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Curriculum Obitus

In a Past Life… You Were: A Greasy Assassin. Where You Lived: Israel. How You Died: Killed in Battle. Who Were You In a Past Life?

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Heck, yes!! I would have

Heck, yes!! I would have flee the place like running from the bubonic pest… I did, once. Watching the news and biting my nails… ================== The Expatriate Achtung! You are 15% brainwashworthy, 18% antitolerant, and 38% blindly patriotic Congratulations! You … Continue reading

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What’s wrong with this picture?

Just go and look at the picture of a bunch of guys, “relaxing” in hammocks, with laptops firing RF beams all around… And then they want to “erase” stereotypes? Guys, you are not helping! CNN.com – Geeks gather at ‘What … Continue reading

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Not that there is anything wrong with being one…

Where is Jerry Seinfeld when you need him? CNN.com – Roberts documents reveal a conservative – Jul 27, 2005 Limiting Supreme Court’s reach Roberts argued that Congress had the power to limit the Supreme Court’s appellate jurisdiction on controversial issues, … Continue reading

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The richness of language…

Mind you, I had to run for the nearest Merriam-Webster to find out what the heck “dragooned” means… I feel “harpooned” when I find a new word and the only way to take it out is to find their meaning. … Continue reading

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Trained monkeys…

There is a reason circus monkeys are trained: so they would not bite their masters. In this context, the masters are the “people” who pay their taxes so that the monkeys can receive their pay. You can train a monkey … Continue reading

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Livin’ la vida loca…

Great!! The new version of Windows will be called “Vista,” Spanish for “View” or “Sight,” depending on the context where it is used. I guess is something else to blame Hispanics for when things start going wrong, right from the … Continue reading

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He’s not?

Good God! Thanks! Coming from him…. I feel so much better now… (although, for some reason, that “probably” word is kind of stuck in my throat) Does that means that Lieberman and the so called “moderates” (what the heck is … Continue reading

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Jumping together…

This reminds me of a little trivia I read almost twenty years ago; it had to do with China and its people. One of the factoids was that if the Chinese paraded on a street, four in a row, they … Continue reading

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Like is going to make any difference

Perhaps the day the people of this country overcomes their apathy towards anything political. Not until then and perhaps “then” would be too late to really change anything… The man who could shift the court right | csmonitor.com The formal … Continue reading

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