The incessant, inane babbling never stops. Today I see a link, but I don't care to read it. It's the same story as yesterday. Everyone is talking about the 'troop increase'. It's all over the news as if it's being honestly debated, but most don't realize the fact of the matter: the number of troops was already increased a month ago. On 'Crapital Hill' they talk as if it is still being debated and nothing has yet happened, but the reality is that the troops are already there, on the ground.
You've been duped again. Shame on you.
Society's Child
There is something called "the new anti-Semitism."
Now the old anti-Semite is a frightening, despicable creature, responsible for all manner of hate crimes up to and including the Holocaust. The old anti-Semite is a creature alien to the human race.
I have nothing to do with such creatures.
But recently I heard President Jimmy Carter called an anti-Semite.
Now the old anti-Semite is a frightening, despicable creature, responsible for all manner of hate crimes up to and including the Holocaust. The old anti-Semite is a creature alien to the human race.
I have nothing to do with such creatures.
But recently I heard President Jimmy Carter called an anti-Semite.
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Three news stories, three examples of the mania that has gripped the American mind, three reasons to believe that, at this point, the American people are completely at the mercy of their political leaders' hidden agenda.
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King: 'How fares our cousin Hamlet?'I awoke from a nap with that passage tripping through my mind. What on earth does that mean? I wondered, as I pulled down the Bard from my bookshelf, and thanked the God of Helpful Editors, for sending me one who had noted in the margins:
Hamlet: 'Excellent, i' faith; Of the chameleon's dish: I eat the air, promise-crammed;'
"chameleon's dish", i.e., the air (which was believed to be the chameleon's food); Hamlet willfully takes "fares" in the sense of "feeds".Air, huh? So I took a sniff, then a huff, and then a great, big, deep gulp of air. Unlike Hamlet, however, I cannot say that I "fared" very well with my serving of "the chameleon's dish". No, not at all.
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I recently rented the movie Idiocracy, having heard from several people that it was hilariously funny and, from a few others, that it would make me weep. As usual, the few were closer to the mark.
Gov. Charlie Crist is preparing to recommend that the controversial touch-screen voting machines used in Broward, Palm Beach and 13 other Florida counties be scrapped and replaced with optical scanners that would count paper ballots.
U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Boca Raton, said the governor would recommend spending at least $20 million on optical scanners for the 15 counties with touch-screen machines when he presents his proposed budget to the state Legislature on Friday.
U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Boca Raton, said the governor would recommend spending at least $20 million on optical scanners for the 15 counties with touch-screen machines when he presents his proposed budget to the state Legislature on Friday.
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| Victim of Israeli Cluster Bomb in Lebanon |
In an article published this week in the New York Times on Israel's use of cluster bombs on a civilian population in their illegal war last summer on Lebanon (carried out under the guise of attacking Hezbollah) -- although the Times did not quite phrase it that way -- we read the following justification given by Sean McCormack of the US State Department:
"It is important to remember the kind of war Hezbollah waged," he said. "They used innocent civilians as a way to shield their fighters."
Libya has proposed a plan to release the Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in an Aids epidemic case in exchange for compensation, the son of Libyan President Moamer Kadhafi told a Bulgarian newspaper on Monday.
"We have proposed a road map with solutions (satisfying) all parties: the parents, the Libyan government, the Bulgarian side, the EU," Kadhafi's son Seif al-Islam told the daily 24 Hours, adding that he had also discussed the plan with the foreign ministers of Germany and France.
"We have proposed a road map with solutions (satisfying) all parties: the parents, the Libyan government, the Bulgarian side, the EU," Kadhafi's son Seif al-Islam told the daily 24 Hours, adding that he had also discussed the plan with the foreign ministers of Germany and France.
CHICAGO - Al Capone refuses to be rubbed out.
Chicago officials shun any association with "Scarface," whose Prohibition-era exploits made his name synonymous with the city.
"Anything that glorifies violence we are not interested in," said Dorothy Coyle, director of the city's office on tourism.
But 60 years after his death, they still can't run his memory out of town and visitors from all over the world are very much interested.
Chicago officials shun any association with "Scarface," whose Prohibition-era exploits made his name synonymous with the city.
"Anything that glorifies violence we are not interested in," said Dorothy Coyle, director of the city's office on tourism.
But 60 years after his death, they still can't run his memory out of town and visitors from all over the world are very much interested.
