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There is a reason you really only find Karaoke in bars......

Ummm, isn't that called Aladdin?

There were lots of different Native American groups with different beliefs. What I gathered from my quick research was that it is way more complicated than simply gay or straight as we define the terms. This was really interesting although I am just at the beginning of it. In Search of the "Berdache" This was fascinating too. Third-Gender Roles in Indiana-Area Native Americans

And isn't someone MHS Class of 2004?

I like this one.

Will

These are two of the many videos on YouTube that got to me. In this first one, you get an idea of how massive the wall of water is as it spills over the tsunami wall. Looking at the cars, the wall had to be over ten feet tall and the water breached it easily. Then at :48 you see cars moving in the background, unaware it seems what is about to hit them. It is so tragic it is indescribable because it was so preventable. In this one, if you blink, you miss the guy in the very beginning who looks like he is casually loading the back of a van as the first water reaches him and the car that turns left, just in front of the water. Higher ground was just around the corner so you hope they got to it. The last bit is the huge amount of debris that is floating towards the US including the gruesome prospect of human remains. The vast field of debris from Japan earthquake and tsunami that's floating towards U.S. West Coast

Santa Fe, NM, Durango, CO and Sedona, AZ were the first ones that popped into my mind. If you can get a cheap flight on Southwest to San Diego, that would be nice too.

14 and 14 because I don't see any way that Will & John will make it out of this story with out doing it. I was surprised they got through Chapter 5.

I think you'd find that a lot of people who are against gay marriage are also against divorce and see that since divorce has been become so easy the institution has been considerably weakened so I am not sure this blog post was all that brilliant.

The Chain of Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eATMYMOuc4 Toy Story 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSKJynYJO2Y&feature=related

Gee, there is a shocker. A sport where they all wear white flannel! They even have positions just for straight people like "straight long on", so who did you think was playing in "deep cover" then? Hmmmm

I liked it. I hope they finish the sequel.

A year at Cal is still cheaper than one quarter at Stanfurd. A year at Stanfurd is $38,700 ($12,900 a qtr) vs, $12,461.50 for the year at Cal. You are getting an Ivy League education at bargain basement prices.

is nonsense. If I buy something online from Barnes and Noble or Target or Macy's or Gap they bill and I pay my state and local sales tax. If these retailers can calculate sales taxes for every state where they do business, so can Amazon.com. For small internet retailers here's an opportunity for someone to provide a service so each retailer won't have to maintain all of the the state and local sales tax rates and do the calculations themselves. (Any budding entrepreneurs out there?) I'm willing to pay sales taxes on what I buy over the internet. It would simplify my life because I would no longer have to accumulate my online purchases and calculate the use tax for my California state income tax return each year. Yes, I pay the use tax. It's the law and I'm a law-abiding citizen. And I really don't want to be penalized by the Franchise Tax Board for not paying the use tax. Colin You miss the point that Macy's, Barnes & Noble, Target and Gap all have a presence in CA and that is the crucial distinction. The biggest argument from the online retailers isn't that it is too hard to maintain that database, that is a secondary concern. The main argument is that only Congress can regulate interstate commerce. If you go to Reno for the weekend and buy a book at Barnes & Noble in Reno, should California be able to collect sales tax for that? No, you didn't make the purchase in CA, you made it in NV. Congress, despite their money hungry ways, have several times specifically decided not to tax Internet purchases. It doesn't give Amazon an advantage over local retailers since they have to charge shipping and handling and that is usually the same or more than taxes.

Will would not be an emo in Malibu.

I have to honestly say while I loved the HMS Belvidera, I was very put off by the title of Chronicles of an Academic Predator, because I don't like predators of any kind (other than the ones that drones carry), but when I actually read the stories I was very impressed and the title just didn't seem to fit the story. If you could do it all over, would you keep the same name?

I thought Stef & Brad had replaced Old Man Pfister's cronies on the board? I wonder what is motivating the Old Man to stir up trouble right now? If I was Stef, I call a Point of Order and make the OM abide by the rules of 10 days notification to call a Board Meetin'.

Brad is just barely becoming mature enough to head the family, but not really and it is sexist to suggest that Isidore, as the matriarch of the family, wouldn't be considered the new head, that it has to be a man in the job. On one hand I'd like Alexandria, Brian, David all to die in a firey crash, but part of me also wants them to suffer the embarrassment of failure and collapse of Omega and the cap ventures of Dan Church.

What every cheesy couple chooses for their wedding song. "Could I have this dance for the rest of my life"

I started at Nifty as most people probably did, then I found the Fort, but they seemed a weird, closed bunch to me, then Just Us Boys, AwesomeDude, It's Only Me From Across The Sea.

Writing is just so hard. Even when you have on your head where the story is going or what the end result will be, putting the words on paper is just so hard to getthe tone and phrasing just right. I know friends who write professionally and they struggle all the time. Some of them have to come up with ideas on a weekly basis and some are hits and some are misses. Let's hope is Dom isn't in writer's block mode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPvAQxZsgpQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C9RbRD64AE The notes Pavorotti hits are unreal, the power, the clarity and the quality, unbelievable.