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Entries from February 28th, 2006

high school angst meme

February 28th, 2006 · No Comments · Cat-in-a-bag

~via Tracey
1) Where did you graduate from and what year?
no comment… semblance of privacy and all….
2) Did u have school pride?
Considering the times, yes. It was the Age of Aquarius, so that is a matter of relativity.
3) Was your prom a night to remember?
I went to a couple proms or so, they didn’t live up [...]

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Housing Market

February 27th, 2006 · No Comments · Commentary

Michael Sheldon, chief market strategist at Spencer Clarke LLC:
Commenting on the housing data, Sheldon said the latest report only confirms what previous reports have been saying about the sector.
“While the debate may rage over the strength of the housing market in 2006, almost all data confirm the fact that some slowing is currently taking [...]

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I Didn’t Realize

February 27th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Confession

… and usually I don’t until after the fact. In changing over to Wordpress all my articles and posts have different url links. oops. For myself that will mean so much more work to get this blog in working order and for others it means 404’s I guess. The comments seem to be here for [...]

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Dissecting Don Knotts Lovability Factor

February 27th, 2006 · No Comments · Cat-in-a-bag

Actor Don Knotts dies. …
Griffith: “Don was special. There’s nobody like him”
It’s easy to enumerate reasons people are respected. Their accomplishments, their impact on society, their personal integrity can be well documented. It is quite a bit more complicated to figure out why someone was so well-beloved, and when commenting on the death of [...]

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Post This

February 24th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Cat-in-a-bag

Now I suppose I’ll have to get serious about blogging again.
I don’t have a design that I’m comfortable with yet so things will change around until something clicks with me. If you read this, now is the time to suggest what you prefer. Fonts not big enough, not excited about purple? More color, posts too [...]

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Cooking With Gas

February 24th, 2006 · No Comments · announcement

OR blogging with Wordpress… and now TrueGrit moves forward
Thanks,JD!

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Looking For Our Brains

February 22nd, 2006 · No Comments · politics

…they must be here on the floor somewhere…. “Dump the Jihadists” – Maggie’s Farm reports:
The True Voice of the People, issued a front page editorial yesterday entitled “Dump The Jihadists.”
The centrist-Marxist newspaper……. This was their editorial yesterday, which we fearlessly reprint:
Dump the Jihadists
It is time for us in The Movement to reconsider our support for [...]

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Laugh a little…

February 17th, 2006 · No Comments · Conviviality

Bookworm Room has winners of her slogan contest posted. My favorite?
Liberals: so open-minded, their brains fell out.

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FYI: Abortion Views

February 17th, 2006 · No Comments · politics

Extreme Wisdom
For years, the media has been telling us that American support Roe v. Wade, and that pro-life politicians risk losing votes. Interesting then, that Pro-life Republicans have won 5 out of the last 7 national elections and taken over the House and Senate on a generally socially conservative agenda.
Now we have some answers as [...]

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TrueGrit Changes

February 14th, 2006 · No Comments · announcement

If you’ve been visiting you might have noticed a hiatus here. The server had some complications. Now I can post here again, but I decded to change over to the Wordpress format over the coming week. That means that things will look rough here whle I adjust ’stuff’.
My main concern is that I hope to [...]

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