Tag: Washington

Phone company sued over deleted Voice Mail

Voice Mail button on phone

When does a phone company have the right to delete a voice mail? That is the question being asked by a grieving family member in Washington state.  According to the news reports, a family is suing T-Mobile for just such a thing. Faron Butler lost his 14-year-old daughter, Rhema, to cancer in June 2011.  About a week before …

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Just how bad is our Education System?

IMDb page about the movie

I heard the audio of this earlier today, and it goes to prove exactly what is wrong with education today: This brings the key question, why can’t these students answer the questions correctly?

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TSA Does it again!

Less than a week after I first opined (and the TSA and family weighed in) on the TSA’s use of enhanced pat-down on a 6-year-old girl, new video has surfaced from Portland, Oregon, showing a similar incident with an 8-year-old boy. Seattle’s KING-5 has the story (from YouTube, story not on KING-5 Website):

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Did KTRK Miss an "Extreme" Opportunity?

I just finished watching “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” redo the East Bernard home of the Kubena Family.  I have been a fan of the show since it’s inception three years ago, and seen many families lives touched by the program. Last year, the design team rolled into my birthplace, Kansas City, Missouri, and redid the …

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Double Standard?

This morning, as I am preparing this site for launch, I read the news about the two trains of the 43-year-old Seattle Center Monorail sideswiping each other. The interesting part about this is, I’m reading the same story from the Associated Press newswire on chron.com, khou.com and abc13.com. The only Houston MSM site checked that …

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