Not mine-someone elses. Today was the first day off I have had in two weeks. And I did not do a damn thing with it. No sightseeing, just slept, paid bills, filed my weekly expense report, and lounged by the pool. The hotel here does a Sunday brunch kind of
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Another reason I am liking the World Cup…..
Beacause I can turn it on-and the resident Fox News morons fans don’t come along and change the TV. Last week was perfect. We could turn on the World Cup in the morning then switch it over to the US Open. A whole week without Glenn Beck on the tube
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Finally, a job opportunity in Asia I know I am really qualified for: Rent a White Guy. Not long ago I was offered work as a quality-control expert with an American company in China I’d never heard of. No experience necessary—which was good, because I had none. I’d be paid
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I am surprised to see how little play, the election of Susumu Inamine has gotten here in the United States. I realize that the election of Scott Brown is the greatest event short of the second coming-but folks ought to maybe pay some attention. Because the whole apple-cart of the
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On the road again, deep in the heart of Virginia. Raining like all get out this evening. Accordingly, abandoned plans for a night out. For the second time in two years a Japanese destroyer has proved the old axiom : Nothing can wreck your day like a collision at sea.
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Hemlock may be no more. WTF? Spike, passed this along: Geocities, the evil multinational conglomerate that produces its shoddy and environmentally> destructive Internet services in Dickensian sweatshops in its ruthless quest for profit, saw fit – as part of its imminent closure – to bar me, wild American friend
Continue readingThere goes the neighborhood…….
You ran for Vice President-that did not quite work out the way you had hoped. After that, you became bored running America’s largest, most homogeneous, and easiest to run state. It’s still a month or so till moose hunting season. The kids are all back in school-except Bristol, who’s got
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Spike tells us Compuserve is dead. I was a Compuserve customer-a long time ago in a galaxy far away.
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Oh the outrage!
Continue readingGood thing Glenn Beck can't speak Japanese……
He’d been crying on stage about what a socialist Taro Aso is. Loss-making Japan Airlines (JAL) could receive up to 100bn yen ($1bn; £635m) in state aid, say reports, on condition that the airline’s management improves. Any loan would be made through state owned Development Bank of Japan (DBJ).
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