I had a hard time as I wrote my previous post on the annual Father-Daughter Ball. The front of the post card we received says the theme is: Daddys Are a Girl’s Best Friend. The text side of the card says the theme is: Daddy’s Are a Girl’s Best Friend. Obviously the second one is [...]
What happens when you let marketing experts into the church building? TheChurchCheck.com. According to Mark Galli at Christianity Today, ChurchCheck will send “mystery worshipers” to assess the Sunday morning experience as a non-biased third party visitor. Our team of savvy professionals can secretly worship at your church, analyze it in detail, and present you with [...]
Just read this story at the Tri-City Herald: UPDATE: I-82 rest stop at Prosser reopened after package examined PROSSER – A suspicious package that prompted the closure of an rest stop just off Interstate 82 in Prosser has been examined and the rest area has been re-opened. The rest area was closed for about 3 [...]
Recently the Tri-City Herald reported that the city of Kennewick is considering annexing the Tri-City Heights subdivision from Benton County. Tri-City Heights, a 305-acre ‘island’ of county property surrounded by the city, contains 710 parcels according to Christina Palmer, assistant director of support services, and it is the last remaining piece of a 2005 plan [...]
Just finished watching this old clip from a Ted Talk in 2005 by military strategist Thomas Barnett. With an amazing amount of humor, he makes a lot of sense when he discusses that the U.S. military’s bigest problem is it’s own success, or what he calls our “catastrophic success”. He rightly says that we field [...]
NPR’s Morning Edition interviewed Geraldo Rivera regarding his new book His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S. Geraldo has not been on the winning side of many things lately and I fear this one will be the same. Politicians always need to find an enemy for us to blame for our problems otherwise [...]
I wrote last year about local prosecutors putting DUI Dismissals up for Sale. The Tri-City Herald reported today that Governor Christine Gregoire signed Washington State Senate Bill 6100 legislation prohibiting these out-of-court deals. A city attorney, county prosecutor, or other prosecuting authority may not dismiss, amend, or agree not to file a [...]
Washington State Insurance Commissioner, Mike Kreidler, testified before the U.S. House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming earlier this month. According to the press release, last winter’s windstorms in Washington are a result of global warming. I understand that global warming will cause changes in the weather, but to blame global warming for [...]
What happens when you put a 20″ lift kit and 30″ clear wheels on a kandy orange ’85 Chevy Caprice? How much does it cost to not only make your car impractical (and illegal?) to operate, and make it ugly at the same time? You don’t even want to know what the wheels cost.
See the red Pontiac Transport? It is in the middle of the driving lane. But no one is in the vehicle! Yeah, someone thought that they should park out in the middle of the road. Numerous time I have seen other ijots park one space out from the designated parking spots because they are too [...]
The Register had a funny story a while back about a guy who was addicted to porn: “I don’t actually think you CAN fire me for browsing porn..” “Why not?” “Well, I think I’m addicted to porn.” “I beg your pardon?” “Addicted. To porn.” “You’re joking!” “Oh no. You see I’m fairly sure that the [...]
I got a kick out of Michelle Singletary’s discussion of tax issues in today’s Tri-City Herald. She poses the question: I’m very leery of e-filing my tax return because I don’t want to give the government my IP (Internet Protocol) address, what with all the illegal surveillance that has been authorized by the current administration. [...]
Foxnews reported this morning that the “Flag burning” Constitutional amendment failed by just one vote. Freedom wins … just barely … one vote. Sixty-six Senators (out of 100) voted to amendment the Constitution, which is designed to limit the governments power, to instead limit our freedoms. The amendment did not seek to ban flag burning. [...]
AzCentral.com reports that there is an initiative in Arizona proposing to turn the voting process into a lottery, giving one lucky voter a million dollars. With supporters hoping to boost voter participation, an initiative filed Monday for the state’s November election would provide $1 million to one randomly chosen Arizona voter just for casting a [...]
Steve McCoy from reformissionary cites this quote from a conference he is attending: “Preaching against culture is like preaching against somebody’s house. It’s just where they live.” There is a lot of truth in that statement. Many times the ‘enemies’ are dredged up in order to rally the troops (both religious and political). Enemies, real [...]
SEATTLE – Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna announced today that an Oregon man is the first defendant penalized under Washington’s new computer spyware act. Zhijian Chen, of Portland, Ore., will pay nearly $84,000 in fines and consumer restitution for marketing bogus anti-spyware software through deceptive means. “Let this be a warning to other online [...]
The US Postal Service wants to raise the price on stamps, from 39 cents to 42 cents, after having just raised them this year. First-class stamps have gone up 13 times since 1974, when the price to mail a letter went from 8 to 10 cents. Kearney said rate increases soon could become an annual [...]
According to a press release from the Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna, California-based marketer of Internet directory listings, Yellow Pages, Inc., will pay $525,000 to settle allegations of deceptive marketing practices brought by 27 states. “Washington and other states alleged that Yellow Pages, Inc., tricked businesses into paying for advertising services they never intended to [...]
Went out to lunch the other day and made a quick stop in the restroom while waiting for the vendor, who was going to buy me lunch, to show up. Everything in that room seems to have been hooked up to an infrared sensor. The water faucet turns on and off as you place your [...]
Rueter’s News reports that GEICO’s friendly little gecko is going to need to hire a lawyer: Three former policyholders of auto insurer GEICO Corp. filed a federal lawsuit on Monday accusing the company of discriminating against blacks by using education and employment status as factors in setting auto insurance rates. It said that because black [...]
Ever wonder how easy identity theft is? This story is truly incredible. A credit card application from Chase Mastercard was ripped into pieces (see photo) then taped back together. He then filled out the application and even put his parents address and his cell phone on the application instead of the correct info and mailed [...]
According to LifeSiteNews.com an Allstate employee has settled out of court after being fired from his job for comments that appeared in a men’s journal denouncing same-sex “marriage” in December 2004. J. Matt Barber was fired last February after his commentary on same-sex “marriage” appeared in the on line journal MensNewsDaily.com, even though the statement [...]
According to C|Net News the old newspapers are all upset that Google and other search engines are ‘profiting’ from their content. Web search engines, such as Google and Yahoo, collect headlines and photos for their users without compensating the publishers a cent, according to the World Association of Newspapers (WAN), which announced Tuesday that it [...]
I ran across this article and realized how desperate some people are to make a sale. You really wonder if the folks he was dealing with even considered that if he was willing to do this, what made them think he was being honest with them? Would you buy a car from a guy who [...]