August 2007 @ Capitol Theater Free Wall.


photos by enpen

About 20 miles west of Olympia, on the highest point on the road to the coast, sits the town of McCleary. North of the settlement there is a flat piece of land nestled in the hills called Mohney's Prairie.

About a decade ago I discovered an obscure newspaper article that posed an interesting puzzle. Mr. J.K. Mohney, who lived on the prairie, told the reporter that two brothers had made a temporary home there in 1832. This is a pretty amazing claim which I have yet to verify with any other source, including living members of the Mohney family. If any of you history buffs out there can provide more information on this, I'd be delighted to hear from you.

Here is part of the article, from the Nov. 11, 1934 Daily Olympian:

"When Mr. Mohney first came to this locality from Pennsylvania 39 years ago, an aged house stood where today stands his 15-room home of his 335-acre farm. The former house and a present workshop, also a present smokehouse, were said to be 102 years old this year. They were erected by the Chase brothers in 1832, of whom today no one remembers anything other than their surnames."

"They must have come by boat either to Fort Nisqually or Fort Vancouver on the Columbia, both operated by the British. Traveled overland, homesteading on the then lonely prairie. Erected first a workshop out of hewn lumber, mortised with wooden pegs. Following that, they built a house of the same materials, miles away from everyone, 14 years before the American occupation of the Pacific Northwest, known then as the Oregon country."

"The workshop and smokehouse stand in good condition now, considering their reported age."

Read this the other day. Saved it onto my desktop right after I read it :)

Are you a Democrat or a Republican?

Here is a little test that will help you decide:

Question: How do you tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans?

The answer can be found by posing the following question:

You're walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children. Suddenly, an Islamic Terrorist with a
huge knife comes around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams obscenities, praises Allah, raises the knife,
and charges at you. You are carrying a Glock cal .40, and you are an expert shot. You have mere seconds before
he reaches you and your family.

What do you do?

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Democrat's Answer:

Well, that's not enough information to answer the
question!

Does the man look poor! Or oppressed?

Have I ever done anything to him that would inspire him to attack?

Could we run away?

What does my wife think?

What about the kids?

Could I possibly swing the gun like a club and knock the knife out of his hand?

What does the law say about this situation?

Does the Glock have appropriate safety built into it?

Why am I carrying a loaded gun anyway, and what kind of message does this send to society and to my children?

Is it possible he'd be happy with just killing me?

Does he definitely want to kill me, or would he be content just to wound me?

If I were to grab his knees and hold on, could my family get away while he was stabbing me?

Should I call 911? Why is this street so deserted?

We need to raise taxes, have a paint and weed day and make this happier, healthier street that would
discourage such behavior.

Since "Clinton's Penis" seems to get mentioned on the blog quite frequently as of late, I have decided to start a thread about it.

I'm thinking we can call it "Pecker Watch, with Bill Clinton" or maybe "The Clinton Conspiracy: Dicks in Disguise" OH, "To Wang Yu, Thanks for Everything, William Clinton".

Anyway, the basis of this thread is to keep an eye on Clinton and whatever his Phallus (lil' Bill) are up to these days.....I'm certain that Hillary doesn't know. That could be part of the program is to present this knowledge to Hillary so she can keep the guy under wraps.

I think I've finally got the settings on the TinyMCE module working so that it is available for all text fields. Let me know if it isn't showing up for you.