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Minority Report
Minority Report Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Sci Fi | Thriller Year: 2002 Actors: Peter Stormare | Colin Farrell | Samantha Morton | Tim Blake Nelson | Tom Cruise | Max von Sydow | Steve Harris | Neal McDonough | Patrick Kilpatrick | Jessica Capshaw | Richard Coca…
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Solar Powered Products, Eco-Friendly Lighting
Solar Powered Products, Eco-Friendly Lighting May 4th, 2008 by Blake in Website Designer Fifteen Degrees Corporation inQbation™ is pleased to announce the launch of eco-friendly startup company, Fifteen Degrees Corporation. Fifteen Degrees ambitiously plans to drive the solar powered market…
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Washington, DC: Union Station
I spent a lot of time walking around town today, with two goals in mind: First of all, to work on my tan, and secondly, to take pictures for my upcoming posts about DC houses and neighborhoods. However, I also ended up popping into Union Station to look for some shoes. Union Station is a very…
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Homily for the Feast of St. Athanasius
Friday, May 2 was the Feast of St. Athanasius, the fourth century bishop of Alexandria and doctor of the Church who defended the Nicene faith in the divinity of Christ. In a homily preached at the conventual Mass at the Dominican House of Studies, Rev. Br. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. preached…
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Fostering Greyhounds
Back in January, we decided that one of the volunteering activities we would like to do is to foster greyhounds as they come off the track. The Humane Society estimates that thousands of greyhounds are put to death each year because they simply cannot run fast enough to win. Breeders are only…
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On the Road
On the Road By Michelle | May 4, 2008 According to a recent Washington Post article, SUV and truck sales across the US have plummeted year-on-year. With average gas prices at $3.603 nationwide and as high as $3.892 (CA) or $3.747 (NY) in some states, this is hardly a surprise. The same…
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No Quarter for DC
(Photo: David Nakamura, Washington Post) After an instant smackdown by the U.S. Mint for suggesting that the phrase on DC license plates — “No Taxation Without Representation” — appear on the 2009 District of Columbia U.S. quarter-dollar coin, DC Government swiftly volleyed back…
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Getting muddy with President Bush
Getting muddy with President Bush May 4, 2008 – 4:08 pm These are some fun pics from Chris’s mountain bike rides with President Bush in the Washington DC area last Fall. It was a very rainy, muddy weekend and when Chris returned to the hotel he had to ask for a hose to clean his bike off.…
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Expect more prostitutes to hang themselves, US government says
The Bush administration and leading members of Congress issued statements today warning Americans to brace themselves for more prostitute hangings this week. White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said that the Bush administration and Congress received word from domestic intelligence sources…
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Week Around the Ists
Bostonist went to ROFLCon, a semi-academic conference about the internet and its enthusiasms, and ended up with a Brawndo hangover.Seattlest opened the floor to a few local hip-hop artists who were stirring about Reverend Wright’s controversial comments.Gothamist was amazed to hear that an…
Parents leave to head home back to Bossier City.
My Parents who arrive last week on Monday, April 28, just left town to start heading back to Bossier City, LA. They’ll stop by and see my brother in the Washington, DC area, then head for home. They’ll travel about 500 miles a day and stop a couple of times until they get home. The distance…
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Chomsky on elite policy and the “axis of evil”
Elite Policy And The “Axis of Evil” By Noam Chomsky The official story right now is that after having been forced to accept an agreement on dismantling its nuclear weapons facilities, North Korea is again trying to evade its commitments in its usual devious way-”good news” for…
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Papa John’s Hates LeBron, Angers Cleveland
Filed under: Cavaliers, Wizards, NBA Fans, Cleveland, Washington, DC … in which a national pizza chain of dubious quality lashes out at an NBA superstar and then faces the wrath of the entire state of Ohio. D.C. food blog So Good reports t-shirts bearing the number 23, the name “Crybaby”…
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Straight Man In DC
I found him on Craig’s List DC, a straight guy who was interested in exploring with another man. He was intrested in a hand job or a blow job and possibly oral. He described himself as 40 years old, married, in good shape, height and weight proportionate, drug and disease free. he was one of…
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Filmfest DC
The Washington, DC International Film Festival has been around for twenty-two years now, but this is the first time I’ve actually attended. Usually I’m too swamped by end-of-the-semester grading. This was true of this year too, but my wife wasn’t accepting that excuse, and I’m glad. We…
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Hillary Places Economists Beneath Large Transportation Unit [Gas Tax Holiday]
From this morning's ABC "town hall" with Hillary Clinton, about the gas tax holiday: STEPHANOPOULOS: "But can you name an economist who thinks this makes sense?" CLINTON: "Well, I'll tell you what, I'm not going to put my lot in with economists." Silly George, the Clintons don't listen to…
Freep.com Readers Discuss Stimulus Package
For real, someone really needs to get to her Spring Cleaning, now that Spring weather is finally here. I wanted to spend the day Spring cleaning, except their seems to be a lot I feel I need to share with my readers. In this article in the Freep.com is reader comments regarding the so-called…
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Stop Telling Me It’s Over
Salena Zito has a must read post on her Primary Colors blog that talks about the disconnect between superdelegates and voters. It’s a stinging rebuke of the Democrats’ nominating process, too. Joe Andrew, a Democratic National Committee chair for five minutes, lives and operates out of…
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Odd. I wonder how many men this has happened to.
Odd. I wonder how many men this has happened to. May 4th, 2008 Although, I wouldn’t necessarily consider what my daughter’s mother did as kidnapping, I most certainly can identify with the way that it all went down. I too came home after a long day at work only to find that my apartment,…
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Justice in cycling, cycling for justice
I’ve been trying to get back into cycling, not as an athlete — I’m no athlete &mash but as a commuter and for recreation. This morning I found myself relating to issues brought up today in a New York Times’ article about Times Up! tactics and sites like MyBikeLane.com, which are…
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"Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn?"
In the late 1800s, a German scientist named Hermann Ebbinghaus made up lists of nonsense syllables and measured how long it took to forget and then relearn them. (Here is an example of the type of list he used: bes dek fel gup huf jeik mek meun pon daus dor gim ke4k be4p bCn hes.) In experiments…
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The Wedding Madness Begins
The Wedding Madness Begins May 4, 2008 – 3:13 pm On Saturday Todd and I headed out with my parents to start checking out wedding venues. Definitely decisions are harder then I thought with this process! We had previously narrowed down the area based on the following thoughts: I wanted to…
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Defining a Nation's Patriotic Identity, Ambition, and Direction in the World.
By: Rev. JermanoThe International Institute of NonviolenceOpin.America's problem and other countries around the world is that they promote the memory lane of veterans who died in previous wars, as they are given the respect and dignity by their government in fighting and dying for their country.…
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New Jersey Devils…Your Nation’s Capitals
I am reading a really terrific book called ”Washington: The making of the American Capital”. The author of the book is Fergus Bordewich. The book details how Washington DC was chosen as the site to house our developing nations’ capital; how it was financed; and built and managed as a…
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Local Market Up or Down? Go Straight to the Source for Stats!
May 4, 2008 (By Geoff Schwartzman, Weichert Realtors) Photo by Geoff Schwartzman With the saturation of news and negative publicity surrounding the real estate market these days, it may be hard to understand exacty what is happening in your neighborhood. Most of the news I see on TV, even from…
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28 Houses In 51 Minutes: No Buyers, No Bidders
Twenty-eight houses sold in 51 minutes, each auction the final spin in a harrowing death spiral for 28 families that believed just a year or so ago that they had found security and comfort. On a blustery spring afternoon at the edge of a parking garage in Upper Marlboro, eight people stood in a…
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photo copyright protected © Brad Lewis. All rights reserved federal building dc 2 february 25 2008
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THE HIV Bowling washington dc SURGEON AND hellip.
THE HIV Bowling washington dc SURGEON AND hellip. May 4th, 2008 Fl color promo a img, fl color promo img border noneimportant. Com i msnbc Brenden theatres modesto Art SITEWIDE coverSpat test. Font family Tahoma, Lucida Grande, sans serif. Results of about, for Bowling washington dc. We went…
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[Video] Frantic 911 Call From Mother of 'D.C. Madam'
[Video] Frantic 911 Call From Mother of 'D.C. Madam' The mother of Deborah Jean Palfrey, convicted of running a high-end prostitution ring in Washington, frantically calls authorities after discovering her daughter's body at home. Palfrey hanged herself in a shed in Tarpon Springs, Fla. (May 2)
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Army-Navy 2007
The red, white, and blue displayed at half-time at last year’s Army-Navy game. The game was played in Baltimore - parking was a nightmare.
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The Final Season, Not Really Very Good
Image via Wikipedia The Final Season Just watched The Final Season and I have to admit that it wasn’t very good at all. Which is a shame because we grew up w/ Sean Astin and I really like a lot of stuff he did in the past. In fact, when I went to see Grease, starring Rosie O’Donnell , w/…
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Classical Music Agenda
Violinist Hilary HahnIf you have waited until the last minute to think of something nice to do for your mom on Mother's Day next Sunday, what about taking her to a concert this week? There are even a few concerts on the day itself. INSTRUMENTS: >> Joining the National Symphony Orchestra this…