House fire

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Subtitle:  “How safe is your always-ready shredder?”

 

We have been fortunate to have never suffered a major damage event anywhere we have lived.  Bayou Renaissance Man has not been so blessed.

He is now experiencing “the system” of how things work after a fire.

Obama’s change — I’ve not seen it put better

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than here.

The Obama Constituency?

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Here

Unintended/Unexpected Consequences

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Urine Bottles on Highway May Be Due to Drivers Too Concerned With Gas Prices to Pull Off
Saturday, August 09, 2008

ONTARIO, Ore. —  Police say there’s been an alarming rise in urine-filled plastic containers found along a three-mile stretch of Interstate 84 in eastern Oregon.

Bush’s character assessment of Putin

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 June 2001 on the occasion of the first meeting between Bush and Putin:

Bush:

“I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straight forward and trustworthy and we had a very good dialogue.

“I was able to get a sense of his soul.

Hazardous cargo — emergency landing

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The following is from Airliner World magazine, May 2008 edition, page 76:

The 2008 Summer Olympics and Other endeavors

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I’ve grown less and less fond of the Olympics over the years due to many factors.

Musings of the day

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Ruth is getting perilously close to going back to school (work).  It’s interesting to watch the same mix of emotions regarding it that the students have.  It should be interesting with the initial year of student ”uniforms,”  and I use the term loosely, and only because the school board does.  Buy them wherever you like — no uniform store — I’m betting on at least three shades of khaki and even more of blue.  New principal this year, too, as is the case with my sister’s school.

It’s a tie!

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Well, one horse pulls ahead of another for a few moments and then the other pulls up and edges out the former leader.  The entire race has gone that way from early-on, almost immediately after each was able to establish an initial position.

Cheap but false self esteem

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I recently observed another adult version of the “everyone has to feel good” syndrome — another example of an adult teaching our future generations poorly.

For background on my thoughts regarding the subject, and a long treatise at that, go here.  The capsule version is near the bottom, contained in selected quotes from an article in The Wall Street Journal