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Wedding Fairy:A married couple in their early sixties were celebrating their 40th Wedding Anniversary in a quiet, romantic little restaurant.....Suddenly, a tiny yet beautiful fairy appeared on their table.  She said, "For being such an exe
Published: Tue, 11-24-09 01:01 PM

Something to think aboutYou will never look at a cup of coffee the same way again.   A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life andhow things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going tomake it and wanted to
Published: Mon, 11-23-09 07:36 AM

Something to think aboutYou will never look at a cup of coffee the same way again.   A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life andhow things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going tomake it and wanted to
Published: Tue, 11-24-09 05:12 PM

I have been developing a plugin that enables Javascript to be used within CFML apps. Instead of coding CFSCRIPT blocks, you can use pure Javascript and get at all the CFML richness underneath. This is an introduction to that effort.
Published: Tue, 11-24-09 05:04 AM

A revolution has begun, with the introduction of live CFML (JavaDoc like) documentation for OpenBD functions and tags. Never again, will you forget or misuse a function.
Published: Sun, 11-15-09 05:44 AM

Java5 officially dies today. Let us mourn the passing of a revolution in Java development and look at the legacy he leaves us.
Published: Fri, 10-30-09 11:54 AM

REGRESSIVE TAXES & REGRESSIVE SOCIAL PROGRAM CUTS are those which affect mainly those at bottom of Tax Structure and virtually give HAVE-MORES A BYE! Governor Paterson, why are you acting like a Republican! Robin Hood robbed the Rich, not the Poor!
Published: Mon, 11-23-09 10:22 PM

Although GENERIC Drug Prices have dropped, BRAND-NAME DRUG PRICES ARE SKYROCKETING! Disaster Capitalists are circumventing that deeply flawed HR3962! But Tabacco has THE SOLUTION! And it's SIMPLE!
Published: Fri, 11-20-09 10:18 PM

My housewarming: I made Baba Au Rhum, served on a heavy glass cake dish with heavy glass top. I removed the top quickly. Each guest got a whiff at the same moment. Serious swooning occurred. I turned away..when I looked again, Baba was long gone!
Published: Sat, 11-21-09 01:49 PM

When it comes to China's cultural icons you don't get much bigger than the Great Wall. It has stood for over a thousand years, enduring the elements and sporadic attacks. But now it faces a new threat. Commerce.
Published: Tue, 11-24-09 03:21 PM

Are Angolan gangs targeting Chinese workers?
Published: Fri, 11-20-09 09:07 AM

It's an age old story, and one that's all to familiar to Western companies dealing with China. You create a product - expending time and money on research, development and design - then you find a business partner to manufacture and/or distri
Published: Wed, 11-18-09 09:32 AM

Logging has been banned from within 30 feet of certain streams that are well, suited for spawning and for  feeder streams to spawning ground.  The shade from trees near such streams keep the water cooler to enable successful reproduction.Ti
Published: Tue, 11-24-09 01:02 PM

A Facebook page took a message from a 2005 South Park episode and called November 2oth, a "Beat a Ginger boy".  The episode might have actually been an attempt to show how unfair discrimination is. But the facebook page seems to have b
Published: Mon, 11-23-09 02:31 AM

Jon Stewart reminds us that there are things in life for which we can be unthankful. thankfully. I know, I'm sick of being told to be thankful for this and that already. And S
Published: Sun, 11-22-09 12:16 AM

Can you imagine this bimbo explaining this one to her grandchildren forty years from now?  That is, if she can get laid to bear any children in the first place!Another “classy” tattooBible verses and tramp stamps — the perfect
Published: Sat, 11-21-09 11:56 AM

The following are your scores. They are based on a gradual range of 0 to 12. For instance, a Conservative/Progressive score of 3 and 0 will both yield a result of social conservative, yet 0 would be an extreme conservative and 3 a moderate conservati
Published: Thu, 11-19-09 08:34 PM

The other day while out driving, I was monitoring the Neal Boortz show, looking for ranty blogging fodder.  And, as is almost always the case, I found what I was looking for.Because it was Veteran's Day, he was relating anecdotes with that t
Published: Tue, 11-17-09 08:31 PM

It's a tough time in the news business, with lots of layoffs and red ink. So it's especially important for an organization like the Associated Press, which is cutting 10% of its staff, to allocate its limited investigative and reporting ...
Published: Fri, 11-20-09 09:04 PM

As far as dangerously inane commentary on Hasan's Ft. Hood jihad goes, I thought it would be hard to top "pre-traumatic stress disorder" and "it's not illegal to call up al Qaeda, is it?" -- but I was wrong. Naturally, ...
Published: Thu, 11-12-09 01:44 AM

To those who have served, and to those who serve today: Thank you. It is the Soldier, not the minister Who has given us freedom of religion. It is the Soldier, not the reporter Who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet...
Published: Wed, 11-11-09 12:47 AM

With hate protruding from her eyes she yells as if a serious wrong is being done unto her "Ya'll are just flunkies, you don't even have your own mind, you can't even think for yourselves!"  Then with an evil grin she sneers
Published: Sun, 11-15-09 05:06 PM

GOD IS GHOSTAs a nuwaubian moor who adheres to the teachings of the Holy
Published: Sat, 11-14-09 07:44 PM

A Somali woman of 20 gets stoned to death for adultery. The question remains about the man, the need for mercy and why people allow themselves to be lead in this way.
Published: Thu, 11-19-09 06:15 AM

My third course of chemotherapy reveals much about people and the comforting thoughts that go into medicine delivery systems.
Published: Mon, 11-16-09 10:46 AM

My visit to the hospital in Friday brought on a few more things, stronger medicine for the pain, another course of chemotherapy, the snipping away of necrotic skin at surgery and another X-ray of my foot.
Published: Mon, 11-16-09 10:45 AM

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Published: Mon, 05-04-09 12:51 PM

really, can I?
Published: Fri, 03-20-09 09:34 PM

movies, dang doggy and other stuff.....
Published: Sun, 02-15-09 07:59 PM

MRI imaging is not the horror that it's made out to be
Published: Sun, 11-01-09 06:26 PM

Do All-American Pet Brands products actually exist?
Published: Sun, 09-06-09 06:57 PM

Be careful what you wish for your government to do for you.
Published: Tue, 09-01-09 03:39 PM

Every little bit helps:An ad hoc group of rabbis is organizing a monthly communal fast to protest Israel's actions in Gaza.Called Ta'anit Tzedek -- Jewish Fast for Gaza, the water-only fast will take place on the third Thursday of every month
Published: Sun, 07-12-09 06:04 PM

Does this surprise anyone about the Republican Party?Audra Shay, accused of endorsing racism on Facebook, became head of the Young Republicans on Saturday. John Avlon uncovers new details about her disturbing online comments.Thirty-eight-year-old Aud
Published: Sat, 07-11-09 09:17 PM

President Obama has a lot of explaining to do:Recently, an Army National Guardsman and Arabic translator who openly challenged the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, was recommended for discharge by a military administra
Published: Sat, 07-11-09 09:04 PM

Wednesday, January 21, 2009   Israeli claim: Iran elite forces killed in Gaza War TEL AVIV — Israel's military killed several Iranian military advisers deployed in the Gaza Strip, sources said. The Israeli sources said
Published: Fri, 01-23-09 11:41 AM

A Few Words In Defense Of Our Country Goodbye America Now, lets move on to that much vaunted Inaugural Ball My Inaugural Address The Scorpion and the Frog   One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he w
Published: Sat, 01-17-09 07:22 PM

Last update - 06:47 06/01/2009Three Israel Defense Forces soldiers from the Golani brigade were killed and about 20 others wounded, one critically, after an errant IDF tank shell hit a building in which they were operating. The fir
Published: Tue, 01-06-09 12:00 AM

It took this to bring me out of my blog hibernation:President Obama’s plan to deliver a speech to public school students on Tuesday has set off a revolt among conservative parents, who have accused the president of trying to indoctrin
Published: Thu, 09-03-09 09:47 PM

In his continuing quest to create conservative mountains out of liberal molehills, Gary Randall presents us with a case government seeking to censor the Bible, and thus free religious expression:We are now learning that his nominee for the Supreme Co
Published: Thu, 07-09-09 06:48 PM

None of this should be surprising to anyone who pays even cursorary attention to how labor is treated in this country:Members of the state's congressional delegation said Tuesday that Boeing is laying down an ultimatum to its biggest union:
Published: Wed, 07-08-09 08:04 AM

The SVN commit emails that I blogged about previously don't quite match the expectations I had, given the rich emails that CVSspam produces.The commit-email.pl script can certainly be hacked to your own preference but an alternative is to use SVN
Published: Mon, 08-18-08 01:38 PM

If like me, you're accustomed to receiving email notifications when anyone makes a CVS commit in your projects, then you'd want the same when you're project source is stored in Subversion. Thankfully Subversion makes it fairly easy via a
Published: Thu, 08-30-07 12:25 PM

A whistlestop guide to turning your Mac Mini into a fully functional mail server
Published: Thu, 11-30-06 04:31 AM