Like most children, I hated Brussel sprouts, which were soggy, bitter and terrible tasting. Indeed, they come in first in a UK poll on the most hated vegetable.
But they are a source of Vitamin C, and in places like Great Britain they are part of the traditional Christmas dinner.
But now, to the horror of sprout […]

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Many currently say that John McCain made a “dreadful mistake” by choosing Sarah as his running mate.  He did.  But not for the reasons one hears being bantered about by the MSM and other political punditry (both right and left).  They and the GOP Hierarchy have already proclaimed Sarah as a loser and have tossed […]

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From the desk of Charlie Churchill’s Parrot
Churchill’s Parrot: Charlie Churchill’s Parrot here and joining us this evening is the Prince of Darkness himself, Satan.  Mr. Satan, so gracious of you to be here.
Satan: Not at all.
CP: How are you, sir?
S: Never better.
CP: That’s most unfortunate. We must say we are a bit surprised to see […]

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Imagine the scandal.
A well known war leader’s body was taken from a cemetery on Federal land, and his skull used as an object of ridicule by the enemy. The family is requesting their return, but the bones are owned by a group that includes some of the most influential people in the land, so their […]

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Martin Luther King once wished that we could be judged by not by the colour of our skin but by our personal achievements.
I’m old enough to remember my own medical school had a (unacknowledged) quota for Jewish students (ten percent of the class), blacks and Asians (one or two token students), and up to a […]

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President Barack Obama today announced his choice of Jesus Christ, of Nazareth, as his first selection for the Supreme Court. Citing Christ’s judicial wisdom, impeccable knowledge of the law, and “empathy,” Obama proudly presented his nominee in the East Room of the White House.
Rush Limbaugh wasted no time in seizing his microphone to condemn Obama’s […]

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My grandkids are into Facebook, and most people in the US know how the anti war opposition used Facebook and other internet social sites to help catapult Senator Obama to win the US elections last year.
But using Facebook groups for political purposes is not limited to the US.
Here in the Philippines, we have a big […]

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Countdown host Keith Olbermann, took time from his program to vent at some of the blog-o-sphere’s most popular blogs, for crafting from whole cloth articles and commentary alleging a temper tantrum motivated him to stalk off the MSNBC set for a few days, when in fact his absence was related to the reality his Mother […]

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Meghan is a force to be reckoned with.  She is not the bimbo/valley girl that many on our side portray her and neither should they ignore this - Progressive Powerhouse.    So what am I saying?  That conservatives should sit down with her and seek to find common ground?    NO!!  Meghan McCain represents a new progressive […]

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Well Conservatives have been waiting around patiently for a leader to rise to the surface of the Republican Party.   Someone that would speak out boldly and radically in defense of our Nation, the Constitution and Conservatism.  Yes we need impetuous radicals in the Republican Party, too,  to counter the multitude of progressive radicals in the […]

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a timely rant…..by Darvin Dowdy
Do you hear it?  A resounding Death Knell  ( link1 ) for the Republican Party?  Has the cloaked Grim Reaper  ( link2 ) cast its shadow  of doom over the Conservative Movement?   The slow cadence of the funeral dirge has already begun as the procession  moves toward the two gravesites. 
But wait.  […]

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We hear a lot these days about the blunders and failings of Chairman Michael Steele.   Many think that Chairman Steele has been making too many public mistakes and is simply not up to the job. In my humble opinion, they are totally and absolutely wrong.  Dead wrong.  Steele knows exactly what he’s doing.    You see, […]

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This sounds like something out of an Agatha Christie mystery, a lump of rock containing almost $400 million in Emeralds goes missing from a vault. It weighs 840lbs, so it is hardly something you can stick in a briefcase. Yet somehow it managed to escape! It was later found in a wooden crate outside a […]

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It is an event that only happens nine times this century, and today is one of them, the day and month are the square root of the year, in other words 3 X 3 = 9, and today is March third 09 or 3/3/09. So today is Square Root Day.
In fact one enterprising soul Ron […]

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In the strange but true category…
Caleb Brundidge is an associate of Richard Cohen at the sexual reorientation organization, International Healing Foundation. His bio on the IHF website reads:
Caleb Lee Brundidge was born in Florida and lived fifteen years in Atlanta , Georgia . He moved to New Jersey to pursue ministry and healing opportunities. Shortly […]

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I am always amused at articles aimed at elites on how to live a “green” life.
The latest one of these is in the NYTimes discussing how to live without a refrigerator.
In some ways, the people in the article are “typical” upper middle class New Yorkers: And they aren’t really living without refrigerators.
The first lady discussed […]

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On his first day on the job, President Barack Obama signed an executive order (his second) barring executive branch staff from accepting gifts from lobbyists. All well and good, but this  could create a sticky wicket with the government of Canada, which is in a position to give the president a rare and precious gift: […]

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Congressman Murtha again shows his ignorance of his own district when he offers to house Gitmo prisoners in his Congressional district in Pennsylavania.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top House Democrat who is a leading critic of the Iraq war says he would have no qualms about transferring Guantanamo detainees to a prison in his Pennsylvania district.
Suspected […]

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I guess I got out of the Federal government’s health system just in time.
Obama has stopped the implementation of protections for medical workers who oppose abortion.
It won’t get headlines, however: the headlines say “White House stops pending Bush Regulations for Review”
… Bush administration include allowing the carrying of concealed weapons in some national parks and prohibiting medical facilities from receiving […]

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There are scattered reports that the dreaded Bubonic plague has killed 40 Al Qaeda members hiding in rural Algeria.
The new epidemic began in the cave hideouts of AQLIM in Tizi Ouzou province, 150km east of the capital Algiers, the Sun reports…
The group now fears the highly-infectious disease could have spread to other al-Qaeda training camps […]

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The “fake scientific study” of the day is the one that announced that four cups of coffee would make you see visions.
It got a lot of press, of course, with even the staid National Geographic reporting “Coffee may cause hallucinations”.
The UK press had a field day:
Three cups of brewed coffee a day ‘triples risk of […]

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I’ve been fingerprinted lots of times.
You get fingerprinted to work for the US government, of course. Then I got checked again when I adopted my kids. Then again when I moved to the Philippines and applied for residency.
All of these checks were legitimate checks to see if I had a history of crime, including child […]

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He says she can keep the house. But in the divorce settlement, Dr. Richard Batista of Long Island, New York, says he wants his kidney back. He donated the organ to his wife in 2001. Now he claims that she betrayed him by having an affair and filing for a divorce. He’ll settle for the […]

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It’s a saga that brings tears to the eyes.
Years ago, back in the late 1960’s or 1970’s, some imported Argentinian parrots arrived in the US and set up housekeeping in Brooklyn, a section of New York famous for their immigrant neighborhoods.
How the Quaker Parrots got there is not known: theories range from being blown there […]

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One has to wonder about the state of democracy in New York state when it is repeatedly represented by carpetbagging outsiders.
It’s bad enough when political families feel entitled to get nominated because of their chromosomes. Presumably families raise their children with knowledge of politics, so they are qualified (?). So John Adams was the father […]

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Do the recent street battles between Zimbabwe’s Soldiers and Police in Harare mean Mugabe is losing control?  Are Zimbabwe’s soldiers staging a rolling mutiny? 
Most of the media coverage suggests this is what is happening.  The Institute for War and Peace Reporting – an excellent source of information in troubled areas of the world – reported […]

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When it comes to conducting government business on her private email account, rather than on her official government account that would put the email on public record, Vision Vancouver’s Eleanor Gregory is beginning to look as much like Sarah Palin as Tina Fey.
Just as hackers exposed Palin for conducting business as Alaska’s governor on her […]

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Hit the road Halloween. For those who loathe politicians (count me in) there’s no more horrific time than the final days of a presidential race. Our flesh creeps as the last candidates standing (sort of) do the Transylvania Twist faster and faster, spinning their true (sort of) beliefs on a dime and contorting themselves into […]

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Forget the bird flu. The real contagious stuff these days is German Bad Comparison Neurosis, or GBCN. The latest victim was one of Germany’s leading economists Hans-Werner Sinn who (rightly) said Germans should not search for scapegoats behind the current market meltdown – it’s systemic problems, stupid - and then (wrongly) referred to the 1930s […]

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