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2010
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This is my daughter's car. Like all decent parents, I think I have a good kid. Unlike some, I have the evidence to back that up. She's in college; in the honors program there; made straight A's in her first semester; was a sophomore by the end of that first semester; received a couple of academi...
01/18/2010
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I did think a while before deciding to put any politics into what I'm about to say, but I simply can't get the thought out of my head.You see we don't need Government to sort out our lives. We don't need their hand outs (our money of course); we don't need them MAKING us buy something we choos...
01/16/2010
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OK - so not actually shocked at all! The thing is that it now looks extremely possible that Mass will elect a Republican Senator next week. That would remove the 60 seats that the Dems hold in the Senate and therefore the filibuster proof majority. So the response was expected, but these people ...
01/14/2010
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Her name was Miep Gies and she lived in Amsterdam. She was an office secretary and she not only defied the Nazis in occupied Holland during the war, but she saved a document that the world would be much poorer without. She was the woman who helped hide Anne Frank and her family for 25 months an...
01/13/2010
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The ALLEGED bomber of Northwest 253 pleaded not guilty in a US Criminal Court yesterday through his lawyers as he is facing six charges that could lead to life in prison.Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab did speak to confirm his name (more on that whole pesky "name" thing in a moment) and the fact that h...
01/09/2010
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Not only did the President solve Global Warming in under a year, but apparently he has done so much to reverse the trend that we are now looking at a potential mini ice age! Planes were delayed in Orlando this morning with more expected on the weekend becaue Orlando International Airport does not...
01/07/2010
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As my regular readers will know, each winter/spring I coach High School Tennis at Dr Phillips High School in Orlando. This year on the weekend before pre-season conditioning starts, we are holding a fund raising tournament. Tennis is a wonderful high school sport. Frequently my teams end up in t...
01/05/2010
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Yes folks - I'm a convert! President Obama is apparently the greatest President in American history! In less than 12 months since he took office, the President has been dealing with a lot. First of all there was all that stuff he had to deal with that was left to him by "the other guy". But not t...
01/05/2010
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It was around a year ago that Israel invaded Gaza after months of provocation from the Jihadists of Hamas which had been firing rockets into Israeli towns and cities on a daily basis. The point of the attack was to push those launchers back from the border between Israel and Gaza. It was largely ...
01/01/2010