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THROUGH CHRIST OUR LORD, AMEN

Benedict Arnold V January 14, 1741 - June 14, 1801 (aged 60) Warning Against Enticement  8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction        and do not forsake your mother's teaching.  9 They will be a garland to grace your head...
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A SIRIUS ALIEN SAGA

                             The tomb of Mayan ruler Pakal (603-683 CE) in Palenque, Mexico.                 Interpreted by Daniken as depicting an astronaut in his spaceship. Chariots of the Gods?: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past is a book written in 1968 by...
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SUPER SPEECH SUNDAY

                                            THE SUPER BOWL RINGThe Super Bowl is set for February 7, 2010. Now I have been a legal resident of Minnesota my entire life except for one year in Florida. I will get to the exception in a...
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BUTT SECTS

The Godfather Part II There were a couple small scenes that really get to me in Godfather II. Mobster Hyman Roth wants Michael to invest in Havana in the 50's and the Godfather is hedging his bets. As he is...
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ROLLO TOMASI

Andy Griffith Titles: A Face in the Crowd I am watching LA Confidential for the fourteenth time. (Oh it's more than that really, but I mean from beginning to end) This is one of the finest movies I have ever...
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AULD LANG SYNE; Remembrances of Commie Epithets Gone

                                                           A  muṣḥaf1 Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men;        protect me from men of violence,     2 who devise evil plans in their hearts        and stir up war every day.     3 They make their tongues...
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AUGHTS

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blpic-rovegetoutofjailfre... I found this wonderful bit of optimism today:For most of the past 70 years, the U.S. economy has grown at a steady clip, generating perpetually higher incomes and wealth for American households. But since 2000, the story is...
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LET US PREY ON IDIOTS

a LAKE FOREST, Calif. -- Evangelical pastor Rick Warren appealed to parishioners at his Orange County megachurch Wednesday to help fill a $900,000 deficit by the first of the year.Warren made the appeal in a letter posted on the...
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THE BIRCHER, THE BIRTHER AND THE BAGGER

A birther and a bircher and a bagger walk into a bar. What can I get you boys? asks the bartender. The birther responded: I would like a Harvey Wallbanger and I would like to tell you this: Barack Obama...
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GRANDMA PELOSI: PERSON OF THE YEAR

Nancy Pelosi There is another politico who began as a community organizer. But she bore five children first. Grandma Pelosi is a winner of this passing year and decade. I have written of the tears I shed watching her...

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