Given that on the internet you can be anything you want,
it's strange that so many people choose to be stupid.
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I don't understand English. Lie, lies, lied. So far, so good. But one who lies is a liar. Why not lier? Where'd that "a" come from?
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The city of Kingston, NY, looks pretty sad. (Well, to be technical, it's not Kingston, it's Ulster.) Piper had told me that a lot of businesses were failing, and the number of jumpers off the bridges and other suicides had skyrocketed. I don't know that for a fact, that's just what he said.
Anyway, I went to the big local shopping strip, you know, Talbots, Coldwater Creek, Pier 1, a bunch of big box and chain craft, furniture, food, book, hardware, etc. stores along the highway, where everyone for a 30-mile radius shops, on Wednesday about 3 pm, looking for fans.
The parking lots everywhere were practically empty. The few people I saw in the lots and stores were ancient. Ancient enough that they were all bent over and moving very slowly. Where was everyone else? Not shopping, that's for sure.
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Remember when I said back during the Egyptian uprising that I was suspicious of the "help" of the Egyptian army?
Uh huh. I told you so.
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The Republican party will have their convention in Florida. They have banned water pistols, paintball guns, anything that will shoot liquids regardless of their degree of similarity to real guns, on the streets anywhere within x distance of the hall.
Um, they have not banned REAL guns, concealed or otherwise. Details here: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/water-guns-banned-handguns-allowed-at-gop-convention/
Duh? I guess it makes as much sense as anything else these days.
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The Chinese seem to be mostly very sensible people. But they screwed up royally with the "one child per couple" policy. Yeah, it did what it was supposed to do to slow explosive population growth. But now the chickens are coming home to roost. The parents under that policy are getting older. It is traditional that the children support the parents in their old age. With five children, each adult child shouldered 1/5 of the burden. But now each young couple has four elderly people to support, all by themselves, and they're having difficulty doing it.
Somebody didn't think ahead.
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I rarely watch team sports on TV. Baseball was on in the background the other day. I walked past, noticed, stopped, and watched for a while. Huh? I thought about that for a minute. Why am I watching this?
The behinds. Baseball players have pretty behinds. I was watching their behinds, not the game.
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