Irons in the Fire

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Saturday, November 20, 2004

What language in a country?

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Clayton Cramer has a link to an article about the European Union calling for all immigrants to learn the local language and customs , and g...

One more reason to like Condoleeza Rice

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She has a firsthand understanding of one of the reasons for the Second Amendment. Smart, tough-minded, capable... If not for Prez in 20...
Thursday, November 18, 2004

The 'lifestyle' dodge

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My daughter was telling me about a woman who runs a site with pictures of women currently suffering from or recovering from (my way of putti...

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'Day of Destruction' part II

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I taped the second half since I'd be out of the house when it was on, and I've rarely been so happy at being able to fast-forward th...

Prince Charles gets it right

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For the most part, I have little good to say about the future King of England, but in this he hits it. Key quote: "People think the...

How NOT to wake up all the way

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Wake up (somewhat) , stumble to kitchen, start water for tea. Decide you're conscious enough to feed the cat, and SMASH! The window in...
Wednesday, November 17, 2004

By the way...

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Ever noticed how warm a cat in the lap is on a nasty day?

Damn, it's wet out there!

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It's been raining off & on for about four days now, with fog added in at night. My yard is so wet, the ground squishes when you ste...
Tuesday, November 16, 2004

That shooting by a Marine in Fallujah

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Caught some info about in on the NBC news last night- just happened to be in a place where it was on- and based on the incomplete informatio...
Monday, November 15, 2004

'Day of Destruction'; it's a turkey

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Now, I like good monster and disaster movies, but I've become more critical over the years. Which means I have to dump on this movie. ...

'First' Americans?

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Clayton Cramer has a post touching on the question of 'who got here first?'. Interesting question. And the piece points out th...
Sunday, November 14, 2004

Communism-lite

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Was looking at a blog run by, surprise surprise, a guy working for tenure in social studies (no, I'm not linking to it) . He says that ...

Just how good do we have it?

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Every once in a while I think about how much easier we have it in many ways. I'm not talking about political stuff right now, but simpl...

Stuff you should read

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And stuff I don't want to forget where is Smallest Minority has a lot of good stuff; self-defense, 'neckies', movie reviews,...

It's not just CBS a lot of people are mad at

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And here's one of the reasons why . When networks do stuff like this, and then insist that they have "no bias in what we report...

Solve that crime!

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If you can't use DNA evidence , then what good is it?
Saturday, November 13, 2004

Belief

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Was thinking about some things I saw over at Heterodoxy & Orthodoxy, brought something to mind. All of the various stuff from Democra...

Does anyone else want to see Steve Irwin chomped?

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SERIOUSLY chomped? First time I ever saw this boob, he was in Arizona chasing rattlesnakes. After about ten minutes I asked if anyone el...

Oh, this is wonderful!

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Found a place called 'Orthodox & Heterodox' with a lovely little 'Red State/Blue State piece. Go thou, and enjoy. Link ...
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