Bleh

Today is one of those days. Everyone has them. The ones where you don't feel like doing a frickin' thing. Nothing ... a nice linner (we have a combo of lunch and dinner on Sundays in my house). Chicken (I got it for free with the purchase of noodles so it isn't like we are against eating meat around here [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 23:14:00

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How My Week Went and More

I had a somewhat busy week, especially when I started working on my upcoming Anniversary Give-aways, I didn't realize it entails a lot of work, LOL ... us to our other gf Josie's house. And after few hours of waiting (with free lunch, lol) hb finally ... and I decided to go for a walk around the block. Lo and behold I didn't have the house keys in my [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 17:45:00

GM Puts the Volt's Engine Factory On Hold

General Motors is suspending work on the $370 million factory slated to build engines for the Chevrolet Volt, ... comes as GM frantically slashes costs in a desperate bid to survive while the White House dithers ... as we assess our cash situation," GM spokeswoman Sharon Basel told the Detroit Free Press. "I don't think [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 22:11:39

FCC : The Controversial Legacy of Chairman Martin

FCC Chair Kevin Martin leaves a mixed legacy.'“For a deregulator, he was amazingly pro-consumer in his interventions,” said Gene Kimmelman, of Consumers Union. “Nobody thought he was going to be like this.”'By John Dunbar / January 15, 2009WASHINGTON – Among the legions of predictable, starched-shirt regulators that populate Washington, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 01:13:00

Review of BBC's SURVIVORS: Episode 5

Year: 2008 DVD Release date: January 26th, 2009 Directors: John Alexander / Andrew Gunn Writers: Various IMDB: link Trailer: link Review by: ... and the camp sets up in the grounds of the house so she can give birth in comfort. Unfortunately, Al's ... interesting subjects of mental illness, free love and lesbianism and the show zipped along with [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 23:20:18

another discussion about a sting operation at a Planned Parenthood. The “fair and balanced” panel included two women behind a fake call to a Planned Parenthood office in which a caller pretended to be the underage girlfriend of a man in his 30's. The so-called “crime” was that Planned Parenthood gave the caller an appointment to get birth control [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 23:49:14

The Razor’s Edge: Lessons in True Wealth

Our friends have a profound effect on our personal finance habits. Some friends can lead us to spending and to debt ... and Washington. “I don’t know how you can do it,” he told me once when he saw our new house. “ ... , a house, and a car. I wanted more. Sparky had none of these, but he had something I did not. Sparky [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 13:00:40

Loose Lips Daily: Fenty Woos Wyclef

As much local politics as humanly possible. Send your tips, releases, stories, events, etc. to lips@washingtoncitypaper.com. And get LL Daily sent straight to your inbox every morning! IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—”Rhee and KJ!“; “Bullpen Is Baracked“; “Barry–Fenty Contract Dispute Escalates” Morning all. Last night, at Mayor Adrian M [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 13:05:49

We Wish the New President and Our Nation Well

Before Barack Obama was born, I too was fascinated by Abraham Lincoln. At the age of seven years, (the "age of reason" as the Church sees it) ... , Illinois where he served as a state legislator, the Soldier's Home house in Washington where he spent ... from Britain. In Wilmington, he applauded the state that first ratified the Constitution. And in my hom [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 20:06:14

Barack Obama’s “Jihad” Against the Unborn!

The shocking details—recently discovered— now revealed below… Dear Friend of Life, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… NEVER in the history of our great nation have we had a more PRO-ABORTION PRESIDENT than Barack Hussein Obama! He has publicly VOWED to help the Abortion Cartel in every way possible! [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 14:35:07

Personal Goals: Revisited

Way back in my early days of blogging, I shared some personal goals partnered with scripture. I felt lead to post them again ... to build emergency savings fund, replacement fund, and gift funds. "In the house of the wise are stores ... you do, and your plans will succeed" (Proverbs 16:3). 8. Focus on my children's spiritual growth. "Teach them [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 16:05:00

Recently at Reason.tv: Bailouts, Talk Shows, Bill Clinton, Obama and Energy, and Much More

Where's Sock Puppet's Bailout?: The great, unlamented mascot of the tech bubble bust, Pets.com's Sock Puppet, comes to Washington with his paw out ... months have been for "Free Minds and Free Markets." John Gartner: In Search of Bill Clinton. Gartner ... account of the man who will once again be haunting the White House, this time as husband to the new [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 18:40:00

Pet Advice - Pet News - Pet Photos

Dog's Destructive Chewing May be Separation AnxietyBy Steve Dale - Tribune Media ServicesAnswers to pet questions about problem chewing, feline AIDS and mast cell tumors.Q: Our 16-month-old Miniature Dachshund is housebroken — if we keep her in her kennel. Left to roam free, she'll chew on the bottoms of doors or on woodwork [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 11:47:00

The Great Debate

Heard from my old pal Max Kennedy yesterday, about that trashing I gave the al-Qaeda angle and a couple of other points in his book “Danger’s Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her,” after a preliminary scan. Yeah, it’s exhaustively researched, well-written World War II history with an al-Qaeda angle [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 14:23:48

Got a tip for a post?: Email us | Anonymous form Get PEEK in your mailbox! ... Mitt Romney is laying the groundwork for a possible White House campaign in 2012, hiring a team ... million for his Free and Strong America political action committee. But only 12 percent of the money [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 16:20:04

Full of it

Practically everyone who’s not part of the Malacanang Mafia of conmen, plunderers, congressmen you wouldn’t buy a used car from, and relics of the martial law period has weighed in with his or her opinion on why there are plans ... in prohibiting the passage of laws abridging free expression, and would make the declaration of martial law less [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 11:39:27

Loose Lips Daily: Fenty Bids Dubya Farewell

As much local politics as humanly possible. Send your tips, releases, stories, events, etc. to lips@washingtoncitypaper.com. And get LL Daily sent straight to your inbox every morning! IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—”Man Dies at City Detox Facility“; “Wilson Building Gift Grab Begins” DATELINE CHICAGO—Morning all [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 14:47:20

What’s New At UD

Before I say anything else, I want to take a moment to honor Bill Dembski ... more excellent and informative posts from them.  Finally, at the present time we have no plans to change ... has always been free.  Why have you installed these revenue generators now?”  That is a good [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 22:26:43

Obama Inaugural Speech - Full Text - Video

As President Bush exits the world stage and Barack Obama consumes it, I have a few thoughts about two passages of Obama's inaugural speech ( ... President Obama and his new Education Secretary plan to give America the same false promise and failed ... :But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 18:54:00

Remembering Anthony Walker

Promoting his documentary Black Magic last spring, filmmaker Dan Klores talked about including a reference to the 1960s shooting of black students by state troopers on the campus of South Carolina State College in Orangeburg, SC. The shooting itself had almost nothing to do with his film, but Klores thought the story needed to be told, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 17:34:19

Whole Lotta Stimlatin' Goin' On

The push to stimulate is underway globally. No one stopped to figure out we are in this mess because of prior pushes to stimulate ... that the package will be between five and $700 billion. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer ... of historic proportions.”House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said any stimulus package must be several hundred [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 21:20:00

25 Frugal Valentine’s Ideas That Won’t Make You Look Cheap

Source: Flickr Valentine’s Day is going to creep up on you faster than you might think. If you don’t want to spend a lot of money but you do want to do something romantic then you need to start planning for that special holiday now. Otherwise you’re going to find yourself in line at the grocery store on the 14th buying an overpriced box of [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:49:33

Eleven (Nearly) Effortless Ways to Save Money Each Month

I confess, I haven’t had much energy the last few weeks.  Making any significant overhauls to our financial plan, our budget, etc ... the house.  However, there are still a few ways to save money each month that don’t require a whole ... and discovered it was well below the next smallest plan from our current arrangement. Dropping plans shaved $20 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 18:00:52

Pet News - Pet Advice - Pet Photos

Canine Crime Fighter Crippled by Police DutyBy John McQuiston - ZooToo.comTurk lives every day in pain from injuries acquired on the job as a K-9 officer. Like thousands of K-9 retired police dogs across the country, the retired 5-year-old German Shepherd faces the rest of his life without medical care or benefits for his years of serving with the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 21:29:00

“Calling all economists . . .”

Supposedly President-elect Obama’s transition team has been calling up economists and asking for their views on a possible $1 trillion stimulus ... skeptic” about such a spending plan. Now enter House Republican leader John Boehner, who is now looking for other economists who are skeptics about such plans.  Here’s part of the text of Boehner’ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 17:28:06

Corporate America sells Obama, message of change

The guys hawking Barack Obama T-shirts and trinkets on the corners of downtown Washington have some new competition in the selling frenzy building ... to mark the change in the White House. It is relatively rare for corporations leery of alienating ... . The hometown Washington Post plans four separate editions on Tuesday and Wednesday along with an [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 11:30:52

I Almost Got Killed This One Time

First, let me say this: I’ve swollen up to sexy Michelin Man proportions (only sans “Man” bits) ... . But having chosen a school that operated about 45 minutes from my house meant that the hospitals that agreed to have us lowly students work on their patients (for free) were similarly far [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 17:16:14

The Sports Bubble

INDIANAPOLIS -- We are on the cusp of a wonderful new chapter in American history. Our great nation will once again be a place of logic and reason, a country where simple answers ... American-style football is played eight times a year. The regular tenant pays its employees millions [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 02:10:21

countdown to Christmas - make your own advent calendar

Can you believe it's almost December? I swear I just put away my Halloween decorations ( ... plans for coming up with a cool advent calendar to share, but the craft fairs got the better of us, I'm ... the pattern for free! She is so sweet!This yo-yo calendar is actually a wall-hanging. Sunshine Creations [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 08:01:00

Dante's Hell is Alive and Well in Gaza

~ Dante Alighieri could never have imagined circles as hellish as the wards of the damned in Jabalia's hospitals ... Aviv hasn't even granted him a pension, only a series of missiles from land and air onto his house. He suffers from shrapnel wounds all over his body. I ask him where he plans to go after [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 04:20:00

Beyond Vietnam

Just read it. (Or listen.) Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered 4 April 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam at Riverside Church in New York City You can also click here to listen to Dr. King delivering the speech and download an MP3 file to replay any time [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 21:58:58

Barack Obama won labor support. Now labor seeks his support

Barack Obama might not be president-elect without the tens of millions of dollars that organized labor spent on his behalf ... is preparing for a major lobby battle. The group, American Rights at Work, plans to start airing its new ad on Sunday, hoping to build support for the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation authored by Rep [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 17:40:46

Australian Sex Party tells politicians what it wants

The Australian Sex Party (previous IPR coverage here) has now issued its policies: * To bring about the establishment of a truly national classification scheme which includes a uniform non-violent erotica rating for explicit adult material for all jurisdictions and through all media including the Internet and computer games [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 03:08:19

‘They Slashed My Couch, Threw My Computer Down and Turned the Gas on,’ Says Wife of Jailed Border Patrol Agent Ignacio Ramos

It doesn’t look like George W. Bush will be pardoning Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean – the former Border Patrol agents jailed last January for the ... s not been a happy New Year, that’s for sure. We got home to find out my house had been broken into. . . A VCR ... to free her husband and Jose – whom many believe got a bum rap – has been falling on [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 18:17:44

So Why Do We Want To Bail Out This Homeowner Again?

I was reading through some blog posts this morning and came across one on housingdoom.com that just reaffirms my anti-bailout position ... it is: I HAVE A 3 BEDROOM HOUSE THAT I AM LETTING GO, IT SHOULD BE ATLEAST ANOTHER YEAR BEFORE THE COURT WANTS THE KEYS, SO I AM RENTING OUT THIS HOUSE WITH NO CREDIT CHECK AND ON A MONTH TO MONTH [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 22:06:54

November 20, 2008

rites of passages for boys where they became men over their fresh kill. These days, that rarely happens in a suburban cul-de-sac, but you do have the opportunity to grant your son responsibility in front of a family gathering. When you decide the time is right for your son to carve the turkey – and that may come because of age, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 05:37:45

When in Doubt, Bomb Afghanistan

America’s Other Glorious WarThe Pentagon pushes hard for a large increase in troops for Afghanistan ... us that the security of the United States and the Free World necessitates increased action in this place called ... projects at this one base to house additional American forces, erecting guard stations and towers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 11:59:23

State Workers Fight Over Cutbacks as States Want More From Obama

As the budget crisis deepens, state employees are fighting each other for survival. Potshots are thrown between management vs. non-management, union vs. non-union, teachers vs. everyone else. In addition, governors want $1 trillion out of a total package of $850 billion Congress is likely to send to Obama to sign. The math does not add up [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 19:53:00

6 Interface Design Principles and Tips Every Web Designer Should Know

Good interface design is like the air we breathe - it’s there when you need it and you use it without thinking. If you’ve ever used a bad interface design, struggled to get around a site, clicked away because you couldn’t figure out what was going on, not been able to complete a task you had in mind, or just been plain confused, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 14:59:08

A Few Sunday Thoughts: Common Sense, Disruption and Hope

Mark-to-Market Accounting Likely to Remain Had the SEC repudiated mark-to-market accounting, it could have set the recovery of our financial sector back a generation. From today's Wall Street Journal story: Mark-to-market accounting requires companies to value financial assets at their fair value -- the price they can fetch in the market [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 03:50:22

brought to you by the letter "G"

Gracious good greetings from the Great White North....a glacial gem on our globe......where growth gleefully germinates under the glistening glassy ice of its geologic tundra and gigantic glaciers,where gortex and galoshes are granted fashion status by the guys and girls who gather the gumption to go gallavanting out into the great outdoorswhere [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 17:00:00

Ecuador Air Fare Excerpts

There is good news on Ecuador air fares. Right now Lan which has regular flights to Ecuador is offering some Guayaquil and Quito air fare special ... reading this report from Richard Goebel, our manager at our North Carolina farm. Ecuador-air-fare ... . Another exciting day on the farm. Your friend Richard We were happy to learn that the little black [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 11:48:28

The day that was..

Yesterday, my dentist called that I will have my appointment ready by 2pm ... up. He got runny nose and a little cough again so, we want it check. Since kids medical stuff here are free ... ! I’m just glad it was over already. I’ve dread that one for months now. Anyway, no plans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 03:09:59

Ashley Friedlein talks about the new Econsultancy site

The observant among you will have realised that we launched a new website last weekend. I thought it would be a good idea to interview Econsultancy CEO Ashley Friedlein to explain more about the challenges of managing a ground-up rebuild. 1. What were the key reasons for building a brand new platform?  Our old site was starting to creak with age [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 17:30:00

Weekend Financial Blog Posts

I am trying to get a cross section of good financial bloggers - leave me a link with any blogs you would recommend (especially your own): Historical Federal Tax Rates by Income Group 2008 Federal Tax Brackets Explained Obama’ ... , Issue 12 Zillow Plans to Add Home Search By Zestimate Do It Yourself Debt Consolidation I Quit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 01:01:38

Upcycling wood pallets

I have a love of free materials for many reasons, not least of which is that I feel fine having dozens of non-working prototypes when I'm building ... . Plans for a pallet stool (pdf) (via Greenupgrader). Pallet art: high-end furniture from pallets (via ... instead of breaking the pallet apart. At the extreme, a house made of pallets: [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 00:01:01

The Nation

The Nation 16-Jan-09 Bush claims economy on track to recovery WASHINGTON - President George W ... to a Gaza cease-fire. Pentagon: Iraq withdrawal has 16-month time frame WASHINGTON - Pentagon officials said Thursday they will be ready on Inauguration Day with plans for a quick pullout of U.S. combat [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 18:48:09

How The Big Mobile Stories Of 2008 Will Play Out In The New Year

This year was somewhat an anomaly for the wireless industry. A lot of things got done: the impossible of mergers closed; new phones launched that hold the promise of significant industry change; new business and distribution models emerged; and higher-speed networks were more prevalent, making for a better user experience [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 00:07:47

As The Politicians Battle It Out Ukraine’s Economy Tunnels South In Search Of Australia

“In Ukraine, the evidence is still that policymakers do not quite understand the seriousness of the challenges they face,”. Timothy Ash, analyst at the Royal Bank of Scotland. “There is a burgeoning economic crisis in the European periphery,” Krugman said on the ABC network Dec. 14. “The money has dried up [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 16:06:18

Where were you when the world ended?

Being a spoiler-filled (except for the final issue) narrative of your Winter Men reading experience, in nine (somewhat lengthy) parts. Part the First. Sometime around 10 August 2005. Your trip to the local comics-purveying establishment rewards you with a new comic written by a Mr. Brett Lewis and drawn by a Mr [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 16:25:10

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