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Passport Outsourcing -
Your wonderful government outsourcing again ...
Despicable !
http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2008/10/23/u-s-passports-made-overseas-obscenely-profitable/
U.S. Passports: made overseas, obscenely profitable
Tom Barlow
Oct 23rd 2008 at 10:15AM
Filed under: Ripoffs and Scams, Transportation
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The Travis McGee Books
Many years ago I was introduced to the great series written by John D. MacDonald and read all the books at that time which I borrowed from my Uncle.
Travis McGee is the hero and Meyer is his great friend (a kind of Floridian Holmes and Watson) and they live side by side on their boats in the Bahia Mar Marina in Ft. Lauderdale. McGee won his ( Read more... ) -
A Tribute to Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops
Farewell, Levi Stubbs: His legacy in 3 classic Four Tops songs
Reach Out, I'll Be There (1966)
Bennedette (1967)
These songs particularly bring memories of summer in Seaside for me.
The Tribute is found at this link...
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... to dance around from quotegarden
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. ~Simone Signoret
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Manifest Destiny
This phrase came to mind this morning and I found the wiki page all about the concept.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_Destiny
Important reading, in my opinion, in these modern times of expansion !
Filibustering in Canada
Some filibusters persisted in secretive groups ( Read more... ) -
PC Problems
The Fan.
Hopefully we will be able to get it fixed on Monday.
I may even get a new computer for moi.
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The Texas Two Step -
From my friend Sybil ( Read more... ) -
Bumper Crop of Banners
Courtesy of new LJ friends and their politically correct posts and jpgs...
Happy to have met them.
lizzie9208 dustinhartman
Here's one of their contributions to the banner parade.
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