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This was a very tough election for me.
John McCain only became my candidate when he won the Republican nomination. I was not for him before Rush was not for him. I did not support him when he ran against George W. Bush four years ago and he was not my candidate during the runoff for this year’s primary.
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Our perennial election day luncheon of political junkies didn’t do so hot this year compared to 2004. We blew it on four out of 16 prognostications, with one more still in the air at this writing.
Remember that great scene in “Bridge on the River Kwai” where Alec Guinness discovers the plot to blow up the bridge, and says, “What have I done?” before he and a couple of the plotters are killed?
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An old friend of mine in the newspaper business, long gone, told me that just before the Great Depression hit in 1929, her devout Catholic widowed mother was warned by her priest to go immediately to the bank and draw out all her money.
We’ve taken another run at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church on coming up with a social statement on human sexuality.
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If you read body language the way debate coaches do, one thing obvious at the debate between state Rep. Christine Rolfes, D-Bainbridge Island, 41, and her Republican challenger Mark Lowe, 43, is that if you tied her hands together she couldn’t talk.
Cassie Holden would probably be a mother today with three or four kids in school, or maybe she’d be a teacher or a doctor.
Cassie Holden would probably be a mother today with three or four kids in school, or maybe she’d be a teacher or a doctor.
Tell me, I said to the WaMu employee with whom I have most of my financial dealings, is my money safe?
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Democrat Rep. Larry Seaquist of Gig Harbor decided to demonstrate at the Bremerton Chamber of Commerce’s “eggs and issues” forum that he was fit and sound despite having just reached his 70th birthday so said he’d take all his questions standing up.
