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Our Own Arab Spring: UC Davis

What is really chilling about this video is how nonchalant the officer appears to be as he pepper sprays peaceful demonstrators. Almost as if he is simply watering the flower garden, but as Sarah pointed out he is actually watering the garden that will grow the seeds of radical change as normal Americans are utterly horrified. Those are our children on the frontlines.

This is wrong. This is unAmerican.

For what it's worth, we've seen this before. The system is broken and needs an overhaul. And no amount of pepper spray is going to prevent that from happening.

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Long Beach, Washington

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Oysterville, Washington

The marker reads:

Pacific County was the third county in Washington Territory, and Oysterville served as county seat from 1855 to 1893. In 1875, taxpayers built a courthouse and jail at this location and it served for all county business until “South Bend Raiders” came here on Sunday morning, Feb. 5, 1893, and carried away the records. This first county owned building then served for two years as the Peninsula College.

The school was also known as Peninsular College, directed by August Bernhardt Louis Gellerman, who later ran for Washington State Governor as a candidate for the Prohibition Party in 1916. The actual building blew down in a storm in 1940.

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Schoolhouse
Oysterville, Washington

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A road paved with oyster shells, Oysterville, Washington

Reminds me of that old saying, "The road to good intentions is paved by not being shellfish about your good intentions" ... er, or something like that. Perhaps I got it wrong.

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Willapa Bay as seen from Oysterville, Washington

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Round Island, also known as Baby Island
Willapa Bay, Pacific County, Washington

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Willapa Bay, Washington

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Apparently this sign is the only physical proof of the one-time existence of Bruceport, Washington. The historical marker reads:

The deserted site of a famous pioneer village, once a county seat, is one mile northward on Willapa Bay, formerly called Shoalwater Bay. The crew of the oyster schooner "Robert Bruce" settled here in December 1851; after that craft had burned crewmen built cabins, filed land claims, and named the settlement "Bruceville." It was changed to Bruceport in 1854. This site recalls the lively oyster industry of 1851-1880, when enormous quantities of native oysters were gathered by local Indians and loaded aboard schooners for San Francisco

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The town of Sea Haven, Washington was pretty much gone by 1900

Today the area is populated by more oysters than people

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Pacific County Courthouse
South Bend, Washington

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South Bend, Washington

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Raymond, Washington

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Raymond, Washington

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A refugee from the FLOD.

Newt Gingrich is more Disgusting Than a Big Piece of Snot

Some of you might be too young to remember that Newt Gingrich was, when he was at his peak, a low-down, lying, ethically challenged, sewage-spewing, petty, hypocritical psychopath who contributed nothing positive to our country during his destructive ego spree as Speaker of the House in the 1990s. Much of the current toxic tone of our national discourse rests on the shoulders of this moron. He comes across as an intellectual in his presentation, but any of my four cats are more qualified to be President.

I documented his political standing back then. The premise, in my 1996 comic Mukey the Mutant Membrane was that Newt was among the items even more disgusting than a giant walking talking wad of snot. I still stand by this comparison.

Every action he has taken since 1996 and subsequent to his disgraceful exit from public life only confirms my view. It doesn't matter whether you are a liberal, or conservative, libertarian, socialist, whatever-- Newt Gingrich is no damn good. I wouldn't let this sleazebag enter my house.

A bag. Of sleaze. Try to imagine it. Oozing. That's Newt.

So, of course, he's become a front runner in the Republican Party primary. It figures.

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Raymond, Washington

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Raymond Theatre
Raymond, Washington

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Topnotch Tavern and Willis Motel
Raymond, Washington

The story I've been told is that the Topnotch was founded by my grandfather's twin brother, London Willis, in the 1930s or 1940s. London was an old moonshiner/bootlegger in the 1920s who apparently attempted to drive to Japan and had a little trouble once his vehicle hit the salt water. It is safe to say alcohol was involved.

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Charlie, Dreamer, and Buster stand ready to explain why they lost their mittens

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The Boys heard a can opener and came to investigate

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Now that is one fancy postal vehicle.

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