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Life Lesson #10
Stop looking to others for happiness. If you’re not happy with who you are on the inside, you won’t be happy in a long-term relationship with anyone else either. You have to create stability in your own life first before you can share it with someone else.
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Nevada Broadcast Company Fails to Disclose Donations to Democratic Candidate
Reno, Nevada’s NBC affiliate, KRNV and their parent company gave a total of $40,000 to Ross Miller, the Democratic candidate for state attorney general in Nevada, but failed to mention this during their coverage of the race. KRNV general manager Amie Chapman told CNS News, “This event has nothing to do with Sinclair Broadcast Group.…
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The Mad Scientist
This is a nightmare I had in 1996: Adam and I were in the same lab class in college. The professor turned out to be a mad scientist who was drugging students. He had drugged Adam and was trying to drug me. Adam realized what was happening but I remained confused. Adam followed the professor…
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Police Action
They keep calling it the “Forgotten War,” or the “Korean Conflict,” but to my father, it was anything but. He was a teenager when he found himself in Korea, serving with the 67th Air Police Squadron. The Korean War was fought from June 25, 1950 until July 27, 1953. It remains unresolved today, as South and…
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The Bear Verses the Eagle
As Mother Russia grows stronger, the U.S. appears to be getting weaker. Reports say tanks and other military vehicles are pouring over the border from Russia into eastern Ukraine, while the former Soviet Union’s long-range bomber patrols will now include the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico along with California and Alaska. And the Obama…
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Getting Don Michaels’ Autograph
We had driven to Fortuna for the day to visit family. On our way back to Klamath, my folks decided to treat the six of us to dinner at the Sizzler in Eureka, California. This was special as we generally ate whatever snacks Mom made for us in the car. It was less expensive this…
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Butt — the Confusion
Here are two news stories that could easily be confused: “The normally bland face of Uranus has become increasingly stormy, with enormous cloud systems so bright that for the first time ever, amateur astronomers are able to see details in the planet’s hazy blue-green atmosphere.” “Reality TV star Kim Kardashian is the cover girl for…
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The American Star Chamber
There is a secret organization that was formed in 1913 by presidential fiat. It will eventually take control of the U.S. economy because most citizens believe it to be part of the federal government – however it isn’t. Instead, it is a privatized organization that only pretends to be what it isn’t. Furthermore, it is…
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Net-neutrality and Progressive Stupidity
Recently President Obama urged the FCC to adopt tighter regulations on broadband service in an effort to preserve “a free and open Internet.” This means treating the Internet as a utility, so IPS’s would be unable “to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas.”…
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Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Baby
From first grade through the fifth at Margaret Keating School, in Klamath, California, the boys in my class (and I suspect other classes too) had a strange ritual about the stand-up urinals, in what was called the ‘little kids’ bathroom. They were called that because they were located in the east end of the building…