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Recall Obama's recent threatening the Brits with being at the "back of the queue" on trade deals with the US if they left the EU There are too many to count, but starting with the Chicago Olympics bid, the Mullah Obama seems to be on the losing side. Again. Kiss of Death Barry strikes again. I hope he doesn't support Trump!

AMARILLO, TEXAS - The City of Amarillo says police and fire crews are on the scene of a reported active shooter incident at a Walmart store on Interstate 27. There are no confirmed reports of injuries, but there are reports of a hostage situation with an armed suspect still inside the store.

I just watched the annual National Memorial Day Concert broadcast on PBS. As always, moving and, at times, up lifting. Each war from today's Iraq and Afghanistan back to WW2 were honored with profiles of those who served. One glaring exception : Korea. Anyone know if there is a good reason for this? Some military protocol I missed?

A What’s Upstream billboard in Olympia came down Wednesday, and a second one in Bellingham was expected to be removed, a day after the Environmental Protection Agency said the media campaign was an inappropriate use of federal funds that were awarded to a tribe for public education. Swinomish Indian tribe environmental policy director Larry Wasserman said the tribe is taking down the billboards voluntarily. “There has been no violation, but because of the concerns EPA has raised, we’re being responsive until their concerns are addressed,” he said. The tribe and several environmental groups collaborated on What’s Upstream to rally political...

A customer shot and killed a hatchet-wielding man attacking a clerk at a convenience store Sunday morning in Burien WA About 5:45 a.m., a masked man about 40 years old walked into a 7-Eleven store near South 110th Street and 8th Avenue South and swung a hatchet at a customer, said King County Sheriff’s Sgt. Cindi West. The man then went behind the counter and attacked the clerk. Within seconds, a customer pulled out a handgun and shot and killed the attacker, likely saving the clerk’s life, West said. The customer, in his 60s, buys coffee from the store almost...

KSSIMMEE — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders pushed Thursday for a “political revolution” before a crowd of about 4,000 under the hot Florida sun at a rally outside Kissimmee. “This is a different type of campaign,” the Vermont senator told his cheering supporters, many of them in their teens or 20s and who gathered at Osceola Heritage Park. “We’re doing something very radical. We are telling people the truth.” The rally was part of a swing through Florida in advance of Tuesday's Democratic presidential primary, in which Sanders is well behind Hillary Clinton in the latest polls. But on Thursday...

ala David Letterman's Top Ten Lists - what are your top humorous reason(s) Slow Joe is not running ?

In "honor" of Talk Like A Pirate Day, What's your best or favorite pirate joke? Mine? A pirate walks into a bar with a ship's wheel attached to his belt buckle. The bartender asks him what that's all about. "I don't know", says himself. "But's it's driving me nuts!"

OKANOGAN COUNTY, Wash. - People in Okanogan might never know it, but Alex Thomason might have saved their home. Like so many others, Alex is out fighting every flame he sees, but he's not a firefighter, per se. In fact, he's a lawyer. He bought a firetruck two days ago and took a mini course, and now he's out fighting fires. It's not just fire hoses he uses to fight flames. He also dig fire lines. Call him crazy, other people definitely have. "My wife thinks I'm crazy," Thomason says. But he's not the only one. In fact, he's got...

SEATTLE - A Confederate monument in Capitol Hill's Lake View Cemetery is in the spotlight as a local group calls for its removal. For more than a century, Lake View Cemetery has been the final resting place for many of Seattle's pioneers. Only a short walk from one of the cemetery's most visited grave sites - that of Bruce Lee - a 14-foot granite monument memorializes Washington state's Confederate veterans and their families. "Just because it's a military memorial doesn't justify it," Charlette LaFevere says. "It's offensive." LeFevere is part of a small group calling on Seattle City leaders to...

With the most recent assault on sanity the last few days, I think if we are changing offensive names on public places, why not public people? Recall that our 42d president's middle name is Jefferson. It may or may not be for Jefferson Davis. (Why quibble?) None the less, that is too close to President Davis's Christian name (can I use that term) so let's change it just in case. Then we have Sheila Jackson Lee. Now there is a two-fer revision :Andrew Jackson the slave owner and General Lee. Both names must go in Ms Sheila's name. And I...

MOBILE, Ala. — Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle "Gabby" Giffords of Arizona had a Navy vessel named in her honor during a ceremony at a Mobile, Alabama, shipyard Saturday afternoon. Giffords joined others including Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, as the USS Gabrielle Giffords was christened in coastal Alabama. The 419-foot ship was built at the Austal shipyard and is the Navy's 10th littoral combat ship designed to operate in shallow waters near the coast. Giffords was badly wounded in a 2011 shooting that left six dead and a total of 13 injured in Tucson. The Democrat left...

The City of Hoquiam last night voted against committee recommendation and renamed a portion of Queets Avenue to McQuade in honor of a fallen Vietnam veteran who’s chopper was shot down while searching for missing soldiers under fire. “On June 11th, 1972 the 23 year old pilot from Hoquiam Washington, [his gunner] and the copter was right above their leader’s chopper when it was shot down itself.” Dan Discher grew up on Queets Avenue with James McQuade, he told the council last night that McQuade left the Harbor to become a 1st Lieutenant in the Army, and flew for the...

The “Best helicopter door gunner of all time” died and went to heaven. St. Peter greeted him there and said “Welcome to heaven! Your terminal assignment orders indicate you were the best door gunner in human history and did wonderful things for your fellow crew members, your unit, and your country your entire life. For that reason I am authorized to let you choose in which part of heaven you would like to spend eternity.” “Well”, the gunner said, “I’d love to bunk somewhere where I will never see another helicopter pilot – they are loud, contemptible, and generally a...

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BREMERTON, Wash. -- Naval Sea Systems Command says the mothballed aircraft carrier USS Ranger will be towed out of Puget Sound on Thursday on its way to be scrapped in Texas. Robert Johnson sees more than a relic of gray steel and worn rivets when he looks across the Sinclair Inlet. He sees home. "It gave me a piece of my soul I think," the Navy Vietnam veteran said. It is the same ship that is on his hat, the USS Ranger, a massive aircraft carrier. "A lot of people served on it. A lot of people worked on it,...