tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57160056561886105862010-06-16T14:59:37.965-04:00Making life a little less sane - one post at a time.Casa De Poohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348623074840053501noreply@blogger.comBlogger305125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5716005656188610586.post-25671937767095153962009-07-04T00:01:00.003-04:002009-07-04T00:01:38.673-04:00

What a wonderful thing, freedom. Make a point today to celebrate the freedoms we have as Americans. Each one of us has the freedom to believe what we choose, to follow the path in life that pleases us. No politician, no cleric, no cult-of-personality owns our minds. Even as we seem to be losing many of those freedoms, we live in a land where we are all truly free to think, live and worship as

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Four years ago today my beautiful wife and I were married. Life is good, and getting better every day. Hope yours is as well.

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A few months ago I received a promotion at work, and among my new duties... I'm webmaster of our corporate website. Spending four to five hours a day working on that website pretty much erodes any desire I have to work on this blog. I'll try to post when I can, but it will be sporadic for the near future.

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It's not what you think.  Students and scientists from Rutgers have launched a small underwater robot, called a glider, off the coast of New Jersey. It's name is RU27, but is better known as The Scarlet Knight, and they hope it will be the first autonomous underwater vehicle to cross the Atlantic Ocean.  The RU27 moves by sucking in seawater, causing it to dive, then expelling that seawater,

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A New Hampshire man was arrested yesterday for the 153rd time, just one week after completing a one-year jail sentence for stealing a can of beer. Not surprisingly, defendant says, “I think I was intoxicated.”

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Private property owners in central North Dakota now have the federal government to thank for losing exclusive management rights to their property. The Democratic Congress passed, and Obama signed, a piece of legislation declaring that half a million acres surrounding the Missouri River be designated as the Northern Plains National Heritage Area. Sounds simple enough, until you learn that the

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President Obama has announced his choices for several posts as U.S. Ambassadors, and not surprisingly they are going to major donors to his campaign. Among them:Louis Susman, 71, a retired Citigroup Inc. senior investment banker, raised between $200,000 and $500,000 for President Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and another $300,000 for his inauguration. He was nominated for the post of

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In this opinion piece from the Russian newspaper Pravda, a columnist by the name of Stanislav Mishin argues that America's descent into Marxism is happening at breathtaking speed. The author also writes a blog, one that is a bit anti-American. Still, he does see what's happing here much more clearly than most of our fellow countrymen. Among his observations..."First, the population was dumbed

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Today is Armed Forces Day. For those who don't know, Armed Forces Day is celebrated on the third Saturday in May. The day was created in 1949, to honor Americans serving in the five services - the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast Guard.To all active members of the Armed Forces, as well as all Veterans, I thank you for all you've given.

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The jokes are obviously in poor taste. What's worse, and more disturbing, is the lack of character Obama shows in laughing at both of them. Watch and see...

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The state of Massachusetts, in a move that only government would be stupid enough to perform, is providing some welfare recipients with free cars. In fact, the state pays for the car’s insurance, inspection, excise tax, title, registration, repairs and a AAA membership for one year at a total cost of roughly $6,000 per car. As if that weren't absurd enough..."...about 20 percent of those who

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In case you missed the video, here's Barack Obama absolutely unable to speak when his teleprompter goes out. Listen to it, and think about it. His prompter goes out, and he can't string together one coherent thought. Sad...

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I tend to use Google or Yahoo for my web searches. Recently, though, I've found a way to raise money for a worthy cause (of my own choosing) while getting quality search results from Yahoo. It's called GoodSearch. The way it works is simple... you use GoodSearch exactly as you would any other search engine. Because it's powered by Yahoo!, you get proven search results. You choose the

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The 3-year-old son of one of the players on the Barry University (Florida) baseball team has become something of a baseball prodigy. Check out the story, with video.

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Apparently builders renovating a bathroom in a cottage in Britain discovered the 400-year-old mummified remains of a cat.

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An Associated Press article about the apparent suicide of the Chief Financial Officer of mortgage giant Freddie Mac contains comments from, as best I can count, six anonymous sources. The second paragraph quotes a law enforcement official who "asked not to be identified because the investigation was ongoing." The next paragraph has comments from neighbors who "did not want to be quoted by name

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CNN's Jeanne Moos has a great story at CNN.com about unusual airplane landings. I just had to pass this along...Embedded video from CNN Video

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There will probably be no posts here for the next couple of weeks. We're getting out of Georgia for a few days of R&R, and the work schedule is going to be tight after we return.

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Every so often I like to listen to streaming audio from radio stations outside the U.S., particularly news/talk stations. This morning, though, I wanted to hear music. So a few minutes ago I logged onto RTE Radio 1 from Ireland, hoping to hear something different. The DJ mentions some folks who are celebrating birthdays, then plays a song for one of them. The song wasn't Irish. Not even

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Many of the nation's banks were forced in the fall to accept part of a $700 billion payout to shore up troubled banks. That money came from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, in exchange for capital. Many of the banks were forced to take it, even though they didn't want it.Today, financial reporter Stuart Varney, writing on the Wall Street Journal's website, details how one bank wants

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I posted yesterday about the iPod that the Obamas presented to Queen Elizabeth this week. You might be wondering what President Bush and wife gave to the Royal Family when last they met. Well here's the list:President and Mrs. Bush gave Her Majesty a bronze statuette “High Desert Princess” with a personal inscription on the bottom of the base. It is a replica of the original life size statue

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Mike Rowe is host of the TV program "Dirty Jobs" and narrator of "Deadliest Catch" and "Ghost Hunters". He's also got one of the greatest voices I've ever heard. He spoke at the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference in December, and the speech was recently posted online. He tells some compelling (and horrifying) real-life job stories. Listen for his insights and observations about

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It was bad enough when President Obama gave British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a pack of 25 DVDs and two model helicopters. Now, the first family's lack of sense embarrasses the U.S. (and presumably themselves) yet again. When the Obamas met with Queen Elizabeth yesterday, they presented her with... an iPod. Wow. Unbelievable.

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I just read this column at American Thinker, and it deserves to be passed around. It's a pretty critical (gee...) look at Obama's moves against General Motors. Here's a taste...Watching Obama is a psychiatrist's delight. Here we have a middle-aged man with no real-world accomplishments, but with truly astonishing grandiosity and a rock-star following that confirms his Jesus Christ Complex at

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Since it's Friday, here's a great laugh. Steve Martin from The Tonight Show...

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