The Wood Shed

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Rene Bertrand was working late as usual. With no wife waiting at home he was in no real hurry. The house was an empty place ever since his beloved Francoise passed away two years ago. Angelique, their only child, was grown and out on her own so he threw himself into his work. [...]

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Courtesy of Lex come two new additions to the Blog Roll, news from the front lines:
Go to sea with the crew of USS Russell as they post of their deployment in Destroyermen and crawl in the sandbox with LT G (the “G” does not stand for “rated G” – this is the Army after all.  Grunt [...]

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McCain: 
Some Americans bought homes they couldn’t afford, betting that rising prices would make it easier to refinance later at more affordable rates,” he said. Later he added that “any assistance must be temporary and must not reward people who were irresponsible at the expense of those who weren’t.
HRC:
…direct federal intervention to help affected homeowners, including [...]

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We tend to overlook how invasive today’s technology has become in the workplace.  When it’s functioning properly it is nearly invisible.  When it fails our efforts come to a grinding halt.  I found myself wide awake at 05:00 so I figured I would get a jump start on my day.  The golden portal to my [...]

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Moose: Hey, it wasn’t me! Are you color-blind?
Ed: Those of you with hard-mouthed labs can appreciate this.
Moose: You’re referring to that missing duck again aren’t you? How do you get from a black dog holding circumstantial bunny parts to a brown dog (much better looking I might add) falsely accused of snacking on a duck [...]

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The latest taped threat supposedly from OBL takes Europe to task over the cartoon mess.  The basic message being if we insist on exercising our freedom of speech in such offensive ways then we must accept the responsibility for a violent reaction.  (Sorry, but no.) 
NBC reported that this latest message was likely an effort by OBL et [...]

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No, I’m not referring to jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft although that topic is certainly more appealing than the sort of bailouts happening of late.  First it was talk of the government stepping in to help defaulting homeowners who are in over their heads.  The latest occurrence happened over the weekend when the [...]

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I’ll have to admit, this one caught me off-guard.  We’ve all been listening to the price of a barrel of oil continue to reach new heights but I had no idea what the weak dollar was doing to the price of gold.
Since the beginning of the year the value of gold has increased by about [...]

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As a young boy Herut spent most of his time around the waterfront in Haifa. He knew the streets and docks better than his own block. To the men that ran the port, both legitimate operators and otherwise, Herut was as invisible as the dogs that scavenged the trash. He ran errands, did [...]

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Seventy degrees one day, dreaming of summer just around the corner and snowing the next. Doesn’t happen often down here so when it does I get out in it immediately because it’s usually gone in a few hours. Two weeks ago we had a tornado rip across the ridge just a mile or [...]

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