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THE JIHADIST ENEMY FAILED
IRAQ AND THE US SUCCEED
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Here's a must-read, point-by-point account by
AMIR TAHERI
of how the forces of destruction failed
to derail the new Iraq.

The intense efforts
exerted by CNN, MSNBC, and even FOX, to try
to get us to believe that the exact opposite occurred,
only serves to expose the seditious intent
of our own Media!

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DISCOVER
WHO YOU ARE
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If you'd like to discover who you are
why you do certain things
what you need
and why others act the way they do.......
go visit:

PERSONALITY TYPES

and find out!

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DESERT
COOL
!!!

It was so beautiful here, this morning, that I took my breakfast outside where I stood at the edge of my canyon eating it.

Suddenly, an eagle circled in the sky, and every time it flew directly above me, it flapped its wings as if it were sending a "Hi, there!" message.

After a while, I waved back at it, knowing that this was really dumb but what the hell......I've gotta be dumb, sometimes, you know?

All in all, it was an intensely peaceful experience of solitary joy.

Then I went inside again, and danced to my favorite country song while feeling gratitude for the courage with which I left New York and came to this beautiful, peaceful desert.

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IRAQI
COOL
!!!

I can't link to the article because the link doesn't work, but what it describes is an Iraqi TV show that's being produced in the Kurdish region.

Based on a format similar to Survivor and Real World, a group of people consisting of Sunni and Shia Muslims, Christians and Kurds, are living in a house together and learning to connect to each other and care for each other, on equal terms and without the usual tribal animosity.

Isn't that a great idea?

TV shows like that have the power to create change.

I hope it works......don't you?

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PARIS
ARTISTS
BURNING
?

According to a report in
THE GUARDIAN
the Paris police is out in force and busy as hell terrorizing that city's artists.

Disgusting as this is, I have a feeling that it's a police-backlash. They're totally impotent when facing all those
bus-and-car-burning Muslim thugs
who are terrorizing THEM, so they've decided to come down hard on a bunch of poor, hard-working artists who have neither the time nor the inclination to fight them.

Sad, isn't it?

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I would like to present my
Radical Excellence Award
to
Home Depot.

I went there, this afternoon. I've been to the store before, but I was always in a hurry and never looked around. Today, I had lots of time and wandered through the isles.

WOW! This place is totally fantastic!

Unlike Walmart, which carries shitty merchandise for low prices, Home Depot is a place that has true class. They bought an exclusive to Behr Paints, which I long ago discovered to be the best paint in the country, and which has a fabulous, computerized mixing system. They've got isle after isle of hardware and electrical equipment. I went for a kind of ceramic tile that I despaired of ever finding anywhere, but they had exactly what I'd been looking for and in the exact size I needed it. The people they hire seem genuinely competent. The place is clean, well-stocked, and a definite haven for anyone who needs to fix or install just about anything you can imagine.

I was very impressed. Which for someone like me, who detests box-stores, is a very high compliment
for the achievements of Home Depot!

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AUDIENCE
VULGARIZATION
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Once upon a time not so long ago, you could've heard a pin drop, whenever someone performed in front of an audience.

Not anymore.

It's like the average audience-IQ has dropped a hundred points.
Well.....at least fifty?
During rock concerts, people now scream non-stop no matter who's playing what, so we must assume that they come to scream, and not to listen. Or if they thought they came to listen, screaming turned out to be their A-1 priority need. It's disgusting. Really. Because you literally cannot hear the band anymore, which is why normal music-lovers no longer attend concerts, thereby handing all their power over to the screamers.

During Country Music concerts, the entire audience sings along with the performer. They don't ask if they can do this. They just do it. Mark Chestnut has found a wonderful way to deal with this: he just stops singing, tells the band to stop playing, then invites the audience to sing the entire damn song by themselves. Which they do, of course, without even realizing what's happening.

Retired-type audiences have decided that it's totally OK for them to clap their hands non-stop, during whichever performance they decide to attend. And they're usually clapping way off rhythm, which turns the entire thing into an ugly monstrosity.

And then there's the indiscriminate laughers..........Steven Wright was walking around the stage starting one of his really funny tales.
SW: "I went to the drugstore, last night......"
Why does the audience laugh like crazy?
SW: "So there....on a shelf......"
Why does the audience again laugh like crazy?
SW: "I found a ........."
So now the idiot audience immediately roars with laughter, and none of them could even hear the punchline!

WTF IS WRONG WITH THOSE PEOPLE?

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QUOTES
AND
ARTICLES
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" If heat rises
heaven must be
hotter than hell."

--Steven Wright--

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"To the man on the street,
the man on the street has
never been a problem."

--The Scotsman--

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"The biggest players in the global art market are:
the Critics, the Dealers, the Consultants,
the Collectors, the Auction House Experts,
and the Museum Curators."

--The Guardian--

TEST: which group is missing, in this equation?

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"In the MySpace era, we constantly get our human-interaction brain cells stimulated, with no human interaction at all..........the brain responds to all these crazy-paced social-networking optionsby losing touch with reality, adding contacts with the attention-span of a bumble bee..........this was supposed to be the new world where we had finally cured loneliness. The actual result: a nation full of cheated hearts."

--Rob Sheffield--

Oh, I don't know about all that..........which is better:
spending an evening in a poisonous club filled with all kinds of
demented people, or being
safely at home typing messages to a bunch of invisible friends?

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"Black Studies celebrates blackness,
Chicano Studies celebrates Chicanos,
Women's Studies celebrates women, and
White Studies attacks white people as evil."

--David Horowitz--

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"Our famously loyal president has one grave flaw:
he's a poor judge of character,
he trusts the wrong people,
then he sticks by them."

--Ralph Peters--
(from a truly excellent article titled KILL MUQTADA NOW in the New York Post to which I can't link because the link is a mile long)

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"I am tired of ideological censorship.
Western nations can never mount a defense against
Muslim immigration if this is always dismissed as "racism".

--Fjordman--

From his article in
GATES OF VIENNA

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DID IT ORIGINATE
WITH
BILL MAHER
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On page 56 of the October issue of Rolling Stone which was distributed towards the end of September, some well-known creepozoids were asked to present their "clever" ideas for an October Surprise.

Bill Maher
shithead-par-excellence-as-usual
actually wrote this:

(2) "A terrrorist plot to blow up the World Series will be foiled through a warrantless wiretap on the bullpen phone."

and

(6)"To rally the religious right, Dick Cheney shoots his lesbian daughter in the face, accidentally."

So last week, if you remember, some idiot posted an internet message with the threat that seven NFL Stadiums would be exploded with dirty bombs.

The internet
TERRORIST
was apprehended,
but the magazine that inspired him, continues to print more of the anti-US garbage its irresponsible editors seem to enjoy so much.

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HEADNOTES
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FOOTNOTES
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The Tyson employees that were fired so their employers could replace them with illegal invaders who work for a fraction of their pay, have charged their former employers with racketeering.
Yes, I looked it up. My dictionary describes racketeering as
"organized illegal activity".

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Muslim men living in Islamofascist countries, are allowed by law, to marry 9 year-old children.
Which is only one of the many reasons
why they don't want to enter
the twenty-first century.

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Washington keeps telling us how great the US economy is doing.
In my own fairly wealthy town, 7 out of the 20 stores in a local shopping center have been standing empty for more than a year, and its Chinese Restaurant has just been transmuted into a Mexican one.

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New Zeeland's Maori people are furious at a US developer who intends to build an apartment complex in Texas, that has a Maori theme running through its architecture and its proposed sculpture gardens.
The Maori claim that this developer is guilty of
Cultural Theft.
Do you agree?

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Inspired by the Jon Stewart concept, CNN has started to intersperse their news programs with the same kind of humorous film-segments that were originated at the Daily Show.

I think it's a definite improvement on CNN's boring repertoire.
Watch for the Fox and MSNBC morphologists
to follow suit, pretty soon!

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nothing exists

I know

because I see it

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NORTH KOREA
&
KIM JONG

There's an interesting, non-partisan article in the
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
you might wish to read.

And here's a North Korean
POSTER
which confirms my observation that Kim Jong likes everything in three's, which means that there must be another nuke explosion to satisfy his psychotic need.

I firmly believe that Kim Jong has spent many hours studying photographs and watching films and videos about Nazi Germany and the Fascist parades in Nuremberg, because he organizes imitation parades in which 100,000 North Koreans are made to carry torches and arrange themselves into the same
HUMAN SYMBOLS
that were ordered by Adolph Hitler, before he began to "conquer" the world.

What does Kim Jong want to do? North Korea has no commerce, no development, no musicians, no writers, no entrepreneurs creating a future, no cars on the road, no people on the sidewalks, no food, no medicine, no clubs or organizations other than a million-man military force of indoctrinated robots. So what do you think Kim Jong is going to do, with that which he has spawned?

What would YOU do.......if you were the President of the United States?

Do you think we should continue to engage in diplomacy?

Do you think we should destroy them, before they destroy us?

Do you think we should hope for the best and do nothing at all?

Do you think we should hope that the South Koreans will resolve this situation with re-unification?

Do you think that the UN can take care of this matter?

Do you think that Kim Jong is just playing a game and that he'll never wage an actual war against anyone?

I know what I would do.

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ABOUT THOSE HALLOWEEN COSTUMES
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It used to be, that unless a kid was a kind of everyday bullie or monster, he'd dress up in flattering costumes, for Halloween. Stuff he'd be proud to wear and identify with, you know? Like COWBOY or INDIAN or MILITARY GENERAL or MEDIEVAL KNIGHT or FIREFIGHTER.

But when looking through today's costumes, I believe I noticed a profound change, because what I saw was outfits for Grim Reaper, Ghost, Batman, Convict, Vampire, Lord Lucifer, Gangsta, and other negatives.

For girls, however, everything seems to have remained positive. Like: Angel, Nurse, Cheerleader, Princess, Bellydancer, Cindarella, Galactic Chick, and Statue of Liberty.

Is the denigration of everything MALE penetrating down to even this level of attack? Are boys now forbidden to feel good about being boys, even when they're looking for a costume to dress-up-in?

I find this discovery quite shocking.

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E PLURIBUS UNUM

out of many -- one

In 1954, I'm told, President Eisenhower replaced our beautiful, centuries-old maxim:
E PLURIBUS UNUM
(out of many--one)
with his own personal mottto:
"In God We Trust"

I don't know why he was allowed to do that, but I've often wished that we'd re-instate the original maxim created by America's founding fathers, as it so perfectly describes the unprecedented achievement of our meltingpot nation, don't you agree?

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ABOUT
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Yesterday, someone told me that he considered English to be the ugliest language in the universe. I knew that him saying that was only one more part of that really deplorable self-hate so many Americans seem to feel, these days, so I didn't argue. I just told him that I consider English to be the most beautiful language in the universe, and that I'd written 5 books in it.

Much later, when I was half asleep, I thought about how amazing the English word HOME seemed to be.

In most other languages, going "home" is expressed in words that mean going to back to a building. Like "naar huis"...... or, "zu hause"....... or, "a la maison"......or, "ha-baita".

In English, however, you don't go back to your house. You go HOME. Even on a website, the entire world clicks on HOME. It doesn't mean house. It doesn't mean building. It's a term just for that one specific place where you belong. Where we all belong.

You may think that's a small and insignificant matter, but it's not.

When HOME is not a building but a concept to be treasured......the language that invented the word, is
HOME
to our spirit.

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INTELLECTUAL
PROMISCUITY
?

Both The Daily Show and the Colbert Report are being financially supported by commercials for those "Girls Gone Wild" video sales.

It's really quite impossible for anyone to understand how Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, both of whom present themselves as being better and of higher moral and intellectual caliber than every single person in Washington and throughout the rest of the world, can square with themselves, the showing of commercials that are deeply degrading to women, incredibly vile and disgusting, and an open invitation for criminal personalities to engage in rape and other acts of sexual attack against women, girls, and female children.

One can only conclude that Jon and Stephen's displays of ethical superiority are nothing but a fake. Which makes them no different from the individuals they pretend to "expose and ridicule" for a gullable and appreciative audience of nitwits and morons.

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PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
TEACHING TREASON
???

According to this report from
JUDICIAL WATCH
an LA public charter school is teaching students how to become revolutionaries and to then betray our nation, by "returning" the Southwest to Mexican ownership.

What infuriates me no end, is how so many Americans and so many Mexican invaders abuse the rights this nation has so generously bestowed on them, by appropriating those rights in the interest of a truly criminal attempt to destroy them.

The letter
--- M ---
is not just used for Mexico.
It's also used for:

MALIGNANT NARCISSISTS

MEDIEVAL DETONATORS

MALEVOLENT ENTITIES
and
MORAL RETARDS

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NAME
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THINGS
THAT YOU THINK ARE
BADLY MISSING
IN YOUR
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GOODBYE, KOFI
HELLO, BAN KI-MOON
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C-Span finally made it into the United Nations, where South Korea's Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon was chosen via unanimous acclaim, to be the next Secretary General.

I had read somewhere, that Ban Ki-Moon received an award for his proficiency in English, that he traveled to the US when he was 14, that John F. Kennedy presented that award to him, and that the young Ban Ki-Moon had been deeply touched by this event.

So I figured.........being that he's 62 now, and that he's had almost half a century to practice his English a whole lot more, he'd be speaking it like a trooper, you know?
But he didn't and he doesn't.

I literally forced myself to listen to most of the speeches that accompanied this ceremony, and I think it got me to understand why the UN has become as useless as it is:

First, there was a lengthy, meaningless speech by the representative of Asia.
Then, there was a lengthy, meaningless speech by the representative of Eastern Europe.
Then, there was a lengthy, meaningless speech by the representative of Africa.
Then, there was a lengthy, meaningless speech by the representative of Latin America.
Then, there was a lengthy, meaningless speech by the representative of Western Europe.
Then, there was a lengthy, meaningless speech by the representative of the EU.
Then, there were some more lengthy and totally meaningless speeches by the representatives of several other parts of the globe, and then, there was a mercyfully short and meaningfull speech by America's John Bolton.

I would go crazy, in that place. People just talk and talk and talk and talk and talk..........no wonder, any kind of meaningful action never-ever comes out of there! These are talkers - not doers. They know how to talk, but they don't know how to do. I've been in organizations like that. And I've left them. All of them.

Any large group that has the collossal arrogance to subject its members to this kind of verbal onslaught, cannot possibly be a functional entity.

I hope that C-Span will return often, to the UN assembly.

The world needs to get to know this talking-crowd!

They're costing everyone a bloody fortune.

And for what?

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MEGA
COOL
3

One of the Country Music TV channels, I forget which one, did something really cool:

They had a whole lot of totally abstract-type background paintings on each of which there was one large slash of black paint..........and then they used those black slashes as a background on which to project their video images, so those images were appearing and disappearing inside these full-screen, abstract paintings.

Great idea, don't you agree?

I wish I had an image to show you, but I don't, so you'll have no choice but to try to visualize it, OK?

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MEGA
COOL
2

A group of
VIETNAM VETERANS
have initiated a legal defense fund to support military personnel stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq who have been accused of committing war crimes.

I really think that it's some kind of fucked-up, genuine pathology of today's......I don't even know what to call them........holier-than-thou-generals?........that they send our troops to foreign nations to fight a war, and then presume to persecute them whenever they've killed an enemy combattant or some local terrorist monsters, while being
"caught in the act"
by one of those cowardly, anti-US and anti-military journalists who then runs to the "appropriate authorities"
(usually the New York Times or The Washington Post)
to point an ugly finger at his/her fellow-americans.

So I like what these Vietnam Vets are doing. I have no no doubt that they've experienced the same or worse kind of hypocrisy!

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ARIEL LEVY'S
MEGA
COOL
1

The Colbert Report, after inviting Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem to appear on its show, must have had them sign an agreement to not protest the proceedings, because they both remained smilingly docile, while their host stood them in front of what was supposed to be a kitchen table full of food that they were then instructed to prepare.

It was so comical, that I've forgotten what the three of them discussed, while the 2 women were feeding Colbert and each other with spoonfulls of white gook that looked like whipped cream.

After they'd gone, Colbert's second guest was Ariel Levy, the genuinely brilliant and very sympatico author of a brand-new book titled:

FEMALE CHAUVINIST PIGS
subtitled:
"Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture"

about which Malcolm Gladwell wrote:

"With Female Chauvenist Pigs, Ariel Levy becomes feminism's newest and most provocative voice, brilliantly laying bare the contradictions and evasions and self-deceptions that pass for empowerment."

I'll link to the book's website
OVERHERE
so you can read the rest of its reviews, OK?

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US Economist
EDMUND PHELPS
was awarded the Nobel Prize
for
ECONOMICS.

Congratulations..........America is very proud of you!

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NEW STUFF
AND
FUNNY STUFF
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I've added another blog to my margin-collection. Its name is
ONE COSMOS
and I love the way its author writes.......very creative, often amusing, and highly original!

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I've also added another art site to my margin collection. It's titled
PUBLIC NOTICE
Go visit it!

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There actually exists a company in the West somewhere, that sells construction materials and that calls itself
ST. LOUIS SCREW AND BOLT

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Here are a couple of goodies I found on different message boards:

"If the Muslims keep scaring the be-Jesus out of us,
shouldn't we start to scare the be-Allah out of them?"

__________

"Press 1 for English
Press 2 for Deportation"

__________

"Das ist cool" = German for "That's cool"
"Gibt mir funf" = German for "Give me 5"
and
"Das suks!" = German for "That sucks!"

The German government is really pissed-off about all that English stuff creeping into their language, and they've proposed to enshrine the German language into their constitution as being the one and only one.

__________

"ISLAMOFASCIST THREAT ALERT:

All your women are belong to us!
All your cities are belong to us!
All your freedoms are belong to us!"

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THE
SADNESS
OF
COMPLETION
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I've just completed a series of works consisting of 8 individual pieces that are interconnected on their final presentation.

They came out really nice. But they're done. Finally. After weeks of dedicated labor. And even though they're exactly like I had wanted them to be and I have no reason to feel sad, I feel sad anyway. Exactly because they're done.

I become friends with my works. They're my companions for however long it takes me to finish them. But then, like a much-loved child, they must leave me.

It's OK.
I'm not really in pain.
Just a tiny bit sad.
And I've already planted the sketched-out seed for my next creation, so that the future can smile at me with a kind invitation to get back to work again.

But just for today......I want to allow myself to feel empty, deserted, and sad, for a while.

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DENVER'S
$90-MILLION
ART MUSEUM
]]]$$$[[[

Wow! That's a lot of money.

The new
DENVER ART MUSEUM
opens today.

Designed by Libeskind, it's sort of a Bilbao that got transmuted into the sharp corners of a triangle, which replace the rounded curves of Gehry's Museum. I've never cared much for the Bilbao, but its saving grace has always been the immense interior exhibition spaces that invite evolutionary works of art.

In comparison, The Denver Museum's interior seems
narrow-in-concept and filled up
with all kinds of walls and other obstacles to what might have been a similar, wide-open sense of freedom.

What do you think of the exterior design?

It 's not a work of beauty or grace or magesty or peace.
It's disturbing.
It's very much in your face.
It dares you to object to its attack, and makes no attempt to be loved or revered.
Oh well........the good thing about all these really crass new forms of architecture, is that they'll invite dramatic changes from the age-old, ugly box-buildings of yesterday. So in that way, I always think of them as a positive force which will eventually find that one exceptional architect who can profit from their invitation to greatness. Someone who'll design an edifice that DOES contain beauty, grace, magesty, and peace!

Yeah.....I'm a perpetual optimist.

I have trust in the future.

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ELECTION-TIME
WASTE-OF-TIME
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If people in Washington and our media wherever they are, wouldn't waste our nation's time and energy with endless accusations and endless speeches and endless press conferences and endless talkshows, about a gay guy in Congress having sent some lurid emails (who the hell cares!) which is what straight guys do all the time except no one thinks it's a federal crime..............

.............they might have heard that the 2006 wildfires raging throughout our nation, have cost us
$1.6 BILLION DOLLARS
which is
$100 MILLION DOLLARS
over budget
during just this year alone!

Moneys for which, instead of subjecting americans to all that horrific fire-terror, Congress could have purchased a Russian Waterbomber for every State in the Union!

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BAD EAGLE'S
WORDS OF WISDOM
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"It ill becomes a man of spirit
to lament past losses
in the name of historical justice.
Leftists make cowards of Indians."

Read the rest of:
COLUMBUS DAY TALKING POINTS 2006

Bad Eagle, AKA Dr. Yeagly, is one of my favorite humans in the entire world!

A true original thinker.

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MORE AMERICANS
RECEIVING HONORS:

Roger Kornberg received the
2006 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
while
John Mather and George Smoot
received the
2006 Nobel Prize for Physics.

Congratulations!

Wouldn't it be nice if a lot of other nations would present more prizes and honors, instead of terrorizing the rest of the world with nuclear threats?

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RANDOM THOUGHTS
AND
OBSERVATIONS
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Congratulations to US scientists
Andrew Fire and Craig Mello
who received the
Nobel Prize for Medicine, today.

During the past ten years, 8 out of those 10 Medicine Prize recipients, were Americans.

WOW! I am so flocking proud of our amazing scientists!

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If you were watching the hearings on C-Span, this past weekend, you may have noticed that the guy who directs the UN's World Food Program (for starving people) could barely walk, because he weighs about 500 pounds!

Please tell me what's totally flocking weird about that?

Never mind.....I know :-)

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Do you think relationships should have an expiration date?

What if people became lovers and promised to set each other free at an agreed-on date in the future? What if people became friends, and said, "We're only going to do this until February 15, 3 years from today" ???

What if you gave someone a job and told them they could only have it for one decade, and then they'd have to leave?

What if we assisted a foreign nation, but instead of continueing to pay billions forever, there'd be a pre-determined expiration-date for such financial generosity?

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How can we stop our supermarkets from selling apples that have a thick coat of acrylic on them? It prevents air from getting inside those fruits, which means that when you get the shiny baubles home and cut them open, you'll most likely find that they're brown and rotted, on the inside. Plus, some of the most valuable nutrients in apples are in their skins, and you can't eat these plasticized coverings, now!

Don't you agree that we accept too much?

We need to stand up for our rights!

REALLY.

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I found this observation on a military message board:

"In order for our troops to distinguish their allies from their enemies, their allies agreed to wear red-and-white-striped bandanas on their heads..........which is clearly distinct from their enemies, who wear white-and-red-striped bandanas on their heads!"

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