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Bridge Collapse in Minneapolis

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Both directions of an interstate bridge have collapsed in Minneapolis, MN, near the University of Minnesota campus.
The bridge just collapsed and there is no known reason at this time.
Fox News is reporting the Interstate 35 bridge over the Mississippi collapsed on both sides. There are fires and black smoke.
If you watch the TV you [...]

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Rep. Pomeroy (D) ND Says Can’t Stand President, Calls Him a Clown

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Here’s the story and below is the video.

And we wonder what’s gone wrong in Washington.

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Former Secretary Rumsfeld on Capitol Hill

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

In a court of law in this country you are presumed innocent until proven guilty. I am not writing this to defend the United States Army or former Secretary Rumsfeld although some may interpret it as such.
If you make a blanket statement of someones guilt then in my opinion you need facts to insert [...]

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Well deserved Fun

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

I don’t drink beer but if I did Anheuser Busch would have my business on a regular basis after what I read today. Via Mudville Gazette:
For those few that have missed the Dawn Patrol, here’s my excuse. My kids come home from work the other day and say “How ’bout we go to [...]

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For All of Us Baby Boomers—Do You Remember?

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

I’m getting there.

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Happy Birthday To My Lifemate

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Today is the birthday of the man I love and married.
I don’t want to let this day to go by without wishing him a happy birthday on this blog.
In December we will celebrate our fortieth wedding anniversary, and I can tell you honestly I have seen him angry maybe two times in all the years [...]

Posted in Family | 4 Comments »

NYC Becoming More and More Like Big Brother

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

First NYC banned cigarettes, then trans fats and now they are banning baby formula. That’s right, they want all mothers to use breast milk on their babies.
First they moved against smoking, and then trans fats. Now, city health officials are taking on the bottle — as in a baby’s bottle.
On Tuesday they announced a [...]

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News Corp to Buy Dow Jones

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

After all the wheeling and dealing by Rupert Murdoch and the Bancroft family, we now know officially Murdoch’s News Corp will be the new owners of Dow Jones, which is also the parent company of The Wall Street Journal.
There are two sources for this information. The first is The Wall Street Journal (Subscription may [...]

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Syrians support helping end Iraq war.

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

We need all the help that we can get.
Most Syrians favor working with the United States to seek an end to the Iraq war, yet also support financing Iraqi fighters and other Middle East groups the U.S. considers terrorists, according to a rare poll of Syrians released Wednesday.
The survey also found that an overwhelming [...]

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Joint Chiefs Nominee Notes Toll on Military, Need to Plan for Iraq Drawdown

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Speaks for itself.
Adm. Michael G. Mullen, President Bush’s nominee to head the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Senate panel yesterday that the war in Iraq is taking a heavy toll on the U.S. military, warning that American forces are “not unbreakable” and stressing the need to “plan for an eventual drawdown” of troops.
Appearing in [...]

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GRASPING AT STRAWS. Straight from Right Wing Nuthouse

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Rick Moran at Right Wing Nuthouse has put brilliantly how I feel .
Everyone else is writing about the article in the New York Times by O’Hanlon and Pollack so I might as well throw my two cents in as well.
O’Hanlon you might recall is the Brookings Fellow who advocates a “soft partition” of Iraq into [...]

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Retired General Censured in Tillman Case.

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

I wonder if his parents think that it’s all show. If there is a God in heaven, Kensinger and everyone that participated in this dishonoring of a fallen soldier, would at the very least be sent to prison.
The Army censured a retired three-star general Tuesday for a “perfect storm of mistakes, misjudgments and a failure [...]

Posted in Our Military | 4 Comments »



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