Japanese musician Kitaro has had a long career ranging back to the late seventies. He initially traveled Asia studying different forms of local folk music.
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Many devout, sincere and decent people on the Right continue to be manipulated by a few cynical groups and individuals in search of money, with a touch of racism.
Over the last few years there have been many instances where spokesmen of the Rabid Right have created controversies out of whole cloth in order to energize the GOP base or to increase ratings and income for themselves. A few examples (more. . .)
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Filed under: Conspiracy Theories, Cultures and Lifestyles, Politics
Living a life of love is the most important thing for someone to do. Not only does this make life enjoyable for that person, but it makes everyone around him or her happier, too. I’ve compiled a short list of things below that I believe are essential to living in love.
First of all, give. Give of your time, your money, your food, yourself. One of the most precious things (more. . .)
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I don’t think I have the perfect husband, but he is perfect for me. I love to talk with him, look at him, and just spend time with him. It’s true that too much time is no good, but I never get sick of him. Unless he’s acting annoying, of course, which sometimes he does on purpose just to get me in a tizzy. But anyway, he is a gem. (more. . .)
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USA | 2006/2008 | Directed by Bill Corben
Loglines: The true story of the smugglers and law enforcement in Miami, Florida, which became the cocaine capital of the world during the 70s and 80s/The true story of a Californian street kid who, during the 90s, became the right hand man to the cocaine queen who had masterminded the Miami coke trade of the previous decades. (more. . .)
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Nerds!
As much as we probably all admit to being way too cool to ever be considered one – we all have a soft side for them.
But who are your favourite nerds?
While in real life – Bill Gates would probably rank right up there – on the small screen at least I’ve compiled my own list of personal favourites. . . . so without fanfare (and in (more. . .)
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Filed under: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Classic TV, Pop Culture, Television
These are books to be read on the beach, gin and tonic in hand.
Seymour Hersh in the New York Times has written about secret plans of the Central Intelligence Agency to establish and train teams of agents who would be entering foreign countries for the purpose of killing al Qaeda leaders, followers and sympathizers. The proposed program, started in 2001 following the attack on the World Trade Center, was (more. . .)
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At 10AM today, I was in my car driving to pick up my wife from work, she was just finishing her shift.
While driving, I sometimes listen to the ABC talk radio program, where people can phone in and ask advice from a well known lawyer.
Well today’s program contained a surprise.
Some old man phoned in to say that his son owned a blog site (more. . .)
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One of my friends, Robert ~ who just happens to be a staunch Obama supporter, got a first hand lesson in the reality of the Obama driven economy yesterday.
This real person and friend is an industrious individual, and works for himself. His income is consistent with other start up businesses and to say it is spotty is kind, but the truth is, it’s more like a long drawn out (more. . .)
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Last month, I was unceremoniously deposited into the ranks of the unemployed early retirees, my lovely wife insisted that I indulge her whims and accompany her shopping ~ even to them Lady Things stores. That’s just wrong, but I did my best to go along and not be too bored. Y’know what? That Freddies store isn’t to god awful to visit, but the others fill me with the terrors.
Well, (more. . .)
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When those sophisticates in California and parts back east look into the mirror to view their mental image of high chic, what is it that they are viewing besides a rail thin wraith in designer clothes, mustache, attitude and padded everything? Many of those elitist fashionistas are highly educated, sexually frustrated, shells of womankind that seek to find a purposeful life via serial affairs, political alliances, mate choices, careers as (more. . .)
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Living in a world class travel destination, Alaska, with all of it’s wondrous beauty, scruffy but magnificent wildlife and quirky populace sort of grows on you and you tend to have a love~hate affair with it, until you discover that it has always been home. Generally, I love everything about Alaska, well . . . OK, the mosquito and no see’um population is a constant source of irritation during the (more. . .)
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Most everyone knows a little bit about the Rorschach Test. A series of inkblots is shown to a patient who must then interpret what the obscure blot of ink on paper looks like to them. There are no right answers, but patients are evaluated on their perception of the images.
Recently, an uproar has arisen in the medical community concerning the leaking of the entire series of 10 inkblots into (more. . .)
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For those that do not know, my wife is a 4th grade teacher here in Oklahoma. She recently took a two day professional development workshop on “Digital Storytelling.”
Digital storytelling is basically just what it sounds like. You take digital images, either pictures you have taken or have found online and create your own little story. You then overlay some background music if you’d like, (more. . .)
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New Hannah Montana Glow In The Dark Condoms?
Miley Cyrus has been offered $1 million by LifeStyles Condoms to become their spokesperson. The company’s marketing VP Carol Carrozza said, “Pop culture proves that teens are more ready than ever to discuss the subject of sex.” She went on to say, “Recent reports showing one in four teen girls have a sexually transmitted disease paired with the teen pregnancy rate makes (more. . .)
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Proof Males are Attracted to Large Female Breasts from an Early Age
A five year old Denton, Texas boy decided to go on his own little field trip while at an Imagination Station daycare center. Deborah Pugh, the daycare owner, claims the boy asked to go to the bathroom before he disappeared, and that the boy’s father arrived just minutes later. She also said that the workers had realized the (more. . .)
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Judge Allows 9 Year Old New Zealand Girl to Change Name
We may have just found the worst legal name for a person EVER!
In Wellington, New Zealand Judge Rob Murfitt is allowing a nine year old girl to change her name. He commented, “The court is profoundly conderned about the very poor judgement which this child’s parents have shown in choosing this name. It makes a fool of the (more. . .)
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I, and many others, have written about the willingness of the Bush-Cheney administration to expand the authority of the president to beyond the imagination and fears ever before imagined. We witnessed torture, extraordinary rendition whereunder a person would be secretly transported to foreign countries with even fewer scruples against brutality than Mr. Cheney possessed and warrantless wiretaps of conversations of United States citizens, warrantless because there was nothing to present (more. . .)
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I was on my way home from work, and I passed a little shop called “Abundant Treasures.” I wondered what was in that shop. Some kind of gift shop filled with cards and trinkets and teddy bears? Or maybe a thrift store, smelling dank and dusty with lots of stuff on the cheap. Whatever it was, I didn’t stop to look. I wondered, but I didn’t pull the car over (more. . .)
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James, or Jimmy to those who irritate him, asked for a short Biography. He allowed us to know that he fished, didn’t do well at school and was an elephant circumciser. I knew he was an expatriate Scot, due to his late night emails reeking of single malt whisky.Jimmy, your fifteen minutes of fame is upon you.
Life, for our hero, was quite uneventful in the early years. The (more. . .)
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