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Well my baby, she wrote me a letter...
(As I was reading, the Joe Cocker version of the song came on the sat, therefore the headline. Sorry.) Ahmadinejad's Letter to Bush It's an interesting read. We get history lessons, international relations lessons, philosophy and religion. It's a rambling...
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Love in all its splendid variations...
CNN.com - Woman, 104, takes man, 33, as husband No. 21 - May 2, 2006 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- A 33-year-old man in northern Malaysia has married a 104-year-old woman, saying mutual respect and friendship had turned to love, a news report said Tuesday....
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down to the wire
Final class signed up and paid for. Book bought and received. Summer session ends Friday, August 4, 2006; and assuming I pass, I'll have an ASS. Oh no wait, that's AAS, not ASS. :-$ Look out, Shawn, I'll be catching up! Baby steps. When I should have...
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Go to Work, Get a Spanking
Calif. Woman Spanked at Work Sues for $1.2M Employees were paddled with rival companies' yard signs as part of a contest that pitted sales teams against each other, according to court documents. The winners poked fun at the losers, throwing pies at them,...
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Where have we seen this before?
Study: Left-Handed Snails Have Advantage - Yahoo! News NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Left-handed snails are better than righties at defending against predators, according to a new study that suggests lefties have the same competitive advantage in nature that they...
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Where's the nearest Berlitz school?
Top News Article | Reuters.com PARIS (Reuters) - The French government defended on Sunday a new job law that has provoked mass protest marches and played down a threat from unions of a possible general strike if it fails to withdraw the law by Monday...
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Never Own Your Home Outright.
Never Own Your Home Outright. Never Own Your Home Outright. Instead, Get a Big 30-year Mortgage, and Never Pay It Off — Regardless of Your Age and Income Well, according to this guy, I did EVERYTHING wrong. It's fun to do everything wrong sometimes, though....
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Cataloging my ruination
Midlife Assessment - Cataloging my ruination. By Jonathan Ames I'm 41 years old, and I'm absolutely falling apart. I'll start from the top and work my way down, cataloging, as it were, my disintegration. And after reading this guy's "catalog", I feel...
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Out with the Old........
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll tak a cup of kindness yet, For auld lang syne! And surely ye'll be your pint-stowp,...
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Testing yet another posting toy
JS Online: A North Woods angel with a white Cadillac Chuck asked how bad the truck was damaged. It's not drivable, came the reply. "He said right there, 'Do you want to borrow my car?' I looked at him and said, 'You're kidding, right?' " Kermit said....
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Foreign Affairs - Iraq
Wisconsin boy Melvin Laird has a long article on Vietnam and how it relates to today's war in Iraq at: Foreign Affairs - Iraq: Learning the Lessons of Vietnam - Melvin R. Laird The truth about Vietnam that revisionist historians conveniently forget is...
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And I thought it was going to be a normal Monday...
So where's my eclipse already???????? This week October 3 through October 9 Libra Big things are happening for you this week, or at least seeds are being planted which may sprout in a few weeks or months time. There is a Solar Eclipse in your sign on...
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Happy upcoming birthday to ME!!
Since I have a birthday coming up in a couple of days, one of my buddies at work thought it might be funny to forward this to me. It's a good thing I will not be returning to work for a week and a half--I will have time to think of an appropriate punishment...
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End of summer
1 - number of times I did the whole Hazelhurst to Tomahawk on the Trek. 2 - piles of bear...um, "scat"...I saw this summer. Yes, I know where the big bear poops. Right in the MIDDLE of the bike trail. 3 - number of deer I saw this evening on my ride....
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it was thirty years ago today.....
Mitch at Shot in the Dark, a good Northerner even though not from Wisconsin, wrote a great tribute to a great record album released thirty years ago this weekend. Can it really be that long since we heard the screen door slam for the first time? Tramps...
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As Promised......
Yup, they're kinda dark&blurry. I've discovered that my flash doesn't have very much range, lol. At one point, I was standing in front of the stage next to some guy with a digital camera attached to a lens the length of my forearm. I was peeking over...
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Bear (Bare?) skin Trail ride
Went for a ride along the Bearskin Bike Trail this morning. It's a gorgeous ride through a state forest, along an old railbed. Supposedly, one day it will connect with my normal ride on the Hiawatha trail, but for now I have to drive up to Highway K to...
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Gaylord Nelson going home to Clear Lake
JS Online: Gaylord Nelson dies at age 89 The former Wisconsin governor and U.S. senator is regarded as one of the most significant people of the 20th century in Wisconsin, ranking fourth in a survey of 42 historians and other experts. Only Progressive...
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I think this man deserves a Bud T-shirt, don't you?
Bear Guzzles Campers' Beer, Eats Food - Yahoo! News Hearing a noise, they looked outside their tent and saw the bear with its mouth clamped on their cooler. Larry Gaynor said the bear dragged the cooler 30 yards into the woods and flung it against a tree,...
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I absolutely refuse to comment on Michael Jackson....
....but I do have a couple of good jokes! Question: what’s the difference between a Southern zoo and a Northern zoo? Answer: A Southern zoo has a description of the animal on the front of the cage, along with a recipe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...
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Stupid horoscope
This week May 30 through June 5 Libra There is plenty of emphasis on faraway places, and on the search for experiences you have never had. Mercury and the Sun in Gemini are encouraging you to drink in anything new and intriguing. Monday looks like it...
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“They would rather die for their chicks than seek safety in flight . . .”
International Respect for Chickens Day International Respect for Chickens Day Wednesday May 4, 2005 "They would rather die for their chicks than seek safety in flight . . ." Aldrovandi – 16th century Chickens are cheerful, intelligent birds. The mother...
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Tough decision there....
Yahoo! News - Judge to Woman: Jail or Packers Tickets OSHKOSH, Wis. - It's a choice that could give pause to some Green Bay Packers fans. A judge ordered a woman convicted of theft to decide whether to spend 90 days in jail or donate her family's Packers...
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psycho or no?
Personality Disorder Test Results Paranoid |||||||||||||| 51% Schizoid |||||||||||||||| 51% Schizotypal |||||||||||| 42% Antisocial |||||||||||| 46% Borderline |||||||||||||||| 48% Histrionic |||||||||||||| 46% Narcissistic |||||||||||| 42% Avoidant ||||||||||...
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What I did Tuesday night
Well, it's political season in Wisconsin; so we had a guest speaker at our Region convention. No, it wasn't Kerry--that visit fell through--but Dick Gephart stopped by to make a very rousing speech. I did enjoy hearing from him, but a lot of us wondered...