Tag: leavworld
member name: Christopher K. Leavitt
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March 10, 2008 02:10 PM EDT --
Breaking news: NYS Gov. Eliot Spitzer is scheduled to have a press conference regarding his involvement in a prostitution ring. I have to leave for work right now, but I had to leave a post up about this. . . .
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June 14, 2008 02:50 PM EDT --
It seems that Republicans don't have a monopoly on "abuse of power." ( source )
An investor who bought a congresswoman's foreclosed home filed a lawsuit against the legislator . . .
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December 01, 2009 03:00 AM EST --
Well, this is an interesting story. The Swiss people, the ones who reflexively think of Americans as "bigots" or "racists," have just voted to ban "minarets" from being constructed on Mosques . . .
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March 24, 2008 01:23 AM EDT --
My man, VP Dick Cheney!
"On the security front, I think there's a general consensus that we've made major progress, that the surge has worked. That's been a major success," . . .
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June 14, 2008 07:07 AM EDT --
From the AP - Susan Atkins, the former Charles Manson follower who confessed to killing pregnant actress Sharon Tate during a murderous rampage in 1969, has a terminal illness and has asked for compassionate . . .
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December 22, 2008 04:23 AM EST --
I can see the darkness at the end of the tunnel. As a conservative, living just outside NYC, I am dismayed at the spread of "tax & spend" liberalism across the "heartland" of . . .
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May 06, 2009 01:54 AM EDT --
Democrats in Congress refused to fund the President's proposed shutdown of the Guantanamo Bay prison. There is good reason for this: it's a bad idea, with no plan for where to relocate the detainees. . . .
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October 10, 2009 07:34 AM EDT --
Pres. Obama has promised to donate his Nobel Prize money to charity. What's his favorite charity? Could it be ACORN?
-Just asking! LOL!
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April 04, 2008 03:21 AM EDT --
It's been hard to keep up with all of the developments following the fall of Gov. Spitzer. This story isn't just about "client 9," or sex with hookers. It's about a pattern of abuse . . .
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May 15, 2009 03:10 AM EDT --
I'm sorry to say it, but there seems to be a problem with the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker Pelosi has a serious credibility problem, which has been exposed by the recent "torture . . .
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November 25, 2009 07:58 AM EST --
Did anyone else hear about the scientists caught planting Bobcat/Lynx fur, to fudge results determining it's range area? I doubt it, but it happened , a few years back. They said they were . . .
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August 16, 2006 02:52 PM EDT --
My recent post, PROFILE THIS, is under editorial review at Gather, and is often not even listed when I look for it. However, it is still up on my LEAVWORLD: GRAFFITI POLITTI blog, linked HERE .
Also, . . .
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August 22, 2007 09:38 AM EDT --
As a native New Yorker, I grew up hating New Jersey. Every time I had to travel there, to see my cousins, it stank, for the first hour of the drive. In my teen years, this translated into a hatred of Bruce . . .
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April 09, 2008 07:26 AM EDT --
I'm no Dr. Thomas Sowell, but he's one of my greatest influences. He makes me think, and I give him honors for that. To Dr. Sowell: "Thank you, sir," and pardon my ripping off of your . . .
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April 14, 2008 09:42 AM EDT --
In a previous Gather post (also on my NEXTLEAV blog), I said " Now, I just hope Hillary's not having too many 'adult beverages.' " On cue, she gives us this image . . .
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April 26, 2008 10:40 PM EDT --
Imagine that you could "contribute" money to your employer, in return for benefits well beond the amount you pay them. It sounds like a good deal, until the company goes bankrupt. That's . . .
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July 03, 2008 07:20 AM EDT --
I wasn't really watching the clouds go by; I just took a couple of photos out the window at a good time of day to do that. It was actually a group of photos, but these two are all I'm sharing, . . .
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January 03, 2009 08:49 PM EST --
Gather saved my Christmas "bacon" again! As I wrote last year ( link ), my Gather Home Depot gift cards came in handy on Christmas eve, for last-minute shopping. This year, I got smart: I gave . . .
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February 03, 2008 11:32 PM EST --
The NY Giants have crushed the NE Patriots' dreams of perfection. I predicted this, and am proud of my hometown team. All of the prognosticators favored the Pats, except for Frank, the comedian, on . . .
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July 04, 2008 03:14 AM EDT --
Here's a link to a deceptively-titled WSJ op-ed by Karl Rove. Rove didn't write the headline, and doesn't suggest anywhere that Obama is trying to "buy the presidency." I believe . . .
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