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Rumination of the Day It's better to be a red person in a blue state than a blue person in a red state. As a red person, if your blue neighbors turn into a mob at least you have a gun to protect yourself. As a blue person, your only hope is to appease the red mob with herbal tea and marinated tofu.

I heard something on the radio today about Condi looking very nice ... I thought the comment was about her being seen at the Inaugural ball, but I may be wrong. Has anyone seen anything like this?

I'm on a "Merry Christmas" mission and I'm in full throttle. My little yellow VW Beetle has turned into a Christmas billboard with Merry Christmas written across the back window. Yes, I've decided to trek off to work everyday on the public highways with a message that seems to offend people. At stop lights, I even turn my music up a little louder, and to top it off, I sing along with it. Don't I know that stopping at a red light to roll my windows down only to share the joy of Christmas carols on public streets is a...

Theological Student Delivers Eucharist By Jackie Spinner Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 8, 2004; Page A16 HASWAH, Iraq -- His flak jacket was covered in dried blood, his blood. Look at the stains, Marine Lance Cpl. June N. Ramos said, pointing. There were dark red smears all over the front of his camouflage vest. Ramos reached into the pocket of the flak jacket and pulled out a small silver tin wrapped in a plastic bag. He opened the container, which held a half-dozen Communion wafers. "Instead of putting a grenade in here," Ramos said, fastening the pocket of his...

Has anyone read the book "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" or see the TV movie about it last night? I have intended to read the book but haven't gotten around to it yet, and I saw the movie last night. Very well done. Good acting by Jon Voigt. But most of all a very touching story. I'd be interested in any comments anyone might have...

PARDON ME WHILE I GLOAT By Rear Admiral Dick Van Orden, USN (Ret.) I am not normally a cheerful loser or a gracious winner. Whether its tiddly-winks or war at sea, I want to win, win, win! In fact, I hate to lose and when I win I sometimes want to rub the loser's nose in his defeat. After a sleepless night I feel just rotten enough that the past six months of lies and innuendos from the Kerry camp have it all come home to make me more vindictive than usual. As a result, I want to gloat. Here's...

Forgotten Honor by John Horvat Before the 2004 elections fade into history, it is good to remember that moral values were only part of the winning equation. There was another factor, indeed another moral value, which was all too quickly forgotten: honor. It was the honor of the Vietnam veterans that suddenly entered into the debate. They had faithfully served our country and suffered vilification at the hands of the anti-war movement. When this episode of history once again came to light, the veterans’ spirited defense of their honor unexpectedly struck a chord in the hearts of countless Americans who...

This is an update from the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) in Washington, D.C., issued Monday, November 29, 2004. For further information, call 202-626-8820, send e-mail to Legfederal@aol.com, or visit the NRLC website at http://www.nrlc.org/. ASSOCIATED PRESS AND OTHER MEDIA DISTORT ROE V. WADE AND PUBLIC OPINION ON ABORTION POLICY WASHINGTON (November 29, 2004) -- Nearly thirty-two years after the Supreme Court legalized abortion on demand, some major organs of the news media continue to misreport key elements of what the Court has done, with the Associated Press being the latest offender, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC)...

Morale support Pennside woman thanks and encourage troops with packages, cards

'LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT' STAR FAINTS ON THE SET November 11, 2004 -- VINCENT D'Onofrio, the star of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," passed out while shooting the hit TV series yesterday morning — prompting insiders to gossip that the actor is "losing it." "Ever since John Kerry lost the election, [D'Onofrio] has lost his [bleep,]" said our on-set insider. "He has been getting into fistfights with people, and when he passed out today, we all thought he was faking it. But then he insisted they call 911." An ambulance raced to the Queens studio, where paramedics found nothing...

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