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Colorado weather update

Colorado weather update

| September 21, 2009 | Reply

It’s been cold and drizzling all morning. Now it’s snowing. Heavily. For well over an hour now.  I’ll post photos and videos as soon as I can. Mind you, we don’t live up in the Rockies — we live south and east of Denver. We are, however, several hundred feet higher than downtown Denver. ..bruce […]

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Monday morning video

Monday morning video

| September 21, 2009 | Reply

Courtesy of Gateway Pundit. ..bruce w..

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Food for thought on a Sunday morning

Food for thought on a Sunday morning

| September 20, 2009 | Reply

Track-a-‘Crat tracks down this diagram that sums up current Leftist thinking. Meanwhile, Paco Enterprises offers up the following: Finally, Gov. David Paterson (D-NY) is introduced to the Chicago Way: President Obama has sent a request to Gov. David A. Paterson that he withdraw from the New York governor’s race, fearing that Mr. Paterson cannot recover […]

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Marvels of Modern Science

Marvels of Modern Science

| September 18, 2009 | Reply

My former wife has worked, at various times, as a registered nurse, a childbirth educator, and a licensed midwife. My (current) wife also worked as a childbirth educator. In fact, the two of them became best friends while working together as childbirth rights activists in Utah County, the childbirth capital of the nation. (How I […]

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Friday roundup

Friday roundup

| September 18, 2009 | Reply

ITEM: See the guy weeping above? This is the ACORN community organizer (the paper’s phrase, not mine) in San Diego who offered to help smuggle underage girl into the United States for prostitution. Turns out that ACORN actually fired him. NATIONAL CITY – Local ACORN officials reversed an earlier decision Thursday afternoon and fired a […]

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“Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1951)

“Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1951)

| September 16, 2009 | Reply

Fake movie trailer mashups are among my favorite videos on the ‘net. This one imagines a 1951 version of “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, staring Charlton Heston as Indiana Jones. Quite well done. with some great footage. ..bruce w..

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9/12 March on the Capitol: TV coverage

9/12 March on the Capitol: TV coverage

| September 13, 2009 | Reply

I would not believe it if I hadn’t watched this myself. The single best news coverage of the 9/12 March so far comes from . . . MS-NBC. No, really. No, really: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Keith Olberman’s head must be close to exploding.  Hat tip to […]

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9/12 March on the Capitol: some photos

9/12 March on the Capitol: some photos

| September 13, 2009 | 6 Replies

Sorry it’s taken me so long to post here. I tried last night, but I was so exhausted that I kept falling asleep while composing this post and resizing my photographs so that they weren’t each 5 MB in size. I was tied up here in DC pretty much all day today (Sunday) and got […]

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In Memoriam: Ronald Paul Bucca (May 6, 1954 – September 11, 2001)

In Memoriam: Ronald Paul Bucca (May 6, 1954 – September 11, 2001)

| September 11, 2009 | Reply

[This year, as part of Project 2996, I am also posting a memorial for Ronald Paul Bucca, the only NYFD Fire Marshall to die the course of duty — that duty being helping to save people in the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks. I can add nothing to this tribute by his mother, […]

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In Memoriam: Robert David Peraza (May 26, 1971- September 11, 2001)

In Memoriam: Robert David Peraza (May 26, 1971- September 11, 2001)

| September 11, 2009 | Reply

[This is slightly revised version of a post I made three years ago.] Robert (“Rob” or “Gringo”) David Peraza was 30 years old on September 11, 2001. He had earned both his undergraduate degree (1994) and his MBA (1996) from St. Bonaventure University, where he had loved to play rugby. He was now living in […]

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