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Arthur of the Roundish Table: THE TREE BANGERS BALL

By Richard Day on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 5:21pm |
  Public Servants: Persons chosen by the people to properly distribute graft. (M. Twain) The problem aint that there are too many fools. The problem is that bolts of lightning are not properly distributed. (M. Twain) ? Meanwhile, back at Camelot:...
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The Sacred and The Profane: Fulton J. Sheen

By Richard Day on Sat, 04/11/2009 - 4:07pm |
Fulton J. Sheen was the Archbishop for Rochester, New York, once upon a time. A pretty awesome and powerful position in those days. As a child of six or eight, he was THE representative of God on earth. I mean...
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THE BATCHELOR PARTY at The Daily Beast

By Richard Day on Fri, 04/10/2009 - 3:52pm |
I enjoy it when I agree whole heartedly with a beast such as rush. I get my biggest response when I play with a known fascists own language.  Most of the time I not only quote word for word, I...
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LEAVE IT TO BEAVER: Lessons Learned

By Richard Day on Thu, 04/09/2009 - 4:54pm |
Ahhh. Leave it to Beaver. Make fun of that show if you will, but I learned valuable lessons watching that show as a tot. I recently caught a classic lesson the other day.Beaver and Larry Mondello (The most 'ethnic' the...
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RUSH LIMBAUGH: A New Voice of Hope in Trying Times

By Richard Day on Tue, 04/07/2009 - 5:45pm |
I have read some blogs recently that appear to put a damper on hope, hope for a new America with our New President. With our fairly new Speaker of the House. With a real majority in the Senate. I am...
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The Manchurian Candidate

By Richard Day on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 3:48pm |
The Manchurian Candidate is the title used in two films. The one released starring Sinatra and Lawrence Harvey in the early 1960's and kind of hidden following the Kennedy Assassination. And the most recent starring Streep and I never remember...
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Arthur of the Roundish Table: The Quest of Tom Delay

By Richard Day on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 5:35pm |
Sir Quixotic and Beau Manes had been traveling east from Cornwall for five days. They had delivered the treasure, taxes or ransom or whatever to the midget king. Well they had to go north a little too if you look...
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Anthropomorphism: A Theorum

By Richard Day on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 9:34pm |
We begin with animism. In order to even get to this concept of anthropomorphism. Besides, it is easier to spell.  Animism is: The belief that plants and inanimate objects have souls. Anima meant soul in Latin. I do not think...
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An Ode to Days Passed: The End of Life as I Have Known It

By Richard Day on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 1:00pm |
All is lost.I have learned to survive on very little. I figure things out. I cannot figure how to become a contributing member of society, but I know how to make coffee last, how to go grocery shopping with less...
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THE PRISONER

By Richard Day on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 9:17am |
This really began in the twenties. I had graduated from Anapolis and entered the Marines as a First Lieutenant in '19. I served thirteen months in Bagdad, before Iraq became the 51st State, was promptly sent to South Carolina where...

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