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Okay...I haven't posted in some time but just thought this was funny and had to post somewhere. I'm a bereaved father and author of several grief recovery and support books. I'm working on my sixth book now - this one discussing the return to work following the loss of a loved one. Regardless, I was just curious about the proper use of the words "toward" and "towards" and of course went off to the interwebs to research. There I came across the website Learner's Dictionary and got what I wanted (both correct - writer's choice...just use them the same throughout...

Excuse the vanity post but I just picked up a new Ruger P95 9mm. I figured it was the right time. I'm not a stranger to handguns, carrying the .45 back in the Corps and then transitioning from a wheel gun to the Sig 9 (226 I think...or 228 - one was bigger) when I was a cop...but I left that over a decade ago and I haven't had a handgun since. I am almost ashamed to say, I didn't leave with much memory either...they gave me rounds - I shot rounds - qualified well 4 times a year and...

Daniel James Murray Charged With Making Threats To Kill Commander-In-Chief Suspect: 'We Are On A Mission To Kill The President Of The United States' Reporting Mary Calvi Federal prosecutors have charged a New York man with making threats to kill President Barack Obama, but they still haven't found him. Authorities believe he's driving a car with New York plates. While Obama tours overseas, Secret Service agents back in the US are searching for a man they say has threatened the president's life. Daniel James Murray – who investigators say drives a blue 2001 Buick LeSabre, New York license plate RL1445...

There are many posts of FR, as well as many news articles about ACORN, George Soros and Obama that already lay out the ties I will in this post. Yet, I knew little about it until I really started looking in to it. We have experienced a coup and we remain asleep. America did not speak. The financial meltdown was orchestrated to perfection, the election was stolen using ACORN and the MSM silenced through intimidation...All by George Soros. Our country HAS BEEN STOLEN. I post this, as well as the synopsis below, only because I never gave it the attention...

Happy Friday!!!! Beer lover here. Not a connoisseur, but a little above a warm PBR you might say. I have been thinking for sometime about brewing my own. I have the room, time and enjoy a good hobby as much as the next Joe...and I figure since I can change the head gaskets in my car, recharge the A/C in the old truck and know my way around the kitchen pretty well, I can do this. I was looking around the web and there are kits and forum sites, etc, but I figured asking for some general advice in a...

Bailout Overseer: Treasury Overpaid By Nearly $80 Billion UPDATED WITH FURTHER COMMENTS FROM BAILOUT OVERSEER: Harvard econ Prof. Elizabeth Warren, testifying before a Senate Banking committee hearing underway now to judge the performance of the $700 billion bailout, said that the Treasury overpaid by $78 billion in its first round of investments into troubled banks. Warren said that Treasury spent $254 billion to purchase assets whose actual value was only $176 billion, "a shortfall of about $78 billion," she said. Warren said Treasury failed to "price for risk," and used a metaphor to explain: It's as if Treasury was looking...

December 9, 2008 Obama Shifts Schedule Following Gov's Arrest @ 10:54 am by Michael O'Brien President-elect Barack Obama has shifted his morning schedule amid the arrest of his home state governor Tuesday, pool reports said. Federal authorities alleged in a complaint against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) that, among other things, he sought to glean political or financial benefits in exchange for his appointment of a successor to replace Obama in the Senate. "President-elect Obama was scheduled to travel this morning to the Chicago FBI briefing before his mid-day meeting with former Vice President Al Gore," wrote the Wall Street...