Category: Everyday Stories
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Good Start!
Here’s something I did up a few years ago and am giving it a rerun here: Every so often in the mailbox in our former neighborhood would appear one of those booklets that’s 60 or so pages of “Send me your dollars and god will send you dollars/make you well” etc. A prayer cloth (1…
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Duplicitous agreements
At Lewis News is an article by columnist, Greg Szymanksi, Mom, Who Lost Son In Iraq, Talks About ‘Disgusting’ White House Private Meeting With Bush. The mom is Cindy Sheehan, who testified June 16th at the Downing Street Memo Hearing called by John Conyers. Ms Sheehan also spoke about the same meeting with Bush with…
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Green Acres comes to the city
Ha! You nature bloggers with your enviably scenic backyards chock full of wild flowers and exotic birds (any bird is exotic if not a pigeon) and the occasional wandering deer don’t have anything over us urban apartment dwellers any longer. Kind of. Well, ok, you do, but you go with what you’ve got. And what…
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Another happy July 4th posting – courtesy of the "objective" Ayn Rand Institute
The Ayn Rand Institute bills itself as “the center for the advancement of objectivism”, seeking to advance the principles of reason, rational self-interest, individual rights and free-market capitalism, spearheading a “cultural renaissance” that will reverse the anti-reason, anti-individualism, anti-freedom, anti-capitalist trends in today’s culture. The major battleground in this fight for reason and capitalism is…
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The rest of the story of our July 4th freedom happy holiday
Paul Harvey. “Not dead yet!” No, not Paul Harvey, who has a 10 year, $100 million contract with Disney/ABC Radio Networks, syndicated to 1000 radio stations, with listeners of about 18,000,000. “Not dead yet!” Paul Harvey, who my guess is would be all for capital punishment for flag burners, but has probably a few times…
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No surprise, Justice O’Connor resigns, everyone sets out lawn chairs from which to examine the horizon
And now Justice O’Connor has stepped down, which is a day we’ve been dreading for the past 5 years. A not a day. Is a huge chasm instead opening in the earth, from which could crawl what monster from the deep. I’d say no there was the cleft and the woman was the swing vote…
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The Ultra Macho Freedom Tower
Get a grip on it. The Freedom Tower. A sacred subject. Right? No. The Freedom Tower. Honors those who perished there and the whatever for which the new urban warriors fought daily. Right? Wrong.
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Wanderin’ Fool
Was one of those kind of sleeps where you go to bed and wake up feeling like you’ve been drugged, can’t move, go back to sleep and repeat. Lots of dreaming. I remember at one point trudging along in one of those dreams and looking down and seeing my left pants’ leg pulled up and…
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The best advice you'll ever get for cutting in half a roll of paper towels
I can think of nothing to blog while I’m deep in mangling the look of my site on the side. I’m that kind of dedicated sort of person. But I came across this over at Cupie’s and had to share. You too can make your own baby wipes. Think of the money saved. And all…
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The justice of Karl Rove
He suddenly saw the difference between them as sharp as ice and nails and the awesome holy obligation of his shrub to drive past the normal bounds of justice into that fearsome place of godly daring do which was the property of prophets, a territory untroubled by moderate and righteous men nursed on the milk…
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Just for the hell of it – Sensenbrenner’s 2004 stock portfolio
Following transcribed from Sensenbrenner’s House of Rep. Financial Disclosure Statement for 2004, filed 2005 May Assett/Income Source, Year end value of assett, Type of income, Amount of Income, Transaction
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Scottie speaks the truth in spite of himself
So we were scraping the flesh off artichoke leaves and eating shrimp and watching Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove” which we have on DVD (why in the world is it full screen). The blog will make it seem that about all I ever watch are antiwar films, because I mention film very little and when I do…