Monthly Archives: June 2007

The Trouble with Islam

A must watch video found at The Dane’s Best line: “Hysterical, self-righteous, carpet chewing, book burning muppet with shit for brains.” It’s funny beacuse it’s true.

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A very unique hobby

Say you have a compound bow you don’t use unless it’s bow hunting season. You also have decent fishing reel hanging around with no rod to mount it on. Well then my friend, buy some 40lb test and launch the … Continue reading

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The WASL Scores are out

And the Washington Assesment of Student Learning (WASL) test is going to have to go. After three rounds of testing, about 87 percent of students in the class of 2008 who are on track to graduate next June have passed … Continue reading

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Gold Mine of BOV Tips

Found via this thread at the Claire Files: Cheap RV Living. Note all the linky buttons at the left. n particular, I found “Stealth Cargo Trailer,” “How to Live in a Box Van” and “How to Convert a Van” full … Continue reading

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RNS Quote of the Day: 06/13/07

More religion, where even if you cannot see it or touch it, if you have faith, then it is real.  Now, in a widening sphere of decisions, the costs of error are so exorbitant that we need to act on theory … Continue reading

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Misguided: Revisited

As can happen when ideas for tax plans are blogged, a reader brought up the “FairTax” plan. I consider said “plan” a fantasy containing the worst parts of Marxism and Libertarianism. Marxists want to control you and the vast majority of Big … Continue reading

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Taking a cue from The Children

Kids have been paying for better grades, either directly to the instructor or by purchasing test answers, for centuries. NYC is now planning to pay the kids for getting good grades Roland G. Fryer, a 30-year-old Harvard economist known for his … Continue reading

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I know Quebecers like to think

That Quebec is it’s own little island, but I didn’t know that it was Fantasy Island Quebecers will be distinct from other Canadians in another way starting this fall: they’ll have the country’s first designated “carbon tax” to help fight … Continue reading

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Curly Fries!

Curly Fries! One of the features of Boomershoot is the lunch truck and the insane amounts of curly fries you can purchase there for relatively small amounts of money.

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Trib in Hat

Trib in Hat Although he bears a resemblance from some angles to Gerald McRaney, the gentleman at center is not the Jericho star, but rather Trib of Trib’s place. And a nicer guy you couldn’t hope to meet.

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