“The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.” George Washington
The technological glitch behind the dipping Dow. Awfully coincidental with Greenspan’s stupid remarks… but then I thought it was simply a round of greedy capitalistic profit taking…
“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” James Madison
I have heard this reported from sources other than VEI which instantly disqualifies the information in the eyes of any Global Warming leftist but the fact that the US Doing Better Than its Kyoto Critics on CO2 are easy enough to verify with a little judicious googling and library research.
The Washington Post has a great piece, Trial in Error , on the ongoing prosecution of Scooter Libby in the Valerie Plame leak case. Little real attention has been paid to this subject of late and the media would largely let it drop now that they were able to post headlines such as “Cheney Chief [...]
Personally I feel quite strongly that Band of Brothers is not suiteble for PG13 audiences let alone three kids 8,6 and 4 though I know I would have loved the series at those ages, too. So I can understand how 3 young brothers were avid fans knowing the members of Easy Company by heart. These [...]
There are 3 US automakes left though judging by current quality issues I have to wonder that there are that many. GM especially seems determined to ruin what reputation of quality remains to US automakers and hand the top auto sales position to Toyota. Now, in their quest to either remain on top or ruin [...]
We’ve all heard stories whether from friends or family of people who buy a house and find treasures in the attic. A friend of mine even found a Porche 912 in a barn once and was able to buy it cheap. But I’ve never heard of a guy buying a small farm that hadn’t been [...]
Apparently the European Union is in such a state of perfect euphoria they’re done to legislating the little things like department store mirror standards because a politician’s wife and daughter thought the mirrors were “misleading”. While I sympathize with these women I’m wondering if maybe they’d do better to deal with the slightly more important [...]
I knew I wasn’t the only one who found such humor in Al Franken’s senate abitions and it took no time at all for other’s amusement to show including the introduction of the Anyone But Al Franken Stein stein.
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The masthead graphic "Road to Oakalla" was taken during a motorcycle ride to the Oakalla covered bridge on 23 May, 2007 with a Canon A85 digital camera (F5.6, 1/125 sec exposure). Additional images from the visit are in the Oakalla bridge gallery.
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