I hope your 2011 is a lot better than 20 [...]
New Year predictions
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I'm utterly crap at making predictions I just hope that 2011 is a better year for me and mine, you and yours too of course, though considering the accuracy of my predictive talents, you might regret me wishing you that.Still it's fun having a go, so [...]
Some of My Favorite Billboards
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The following billboards began to pop up shortly after it became obvious to most people that Obama was some kind of terrible mistake that a majority of the voters made in 2008. This being America, they began to express themselves [...]
Descriptive or insulting?
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I don't really know any homosexuals, well I do know one, but I've never discussed the issue with him, I don't even think he knows I know, certainly his parents don't. I have discussed various issues they have online in a few debate forums I haunt and [...]
Pfc Bradley Manning, A Warning Writ Large
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By Alan Caruba“All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.” --Sun-Tzu (--400 B.C.)His cherubic face can be found on the many articles about an audacious [...]
I owe my soul to the company store
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It's an old Tennessee Ernie Ford song about the days when mine owners would only pay their workers in chits which could only be redeemed at the company store, the prices were of course inflated and by the time pay day came along they owed money to the [...]
Nullification in 2011!
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By Alan CarubaThe great issue of our times is the same great issue of the 1830s. The question is whether Congress can pass legislation or the President issue executive orders that are not authorized by or [...]
An uphill task
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The Telegraph cautiously dipped its MSM toes into the murky waters of the Islamification of the UK fear today in one of its editorial views. Though the focus of its warning was a strange one in the shape and form of David Cameron.Telegraph.The leader [...]
The "One" Returns
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By Alan CarubaOZYMANDIAS by Percy Bysshe ShelleyI met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose [...]
Where's Al Gore and his Nobel Prize?
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Wonder what the excuse will be at the next election?
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PFI, private finance initiatives, supposedly the New Labour way of getting stuff done on the cheap with low payments over a length of time until they were payed off. My parents used to call it "doing it on the never, never."Naturally it has come back [...]
A Blizzard of Lies in The New York Times
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By Alan Caruba“Bundle Up. It’s Global Warming” – December 26, 2010, New York Times opinion article by Judah Cohen. It’s Orwellian when cold is declared warmth. It’s deceitful and insulting when it occurs in the midst of [...]
Making Predictions for 2011
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By Alan CarubaIn ancient times a soothsayer could make a good living divining the meaning of chicken bones and shiny pebbles. The modern version is usually some journalist who, looking back over his shoulder, decides he [...]
Only 364 Shopping Days Left Until Christmas 2011
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My flag is a flag not a religious symbol!
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The Cross of St George is the flag of my country, it has a long history dating all the way back to 275/303 AD. It's known as the symbol that the crusaders wore over their armour, though that isn't as important to the English, well the Christian English [...]
Parsing the (Very) Bad News
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By Alan CarubaThe dictionary says “parse” means to break down into component parts of speech with an analysis of the form, function, and syntactical relationship of each part. The Caruba definition means to take all manner [...]
Saturday Night is Bath Night
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Merry Christmas
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To those who chose to read the ramblings of a mad Englishman, many thanks and may your Christmas's be as wonderful as mi [...]
Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas to all my "followers" and visitors to this blog. [...]
Christmas thoughts 3
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I'll be away seeing my wonderful granddaughter up until Christmas Day, when I have a long journey home as I'm at work on Boxing Day.So here are a few thoughts each day to tide you over.For those of you who believe as I [...]
Vimeo: Take a Wild Flight Over a Winter Wonderland
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Winterwonderland from RiSCyD : TeamBlackSheep on Vim [...]
Obama's Good News is Bad News
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By Alan CarubaWatching President Obama turn his bad news into good news at his press conference and then reading the mainstream media turn facts upside down and inside out was, at best, bizarre.The bad news, of course, is [...]
The FCC Versus the Internet
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Christmas thoughts 2
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I'll be away seeing my wonderful granddaughter up until Christmas Day, when I have a long journey home as I'm at work on Boxing Day.So here are a few thoughts each day to tide you over."What do you call people who are afraid [...]
The First Amendment Blues
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By Alan Caruba“Congress shall make no law, respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, [...]
Christmas thoughts
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I'll be away seeing my wonderful granddaughter up until Christmas Day, when I have a long journey home as I'm at work on Boxing Day.So here are a few thoughts each day to tide you over."Christmas gift suggestions: To your [...]
World's Largest Army?
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Here's a news item from the editor of The Tribune, a weekly newspaper published in North Carolina. The World's Largest Army. America's Hunters? The state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season without someone [...]
No Peace for the Prince of Peace...Or Anyone Else
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By Alan CarubaAs Christians around the world prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus, an apostle of love, the other two monotheistic religions view from the sidelines. While Christians have nothing to fear from the tiny [...]