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The Yank Abroad: 2006-11
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Thoughts on politics, war, culture and food from a New Orleans native in London. Iraqi Casualties in Perspective. In Baghdad today, 133 people were killed in what appears to have been a co-ordinated attack from six car bombs in Shi’ite areas of the Iraqi capital. So what do the numbers mean? Looking at civilian casualty numbers for Spain during Spanish Civil War also casts some light. During the three years of that conflict about 300,000 civilians were killed, or about 8000 a month. What now in Iraq?
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The Yank Abroad: 2007-10
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Thoughts on politics, war, culture and food from a New Orleans native in London. Iraq and Afghanistan to Cost US $2.4 Trillion. Wow, was I ever wrong! Back in early 2003 when I was with Jane’s Defence Weekly, I estimated that the cost of a war with. For that same amount of money we could have put a colony on Mars! Not only would that have had the effect of unifying people with a new frontier, but the spin-off technologies would have probably led to whole new industries and an economic boom. Kate McCann i...
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The Yank Abroad: 2007-07
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Thoughts on politics, war, culture and food from a New Orleans native in London. Rail Privatisation Doesn't Work. In the UK the private sector’s entrance into public transportation has been a disaster. The cost-to-service ratio for privatised railways is shockingly bad. The UK has the highest-priced train system in the world and has the worst actual reliability and service in the EU, including at least most of the new entrants. So what is the government doing about this? As far as I can tell, this is a s...
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The Yank Abroad: 2007-12
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Thoughts on politics, war, culture and food from a New Orleans native in London. Every so often there is a story in the paper that makes you go, WHAT? The background to this is that a couple of years ago the government in the UK decided to give parking enforcement over to the private sector, you know, since it has worked so well for public transport. It’s a nice racket. Since the. Doesn’t have anti-racketeering laws of any real meaning, it’s a pretty safe business too. Letter to Royal Mail. The incident ...
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The Yank Abroad: 2008-01
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Thoughts on politics, war, culture and food from a New Orleans native in London. Republican nomination hopefuls Mitt Romney, the evolution-denying Mormon, and Mike Huckabee, the evolution-denying evangelical, are the two front runners for the US Republican Party nomination in. While both claim evolution is a fiction perpetuated by the Devil, they both refused to have last year’s flu jab this year because the influenza virus has mutated. Is just letting everyone know that North America has it’s own. Also,...
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Taking The Road Less Traveled: Happy Mother's Day Mom
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Taking the Road Less Traveled. A Journey to Finding myself. Quote of the Day. Women wish to be loved not because they are beautiful, good, well bred, graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves." Henri Frederic Amiel. Saturday, May 11, 2013. Happy Mother's Day Mom. Margaret Elizabeth Watson Shoulders. My Mom as a little girl. I can remember telling her when she spanked me that it didn’t hurt! And I would refuse to cry! Oh how my mother ever dealt with me I will never know! 8221; (My mother ...
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Taking The Road Less Traveled: The Southern Belle's Unspoken Rules to live by...
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Taking the Road Less Traveled. A Journey to Finding myself. Quote of the Day. Women wish to be loved not because they are beautiful, good, well bred, graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves." Henri Frederic Amiel. Monday, May 14, 2012. The Southern Belle's Unspoken Rules to live by. She pitched a good old fashion hissy fit! I mean the woman didn't even know what a grit was when she moved here! Y'all was a foreign word and she just didn't understand what all this "fixin" stuff was about&...
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Taking The Road Less Traveled: Arequipa, Peru...
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Taking the Road Less Traveled. A Journey to Finding myself. Quote of the Day. Women wish to be loved not because they are beautiful, good, well bred, graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves." Henri Frederic Amiel. Monday, July 19, 2010. Right about now I'm wondering what has happened to me in Peru? I've changed and grown as a person that much is true.but.it's something more than that. Is this crazy to feel and think that way? I mean after all I have only been here less than two weeks!
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Taking The Road Less Traveled: A New Year 2011 and a New Journey
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Taking the Road Less Traveled. A Journey to Finding myself. Quote of the Day. Women wish to be loved not because they are beautiful, good, well bred, graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves." Henri Frederic Amiel. Saturday, January 1, 2011. A New Year 2011 and a New Journey. All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. My son Jake and me. I have spent this past year ...
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