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Hawkeyes!
Today: … and one from the files for yesterday
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like …
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Snowpocalypse – Round Two…
Feb. 10 Strong winds and steady snowfall impede visibility on the National Mall and throughout the Washington region. Ricky Carioti-The Washington Post The winter of 1898-99 – that’s the last time the area saw this much snow. 54.4″ was the talley then – as of 1800 EDT today, we had accumulated 55.4″ (with more still…
Braindead Politicians
Black Five covers it well here as does John at Argghhh! $223M for a bridge to nowhere, but an additional $7M for troops suffering brain injuries? Nooo… Mere words fail to describe the depths this Congress continues to plumb. Pathetic. Lamentable. Wretched. Piteous. –umm, no, they all seem so…inadequate.-SJS
Scratch Hong Kong off the Liberty Port List…
(BBC – 6 Oct 08)Â China cancels US military contact: China has cancelled military and diplomatic exchanges with the US in protest at a $6.5bn deal to supply Taiwan with arms, US officials say. A number of senior level visits and military-to-military exchanges due before November would not go ahead, the US defence department said….
Praise and Thanksgiving
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.  Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.  Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and…