NEW ARRIVALS/RESTOCKS FOR FRIDAY, JANUARY 9

NEW ARRIVALS AND RESTOCKS FRIDAY, JANUARY 9thanks for looking.ahhh, january! winter is creeping in for real now… it’s cold, windy, grey and wet (and fwiw, the 2009 farmers almanac sez we’re in for a wet one this year)… what better time to catch up on some old favorites (or possible future favorites)? grab some food and drink ( [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 14:30:00

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Sunday, January 11, 2009

The day's top political news: Bush Says He Refused to Bail Out Republicans With Iraq Withdrawal President Bush exudes serenity as he prepares to ... -style democracy could survive and work," the president said. "I didn't compromise that principle [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 16:47:06

Ron Paul Style Politician, Craig X Rubin, Running for Mayor of Los Angeles Gives Press Conference

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Oct. 1 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Craig X Rubin held a press conference at the Los Angeles Press Club Monday evening, ... -Louis Parker. To go after the mayor's base he plans to campaign in Spanish at Spanish speaking ... September 29th 2008, to announce his plans as the next Mayor of the City of Los Angeles [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 17:00:56

News and Political Commentary

Obama to Propose Huge Tax Cut: Democratic AideReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan will propose business and middle class tax cuts of about $310 billion dollars, or 40 percent of the package, a senior Democratic aide said on Sunday [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 12:29:00

Gestapo

Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Gestapo, the German secret police, poses in his military uniform in 1938.GestapoThe gestapo (contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei: "Secret State Police") was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Under the overall administration of the Schutzstaffel (SS), it was administered by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt ( [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 06:16:00

“Ranch homes” - their history and distinguishing characteristics

ranch-house-3 Is my house a ranch house? A colonial? A colonial-ranch? A year into the blog, I’m pretty sure in understanding that my own house is a mix…but this holiday ... . But not all one-story houses are ranch homes. Ranch-style, ranch bungalow, ranchette, rambler, California [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 08:00:57

THE WINDS OF CHANGE

January 13, 2009 in Around Costa Rica | Tags: Beatles tribute, Bromelias, Cahuita, Chanchos de Monte, change, Costa Rica earthquake, DJ Fish, Eliecer Alfaro, Friends Journal, Latin American Congress on the Eradication of Depleted Uranium Weapons, Lehmans Libros, lluvisna, Manzanillo, Maxi Restaurant, Monteverde Amphitheatre, Monteverde Costa Rica, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 16:54:18

Celo Community

The first time I went to visit the sister and brother in-law at their home outside Asheville, I drove alone, as my wife who as already there ... when I finally drove up through the bushes to their cabin in Celo:Even by the light of day their hand built [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 05:01:00

Like ants. Really dumb ants. - Berg/COLB update

For those both stubborn and soft in the head, who are willing to believe anything no matter how stupid, I present this short course in "What you Must Believe to Be a Birther". You must believe Obama was born in Kenya. And Hawaii. And maybe even Canada [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 04:23:17

Deseret Book’s First Catalog, 1922

Deseret Book: the publisher we love to hate. Well, don’t we? For generations Deseret Book has published books and other materials unique to our culture that no mainstream publisher would have touched – we love them. We don’t like much of what they sell, and they won’t publish much that we would like – we hate them [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 15:21:36

More lost blogs (concert recaps and such)

Thursday, January 01, 2009 Autumnview & Briarwood recaps Current mood: tired Category: MusicSo yesterday was New Year’s Eve ... all that snow, and then I drove over to my dad’s house, a few miles away– that took extra time than normal [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 04:03:20

Question & Answer (Part II)

This is the second part of the Question & Answer post (read part I here) ... with the designersWhat are your big plans for 2009? I have only one resolution: to take the most advantage ... on the photographer and what for the editorial would be, though.Name your three favourite spanish [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 15:22:00

Day 98-105: 17-24 Oct 2008: ferries & friendly people, from Vancouver, CA, to Seattle, USA via Victoria

17 October 2008: Vancouver to Victoria, 75 km The weather gods did not want us to leave Vancouver, maybe they thought I should rest more. Wind and rain pounded on us when we made our way to the ferries in the Southwestern point of the mainland of Canada [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 08:06:56

Molly Sims' House of Style

SELLER: Molly SimsLOCATION: Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $2,999,000SIZE: 3,043 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3 ... model and boob-toob ack-tress Molly Sims has put her 1930s Spanish style casa in the hills above ... plunked down $1,425,000 for her 3,043 square foot house on Hollywood Boulevard in November of 2003, which [more...]

Date: 2008-08-04 12:33:00

Houses for a Californian imagination

Author D.J. Waldie ruminates on the Spanish Colonial Revival style, ... imagination. I still miss the solidness and shapes of my Spanish-style house south of South Carthay, built ... and Scott McAuley. From his blog at KCET Local: The architects of the Spanish Colonial Revival managed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 06:49:31

Cuba 1959-2009: 50 years of socialism

The Long March of the Cuban RevolutionRicardo Alarcón de QuesadaThe Cuban revolutionary victory of January 1, 1959, was a news event of epochal proportion even for those who knew little about that country. For many, it was like discovering a new world [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 16:09:18

Treading Softly in the Philippines by Max Boot & Richard Bennet

Why a low-intensity counterinsurgency strategy seems to be working there.ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (The Weekly Standard) ... . The southern islands of the Philippines, inhabited by Muslims known as Moros (Spanish for "Moor [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 09:40:00

Research For Contemporary Fiction — Part IIIA

Though it might seem that contemporary fiction is not as complex to research as historical, ... (such as small town/metropolis or northern states/southern states), I tend to do extensive research [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 01:16:00

Saturday, 1/10

NYT 7:58LAT 6:36Newsday 6:35CS 3:21Going Too Far 5:51yesterday's WSJ 7:46(updated at 2:30 p.m. Saturday)New flash! ... here in Chicago in 2007. Commissioner Gordon's house is in my neighborhood, and the SWAT truck passed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 04:38:00

Mom packs 27 hours into one day!

Study Shows Moms Work a 27 Hour Day Jason Merritt, FilmMagic Heidi Klum Gets Family Tattoo ... Wagner Sep 26th 2008 11:02AM Baby essentials, Kid decor & style baby shoes Like the US, Great Britain [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 12:02:58

Who is George W. Bush?

George Walker Bush orn July 6, 1946) is the forty-third and current President of the United States ... for the United States House of Representatives shortly thereafter. He later co-owned the Texas Rangersbaseball [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 19:43:00

[Job-Vacancy] Digest Number 2745

Job Vacancy Messages In This Digest (25 Messages) 1. Acounting Spv, Liaison Officer, & Senior Funding Officer From: Agustinus Lesmana 2. Biodiesel pnat Manager in foreign plantation company, From: Agustinus Lesmana 3 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 00:50:00

40 Years Since the Founding of the Communist Party of the Philippines

STRENGTHEN THE PARTY AND INTENSIFY THE PEOPLE’S STRUGGLE IN CELEBRATING THE 40th FOUNDING ANNIVERSARY Message of the Central Committee, Communist Party of the Philippines December 26, 2008 With utmost joy, we celebrate today the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 00:05:00

Plans for 800 tourists

Minister of Touring, woManniram was expected to announce very soon the arrival of 800 tourists, ... actually resulted in more tourists arrival. Plans for the welcoming party had slowed after [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:17:00

Seen and Heard, 2008

Seen and Heard, 2008 In lieu of a numbered list, here you’ll find a bulleted list — well, ... for supervillains with credible plans (which is to say, impossible plans, but at least plans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:12:36

Lieberman Contributed to GOP Senate, House Candidates

Lieberman Contributed to GOP Senate, House Candidates Sen. Joe Lieberman's (I-Conn.) support of John McCain's presidential campaign was well known. His contribution to Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 19:20:21

Lieberman Contributed to GOP Senate, House Candidates

Lieberman Contributed to GOP Senate, House Candidates Sen. Joe Lieberman's (I-Conn.) support of John McCain's presidential campaign was well known. His contribution to Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 19:20:21

December 5 in Russian history. Yet another duel. Cherubina de Gabriak.

1909 (22 November Old Style) Duel of two famous Russian poets, Nikolay Gumilyov and Maximilian Voloshin, took place in St.Petersburg, on Chernaya Rechka, where Alexander Pushkin was killed [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 08:42:00

Go Coast to Coast Across the United States

The third largest country by size in the world, the U.S ... to alpine peaks in the Rocky Mountains, from rolling prairie lands and barren deserts in the West [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 08:38:00

Obama Announces "Organizing for America"

Obama Announces "Organizing for America"President-elect Barack Obama announced the formation of a new group known as "Organizing for America" ...  | Category:  White House Previous: 1,000 Words: The Many [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 16:33:00

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