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January 05, 2010 06:35 AM EST --
It was a big night, at The Main St. Cafe. Billy Preston was playing, and we were hoping for a "sold out" show. Unfortunately, we didn't have the money to advertise the show in Newsday, when . . .
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December 15, 2009 02:57 AM EST --
As a fan of Bill O'Reilly's, I'm not shy about "letting him have it," when I disagree with him. In that spirit, I sent him the following email:
Bill, you're a pinhead for calling Adam . . .
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December 01, 2009 03:00 AM EST --
Well, this is an interesting story. The Swiss people, the ones who reflexively think of Americans as "bigots" or "racists," have just voted to ban "minarets" from being constructed on Mosques . . .
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November 25, 2009 07:58 AM EST --
Did anyone else hear about the scientists caught planting Bobcat/Lynx fur, to fudge results determining it's range area? I doubt it, but it happened , a few years back. They said they were . . .
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November 12, 2009 03:04 AM EST --
Some enterprising GOP media type ought to resurrect those commercials against Bush's Social Security reform. If you don't remember, they had a construction crew showing up at a woman's house, . . .
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November 01, 2009 06:32 PM EST --
Why am I not surprised? Dede Scozzafava, the GOP "back room"-picked candidate, has endorsed her Democrat opponent in NY's 23rd Congressional District "special" election. It looks like the NYS . . .
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November 01, 2009 05:39 AM EST --
It looks like Dede Scozzafava took LEAVWORLD's advice , and dropped out of the special election in NY's 23rd Congressional District. She did the right thing, and deserves credit for doing so. I'm . . .
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October 24, 2009 06:30 AM EDT --
In the USMC, I fixed FM radios. I was an intermediate ("I") level avionics technician, meaning I fixed the electronics, after the "O" level techs took it out of the aircraft. I forget whether . . .
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October 23, 2009 02:03 AM EDT --
Newt Gingrich should know better (l ink ), but it's not surprising that some national and NY State Republicans have chosen Dede Scozzafava as the GOP candidate in NY's 23rd Congressional . . .
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October 15, 2009 05:31 AM EDT --
White House Communications Director Anita Dunn said this on CNN: "If you were a Fox News viewer in the fall election, what you would have seen would have been that the biggest stories and . . .
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October 10, 2009 07:34 AM EDT --
Pres. Obama has promised to donate his Nobel Prize money to charity. What's his favorite charity? Could it be ACORN?
-Just asking! LOL!
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October 06, 2009 06:01 AM EDT --
Something has been bothering me about our situation in Afghanistan. It seems that Pakistan is actually engaging Al Queda and the Taliban, and we're debating a "surge" in troops on the Afghan . . .
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October 02, 2009 05:51 AM EDT --
"Central park was my back yard," I often tell my suburban-raised friends. It wasn't, technically, but I spent so much of my youth there, that I looked at it as if it was my own property. This . . .
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September 17, 2009 03:18 AM EDT --
The "Newshour" program on PBS had a segment on race in the debate about Pres. Obama's "health care reform" ( link to transcript ). It's worth a look, but one comment by the moderator, Gwen Ifill, . . .
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September 15, 2009 06:30 AM EDT --
I don't know how long I've been saying this, but it's been a while. Pres. Obama is not really fighting with the GOP over the health care bill, he's fighting with the "Blue Dog" Democrats, and using . . .
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August 13, 2009 05:02 AM EDT --
One of my oldest friends, Andy Kessler, died on Monday, Aug. 11th, 2009. I've mentioned Andy in a previous "Tales From The Vendome" post ( link ), using the pseudonym "Lenny." We weren't in touch, . . .
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July 24, 2009 01:34 PM EDT --
In 1987, I had recently moved into a run-down apartment building in Freeport, NY. I was starting a new job, which was walking distance from my apt. On my first day of work, I walked home during . . .
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July 23, 2009 05:53 AM EDT --
President Obama did well in his latest national "prime time" press conference, according to Charles Krauthammer. Of course, that opinion was based on a comparison to a "Snake Oil" salesman, so it . . .
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July 09, 2009 06:47 AM EDT --
My heart is with the Honduran people, who overwhelmingly know that what happened to Zelaya was the right thing to do. (All of those who are outraged at this "coup," just imagine it was Pres. Bush being . . .
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June 18, 2009 05:03 AM EDT --
When I think back to just after 9/11, two images stand out in my memory of world reaction. First, I remember the Palestinian woman giving out candy in celebration of the atrocity. The other image I . . .
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