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Low fly by’s. Most of them are by Brits and French-what’s up with that?

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Stating it more eloquently than I

E.D. Kain over at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen sums it up nicely: Conservatives have their limited-government priorities all wrong. While libertarians and the left have focused on matters of security overreach – wiretapping, surveillance, executive powers, GITMO, etc. – the right has brushed all this off and focused instead

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Happy May Day!

Since I get repeatedly tagged as a slimy socialist-for merely sticking up for basic decency and fairness-might as well make the most of it. Workers of the world unite! 🙂 And yes, I like 80’s one hit wonders.

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A great story……

In front of Yanmashita park in Yokohama, located on the waterfront, the NYK ship Hikawamaru is moored as a floating museum. She recently celebrated her 80th birthday. The 11,622 ton Hikawa Maru was built in 1929 by Yokohama Dock Co – yard 177, for the Nippon Yusen KK line, Tokyo.

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You’ll never look at Meg the same way again.

Meg from the TV show “Family Guy” that is. This is Mila Kunis, the girl who does the voice of Meg: She’s also on the list of eight hot babes who play “World of Warcraft“. Who said video games are just for geeks?

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Some common sense about immigration…..

From where you would expect it to come from-across the pond. I am of mixed feelings about the Arizona immigration law. On the one hand,border security needs to be tightened up-we need to start having immigration checks both ways in and out of the country and if you get stopped

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One company that loves tea parties…….

The fine folks who brought you all 64 colors, of course! Crayola Thanks the Tea Partiers – watch more funny videos UPDATE! WTF happened to the video-did Crayola get pissed or did the tea baggers make her lose her job too?

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The man just may have a point….

Sen Jim Webb that is: Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., is pressing the Defense Department for justification of why the military has so many flag and general officers, and he also wants to know why the military is paying salary and tuition assistance to officers on loan to some Washington, D.C.,

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