Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Feb 9, 2012, 4:25 pm
In the original Dragnet television series, we were told that the stories were true, but the names had been changed to protect the innocent. In this little story, I won't be identifying the other person because I really don't want the hassle that naming names would produce. Fortunately, it isn't ve...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Feb 7, 2012, 4:26 pm
Tuesday is nearly over - yet, I'll try to get a 3½ Time-Outs Tuesday out today.(Third shift really bites) 1) I came across a blog with a link to the White House website that gives "We the People" an opportunity to petition the White House. This link was to a petition to "Rescind the HHS Dept. Ma...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Feb 5, 2012, 9:01 pm
Not that he would even care if he knew, but Mark Shea's blog has been on the "un-link-to- list" for quite some time. For starters, I'm amazed at his dislike.....might I even say, hatred ...... for Michael Voris and RealCatholicTV. Shea is, of course, entitled to his opinion of Voris, but most of wh...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Feb 3, 2012, 10:15 pm
Atlanta archbishop asks Catholics to speak out against birth control regulations - Two news videos of interviews with Atlanta archbishop Wilton Gregory concerning the new federal rule requiring faith-based employers to include birth control in their health care plans.
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Jan 31, 2012, 8:00 pm
Not surprisingly, Richard Cohen slams the Republican Party in his recent piece in the Washington Post. A party of nitwits (in Cohen's estimation) the party has "turned hostile to thought, reason and the two most important words in the English language: It depends." In Cohen's world, the Republicans ...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Jan 29, 2012, 10:58 am
The title of this post is not a typo. You might think it should read "Babylonia Aivaz Marries in Warehouse". That, at least, would make more sense. Thanks to the one and only LarryD at Acts of the Apostasy I learned of Seattle activist Babylonia Aivaz's plan to marry a 107 year old warehouse.Larry...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Jan 25, 2012, 10:04 pm
People who don't care for Ann Coulter accuse her of being an extremist and "unreasonablness" personified. As a fan of Coulter, I'll admit that she can be provocative. However,in her recent column, (Re-elect Obama: Vote Newt!) her agruments for choosing Romney over Gingrich seem to me to be quite rea...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Jan 24, 2012, 2:55 pm
Hey, this is Tuesday, right? Here I am, all set to do a 3 1/2 Time-Outs Tuesday - but LarryD @ actsoftheapostasy hasn't done one yet......I can't link to his post if he hasn't done a post. I guess we'll call this an unauthorized 3 1/2 Time-Outs Tuesday.(after writing this, I see LarryD has finally p...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Jan 23, 2012, 11:16 am
Worried about the possibility that some states may "grant legal status to zygotes and embryos", Debra W. Haffner, Co-founder and Executive Director of the Religious Institute, writes in the Washington Post of  the religious case for legalized abortion. I was not surprised to learn that the, huh ......
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Jan 22, 2012, 2:39 pm
From jillstanek.com.......TODAY! Ask Them What They Mean by “Choice” Day:  Today is the tragic, terrible 39th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized the subsequent murders of 55 million children and counting. Abortion proponents call this “choice.” They ...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Jan 21, 2012, 4:27 pm
Etta James, dead at 73.  
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Jan 19, 2012, 4:49 pm
Realizing that this year may be his last opportunity to do so as POTUS, Barack Obama took his two favorite teleprompters to Disneyland this week. "These two guys are such an important part of my life", the President told reporters,"I felt we needed to do something special together as a family". Crit...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Jan 18, 2012, 5:28 pm
Yesterday, I participated in my 2nd 3 1/2 Time-Outs-Tuesday. The idea for this Tuesday event comes from blogger LarryD.  It's his take on  7 Quick Takes Friday at ConviersionDiary. It was Larry's 8th 3 1/2 Times-Outs-Tuesday. As you can see, it took several weeks for me to jump into the project. ...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Jan 17, 2012, 4:01 pm
Is it Tuesday already?Time for my second 3½ Time-Outs Tuesday.  1)A few weeks back, I was introduced to the writings of H. Rider Haggard. Haggard was a Victorian era English adventure novelist. It's said Haggard was an influence on Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard, among others. I've fini...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Jan 11, 2012, 5:10 pm
A recent image of Michell Obama as Marie Antoinette has been called a right-wing media smear, and racist. Is it?  This isn't the first time  someone has seen a resemblance. I've also come upon a similiar portrayal here and here.No word yet from the Liberals on the political correctness of compari...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Jan 10, 2012, 1:26 pm
I've been meaning to participate in LarryD's 3½ Time-Outs Tuesdays.....no, really I have, but it seemed so much like work - thinking of 3 1/2 things. It seemed like a good way, however, to put forward a few items that I've been thinking about, but have been too lazy to turn into full fledged blog p...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Jan 9, 2012, 4:29 pm
OK, I can understand the temptation to do a bit of photoshopping (or in this case- GIMPing) to make a statement. At acceptingabundance.com PZ Myers face was pasted onto a pro-life billboard in response to Myers having pasted a photo of onto the same billboard. I just wish the person putting Myers' f...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Jan 9, 2012, 2:51 pm
In an email today, Daily Events writer Tony Lee gives his prediction on tonight's Alabama vs LSU game tonight. After admitting his "Alabama biases" he predicts Alabama 31, LSU 13. I don't see that. In their last outing, LSU beat Alabama by 3 points. As much as I'd love to see LSU win this one as wel...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Jan 6, 2012, 1:07 pm
There are times when a complete and thorough understanding of certain political labels seems to elude me. What is it, exactly, that some folks mean by the terms "liberal" or "conservative"? Who sets the criteria? In my own case, I would generally consider myself a Conservative, but surprisingly, th...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Oct 29, 2011, 1:55 pm
In a recent post, Matthew Archbold posted a Youtube video of an ad for Herman Cain. That video is below : Now, according to a piece in the NY Daily News, the three daughters of former Utah governor and Republican presidential candidate, Jon Huntsman, have come up with their own video spoofing the H...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Oct 28, 2011, 6:13 pm
It was announced today that the company I work for will be closing down the location where I've worked for nearly 17 years. The plant's last day of operation will be Dec.27.......60 days from today. There's always the possibility that I could be transferred to another location.....should an opening ...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Oct 27, 2011, 6:07 am
The month of October is nearly over and I haven't written anything regarding the Rosary. To make up for the slight, I've decide to make available links to St. Louis De Montfort's "THE SECRET OF THE ROSARY FOR RENEWAL AND SALVATION" in both pdf and mobi for Kindle formats. Nothing I could write cou...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Oct 19, 2011, 5:23 pm
Too bad I don't understand Finnish........if I did, I'd know how I managed to get one of my posts onto a Finnish website. A couple of days ago, someone in Finland, who had taken a liking to my story about Al Gore suing the owner of the Sun for damages caused by global warming, put a link to it on ww...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Oct 18, 2011, 4:26 pm
I had been forewarned, so I knew what to expect. Actually, I'm one of the few who pays attention during our little ten minute meeting before 7 o'clock at work. Last week, our supervisor told us that the corporate office was a big supporter of the Susan G. Komen organization and she'd be providing pi...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Oct 12, 2011, 2:04 am
I recently joined the pro-life committee at our parish; I attended my first "Life Chain" this past Oct 2nd and attended my first committee meeting last night. I'm not going to attempt to relate everything we discussed at this meeting. However, I want to write about one particular discussion which to...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Oct 10, 2011, 5:46 am
... : "From day to day it becomes more and more evident how needful it is that the principles of Christian wisdom should ever be borne ... made towards securing the well-being of the body and of material things, but the material world, with the possession of wealth, power, ... is incapable of sati...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Oct 7, 2011, 2:24 am
From Christian Science Monitor: 99% Wall Street protesters boo CEOs, but mourn Steve Jobs. "He’s this weird, omnipresent, benevolent figure. It’s like losing the pope or something.”
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Oct 3, 2011, 4:27 pm
Yesterday, Oct.2 was Respect Life Sunday. Members from our parish participated in the "Life Chain" demonstration. You can't tell from this photo (taken from the Rome News-Tribune website) but I'd estimate that there were about 75 people there. The newspaper has this: "Dylan Bryant (from left), Mary ...
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Robert S. posted an article on Dumaguete website - Oct 1, 2011, 9:43 am
A few years back, I became affiliated with Cupid Media, posting links to their pen pal/dating websites. Following a tip from Google Adsense, I created a blog - Pen pal Website of the Week - as a way of getting these links out onto the Web. This blog help generate more commissions than anything thing...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Oct 1, 2011, 3:24 am
Part 15 of the Capt. Eddie Shields story chronicles the last email exchanges between the Nigerian scammer(s) and Wanda & Lucy. It was obvious from Eddie's final email, that he had discovered my blog. In his email, he made references to Fred and Lamont Sanford........I hadn't used those two against E...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Oct 1, 2011, 1:58 am
Re: the writing FROM: Capt.eddie Shields TO: Wanda Tuinphro Saturday, September 24, 2011 5:56 PM Hello Wanda, I got your mail, and that is a very nice write up, I have sent her the mail, but the problem now is that she might want to send the payment in Nigeria, and that would be a problem, though I ...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Oct 1, 2011, 1:46 am
Re: concerning Misty Meaner FROM: Wanda Tuinphro TO: Capt.eddie Shields Saturday, September 24, 2011 1:55 AM Dear Eddie, I have had very little sleep. I do not know what to do. I have no income. It was Misty's money that we lived on. Because Tennessee does not recognize our marriage, I cannot get a...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Sep 30, 2011, 1:59 am
Re: concerning Misty Meaner FROM: Wanda Tuinphro TO: Capt.eddie Shields Thursday, September 22, 2011 5:37 PM Dear Capt Eddie, As I told you, the bank here does not recognize my marriage to Misty and I do not have access to her money that's in the bank....I have no money of my own. We will have to fi...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Sep 29, 2011, 1:57 am
Re: concerning Misty Meaner FROM: Capt.eddie Shields TO: Wanda Tuinphro Tuesday, ... Details FROM: Wanda Tuinphro TO: Capt.eddie Shields Wednesday, September 21, 2011 ... Re: concerning Misty Meaner FROM: Capt.eddie Shields TO: Wanda Tuinphro Wednesday, ... FROM: Wanda Tuinphro TO: Capt.eddie ...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Sep 27, 2011, 3:35 pm
Misty is involved in an accident after leaving the bank. Her good friend, Wanda Tuinphro contacts Capt. Eddie. concerning Misty Meaner FROM: Wanda Tuinphro TO: d-usmilbase@blumail.org Tuesday, September 20, 2011 2:39 AM Dear Capt. Eddie Shields, My name is Wanda Tuinphro. I am a very close friend ...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Sep 27, 2011, 3:31 pm
Misty goes to the bank. Monday Sunday, September 18, 2011 10:04 AM From: "Misty Meaner" To: "USA Army" (d-usmilbase@blumail.org) Hi Cousin Eddie, On Monday morning I will contact my bank before I go to the gynecologist for my appointment. The bank will send the $4000 to the agent's bank account. I...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Sep 27, 2011, 1:54 am
... Harry Taylor" (harrytaylor@speed-track-travels.co.cc) To: mistymeaner Good Morning ... Michigan as instructed by the authorities Western Union Information below : Note the ... Harry Taylor" (harrytaylor@speed-track-travels.co.cc) It is Friday afternoon ... Taylor" (harrytaylor@speed-trac...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Sep 26, 2011, 5:01 am
Misty follows Eddie's advice and contacts Harry to see if he can fix the problem with Homeland Security. Re: FW: Content Of Your Trunk Boxes Tuesday, September 13, 2011 6:06 PM From: "Misty Meaner" To: "Harry Taylor" (harrytaylor@speed-track-travels.co.cc) Mr Taylor, After contacting my cousin, Mr...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Sep 25, 2011, 6:42 am
After receiving a "serious email from Homeland security" when they discovered the content of the two boxes, Misty looks to Capt. Eddie for help. Fw: Content Of Your Trunk Boxes Tuesday, September 13, 2011 2:27 AM From: "Misty Meaner" To: d-usmilbase@blumail.org Capt Eddie, The Dept of Homeland Sec...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Sep 24, 2011, 2:36 pm
In Part 5, Misty sent an email to Harry Taylor, informing him that she would not pay Homeland Security the $870 fee. Harry sent an email to Misty, letting her know that Homeland Security had opened the boxes, found the $40 million and now we were in serious trouble. The story continues with an emai...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Sep 23, 2011, 3:53 pm
Re: code Saturday, September 10, 2011 5:06 AM From: "Capt.eddie Shields" (capt.eddieshields@yahoo.com) To: "Misty Meaner" Dear Cousin Misty, I had to leave an urgent field ops just to mail you back as soon as I got a beep showing a mail alert from you on my phone. I am very much happy first of all ...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Sep 22, 2011, 3:45 pm
In Yesterday's post we met the delivery man, Harry Taylor. In this episode, Mr. Taylor tells us that there is a problem with Homeland Security. Problem With The Homeland Security Thursday, September 8, 2011 2:52 PM From: "Harry Taylor" (harrytaylor@speed-track-travels.co.cc) To: mistymeaner Hello Ma...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Sep 21, 2011, 3:42 pm
In Part 2 Capt Eddie instructed me to contact the Diplomat/Delivery man, Harry Taylor. The story picks up there........... Tuesday, September 6, 2011 6:14 PM From: "Misty Meaner" To: harrytaylor@speed-track-travels.co.cc Mr. Hairy Taylor, My name is Misty Meaner. I am the cousin of capt. Eddie Shi...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Sep 20, 2011, 3:56 pm
In yesterday's post I published the first email from a Nigerian scammer posing as "Capt. Eddie Shields". As you will see, my reply was short but sweet.........Eddie's first few emails are rather long winded. So, for a few days, I will only post one or two emails. I don't want to bore everyone with...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Sep 19, 2011, 4:24 pm
The first of September found me with writer's block and general ennui viz a viz the blogosphere. Out of boredom, I felt the time had come to bring Misty Meaner and company out of retirement. For those of you unfamiliar with Misty, "she", along with Lucy Ricardo, Fred and Lamont Sanford and Wanda Tui...
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Robert S. posted an article on Dumaguete website - Sep 19, 2011, 5:25 am
Realizing that the website needs a lot of work.......and knowing my knowledge of ccs is a handicap, I looked for and found a "web authoring system" that's helped me clean up the site. KompoZer. You can compare the current screenshot with the previous one. I think it's an improvement. I'm looking for...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Sep 18, 2011, 7:34 am
On some earlier blog posts which occasionally show up on the LinkWithin links (Images of Fetal Development and Images of Fetal Development Redux) I posted a link to some photos that were presented to Fr. Frank Pavone, at the time he was working at the Vatican. These photos showed fetal development f...
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Robert S. posted an article on Dumaguete website - Sep 18, 2011, 6:46 am
Not only has it been way too long since my last post on this blog, but I've seriously neglected the dumaguetecity.net website. After purchasing a new monitor for my PC, I discovered that the website looked horrible on a more up-to-date wide screen monitor. I was at a loss as to what I should do. Aft...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Sep 17, 2011, 10:32 am
It's been very nearly a week since my last post. Much of the blame can be placed on my having changed shifts recently, putting my circadian rhythm slightly out of whack. Not only that, but I have more time to spend with wife and son. With my new schedule, it's early to bed and early to rise; I'll re...
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Robert S. posted an article on Sorry,all the clever names are taken. - Sep 11, 2011, 8:50 am
On Monday, Sept.05 I posted a a link to a sermon given by Fr. Robert Barron. I actually posted this link for a particular person. Thanks to Google Analytics, I know this person visits my blog from time to time on his iPod. No need to provide so many details to those who have no idea who or what I'm ...
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