Nordic Heritage Museum receives $4 million grant from the olde country. Shane Harms reports that the effort to build a Nordic Heriage museum in Ballard, is getting help form Denmark! The Nordic Heritage Museum has received a $4 million dollar grant from the A.P. Møller and Chastine Mc-Kinney[...]
Archive for January, 2016
January 30th, 2016 - 9:25 am § in The Ave Scene
A Museum is Built To Honor the Indigenous Norwegians of Ballard
January 30th, 2016 - 8:20 am § in Misc.
IOWA: Cruzaders joining the Trumpsters
The interesting thing about the graph is not only that Trump won the Trumpless debate but that he did at the expense of Cruz. Rubio, trying to play the role of “the establishment,” contrary to some hype in the media (especially Fox) barely moved up. Moreover Rubio’s gains were[...]
January 30th, 2016 - 1:56 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
Origins of Palestinians: “Some 1000 years later, the Philistines were long gone. “
The word “Palestine” actually refers to the Philistines .. a coastal people who , according to the books of Judges and Kings, opposed the development of the ancient state that was to become Judea and Israel. In the Bible, the Philistines are depicted as the ancient Israelites’ archene[...]
January 29th, 2016 - 11:18 pm § in Misc.
Oil Production Costs By Country
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January 29th, 2016 - 12:03 pm § in Politics
Governor urges vigilante justice for suspected drug dealers
“Fresh off saying Maine should revive the guillotine to decapitate drug dealers, Gov. Paul LePage (R) said Wednesday that private citizens should get in on the criminal-killing action too. ‘I tell ya, everybody in Maine, we have constitutional carry,’ LePage said in an on-camera in[...]
January 29th, 2016 - 11:46 am § in Politics
Kansas GOP: Civil rights are for guns, not people
Kansas Republicans believe gun shops deserve civil rights and gay people don’t. A GOP legislator in that state has introduced a bill that would make it illegal to discriminate against gun shops (i.e., businesses could not refuse to sell them goods or services). But the GOP-controlled Kansas le[...]
[...] January 29th, 2016 - 6:23 am § in The Ave Scene
SANDERS CAMPAIGN SHOWS PARANOIA
DES MOINES, Iowa – Despite a narrowing gap between Sanders and Clinton in the Iowa race, some of his supporters are showing signs of corporate paranoia. Bernie Sanders is a nice man, a noble guy and my candidate but his campaign is showing tad bit of paranoia over the involvement of Microsof[...]
David Brewster: ” Bernie Sanders wing is sharply opposed to the regions that vote Democratic”