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Entries from October 27th, 2005

Yummy! Blog Food Site

October 27th, 2005 · No Comments · blogdom

Never again will I run short of good stuff to comment upon, never again will I go hungry for scintillating topics to get the old brain juices flowing, for now I have found :
The Pearcey Report
Wonderful things like Edith Schaeffer, Cal Thomas… a portal of news outlets. It is almost too much of a good [...]

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Education: Bet You Didn’t Know This

October 27th, 2005 · Comments Off · Cacophony

Crossing the Rubicon2: Tainted Teachings: What Your Kids Are Learning About Israel, America and Islam
In thousands of public school districts across the United States, without ever knowing it, taxpayers pay to disseminate pro-Islamic materials that are anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-Jewish.
Often bypassing school boards and nudging aside approved curricula, teaching programs funded by Saudi Arabia make [...]

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A Father: Mark La Roi Steps Up

October 27th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Culture

Because I started out at ‘upsaid’ in my blog life, not everyone knows how important the subject of “fathers” is to my heart. Many of my posts on that were lost. So when I saw how Mark La Roi so passionately exemplifies the heart of a father- I just had to direct you his way. [...]

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Some Science for Applebaum

October 27th, 2005 · No Comments · facts-of-life

Because MoM has been on top of the flu story for quite awhileshe
might be interested in this… and if Washington Post contributor Anne Applebaum is interested in upping her science knowledge base on the matter, maybe she will, too.
A bird flu vaccine without eggs?
French drug maker Sanofi and others working on a flu vaccine [...]

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Miers Withdrew

October 27th, 2005 · 5 Comments · politics

Everybody happy now? Can we move on to the next altercation?

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Applebaum Explains It All For You

October 27th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Complaints&Criticisms

Anne Applebaum starts out placidly enough… remarking on the new incarnation of Yuppie anxiety of old, remember when there was a run on gas masks and water purification tablets? Not a bad thing in itself, to be prepared with, but not very practical when only a fear fueled fad.
But is that what Applebaum really [...]

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Top Topics In My Book

October 26th, 2005 · No Comments · lists

Human Trafficking
IrishLaw – Blog from a Domer in D.C. (via Ohio State Moritz Law)
Selling women
I’m usually fairly dismissive of the Lifetime cable channel (”television for women” – not so much) but they are currently running a miniseries called “Human Trafficking,” about the global sex slave trade. It’s an extremely important topic
Supreme Court Decision [...]

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The Pendulum Swings

October 26th, 2005 · Comments Off · Culture

Watch that the guillotine is not connected to the end.
The Observer | Magazine | Just Say ‘No’ describes the “New Puritans” of acetic taste and demeanor.
This is the opposite side of the cycle of hedonism and trumpeting freedom without consequence. It gets you in the end… it always does.
And I get to say nyah nyah- [...]

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I’m Rich! I’m RICH!

October 25th, 2005 · No Comments · blogdom

My blog is worth $139,441.38.How much is your blog worth?

I’m Rich!

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I ♥ Kobayashi

October 25th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Contemporaries

I do. Kobayashi Maru has found a special place in the blogsphere by virtue of his immense talent for expressing very deep things, very hard things in the most delicate, yet powerful way. He says he will work on publishing something in the future. I hope so. I intend to buy it.
He has a gift, [...]

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