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FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - Bomb Devastates Afghan Mosque

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CNN.com - Study: Cigarette makers targeted women - May 31, 2005
Mrs. Falcon and I have a running “in” joke. She’ll hear something on the news, turn to me and say “snow and ice”, and we both know exactly what she means. You see, several years ago an intrepid doctor who was stationed at the South […]

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Three short stories (only one of which I like).
“The Spit Shine” resulted from Mrs. Falcon saying that I should write the story down, except that it loses a whole chunk of meaning unless you know all of the players involved, so it would really be more at home in a novel than as a stand […]

Welcome to the Chicken Fried B-Sides. This weeks installment is a result of my reflection on my roots and my hometown, both of which are much more Southern than their geography might suggest.
Townes Van Zandt - The Highway Kind:
Texas poet/songwriter Townes Van Zandthits a home run with this mournful tune.
The Indigo Girls - […]

As some may have noticed, I replaced the normal content here with a small memorial to a very select group of soldiers on Memorial Day. Here are some of the other great posts of the day.
SF Alpha Geek: . . . and the familes.
GreyHawk:
Sacred WOrds
Uncle Jimbo:
The Cost of Freedom
Daisy Cutter:
Memorial Day Address
The American Experience: […]

I’ve only ever deleted two posts of mine on this blog. Both were horribly honest and alcohol fueled, kind of like the party guest that gets you in a corner and blurts some secret thing that is entirely too intimate for the circumstances. I removed them not out of embarassment for me, but because they […]

Explosive charges have been leveled today against radical Islamic groups that they have mishandled human beings.
The charges include evidence that Islamic terrorists have beheaded journalists, aid workers, civilian contractors, intentionally blown up and shot children, attacked random civilians, and have conducted violent bombing campaigns against civilians for more than thirty years. The terrorist pieces […]

Let’s get it started:
Remember a couple of days ago when I said:

If the Democrats can obstruct routine federal bench appointments for three years and turn the nomination of relatively do-nothing positions like the U.N. Ambassador into a media circus, just what in hell do the above Senators think is going to happen later this year […]

CNN.com - Murder charges dropped against Marine - May 26, 2005

CNN.com - More mystery, few answers on ‘Lost’ finale - May 26, 2005
[Comic book guy rant upcoming]
Ok, I know that in the grand scheme of things inaccurate reporting of TV show details is pretty small potatoes, but couldn’t CNN even get the details of “Lost” right?
Yes, the finale delivered a promised glimpse of the polar […]

FOXNews.com - Politics - PBS President Denies One-Party Influence
There are lots of things I could say here, but I have decided to let their programming speak for itself. It’s up to you to decide from what sector of the political spectrum the following programming comes:
Nova
American Experience
NOW
Scientific American
Nature
Frontline
Frontline | World
What do we have balancing these out?
This […]

Over at this forum. I’m a regular there, but the section I posted in today (R&R) has a higher ratio of liberal nutjobs who like to keep things stirred up. Seems I can stir up controversy no matter where I go.

No surprises here:
Lincoln Chafee (Rhode Island)
Susan Collins (Maine)
Mike DeWine (Ohio)
Lindsey Graham (South Carolina)
John McCain (Arizona)
John Warner (Virginia)
Olympia Snowe (Maine)
The enormity of what was lost by brokering a deal can hardly be overstated. Liberalism can only be implemented from the bench and has most noticibly been made de facto national law in the form of Supreme […]

Working on a presentation about how modern conveniences, specifically air conditioning, killed communities in America as evidenced by the death of the front porch as an architectural fixture of the American home.
I would like to say the the deal just brokered on nominees is utter shite, and McCain, Lindsey Graham, and the rest of […]

I have been privileged to know the man who wrote this for a few years now. He has served two tours in Iraq in that time, been wounded, awarded and honored. I am withholding his name not because of anything he has done or said, but because he is still serving and I would hate […]

It’s Miller, …err, Kokanee Time

I Love Carl’s Jr. They make the best burgers of any fast-food restaurant (Hardee’s for those of you in the South East). They are unapologetic, un-pc, and hot…
Oh wait, scratch that last one, I meant their friggin commercial is hot. I know, I know, it’s a marketing ploy, and Paris Hilton is an idiot and […]

This ought to get your inner geek to dancin’ I loved the books as a kid and can’t wait to see this.
Sad, I know, but true.