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2013 

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High 80 Low 58 Chance of Storms   "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards." - Lewis Carroll   Al says - "If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!" - P.J. O'Rourke...   Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo - Made its first powered flight Mon...
04/30/2013
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High 76 Low 61 Thunderstorms   "Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself." - Thomas J. Watson   Al says - Murphy's other 15 Laws: - #6 - Those who live by the sword - get shot by those who don't...   Bangladesh - The fugitive ow...
04/29/2013
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High 75 Low 49 Mostly Sunny   "Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having notic...
04/26/2013
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High 76 Low 50 Chance of Storms   "Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils....Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. I...
04/25/2013
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High 80 Low 58 Mostly Cloudy   "The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." - Jean Paul   Al says - Politicians and diapers - should be changed often - and for the same reason...   Jeff Charbonneau - U.S. Teacher of the Year! - Jeff is a s...
04/24/2013
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High 71 Low 52 Partly Sunny   "Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present." - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus   Al says - Punography: I tried to catch some fog. - I mist. ...   One-Way Trip to Mars? - In Ne...
04/23/2013
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High 67 Low 49 Partly Sunny   "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world." - Helen Keller   Al says - "I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." - Winsto...
04/22/2013
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High 83 Low 56 Chance of Storms   "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss." - Ralph Waldo Emerson   Al says - "A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money." - G. Gordon Liddy   Pakis...
04/19/2013
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High 80 Low 63 Partly Cloudy   "The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates   Al says - "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself." - Mark Twain...   West Texas - Fire, then a tremendous explosion - damaged buildings over a 4 block ar...
04/17/2013
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High 81 Low 61 Mostly Cloudy   "Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk." - Joaquin Setanti...   Al says - "A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." - George Bernard Shaw...   Iran-Pakistan - Shared a 7.8M earthquake al...
04/16/2013