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Pottsville, Pa. -- "An all-white jury has acquitted two teenagers of all serious charges stemming from the fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant last summer."
The foregoing is an excerpt from a story found this morning on Google News. I get the majority of my morning news from Google News: I like to browse the electronic news as I drink my ( Read more... ) -
planes, trains and inclosed spaces
Well the travel industery is upset with Joe Biden because he advised his family to avoid public travel in enclosed spaces as the "Chili Pepper Flu" dashes about the globe. I agree with Joe, plus traveling on aeroplanes is a bit of a bitch anyway and I avoid it as much as possible and sub-ways we don't have here in Fort Wayne, we do have a few ( Read more... ) -
Papal Shit
I used to be ashamed to be an American and now because of the flap over Obama speaking at South Bend I am ashamed to be a Hoosier. Actually I really don't really consider my self a Hoosier because I was born in Missouri, grew up in Illinois and wound up in Fort Wayne because of a series of events that I won't go into here. I do, however, consider ( Read more... ) -
The 2k's
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Ikenoto
The Ikenoto of central Teneto are a nomatic subgroup of homeless people from New Haven. More later. -
14 clocks
Simple question: What is the opposite of Day Light Savings Time? Is it Day Light Squandering Time?
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SWE 08
This posting on the SWE 08 was initially written in Word, as was the previous posting, and I have attempted several times to copy it into lj but for some reason all I get is garbage when I try. So I am now typing it out for a second time and am very disgruntled with the process at this time and am considering writing the rest of the "trip notes" ( Read more... ) -
SWE08
Tomorrow (11/12) we head for home. It is Tuesday and we are at a Comfort Inn in Collinsville Illinois, the home town of my youth. This Comfort Inn is located on highway 157near the confluences of Interstate 55 and I 70 at the base of the glacial terminal moraine of the last Ice Age, sixteen thousand years ago. Where once roamed woolly mammoths and ( Read more... ) -
SWE 08
Not much time for an entry. We are in Lovelnd CO at the base of Rocky Mountains National Park, at camp Mark and Amy. We will ascend shortly. The elk are in rut and bugling their harems together. I am also in rut but have misplaced my bugle. Thus far we have avoided rattle snakes, bison and aggressive praire dogs. The Bad Lands weren't and the ( Read more... ) -
SWE 08
Lyons Nebraska, the Land of the Whistling Ears. We survived the encounter with the hostiles of south east Nebraska; though I feared the worst, cannibalism; for all they did was force food upon us, fattening us up like the cattle they tend and slaughter: Friendly folk, more or less, but they place a great emphasis on food and football.
We have been ( Read more... )