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After viewing “social dilemma,” a Netflix documentary, I was enlightened to what is taking place in the social-media platforms and how they are influencing–even manipulating–our very ideas and courses of action. A few early Silicon Valley developers have come forward to lay out the ideas behind Facebook, Twitter, Snap Chat, You Tube and other social-media platforms, saying they were initially developed to connect family and friends, far and near, quicker and easier. But the initially beneficial and well-meaning purposes of apps like Faceboo...
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Mr. Moses remarked the other day he’d received a catalog in the mail from a western clothing outfit. He wasn’t sure who the outfit catered to, but the name ‘Long Island’ seemed to stick in his mind. The photo on the front had burned an image into his brain. A male model stood in cowboy posture, a Clint Eastwood steely-eyed glare glinting from beneath the brim of his Zorro hat. It appeared that moths had eaten the collar off his shirt. He wore a duster that was sort of a cross between Jim Bridger...
Since the explosion in wildfire activity a few weeks ago, there has been a rush to use them to promote a climate agenda, including calling them “climate fires.” ABC News even went so far as to downplay the role of forest health, saying the claim that it played a primary role in fires of recent years as “contrary to evidence.” In reality, there is little disagreement about the serious threat posed by unhealthy and fire-prone forests. The Washington State Department of Natural Resources puts it...
To the editor. I’ve known Mike Mitchell a long time. He was a trustworthy, straight talking friend to all as a teenager and hasn’t changed – he has become more so. His compassion runs deep and he understands how important it is for everyone to be heard. That is how Mike approaches every facet of the law and he has practiced them all! From prosecuting cases in criminal court, traffic court and the State Appellate and Supreme Courts to defending criminals and engaging the breadth of civil law and arbitration, Mike is committed to fairness for e...
To the editor, I am writing in support of Mike Mitchell for Superior Court Judge. I first got to know Mike as my Little League Baseball coach 25 years ago and have had a personal relationship with him ever since. Mike has the experience, both in time and depth, and temperament to be well prepared, fair and openminded as he makes decisions. I know Mike to be firm and consistent while at the same time being a courteous and understanding of the human elements of the issues. I believe Mike is the most qualified for the position of Superior Court...
DAYTON–Everyone I talk to can’t wait for 2020 to be over with, done, finis. It’s like we’ll wake up some day and there won’t be any more hysteria about COVID-19 and we’ll say “Now, where was I?” What it’ll take to get to that “Someday,” I have some good ideas. But then again, I ain’t the governor and he’s got some different ideas and “2021” may be involved! We flattened the curve last winter, giving American Ingenuity a chance to build respirators and ramp up production of PPEs. Nowadays, if you hop out of your car and forget your mask, cha...
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I have known and worked with many women in the feedlot business. Some as cowboys, some as vets, some as lay doctors, as cattle processors, feed truck drivers, foremen (or forepersons) and managers (or should that be womanagers?). Lest you think I’m going to waste your time with a commentary on cute political correctness witticisms, relax, I’m not. Nor do the feedlot women I know waste their time with political correctness. I think I’d be safe in saying affirmative action doesn’t have much im...
Smoke from forest fires filled the air in [Western] Washington and immediately the finger of blame was pointed at climate change. Prior to the recent fires, the 2020 fire season had been extremely quiet. No matter how the season ends, however, blaming climate change is politics, not science. Not all the lands burned in the last week are forests, but forestland is a major source of the smoke we are seeing. The science is quite clear that timber harvests–including commercial timber harvests – are...
To the editor, After reading and watching the news online and on TV, it appears that our country is divided into those who care about property and those who care about people, and most astute observers could easily identify which political party caters to each group. Since I have traveled and lived in many different countries of the world–some “developed” and some “developing “which President Trump called “shithole countries”, I have never seen such wretched living as some people experience in certain parts of the United States, The disparity...
For those in their late twenties or early thirties, September 11, 2001, is "a date which will live in infamy." Tomorrow, it'll be the 19th anniversary of that shocking, numbing, bewildering day. Like December 7, 1941, was for our parents' generation, the United States changed dramatically that day. We plunged headlong into a war which continues to this day, a war against oppression and tyranny. Osama bin Laden and the Taliban conceived a master stroke: hijacking cross-continent aircraft fully...
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Catching avocado rustlers is sort of a cross between the Covid virus, wildfires, exchange students bearing addictive goodies and coon hunting. “All right, come down outta that tree and drop that avocado. Frisk him, Ken and don’t forget to check for lemons.” In the southern California county of Ventura you will find the occasionally fractious co-mingling of densely populated residential areas and intensive orchard and truck farming. I’m sure there was a time when farmers gladly supplied their n...
Smoke from forest fires filled the air in Western Washington and immediately the finger of blame was pointed at climate change. Prior to the recent fires, the 2020 fire season had been extremely quiet. No matter how the season ends, however, blaming climate change is politics, not science. Not all the lands burned in the last week are forests, but forestland is a major source of the smoke we are seeing. The science is quite clear that timber harvests – including commercial timber harvests – are...
To the editor, My father and his brother were both veterans from WWII and fought in Europe against Nazi Germany… Never in my life have I felt such vehement anger towards Trump calling dead soldiers who died in war and were buried in France as “losers” and “suckers”. The remarks have been collaborated by others who heard Trump say the remarks. In a sense, Trump let the cat out of the bag by saying he thought his then Secretary of Homeland Secretary, John. F Kelly was the one who shared the remarks with journalists. That just adds credibili...
On September 2, 1945–75 years ago–standing behind General Douglas MacArthur, on the deck of BB63, the U.S.S. Missouri, was an emaciated-looking General Jonathan M. Wainwright. Wainwright had waited out World War II as a Prisoner of War after surrendering to the Imperial Japanese Army when Corregidor in Manila Bay was lost in early 1942. Wainwright, incidentally, was born in Walla Walla, on the Army Post, and that's why the local VA Medical Center is named after him. So it was fitting that he and...
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They were just words. “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Reagan to Gorbachev at the Brandenburg Gate, 1987 “Chance of rain.” Weatherman in Louisiana before Hurricane Katrina, 2005. “Give me liberty or give me death.” Patrick Henry, 1775 “I wish I’d never read this book... so I could read it again for the first time”. Dan Trimble about Hemingway’s “Old Man and the Sea”. 1992 “The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank.” Erma Bombeck. 1976 We often underestimate the value of...
Food prices have gone up in recent months, but farmers are not getting paid more. While farmers and ranchers are in the business of producing food for consumers, it is a long way from the farm gate to a dinner plate and the in-between is where costs start to pile into the cost equation. So, before anyone who read the recent story outlining the rise in food costs seen in Seattle equates that to farmers and ranchers making a profit, let’s take a look at farm prices for some of those original c...
Here is an impassioned speech given by Rep. John J. Deberry Jr., a Democrat from Memphis, Tenn., speaking on August 12, 2020, in the 2nd Extraordinary Session of the Tennessee House of Representatives. I rise because I continue to hear references to what I saw in growing up in this country, and growing up in the state of Tennessee, as I walked with my father, and worked with my father here in the state of Tennessee, in Memphis, Tennessee, and across this state, and across this country, in the middle of what has been referred to, on several...
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When the crew came toward the cookhouse Hazel shut and locked the door. “Don’t you even think about it! Looks like y’all been in a war.” And though Hazel didn’t know it, she was not far off the track They’d been workin’ pasture cattle and them critters could fight back! All that grass that they’d been eatin’ lubricated their insides Plus those cows were full as dog ticks and a little loose besides So when squeezed in some tight corner they could aim their guns at will And bombard that crew...
To the editor, I am writing in support of Mike Mitchell for Superior Court Judge, Position 1. It is imperative for our community to elect a judge with depth and breadth of quality legal experience. Mike has been on both sides of almost every fence the court straddles. He understands each side’s arguments and positions having made them as an attorney during the last 42 years. This includes criminal law (both prosecutorial and defense), civil litigation, family law, estate planning and probate, business formation, juvenile law and d...
The disturbing thing about current affairs is that We, the People, see what is happening, but we feel helpless doing anything about it. What we’re up against is a huge political engine, a collective bunch of politicians and powerful people with names like Soros, Clinton and Gates, who are all deeply involved. This faction has done everything in its power, coup attempt after coup attempt, to get President Trump out of White House. Russian collusion didn’t work; impeachment didn’t work. How about a tanking economy? Or at least the perce...
