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Is the judge gay ?

Churchill and UFO’s

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I have a Nook. Before I had the Nook, I’ve had the BN e-reader on my crackberry for about a year. If it’s not in e-book format, I’m incredibly unlikely to read it.

Anyway, I’ve been looking forward to the release of Kat Richardson’s new book Labyrinth for months. I downloaded her last book on it’s release date. So, I got up this morning, promptly turned on the computer, and headed to bn.com. I can order the book. I can go up to BN and buy a hardback copy of the book (I called and asked). What I cannot do is download an e-book version of it. WTF? I went over and checked Amazon, and they don’t have it for Kindle either. What is up with that? All of her other books are out in ebook format! I want my eBook, dag-nab it!

http://www.caboodleranch.org/About_Us.html

By FRANK RICH

THE glittering young blonde in a low-cut gown is sipping champagne in a swank Manhattan restaurant back in the day when things were still swank. She is on a first date with an advertising man as dashing as his name, Don Draper. So you don’t really expect her to break the ice by talking about bad news. “The world is so dark right now,” she says. “One of the boys killed in Mississippi, Andrew Goodman — he’s from here. A girlfriend of mine knew him from summer camp.” Her date is too busy studying her décolletage, so she fills in the dead air. “Is that what it takes to change things?” she asks. He ventures no answer.

This is just one arresting moment — no others will be mentioned here — in the first episode of the new “Mad Men” season premiering tonight. Like much in this landmark television series, the scene haunts you in part because of what people don’t say and can’t say. “Mad Men” is about placid postwar America before it went smash. We know from the young woman’s reference to Goodman — one of the three civil rights activists murdered in Philadelphia, Miss., in June 1964 — that the crackup is on its way. But the characters can’t imagine the full brunt of what’s to come, and so a viewer in 2010 is left to contemplate how none of us, then or now, can see around the corner and know what history will bring.
This country was rightly elated when it elected its first African-American president more than 20 months ago. That high was destined to abate, but we reached a new low last week. What does it say about America now, and where it is heading, that a racial provocateur, wielding a deceptively edited video, could not only smear an innocent woman but make every national institution that touched the story look bad? The White House, the N.A.A.C.P. and the news media were all soiled by this episode. Meanwhile, the majority of Americans, who believe in fundamental fairness for all, grapple with the poisonous residue left behind by the many powerful people of all stripes who served as accessories to a high-tech lynching.

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I have blisters on my hands from digging 40 feet of trench today to re-route a leakingwater supply pipe from under my parking slab. It was in no way enjoyable.

This afternoon outside the Library I was waylaid by an Anglican (they are the current occupants of the storefront church beside the library). they were piping godawful homemade music onto the sidewalk and offering people “a hamburger or a piece of chicken”. I tried to stop her three times during the introductory schpiel and when she finally quit yapping I said “I’m catholic…..I’m afraid I might choke to death on it.” No response.

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I am going back to school (part-time) this fall, and I have to go take a math placement test today. 0 .0 I’ve spent the morning Googling things like dividing fractions, and there’s an amazing amount of math help on the net. I might actually be able to pull this off.