A tough one….filled with uncertainty. However it needed to be made. Watch this space for the drama to play out in the coming months. Its not the easy path-I could have put it off, but that would not have been the right thing to do. And, to tell the truth,
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A woman who thinks she is being screwed out of what she is “entitled” to……. A reader sent me this link to a column by Debi about the continuing outrage that passes for a law-The USFSPA, also known as the Pat Schoeder screw serving service personnel act-writing about the fact
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Start drinking heavily. I wish I could, but after still not feeling well for over a week, I caved in and went to the doctor yesterday. Who confirmed for me that yes, I had stuff in my lungs and it would probably be heading for pneumonia if we did not
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That I am glad I don’t own a “crackberry”. I hate it when those things go off in meetings. Fortunately for me, my cell phone is so unreliable I’d never hear it go off inside. Subscribe in a reader
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By the President of the Constitution. In his veto message his last paragraph: Finally, this legislation is unconstitutional because it purports to direct the conduct of the operations of the war in a way that infringes upon the powers vested in the Presidency by the Constitution, including as Commander in
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This video will strike a chord with any foreigner who has lived for a while in Japan. Lord knows I love it here and would not trade it for anything in the world-but life in Japan is not for the faint of heart. It takes stamina to live here-particulalry in
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Worth repeating. “Given that Bush isn’t really trying any serious regional diplomacy, I can’t escape the feeling that the surge was never designed to succeed in the first place, but just to give Bush the excuse to broaden the conflict to include Iran down the road (again, the animating aspect
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Well, it only took 3 and a half months to get to a result that was inevitable since last February. The Democrats will blame the Republicans, the Republicans will blame the Democrats-each side will have speeches using the right type of back drop. ( Bush ordered his favorite props to
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Spike and E @ L and Knobby. Together here. “Size matters not! Judge me by my size, do you?” Yoda–The Empire Strikes Back Details here. Sigh, sure wish I could have been there….. Subscribe in a reader
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To Esquire Magazine. It’s for the articles. Honest. Really, it’ true. I never let myself get distracted by the smoking hot women on the cover and inside. Never. Well, maybe a little. Ok, Halle Berry looks pretty good. But I love her for her mind-which reads articles like this, by
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