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"Maybe Now We'll Get It
Maybe Now We'll Get It By Ralph Kinney Bennett Source Tech Central Station Daily Maybe, when this Lebanon thing is over, we'll finally get it: Guerrillas like to hide behind civilians. Muslim guerrillas take it a step further: Civilians are a weapon to them -- as much a part of the fight as the AK-47 or RPG they carry. Th...
Jul 24, 2006, 11:13 am - konane

violent crime up for first time in five years
Violent Crime Up for First Time in Five Years PHILADELPHIA (June 12) - FBI statistics Monday confirmed what big cities like Philadelphia, Houston, Cleveland and Las Vegas have seen on the streets: Violent crime in the U.S. is on the rise, posting its biggest one-year increase since 1991. Violent crime increased in all regions of the nation last year, w...
Jun 13, 2006, 7:44 am - LOTTOMIKE

iran welcomes unconditional talks on nukes
Iran Welcomes Unconditional Talks on Nukes TEHRAN, Iran (June 3) - A breakthrough in negotiations over Iran's nuclear program is possible, the republic's president told the U.N. chief Saturday while welcoming unconditional talks with all parties, including the United States. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a speech later Saturday that his government would not rush to judge an incentives package offered by Western countries to persuade Iran t...
Jun 4, 2006, 8:03 am - LOTTOMIKE

Know Your State Motto
Hope this does not offend anybody. Alabama Hell Yes, We Have Electricity. Alaska 11,623 Eskimos Can't Be Wrong! Arizona But It's A Dry Heat. Arkansas Literacy Ain't Everything. California By 30, Our Women Have More Plastic Than...
May 21, 2006, 2:18 pm - hosni

minorities getting closer to the majority
Minorities getting closer to the majority Hispanics are fastest-growing group, increasingly U.S.-born Thursday, May 11, The influence of traditional minorities in the United States will continue to grow, new Census Bureau statistics suggest, with Hispanics born as American citizens accounting for more than a third of the population increase last year. Bureau figures released Wednesday show...
May 12, 2006, 2:11 am - LOTTOMIKE

The Iliad
Morning blogsters: Hope all of you are getting the cobwebs out of your punkin heads sufficiently to maximize whatever joy a person gets out of sitting around a Christmas tree unwrapping packages. I overslept here, didn't wake until dawn. Maybe some of this Christmas spirit thing rubbed off on me and disrupted my routines. Nice morning. Quiet outside, cool, but not a shock to hit you when you climb out from under the covers or hit you in the face when you ven...
Dec 25, 2005, 9:43 am - Rip Snorter

Bad Ju Ju
My boy was down on the wash the other day, pushing cattle from one pasture to another, when he came across a human skull that had washed up during the recent rains. There were some other things too .... medicine bag, pottery shards. All were older that dirt, the skull was red as the clay it was washed up from, no bullet holes, a natural death for all he knew. At one time, the Anasazi lived along this wash. Petroglyphs are drawn high on the canyon walls and...
Nov 17, 2005, 5:46 pm - cowgirlpoet

Wolves in Arizona
Not far from here, the U.S.Government, in their infinite wisdom, has unleased several packs of Mexican Grey Wolves. These wolves are preying on the rancher's cattle, stalking their children, taking pets for snacks and are on the verge of destroying the local economy. How romantic , the city slickers cheer We have wolves in the wild again . Whether or not a person in sympathetic to cattle and sheep ranching in the American West, there is an...
Nov 17, 2005, 12:49 pm - cowgirlpoet

Rainbow's Glow...
Well now Self, reckon We ought to write something for the attending audience, just for appearences don't you know. This script will be short. We, Self and I, have been very tied up with family business. The death of my childrens mother and trying to get her estate in order has and is very time consuming. Even with an iron-clad will, the state bureaucrats just can't help but sticking their nose in where it ethically and mora...
Apr 28, 2005, 10:33 pm - Teufellj

Oops
Before I start, I apologize if people misunderstood my entry yesterday about people saying bad things about the place. I love this place to death and I didn't like how someone could have said something bad about this place. *blush* I guess that was something that should be left behind; there will always be those that will hate the place, but there will be alot more that will love it. ---- now for a bit of more history of me ---- Made me think a bit o...
Jul 4, 2004, 8:40 am - Mana