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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 4, 2006
Damaging winds and large hail forcast today in the Washington, DC area. We’ve had weather like this for two weeks now. God is mad because Bush won’t go see Al Gore’s movie.
Posted in Diary, Science
| Tagged Al Gore, DC, Washington
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By
thudfactor on
April 12, 2006
!(inset)http://static.flickr.com/37/122496352_1954981cd2_m.jpg! There was a “War on Christians” conference here in Washington, DC a little while back. You may have heard something about it — this is the event where Reverend Rick Scarborough blamed all of Tom DeLay’s legal troubles on DeLay’s alledged dedication to Christianity.
Elizabeth Castelli has an “excellent piece in the Revealer”:http://www.therevealer.org/archives/main_story_002500.php about the conference, giving [...]
Posted in Religion, What The...?!?
| Tagged America, DC, Elizabeth Castelli, Ohio, Rick Scarborough, Rod Parsley, Ron Luce, Tom DeLay, United States, Washington
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By
thudfactor on
February 2, 2006
I see that Bush has already had to back off his SOTU promise to replace 75% of Middle-Eastern oil imports with renewable resources.
bq. One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America’s dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday [...]
Posted in Politics
| Tagged America, Bush, energy, energy sources, Knight-Ridder, Middle, middle east, New York Times, oil, oil imports, oil supplier, oil supplies, Persian Gulf, Prince Turki, Saudi Arabia, Turki al-Faisal, United States, Washington
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By
thudfactor on
August 13, 2004
Today at World o’ Crap there’s an “excellent example of wingnut thin-skinned touchiness”:http://blogs.salon.com/0002874/2004/08/13.html#a1075. It’s all good, but scroll to point three, where Julie Gunderson complains in the same editorial that 1) liberals insist people be “politically correct” and 2) liberals were mean to her when she stated her opinion. (You can read her full Washington [...]
Posted in Politics
| Tagged Julie Gunderson, martial law, North Korea, Sells Arm, Washington
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