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From Gail Collins yesterday:
“I spent the last five days crying in Argentina,” he said, completely ignoring all we have learned from Andrew Lloyd Webber.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/op...lins.html?_r=1
I'm still giggling thanks to a friend of jobob's. Of course, the stupid refrain is stuck in my head.
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06-26-2009, 04:49 PM #61
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Hell, if it really bugs you, go take a hike in Appalachia.
THAT was funny. Now that's a story that really makes me want to barf. I don't have any trouble seeing the deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett as sad. But Sanford's emails are the best diet control device I've seen THIS week. Ick.
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06-26-2009, 05:23 PM #62
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06-26-2009, 05:29 PM #63
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OMG, I can't believe I didn't think of that! Too too funny Originally Posted by SadieKate
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06-26-2009, 05:31 PM #64
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I'm all over the place. New york times, financial times, bbc world, huffington post, generally if I'm reading a story about iran or whatever - go find an Iranian news paper. Get a couple different sources. Is it real then? So I end up on a lot of other news sites regularly in addition to those.
and I don't even have to get black smudges on my fingers from newsprint.
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06-26-2009, 05:31 PM #65
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Hey, I was actually SO taken by Gail Collins' column on this yesterday that I emailed her to say "Great column; been meaning to tell you I like your work." I was reading parts of it out loud to my spouse in the next room and laughing immoderately. "Finally, a governor who’s weirder than Rod Blagojevich and less responsible than Eliot Spitzer." Thank you, Gail.
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06-26-2009, 05:36 PM #66
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Yeah, me too. I am a total online news junkie. There used to be a Tehran Globe but my bookmark for that now does not find it. Al Jazeera English is sometimes worth a look, as is the Middle East Daily, and Malaysiakini.com is really interesting. And the Lebanon Daily Star (dailystar.com.lb). Originally Posted by Catriona
"My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved;I have been given much and I have given something in return...Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and an adventure." O. Sacks
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06-26-2009, 05:52 PM #67
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It's her money already. She's part of the Skil power tool family. Just think of the possibilities . . . . Originally Posted by Zen
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06-26-2009, 05:57 PM #68
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I'm quite liking her so far. http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/10/18/d...jenny-sanford/
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06-26-2009, 06:02 PM #69
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Wow. She should run for his office.
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06-26-2009, 06:27 PM #70
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Should you wish to read about Iran etc..Why not visit the Independent & read Fisky's (robert fisk) articles..http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion...s-1721566.html
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06-26-2009, 06:45 PM #71
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Thanks, I just added a gadget for that site to my homepage.
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06-26-2009, 06:53 PM #72
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I end up on the independent fairly often.
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06-26-2009, 07:06 PM #73
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I lost all our links when we transferred to our new computer..
I believe this was one of the papers I had on my list..http://www.iran-daily.com/1388/3432/html/
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06-26-2009, 07:56 PM #74
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Yup, this. Flu virus loves to mutate, and this one has a lot of hallmarks of the Spanish flu, which wasn't all that bad until it's 4th or 4th mutation. So this flu virus can still come around and bite us all in the *** something fierce. Of course by that point we will all be so jaded over them "crying wolf" that we might not take it seriously Originally Posted by Zen
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06-26-2009, 08:02 PM #75
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The ting about this "swine flu" that bothers me...The media doesn't make a point in first stating the fact that the folks this week in Aust that have died from it..were seriously ill already..One had terminal cancer, etc. Let's get some perspective folks..We're not all going to die from it..
Stupid Stupid media..
