Archive for March, 2008
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
A quick Google News search shows Obama and Clinton have about 50,000 more news listings than John McCain. Today’s main pages for Fox News, CNN, ABC News, and MSNBC have McCain completely off the radar. Only Fox had a single McCain story (barely) visible on their main page’s initial loading screen. The others required scrolling [...]
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Most religions teach some form of life after death, whether in the form of heaven or reincarnation. But the concept of life after death in a religious sense is the carrot dangled in front of believers, who think if they conform enough to the control being exercised over them, that they will hopefully achieve it.
There [...]
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Rewind to 1989. No internet. The word “blog” simply didn’t exist. So how did we put our thoughts down in such primitive times? We wrote them down. Yes, I was a bigtime journal writer. Besides writing about the inane events of my life, I would often jot down quotes that jumped out at me. So [...]
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
“The Revelation of the Method” is one of those “granddaddies of all conspiracy theories.” This is your standard elitist conspiracy theory in which an elite few are secretly pulling the strings on humanity and that they are slowly revealing this to us. We are becoming conditioned to learn and accept this control. Currently we are [...]
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Everyone has a “surefire” cure for hiccups. I loathe hiccups because I get them so violently that they cause pain to my stomach and throat. Fortunately for me, I have THE cure. I’ve been using this trick for well over 30 years and my family has been doing it much longer. It has never failed [...]
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Before I even get started, allow me to say upfront that I’m not trying to sell you anything. I won’t ramble on and on about some huge “secret” to making money online, only to let you know you can purchase this secret in some cheesy ebook like so many others do.
I will tell you what [...]
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
What do you get when you cross a political science college minor with someone who has spent over a decade crunching numbers for sports handicappers… and apply that to this year’s electoral college in the general election for President?
5 McCain Victories
5 with no winner but a McCain edge
1 with no winner but an Obama/Clinton edge
1 [...]
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
He’s coming! For those who believe in him and who have been good, Santa will come and give his wondrous gifts. Billions believe in him, and you should too! If you are on his “good” list, you will receive his gifts on the appointed day, but you never know when he’ll show up. He knows [...]
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
As obvious as the information below is, I couldn’t seem to find some of it easily online. So if you’re looking for the ages of presidents when they left office, here is a good chart for you. For a discussion about how recent presidents have aged, take a look at this recent blog post.
You can [...]
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
From late 2004 to early March 2005, I was curious the first time certain words or phrases appeared online. I turned to the old Usenet archives and did my searches there, sorting my results chronologically and finding the earliest reference to each item. There is no logic to the terms I chose, but just whatever [...]
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