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Watch This Guy Get Away!
on Nov 3, 2009 in Man escapes tasering See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.Well, I don't know what these Cops got this guy down for, he may have been freaking the attendant of the Gas/Mart out, as he is either putting on a great act or is "a little touched" Sure the P...



November: Cute Hippie Chick Of The Month- "Boys Grow Up"
on Nov 1, 2009 in November Hippie Chick Boys Grow Up ...



Pirates In Our Islands
on Oct 30, 2009 in Pirates in the San Juan Islands Drakes Gold Smuggling In the San Juans Indian Severed Feet Ever since I moved to The San Juans, a group of islands which are closer to the Canadian border than they are to mainland Washington State, I've been collecting local Pirate stories. I just heard a doosey this week, more on that coming up, but first...



CIA Complicit In Afghan Drug Trade
on Oct 28, 2009 in CIA drug trade Afghanistan The October 27 issue of The New York Times has This Article with updated information on the Karzai government and the ongoing Opium production and Heroin trade. It appears that President Karzai's brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai has been on the CIA's payr...



The Last Fight I Lost
on Oct 25, 2009 in 82nd Avenue Portland in the 1970' s learning not to fight Learning to fight A few years ago I was talking with a young guy from another Dojo who was about to test for Black Belt. He commented that he wondered if his martial skills would work if he needed to defend himself. I was a little shocked, and I asked him if he'd ever...



Nice Push Hands Practice In Portland
on Oct 22, 2009 in Tai Chi instructor in Portland I don't know who this instructor in Portland is yet, but from his short YouTube videos he appears to be a Bagua and Yang Tai Chi Chuan stylist. I can't help but see similarities in his movement with our friend and teacher the late Mike Martello.Like...