Just a notice, I've gone through and cleaned out a few users from my flist.  Just got too much to try to parse through, and in many cases, there are users who I don't know who they are, or were added for a Memorial Day and never come, etc.

So, if you're seeing this cuz I'm still on your flist, and see that you're not on mine anymore but would like ( Read more... )

You're everything
That's why I cling to you.
When I emerge
My thoughts converge to you. 

So, been meaning to start posting Lyric of the Day type posts, as I tend to enjoy guessing along with
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85%

That either I setup the game pretty poorly, or not too many people read my crap, or not too many give a crap about Presidential politics, or else just can't read something that long on LJ.

Anyway, the answer was:  Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his farewall address to the nation, January 17th, 1961.  Full speech can be found at:

http ( Read more... )

In light of today's primaries, thought we'd play a game.

Behind the cut, there is a speech (it is a tad long).  Read the speech, then reply with answers or guesses to whatever you can:

1.  Who gave the speech?
2.  Republican or Democrat?
3.  Based only on the speech, would this be someone you could or would vote for?

Note:  I have made a few edits to ( Read more... )

http://glassbooth.org/

Pretty cool, you plug in how much you care about various political issues and where your stance falls, and it gives you how closely the candidates align with your views.

FWIW:  I clocked in with 91% agreement with Gravel, 85% Kucinich, 82% Obama and down from there.  Kinda scared that the highest match on the Republican side of ( Read more... )

(think a galloping old school Iron Maiden riff over and over...)

Riding, and riding, we search across the land
The snow, and wind, has frozen hearts of man
But we ride
We ride

Many days ago we left our homes with swords to ride into the night
Fighting side by side to destroy our foes and leave them without life

We stop, consider the land that we travelled
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Yes, it's official, I'm finally racing WRexie!

I'll be on the track between 9 and 12:30 Saturday morning, at the Bowie Baysox stadium parking lot, if anybody's as interested as I am in seeing if I'm any good, or if I make a fool of myself.

http://www.mscw.com/

In the unlikely event the Cubs make the WS, there are several AL teams that are doing lotteries for their tickets.  If you could, I'm asking everybody  to sign up for said lotteries - it's no obligation, you just enter, and if selected, you'll get an email within a day of the drawing with instructions on how to purchase the tickets.  You then tell ( Read more... )