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On April 11, Alex Baldwin, who has been engaged in a bitter custody dispute with his ex-wife, Kim Basinger, left an enraged voice mail for his 11-year-old daughter, Ireland.
He was very upset that her telephone wasn't on at the time he was supposed to call her. One gets the impression this...
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http://bakersfieldbubble.bl...
Gary Crabtree, president of Affiliated Appraisers in Bakersfield, Calif., documented the practice recently for the FBI and state financial and real estate regulators. The basic scenario, said Crabtree, involves realty agents who have listed houses that...
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PUBLISHED 4-20-2007
BY MARTHA MARTINEZ
I come from a culture where “it’s better not to know” that anything is wrong with you. But everywhere I turn, there are news reports about breast cancer not being diagnosed early enough in Hispanic women, and how young women are being...
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Don't know why this bit of dry British humor struck me as so familar. I'm sure it'll come to me.
http://uk.geocities.com/chu...
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A ZOROASTRIAN PRAYER
With bended knees, with hands outstretched, do I yearn for the effective expression of the holy spirit working within me: For this love and understanding, truth and justice; for wisdom to know the apparent from the real that I might alleviate the sufferings of men on earth....
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This is the first of, what I hope will become a series of, rational debate about religion/atheism/the Bible/the Koran/etc.,.
The topic: Where did the concept of "man in God's image" come from?
Note: This is not a creation-v-abiogenesis debate. This is an ecumenical,...
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The problem of evil can become so convulted when we are taking about a massacre (the deadliest of its kind in the United States) commited by a madman. To what extent is a mentally ill individual responsible for his own actions, and to what extent is he free to make moral decisions?
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To order your hard copy of Prologue please go here
April 20
1. THE VENERABLE THEODORE TRIHINOS
Theodore was a citizen of Constantinople and the son of wealthy parents. As a young man he left his...
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OK, I am not trying to pick on someone whose name is spelled backwards above, but the photo is just too weird. What am I missing and what does it represent? It gives me the creeps, how about you?
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I heard that some guys opened a tank that holds the odor used in natural gas to make it have that distictive odor. Last I heard it traveled as far as Arvin. Anyone else smell it?
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A colleague sent me this very interesting article on how handwriting and the teaching of handwriting is changing with the advent of technology:
http://news.com.com/Is+the+...
I especially like the "featured gallery" off to...
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PUBLISHED 4-20-2007
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is either too clueless to lead the Justice Department, or he is not truthfully explaining why eight U.S. attorneys were fired and his role in their dismissals.
Either choice is reason enough for Gonzales to resign or be fired.
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Think you know your way around a fast-food menu board?
Test your knowledge.
1. Which of the following breakfast items that are served at Denny's do you think has the fewest calories?
A. ham and cheddar omelet
B. country fried steak and eggs
C. three slices of French toast...
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Grab some popcorn and get ready for a whirlwind tour of the Crystal Palace! We followed Buckaroo Terry Christofferson as he shows us why you need to see this infamous Bakersfield landmark.
Tell us, why do you like the Crystal Palace? Any great memories there?
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What other than perversion can possibly explain why the MSM would continue airing the cold blooded mass murderer Cho? Over and over this demonic face and its words are being shown with no end in sight. The demon’s victims did not have a chance to leave words and videos, they are not...
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If you haven't, what's wrong with you?
Researchers have found workplace stress has decreased 23 percent since 2000.
If that hasn't happened at your place because, for example, there is less people doing more work and your personal life is timed out to the max, then there is something...
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As a newsman, this is an easy question.
Of course, it should be published. It's a no brainer.
But the reason I ask is because others feel it should not be published.
News reports say the police weren't happy to see Cho Seung-Hui's stuff on TV.
Speaking at Virginia Tech, Steve...
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I still wake up sometimes thinking its all a dream, but it isn't. There are still about 15 boxes I don't want to open because they make me remember about Nonnie.
Nonnie and I have been married since June 29, 1979 and we were living in Cedar City, Utah when we found out she had...
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A TAOIST TEACHING
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.
Be gentle, and you can be bold; be frugal, and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before...
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April 19
1. THE VENERABLE JOHN OF THE OLD CAVES
John lived a life of asceticism in the so-called "old caves," the "old Lavra" of Chariton the Great in Palestine. Having loved Christ the...
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It's been hard lately, looking at my parents. They've suddenly gotten old. I look at my mom and see my grandmother, as I remember her during my childhood. It's scary to think of them getting to this stage in their lives where they are more fragile and need more help to maintain...
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I have avoided getting into this subject on any of my blogs up until tonight. But I'm finally taking the risk and diving in.
Sanjaya's gone.
Yeah, the tears tore at my heart, too, but ... puh-leeze! How many more worthy singers had to go while the kid stayed? Bless his sweet little heart -...
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Chipping on a infinite hole golf course.
Today’s SCOTUS ruling Chips at nothing. It reaffirms ROE v. Wade at a level greater than ever imagined at it’s inception..
Justice Kennedy: Law does not violate constitutional right to abortion
Pro Choicers.
This ruling does...
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Down 2 games to none and appearing to be a team in total turmoil, the Bakersfield Condors have responded in spectacular fashion to take a 3-2 lead heading into Game 6 of their first round playoff series with the Fresno Falcons.
Certainly, the odds now favor the Condors as Thursday night’s...
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PUBLISHED 4-19-2007
The battle to develop a vaccine to prevent valley fever needs a big push now from Kern County residents.
In Sacramento, a $1 million appropriation sought by Sen. Roy Ashburn, R-Bakersfield, for the Valley Fever Vaccine Project passed one committee hurdle this week. But...
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PUBLISHED 4-19-2007
It’s time to take pride in what California has to offer. California has the largest state park system in the nation, but the attraction is deteriorating.
More money must be allocated for park maintenance. Development plans must focus on preserving...
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Defense expert Brent Turvey charges $195 an hour. He bills a couple of hours for travel, but not all of the time because he can work on the time. He had billed about $7,000 for the case. He will eventually charge $9,500, maybe a little bit more.
In some cases Turvey is asked to recreat crime...
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The proposed expansion at the Big West Refinery on Rosedale Highway has been delayed at least a couple months while its environmental impacts are studied further.
“Given the nature of this project, given the nature of the chemicals and...
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Deputy District Attorney Lisa Green questions defense expert Brent Turvey. His offices are located in Alaska.
He knows defense investigator Martin Yant.
He is not a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. He said it is a largely a police science organization.
He provides...
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The dark day at Virginia Tech, where 31 people were killed by a lone gunman on April 16, inevitably calls into question if we should be a nation under the gun. Even though those 31 lives were inexplicably cut short, which is a horrific tragedy for the families that must endure ensuing...
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Two northwest Bakersfield neighborhoods will get new parks this year.
Money raised in the North of the River Recreation and Park District was given this week to the City of Bakersfield to build parks at Madison Grove and San Lauren.
The timing comes after City Councilman David Couch in...
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Participating in theatre is like medicine for my soul.
No matter what “stuff” I am experiencing away from the stage, when I am there, doing my thing – everything else falls away so that I can be pure with my work. I can be pure in my process.
Last night I was...
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Just in, received it today.
Kevin Harvick Inc. has sent Bakersfield Pet Care an autographed #29 Muscle Car. It is very cool. The engine is extending out of the hood, the colors of the car are the Goodwrench silver, black and red. The number 29 on top of the car has Kevin Harvicks autograph.
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Frank Loesser’s patriotic song of 1942 was being sung in churches of that era including our own small church in Little Oklahoma. We children especially enjoyed it, even as we enjoyed singing this together with the military anthems of the time in school like “Anchors Away” and...
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The defense calls to the witness stand Brent Turvey. He is a professor of criminology in Oklahoma. He has qualified as an expert in forensic science.
He is an expert in staged crime scenes among other things. He works for private attorneys and police agencies. Turvey said he has...
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The United States Supreme Court in a 5-4 vote upheld a ban on a rarely used type of abortion in the mid- to late-second trimester.
A much more common type used in 95 percent of such cases remains legal.
But this decision is the first time in six years the U.S. Supreme Court has limited...
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The defense calls to the witness stand Brent Turvey. He is a professor of criminology in Oklahoma. He has qualified as an expert in forensic science.
He is an expert in staged crime scenes among other things. He works for private attorneys and police agencies. Turvey said he has...
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As the warmer temperatures beckon us outside, look out for ticks, the state's health department said Tuesday.
Ticks are small arachnids that are found in naturally vegetated areas throughout California, according to a news release from the state Department of Health Services. They prefer cool,...
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Virginia's Tears
words and music by Dr BLT (c) 2007
today
we cry Virginia's tears
today
we feel Virginia's fears
we're...
cryin'
cryin'
cryin'
cryin'
cryin'
Virginia's tears
today
we hold Virginia's hand
today
all across the land
we're
cryin'
cryin'
cryin'
cryin'
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Busy week this week. First of all, after many times around the loop, PG&E is replacing my gas meter tomorrow. I'm very excited to get back to where I was three weeks ago. When they took the meter, it seems they also deleted the "point of service" in their computer,...
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Madira Dowell returns to the witness stand and Deputy District Attorney Lisa Green questions her.
Madira said she told the detectives things so they would leave her alone because she was tired.
She said she did not give wrong information, she just did not answer the questions wholly.
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I arrive by a synthesis of heart and mind to any conclusion or plan,logic is too cold,especially for this..Forget about guns,forget those two hours between killings~in 2005 we could have prevented this !Recent events have torn at me~the mothers of those young people I especially feel...
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Defense attorney Michael Gardina said that Martin Yantz, the investigator in Ohio, was to find out if an interview happened with Bakersfield Police and nothing of the incident itself.
The detectives asked her about the crash at her father’s house and that the police were trying to trip...
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Link: http://www.jewishvirtuallib...
Mourner's Kaddish
By Shira Schoenberg
The Kaddish is a prayer that praises God and expresses a yearning for the establishment of God's kingdom on earth. The emotional reactions inspired by the Kaddish come from the...
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This topic is brought to you by Californian columnist Herb Benham who was inspired by a toothache to go to the dentist he feared had forgotten him.
Turns out the dentist is always there for Herb, or any of his patients.
There was a period in my younger life when I didn't go to the dentist...
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April 18
1. VENERABLE JOHN, THE DISCIPLE OF SAINT GREGORY DECAPOLIS
At the time of the Iconoclastic heresy, Emperor Leo the Armenian subjected John to torture along with his teacher Gregory and St. Joseph...
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what wireless providers are out there? I've looked I really have and I can't seem to find one that provides details about their service. one wants you to commit to it for a year and then what...??? and the rest don't say much about their service except how much they charge. is there anyone who...
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>These 16 Police Comments were taken from
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> >actual police car videos around the country:
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> >#16 "You know, stop lights don't come any redder
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> >#15 "Relax, the...
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http://www.towleroad.com/20...
Fred Phelps and his clan (with the exception of the little kids) need to be "accidently" mowed down by a semi-truck. Ok...maybe I'm being extreme. New tactic: I hope all of the Virginia Tech students who haven't...
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