Looks like Washington State has become Minnesota West with a massive fake Somali day care problem of our own.

Not to be outdone, Washington  leftists seem to have allowed a disaster similar to that of Gov. Tampon Timmy Tard's in Minnesota.

Washington State apparently has more than 500 Somali day care centers showing the same problems prevalent in Minnesota: Daycares receiving payments without addresses (OR children) for the facilities as well as Minnesota-style contact information like fake phone numbers. 

One Minnesota daycare actually lists the office number of both the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota as their contact information.

Following the Minnesota fraud exposed by content creator and independent journalist Nick Shirley, a reporter from Washington has alleged that similar corruption may be taking place in Somali-run home daycare centers in Federal Way. Carleen Johnson, The Center Square's Washington state Associate Editor, revealed on social media that she went to four daycare centers in Federal Way, but found no children.

Carleen indicated:

“Just went to four Somali run home daycare centers in Federal Way, WA that receive taxpayer subsidies,” Carleen wrote. “Just like @nickshirleyy found in MN- there were no children and no one willing to chat with this reporter. They threatened me with police. @waDCYF wants information forwarded.”

Given standard leftist governmental operation and corruption, Washington State will likely be the NEXT target to battle the widespread  corruption leftists governments are known for.

Washington, which was just last year subjected the people to massive, unnecessary tax increases to cover horrific leftist expenditures; will likely be on the hook for an additional $4 billion tax scam as the fringe-left controlled legislature continues to ignore the plight of those paying taxes for the hundreds of thousands of illegals residing in the leftist-built Washington Illegal Alien Destination Resort the obstructionist state of Washington has constructed.

I have been saying all along that Putin has been playing Trump:

Moscow threatens to kill Zelensky and parade his body...

Putin burns Trump with embarrassing details of phone chat...

Deploys 'unstoppable' nuke missile amid 'peace talks'...

Seizes secret $100M palace with age-reversing cryochamber...

As the fringe-leftists running Washington State look for more ways to bleed us for revenue...

After a several billion dollar increase in spending last legislative session, THIS session upcoming should focus on cuts instead of bleeding us all dry and engaging in a forced business diaspora.

Business is prepared to evacuate this state, which will result in OTHER states (mainly red) gaining more benefit from the proposed tax rape the left is contemplating which will cause even more business to leave here fir more reasonable pastures.

The focus, of course, particularly in this era of democrat supported an encouraged social services fraud: should be budget cuts.

Just a few of the bleeding arteries the left demands.

Being on a fixed income, my VA disability and social security increased 2.8%. I guarantee you that increases in taxation based on the proposed increases upcoming here in the Washington Soviet as they practice their "Democratic Centralism" WILL take all of that and more, which will be in addition to other sources of inflation that we all have to contend with as it is. (The insanity of the refinery tax filling the left's slush fund, for example.)

The fringe-left neocommunists running this state will clearly be doing a great deal more TO us... than they will FOR us... as they not only seek more ways to squeeze us for additional revenue, but even more moronic programs to waste that revenue on once they complete their theft.

Major Thomas Egan: Why'd you do it? (Originally published 24 Dec 08)

I originally posted this 17 years ago today (24 Dec). And it bears repeating.

This story was in the paper... although, unfortunately, not on the Columbian web.

It is the story of a retired Army Major, one Thomas Egan; a veteran of 2 years on the Korean DMZ, a Master's graduate of the University of Oregon; a retired Oregon Army National Guard officer. He was found dead, apparently frozen to death, next to a bottle of booze, in Eugene, Oregon within the past few days.

Unfortunately, the story speaks for itself. Sometimes, the desire to destroy one's self can overwhelm all other instincts.

I never knew you, Major, but we served in the Army together at the same time. I have no idea what happened to you, but I wish I did... and I wish it could have been fixed.

Tomorrow is Christmas. If you know someone who needs help, take the time and the effort to try and get that help to them. Major Egan had help available, but made bad choices when it came to using it.

As I look outside at the foot of snow, I ask myself: "how many Major Egans are there? Is there more that could have been done?"

Probably not.

But I wish there had been.

Good bye, Major. From all accounts, you served us honorably and well. I never met you, but I won't forget you.

I could have been you.

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Soldier’s death resonates
Homeless veteran froze to death though services were available
By JACK MO (Eugene) Register-Guard

EUGENE, Ore — Thomas Egan was a scholar and a decorated soldier. He was also a homeless alcoholic whose life ended last week when he froze to death in Eugene during an unusually long and harsh cold snap. His body was found covered in snow near the corner of West First Avenue and Blair Boulevard, a bottle of liquor by his side.

News of the demise of the longtime Eugene resident troubled many local veterans — especially those who knew that with some effort and some help, the man they called Major Egan could have had a roof over his head.

Memorial for Maj. Thomas L. Egan ret.

“The whole National Guard community is taking this very hard,” said Bud Dickey, a vocational rehabilitation coordinator with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ community reintegration service center in Eugene.

“It’s very disturbing for all of us, because Major Egan was retired and could have been drawing his (veterans’) benefits,” Dickey said. “He had options that he did not access.”

Egan collected monthly Social Security checks, but the amount was a pittance compared with the payments he was entitled to as a retired military veteran. When he turned 60 in July, Egan became eligible to receive $909 each month in National Guard retirement income, Dickey said.

Then Lieutenant Egan

Egan also could have applied for a separate pension check based on unemployability. “That would have gotten him an apartment if he wanted one,” said Jay Rea, a Springfield resident who served under Egan in the National Guard in the late 1980s. “I shed a tear when I heard he died,” Rea said. “It breaks my heart because he was the friendliest guy, and so smart.”

A New York native, Egan joined the Army in 1971 after graduating from Quinnipiac College in Hamden, Conn., with a bachelor’s degree in history. He was stationed at the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea for two years, and was reassigned to the Oregon Army National Guard in 1977.

Earned master’s degree

Egan earned his master’s degree from the University of Oregon in 1983, and ultimately attained the rank of major with the National Guard.

He retired honorably in 1991, following a 20-year military career during which he was awarded several service medals and ribbons.

Dickey said Egan’s desire to drink made him ineligible for VA housing programs that require sober living.

Egan had declined to enroll in substance abuse treatment programs offered through the veterans agency, Dickey said.

According to those who knew him, Egan worked sporadically. He did some landscaping, and most years helped deliver telephone books.

Sometimes, he found an apartment to stay in for a while. At other times, he lived on the streets. In August, Egan spent two weeks at the Eugene Mission — which is less than one block from the spot where a passer-by discovered his body last week.

Mission officials said Egan never caused any trouble there, and could have stayed any time. Dickey said Egan has no relatives in Oregon, and tracking down members of his extended family on the East Coast has been challenging.

Dickey, who served five years with Egan in the National Guard, is helping to direct an effort to have Egan interred at the Roseburg National Cemetery.

“He will be buried as a veteran in a veterans’ cemetery,” Dickey said. “He was a good soldier, and we’re going to get him the burial he’s due.”

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More thoughts on Reiner/Trump.

 Anyone reading my remarks, here or anywhere else, knows that I'm a Trump supporter.

The alternative, in either term, would have been a disaster.

The problem is that it seems he never took PoliSci 101.

This was my FB post on the issue:

I care about RR as much as he cared about me.

THAT SAID...

We all have choices to make in our lives. We all have examples to make for our families. And we have to consider both the opportunity and the public face responses make.

By all means, use this self-justification to act the way the left did when the President was shot. Or when Charlie Kirk was slaughtered.

Ponder it when next you're in church.

I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, suggesting that you be anything other than what you are. I'm not suggesting that you express sympathy or condolences.

I am a strong supporter of the President and what he's trying to do. I'm the only one in my family that can make this claim. Further, that does not make me blind to his faults and, as a retired political professional, it does not stop me from wincing when he screws up unnecessarily.

At the end of the day, what was accomplished with his statement? What advantage was secured for himself or the GOP? How was our ball moved forward? Besides making him feel better... how are we better off?

THAT'S the reality we're in. I'd appreciate it if someone reading this can explain it to me. But I admit I don't see it.

I understand that the left operates purely out of hatred as they've been programmed to do. Reiner was a Grade A example of that.

But when you do react the way the left has reacted, the next time the left perpetrates another death of someone on the right (as they inevitably will) don't get angry. Don't engage and tell them what you REALLY think of them.

After all, when the time came to set an example... what example did YOU set?