Sleepy Old Bear Diaries

            First of all, parents openly expressed their resentment against girls when they were born, and uniformly neglected them.  When a girl was born, fathers were often reported to “fling it on to the bed by the mother so violently that he might have broken its spine.” The result was that newborn [...]

Anarchists Plan to Disrupt GOP Convention 
Intrepid reporter Jack Kemp is walking into the lion`s den in Minneapolis; anarchists and radical left-wing thugs are planning to disrupt the convention, including slashing the tires of Republicans and throwing urine on them, plus assaulting police officers and block traffic.  This report from Pioneer Press at TwinCities.com gives us the story.
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HAVANA —  A Cuban punk rocker known for his raunchy lyrics criticizing Fidel Castro was convicted of public disorder Friday, but freed after a court dismissed a more serious “social dangerousness” charge that could have sent him to prison for four years.
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… is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen.

Yech! Awful pix. Oh well, gotta leave ‘em now.
Memo to self: Do NOT use the digital zoom on a cell phone camera.
 
Has anyone seen Deborah and Joel in Scotland or England?
 
We haven’t had any communication since Deborah wrote from this same airport early Sunday morning.
 
I guess that they aren’t thinking too much about us at [...]

If there is no God
Dennis Prager lists 14 disadvantages of unbelief
–WND
 
 
 

If there is no God
Posted: August 19, 2008
1:00 am Eastern
© 2008  

We are constantly reminded about the destructive consequences of religion – intolerance, hatred, division, inquisitions, persecutions of “heretics,” holy wars. Though far from the whole story, they are, nevertheless, true. There have been many awful consequences [...]

Petty Officer Joel and Mrs Deborah Mullan.