Monthly Archives: August 2008

Zimbabwe Park

August 20, 2008 – 1:03 pm

Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe pioneered a new trend in urban renewal by razing the slums around Harare and exiling the poor to the hinterlands and now Thai PM Samak has proposed to replace Bangkok’s sums with parks. As for poor of Klong Toey and other huddles of hovels they can move back to the country. […]

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Sioux Falls South Dakota 1958

August 20, 2008 – 12:57 pm

Click to enlarge The Harbor Bar might still there.

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TS Fay BJ

August 19, 2008 – 4:07 pm

Fay is passing over Palm Beach with 40-60 mph winds. The girls in the Kit-Kat Club asked me about what were our storm preparations. “I’ll sit it out in here.” The club was dark, the beer was cold, girls at the Kit-Kat Club were equally oblivious to the tropical storm. The only disaster of concern […]

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Obama ready to name #2

August 19, 2008 – 9:58 am

Vice President is a position of political purgatory. Candidates choose their running maters for their popularity in key states and the acceptance of an invisibility cloak after the election. Dick Cheney has been an exception although the Press has been so softball throughout the 8 years of GW Bush’s reign that most Americans can’t name […]

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Georgia On My Mind

August 18, 2008 – 3:16 pm

“We are all Georgians.” Ex-governor Huckabee of Arkansas reacted to John McCain’s transforming every American into an illegal alien by professing that he was more scared to walk the streets of America with 300 million new illegals than to stroll around Israel. “I felt more fear in American cities. I can walk down the streets […]

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