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What is it with sports in other countries?

by Walter Richards

I was just reading a story on the BBC, about how New Zealanders are upset about their team being defeated in the World Cup for Rugby. Parents were saying their children were “inconsolable”. People were saying coworkers, friends, and relatives were in tears and depressed.

And I got to thinking about the soccer riots we see in Europe.

Would you "volunteer" for this search?

by Walter Richards

Say you’re driving to Portland. You see a checkpoint ahead, that everybody is pulling over for. You see police vehicles, and officers waving traffic over. You see people in blue jackets, carrying clipboards, approaching each vehicle at the checkpoint.

Would you think it’s a legitimate checkpoint?

Timothy McVeigh ... Master Bomber?

by Walter Richards

This idea was recently brought to my attention by someone who isn’t what you’d call a “conspiracy freak”.

Supposedly, Timothy McVeigh used a truck of explosives to do all that damage. If so, he was what the Europeans call a “master bomber”.

Salmon Hatcheries ...

by Walter Richards

The courts have ruled, against scientific proof, that “hatchery” salmon are different than “wild” salmon … and therefore can’t be counted to increase catch limits.

So what I want to know is … what’s the purpose of salmon hatcheries?

Here's a hypothetical ...

by Walter Richards

Say you have a large carnivore.

Say that carnivore no longer fears humans, and even comes into their neighborhoods.

Say that such an instance endangers the public who have property in the area the carnivore now feels “at home” in.

Say that trapping and relocating the carnivore doesn’t work.

What do you do?

WA Senate has the right idea ...

by Walter Richards

WA Senate Bill 5576

From the bill:

The legislature therefore declares its intent that the following statement of former Washington state supreme court justice Hugh Rosellini be adopted as formal state policy: “One man’s land should not be seized by the government and sold to another man so that the purchaser may build a better house, or enhance the beauty or aesthetic value according to the ideas of an artist or planner whose tastes have the sanction of the government.”

Where was Walter?

by Walter Richards

I know some of you may have wondered where I’ve been for the past week, not making any articles here … or even comments on other blogs.

Well, I was an unplanned guest at one of our community’s many fine lodgings.

In other words, I was in the hospital as a patient. So, let me give you a peek at some of my experiences … and damn the torpedoes!

Happy 4th ...

by Walter Richards

The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.

(The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784, Harvard University Press, 1975, 142).

NCO's "rating"

by Walter Richards

Because the word “drugs” was used 1 time.

Dad's Footlocker ... Part 3

by Walter Richards

Okay, the last few things from the “trunk of memories”.

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