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Ferris Bueller Hassan interview
COSBY : Was this about publicity? Did you want all the attention, 15 minutes of fame? HASSAN : No. I felt so guilty on when I was returning to the United States and I saw on the news two soldiers had been killed in Iraq, and they were sidelined. And my...
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Steyn article on Demographics
This is quite a long article in Opinionjournal that took a full cup of coffee to completely digest--I feel like I've been on a "nine-countries-in-four-days" tour. Steyn takes on everything from political correctness to birthrates to the fall of civilization,...
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the trial...
Top News Article | Reuters.com Those witnesses presented testimony of torture and summary execution, and told of a meat grinder for human flesh and other horrors allegedly inflicted on people from Dujail. Saddam responded by saying he was not afraid of...
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Not a good day.
This really sucks...badly. Woke up this morning to a knee swollen to half again normal size....swollen and stiff. This is *not* good. Went for my normal ride this afternoon, very very very slowly, but I just *had* to feel like I was doing something positive....
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Other reasons this day is special
Oct. 4 ‹ St. Francis Day ‹ Christian ‹ Honoring one of the most beloved saints, who renounced family wealth to follow the Gospel. He soon founded the Franciscans, stressing humility and poverty. He is patron saint of Italy, animals and animal welfare...
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Vincent Interview
FrontPage magazine.com :: In The Red Zone by Jamie Glazov Interesting interview with Stephen Vincent, the journalist who was murdered in southern Iraq last week. Interview conducted by Frontpage magazine--best quote: Vincent: As I’ve noted here and elsewhere,...
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"Why?"
Mojave Phone Booth The TRUE story of a trip into the desert.......and finding yourself on the journey and all that jazz... The Booth. Located deep in the heart of the Mojave Desert, 75 miles southwest of Vegas, 15 miles from the nearest highway, stuck...
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Blues Day today!
This is going to be a new one for me--I've threatened to go to this festival for the last five years or so, but just haven't made it yet. I either had to work, or had something else going on at the time. THIS year, I made a shift swap to have the evening...
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Pandora's Music Box
A project of the Music Genome Project.... you give it an artist, and it creates a playlist of music you might enjoy. Too bad I have such lousy speakers on my laptop--the songs it plays really are interesting, and mostly new to me. I'll have to try a couple...
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A World Without You In It?
Interesting new-to-me blog.... Sigmund, Carl and Alfred: A World Without You In It? In fact, we suffer a kind of debilitating malaise- “Nothing I do or say really matters.” There is the belief that whether or not we contribute anything to the the world...
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Prophecy from a year ago
Louisiana's Wetlands @ National Geographic Magazine It was a broiling August afternoon in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Big Easy, the City That Care Forgot. Those who ventured outside moved as if they were swimming in tupelo honey. Those inside paid silent...
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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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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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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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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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Juicy Studio: Readability Test
Juicy Studio: Readability Test Readability Results for http://www.madmblues.com Readability ResultsSummary Value Total sentences 295 Total words 1,288 Average words per Sentence 4.37 Words with 1 Syllable 792 Words with 2 Syllables 253 Words with 3 Syllables...
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Email from my fans...
from: Neateye [nitaigouranga@aol.com] Call out Gouranga be happy!!! Gouranga Gouranga Gouranga .... That which brings the highest happiness!! Ummm....ok..... I guess it's slightly better than the Nigerian letters I've been getting. Neateye sounds much...
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Meeeoowww....
NBC15 | Majority of Public Supports Hunting Feral Cats "Here kitty, kitty, kitty......." Can you imagine what the media is going to do with this one in places like, oh, say--California?? After the shooting last winter during deer hunting season, we were...
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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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Michael Barone article on multi-culturalism
Michael Barone: Cultures aren't equal In The Age of Melbourne, Australia, Pamela Bone wrote, "Perhaps it is time to say, you are welcome, but this is the way it is here." The Age's Tony Parkinson quoted the French writer Jean Francois Revel's Cold War...
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no title needed on this day
memory of the camps Sixty years ago, in the spring of 1945, Allied forces liberating Europe found evidence of atrocities which have tortured the world's conscience ever since. As the troops entered the German concentration camps, they made a systematic...
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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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Wedding Bells
CNN.com - Wedding for Letourneau and former student - May 20, 2005 SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- Security leading up to the Friday night wedding of Mary Kay Letourneau and her former sixth-grade student rivaled that of a top-secret government operation...
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:-O
The Oklahoma Daily Online Edition - Be part of No Pants Day May 6, 2005, a day that will live in infamy. How many of you are sick and tired of your boring unadulterated life? How many of you are tired of being constricted, of being controlled by "the...