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I ran across this in my web surfing and thought you might enjoy a look. There are not many car makes I've never heard of, but this was one.
http://www.carlustblog.com/2008/08/lightburn-zeta.html
Jinx
from todays New York Times Op-ed. I can't imagine this goes over well with the sailors of the Royal Navy.
"ON April 11, French commandos went in with guns blazing and captured a gang of pirates who days earlier had hijacked a luxury cruise ship, the Ponant, and held the crew for ransom. This...
I made a deal with my youngest son--get a good grade in his French class and we visit Quebec for summer vacation, or do poorly and we spend our time in Youngstown, Ohio. (Kid's know I'm serious, so it has had the desired result.)
Any suggestions on what to see there?
thanks,
Jinx
Here's a neat video that is a composite of landings at what is said to be Wellington, but some are apparently not there. Neat stuff, though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zzFkAF_EOw
Enjoy.
Jinx
Today while I was at the tire shop I overheard the counterman turn away a customer in a minivan, saying they did not have the equipment to replace the tire and he would have to go to the dealer. Seems the tire and rim are a bonded unit. I didn't get the name of the set up but it sounded as if...
For those who care, Prof. Ward Churchill has been given his walking paper from the U of Colorado.
About time. Now bring on the lawyers for the inevitable lawsuit.
To refresh the memory, he stated after 9/11 the WTC was filled with "little Eichmanns." In addition, he is an academic fraud.
Jinx
Yesterday I watched my son pitch over the side of a bridge on his bicycle and land ten feet below on the rocks. There were no sides and he turned his head to look behind him.
I dreaded what I would see, but he was alert, with only a deep gash on his leg and chip out of his tibia.
Naturally...
Check out the letter to the editor of the London Times:
"The pernicious new Puritanism (is) slowly squeezing the life and soul out of Britain. Ye gods, as my grandmother used to say, almost all the middle classes have left is their glass of wine in the evening. That bottle of organic Pech-Latt...
This paragraph really stands out in this story....
On Friday, The Independent reported how a Maltese plane photographed a crazily overloaded boat in this area carrying 53 Eritreans, several of whom telephoned desperate pleas for help to relatives in London, Italy and Malta. The boat disappeared...
Just heard on the radio that big 1000 pound hog shot by an 11-year old boy was named Fred and had been in the woods for 4 days.
I don't know what kind of lessons his old man is trying to teach him about hunting, but I want no part of it.
Jinx