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Leaving the left
Leaving the left Nightfall, Jan. 30. Eight-million Iraqi voters have finished risking their lives to endorse freedom and defy fascism. Three things happen in rapid succession. The right cheers. The left demurs. I walk away from a long-term intimate relationship....
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Holy Hypocrisy, I feel the need to riot
OpinionJournal - Featured Article With the revelation that a copy of the Quran may have been desecrated by U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay, Muslims and their governments--including that of Saudi Arabia--reacted angrily. This anger would have...
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Maybe he should have been eating kudzu instead of drinking Coors
Study: Herb Helps Curb Binge Drinking - Yahoo! News Those who took kudzu pills drank an average of 1.8 beers per session, compared with the 3.5 beers consumed by those who took a placebo. Lukas was not certain why, but speculated that kudzu increases...
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Lovely Post
WHEN 'EVERY WORD IS JUST RIGHT,' WRITING TOUCHES THE SOUL - Yahoo! News There's no grand lesson in today's column, no little truth struggling to break into your morning, just the sense of sadness that comes with the death of a writer whose words have...
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From the Football
I swear, I think this is the best laugh I've had in a LONG time..... lgf: Voting a la Francaise The French are voting on the European Union Constitution, and polls suggest it has a good chance of being rejected. Young Katia Volman chose a very French...
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More meme fun
You scored as Cultural Creative. Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very...
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US Gulag
US Undermines Rights, Guantanamo Like 'gulag' - Amnesty - New York Times "``The USA as the unrivaled political, military and economic hyper-power sets the tone for governmental behavior worldwide,'' Secretary General Irene Khan said in the foreword to...
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This STILL doesn't explain Tom Cruise.....
Watching New Love as It Sears the Brain - New York Times The research helps explain why love produces such disparate emotions, from euphoria to anger to anxiety, and why it seems to become even more intense when it is withdrawn. In a separate, continuing...
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Deep Throat
The Nation | Blog | The Online Beat | The Mysteries of Watergate | John Nichols ...Far from being someone who feared for the Republic, Felt was a protégé of longtime Federal Bureau of Investigation director J. Edgar Hoover. Felt certainly couldn't have...
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Article from TNR
The New Republic Online: Equivalency Test n a recent report, Amnesty International referred to the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo as "the gulag of our time." The term--a Russian abbreviation for Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei, or Main Camp Administration--refers...
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This would take care of part of #37!!
Pink Floyd to reform for London Live 8 concert - Yahoo! News LONDON (Reuters) - Four members of seminal British rock band Pink Floyd will play together for the first time in 24 years at London's Live 8 charity concert for Africa on July 2, publicists...
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A wonderful story
One Night Changes a Life, and Calif. Town The crowd wanted him in the game. Amundsen wanted him in, too. But he was also afraid the slightly built 18-year-old might get hurt. Amundsen considered all this as he walked toward Ryan and patted him on the...
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I will spare you the pictures......
Cyclists ride naked in London protest LONDON - Hundreds of naked cyclists rode past Big Ben and the U.S. Embassy in London on Saturday to protest the West's dependence on gas-guzzling cars - and to push for more use of bicycles. The organizers of World...
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Oh no.....
Paul Winchell, Voice of Tigger, Dies at 82 - Yahoo! News Over six decades, Winchell was a master ventriloquist — bringing dummies Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff to life on television — and an inventor who held 30 patents, including one for an early...
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Weather Forecasts
Considering the forecast here is "hot with clouds and sun" ( sorta covering any sky situation, there, eh?) and NINETY-TWO degrees, I thought today's horrorscope was appropriate. Daily extended (by Astrology.com) Whatever you do, don't lose your cool....
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Okay, now I think I'm going to be sick....
Mother Explains Fatal Pit Bull Mauling - Yahoo! News SAN FRANCISCO - The mother of a 12-year-old boy killed in his own home by one of the family's two pit bulls says she had been so concerned about one of the dogs that she shut her son in the basement...
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We're Number Five!! We're Number Five!!!
How Smart is Your State? These are the findings of the Education State Rankings, a survey by Morgan Quitno Press of hundreds of public school systems in all 50 states. States were graded on a variety of factors based on how they compare to the national...
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Took a ride this morning...
...and took my camera along in hopes of seeing the baby turtles coming out of their nests along the trail. Didn't see them and didn't see the bald eagle today for some reason, but took a few other pics. These are all along the Hiawatha Trail which runs...
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Men's Bathrooms are SO much more interesting than ours....
Clark Sorensen - Nature's Call - an exhibit of his recent flower urinals and related sculptures An Exhibit of Flower Shaped Urinals and other Nature Inspired Sculptures by San Francisco Artist, Clark Sorensen These pieces were on display May 20 - June...
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REAL Fireworks for the Fourth!!
Fireworks Likely When NASA Blows Up Comet - Yahoo! News Scientists hope the July 4 collision will gouge a crater in the comet's surface large enough to reveal its pristine core and perhaps yield cosmic clues to the origin of the solar system. NASA's fleet...
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Hmmmm......decisions, decisions
AAS Degree Requirements History HIS 101 US History to the Civil War 3 cr. HIS 102 History of the US: From the Era of the Civil War to the Present 3 cr. HIS 127 The World in the 20th Century 3 cr. Political Science POL 175 International Politics 3 cr....
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home sweet home in badgerland
The State | 07/10/2005 | Illegal aliens getting home loans MILWAUKEE — Javier and Araceli Garcia, illegal immigrants from Mexico, never imagined that the U.S. government would help them buy a home. But last year, the couple secured a $54,600 mortgage...
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Good Times article
Published a couple days ago, but I'm outta the loop anyway. Still worth reading. And I'm leaning towards Poli 175. ;-) Who Are Americans to Think That Freedom Is Theirs to Spread? - New York Times Other democratic leaders may suspect Bush is right, but...
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Birthday Calculator
Birthday Calculator You were born on a Tuesday under the astrological sign Libra. As of 7/21/2005 12:07:56 AM CDT You are 1,413,590,876 seconds old. There are 75 days till your next birthday on which your cake will have 45 candles on it. Those 45 candles...
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And it isn't already????
AP: 4 Unions to Boycott AFL-CIO Meeting - Yahoo! News Labor experts predicted a rough road ahead for both factions. "What a divided AFL-CIO would do is signal to opponents of the labor movement that the House of Labor is in disarray and therefore is vulnerable,"...