davidl on December 26th, 2014

Roman Polanski confessed and convicted rapist and fugitive from justice thinks forty-two days is an ample sentence for statutory rape, from Reuters:

Polanski, 81, was charged in 1977 with raping a 13-year-old girl in Los Angeles after plying her

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davidl on November 27th, 2013

Today’s handy household tip is courtesy of Neo-Neocon:

[D]ry the iPod under a light bulb for up to five hours, and then put it to sleep in a bed of rice for between two to seven days, then plug

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DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Oslo, from Steven Erlanger,  New York Slimes:

OSLO — The Norwegian police on Saturday charged a man they identified as a right-wing fundamentalist Christian in connection with the bombing of a government building in central Oslo and a

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on April 17th, 2010

Jones To The Grindstone.com

Adding stress to an already stressful situation is not a good idea, especially when dealing with the U.S. Army. While deployed in the desert, around a dozen men found out their wives back on the post

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on December 21st, 2009

By JonesToTheGrindstone.com

Living where loud explosions pepper my day is routine. In Warner Robins, Ga., sonic booms are the norm. According to Dictionary.com, sonic booms are “explosive sounds caused by the shock wave preceding an aircraft traveling at or above

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on December 16th, 2009

By Karen Jones, JonesToTheGrindstone.com

I am building a catalog of tools and equipment to better ease us through our days—as we live amongst those who just don’t “get” us, want to “get” us, or even notice us as needing to

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2009

Der Spiegel is reporting:

Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards to city hotels warning summit guests not to patronize Danish sex workers during the upcoming conference. Now, the prostitutes have struck back, offering free sex to anyone who produces one

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2009

Some time ago, David blogged about Nadya Suleman:

I suppose after delivering fourteen children, posing for Christie Hefner is out of the question.   Suleman is going  have busy changing nappies and will be hard pressed to pay for a dipper

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2009

From  the NewsReal Blog:

Toymaker Mattel Inc. has given its best-selling Barbie doll a makeover in honor of her 50th anniversary.

Meet Burkha Barbie, garbed in traditional Islamic Dress. On sale now.

I have to say that it

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davidl on November 1st, 2009

The Fox News Sunday interview with Rush Limbaugh.

Presidential advisor David Axelrod fires back, Polttico:

“It is a surreal day when you are getting lectures on humility by Rush Limbaugh,” Axelrod said on CBS’s “Face The Nation.” “He

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davidl on October 20th, 2009

Is Bobby Gibbs the worst White House press secretary ever, or has Gibby been given some rather lame talking points?   Gibbhs does not appear to know the difference between a news show and an opinion show.  Well neither does Keith

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2009

Micheal Wade over at Q&O asks an interesting question:  Will Balloon Boy Be The New Schiavo?


I truly hope that I’m wrong. That cooler heads will prevail. That, if indeed the parents set this whole thing up as a publicity

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davidl on October 2nd, 2009

Clearly Barack Obama’s alleged  charm is not all the MSM plays it up to be. From a clearly a gasp Associated Press:

COPENHAGEN – Chicago was eliminated in the first ballot of voting for the 2016 Olympics on Friday,

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davidl on June 27th, 2009

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Jackson, Eric rambled quite a bit about the late Michael Jackson.   Much too much to quote.

First some perspective.   Did I tell you I hate Jonah Goldberg.  Nobody should be able to write his well at one thirty in

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davidl on April 17th, 2009

Funny, we just don’t seem have hair stylists like Olga, Carl Schreck, Crime Watch:

In what is either the weirdest Russian crime story of the year so far or a new low in yellow crime journalism, a female hair

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