Kathleen Decker – Professional Tracker

Kathleen Decker – Professional Tracker

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Nancy Bartley, Seattle Times staff reporter, has written an article about my niece Kathleen Decker: "Tracking a killer’s trail: thing ‘CSI,’‘ but low tech." Kathleen is the daughter of my sister, Anacortes resident, Anita Mayer. Kathleen is a King County Sheriff’s Deputy who at her own expense took classes in 1998 on finding the evidence at crime scenes. She became a journeyman tracker and now teaches it as a coordinator of the King County Search and Rescue unit. Her skills…

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Senator Larry Craig and Republican Integrity

Senator Larry Craig and Republican Integrity

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In 2006 the voters said they wanted politicians in Washington to clean up their act. They were tired of overpaid members of Congress not doing their job and their lousy ethics. They threw Republicans out not only because of Iraq, but because these were the people who assured the voters they represented basic family values and a return to a good moral code for America. The voters thought they represented integrity and their own values. But then, Mark Foley of…

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Fate and the Fires in Greece

Fate and the Fires in Greece

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Did you read about the woman and her children who burned to death in the wildfires at Artemida, Greece? It’s a story about fate and its mysterious role in our lives. According to the Associated Press and MSNBC, Athanasia Paraskevopoulou was a 37 year old teacher who was at the family vacation home with her husband and their three daughters ages 15, 12 and 10 along with a 5 year old son. Wildfires started breaking out in the area. While…

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Alberto Gonzales is Only The Tip of the Problem of The Bush Administration

Alberto Gonzales is Only The Tip of the Problem of The Bush Administration

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There has been so much already written about the resignation of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General that I hesitate to even add a comment. However, as pointed out by Representative Louise Slaughter in her blog entitled "Restore justice to the justice department," what does bear further comment is the issue of the total lack of integrity the Bush gang has brought to our government. As she correctly points out his resignation is the product of a pattern we have seen…

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A big D for the Bush Administration Report Card

A big D for the Bush Administration Report Card

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Jeffrey Simpson is a syndicated columnist in Canada who wrote a recent article about what he called "the three D’s." He said: "The United States under (Bush’s) leadership, spends more than it raises in taxes, imports more then it exports and uses more energy than the country can produce domestically." He went on to point out that if report cards were being issued, Mr. Bush would get three D’s: a fiscal deficit, a trade deficit and an energy deficit. Mr….

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PEOPLE I WISH I HAD KNOWN

PEOPLE I WISH I HAD KNOWN

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From time to time I read about people and I stop and think, "I wish I had known that person." A recent obituary in the Seattle P.I. struck me that way. It showed a picture of a older couple. The obituary started out "Bill and Gladys Willams passed away within a day of each other" which immediately caught my interest. It went on to say the couple had been born only a month a part and met in Eastern Oregon…

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Good Riddence to Bad Rubbish – Karl Rove Leaves the Whitehouse

Good Riddence to Bad Rubbish – Karl Rove Leaves the Whitehouse

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"Bush’s brain" has left the building. Karl Rove, the paid consultant to Phillip Morris and propaganda minister to the Bush Whitehorse, resigned before the ship of state sank. I admit I have contempt for this man’s morals and ethics as well as for his total lack of character. I’ve commented about Rove lots of times, (3/17/07) but it’s to be remembered that this man continued as a paid consultant for the tobacco giant Phillip Morris even while acting as an…

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Phil Rizzuto a Baseball Great

Phil Rizzuto a Baseball Great

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Phil Rizzuto died at age 89 years on Tuesday. I remember him when he played with the other famous Yankee’s of that era. He was a great New York Yankee short stop who ended up in the Hall of Fame. Known as "the scooter" he played for the Yankee’s during the 1940’s and 1950’s. He played in five All-Star games and was a flashy player who played alongside people like Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle. He had tried out with…

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Our Spinless Democrats in Congress

Our Spinless Democrats in Congress

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Letters to the Editor in the New York Times of August 8th captured my feeling of disappointment in Congressional Democrats as having no backbone at all when it comes to Iraq and the continued intrusion into America’s right of privacy by this administration. As letters in the Times put it: "To their shame, sixteen Democrats in the Senate and forty one in the House voted to hand the president monarchial powers that the signers of the Constitution had withheld. The…

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Rising from the Rails Comment

Rising from the Rails Comment

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Seattle attorney Jan Peterson sent me a note about my post involving Black Porters which I thought I should share with you: Paul, I read with interest, as usual, your piece on Rising from the Rails.  My family on my father’s side were railroad people and as a result we had a pass to ride on the trains whenever we wanted.  Even as late as my early childhood in the forties I remember Pullman porters.  They were all black men…

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