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My new bride and I chatted about Valentine's Day and we agreed we would buy each other a card.
Valentine's Day for under $3.
I'm sorry, I can't do that. Too many years of conditioning.
So I'm taking her out to a nice dinner. I might even get her flowers or a plant.
Just can't do...
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Sound Off for Feb. 11, 2007
Batch Data Processor | Saturday, Feb 10 2007 9:20 PM
Last Updated: Saturday, Feb 10 2007 9:26 PM
Reader: I am writing in response to two articles your newspaper has published recently, both by columnist Robert Price: one dealing with a proposed boundary...
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So i was watching Glenn Beck with my dad yesterday and he started talking about a new drug that has been developed and tested that allegedly kills cancer, but not healthy cells... but we can't have it, because it will not turn a profit in the time slot given before the patent runs...
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Two commercials have drawn the ire of several community groups. The first one, the GM commercial about a machine committing suicide, has been attacked by a Suicide Prevention group: "is offensive to the tens of millions of survivors of suicide loss nationwide. In its carelessness, it...
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Just what, exactly, is a “woman’s touch?” It might be represented in the most humble of dwellings bereft of civilized furnishings except for a scrap of colorful material or a few flowers. In some ways it is a mystical thing unnoticed unless absent, much in the way of an injured...
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McClatchy reporter Niki Sullivan wrote a story about job burnout — the feeling that you hate to go to work.
The feelings are exhaustion, withdrawal and lack of job satisfaction.
Does that sound like you? Maybe some of the time?
It almost never happens to me. For the last 36 years...
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Have you seen this or maybe it's been posted before, but I found it interesting:
http://video.google.com/vid...
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The way I did it in my era was right and the way it is being done by some tweens now is wrong.
Californian reporter Mark Barna wrote a story about how tweens, 8- to 13-year-old kids, are seeking designer clothes, dating, eating disorders and parties with beer or drugs.
Whoa! Hold on...
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The Best (actual) Headlines
Crack Found on Governor's Daughter
[hmm!]
Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says
[No, really?]
Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers
[Now that's taking things a bit far!]
Is There a Ring of Debris around Uranus?
[Do...
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As this article shows, not all military men and women stationed at Gitmo approved of some of the tactics used in Guantanamo, nor do they think all the people held there were inherently 'bad guys'.
"Ms Thompson, originally from the Virgin Islands but now based in Arizona, spent several...
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After the Iraq Intel used during the run-up to the Iraq war was shown to be false, Democratic leadership is taking a different view of the current Intel showing Iran is a major player in Iraq and responsible for the deaths of over 170 soldiers since June of 2004. Senator Chris Dodd has gone...
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A truck driver who had just cleared a US checkpoint in Iraq as part of a convey, turned around and was going back to his original starting point when US troops fired on his truck, killing him. Per the CNN article:
"Tolfree drove through a U.S. military checkpoint before realizing he was in...
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Listen to Gnarls Barkley's Crazy. Then listen to the Dixie Chicks Not Ready to Make Nice. Then ask which song won for song of the year. If you guessed the Dixie Chicks, you understand the meaning of "something is wrong with this picture." Listen to the...
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As I cruise through different websites, blogs and message boards, I see something that the vast majority of posters and owners have in common. That is that they take themselves far too seriously. It's a fact that most of the posts on all blogsites are political in way or another, and if the...
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Waaaalll...
When many people conversationally mention barbecue, they speak of cooking hamburgers, hot dogs, or a rib-eye steak over a hot charcoal fire. Light up the Kingsford, let it burn to a light ash coat, then grill the steak for eight or ten minutes on each side.
There's...
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We are involved in Energy REsearch, to engage the talents of local students, who can learn about energy savings...we ask: Why are we paying for electricity when we are surrounded by wind farms?? Why does not our school district offer energy education to our students? They are spending...
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The State Superintendent of Public Schools visited a local school last week and met with Bakersfield City School District leaders. The Superintendent praised them for exceeding state testing improvement goals and said, "You've shown dramatic improvement." ...
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Q: Long ago the city promised that it was going to fix the timing of the traffic lights on Niles and Monterey streets in east Bakersfield. Please find out why this continues to be stalled.
— R.A. Campbell, Bakersfield
A: Steve Walker, city traffic engineer, said there were two...
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My five favorite movies:
Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942
The War of The Worlds 1953
The Good Earth 1937
The Glenn Miller Story 1953
Finian’s Rainbow 1968
YDD has great music, cast and Americana. TWoTW terrified me at the...
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Q: I haven’t seen anything scheduled for the Civic Auditorium lately. Is it being underutilized?
— Howard Krauter
A: Steve Womack, general manager of the Rabobank Theater and Convention Center, said: “The problem could be just the name. It is known by several (names) but...
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Sudden Healing
Brown and yellow leaves~ some skeletonized to a tracery of veins
Scatter across the grass, caress the crevices of rocks, gullies
Then move on
I felt I was as these a transitory, fleeting beauty and then
Simply gone
Now I know somewhere those leaves crumble, compost into
A...
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This is a head's up that bakersfield.com will be offline between 1:30 and 4:30 a.m. Sunday. Our systems folks are going to be tinkering with some things to make life better, easier, faster and more rewarding for all of us.
The actual downtime likely will be less than that, but we want to give...
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i have only been back in bakersfield for a little over and month and when i lived in las vegas almost every bar i went to had karaoke at least 1-2 times a week. I love karaoke, i love being on stage, i love singing and i am good at it. But i find myself in a predicament here as i have...
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It's unfortunate to see players waste an opportunity. The Associated Press is reporting that Gonzaga basketball players Josh Heytvelt and Theo Davis were arrested after a routine traffic stop went bad.
Police said the players were pulled over because of its tail lights were not working. During...
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Good Morning Friends...
After have slept on it I have decided to carry on with this ride and this assignment.
My long suffering wife is currently on her way up from Bakersfield to replenish my funds and oil supply. Have re-sealed the gaskets hoping they will hold up until I Can...
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Here are the pics I promised
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When I turned Glenn Beck on this evening his show was half over and I missed the full interview of a woman named Irshad Manji author of "The Trouble With Islam Today." She is a Muslim reformist and a liberal feminist. This was the second time she had been on his show. ...
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Watching the news tonite, I heard a story coming this Sunday in the Californian will talk about the rise of sex and drugs in the tween set, which are kids from 8-12 years old.
Where?
Not mine (9 and almost 12). I'm full aware of where they are and what they are doing. I...
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You Might Be A Liberal If…
By: Michael Bauman,
Ever since Michael Dukakis suffered a terrible drubbing at the polls for flashing his ACLU card in public and for identifying himself as a liberal without embarrassment, the dreaded “L” word has fallen into wide disfavor, even...
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You think that the best way to protect people from illegal drugs is to put them in prison.
You think "compassionate conservatism" is when you feel sorry for the homeless guy sleeping in the gutter as you step over him on your way to a $1000 a plate fundraiser for Tom...
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The Cal State Bakersfield men's team is participating in the National Association of Basketball Coaches Suits and Sneakers event Saturday.
All three coaches will wear sneakers during the game against Cal State Stanislaus Saturday night. The shoes will then be autographed and auctioned off.
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Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007 column by Dianne Hardisty, editorial page editor -- It seems to be the mission of freaky animal rights activists to mess up holidays.
As Thanksgiving approaches, they flood the letters to the editor section with form letters describing the murder and mayhem inflicted on...
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Well, now that my daughter, CassandraMcGowan, is a full fledged blogger here, I have to wonder if there are any other three generation family bloggers on the board. NancyII is my Mom, for those who don't know. We are a pretty tightly knit family, and from mom's side of the family comes our...
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I bought an antique scrapbook on ebay over a year ago, I recently got it out of my closet and was surprised to see it was a collection of civil war poems from soldiers, newspaper articles, and the death of president Lincoln. It also has some amazing sketchings! Lincoln's Birthday is Monday, and...
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It’s discouraging when special interest groups — environmentalists, union activists or business competitors, for example — conspire to cynically use well-intended state protection laws to stall projects further their political agendas.
It is disgraceful when government does...
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Here I go again bashing the homeless! Actually this applies to a great many persons in the area of Old Town Kern and I don't know what their status is. The article was in last weeks paper and it dealt with homless advocates pressuring the city to put a traffic signal at East Truxtun and...
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FYI, the entire site—People stuff, Inside Guide, news, etc.—will be down between 1:30 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. on Sunday, February 11, due to some scheduled systems maintenance. Have a good weekend, and if you haven't already checked out the Inside Guide to Dining, click on over and...
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If I had one question I could ask every liberal I met, it would be "Don't you ever get tired of being mad"? It seems like I never hear anything but pessimism from them, even when they talk about their own side. When thing's don't go as I voted or feel, I don't claim disenfranchisement...
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So, now there is a new development since Anna Nicole Smith died yesterday. Another man, Prince Frederick von Anhalt, who is Zsa Zsa Gabors husband, says that he is the father and that he will sue if the child is turned over to either Howard K. Stern or Larry Birkhead. This story gets more and...
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POSTED 2-1-2007
The Army Corps of Engineers seems to have gone as far as it credibly can in assessing the status of Isabella Dam.
Last year, the Corps rated the dam its No. 1 risk concern due to water seepage and a reassessment of seismic safety.
Initially, the Corps said it did not have...
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PUBLISHED 2-12-2007
The DMV Web site, which launched this month, is much more user friendly than the previous one.
Many people have experienced the seemingly eternal lines at the DMV.
People should visit the Web site at www.dmv.ca.gov to determine if this wait time can be avoided...
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PUBLISHED 2-12-2007
The state Department of Managed Health Care will investigate patching a small hole in the tattered health insurance crisis.
The state has been flooded with reports of individuals being turned down for health insurance — or having existing policies canceled —...
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There are many of what could be called “TV Zombies” in America, but recalling an episode of The Twilight Zone where Ida Lupino plays the part of an aging woman that had once been a silver screen star and was given to watching her old films played endlessly alone in her mansion...
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there is a song, sung by a chick named Faith Evans, and i don't know if it's a remake or anything, but it says: I never knew there was a love like this before, never had someone to show me your love... and i was told that it was written for her child(ren) and i guess i always thought it was...
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ExpressJet Airlines announced earlier this week it will serve 24 midsize U.S. cities, including Bakersfield. ExpressJet will fly two nonstop flights a day to and from San Diego starting on May 14. Meadows Field currently offers service to Los Angeles, Phoenix, Houston, San Francisco, Salt Lake...
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Back home in Visalia, teens partied on Friday and Saturday nights at a little place called Cutfoot. It was out in an orchard and a creek ran through the area. (This is all second-hand info, of course, from my brother, who was the life of the party in high school. I'm already having visions of...
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Kern Medical Center is again without a permanent chief financial officer.
Kent Johnson, who started as KMC's CFO Aug. 7, is no longer working for the county hospital.
During Johnson's eight-month probationary period, KMC's Interim Chief Executive Officer David Culberson and County...
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http://www.dailykos.com/sto...
BTW - I am not a left winger. I only noriced they picked me for a story beause of the IP stats I receive on my blog.
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I asked for it! I found myself with a week off from my REAL job...ha! And called a magazine I know asking for a freelance assignment. Sure, they said, we have 2 but you have to go to New Mexico....
Ever eager to please I said OK.. Now it use do be that I identified with...
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never forgotten
till soon, son
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