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SEATTLE -- A lawyer for a Lynden man charged with temporarily blinding the crew of a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol helicopter during a mission last fall says he shined a spotlight at the helicopter out of curiosity. the Blackhawk helicopter was hovering only about 600 feet above Groen's home just before 10 p.m. on Sept. 22, and Groen shined a spotlight at it to see what it was doing. He could face 20 Years in Jail.

Seattle City Light is giving away thousands of energy-saving light bulbs, and water-saving faucet aerators and shower heads. Door-to-door contractors will even install them on the spot. The neighborhood outreach project, called "Powerful Neighborhoods" aims to solve a local power problem. "We did some survey work and discovered that fully a third of the people in Seattle had no CFLs (compact fluorescent light bulbs) in their home at all," said Seattle City Light Energy Management Supervisor Andrew Gibb. So Seattle City Light is going door-to-door. Specially trained and screened technicians hit the pavement and offer to replace energy-hogging incandescent bulbs...

PATRIOTS BIRTHDAY - VANITY (Great Idea for parents) For the benefit of our 9 year-old son, we have taken a chapter in the book, “How to Raise an American”, and each month we have a Patriot’s Birthday Party held for a famous American, or someone who contributed to our society in a great way like Columbus. READ ON

the Miss TSA Pinup Calendar. We aren't sure where these came from, but they do appear to be real x-rays (says a medical expert friend of mine), and were probably done by a radiologist -- that's why they'd be hitting the medical community first. My medical expert friend (who wishes to remain anonymous) is the one who forwarded me the images. After some quick research online, the earliest posting of the images I can find is on Outburst.com, but the site was apparently hacked shortly afterward and has since been taken down (here's the cached page). Still, there's nothing on...

KENT, Wash. -- Veterans are fighting mad after someone stole nearly a dozen memorial plaques from the Tahoma National Cemetery. Workers discovered Monday morning that 11 bronze memorial plaques were ripped from their granite foundations. Cemetery director Jim Trimbo believes the theft happened sometime over the weekend. The large plaques were held in place with brass screws and epoxy. "I'm mad as hell," said Trimbo. "There's no reason for this. There's absolutely no reason. If the guy needed $20, I would've given him $20, because that's basically what they'll get. It was $5,000 to buy these plaques." For Korean War...

A day late for Veterans Day, but It will do your heart good to see this video. This was filmed in Iraq at a USO tour of a US Marine Base.

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Dale Peterson, the world's most famous candidate for Alabama Ag Commissioner, makes his endorsement! (And Don't you dare still try to take his yard signs)

“I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes,” President Obama, September 12, 2008 Beginning January 1, 2013, ObamaCare imposes a 3.8% Medicare tax on unearned income, including the sale of single family homes, townhouses, co-ops, condominiums, and even rental income. In February 2010, 5.02 million homes were sold, according to the National Association of Realtors. On any given day, the sale of a house, townhome, condominium,...

I AM a tea-party activist, not a racist. I grew up on the Eastside. I went to college, earned a job teaching school, got married, bought a house, had a baby, and stayed home to raise my children. We live in the same house we bought in 1986. Our only debt is our mortgage. A few months before 9/11, my husband was laid off and for six years worked very hard to bring home the bacon taking on various jobs. We survived. Every election I have cast my vote. Occasionally, I have written the governor, as well as a few...

One of the many videos of Obama in 2008 saying the Surge Bush ordered is not working, and will not work.

While I was leaving work I heard what sounded like 2 Sonic Booms at 1:50 PM PST about 10 seconds apart, that shook my parking garage. Four miles away picking my son up at the dentist office they heard the same thing, and it shook their building. Four more miles away my neighbor heard the same thing, and it shook a few things off of shelves.

Koral Wira, 14, was fishing with her parents and a friend near Venice, Fla., when a barracuda went for her dad's bait and ended up biting her instead. Her dad, Rob Parker, submitted these photos and Wira told the story. After anchoring the boat 4 miles off shore, Parker baited his rod with herring. Wira switched seats to get out of the hot sun, and watched as her dad cast. Moments later, she heard a splash and saw a long silver flash in the air. A barracuda jumped from the water and opened its mouth. As it hit her left...

Video - In a campaign speech Obama says his father served in WWII. Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (Obama's father) Born 4/4/36 Died 11/24/82 at the age of 46 He was 5 years old when WW 2 started, and less than 9.5 years old when it ended. Lolo Soetoro (Obama's step father) Born 1935 Died 3/2/87 at the age of 52 He was 6 years old when WW 2 started, and 10 years old when it ended. One of these guys must have been the youngest Veteran in the war.

The Department of Licensing (DOL) announced Friday that it will reimburse fines for up to 3,000 traffic citations that may not be valid. Those citations were issued by various cities and jurisdictions after 2007 and include cellphone violations that occurred before July 1. People who paid questionable fines should go to the jurisdiction that issued the fine and request reimbursement. The state, in turn, will reimburse the various agencies. The DOL says the 3,000 or so tickets eligible for refunds are worth an estimated $400,000, money that will come from the agency's budget. The DOL said it will be up...

As he has before, Huckabee defends his decision to the New Yorker, saying Clemmons' prison sentence was unjust given what he knew at the time. In Arkansas, Huckabee commuted the sentence of Maurice Clemmons, who went on to shoot four police officers in Washington last year. Given the same information he had then, Huckabee says, he would make the same decision.

VIDEO: Obama Openly Mocks God & Bible

SEATTLE (AP) - Police are looking for a Washington Department of Licensing employee accused of illegally selling identification documents to immigrants. The U.S. attorney's office in Seattle says Melanie Yoder failed to show up for work Friday at the Bellevue licensing office. She is charged with conspiring with a Brazilian immigrant, Rodrigo Moura, who was arrested Friday in Kirkland. The criminal complaint says Moura charged $3,000 for a license and paid $500 to Yoder to handle the paperwork. In June 2009, Yoder issued 45 Washington drivers licenses and identity cards to people claiming to be from Brazil. The FBI was...

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