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I can’t help it… I want to gloat over last nights victory. Everyone: Post your gloating here:

FUNDING OF NAPA MUSEUM IS THE NEW ISSUE; MONDAVI ENTERS THE FRAY COPIA officials at the Napa, California museum are insisting that it is “misinformation” to say it has received millions of dollars in public funding; they admit to receiving only a $50,000 grant. Indeed, the Catholic League has been accused of “lying” about the money. The league’s protest is directed at a display of figurines that show the pope and nuns defecating and has created quite a furor. In another development, Robert Mondavi, the museum’s largest private benefactor and chairman of its board of trustees, has entered the fray. ...

My “computer room” is located in the back of the house where I live. From the window I can see-out over a hundred yards, or so, where a neighbor lives. Between our houses is a lightly sloping gully with only fading grass acting as cover to the rich soil beneath. There are trees of oak and maple and pine on our collective properties. The oaks and maples have shed their cover for the winter night… It’s somewhat amusing that while the trees appear to be dead, squirrels and birds seem to playfully go about the business of life on ...

OK Folks… we’re going to try this one more time. Pasted below is a link to an article I posted yesterday. The seemingly benign question of asking interested parties to submit ideas led to 250, or so, responses; of which, maybe 3 dealt with the question at hand. Before anyone knew it the discussion moved into the “Twilight Zone.” Almost anything you could imagine was soon being discussed…Catholic’s Vs Fundamentalist’; Gateway Vs Dell computers; Merlot Vs Chardonnay; Irish Hurling Vs American puking; Why I chose the screen name grumpster… and why don’t I change it to something “sexy” sounding; Tom ...

Last week I posted a opinion piece about “Single and Alone for the Holidays” (No I’m not going to post a link! That article has run it’s course.) You would be surprised at the number of responses I received via “Freep Mail” (There were millions!…well dozens.) Anywho, the thought occurred and was suggested by “Texana RED” (thanks for giving me permission to use your name) that next year we should have a Freeper Christmas Party for those of us who are single adults. The original thread (No, I’m still not going to post a link.) was about how non-responsive ...

Single and Alone for the Holidays: Report from the Front: So anyway…there I was on this fine Christmas morning… (December 25th) coffee having been made, temperature 29 degrees, wind chill 19 degrees, humidity 96%; yet sunny and bright… Off to church for the 10:30 service and then on to “The Bishops Christmas Dinner… 12 noon to 2 pm. I arrived at 12:17, found a parking spot almost immediately, and went into the cafeteria of a local Catholic High School where the dinner was being held. The mix of people was unsurprising… Little Old Ladies, (my guess the youngest was about ...

For many single adults, the Christmas Season is a “personally uncomfortable” time of the year. The loneliness factor seems to grow by leaps and bounds… all the gift giving and “Holiday Spirit” and the general party mood can actually be quite overwhelming to the singe adult. Now, normally I try to view life with a non-serious eye. I think it’s better to laugh at folly than be trampled by it. But this year was somewhat different…This year I discovered an active resistance to organizing a get-together for adults to share Christmas in a non-threatening, casual environment… Just a nice party ...

Could someone give me some simple advice in a 1-2-3 format on how to post a picture? I have an original jpeg picture in a file on my hard drive (C: Drive) but cannot seem to get it posted in the forum (even when I use the html.) Any simple step-by-step help on how I can get this picture from point "A" (My C: drive) to Point "B" (a reply to a post) will be appreciated. WOW! When I wrote down the "img src=" html...and previewed this post the little image box with a x in it appeared...so why ...

Forgive the vanity. I posted something similar to the tread entitled: HILLARY MANHUNT: …. Posted by Bulldog905. I couldn't remember what the whole Senator Hillary remind me of until Bulldog905 posted his article…Thanks Bulldog! So I decided to post it separately. The Masque of the Red Hillary. With apologies to Edgar Allen Poe: When the dominions were half corrupted, they were summoned to her presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of the court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of the capitol building. This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the ...