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thudfactor on
August 8, 2006
I’m pretty familiar with people who buy property around here and then immediately start complaining about the surrounding businesses, buildings, or other community features that surround their new purchase. But the idea that someone could move to a desert and then complain about the lack of greenery…
Pat Kirby “smacks down a political advertisement”:http://patriciakirby.blogspot.com/2006/08/wingnuts-with-businesses-part-deux.html in Albuquerque, [...]
Posted in What The...?!?
| Tagged Albuquerque, New Mexico, Pat Kirby, Vermont, Vermont lawn
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By
thudfactor on
August 6, 2006
My mother’s posted “one”:http://www.thirdlayer.org/archives/000206.html or “two”:http://www.thirdlayer.org/archives/000207.html entries on a church near her that’s using its announcement board to be cute rather than tell people when church services are.
It’s apparently a geographically limited disease, because most of the churches we passed in rural New York and Vermont this week still use the announcment board to let [...]
Posted in Religion
| Tagged church services, Kingsport, New York, Vermont
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By
thudfactor on
August 5, 2006
We’re slowly making our weaving way back to the Washington, DC area — we decided to loop through Vermont, a state I’d never visited but the state where “all our coffee comes from”:http://www.greenmountaincoffee.com/. I wanted to drive through Montpelier, but I really expected to *drive through*. We ended staying almost four hours to poke around downtown and [...]
Posted in Diary
| Tagged DC, Delaware, Food, food court, gas stations, Mel Gibson, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Washington
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By
thudfactor on
July 8, 2004
Dave Kopel is working on a review of F911 for National Review Online. You can
preview it here. This is certainly more along the lines of how I think people ought to address the film. Far from saying F911 is unconvincing and leaving it at that, Kopel actually goes into detail.
However, for the most part I [...]
Posted in Politics
| Tagged Afghanistan, Al Gore, Al Smith, al-Qaeda, America, Arbusto, Ashcroft, Brian Wilson, Brit Hume, Britney Spears, Bush administration, Byron York, Carlyle Group, Caspian Sea, CBS, Chris Ullman, Clinton Administration, CNN, Congress, Craig Unger, Dan Briody, Data Base Technologies, Dave Kopel, Democratic commission, Edward Koch, Emma E. Booker, Emma E. Booker Elementary School, energy, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Florida, Florida Victory, George Soros, George W. Bush, Gwendolyn Toseï, Hamid Karzai, Hizballah, House Permanent Select Committee, Houston, Iraq, Islamic Republic of Iran, Israel, Italy, James Bath, Jeffrey Toobin, Jim Jeffords, Jim McDermott, Julian Borger, London, Michael Castle, Michael Moore, national guard, news media, oil, oil interests, oil man, oil pipeline, Oliver Burkeman, online journal, Osama bin Laden, Peter Gross, Poland, Republican Party, Richard Ben-Veniste, Rosa Parks, Saudi Arabian government, Secret Service, Securities and Exchange Commission, senate, servile tool, SGD, Spain, Taliban, Texas, The Guardian, the New York Times, the Washington Post, U.S. military, UAE, United Defense, United Kingdom, United States, United States Army, Unocal, USD, VA Hospital, Vermont, Washington, weapons systems, White House, World Trade Center
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By
thudfactor on
November 29, 2003
The Washington Post has an interesting report today on the schism between two ideological groups supporting a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage [ "Opponents of Gay Marriage Divided":http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19925-2003Nov28.html ]. It’s characterized as a split between pragmatists, who are trying to craft an amendment they think is likely to pass, and idealists who are trying to [...]
Posted in Archived Unsorted
| Tagged federal government, Gary Bauer, Gay Marriage Divided, James Dobson, Taliban, the Washington Post, Vermont, William Bennet
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