nourishing obscurity

1. Who preached in Asia Minor and in Scythia and along the Black Sea, as far as the Volga and Kiev? 2. Who was martyred by crucifixion at the city of Patras (Patræ) in Achaea? 3. Whose head was supposedly given by the Byzantine despot Thomas Palaeologus to Pope Pius II in 1461? 4. Whose [...]

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Wouldn’t it be lovely to go for a wander along this crunchy beach with someone nice, all rugged up?

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National security?  RAOFL! Oh how they’re so ready to lash out, just because they were caught with their pants down.  Just because they were outwitted.  Just because they were exposed.  A bunch of opinions, no more and Clinton is howling because of what?  Because the truth outed?  Because the U.S. spied on the UN?  Because [...]

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Drebin [turning to Priscilla Presley, as he walks out on her]: Oh, and one more thing – I faked every orgasm! He died at Fort Lauderdale Hospital, a big building with patients, but that’s not important right now. Vale Leslie Nielsen.

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Appropriate, eh?

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Here’s my Power Point presentation (25 slides) on The Laffer Curve, the impact of tax rates on GDP and on the rental value of land: Laffer curve, gdp and the rental value of land View more presentations from MarkWadsworth.

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No, not for the coming war for civilization but just concerning this little blog. It appears, Laze and Gem, that shortly after 5 p.m., I had a denial of service, which was different to the usual BT dropout.  I’ll not go into that because it can only be speculation but it did bring home the [...]

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Dearieme, waxing lyrical about this first piece, says: “Ah well then:” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU0WNE14RAY&feature=related

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What intrigues me in this one is the trellace-like structure at the bottom of the garden – what do you think it is?

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Megan O’Rourke – at the crossroads of beauty We all know of the C19th workingmen’s clubs and ladies guilds which were for the improvement of minds, for education and for entertainment.  Cherie did a post on The Women Chainmakers Guild – that’s the sort of thing.. There have always been, it seems to me, two [...]

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We’re getting to that time:

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Here we are again, readers and I have to do the nasty and put on moderation until tomorrow evening – if you only knew how much I detest moderation. I’ve nothing really to add to that. Until ten, I’ll check in and dig out the comments and post them and then tomorrow morning, I’ll give [...]

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Arizona:

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You have to laugh, don’t you? All right, so he may have had Di bumped off and he may want to cull the population to “sustainable levels” and the obvious rejoinder to this comment: Many of the older royals put others to shame with their energy and commitment to duty. This may be partly due [...]

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