http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Blanche018156/various and sundry political ramblings on current events. Remember: this IS MY OPINION, it's what I pay to write here and so do you, so if I disagree with you, don't take it so personally. Facts are facts. hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Blanche018156/425939I am packing up Professor P's Playboys and putting them away, I can't help but leaf through them and wonder, when did shaving the nether regions become the thing, and who fiinds that attractive? Am I the only one creeped out and bothered by the one of a "woman" with her pubes shaved, carrying an...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Blanche018156/425647Whatever our political persuasions, the veterans of Pearl Harbor, who meet every year in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, are passing away. Another lesson lost on Americans.http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Blanche018156/425506By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG Published: December 7, 2006 WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 — In 142 stark pages, the Iraq Study Group report makes an impassioned plea for bipartisan consensus on the most divisive foreign policy issue of this generation. Without President Bush, that cannot happen. Skip to next...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Blanche018156/425007WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 — Two days before he resigned as defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld submitted a classified memo to the White House that acknowledged that the Bush administration’s strategy in Iraq was not working and called for a major course correction. Skip to next paragraph Ron...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Blanche018156/424813By JAMES GLANZ and DAVID ROHDE Published: December 4, 2006 New York Times Five years after the fall of the Taliban, a joint report by the Pentagon and the State Department has found that the American-trained police force in Afghanistan is largely incapable of carrying out routine law enforcement...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Blanche018156/424677http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Blanche018156/424671http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Blanche018156/424606BREAKING WEATHER NEWS...........Meltdown in Seattle Funny stuff, you"re a witty man, Corbin. Well, it certainly seems the whirlwinds haven't been confined to the weather in the Mid-West......a flurry of activity as a result of the storm clouds building in the blogisphere over the Seattle...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Blanche018156/424563The political tide has turned in the United States, the American public has shown a clear mandate for change by voting overwhelmingly for Democrats in states and districts where Republicans previously held long-standing seats. In the November 7 election, Democrats nation-wide took 31 House of...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Blanche018156/424416