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Friday, April 06, 2007

'National' vs. 'Local' news

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Among the reasons I don't trust the major media: John Stossel mentions this: Here's another example. What do you think is more dang...

Senator Reid speaks to vets,

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and gets his ass handed to him . Any bets as to whether the major media will have any mention of this?
Thursday, April 05, 2007

Ever heard of Leslie Fish?

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Among other things, she's a filksinger; someone who takes traditional tunes and makes lyrics- usually related to a sci-fi or fantasy sto...

The Modern 'Liberal'

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as Chris puts it. I'd heard of this the last week or so, but since it's a long video and my connection is slow(no, Og, I haven'...
Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Why DO I do this?

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Med-Fair, I mean? In some ways it's a bloody pain: load up several hundred pounds of stuff, some of it messy as hell, cart it to the si...
Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Crime in Canada and dhimmitude- and stupidity- in Britain

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For the first, I present this thread I ran across at High Road which links to this article on crime rates. Interesting reading. The prob...
Monday, April 02, 2007

On what's happening with the British hostages

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I found a link to this at Instapundit, and it reminded me of two things. The first was an incident in India(I believe) of a British officer...

The Fair, and the aftermath*

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Fair's over, truck's unloaded, laundry's done. I'm just about done after this day, though not as badly as after closing Sat...
Saturday, March 31, 2007

Will Rogers was the first one,

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speaking of the weather around here, to say "You don't like the weather? Wait a couple of hours." As example, when last I to...
Friday, March 30, 2007

Texas Ladies Club

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From a friend: For those of you who don't live here in Texas with us ... and think we are a bunch of uncivilized ruffians ... not true!...
2 comments:

Current postal match is up

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at Mr. Completely's place . Assuming I- or the range- doesn't wash downstream, I should be able to give it a try.

Remember that cow and the flat rock?

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Bossy's gonna die The 'scattered thunderstorms' the weather weenies talked about seems to consist of the aforementioned cow turn...
Thursday, March 29, 2007

Once again, Ma Nature demonstrates

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that she has little fondness for moderation. Last year was pretty dry, and there had been hopes for more 'normal' rainfall this yea...

As to what Britain is becoming,

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I saw something on this piece of horrible crap a couple of days ago, but had a hard time figuring out what words to use. Other than foul s...

In case you were wondering, (Updated)

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the possible tornado was northwest of here, and no apparent damage. Update: That was the original report I heard. Turns out a lot of electr...

Oh joy, 'tis spring

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It's been off & on raining since about 7:30 this morning, sometimes like the proverbial cow on a flat rock. And now, the tornado si...
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

I'm linking a lot lately,

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but it's all good stuff. Like these two from Sebastian : Clayton Cramer whacking on the latest BS from the Brady Campaign to Ban Guns,...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

As a followup to the

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revolver post , something ammo-related comes to mind. The lady in question had picked up some Winchester .38 Special +P hollowpoints some ti...

And through the good offices of Mugwug

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We find this : 1. Make sure they are breathing. Yes? Good. No? Adjust head position. Don't worry about spinal injuries. If they ain'...

As Oscar Poppa puts it,

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The stupidity of some people is bloody amazing. “For far too long we have ignored the relationship between bullets and gun crimes,” state Se...
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