Monday, February 8, 2010 @ 12:06am
Well... NOW I understand why the leftists were so outraged

Last week, I had a woman from a leftist organization on my show telling me why CBS should not allow the airing of the Super Bowl ad featuring Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mom.

She represented one of more than 30 "women's groups" (actually they're all pro-abortion groups) that officially protested the commercial before it aired.

“An ad that uses sports to divide rather than to unite has no place in the biggest national sports event of the year - an event designed to bring Americans together,” said Jehmu Greene, president of the New York-based Women’s Media Center.

The National Organization of Women was also one of the main backers of the protest.

Now that the ad has aired, I can certainly understand why those women's groups were so upset.

What a horrible, awful message! Those Tebows must be despicable people!! No wonder the leftist feminists didn't want that ad to air!!! How dare they divide America with that commercial!!!! My Super Bowl party was ruined when that ad ran!!!!!! America may have been ruined by that commercial!!!!!!!

Thank goodness we have progressive liberals in this country fighting to keep us safe from such evil messages.

Saturday, February 6, 2010 @ 2:39pm
Exclusive photos - car crashes through Shorecrest High School

I coach the girls' basketball varsity at Shorecrest High School. We had a home game Friday night. About a half hour after our game, a 17-year-old boy crashed a Subaru into the school, down a long hallway, and took out two offices at the end of the hallway.

The teen has been arrested and was taken to Harborview for a mental evaluation.

One of my basketball girls took these pictures at the scene. Photos courtesy of Bri Lasconia.

>> Check out the full photo gallery here

Friday, February 5, 2010 @ 12:17am
Here's where the state could save hundreds of millions

Virginia is facing many of the same financial problems as our state. But while our lawmakers in Olympia are looking for ways to raise taxes to deal with the deficit, the new Republican governor in VA is looking for ways to cut spending.

Privatizing liquor stores in our state would save hundreds of millions of dollars per year. But Gregoire and the union goons who run the state refuse to consider it because it would eliminate some state employee jobs.

Take a look at this story - and compare the message of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell to what we've been hearing lately from Chris(tine) Gregoire.

Hat tip to soundpolitics.com where I first saw this story.

Thursday, February 4, 2010 @ 2:57pm
DSHS Reform Bill Stuck In Olympia

Time is running out for the State Legislature to act on a bill that would break up DSHS into 4 smaller agencies. Listen to my interview with the bill sponsor, St. Rep. Mike Armstrong (R-Wenatchee).

Thursday, February 4, 2010 @ 1:59pm
He just wants to do the same cheers as the girls

A cheerleader at Garfield-Palouse High School says he wants to do more than the stunts designed for males.

Benjamin Grundy's mom says the school is discriminating against her son.

Thursday, February 4, 2010 @ 11:45am
The slutification of our little girls

People wonder how it's possible to have stories like the one last week in Thurston County - where a 14 year old girl sent a nude photo of herself to her boyfriend - and it then went viral. Three kids who forwarded the picture are looking at a felony charge and the girl's actions have turned her own life upside down as well.

The reason things like this happen is that we have a sick pop-culture that thinks it's not only okay - but desireable - to turn little girls into sluts.

The latest example of that is in the news today. Miley Cyrus' nine-year-old little sister Noah has announced that she is launching a new lingerie line. I repeat - SHE'S NINE YEARS OLD!

Yeah - that's her pole dancing with her friends and modeling the lingerie. What has happened with parenting in this country that there can be a market for this? We already know that corporate America will whore out anyone to make a buck - even little girls. But why would any parent allow this? It's not a crime in a legal sense - but it is definitely child abuse in a moral sense.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010 @ 5:09pm
Keep those nudie pics off the office computer

If you work in an office, you fall in one of two categories:

1) You are always working hard - and you're annoyed by co-workers who are always playing solitare - or doing something even worse on their computer.

or 2) You are the person who is always screwing around on their computer.

If you are in the first category, you're going to love this video.

If you're in the latter category, you will be horrified by this video.

This is breaking news in Australia that requires a live report from a financial office. Watch the guy on the computer just over the reporter's shoulder. It gets good 1:07 into the video:

Tuesday, February 2, 2010 @ 10:01pm
SayWA? Arrest our ignorant state workers!!!

Nearly three years ago, I had a Kenmore man - David Krick - on my show. David was known as the Mole Guy. He had a business that helped homeowners get rid of the destructive pests.

But our wack-a-doodle state had made the trapping of moles a crime. So one day, the Department of Fish and Wildlife had a team of agents follow Krick to a jobsite and busted him.

Fast forward to February 2010. A state rep noticed that groundskeepers on the Capitol Campus in Olympia are using body gripping mole traps - in violation of state law.

A spokesman for the Department of Fish and Wildlife says no citation is likely in this case.

No citation??? This is the agency that sent a team of agents to follow a private citizen to his jobsite so they could bust him! The Department of General Administration keeps the grounds at the Capitol and at the Governor's mansion - they've used the illegal mole traps at both sites. A GA spokesman says they were unaware of the law.

How do you think that defense would work if you or I tried it? Ever since I was a kid, I've heard that ignorance of the law is not a defense. Plus, there isn't a person in the groundskeeping industry in this state who doesn't know the mole trapping law.

I'll come right out and call this what it is: our state officials are lying about their supposed ignorance of the law. There is one set of rules for the citizens - and another for the state employees.

I encourage everyone to set illegal mole traps in their yards. And then invite some lawmakers over for a lawn party. If they step on a trap... you just didn't know any better.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010 @ 12:16am
The opposition must be silenced

Earlier this year, i compiled thousands of stories from listeners telling Governor Gregoire how raising taxes would hurt their families. Despite repeated attempts to present those stories to the governor, she refused to come on my show or to meet with me off-air.

I am not alone.

The Evergreen Freedom Foundation gathered over 20,000 signatures asking lawmakers to balance the budget withut raising taxes. Take a look at EFF's attempts to present those signatures compared to the tax-hike crowd that visited Olympia last year.

So what can we do about this? Join us in Olympia for EFF's "Push Back" event on President's Day - Monday, February 15th at 10am. I'll be one of the speakers at the rally in Olympia.

It can seem overwhelming to fight back against the government/union machine in our state - but if enough of us make our voices heard, it will be impossible to ignore.

Monday, February 1, 2010 @ 1:13pm
Jayden Wayman's father calls in

The father of Jayden Wayman, John, called in to the show Monday afternoon to talk about his 3 month old son, who was killed in a car crash in Fife last Sunday.

Please visit the Wayman's website

Matthew Hamilton, 25, has been charged with vehicular homicide.

According to court documents, Hamilton was driving with a suspended license and might have been drunk when he ran a red light. He crashed into the Waymans' car and then took off.

Monday, February 1, 2010 @ 12:51pm
We have to pay for Pelosi's in-flight booze?

Check out the $100,000 booze receipt! Nancy Pelosi can certainly put away the hard alcohol.

Pelosi's booze tab.

(Image courtesy of Judicial Watch)

Sunday, January 31, 2010 @ 5:31pm
Obama's stunning admission

On Friday, Barack Obama said the GOP's criticism of the health care plan was making the bill sound like some kind of "Bolshevik plot".

But in that same speech, Obama made what non-partisan Real Clear Politics is calling a "stunning admission".

I haven't seen anyone focus on the President's rather stunning admission about the Democrats' health care legislation:

"The last thing I will say, though -- let me say this about health care and the health care debate, because I think it also bears on a whole lot of other issues. If you look at the package that we've presented -- and there's some stray cats and dogs that got in there that we were eliminating, we were in the process of eliminating. For example, we said from the start that it was going to be important for us to be consistent in saying to people if you can have your -- if you want to keep the health insurance you got, you can keep it, that you're not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making. And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge." [emphasis added]

If we take this statement at face value, President Obama is admitting the health care bills passed by either the House or Senate (or both) contained provisions which were "snuck in" - presumably by Democratic members and perhaps on behalf of certain lobbyists - that would have in fact prevented people from keeping their current insurance and/or choosing the doctor they want.

This was one of the core debates on health care throughout last year: Would President Obama and the Democrats' legislation allow government to come between citizens and their choice of doctors and insurers? Obama promised it wouldn't. Republicans said it would, and this was one of the aspects of the legislation that led them to characterize it as a government takeover of health care - the same characterization that Obama chastized the GOP for today.

So it's a bit of shock to find out now - from the President himself, no less - that one or both of the bills that passed Congress late last year (the House passed its version in late November, the Senate on Christmas Eve Day) contained language that would have violated this pledge.

Real Clear Politics says "it's a bit of a shock" to find this out. It's not a shock at all to me. Why would anyone be shocked that the president and/or congress lied to the American people to do the bidding of lobbyists and to have government take over another 18% of the American economy?

Friday, January 29, 2010 @ 3:17pm
Do sexting teens really deserve a felony charge?

You no doubt have heard about the sexting case in Thurston County. A 14 year old girl took a nude photo of herself and sent it to her boyfriend.

When the couple broke up, the boy apparently sent the picture to a friend. The friend sent it to another - and suddenly the picture went viral and many students at the middle school have seen it.

Now a 14 year old boy and two 13 year old girls are facing a felony charge of disseminating a picture of a nude minor. The charge seems ridiculous to me. A felony for forwarding a photo that was sent to you? A felony conviction and having to register as a sex offender would ruin a kid's life.

And how about the same charge for the 14 year old who started the whole mess by taking and sending the nude picture of herself? Prosecutors are calling her a victim. It seems to me she created the situation with her initial foolish act.

I talked about all of that this afternoon with Rick Peters - the lead prosecutor in the juvenile division in Thurston County.

Friday, January 29, 2010 @ 12:48am
Deputy shoots dog - disturbing questions remain

Thursday afternoon, I was all over this story of a Grant County Sheriff's Deputy who shot a Moses Lake citizen's dog that he claims was attacking a dog from their K-9 unit.

I talked with the dog's owner - and also with an eyewitness to the shooting. Both of them told me a similar account - that the so-called dog fight was over and Slyder was going back to his owner - Nick Criscuolo - when the officer fired three times, killing Slyder.

The officers claim Slyder attacked K-9 dog Maddox. That Slyder grabbed Maddox by the neck and throat with his mouth and bit. The cop kicked Slyder and broke up the "fight".

The problem with the officer's account is that a vet examined Maddox and found no injuries. That doesn't sound like much of a dog fight. Criscuolo says the dogs were sniffing and then snapped at each other. Criscuolo says he was close enough to leash Slyder when the officer shot three times.

You can hear my interviews with a distraught Nick Criscuolo and with a bar owner who witnessed the incldent here.

E-mailer Lee listened to the interviews and had this reaction:

It's sounds like my gut reaction was right. Slyder was a "rough-play" dog which is why the kick stopped the aggression and why the bites to Maddox were not apparent to the vet. It can be damn tough to tell rough play-fighting from an attack because the only difference might be the strength of the bite. A K-9 officer would know that -- but now the question is who fired the gun? That should be a no-brainer if Grant County follows state academy standards.

A gun is useless in stopping a dog fight -- not my words, but those of police firearms instructors, and I know it to be true. That's why I went ballistic myself when I read the AP blurb last night. If you can shoot the other dog it's not attacking your dog. And 3 rounds meant the other dog wasn't close to yours. There are assessments to be made: downrange targets, ricochet, etc. It may be Moses Lake but it is still an "urban
environment."

Grant County is candy-coating the hell out of this shooting. The cop who killed the dog may very well have believed he was acting appropriately in defense of Maddox. The Grant County account is a standalone stinks-on-ice argument.

We invited the Grant County Sheriff's Department to present its side on Thursday's show. They didn't return our call. We will make every attempt again Friday to get their side of the story. As of now, they have a lot of questions to answer.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 @ 4:53pm
Here come the taxes!

Oregon voters Tuesday passed an increase in that state's income tax - as well as a tax on gross receipts of businesses (similar to our B&O tax).

Labor unions spent $5-7 million to get these taxes passed - and they will result in about a $700-million tax increase - almost all of which will go to those unions.

This has emboldened Washington lawmakers to pass massive tax increases this legislative session in our state. Chris(tine) Gregoire this morning praised the Oregon voters. She said:

"Oregon voters met the challenge of these difficult times and clearly said that schools, healthcare, public safety and other essential services cannot be forsaken. It is gratifying to see that the public understands the importance of preserving services to the most needy and providing education to the next generation--especially now when those efforts are most needed."

Democrat Marilyn Chase has proposed a state income tax for Washington citizens. Here's the analysis from the Office of Financial Management:

Ten-year projection:
Year
2010
2011
2012 -1,017,000,000 -1,478,000,000 3,520,000,000 $ 1,025,000,000
2013 -1,980,000,000 -3,546,000,000 8,449,000,000 $ 2,923,000,000
2014 -2,045,000,000 -3,741,000,000 8,787,000,000 $ 3,001,000,000
2015 -2,112,000,000 -3,947,000,000 9,138,000,000 $ 3,079,000,000
2016 -2,182,000,000 -4,164,000,000 9,504,000,000 $ 3,158,000,000
2017 -2,247,460,000 -4,288,920,000 9,789,120,000 $ 3,252,740,000
2018 -2,314,883,800 -4,417,587,600 10,082,793,600 $ 3,350,322,200
2019 -2,384,330,314 -4,550,115,228 10,385,277,408 $ 3,450,831,866

Total: $ -16,282,674,114 $ -30,132,622,828 $ 69,655,191,008 $ 23,239,894,066

The first column is elimination of the state property tax. The second is a reduction in the state sales tax. The third is the new state income tax. And the fourth column is the bottom line - an increase in taxes on the citizens of this state of $23-billion dollars over an eight year period.

Chris(tine) Gregoire a year ago said, "no one would consider raising taxes in a bad economy". I guess she forgot to look in the mirror and at her Democrat legislature when she uttered that lie.