Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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To The Eagle: As in the old Indian fable of the six blind men examining the elephant, public awareness has been growing about a political scandal brewing that inundates the old high-water mark set by Nixon’s Watergate. In a nutshell, Hilary and the DNC spent $12.5 million through a firm called Fusion GPS, and a retired MI6 spook named Steele fabricated a salacious dossier on Trump which was then used to mislead the FISA Court to issue a warrant to spy on first the Trump campaign and then the Trump presidency. The Mueller Russian collusion i...
To The Eagle: Thought I'd take time off from my day job here at PIPI (Puget Island Prevarications Inc.) to respond to the Bouchard expository epistle in last week's Eagle. As Ronaldus Magnus said to Jimmy Carter in their 1980 debate, "There you go again!" The seeds of self destruction were sewn at the inception of Obamacare but initially hidden by legislative legerdemain and technical incompetence. The internet registry was so shoddily constructed it bollixed enrollment for a year. Most of the actual poor went on the expanded Medicaid program...
To the Eagle: Back in '92 when we retired, we bought a derelict cedar cabin 4500 feet up the south slope of Mauna Loa on the "Big Island" of Hawaii. The water system source was a rain barrel, but a huge one, nine feet tall, 16 feet in diameter, built with 150 redwood staves. We rehabbed the system with some trepidation, since you could see daylight between the dried out staves, and the property was in the middle of the Ka'u Desert, so rainfall was sparse. But rain did come, and with 1600 square feet of tin roof, every inch of rain put nearly...
