I’m hitting close to 2 years with my Palm Treo 700W so no surprise when it finally came apart this past weekend. Thankfully we keep insurance on all our phones (company plan) so by Tuesday I had a spanking new one in my hands and all my data sync’d back up. One of the reasons [...]
If there is a poster boy for controlling illegal immigration This guy has to be it. He is only 22 years old but has been arrested 15 times now for various illegal activities (other than illegally crossing the border of a sovereign nation) including smuggling others across the border.
I can understand why some Republicans hear McCain’s tough talk on Iraq and vote for him. His attitudes in this issue even appeal to me. I cannot begin to express how important it is that we not abandon the people of Iraq as we did in under Bush 42. Still, it is but one issue [...]
While Detroit may be leading the country in foreclosures they’re also leading the country in sales as well. Some may ridicule the bargain hunter view of the “housing bubble burst” but it appears buyers in Detroit are taking that view quite seriously. People forget that such markets while feeling short term pain are largely self [...]
“The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.” Samuel Adams
“Quemadmoeum gladuis neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.” Translation: A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer’s hands. Lucius Annaeus Seneca “The Younger” , circa 45 AD
Pull your tin foil hats tight and take a look at some cool big brother technology.
I guess if there were any doubt as to Obama’s communist platfor then a Che Guevara flag in one of this offices might lessen it a bit. Of course if all you know of Che is what you learned watching the propaganda film “Motorcycle Diaries” you may not know that Che was Castro’s chief executioner [...]
Setting aside the roll call of conservative issues John McCain has voted against during his term in office one sure fire way to have conservatives simply stay home in November would be for him to have taken money from left wing nut jobs like, oh say George Soros and Teresa Heinz Kerry. Oops… Sadly running [...]
If you’re buying candy for your significant other you might want to check out this story about stores selling Valentine’s candy from 2007 or even before. Now I’ve eaten stale chocolate and the only thing worse than stale chocolate is no chocolate. But when they unwrapped a Big Kiss and it had worms in it [...]
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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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