The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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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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SESSIONS IN SESSION

No not that Sessions you idiots; that's Jeff Sessions and he is in the Senate of the United States of Amerika doing all the same good things his namesake does in the House of Representatives. There, that is better....
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Peter Sellers and the Minky

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec . I am not that sophisticated in my comedic tastes. I will laugh at Larry, Moe & Curly. I mean I cannot watch more than three minutes of them at one time any more, but I have...
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CANON TEN OF THE BLOGOSPHERE: Send in the Clowns

                             The Clown and the tightrope walker I usually do not like rich, powerful or famous people. That is mostly because I am not rich, powerful or famous. The fame part does not bother me much because I would...
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THE CHRISTMAS BLOGS: The Vision Quest

File links               Sir Galahad as conceived by George Frederick Watts. Now saith this story whanne Galahad had rescowed Percyual from the twenty knyghtes / he yede tho in to a waste foreste / wherin he rode many Iourneyes /...
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THE CHRISTMAS BLOGS: O CHRISTMAS THREE

Chiaroscuro woodcut of the Virgin and Child by Bartolommeo Coriolano, created between 1630 and 1655. Digitally restored.I was going to discuss the concept of the transcendental experience in the context of Jesus Christ from the standpoint of an amateur. ...
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The Christmas Blogs; Chapter Two

                                             St. Francis at Greccio by GiottoMatthew begins his treatise with a family tree, demonstrating that Jesus is somehow related to David and then gives his rendition of the Nativity:And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom...
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THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT BLOGS: A Short Series

The 2005 Blue Room Christmas tree The first, the earliest discussion of The Beginning is an old and ancient song found in a tome known as the Old Testament.   1 In the beginning God created the heaven and...
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FANTASY TIGER

Tiger Woods is learning that, in the immortal words of Neil Sedaka, breaking up is hard to do. The New York Post reports that a lonely Tiger has isolated himself from friends. Not even buddy and former NBA star...
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THE NINTH CANON: How to Handle Trolls

                                  Close Up of Trolls (John Bauer, 1915)We should be grateful for what we have. Coveting is strictly prohibited in Exodus and Deuteronomy. You should not covet thy neighbor's goods or his wife.  I do not know whether or...
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BUCHANAN IS A SCHMUCK: A Reexamination

Hitler-Jugend (This blog was around ten rec's with no comments because there was a kind of shut-down yesterday. So I re-edited a bit and republish it now)I have had it.   I just finished republishing, refurbishing and rewriting eight...

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