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What's behind Barack's bad picks?

When I was a child, I looked up to see all that was, now its just reversed and I look down to see what I missed. At times it's like the two meet in between and the past comes up to meet me as I fall directly into its path:

Summer came late that year, slowly uncurling and with seemingly great effort, she rose from the frost-covered grass, wiped her eyes clear with the last bit of passing fog and looked down upon the small boy and his cock-eared dog scurrying about on the remains of what appeared to be a homemade battlefield of sorts. There, on the ground ,were bits and pieces of white plastic, tattered paper shards, a few greyish-white, silver dollar sized discs of single-ply cardboard and literally dozens of displaced tiny craters of splotchy dirt. The dog, nose to the ground, was sniffing determinedly about while...

More outrageous schemes to stop Climate Change, must read whole thread.

Occasionally people mistake me for a retired professor, not encouraged; more often they think I'm a poor speller; in an earlier life I was one of the first kicked off for excessive vanities and pled my way back on (something I'm still unproud of); this weekend I became for the first time a sports nut; not sports in general but one underrated, unappreciated team resurrected by an audacious break with political correctness, rescued by a frustrated coach and victorious climaxes.

My wife is not very political but after so much shouting from the garage she wanted to know what was my problem; so I told her all the stuff about Joe the Plumber and she hadn't seen the original full length video of the meetins on Joe's lawn and The One..

My wife and daughter have been all around Nashville, Tn. looking for Gerber baby bath and all the stores have none; does anybody know if it has pulled from the market? If so does anybody know why?

Into the village of Perfect one day came limping this bedraggled and scruffy dog upon three legs. So sad the dog did seem to be that the hamlet’s sole Holy man was taken hold as though by a flash from above in his pity and shame for the creature’s suffering and loss of pride which imaged that of the people who milled about the square as the poor dog hobbled his way amid them. The people, thought the Holy one, they see not the dog, as they see not their own slowed and stilted gait as the village’s name had...

What we have just witnessed was the collapse of the Reagan Conservative movement; it began right after Bush-the-Elder reneged on his No New Taxes pledge and crumbled after sputtering through eight long years in the Clinton desert only to gasp and kick fitfully on a cold, winter's evening while Bush-theYounger was off making nice with the Palestinians.

Carbon taxes are coming; carbonless fuels are being demanded; carbon dioxide is now viewed as a pollutant. Just how dependent are we on carbon and all the products utilizing carbon for our daily activities? I can only name two items in my entire household that contain zero carbon in their makeup; can you do better?

Everytime I download Shockwave I get a message saying successful but it won't go on.

Have you ever had your heart stolen? I mean just a drop-dead moment in time when you knew that you had to do what needed to be done.

The past ten days I have been getting ad windows while my hard drive spins up and I can only see the ad when I exit. I downloaded and paid for Spyware Doctor after it told me that I had 166 "infections" and set the "on guard" function assuming it would remove the infections. They are still there and every time I try to find a removal tool it only gives me the option of scanning. Have I been had?

At the height of the landfall of Dennis, I couldn't get into FR. Earlier today I had the same problem. Can anybody tell me if this was a server problem or did I do something wrong?

Mayhem reigns in my household; my wife and daughter just got back from Great Lakes where my future son-in-law graduated from basic training and is directly entering A school. She borrowed a camera to record the events, a Samsung 8MM SCL901 which, when plugged directly into the AV inputs of the TV works fine to watch it, but when plugged into either of the VHS recorders we have here won't record. What am I (we) doing wrong?

My only daughter's boyfriend of three years and my future son-in-law will be graduating from boot camp on the 13th of March and we will have to drive to Great Lakes, Illinois from Nashville Tennessee on the 17th and spend the night; none of us knows the area.

I took my usual seat by the door so that I could enjoy the breeze that stirred the leaves on my worn notebook, now tattered by days of scratching, rubbing and starting over. Each time a leaf fluttered briefly I looked up expecting to see what I had come for only to turn back to my worn nub of a pencil wondering why I had ever accepted this assignment in the first place. “Go to a public place; write a descriptive narrative,” the E-mail instructed. How more public could a place be than the Newtown Public Library? Well, here I...

Okay, so I'm off the forum for a few hours, why did it change?

A little while back I posted a comment that my D:\ drive partition had suddenly become corrupted and failed; try as I might, I can't get it back; since then, other mysterious molasses-mix malaise has bogged down my bodacious big-bucks budget-busting hustle to be the firstest with the mostest attempt at competing with the fast-fingered ever-alert avantgarde here on this oft-visited site...

Spy Sweeper is more like a nanny than a maid; MS Windows is a nag; I bit the bullet.