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The Blog Herald: more blog news more often
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More teen angst on blogs (Oct 23 2005 22:59 GMT) - They are a little less prevalent today as say 12 months ago, but here's a nice story on teen bullying from the Baco Raton News. I'd summarise the story in this post, but I just don't understand some of the words, anyone care to translate this paragraph for example: ?I?ve seen people talking bad things about [... |
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Discrimination, values, Kansas (Oct 23 2005 22:59 GMT) - Also from Saturday's New York Times:Yesterday, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the starkly different penalties violated the federal Constitution's equal protection clause. It said the state's Romeo and Juliet statute, which limits the punishment that can be imposed on older teenagers who have sex with younger ones, but only... |
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Cornyn defends her constitutional credentials (Oct 23 2005 22:59 GMT) - I never get enough of the Harriet Miers smackdown. Saturday's New York Times has Senator John Cornyn acting again as proxy defender:Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican on the Judiciary Committee and a former judge, took exception on Friday to comments by Senator Arlen Specter, the committee chairman, that Harriet... |
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Op-ed hackery in CO Springs (Oct 23 2005 22:59 GMT) - Rallying to the defense of Davis-Bacon Act suspension -- given the US House will likely overturn the White House's pandering to ideologues -- the Colorado Springs Gazette opines:One of the smartest things President Bush did to reduce recovery costs in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita was to suspend... |
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Rescue of a presidency? (Oct 23 2005 22:59 GMT) - Sean-Paul argues:The great rescue of George W. Bush's presidency has begun. It's a slow moving beast but the wheels are creaking and grease is being squeezed over the gears. Make no mistake about it, Poppy and his people are coming to clean up the mess 'W' made. |
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Al Yates of Refs C&D (Oct 23 2005 22:59 GMT) - We've got people, they've got a pig, as the new saying goes. ProgressNow has posted the text of former CSU President Al Yates' speech at yesterday's Colorado Association of Nonprofit Organizations rally. As some have said, We've fallen and can't get up. Our state lost more than 115,000 jobs; slashed... |
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Mehlis Report "fixed"? (Oct 23 2005 22:59 GMT) - Never straightforward, are things? Names were named. The Times:THE United Nations withheld some of the most damaging allegations against Syria in its report on the murder of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese Prime Minister, it emerged yesterday. The article liberally uses the word, doctored. |
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Brent bites back (Oct 23 2005 22:59 GMT) - In the wake of Larry Wilkerson's widely covered napalm strike on the Bush Administration, Steve Clemons passes on news that an upcoming New Yorker piece will detail the former Bush I NSA, Gen. Brent Scowcroft's, public break with the Bush II administration. The revered-in-tons-of-corners former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft... |
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Coral Realm (Oct 23 2005 22:59 GMT) - Let’s take a look under the seas today, whaddya say? Today’s FamilyFirst site celebrates life undersea around the coral reefs of the world. It’s called Coral Realm, and it will dazzle you with beautiful photos and facts about sharks, rays,... |
Recipes
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Chocolate no bake cookies (Oct 23 2005 22:58 GMT) - Chocolate no bake cookies 1/2 cup butter 2 cups granulated sugar 1/2 cup milk 2 tsp. cocoa 1/2 cup peanut butter 3 cups oatmeal-- not instant Mix butter, sugar, milk and cocoa together in saucepan and bring to a full rolling boil. Let boil 1 minute. Take off of heat and stir in peanut butter and oatmeal. Immediately spoon tablespoonfuls onto wax paper [... |
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WINDOW (3) (Oct 23 2005 22:58 GMT) - This window is in the San Juan Batista Mission in Calif. It is made of adobe and has very thick walls. |
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Crack (Oct 23 2005 22:58 GMT) - The soil is hard and dry in summer. What was long ago a swamp is now rich and cultivated. |
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Lady Blessington's Bath (3) (Oct 23 2005 22:58 GMT) - Click on image and then press f11 for best view. This is a re scan using VueScan software with the Nikon LS5000 and Wolf Faust colour profiling. The sharpness difference is probably due, at least in part, to different sharpening techniques being used. The colour of the profiled image appears identical to the slide. Found Wolf Faust highly efficient and straight forward to deal with... |
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Door (Oct 23 2005 22:58 GMT) - I was cruising Sante Fe and saw this cool entrance to a home there. With the adobe wall and the textured wood of the door I thought it would make a nice image. I tried the 28 Biogon but much too wide. Included too much image info. The 45mm Planar seemed to be the best choice and gave the perspective I wanted. |
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