Archive for August, 2004
Sunday, August 29th, 2004
Especially This One
This was a best selling and most often played song when I left for both tours in Viet Nam and when I had to go back to the War after the birth of Mike, not knowing whether I would ever see him or his mother again. It has always had that poignancy for me.
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Sunday, August 29th, 2004
Far Too True
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Saturday, August 28th, 2004
Last For Today
This was either very sad, or very stupid, or both.
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Saturday, August 28th, 2004
I Love These!!!
This image shows Cassiopeia A in the most detailed image ever made of the remains of an exploded star. The colors represent different ranges of X-rays with red, green, and blue representing, low, medium, and higher X-ray energies of the supernova remnant. The one million second image shows a bright outer ring (green) ten light […]
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Saturday, August 28th, 2004
Right!!!
Athens, Greece - A Romanian priest was the surprise winner in the 2004 Endurance Sermon event with a time of five hours and 32 minutes, a full 17 minutes longer than the silver medalist from Ethiopia. “I feel good. I feel really good,” Father Dimitriu Perliescu told reporters. “I’ve been training hard for this race, […]
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Saturday, August 28th, 2004
It’s About Time!!!
When I was growing up in the ’50s, whenever the 21st Century was mentioned, there was always the idea of a flying car. Lynne Wenberg, senior manager of Boeing’s part of developing a flying car, holds a remote control sporty red helicopter/car hybrid engineers created, as she stands in front of the 1968 Taylor Aerocar […]
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Saturday, August 28th, 2004
Neat!
ACNS 3876 | ACO | 27 AUGUST 2004 Anglicans and Muslims to meet for dialogue in Cairo The third meeting of the al-Azhar al-Sharif - Anglican Communion Dialogue is to take place in Cairo, Egypt 8-9 September 2004. A team of scholars and churchpeople, nominated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Williams, […]
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Saturday, August 28th, 2004
When I Think “Samba” …
… I certainly think, “Japan!” Japanese women perform at a Samba festival in Tokyo August 28, 2004. The annual samba carnival attracted hundreds of thousands of people while 4,500 samba dancers and participants paraded with floats along downtown streets in the Asakusa district. REUTERS/Toshiyuki Aizawa
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Saturday, August 28th, 2004
Revenge Is Indeed Sweet, Study Finds
print this page close window Revenge Is Indeed Sweet, Study Finds Brain scans reveal revenge can make your day. WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (AP) - Dirty Harry had it right: Brain scans show revenge really might make your day. Planning revenge sparks enough satisfaction to motivate getting even - and the amount of satisfaction actually predicts […]
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Saturday, August 28th, 2004
This Made Me Laugh
CONVENTION PROTESTERS PLOTTING TO SPEAK, ASSEMBLE Prepare for the Worst, Ashcroft Says The Attorney General said that New York’s Central Park would be off-limits to protesters for the duration of the Convention, but said that space for the protesters to speak and assemble was being reserved in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Gitmo location was chosen, […]