Tag: random musings
member name: Dan Merritt
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April 22, 2006 10:47 AM EDT --
CIA Officer Sacked for Leaking Detention-Site Secrets to Media
This times article mentions the problems the CIA is having keeping secrets and specifies a half dozen leaks in the last while. It bemoans . . .
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December 31, 2006 12:21 PM EST --
All right! Here we go with trying to format a comment outside of gather and then put it in.
This is bold! And a line of its own.
This is in italics and a line of its own.
This line is centered.
This . . .
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February 12, 2006 01:51 AM EST --
Farmers have a number of interesting sayings. One that always stuck in my mind was one which was only mildly risque, and I thought about it a lot because I was after all in the same position as the . . .
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January 15, 2006 05:30 PM EST --
(Non-Fiction)
There was a lot of controversy about 'body counts' during the Vietnam war. People just couldn't believe things like "Two hundred Viet Cong soldiers died in a battle at . . .
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February 08, 2006 10:30 AM EST --
What is "moral"? The use I am concerned with is, from the American Heritage Dictionary, 1:Of or concerned with the judgment of the goodness or badness of human action and character: moral scrutiny; . . .
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March 04, 2006 10:02 AM EST --
How could I know that
No one said anything to me
There is no problem
Had some information
It might have been all correct
We acted on it
I can not see it
A conflict of interest
My man would never
Oil . . .
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April 20, 2006 08:48 AM EDT --
Ours was a marvelous place. Our barn was about thirty foot tall at the peak and, unlike many built in a later era, it was a straight slant roof not 'hipped roof' style. And that was the key feature . . .
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April 20, 2006 11:09 AM EDT --
A big swamp met the back edge of our farm. A finger of that swamp came up a small valley and nearly severed about thirty acres off one corner of our place, but the finger was narrow enough to put . . .
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September 02, 2007 06:12 PM EDT --
Isn't it a little strange that the 4th larget religion in the U.S and the 5th or 6th largest in the world seems to boil down to one simple , obvious, if somewhat meaningless statement. to whit.. "To . . .
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January 15, 2006 05:38 PM EST --
(Non-Fiction)
What the drill sergeants said was that we were maggots and they were going to make us men. The truth was that the majority of us were men and they were going to try to make us maggots. . . .
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March 04, 2006 10:38 AM EST --
To be sung to the tune of
"I Didn't Know the Gun Was Loaded" by
Hank Fort & Herb Leighton 1949
I Thought His Gun Was Loaded
Oh Ol' Dubya was his name
Through the west . . .
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March 09, 2006 10:03 PM EST --
I have decided there may be a lot of truth in this cynical summation:
There are three types of politicians:
1)Those who lie, cheat, and steal so they can stay in power because they want to do what is . . .
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April 14, 2006 10:09 AM EDT --
Millionaire Email! Wow! If $400 a month for the equivalent of what real people get for free is a good status symbol....... Well there must be a million ways to go with this!
How about :
$1000 . . .
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February 24, 2007 11:13 PM EST --
I bought a $10 digital camera yesterday and wanted to see what it could do. I can't figure out how to get images into my articles here so you can see a sample of the result at Variations On a Theme. . . .
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March 09, 2006 09:35 AM EST --
In an article about an Internet "problem" In South Korea, another 'law' was proposed. Apparently folks are getting seriously flamed for various minor acts of social indiscretion . . .
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April 15, 2006 09:15 AM EDT --
This article is talking about PA getting more area covered with cellphone locating systems. I had never thought about them being as ubiquitous as they apparently are. I guess the old gag about "Operator . . .
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