Official Account of 9/11 a “Joke” and a “Cover-up” Seven CIA veterans have severely criticized the official account of 9/11 and have called for a new investigation. “I think at simplest terms, there’s a cover-up. The 9/11 Report is a joke,”...
With apologies to Leonardo, here are some pics of our 2007 pumpkin (carved via a template): I was operating the camera, with which I'm not that familiar, in the dark — so who knows what buttons I was pushing? I...
"Where the law of majority ceases to be acknowledged there government ends, the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them." (Source) Is there really any need to give contemporary examples in...
Got a message that informed me of an upcoming concert 'Noogans may be interested in. The Chamber Orchestra of Tennessee will be performing Antonio Vivaldi's Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons) at Christ Church Episcopal, on Sunday, November 11 at 4pm....
There are blocks, and then there are blocks. You know what I mean? Sometimes an anatomically correct rubber german sheperd is just an anatomically correct rubber german sheperd. Sometimes a blue, block-eating plastic elephant is just a blue, block-eating plastic...
"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing and talk by the...
I think there's a lot of potential for delimited continuations in graphics engines, and I plan on using them in what I'm working on. I am using Gambit Scheme however, which does not have a full shift/reset implementation. For the...
These escapes west are starting to become a regular thing :) This time my primary excuse was to attend NEXT, the Biennial conference of the American Institute of Graphic Design in Denver. I went a few days early, stayed...
For those of you I've converted to Thomas Lynch, or for those who love him despite my efforts, tonight, PBS is airing a Frontline documentary on him and his funeral home. Also, for the bazillionth time, if you haven't read The...
No baby yet, but we do have a new car. Yeah! This was one of the things hanging over our heads that needed to be done before baby #3 arrives on the scene. We only had one...
WORLD CHAMPION BOSTON RED SOX!!!(There, now I've gotten that out of my system.)Ginger Lemon Girl is hosting this week's Gluten-Free Menu Swap. There are always lots of good recipes, and this week looks no different. (The secret ingredient is broccoli.)I...
"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase." Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)Well, I did it again. All lessons learned from two previous ambitious home-improvement projects apparently did not sink in and...
When I hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2000, I was the lucky recipient of something commonly referred to in the hiking community as "trail magic." Trail magic can manifest itself in many ways. In early March barely 50...
I've been searching local news sites, but it seems that the Chattanoogan.com is beating everyone else at covering an important story, through a breaking news item as well as a string of opinion letters. The story revolves around the new Signal...
Have you ever spent the day hiking a trail, and when you finally reach your destination, some inconsiderate boob is yacking away on his cell phone? I vividly recall an instance from 7 years ago when I was awoken...
... because it would have kept Richard Casavant from another, richly undeserved, term of office. Here's how I put it in my letter to the Chattanoogan.com (scroll down; as quickly as I fired it off last night, I was third in...
This morning I read with great excitement about a pending purchase of a nearly 10,000 acre tract of forest land in The area is home to rare mountain longleaf pine, similar to what is found on the Alabama...
It looks like we have the first cold of the season. My kids are all snotty and not sleeping well at night. With the recent news of the recall on children's cold medicines I'm not sure what to do for...
Oscar Brock is an articulate and intelligent individual. His understanding of the need for competition in education is encouraging; his bizarre desire to repeal the Sunshine Laws is not. Why anyone would want to allow the government to conduct more...
I was recently approached (about a week ago) with a concern from a recent convert to the "Reformed tradition." I was stumped and didn't know how to respond. His concern regards his confusion about "Reformation Day." This is a day,...
but did so anyway. From the New York Times .
The State Department investigators from the agency’s investigative arm, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, offered the immunity grants even though they did not have the authority to do so,...
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