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    Here is a photo of a bread board end on a cherry table. It is a table made by Timothy Clark, furniture maker. Notice the grain [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2007, 3:35pm EST

  • Sheet Goods, Veneers, Thicknesses

    This photo is a piece of Camphor Burl Veneer from the nice folks at Certainly Wood of East Aurora, NY. This piece's actual size is about 13" x 20". Priced by the square foot, at $8.95 this veneer is moderately high priced. By' [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2007, 3:10pm EST

  • A Primer on Furniture & Terms



    Why would you commission me to build furniture? With some notable exceptions, contemporary factory made furniture is tawdry. The designs 'sort of' replicate what they seem to be imitating, but really are copies of derivatives of interpretations. Xeroxes of xeroxes, [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2007, 1:52pm EST

  • Changes to this Blog

    The Smoothing Plane is going to change. From now forward, all posts here will be about woodwork, furniture making, veneers, and the associated tools and processes of woodworking. (I am one of those fussy, cut dovetails by hand guys. ) Until I can determine a better way to post them, [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2007, 5:16pm EST

  • "Valor"

    It is altogether fitting this man's courage is honored.

    Often the citation includes the phrase, "Conspicuous gallantry..."

    They sounds like words from another age. For such men as this one, thank God that they are not.' [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2007, 4:55pm EDT
    by Kerry

  • Nobel Peace Prize Winners, 1901-2006

    The list of winners is here. (One winner, Fridtjof Nansen, I'd heard of for the first time.) My cursory glance showed many prizes given to representatives from or for organizations with talking skills, advocates for this, or proposals for that. I may be wrong to presume ineptness. Maybe the' [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2007, 8:14am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Yasser Arafat Freezes Over

    From Nobel Prize dot org, (gag me!):




    The Nobel Peace Prize for 2007
    The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace
    Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the
    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2007, 6:42am EDT
    by Kerry

  • One Woman, No Vote

    This quote from Michael Yon's Under Distant Stars,


    "Once back in America, the quality of care is apparently not as consistently excellent or compassionate. I get frequent and disturbing reports from veterans that the strained if not broken system tends to be uncaring and often is'" [...]

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    Posted: October 12, 2007, 5:59am EDT
    by Kerry

  • School 'Security' Guards

    The 'Security Guard' at the Red Lake School (shooting) was armed...with a telephone. If a school security guard armed only with a telephone sees someone approaching, armed, "With a sack full of guns and bullets", who does he phone for help? Someone packing a sack full of telephones, wearing a [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2007, 5:38am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Tit for Tat for Turkey

    The House Foreign Affairs committee votes 27-21 to condemn as a genocide the 1915 killings of Armenians.

    Here are the last three paragraphs of the opening statement by committee chair Tom Lantos:

    All eight living former secretaries of state recently cautioned Congress on this matter. And [...]

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    Posted: October 11, 2007, 7:44pm EDT
    by Kerry

  • "But words will never hurt me"

    As an experiment, over the past two days, I visited every site from the 'Liberal Links' sidebar at Michael Brodkorb's Minnesota Democrats Exposed. This is something I have never done before. I will stipulate the limitations of the sample size. All were Minnesota sites, and that may be the' [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2007, 5:50am EDT
    by Kerry

  • In an Alabama accent, "The Wahr"

    In the opening minutes of the last installment of Ken Burns' documentary (docu-person-tary?), The War, the Marine Pilot says, "There is evil in the world". I took his comments to be Burns' opinion; perhaps they are not. But if he meant evil derives from "specific historical sources", Niebuhr disagrees.

    [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2007, 5:48am EDT
    by Kerry

  • A Slogan for the Progressives v. Rush



    "Support free speech! Censor Rush Limbaugh!!" ... makes as much sense as the other signs. [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2007, 6:58am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Burnt to Death in Waco

    The Gifford Lectures were given by Niebuhr at The University of Edinburgh in 1938 & 1939, and later published in two volumes. Volume one, from which I quote was published by Scribner & Sons in 1941. (Note that in 1938, Edinburgh invited Niebuhr, not Goebbels to speak.) Niebuhr's learned, astute' [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2007, 6:06am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Unworthy by any other name

    When one abandons the notion of perfecting human nature, and by that is usually meant perfecting it in others, focus ought rightly to return to one's own nature, perhaps the only healthy self-absorbsion, and one's own imperfectability. A counter to the self absorbtion at riot in the modern consciousness. Schemes [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2007, 11:09am EDT
    by Kerry

  • The Coming Eden

    Why does all this matter? Who really thinks any longer about human nature; or if there is such a creature? If you cannot get your mind around that term, try 'human spirit'. What persisted through the horrors of Dachau or the Bataan death march or Stalin's Gulags if not the' [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2007, 8:39am EDT
    by Kerry

  • The" We Care Community" & Transnational Progressives

    I've written about this before, but as my other reader missed it, a reprise. (The author, John Fonte is "a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. This piece is adapted from his article, 'Liberal Democracy vs. Transnational Progressivism,' which is scheduled to appear in the Summer 2002 issue of Orbis,'" [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2007, 7:24am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Utopia, def." We care more than you!"

    I read a lot; recently I've been reading Reinhold Neibuhr. The Essential Reinhold Neibuhr, Selected Essays and Addresses. I want to understand the utopianism of the progressive, secular left. (They are of course, not 'progressive' but reactionary. Speech codes which specify acceptable and verboten language, hate crime laws which punish' [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2007, 6:44pm EDT
    by Kerry

  • Envoys from Heaven, Emissaries from Hell




    Heaven does not invite emissaries from Hell to come speak to the assembly of Angels, Archangels and Blessed Saints. Though an emissary from Heaven once visited Hell on a three-day weekend. He went uninvited. No manuscripts of the conversation, dialogues, questions, chatterings and [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2007, 10:15am EDT
    by Kerry

  • "Columbia the Gem of the Ocean..."

    Except as otherwise noted. All the Columbia verbiage stinks, (note the off-rhyme of verbiage with 'cabbage'), both raw and cooked. Having no moral sense at all, can't the Deans at the great (sic) school still trust their noses?

    If, (when...oh God!) Iran blasts Israel with a nuke, I expect' [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2007, 6:28am EDT
    by Kerry

  • End the Slogan! Troupes Route Cows!!

    "Troupes what?" you say. Well...it is as sensible as any other leftist shout. I could not attend the Union shout fest on Sunday. To answer the expected 'End the War' slogans I offer this one, "End terrorism! End Jihad!". Catchy, no? In imaginary dialogue with the left, I asked, [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2007, 6:22am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Some More Niebuhr on Human Nature

    From the introduction to his book Nature & Destiny of Man:

    "This study of human nature...is based upon the conviction that there are resources in the Christian faith for an understanding of human nature which have been lost in modern culture. However scientific various studies of human nature" [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2007, 8:49am EDT
    by Kerry

  • The Communion of Saints

    I like the sound of those words, "The Communion of Saints". It comes from The Apostle's Creed. (Note: My wife and I are slowly becoming practicing Catholics. We practice prayer. We need the practice...) I think of the Saints as "my team". We cheer for them, they cheer for us.' [...]
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    Posted: September 20, 2007, 5:50am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Support the Vikings! End Football!!

    Number of comments: 1
    One slogan, among many signs carried on Saturday read "Support the troops. End the war." I shouted "Support the Vikings! End football!!" whenever someone passed by carrying that sign. I don't remember seeing the lights of comprehension go on. Several of the 'protesters' shouted at me, "We don't use that" [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2007, 6:18am EDT
    by Kerry

  • A Mrs. Bill Clinton Bumper Sticker


    I WAS FOOLED. VOTE FOR ME! [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2007, 8:01pm EDT
    by Kerry

  • Thanks Mitch Berg

    Thanks for the nod Mitch. I'm just an undifferentiated amino acid not even in the blogosphere ecosystem, and my biggest reader is someone named Google Search. A counterprotest sign that says "Anti-war is Anti-Victory" or "We side with Our Side" or "The War in Iraq? We're winning! Get over it!" [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2007, 7:48pm EDT
    by Kerry

  • Why are the Dems griping...

    about the very small troop reduction?

    We can't lose with so many still there. [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2007, 7:46pm EDT
    by Kerry

  • The Marines on the radio

    On the local radio show before Rush, the host, Dan Conry had several Marines visit for a few minutes. The Marine Major said "...despite the political stuff...", he, of course, meant the Democrats. Whom do the Democrats think they are fooling? Eventually, soon maybe, only themselves. "Then die, Caesar". [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2007, 7:35pm EDT
    by Kerry

  • Homes & Businesses

    The City of St. Paul has a program to help homeowners keep their homes, presumably from the pits of forclosure. Our money being handed out to someone else's hands, yet again. Will they do the same to keep a business from failing? If not, why not? [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2007, 6:35am EDT
    by Kerry

  • "Choice " Vouchers

    If we are free to choose termination of the undifferentiated tissue masses formerly known as babies, why don't we have the equivalent freedom to choose where to educate the masses which evade these choices? [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2007, 6:06am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Democrats scramble for Iraq strategy.

    After six years they still can't make up their minds to win? [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2007, 7:23pm EDT
    by Kerry

  • A Four Star fools Professional Liars

    General Petraeus ran the gauntlet of professional Democrat liars, Boxers, Reids, Durbans, and the hive Queen, Hilary. "He lied to us!!"

    If a frat boy, boob, drunkard from Texas can continually outwit, outmaneuver and outclall the smartest woman in the world and her minions, a Four Star with a [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2007, 7:10pm EDT
    by Kerry

  • Ronaldus Magnus Lives

    Ronald Regan said, "Do you want to hear my ideas for the cold war? We win and they lose."

    From POLITICO this headline: Democrats scramble for Iraq strategy.

    Don't the Dhims have any two-headed coins to flip? The one which reads heads "We can't win", tails "Let's [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2007, 6:44am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Back End of Cattle

    The Hildebeest throws manure at a four star:

    "You have been made the de facto spokesman for what many of us believe to be a failed policy in Iraq. Despite what I view as your rather extraordinary efforts and your testimony both yesterday and today, I think that [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2007, 6:35am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Anti-War = Anti-Victory

    Dear Anti-war = Anti-Victory,

    We're sorry this is too hard for you, facing up to an implacable enemy. The responsibility is grevious, and you're just not up to the task. Won't you just go home and let the adults handle this? We know you miss Bill and the carefree [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2007, 5:42am EDT
    by Kerry

  • What the Dhims...

    Did not get from General Petraeus.

    A sound bite.

    Was that all they wanted from their hectoring and lecturing of General Petraeus? I believe it was. He did not rise to the stinkbait.

    Now Harry "I've told no lies ever you Liar you, you, you General you!" [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2007, 7:35pm EDT
    by Kerry

  • About that Lost 9-11 Unity

    I was born in 1949, just a whisper away from WWII, still audible to my young ears. My father flew F6-F's in the Pacific, off the escort carrier Sangamon. They took a kamikaze off Okinawa in 1945. My two older brothers were born in 1944 & 1945. Their father was [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2007, 5:44am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Osama, Tokoyo Rose and Axis Sally

    In the movies when the G.I.'s are around the radio listening to Tokoyo Rose, she usually says, "Well boys, why are you fighting Roosevelts war? We have a hot reception planned for you." And so forth. None of this from OBL. He castigates his allies in Iraq for their failure [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2007, 9:07pm EDT
    by Kerry

  • More Signs

    Number of comments: 1
    No one who Wants to Quit, Wants to Win.

    Insurgents have switched side, What about you?

    A Vote for Dems is a Vote for Defeat [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2007, 8:59pm EDT
    by Kerry

  • About some Dim Dhims

    Barak, (Klingons hold this half-Klingon in contempt), and I think Biden and several other dhims today grilling Gen. Petraeus asked him, "When can we leave Iraq?", "Can we leave in five years", and so on. On even asked, "If the President asked you, when can we leave" to which Petraeus [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2007, 8:51pm EDT
    by Kerry

  • Hilary Clinton's AUMF Vote

    "I was fooled" she says. Actually she says she was mislead. If she cannot now take responsibility for a vote that she perhaps disagrees with now, she lacks the character to occupy the Oval Office. If any decision she might make would later be blamed on someone else, or blamed [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2007, 8:23pm EDT
    by Kerry

  • Some Political This & That

    In our soldiers we see the very best character of our fellow Americans. What then is Code Pink? Whither Moveon.org? Code Pink would have interrupted the Sermon on the Mount "The people of Jerusalem don't believe you anymore Nazarene!" Was Moveon among the crowd shouting "Give us Barrabas"?
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    [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2007, 8:10pm EDT
    by Kerry

  • A Few More Yard Signs

    Here are a few more short ones. During the day while I am working with sharp, spinning sawblades, I have lots of time to daydream and think. I still have ten fingers. (I used to have eleven.)

    We side with our side!

    We're going for the Win!

    [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2007, 6:47am EDT
    by Kerry

  • True North Counterprotest Signs

    Arguing with the deranged shows optimism but is futile. The unreasonable do not come to reason through reason. Humor and ridicule, that's the ticket.

    Some signs:

    Osama sez: "C'mon, lose this one. Do it for my children."
    Quitters are losers.Wars love a winner.
    We don't run [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2007, 6:48am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Font Test

    Font Test Arial
    Font Test Courier
    Georgia
    Lucinda Grande
    Times
    Trebuchet [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2007, 9:39am EDT
    by Kerry

  • "Fish Virus Afraid of Horses"

    Sunday, Sept. 9th update: Some things the news article did not say- where the virus was found, that is, in what species of fish or fishes, how many infected fish were found, who found or caught the fish. In other words some very specific, relevant facts. How did I not [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2007, 7:46am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Catching Up, This & That

    A small thing, but I've heard many comments on Fred Thompson's decision to announce on Leno and skip the debate. (Of course he made the debate anyway, as Rudy, Romney, McCain et. al. talked up his absence.) But he's now somewhat immune from the Drive-By smear of "Won't appear on [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2007, 6:10am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Grief not Closure

    "Families will get closure...", "Closure...", "Another body pulled....closure". Will billboards be pulled onto the roofs of buildings, "Got closure?"...? Relatives and families of the dead will not get closure; they will learn what happened to their missing father, son, mother or daughter. The palpable empty nothing of not knowing will [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2007, 4:59am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Mayoring and 'Caring'

    Last Wednesday or Thursday, RT Ryback, Mayor of the Green Emerald City spoke on televisioin about 'caring'. I do not have the transcript, but he said something like, "The community needs to care not just for a week or a two, we need them to care for a year...two years..." [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2007, 4:41am EDT
    by Kerry

  • After the Collapse

    I worry about Iran attacking Israel with nuclear weapons. They want to. At least, the maniacs at the top of the heap, (but at the bottom of the moral continuum) have said so. If it happens, it would be as if bridges across the entire 50 states dropped at once, [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2007, 6:46am EDT
    by Kerry

  • The Bridge Collapses

    And shared, common humanity rises. Always. Why? Really, why does it? (Notice: long, run-on sentence approaches. Take a deep breath.) If the "We are rainbows, let us in your church, you intolerant bigots, you need to change what you believe so we can be accepted into what you used to [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2007, 6:28am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Obscene Profits

    A lightning rod phrase. Pulls electricity from a clear sky. Only the government makes obscene profits. I have a question for the "Oil companies, drug companies, Hollywood movies' ticket price companies, overpriced-overpaid sports figgers companies, celebrities in skimpy gowns companies, et and cetera...

    Is the porn industry making obscene [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2007, 6:20am EDT
    by Kerry

  • The Dow Plunges a Gazillion Points in a Nanosescond!

    Gas prices drop to $2.82 from $3.13!!!

    Neither of my cats noticed.

    Let's calculate...$3.13 minus $2.82 = $.31 Mmm...that's a 10% drop! Fall!! Plunge!!! Plummet!!!! Catastrophic blunder for the oil price fixing cartel!!!!!

    No pictures of worried people on the floor of the dow photos follow:

    [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2007, 6:09am EDT
    by Kerry

  • More "Longing for the Day When"

    Does long time Northender long for the day when...

    -Children had manners.

    -The style choices for 14 year old girls didn't include "Tart or slut?"

    -Career choices for boys didn't include "Gangsta o' thug?"

    -Hats had fronts.

    -Men had backs.

    -Midriffs were covered.

    [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2007, 5:50am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Longing for the day when...

    "...people could buy everything they needed on Rice Street."

    Hmm...was there a car dealer on Rice Street? A computer store? A supermarket? An abortion clinic? A coffee shop? A running-shoe store? A wifi cafe?

    Does "Longtime North Ender Jeff Martens..." also "long" for the days when children [...]
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    Posted: August 02, 2007, 6:08am EDT
    by Kerry

  • About that 60% of Median Income

    I have one question. If an apartment dweller, (sounds very different from 'home owner', does it not?), if an apartment dweller in the Winnipeg makes more money than the 60%, do they have to move out? If so, who would agree to move in? I wouldn't. Can I get the [...]
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    Posted: August 02, 2007, 5:58am EDT
    by Kerry

  • "But We're Cats! We don't have thumbs!"

    My cats favorite excuse why they can't do something, the dishes usually. I think the Winnipeg development has no thumbs. In another part of the article I mentioned yesterday: "Longtime North Ender Jeff Martens, (why is North Ender capitalized?) heads the District 6 Planning Council's land use committee and longs [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2007, 5:40am EDT
    by Kerry

  • ":A New Hope", Star Wars, North End

    The entire headline is "In building plans, a new hope for the North End", and below, "City and developers' goal is neighborhood revival and a showpiece for Invest St. Paul".

    This article from July 23rd in the Pioneer Press is what began my past days' wading through the weedy [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2007, 6:02am EDT
    by Kerry

  • A Beautiful Day in the Center for Neighborhoods

    Had Algore been elected in 2000, Mr. Rogers would have been Secretary of State..."Hello boys and girls, what a lovely day it is. Don't you think so? I do. Would you like some syrup with your syrup?"

    From the Center for Neighborhoods, Our Work, Support:

    Facilitation andtechnical [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2007, 6:11am EDT
    by Kerry

  • "Speeches for Ourselves"

    John Hinderaker says the "Ghandi is the most overrated man of the 20th century". I wouldn't want to argue against him on that point. But I did like the movie. After the actor playing Jinnah ends with "India needs home rule. India demands home rule!", Ben Kingsley says, "We make [...]
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    Posted: July 28, 2007, 6:35am EDT
    by Kerry

  • "What Would you build on Rice Street?"

    So says the poster in several store front windows on Rice Street between Maryland and Atwater. At the bottom, Housinginitiative.org. Meeting at St. Bernard's Parish on such and such a date. I believe the question is framed wrongly; it asks about what sort of buildings on would build. What [...]
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    Posted: July 27, 2007, 5:17am EDT
    by Kerry

  • More" Arsenic is Everywhere!" News

    This is interesting, from Canada, the Ministry of the Environment in Ontario.

    Excerpts:

    Arsenic in the environmentArsenic occurs naturally and as a result of human activity. The most usual source of arsenic exposure is from food and drinking water, and small children sometimes ingest contaminated soil [...]
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    Posted: July 26, 2007, 5:45am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Arsenic ate their Homework

    I love my wife more than I hate the local FOX newsreaders. She likes to watch the weather. I wince at the news oozing from the scrunchy, sincere faces. Aresenic has been found in soil in Minneapolis. I saw the picture of the woman with the baby, worried about "our [...]
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    Posted: July 25, 2007, 5:52am EDT
    by Kerry

  • The Distorted Fountain

    I can put it better.

    "They could not see the fountain because they already knew what it looked like." [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2007, 6:11am EDT
    by Kerry

  • The Petraeus Interview

    I assume anyone visiting this small trickle of a blog has read the interview. On another page I have finished the article and am reading the comments to Attacking General Petraeus: The Hysterics of the Anti-War Fringe. What astonishing delusions! Because the pack does not hear what they 'know' [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2007, 5:54am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Magical Thinking

    The was a roads blocked off, traffic re-routed, busses stranded through four traffic light cycles in left-turn lanes without left-turn arrows bicycle race in downtown St. Paul yesterday. An adventure of sorts-new buildings and people to look at and watch, a change from the right on Layfayette, left on Wall, [...]
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    Posted: June 21, 2007, 5:49am EDT
    by Kerry

  • "Oh my God! What Have I Done?"

    We all know this moment. The enormity of Colonel Nicholson's blunder hits him like an axe to the forehead.

    My very blunt point; look at the flashing photos just to the right.

    What must crash down upon you, upon us, to let go the [...]
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    Posted: June 16, 2007, 8:55am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Harry Reid's Medals

    Harry Reid's awards:
    The Sticky Tongue Out Regarde, with Rough Cat Textures
    The Blazing Eyeball Glance, with Enfant Terrible clumps
    The Impacted Ear Wax Attentive Blodge, with Crossed Q-Tips
    Three Pink Pig's Ears, two with Meritorius Bristles
    The Blind Elephant Bluster Medal, with Trumpet and Honky
    The Las Vegas Campaign [...]
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    Posted: June 15, 2007, 7:01am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Getting The Courts to Switch Sides

    The Fourth Circuit decision is another defeat. As was the Hamdan decision. If only the terrorists could be convinced to blow up a few abortion clinics. Perhaps then the courts would say, "Hmm, this is a war."

    When the British revealed their logo for the 2012 London Olympics, I [...]
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    Posted: June 14, 2007, 5:59am EDT
    by Kerry

  • I Always Come Late to These Things

    A failure of personal responsibility means more personal responsibility is needed, not less. The shootings in Virginia mean more firearms training is needed not less. More of a "Assume all guns are loaded" maxims. Suppose I go on a mad spree at the job; I could probably kill someone at [...]
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    Posted: June 11, 2007, 5:40am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Pardoning Mr. Libby

    What the President should have said, "Will you pardon Libby?"

    "Now it's way to early for that question. You should all know by now, that Presidential pardons only come on the last day in office. Wait and see."

    ("You called him Mr. Libby...? " Smoothing Plane, " The [...]
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    Posted: June 06, 2007, 6:11am EDT
    by Kerry

  • The Synthetic Candidates

    I watched the You Tube video of the contestants flailing and spinning away from the "You've got twenty minutes to take out Bin Laden with a Hellfire missile" question. Three minutes and 18 seconds of purported adults trying to make viewers believe they are not seeing and hearing what they [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2007, 5:37am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Democratius Candidatus Diplomatus non est

    I did not watch the Dhims' Debate. I saw some little pieces and heard some sound bites. From the crowd whose spokes-Demoness Hilary says "This President never uses diplomacy", if what they said and did at their debates was diplomacy, that sneer is actually a compliment. [...]
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    Posted: June 04, 2007, 7:17pm EDT
    by Kerry

  • Walking on Water, and ICE. The Sleep numbed 44.

    Why do they write like this? Why? How? Where is the cohesion in these what the press calls stories? There is no chronological sequence. No sequence of ideas. Blurted quotes follow on fast non sequitars, pronouncements arise, statements appear and all this comes as other concerns are addressed, feelings [...]
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    Posted: June 02, 2007, 10:19am EDT
    by Kerry

  • The ProstitutionBustsImmigrationBosomsArrests

    RT "not a Mayor, not to some people who can tell the difference between a buffoon and an elected official"-Ryback:"The line between what is prostitution and what is immigration was blurry," Rybak replied, answer this question please-

    Since Minneaopolis policy "prohibits police from becoming involved in routine [...]
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    Posted: June 01, 2007, 6:01am EDT
    by Kerry

  • When Chris Matthews...

    (cough, cough, spit), asked, "Would it be a good thing for Bill Clinton to be living in the White House again?", someone should have said this, in a slow Tennesee, Texas or Montana drawl-

    "Well...it depends. Livin' there with who?" [...]
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    Posted: May 25, 2007, 5:39am EDT
    by Kerry

  • What the President Should have Said

    In answer to this "have you stopped copulating with horses " question from White Horse Rectum David Gregory,


    "GREGORY: Mr. President, after the -- mistakes that have been made in this war, when you do as you did yesterday, when you raised two-year-old intelligence talking about the threat [...]
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    Posted: May 25, 2007, 5:29am EDT
    by Kerry

  • Divisible by Zero


    I've been thinking about the house vote, the non-binding, non-sensed nonsense. The language is, of course, a contradiction. (In the film A Man for All Season's, Paul Scofield as Sir Thomaas More says about the act his refusal to sign eventually leads to his [...]
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    Posted: February 20, 2007, 5:30am EST
    by Kerry

  • A Refreshing Photo

    This is a picture from the battle in Najaf. Just two of the 263 terrorists shot dead by the good guys, the Iraqis and U.S. (I hope the other 261 have already been hauled off to the pig feedlots.) My memory has this quote from [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2007, 11:29am EST
    by Kerry

  • "Strike Them Relentlessly...Hard is not Hopeless"

    From Iraqslogger:

    Here is the transcript of Petraeus's remarks at the change of command ceremony at Camp Victory in Baghdad:

    To the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, and Civilians of Multi-National Force-Iraq: We serve in Iraq at a critical time. The war here will soon enter its fifth [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2007, 9:42am EST
    by Kerry

  • Muckus D. Vogters



    Professor Wagstaff: [singing] I don't know what they have to say It makes no difference anyway Whatever it is, I'm against it. No matter what it is or who commenced it, I'm against it! Your proposition may be good But [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2007, 11:15am EST
    by Kerry

  • "I Oppose the Nouns, I Support the Verbs"

    Schizophrenia. Two minds. Headline warfare. Hatred, opposition. Things, passivity, actions.

    I hate the phrase, "the war". White dwarf stars and starlets blinking out "I hate the war!" make an object of a condition or state of things. "The war" as a 'thing' does not exist. What we hate is [...]
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    Posted: February 03, 2007, 6:00am EST
    by Kerry

  • "Was it good for you General?"


    Hilary asked General Petraeus no questions during the Senate interrogation preceding his unanimous confirmation as Commander of all forces in Iraq.

    NO QUESTIONS. Why? I think she didn't want to be seen for how little she knows about anything. She avoids looking foolish, uninformed, [...]
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    Posted: February 02, 2007, 6:07pm EST
    by Kerry

  • Progress by Fiat

    "I mean, the notion of war between the major states of Europe is pretty fantastic, and now we’re adding Russia and China, I would argue, and India and Argentina and Brazil, other big countries for whom the notion of us having classic state on state war gets more and more [...]
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    Posted: February 02, 2007, 5:43pm EST
    by Kerry

  • No Greater Scorn

    Arkin: “They hide behind the constitution and the flag and then spew an anti-Democrat, anti-liberal, anti-journalism, anti-dissent, and anti-citizen message that reflects a certain contempt for the American people”. Who’s fooling whom here? This is downright contempt. If Arkin thinks we can't see that...Maybe it wasn't Adam but Arkin in [...]
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    Posted: February 02, 2007, 4:57pm EST
    by Kerry

  • From Austin Bay: Battle of Najaf, 2007

    This is interesting:

    "I'll get to the Battle of Najaf 2007 in a moment, but first consider who benefits from the mass murder of Shia pilgrims and senior Shia clerisy who support reconciliation and national unity. Here's the answer: the Islamo-fascist killers who fear the emergence of a [...]
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    Posted: February 02, 2007, 7:41am EST
    by Kerry

  • Iago Whispers, Democrats Crouch

    I certainly agree with Dinesh D'Souza about this:


    "But if a book says things that are obviously untrue and can be disproved, then it is not dangerous -- it is merely fiction and should be ignored. A book is dangerous only if it exposes something in the [...]
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    Posted: February 02, 2007, 7:10am EST
    by Kerry

  • Consensus: "Crucify Him! Give us Barrabas!"

    Note: I forgot about this post; it was stuck in drafts. The Iraq Surrender Group report has vanished like D.B Cooper, but theDhimocrats in the Senate are waving the flag of surrender in Iraq. Some Republicans seem to be jumping into the rafts too. Bastards, cowardly [...]
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    Posted: February 01, 2007, 7:42pm EST
    by Kerry

  • Resolve: Victory at all Costs

    to the House of Commons on May 13, 1940 in his firstaddress as the newly appointed Prime Minister.


    We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, What is our policy? [...]
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    Posted: February 01, 2007, 5:55am EST
    by Kerry

  • Eighth Notes: 1.29.07

    Bits of this and that.

    Wolf Blitzer's foolish questions for VP Cheney about his daughter: "To believe they were fair questions is to believe all children of public figures are fair game for political warfare. I know an ABB(anybody but Bush) who does.

    Christmas, the Perfect gift! "Looking [...]
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    Posted: January 29, 2007, 5:52am EST
    by Kerry
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