I'm not Irish .. Enough
Dec 02 2006, 02:23 EST [updated Dec 02 2006, 02:50 EST]
I've been thinking about working outside the U.S. for a bit and my father suggested with a bit of paperwork I may be able to get an Irish passport (my grammy was a full blood Irish). Having an Irish passport means having a Commonwelath and an EU passport
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Sunday Bowling in full swing
Nov 19 2006, 17:54 EST [updated Nov 19 2006, 18:09 EST]
We had five for Sunday bowling this week (once football is over it swells to a dozen). KZ did well at his first outing with 122, 141, 130 bobsalive rallied after last week and hit a high of 153 Mike kept his average enviable with 150, 154, 140 Kri
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Not in your newspaper
Nov 19 2006, 12:12 EST [updated Nov 19 2006, 17:41 EST]
I generally avoid the personal here but I was thinking aloud last night and if I were to put a personal ad in the newspaper it would go like this: Wanted: female copy editor with possible promotion to wife. Tolerance of a conservative man and a vigoro
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Your week in Quickies
Nov 18 2006, 00:02 EST
Every Bond Movie Trailer [bobsalive] Nov 14 2006, 22:45 EST Cinematical collects all 45 years worth.
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I'd Buy One
Nov 15 2006, 23:52 EST [updated Dec 04 2006, 23:41 EST]
Just talking with bobsalive about watches. I have a watch I like but I'm a computer guy and have to take it off when I get to work - the better to type without - and put it back it back on when I leave. Now that the word "fob" has re-entered the common
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Some Elephants Have Short Memories
Nov 15 2006, 22:45 EST [updated Nov 15 2006, 22:49 EST]
After the elections I called on Republicans to start behaving like adults because they lost and the Democrats to start behaving like adults because they didn't win. No Dice. Republicans have elected Trent Lott as minority whip. Lott is the consumate Wa
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Communists in Independence Hall
Nov 11 2006, 21:58 EST
I have a fondness for Independence Hall partly because I'm from the area and partly because it is easy to love a home of our own revolution. So color me pissed that the Communist "CODE PINK" (seriously - why do we still have people rooting for communism?
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BSG: Ethics
Nov 10 2006, 21:47 EST [updated Nov 10 2006, 22:09 EST]
If you aren't familiar with the Sci-Fi channel show "Battle Star Galactica" your should be because it is a damned fine show. The content varies from passable to great so the great largely plasters over the merely passable. The premise is that in the pas
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Rep Mid-Term Song Lyric
Nov 09 2006, 01:34 EST [updated Nov 09 2006, 02:38 EST]
Courtesy of Radiohead. Can't get the stink out He's been hangin' round for days Comes like a comet Suckered you but not your friends They will get to you And teach you how to be a holy cow [refrain] You do it to yourself, you do And that's why
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Watching the Mid-Term Elections
Nov 07 2006, 21:06 EST [updated Nov 08 2006, 00:33 EST]
CNN Has the best boxscore. Foxnews.com basically has nothing usable (though differently useless than their ticker in 2004). CNN proper spent millions on the set. A giant room with dozens of people in it and a giant projection screen. FNC has their nor
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