Or why Johnny does not know a damn thing about the world. Also known as, “The world according to Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin”:
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For learning Hiragana. Now after 10+ years of struggling with the Japanese language-I remain convinced that starting with Romanji ( anglicized Japanese) is a bad way to go. A beginner in Nihongo should start by memorizing the Hiragana and Katakana alphabets first and then bit by bit learn Kanji with
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“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.”- Charles Bukowski For those who take the time to research it, several things about the Wisconsin governor’s battles with
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I went to body pump after work tonight. Angie, who is actually a very good instructor, decided that we all needed extra beatings in anticipation of the upcoming weekend. Suffice it to say I was dragging ass by the time we got to the pushups and crunches. They suck! I
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Sorry baby-I’d love to please you but…………….. The human papillomavirus — more commonly known as HPV — causes more oropharyngeal cancers than tobacco and alcohol use, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. “This is important because previously HPV was thought to be one of the risk factors
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Usually makes really bad suggestions. It would seem she is at work again with crop of naive idealists covering the Arab world: It’s rare for me to advocate something as direct as a military action – but a no-fly zone is something we must as a nation do, and do
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I’ve been watching the events in Bahrain with considerable interest. Not because I think we can influence events one way or the other, in fact I think our best course is to sit tight and wait events out. I am however, amazed at the naivete shown by many American journalists
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The S.O. and I joined a YMCA after Christmas. The reason we (I) did so was because they have Body Pump classes-which the on base gyms here do not have. Now the S.O-owing in large part to her lack of a J.O.B.- is able to go classes daily, but for
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And unlike Nir Rosen-I am not going to apologize for what follows. Lara Logan got beaten and sexually assaulted by a mob of Arabs. And now the world is “shocked” that such a thing would happen to a hot blonde in the middle of crowd of Arabs. While I feel
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When I read this tragic story-I could not help but think, ” That could happen where I work!” A Los Angeles woman died in her cubicle at work last week, but her body wasn’t discovered until the following day, local police said. What’s really scary is that it could happen-and
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