If Donald Trump goes down, he’ll try to take everyone with himSimon Tisdall ( Read more... )

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It could be an interesting weekend (in the world)... Hurricane Irma continues to ravage the Carribean and is predicted to turn towards Florida.... and North Korea looks ready to test fire another missile possibly triggering the apocalypse.

I did some number crunching and found that if you divide the country into a socialist independent west and a UK member state east part (ala North and South Korea), it would work out like this: Socialist West Scotland gets all the light blue and light pink bits on the map in my last post (except Dundee is traded for East Renfrewshire for ( Read more... )

A look at some of the things in my journal back in February 2002 ( Read more... )

At first I thought it was another of those internet hoaxes, like Jon Bon Jovi or I forget who else it was, which spread thru the internet a bit and was then revealed to be a death hoax. But no, this one is legit.

Whitney Houston was found dead in a Beverly Hills hotel last night. Linda and Jenny were big fans. When Jenny was young, they used to ( Read more... )

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Some Quotes of the Day from Time.com...

"We want a better standard for living creatures. It's as simple as that."

- Chef WOLFGANG PUCK
on his decision to ban foie gras from his 100-plus restaurants

"This whole business of homeland security is a farce. These people are no threat whatsoever to the larger society."

- JOEL HARTMAN
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