Manfred Tekla (1949-2007): Fischerboote bei Ebbe
A Manfred Tekla story from Don Salyards in his post Crossing Checkpoint Charlie – My Story:
On Sunday, July 25, 1971 my college friends Greg Savage, Les Blanchard and I walked through the Berlin Wall at [...]
The Obituary of Future Professional Baseball Player Kevin O'Connell, 13, of Poplar Grove, Illinois
I didn't know Kevin or his family, but after reading this I feel like I do:
KEVIN D. O'CONNELL, 13 POPLAR [...]
It's kind of an involved story, so I'll tell it step by step:
Oct 23, 2007: My 80-year-old Mother develops an aortic dissection. It's kind of like an aneurysm. To find out where it is, they would need to inject dye into her aorta. But that would knock out her already-compromised' [...]A tip from my long-time blog buddy Brian Kane:
My blog-buddy “Going Like Sixty” says he’s figured out a way to game those Coinstar change machines you find in supermarkets: go to the customer service counter and cash in two $20 bills for quarters, pump the quarters into the Coinstar [...]
Diagnosed Diabetes By County - All Races
(via Boots and Sabers)
From BlackHealthCare.com:
In 1993, 1.3 million African Americans were known to have diabetes. This is almost three times the number [...]The Blurb:
The NPR Radio by Livio was recently cited by Time as one of 20 new techie gadgets not to be missed! Now you can listen to Morning Edition whenever your morning starts - the programming you want, [...]
The Text of Psalm 109:8 That Is So Dangerous To Liberals That They Don't Want This Bumper Sticker [...]
From Bill O'Reilly:
With the possible exceptions of Richard Nixon and George W. Bush, no modern era politician has been more derided by the media than Sarah Palin. And the attacks do not stop with her. They include nasty rumors about her family and even the mocking of her children.
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Four Catholic men and a Catholic woman were having coffee. The first Catholic man tells his friends, "My son is a priest, when he walks into a room, everyone calls him 'Father'."
The second Catholic man chirps, "My son is a Bishop. When he walks into a room people call" [...]
Official 2007 Masters Golf Tournament Teddy Bear For Just $8
Would make a great gift for the golf nut in your life. It's amazing how much they charge for this Masters stuff -- this is about the' [...]
From Jonah Goldberg:
Indeed, some of us will always be sympathetic to Mrs. Palin if for nothing else than her enemies. The bile she extracts from her critics is almost like a dye marker, illuminating deep pockets of asininity that heretofore were either unnoticed or underappreciated. ...
I'm happy about the' [...]
From gwendally's journal:
The operations manager at a grocery store told me a story last night.
That store carries several varieties of milk, including local organic half gallons in glass bottles. It's fairly expensive, as milk goes, about $6 including the $2 bottle redemption fee attached to the glass bottles. (I'm' [...]
Buy The Original Ronco Veg-O-Matic For Under $20
The original Ron Popeil classic! Veg-O-Matic slices, dices and makes mounds of fries in seconds! One of the products that started the Ronco revolution! The Veg-O-Matic was such a breakthrough [...]
From Pat Buchanan:
Are we at war – or not?
For if we are at war, why is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed headed for trial in federal court in the Southern District of New York? Why is he entitled to a presumption of innocence and all of the constitutional protections of a [...]
Bruce McCall: DeSoto Discovers The Mississippi
From this lecture by Bruce McCall.
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Stephanie Abrams of the Weather Channel Reporting: Impressive Frontal System Puts All of South Florida on Alert!
A Cold War Flashback: Who Dealt This Mess?
From the glory days of National Lampoon
[...]From J. Robert Smith
What's notable about Sarah Palin's book tour, which starts midweek, is where she's not going. She's not going to L.A. or New York, Boston or San Francisco. She's going smack-dab to the middle of' [...]
Is This The Ring That Inspired Tolkien To Write The Lord of the Rings?
From The National Trust:
Placed for years within a glass-topped cabinet, beside a little type-written note, this solid [...]
Own The Rubber Stamp That Set Off The Boston Tea Party
Just $15, and you get a terrific blurb too:
Surely you must remember that pesky Stamp Act, one of many taxes that eventually led to all [...]
Guess Which One Was On Janet Napolitano's Terrorist Watch List?
Obama's arrogance is killing American soldiers. But he doesn't care. (via Grouchy Old Cripple)
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Two Ways To Improve AM Radio Reception: The Terk Advantage or the Select-A-Tenna
Click on the photo to read Jay Allen's terrific comparison of the two. It seems you can find the Terk on eBay for around $40, whereas the' [...]
From BusinessWeek:
Stuart Frankel isn't what you'd call a power player in the world of franchising. Five years ago he owned two small Subway sandwich shops at either end of Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital. After noticing that sales sagged on weekends, he came up with an idea: He would offer' [...]
I got this idea while my wife was watching LMN, the Lifetime Movie Network. Here's one example:
Channel Description ABC ABC DE How to Incorporate Your Business FG The Placekicker Network HI Hello From Hawai'i JK The John F Kennedy Network (PBS) [...]Two weeks before the 2008 election I took my grandson on a 16-block stroller ride in highly liberal south Minneapolis. I counted over 120 Obama signs and one McCain sign (which had been vandalized several times). There were also roughly 50 anti-war signs (“Get out of Iraq”, “War [...]
From The Simple Dollar:
It’s often said that people are reflections of their five closest friends in many ways: behaviors, income levels, values, and so on.
Five years ago, almost all of my closest friends spent money like it was water. They were constantly doing things like playing poker, pushing each [...]
From Neatorama:
Cicadas are winged insects that evolved around 1.8 million years ago during the Pleistocene epoch, when glaciers advanced and retreated across North America. Cicadas of the genus Magicicada spend most of their lives below the ground, feeding on the juices of plant roots, and then emerge, mate, and [...]
From the Assistant Village Idiot:
My politics aligned somewhat with Michael's, but I found him an unlikeable character. The show had clearly lined up to show Archie and his ideas in the worst possible light, buffoonishly so, and this struck me as artistic abuse. As it became clear who Norman' [...]
A Scotsman walks into a bank in Glasgow and asks for the loan officer. He tells the loan officer that he is going to Australia on business for two weeks and needs to borrow £5,000.
The bank officer tells him that the bank will need some form of security for [...]
A hooded robber burst into a Texas Bank and forced the tellers to load a sack full of cash.
On his way out the door a brave Texas customer grabbed the hood and pulled it off revealing the robber's face. The robber shot the customer without a moment's hesitation. He [...]
Sixty Percent of Those Canned French Fried Onions Are Sold Between October and December
From the Washington Post a couple of years back:
They must taste like they have since 1955, when Campbell's' [...]
But as of today, November 1, it's only available for pre-order.
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