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Monthly Archives: May 2008
On Scott McClellan speaking up now and not while he was the White House press secretary
Thursday, May 29, 2008
On Eight Bells and the controversy of horse racing in America
Thursday, May 29, 2008
“The wise man knows horses are good-that there is a profit to be made from all…”
From Kim
On relations between the West and East
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
“A Fool Lies Here…”
Now it is not good
For the Christian’s health
To hustle the Aryan brown,
For the Christian riles
And the Aryan smiles
And he wearth the Christian down;
And the end of the fight
Is tombstone white
With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear,
“A fool lies here
Who tried to hustle the East.”
On the American staff sergeant who used a Quran for target practice
Thursday, May 22, 2008
“The others, all new from Europe, suckled by white women and learning our tongues from books, are worse than the pestilence. They do harm to Kings.”
From Kim
On the biggest food price jump in 18 years
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
“Those who beg in silence starve in silence.”
From Kim
On the the train quarantined in Canada after after one person died and several fell ill
Sunday, May 11, 2008
“Few people can afford to play Robinson Crusoe anywhere—least of all in India, where we are few in the land and very much dependent on each other’s kind offices. Dumoise was wrong in shutting himself from the world for a year, and he discovered his mistake when an epidemic of typhoid broke out in the [...]
On the fifth anniversary of ‘Mission Accomplished’
Thursday, May 1, 2008
“They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young,
The eager and whole-hearted whom we gave:
But the men who left them thriftily to die in their own dung,
Shall they come with years and honour to the grave?
They shall not return to us; the strong men coldly slain
In sight of [...]