December 2008
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All the Halls have been Decked
This Christmas has been a little odd for me. Not to say it hasn’t been good, it definitely has it’s cheer and good will toward men (and women, not discriminating), but a lot has been going on in my two families. My sister-in-law Amy committed suicide this past spring so this is the first Christmas without her around. My dad was laid-off from his job just a few days ago due to budget...
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Bowels of Holly
I can’t imagine what Christmas was like before Nat King Cole. I have so many wonderful Christmas memories, but I have a hard time remembering them. The “best” Christmas memories I have are the ones riddled with sickness, sadness, embarrassment or mishap. I remember those holidays and the events surrounding them vividly, and many of them happened years and years ago. I call them...
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Happiness, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Life
As an American, I have certain rights that are incapable of being surrendered or transferred. Of those rights, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That’s what the blueprint for our nation, The Declaration of Independence, has defined as my human rights. I’m not one to think that Thomas Jefferson wrote that line in haste or just because it sounded poetic, and he penned it...
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America the _______
What’s up America? Where is your sheen? Where is your pride and your glory? What happened to the dignity and honor? I refuse to think that it was all a lie. Have I been indoctrinated into believing a lie about how wonderful this country is? I’m not going to blame a person, a leader, a people-group, or an event, but I can’t help but remember the 9/12/01. The day after that tragic...
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The Day The (Microsoft) Earth Stood Still
I hate product placement. I just got back from watching The Day The Earth Stood Still and I’m going to talk about it in this post, so if you haven’t seen it, and have a desire to, well, don’t read this. The movie was enjoyable, but I didn’t like it very much. I’m curious to go back and watch the original(from which the remake based it’s screenplay) and see what...
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You'll Tied
One would think that on Christmas morning, when the parents come downstairs with their kids, and they see multiple unrecognized gifts set underneath their tree, presumably put there by Santa Claus, there would be some hesitation in letting their children open those gifts. What with the current tension in our nation regarding terrorism and national security, as a parent, I would be forced to put...
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After Taste
So yeah, I changed my blog again. So far, my travels have taken me from a split affair with Live Journal and Myspace in 1999 to Blogger in 2005, and now as we reach 2009, I choose Wordpress as my gateway to your RSS feed. All my posts and comments from Blogger have joined me on this defection, a lot of which document the (sometimes embarrassing) journey that I’ve taken over the past five...