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Episode 104 of the Consider This Podcast has been released; conservative commentary in 10 minutes or less. CEO Dan Price of Gravity Payments decided to raise the wages of all his employees to a minimum of $70,000, while reducing his almost-$1 million salary down to that same $70,000. The Left love it, the Right hated it. But […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
 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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
(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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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’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 […]
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 […]
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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