Today's dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny ... Slow start Monday, after a no-blogation weekend

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Some fun and funny links from around the blogosphere in the past week.

The Conservative UAW GuyCarnival Of Comedy

Point Five reports on Pat Robertson's apology for praying to the wrong Jesus. He also has the Fir...

What I woke up to this morning: The officer that responded said that mine was the fifth car with a broken rear window in recent days in the neighborhood; like in the other cases, nothing was taken from the car. So now my car looks like one of those mid...

Ok - everyone can try this game. It'll add some spice to the mundane. Rules: Let flowerbed go unweeded for an extended period of time. For example, 6 weeks. The game actually commences when your spouse pulls the "big weeds." (We had one threatening ...

The Mayor of New Orleans has ordered the immediate, mandatory evacuation of the City of New Orleans. Given the size, speed, and projected path of Hurricane Katrina, evacuation is an entirely reasonable, rational thing to do. The question, though, is th...

If you have read my blog on a regular basis, you know my wife is a Filipina who immigrated to the US from the Philippines after our marriage 16 years ago.

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We have a Lieutenant (LT) who serves as our Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC) Executive Officer (XO) – don’t you just love the way we military types make everything an acronym? And our LT is a character.

To quote the WHO, "I?ll tip my hat to the new constitution." The draft version anyhow.
Mark Steyn takes a look at what it entails in his Sun Times column today, taking apart the notion that, "As the deadline approaches, we read that the whole mag...

Thursday night KWTV in Oklahoma City ran a piece about homeschooled children in Oklahoma, which Sean Gleeson compares unfavorably to Orwell's "Two-Minute Hate". After looking at the transcript, I suspect...

Recently, I was reminded of the post that I had made about “copperheads” almost two years ago at my AOL blog, Palaver & Blather. It happened recently when I head that a grandchild of a church member was at a county park near here in...

Since most people have never seen the film from so long ago, here is a clip of the late, great Bob Hope inquiring about Zombies, of all things. Imagine, this was even before the Zombie Jamboree that took place in a New York cemetery when I was a tee...

I’ve written about this before and I’m going to keep writing about it because it bears repeating. If Cindy Sheehan has energized the anti-war movement, if she’s “ignited a prairie fire of sentiment against the war” that&...