WordPress 2.3 was released a few weeks ago. I was waiting for the software manager my ISP uses to offer it as an option, but that never happened… happily the manual upgrade was as simple as ever, so I ran some backups and made the move to the upgrade. I am continuously impressed and amazed …
Perfect reason to dismiss Hillary and Barack: SENATE DEMOCRATS CONDEMN LIMBAUGH’S ATTACK ON OUR TROOPS ” Thousands of active troops and veterans were subjected to Mr. Limbaugh’s unpatriotic and indefensible comments on your broadcast. We trust you will agree that not a single one of our sons, daughters, neighbors and friends serving overseas is a …
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Youth Football Team Foils Robbery Of Elderly Man – News Story Police say two teenage boys, 15 and 17 years old, knocked down a 71-year-old man and ran off with his camera. Taylor Leota led the charge as the whole football team took off after the two suspects. “At first they were jogging,” explained the …
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Not my usual type of post, but I found this odd: I’m on the go a lot, between work and home and the time on the road between the two. Radio reception around here sucks, and I have no desire to subscribe to yet another service just to listen to decent talk radio. I solved …
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Beer runners’ flour trail a recipe for trouble NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism scare and now face a felony charge. The sprinkled powder forced hundreds to evacuate an IKEA furniture store Thursday. New Haven …
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And it has nothing to do with Iraq, Afghanistan, war, or any other “headline” news item for political use. Where’s the public outrage? Where’re the politicians grandstanding for CNN? Why are THIRTEEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY deaths in a single year not important enough to make the evening news? ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Drunken …
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This one’s for you, Jack (ass) Murtha. It’s called war. People in and around the enemy during war are likely to get hurt or killed. It’s terrible. It’s horrific. It’s not criminal (unless you’re the one hiding among the civilians). It’s war. Charges dropped against 2 Marines in Haditha case LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A …
Do they hire morons off the street to work at the IRS? Sure looks like it… IRS bureaucrats duped into exposing passwords According to a report released Friday (PDF) by the Treasury Department’s inspector general, 60 percent of a sampling of 102 Internal Revenue Service employees, when contacted by government auditors posing as help-desk employees, …
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It’s about damned time: Regents vote to fire Churchill The University of Colorado Board of Regents voted to terminate controversial professor Ward Churchill on Tuesday evening. The Board of Regents passed a motion to accept the recommendation from CU President Hank Brown to fire Churchill from his position in the Ethnic Studies department. The measure …
In Montana, Casting A Web for Terrorists Appearances deceive. At her Montana high school, Rossmiller was a cheerleader — a farm girl whose slight frame meant she was the one hoisted to the top of the human pyramid. Now 35, she is a mother of three, a part-time paralegal and a $23,000-a-year municipal court judge …
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This rocks. Found it via LGF and then I found this…. wow:
While the enemies of our way of life remain set against us, let’s take a moment to remember the sacrifices of the last 231 years, and honor those freedoms that our founding fathers fought and died for. The Declaration of Independence When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to …
Subway shooter `used his training’ After a quiet dinner with his grandfather Wednesday, Donicio Arrindell and his best friend headed out for the night. Three hours later, he was dead and his friend Fredrick Gadson was critically wounded. The duo — lifelong friends and roommates — are accused of storming into a Plantation Subway shop, …
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I’m still amazed at the effectiveness of the anti-spam security tools in place here. Akismet is the most “proud” of the lot, and rightfully so… “Akismet has caught 2,000 spam for you since you first installed it. You have no spam currently in the queue. Must be your lucky day. :)” The daily numbers are …