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 large marijuana […]

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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 Huckabee […]

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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 the White […]

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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.
Certain diseases […]

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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 gravity has […]

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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 and […]

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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 SeneGambian Community in […]

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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 occupant of Air Force […]

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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 today […]

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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 into […]

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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 tall menorah […]

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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 the merry […]

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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 are […]

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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 policy. […]

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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 to […]

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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 verification of […]

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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 at […]

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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 winner […]

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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 selling […]

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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 (D).
McMorris […]

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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 F. […]

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