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Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Trains, Planes, And Automobiles

Sounds like a great title for a movie starring, oh, I don't know, help me out -- Pierce Brosnan or Colin Farrell. Been done? Steve Martin? A comedy? Well, I was thinking more along the lines of international intrigue and the aforementioned types of conveyances being used as weapons. You hear about... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 28, 2004

New Orleans

I spent Christmas evening and the next day and night in the Big Easy. I love that city; it's so laid back, it doesn't even know it's a city 'til the FBI starts compiling its violent crimes statistics. Then everybody knows... Anyway, it snowed Christmas day in New Orleans, the first time since 1954,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 20, 2004

Smile When Ya Call Me A Cheater, Pardner

The model the Bush administration used for its "No Child Left Behind" program has been accused of doctoring its figures. An investigative report into 7700 schools in Texas by the Dallas Morning News states that there are significant gaps in performance between grades and subjects, leading them to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 19, 2004

Chief Of Staff Says Rumsfeld Doing "Spectacular Job"

This despite three prominent Republicans' lack of confidence statements in the past couple weeks. This despite growing criticism of his record in Iraq. And despite the current flak he's been getting for rubber-stamping death notifications to families of those who've died in Iraq (and Afghanistan, no... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, December 17, 2004

New Scare: Not Enough Arms For The Surplus Of Vaccines

Media hype, good and ill, is a current mainstay. It is tolerated and expected, somewhat. In the case of national emergencies, exaggeration needs to be reined in, sensationalism curbed. In cases of national importance, the press need to stick to facts, please, just the facts. Case in point: the media... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 13, 2004

New Jersey Horse Of Purer Breed

The DEA reports that heroin in New Jersey is the purest in the country for the second year in a row, meaning that heroin reaches the buyer in a more pure form, mostly uncut with any number of additives. It is the second year in a row that New Jersey has had the dubious distinction, its street heroin... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 11, 2004

More On Kerik

Kerik apologized today for wasting the president's time, coming after allegations that he may not have paid taxes on his nanny, who may be an illegal immigrant. What the hell is wrong with people in positions of power. Don't they know that their every move is being monitored and then being rechecked... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, December 10, 2004

Kerik No Longer A Contender For Security Chief

Bernard Kerik, the president's pick to replace Tom Ridge at Homeland Security, has withdrawn his nomination. It seems that there may be a problem with immigration and some of the people who work for him, including his nanny. The news just scrolled across the bottom of my television screen a few... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 7, 2004

A Day Of Infamy

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's words ring down the years to this very day, clear and vibrant, calling a nation to arms that had only been trying to isolate itself from Hitler's blitzkreig and Hirohito's rising sun, both an ocean away, and worlds away. But December 7, 1941 changed the entire... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 6, 2004

The Back-Door Draft

Army Specialist David Qualls and seven others have filed suit against the government in federal court to force the Army to honor their original contracts and terms of enlistment, which they contend have been abrogated by the Army's "stop-loss" program, thereby denying them due process. Basically,... Sign in to see full entry.

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