Best seller in the Philippines:
Inflatable mattresses...
they won't work in currents, but are life savers to get around in flooded streets.
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Hurricane turns around
(cloudy here, but no rain yet)
Philippine military honored for risking lives in rescue
And US Marine helicopters reach isolated victims.
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"Dreams of my father" was helped along by a ghost writer/editor...no big deal...
but if the choice of the ghostwriter was publicized last October, one wonders if we would be blaming President McCain for the financial mess?
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Linked for later reading: The Rwanda massacres killed people in both ethnic groups,
and many of the killings were personal payback...
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The Kraken breaks the Petascale...
(via Instapundit)
no not that kraken...
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Goodbye Gourmet magazine
It says a lot about the magazine that the only article in it that sticks in my mind was one about hiking Hadrian's wall...
whereas I actually used the recipes in Southern Living...
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Obama discovers a lot of docs don't own white coats.
Nowadays, lab techs and nurse practitioners wear them...
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Fiberoptics inventors and genetics wins in Nobel prizes
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British "history professor" never heard of Gettysburg:
"...So what exactly was this memorialisation all about? Who still cares for the American Civil War?"
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Mother Angelica and Deacon Bill Steltemeier win award from the Vatican.
Or, as her biographer called her: God's little Trojan horse on crutches.
"...When she launched into cable, she was 58 years old with diabetes, a bloated heart, a twisted spine, and two lame legs and $200 in the bank..."
That should have the liberals at the Catholic bishop's bureaurocracy having a hissy fit, because the bishop's network flopped, and when they tried to take over her network, she "gave" it to a lay board to run...
("EWTN is in 118 million TV households in 127 countries, doing everything from shortwave to podcasts".)And yes, we have it here in the Philippines..
Via The Anchoress
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