turned up at a Denver Colorado police station. In the days that followed an [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, I updated an earlier post about counterfeit American Express Gift Cheques and asked my readers to help me discover exactly how these items were surfacing. Prior to this, I knew they were showing up over a wide geographical area, but no one was “sharing” how they happened to get them. [...]

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