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- I've been trying to "cut back" on my drinking, but it doesn't work. I got drunk last night and I regret it. So, I've quit drinking. If you're my friend please be supportive and don't offer me alcohol please. Thank you. |
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Medicare (Dec 15 2003 02:36 GMT) - Medicare Rally attacks Health Minister Abbott |
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- A car bomb went off outside a police station in western Baghdad on Monday, either killing or wounding at least 15 people, witnesses said. Witnesses at the scene, including medical workers evacuating the casualties, gave conflicting reports about the death toll, saying up to nine people may have died. |
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- Still some bad news coming out of Iraq: Just 12 hours after Saddam Hussein was captured, a car bomb exploded Sunday outside the police station in this town 60 miles west of Baghdad, and military officials said at least 17 people had been killed and 33 wounded. It was the deadliest attack on American-led forces since two police stations near Baghdad were hit with car bombs three weeks ago.... |
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- You may remember my September post on Severe Pain Care as a victim of the Drug War. Some positive steps are happening now. 1. Act quickly. This is very short notice, but I just got the information this evening. |
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- Top 10 SF by Women Writers. Gwyneth Jones' list of the top ten SF books by women writers [More Like This WebLog] Nice list; I've read the first five. Since I don't know the others, I can't criticize, though I'd put Connie Willis' Passage in my top ten. And where's Frankenstein? |
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- Matt found a wonderful resource on the internet which generates a number of pre-defined templates on the fly. Supported Blogging Tools and CMSs include:Diaryland Diary-X Blogger/Blog-Spot MT B2 WordPress There are about 12 templates and a bunch of built in features which are encoded automatically! If you came here looking for templates for your blog, ... |
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- Dude, I ain't gettin a Dell. My computer (a Dell) developed a problem about two weeks ago. For some reason it stopped recognizing my primary harddrive. I called Dell tech support. I have come to rely on them for the past four years as they talked me t |
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- The New York Times has a great article about the PT Cruiser's (and to some extent the VW Beetle's) sales sharply falling off."Sales of the PT Cruiser, once the most sought-after car on the market, dropped 25 percent this year, despite a new turbocharged version that has been praised by reviewers. Three years ago, buyers were willing to pay as much as $10,000 over the PT' |
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- At least 25 gunmen crossed from Chechnya into the neighboring Russian region of Dagestan on Monday, killing at least three border guards and seizing dozens of hostages at a school in a remote mountain village, a police official said. |
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- Cairo Release TOC This topic contains pushed-back To-Do items and several Nice To Have items from BeijingRelease. TWiki.TWikiContributor TWikiContributor s please ... |
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- We have recieved a startling new photograph of Saddam's capture. Click "read more" to see what really happened.... |
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- (US) It has seen presidents celebrate international treaties, drug lords wage wars, and a city struggling to face the challenges of a new millennium. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) It has seen presidents celebrate international treaties, drug lords wage wars, and a city struggling to face the challenges of a new millennium. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) "People were coming and going to use narcotics. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $use_is_abuse(60%), $propaganda_theme4(60%), $propaganda_theme5(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $narcotic(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- The opposition parties in Cyprus did win a majority of the popular vote, though that may not give them a majority in the Assembly. From Reuters: Turkish Cypriot supporters and opponents of a U.N. plan to reunify the island of Cyprus looked set to win an equal number of parliamentary seats after Sunday's landmark poll which also holds the key to Turkey's EU hopes. |
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- James DiEugenio: The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK, and Malcolm XA lot of really good information taking from the declassified documents released after the movie JFK caused such a fuss. Most of these articles were published in Probe magazine, which I missed out on. The writing is somewhat dry, so I read a bit at a time from this book. |
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- Guelzo is one of the consistently original and inspiring of American historians. His Redeemer President is far and away the best intellectual biography of Abraham Lincoln. His forthcoming book on the emancipation proclamation, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, which I have just read in galleys is an equally brilliant elucidation and defense of a document that Richard Hofstader once dismissed as having all the poetry of a bill of lading. As Guelzo poetically repl ... |
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- Im eagerly awaiting the articles and posts that will explain why the capture of Saddam isnt necessarily good news for President Bush. Im told that the BBC has already been heard from, contending that with Saddam in custody, Bush will come under more intense pressure to withdraw from Iraq. Right. And the fall of Atlanta was good news for George McClellan. |
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- Sprinkled with holy water and to a fanfare of trumpets from a white-helmeted naval brass band, a newly built, 17-metre-long Minoan-style open rowing vessel slid sweetly down the slipway in Hania's old Venetian harbour at noon on December 1. President Costis Stephanopoulos had cut the blue-and-white ribbon tying her up, broken a bottle of champagne and announced her name, Minoa. Read the rest in Athens News. An older article announcing the project may be found here, at the website of the Trireme ... |
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- Two guys and a girl meet for a midnight romp in a barn. Girl's boyfriend shows up, beats up on her and kills her by accident. Boyfriend then blackmails two guys into silence. How will it end? I'm still finding out. |
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- [John Carey, from Poetry Like Bread, edited by Martin Espada. Curbstone Press 2000.] |
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- Happy Birthday GrandmaMetcalf! Her birthday is today but the party is Wednesday! I wish I could be there, but certain engagements are keeping me here. 90 years?!? That's what living a good, clean life will do for you. |
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- "Left Behind" is an immensely popular science fiction series about the sinners left behind on earth after good Christians are swept up in the rapture. Over at Slacktivist, a blogger has been dissecting the book in two- and three-page chunks, tearing apart the assumptions, fallacies and curiously compelling heresies in the story. ... Charlie Stross and I just finished "Appeals Court," the sequel to Jury Service, which Argosy magazine will publish bound together in January, in a fix-up novel called "Rapture of the Nerds." "Appeals Court" is, in part, a response to "Left Behind": |
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- I recently started a hosting company. I have an e-commerce account through goemerchant and a domain reseller account through tucows. I need someone to finish the script I have to do the fo (more... |
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- Adriana Lima Laetitia Casta Daniela Bello Kumiko Takeda Natsuki Hiyuga |
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- By AMANDA HESSER Home-brewed espresso used to represent gourmet coffee-making in its highest form. The perfect cup was as much about the ritual of grinding the beans and tamping the coffee just so as it was about the drink itself. But espresso comp |
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- A U.S. envoy has arranged a three-way meeting to try to break the impasse over the terms of an Israeli-Palestinian summit, negotiators said Sunday. The summit would be a first step toward resuming peace talks. |
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- Darl Mcbride, what kind of a human being are you? One of the pathological whiners, Darl Mcbride insults Ann Coulter. "If Saddam could attack us at any minute, what was Bush doing on vacation for a month?" she said. Now... |
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- Midwest Conservative Journal: I find it savagely ironic that (1) people who claimed that Saddam Hussein was no threat to any other countries now think other countries should have a part in his trial, (2) people who want Iraqis to run their own affairs right now don't want them to run this trial and, (3) people actually think that the UN should try him for the crimes it consistently refused to do anything about. I love it when I find those rare political comments that are this distilled. |
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- A new message was posted: Address: http://radio. userland. |
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- A new message was posted: Address: http://radio. userland. |
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- A new message was posted: Address: http://radio. userland. |
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- "When you judge," Saddam Hussein once said, "judge with justice." |
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- They’re cute, they’re colorful, they’re three dimensional!!!! This set of nine popular characters includes Homestar Runner, Marzipan, Strong Bad, Strong Mad, Strong Sad, The Cheat, Pom-Pom, Bubs, and Coach Z. |
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