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Some votes critical in determining the Seattle mayoral race may not get counted until next Tuesday. Vandals tried to get at a ballot drop box in Tukwila in the early morning hours after the election. "The metal cover plate that we seal the ballot drop box with at 8pm on Election night was ripped off," said Kim Van Ekstrom, with King County Elections. Ekstrom said the ballots themselves weren't tampered with because the box's design doesn't allow access unless you have the keys. The question is whether anything was slipped in that shouldn't have been. "They were in the process...

Mark Levin, spoke in Washington, D.C., along with Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, and actor Jon Voight, to protest government-run health care, also known as "Obamacare." Thousands of tea party protesters joined Levin, a popular radio talk show host and author, who is nicknamed "The Great One," gave a moving speech that was received with loud cheers from the excited crowd.

VIDEO: Congresswoman Michele Bachmann gave a spirited and passionate speech on November 5, in Washington, D.C., as part of a protest she organized to fight the federal government's takeover of our health care system. Joining Bachmann to fight government-run health care, also known as "Obamacare," was actor, Jon Voight, and popular radio talk show host and author, Mark Levin.

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Washington state voters on Tuesday were narrowly approving the state's new "everything but marriage" law that marks a significant expansion of rights for gay couples. With about 50 percent of the expected vote counted, Referendum 71 was leading 51 percent to 49 percent. The measure asked voters to approve or reject the final expansion to the state's domestic partnership law, which grants registered domestic partners additional state-granted rights currently given only to married couples.

A vast pool of molten rock in the continental crust that underlies southwestern Washington state could supply magma to three active volcanoes in the Cascade Mountains -- Mount St. Helens , Mount Rainier and Mount Adams... Other scientists dismiss the existence... Rather than magma heated to 1,300 to 1,400 degrees, some think it could be water... Seth Moran , a volcano seismologist with the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Wash... said the most telling evidence that the theory was wrong was the lack of any surface evidence, such as geothermal vents or hot springs, among the mountains that would...

Almost 20% of West Virginians eligible to vote are either dead or have moved. Five States with the Most Dead People Eligible to Vote: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming. FUN TIME IN ACORN TOWN: DEAD PEOPLE RULE! Are you lonely when you go to the polling place? Want some company? Perhaps, you'd like to take along a dead "friend" to vote with you. That's a scenario that's becoming more possible across the United States. A combination of old voter registration lists that still contain the names of dead voters and voters who have moved, new "Motor Voter" legislation,...

Rep. Michelle Bachman is calling all Americans to join her on the steps of the Capital Building in Washington DC on Thursday November 5th to stop "the Crown Jewel of Socialism."

“Candid Democracy;” “Pragmatic Realism;” “Generation of Change.” Yes, these are the things that we hoped for when Barak Hussein Obama was elected to the presidency of the United States. This was the same office that George Washington held. You remember George, don’t you? He was that angry white man that told the King of England to go screw off. Oh, that is right, God forgive me for saying anything against the King. God forgive me for saying anything against Obama. How does it go? It is so prosaic: Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Barrack Hussein Obama. Like some well-conditioned comrade. Mmm, Mmm,...

Has anyone heard anything about a 912DC march part two? Loads of people I know would go if there was another since they couldnt go this time. I also had a great grassroots idea that I would have no idea how to start... sort of a "Mansion March" where thousands of people being represented by Pelosi, Ried, and Frank march in their neighborhood and surround their home... not sure the legality of it, but to get the media there and letting the world see how these fat pigs live would be a big plus... just dont put me at Barney...

Michele Anderson, who says she killed six members of her family on Christmas Eve 2007, railed against her attorneys in court Thursday, calling them dishonest and unqualified, and asked a judge to appoint new legal counsel. At the same time, Anderson urged King County Senior Deputy Prosecutor James Konat to drop charges against her former boyfriend and co-defendant Joseph McEnroe, saying she alone was responsible for the slayings of her parents, her brother and his wife and their two young children. She also asked that Konat charge her with kidnapping for forcing McEnroe to participate in the killings at her...

 TEA PARTY EXPRESS II ROLLS INTO WASHINGTON STATE! RALLIES TO BE HELD IN PUYALLUP ON FRIDAY,KENNEWICK & SPOKANE ON SATURDAY. (FROM THE ROAD IN CENTRAL OREGON) - The national, cross-country tour titled, Tea Party Express II: Countdown to Judgment Day (www.TeaPartyExpress.org)  is rolling into Washington State to host Tea Parties in Puyallup (Friday 6:00 PM), Kennewick (Saturday 9:00 AM), and Spokane (Saturday 2:00 PM). The Tea Party Express II: Countdown to Judgment Day will hold rallies that seek to educate, entertain, and encourage patriotic Americans who are concerned about the quasi-socialistic policies being pushed by the Obama/Pelosi/Reid administration. Momentum has grown for the tour, as word of...

The Washington City Paper reports that the team's vendors were selling beer to patrons while they made use of the facilities last Sunday during their game against the Kansas City Chiefs. The report says a poster named Gracelander first complained about the washroom sales more than a year ago on the Redskins' official message board ExtremeSkins.com. "[W]hat made me mad was when I went to the bathroom at the start of the 3rd quarter and this guy was in the BATHROOM selling beers to guys who waited for the urinals. I found this just wrong on so many accounts." While...

On a chilly December day in 1799, 67-year-old former president George Washington came back from a hard day of work on his Mount Vernon plantation with what seemed a bit of a cold. After a difficult night and the failure of various home remedies to provide any relief, Washington called for a doctor. At Washington's request, the doctor opened up a vein and removed 12 ounces of blood. Despite the blood-letting, Washington felt no better. A second physician was called in, and he also thought blood-letting was the right treatment. He took more than a pint of blood, and, when...

The fight over Robert E. Lee's beloved home—seized by the U.S. government during the Civil War—went on for decades Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Battle-of-Arlington.html#ixzz0UvYZZAfo

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Behind closed doors, business and local government leaders in South Carolina are working to deliver an electrifying jolt to the economy of this genteel city — at the expense of Washington state. Already the site of side-by-side factories that produce two thirds of the fuselage for Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, Charleston is in a tight race with Everett to be the location of a second final-assembly line for the new jet. "It's a huge deal," said Pat Barber, a well-connected Charleston businessman who owns a trucking company that specializes in oversize loads and could win a lot of...

Hundreds of people have been arrested in Texas and around the country what officials say is the largest single strike at a Mexican drug cartel in the U.S WASHINGTON (October 22, 2009)—U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder calls the arrests of more than 300 people in a series of drug raids in Texas and across the country the largest single strike at a Mexican drug cartel operating here. Holder said at a news conference Thursday that the arrests over the past two days were aimed at the U.S. operations of the La Familia cartel. Click here to find out more! Holder...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- With two wolf packs totaling about a dozen animals and more expected in the coming years, Washington state is grappling with a proposed wolf management plan. Authors of the plan called the process that produced it wrenching and polarizing. In short: a flashpoint issue.When it comes to attitudes about wolves, there seems to be no middle ground.Hunters are afraid wolves will decimate elk and deer populations. Ranchers fear the state’s newest alpha predator will wreak havoc on their livestock. Conservationists worry that hunters and ranchers will shoot the wolves despite state or federal protections.A recently released draft...

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qxjocm5fCc Video Description - quote: "Homosexuals Must Be Killed" Muslims speak out - Muslim Day Washington, DC October 16, 2009 Disturbing video of Shariah Law anti-gay sentiment uncovered by ACT for America Randy McDaniels (Jacksonville, FL) during Muslim Day prayer event Washington, DC Category: News & Politics Tags: Muslim Day ACT for America Washington DC Homosexual Gay

Here's a video my daughter put together of the March on D.C. The majority of the pictures are our own, but she did borrow a few off the net to fill in here and there.

M.O.M. for America Washington, DC Rally - Saturday, August 14, 2010 OUR PERMIT APPLICATION IS BEEN CONFIRMED, WE SHOULD BE RECEIVING THE PERMIT NEXT WEEK! (10/9/2009 - 12:23 p.m.)

Eugene Robinson, of the Washington Post, is finally looking past Obama’s skin color and his own. He wrote a piece being way too kind to Obama and naively surprised by his actions: President Obama's brief display of drive-by compassion Thursday in New Orleans was, for me, by far the worst outing of his presidency thus far -- and the biggest disappointment. I covered Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath -- the flood in New Orleans that drowned a great city, the storm surge in Mississippi that erased whole communities, the devastation, the agony. For weeks afterwards, I had trouble sleeping. I...

A Scary Halloween Story (a poem) Lee Kayser 2008 Chapter 1 - Observation Halloween is near and it's scary here As I roll into Washington D.C Politicians are out, exercising their clout Unashamed, for all to see. "We're headed for hell if we don't pass this bill" Was their frantic anxious scream So they took out the fork and loaded some pork To gather the pigs to the team Maverick McCain vowed, "I‘ll change the game I will veto all bills loaded up" The bailout came by with a load from the sty He marked ‘yes' and dropped in the...

The lower half of George Washington’s dentures is on display at Mount Vernon. Msnbc.com’s Becca Field reports.

SEATTLE -- Seattle Parks and Recreation on Wednesday put into effect a new rule banning the possession or display of firearms at playgrounds, community centers and other places where children are likely to be.   Firearms will be prohibited at designated facilities once signs are posted notifying people of the new rule. The first signs are to be posted Friday, with the rest up by Dec. 1.   In all, the rule will be applied at more than 500 parks, recreation centers, pools, beaches and golf courses.

A huge landslide has closed part of SR410 in the eastern Cascades in Washington state - see link for details and vid.

Vast Cache of Financial Papers Is Rich in Details One day in 1791, President George Washington received a bill for 60 pounds, 1 shilling and 7 pence from his physician friend James Craik, who regularly made the rounds at Mount Vernon. The invoice ran two pages: "Anodyne Pills for Breachy . . . Laxative Pills for Ruth . . . syphilic Pills for Maria . . . oz 1 Antiphlogistie Anodyne Tincture . . . Bleeding Charlotte . . . oz 4 Powdered Rhubarb . . . Extracting one of your Negroes tooth . . . a Mercurial Purge for...

Note: The following text is a quote: Thirty-Nine Individuals Charged with Conspiring to Bribe Chair of D.C. Taxicab Commission WASHINGTON—Yitbarek Syume, 51, of Silver Spring, Maryland, Berhane Leghese, 47, of Arlington, Virginia, and Amanuel Ghirmazion, 53, of Hyattsville, Maryland, were indicted on bribery charges on October 1, 2009, by a grand jury sitting in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, announced Acting United States Attorney Channing D. Phillips and FBI Assistant Director in Charge Joseph Persichini, Jr. The indictments, unsealed today, allege that Syume, Leghese, and Ghirmazion, conspired to bribe the Chairperson of the District of...

Veteran Washington Post reporter Daryl Fears, part of a two-person writer team, unmistakably wrote that filmmaker John O'Keefe had “said” he “targeted” ACORN, the advocacy group, for his candid-camera expose, because it registered voters to defeat Republicans. O'Keefe said no such thing. It was a non-quote made out of whole cloth by reporter Fears, and published as fact on Sept. 17. Making the falsehood exponentially worse, the Post story then was retailed worldwide by the Associated Press.

President Barack Obama holding daughter Malia Obama, center, looks up at the Washington Monument while first lady Michelle Obama, left, gestures during a visit at the Washington Monument in Washington, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009. President Barack Obama, fourth from right, and family visit the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009. Also pictured are first lady Michelle Obama, second right, and daughters Malia, right, and Sasha, third right, and Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama's sister, second left, with her husband, Konrad Ng, third left, and their children Suhaila, left, and Savita Ng, in harness with father. President Barack Obama and...

Washington State plans no new financial incentives for Boeing in its bid to win a second production line for the 787 Dreamliner. That's clear from a 32-page document released Monday morning by the office of Gov. Christine Gregoire. On Friday, Gregoire met with the new chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Jim Albaugh, and presented him with the document outlining the business case for building a second 787 line here. The presentation includes no new concessions specific to Boeing or the aerospace industry, but instead summarizes the state's existing advantages as a center of civil aerospace manufacturing. "The greatest benefit...

Live in Washington State? In a crisis? Suicidal? Call 911. Then what? A dispatcher sends crisis negotiators who, if they follow the suggestions provided at a recent negotiators' training session, could help you consider "all options." If you're eligible, you may be referred to friendly volunteers who will help you find a doctor willing to prescribe a deadly drug overdose. Just take the prescription to a pharmacy. Have it filled by a pharmacist who hands it to you with instructions to "take this with a light snack and alcohol to cause death." But what if the pharmacy has opted out...

This is a video I made of my DC trip on 9/12

Their Time Has Come...Muslims in DC Their time has come…Muslims in DC by Bill Randles Today September 25, 2009 tens of thousands of Muslims are expected to gather in Washington DC for prayers on Capitol Hill and on the national Mall. Billed as “Islam on Capitol Hill” by it’s organizers, the event will feature an official banquet, tours of the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court and Muslim prayers which organizers hope will be heard “echoing off of the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, and other great edifices that surround Capitol Hill.” The stated goal of this gathering, according...

Commentary On This From: Wallbuiders.com: QUOTE: "American Muslims have also enjoyed the direct support of President Obama. In April, he traveled to Egypt where he told the Muslim world that America no longer considers itself a Christian nation. He later traveled to Turkey and announced that America was one of the largest Muslim nations in the world (despite the fact that 78% of Americans claim to be Christians but only 1% claim to be Muslims). Then in May, President Obama refused to invite Christian and Jewish leaders to the White House to participate in the National Day of Prayer (as...

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) -- Glenn Beck's visit to his hometown in Washington state this weekend seemed simple enough on the surface, with a ceremonial key to the city awaiting him and the mayor naming the day in the Fox News personality's honor. But this being Glenn Beck, nothing is that easy. Groups have demonstrated on the streets and in city council meetings over the conservative commentator's visit. Petitions have been collected calling on the cancellation of the visit. A small business owner put up a sign that says: "Glenn Beck & Hatred not welcome here." And the leader of...

The head of Eastern State Hospital resigned today in the wake of last week’s Spokane Interstate Fair escape by a criminally insane patient who had been committed in the brutal killing a woman in 1987 in Sunnyside. Phillip A. Paul, 47, walked away from the fair and stayed on the run for three days before being recaptured in a remote wooded area Sunday near Goldendale, Wash. Eastern CEO Hal Wilson announced his resignation on Wednesday, according to officials in the state Department of Social and Health Services, the state agency that oversees mental health services. Wilson has contended the mental...

Slowly, but surely – thanks to the Internet and talk-radio that continues to give the “silent majority” a voice and means of communication independent of the liberal dominated national media – the truth is coming out about the actual size, collective character, and motivating concerns of more than a million patriotic citizens who gathered in Washington D.C. on Saturday, September 12th. Try as they might to suppress the size and demeanor of this massive, spontaneous gathering, the national left-wing media and the Obama Administration have been unable to suppress the success of this grass-roots movement that has quickly become the...

Insane killer caught after 3 days on loose in Wash An insane killer who slipped away from the staff of a mental institution on a field trip Thursday to the Spokane County Interstate Fair was recaptured Sunday without injury more than 180 miles away in south-central Washington state. With a helicopter overhead and dozens of federal, state and local law enforcement officers swarming around Goldendale, Phillip Arnold Paul, 47, seemed ready to surrender when he walked out to the Goldendale-Bickleton road about 22 miles east of town shortly after 4 p.m., just as search personnel arrived at the scene, Klickitat...

Some Washington Mayors Are Gunning to Take Away Your Rights By Mark Knapp | 09/19/09 | 02:58 AM EDT   Yakima Mayor Edler recently announced that he joined Mayor Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG). Yakima is dealing with a string of gang-related shootings that have rocked the City of Yakima. MAIG’s Mission Statement declares: “We support the Second Amendment and the rights of citizens to own guns.”   The anti-gun mayors’ group does not support the right to bear arms, however. MAIG has stated that “a policy that is appropriate for a small town in one region of...

As many of you know already (and am sure you are tired of hearing about it like I bet my wife is), I traveled to Washington DC with 2 fellow Christian/concerned citizens to participate in the protest march on September 12th, 2009. I didn’t know what to expect when I went. From all the town hall meeting videos I had seen, I would not have been surprised to see some angry folks screaming and yelling with a furrowed brow for much of the day. What I actually saw was refreshing. In no particular flow, that would make any English professor...

HOW TEXAS CAN SAVE AMERICA FROM WASHINGTON Written by Governor Rick Perry Thursday, 17 September 2009 As the federal government continuously churns out ideas and policies that drive our nation deeper and deeper in debt, citizens and taxpayers are right to be worried. From federal "stimulus" bills that force state governments to change laws, raise taxes and increase spending, to cap and trade proposals that will run our energy industry into the ground, to emerging plans for an unprecedented and unsustainable expansion of government health care, it is clear that the swollen river of our federal government has overflowed its...

If you have been following James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles' "Pimp and Hooker" videos busting several offices of ACORN you can't help but laugh at the "stuck on stupid" staff.By the same token it is an insult to the American taxpaying public that our money is going to fund these idiots! .....

‘Islam is coming to America the same way Christianity came to Rome... whether they like it or not. We talk about the Islamic State of North America by 2050... The people of Hamas and Hizbullah are good people; they don’t deserve condemnation, they do good things.” - Imam Abdul Musa of Washington, D.C. Inspired by Obama Islamic Coming-Out Party Set for September 25 by thelastcrusade.org “Our time has come!” proclaims Islam on Capitol Hill, a new non-profit, tax-exempt corporation that is seeking millions in sponsorship.And the time for the coming out party for Muslims in America is September 25,...

How big is it?” is certainly one of the world’s most dreaded questions. In fact, after the Million Man March in 1995, Congress restricted the National Park Service from even making estimates — a restriction that was maintained for 14 years and then quietly rescinded this January for the Obama inauguration. I’m talking about crowds, of course. I can’t take you people anywhere. There have been a lot of estimates, from the “official” one of 60 to 70 thousand, up to the rumored 2 million. Let’s see if we can make a plausible estimate with some rigor and some idea...

Crowd Size From The 9/12 March On Washington DC 84rules September 14, 2009

The following is an e mail that was send to me and others by Marsha Baxter, a citizen of Charleston SC. She travelled to Washington for the event on a Charleston Tea Party bus and participated in the march. Her letter says it all. Editor of Charlestonwatch

WASHINGTON – The capital was rocked today by a taxpayer march and rally that could be the biggest protest ever – potentially dwarfing the Million Man March and the Promise Keepers Rally. Though crowd estimates vary from as low as 60,000 to 70,000 according to ABC News to a high of 2 million by London Daily Mail, photographs and videos of the march and rally demonstrate its enormity. The taxpayers stormed Washington, D.C., today, taking their fight against excessive spending, bailouts, growth of big government and soaring deficits to the front door of the U.S. Capitol. All week citizens have...

The so-called “silent majority” broke the still morning air of Pennsylvania Avenue on the morning of September 12th, 2009. Approximately one million Americans congregated in our nation’s Capitol to make their frustrations known. Grassroots efforts in opposition to the continued growth of government have recently been ignored or labeled as hordes of ignorant radicals. People who have come to voice their concerns at town hall meetings have been disparaged by the leftist media (”tea baggers”) and degenerately denigrated as foolish due to their fervid efforts to raise logical and Constitutional concerns while desiring to engage in dialogue with their elected...

For those of you who are conservative and have long known that the State Media is biased against those who oppose their philosophy, the tone of the reporting is exactly what you would expect. I myself try to avoid the American counterparts of Tass and Pravda as much as humanly possible, preferring news to commentary. However, when I heard the report from ABC News Radio on Sunday morning, I had to do the audio version of a double-take. “As many as 75,000 protesters marched down Pennsylvania Avenue,” the report began. “75,000?” I wondered aloud. “How are they going to pull...

A little background - nesnah's wife, a few years ago, used to be apolitical (really didin't care about politics and government stuff). Well, nesnah has been working on her, and now she proudly wears the moniker of "militant, right-wing extremist". Her & I watched the DC march action on FR and TV yesterday. We were so excited and proud of what happened. She now loves Glenn Beck, and decided to take some of the posted FReeper photos and create a nice little video. She is very happy and proud of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6thvC_ovKk