H Paul Garland

There's no point in living if you can't feel alive. - James Bond

Sunday, December 31, 2006

Unedited Video of Saddam Hanging

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- This is a link to the unedited video taken on a cellphone showing the worst dictator and war criminal in the last 100 years being hanged. ...
Saturday, December 30, 2006

Happy Hogmanay!

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the following is in part from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Hogmanay, which is pronounced with the main stress on the last syllable (ho...

Its A Run On Old Men Dying

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- It is now several years since the doctors diagnosed me with an incurable form of malignant cancer which affects the bone marrow, blood, an...

Uffington White Horse

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In the southern part of Britain, just a little bit north of Stonehenge and northeast of the massive Avebury stone circles just off Dragon Hi...
Friday, December 29, 2006

Prostitution & Smoking Marijuana is Legal in Holland

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- Here in Nederland prostitution is legal. There is even a Whore's Trade Union to protect their rights as sex workers. This trade union ...
Monday, December 25, 2006

You Can't Go Home Again

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In Thomas Wolfe’s famous book “You can’t go home again” his character George Webber really cannot go home. There have been a lot of smart pe...

Richard Hammond Interview

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After he crashed the jet car and came out with near fatal brain injuries, people all over the world suddenly realized that one of their most...
Sunday, December 24, 2006

Oxymoron - Polite French society

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- - There is a really cute article by a female BBC correspondent who is assigned to Paris. If you've got a few minutes this really is f...

European Lighting Pre-Electric Times

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- I thought that what with it being really foggy, cold as shit, and Christmas Eve, that the large flea market in Tongeren, Belgium would pro...

TOYOTAS RULE!

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I heard on the news that in 2007 Toyota will surpass General Motors as the world’s largest automobile maker. Good. Serves them right. It rea...
Thursday, December 21, 2006

The Gaza Strip 2,000 years ago

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= I was reading about Tudor England and it led me to read about King Henry The VIII, which led me to read about the Buggery Act of 1533. So...

J.K. Rowling

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In my opinion J.K. Rowling ranks right up there with Mother Teresa and Golda Meir (the 4th Prime Minister of Israel). And for sure one hell-...
Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Wedding

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- Weddings are such joyous events. Everyone is happy and looking towards a wonderful future. - My nephew Greg Cannon just got married. His w...
Sunday, December 17, 2006

Sony Ericsson GSM Cellphone

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For the last several years I have used the top of the line Sony cellphone which has an organizer, opens and modifies PDF, word, and excel fi...
Saturday, December 16, 2006

German Flea Market

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It is just over one week until Christmas. - The weather is grey, drizziling lightly, and fairly cold. - I went to a flea market over in Germ...
Friday, December 15, 2006

Its Not Easy Being Green

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ppppp' '''''''''''''' Its not easy being green! For the last 1/2 a century I’ve...
Thursday, December 14, 2006

Politically Correct Chocolate Santa

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- I was getting a haircut yesterday and I happened to notice this chocolate Santa in a store window. He looked so cute with the dark face th...
Sunday, December 10, 2006

Is Church Only For Old People?

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I haven’t attended many church services in the last half a century or so. I’ve been in churches because they were historical, or for the arc...
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Like the Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor, I went to Austin High in El Paso, Texas. I moved to California right after high school. Graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1971 with honors. Worked on a master's degree, then to avoid going to Vietnam I joined the U.S. Army to be at 3rd Armored Div HQ in Frankfurt, Germany. I was there for almost 3 years. Bicycled and backpacked a lot in the Swiss Alps. Had some good times, saw some of the world, and grew up a little. I went to law school at U.T. Austin for a while, raised a family, got elected to a minor political position in El Paso, had 3 great wives, owned a Corvette then later a Prius, became a scuba diver, got my private pilot's license including multi-engine and instrument ratings, and lived in the Cajun country of Louisiana for a few years. For 15 years I was the general manager for a food procesing company in Europe. I really enjoyed living in Europe. I'm now retired, and to quote from Martin Luther King, I'm finally "free at last, free at last." I've moved out to the wonderful high desert in the Southwestern city of El Paso, Texas USA.
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