When you tell those pesky kids to get off your lawn, a quick puff of this would go a long way toward enhancing your credibility:

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Hilary remembers the day September 11th became etched in the minds of the warriors of jihad forever, and it wasn’t in 2001.
She tips her English hat to Kathy Shaidle, who reminds us of the details of that infamous day:
In 1683, over 138,000 Muslim Ottoman Turks surrounded Vienna, Austria. For two months they starved the 11,000 [...]

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This morning, trying to get a Flash plugin for my shiny new Mozilla Firefox 3 open source browser to work, I was compelled to google search for solutions that work around my particular issue, read through an online forum until I landed on the right process, download a plugin archive in .XPI format, extract it [...]

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I have a lot of bad habits. From eating late at night to getting angry over little things to my inability to let things go (that last one got me in trouble yesterday, and I’m feeling like a real jerk about it.)
Like most guys, marriage has cast a harsh light on my many failings. The [...]

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Eric, a reader of mine whom I have had the pleasure to meet in person, sent me a great question by e-mail the other day:
So sorry to hear about your insurance troubles. What a mess. The financial pinch you described in your blog post reminded me of a question I had about fair trade, buying [...]

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You decide.
If you look at the shape that frames God, and the flowing fabric that falls down from it — do you actually see a spinal cord?
“Now, what’s interesting is in Kabbalah we have different kinds of wisdom,” said Doliner. “The right side of the human brain in Kabbalah means wisdom — chokhma.” And [...]

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I always get really intrigued when I see stories about UFOs in the news. Especially when similar-sounding stories start showing up on the same day in Arizona and Florida.
With the preponderance of better cameras, camcorders, and even cell phone video, one would think that some better footage might emerge if these things are as common as people [...]

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Peacekeepers? Stormtroopers? Starship Troopers? Nope - the Peruvian Riot Police:

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Some smarty-pants figured out the way to line up the buildings on their increasingly worthless US currency hard-earned greenbacks with the actual buildings the artwork represents.
The results are pretty cool.

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At least, I assume they did. Someone anyway. Whatever the case, my geek-o-meter is going off the known charts.
The limeys have invented an effective cloaking device for a tank.

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