<![CDATA[Rants and Rayguns]]> 2009-10-31T08:44:02+00:00 Copyright (c) 2004-2009 Blogo.it, P. IVA 04699900967. http://rantsandrayguns.us.splinder.com/ saintonge http://rantsandrayguns.us.splinder.com <![CDATA[This One Even I Find Hard To Believe]]> http://rantsandrayguns.us.splinder.com/post/807565/This+One+Even+I+Find+Hard+To+Believe 2009-10-31T08:44:02+00:00 2009-10-31T08:44:02+00:00 saintonge http://rantsandrayguns.us.splinder.com         Uncle Sammy wants to buy you a golf cart .         And the angel said unto them, "Be not afraid!  For, behold, ...

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<![CDATA[Business Opportunity]]> http://rantsandrayguns.us.splinder.com/post/806980/Business+Opportunity 2009-10-29T13:17:32+00:00 2009-10-29T13:17:32+00:00 saintonge http://rantsandrayguns.us.splinder.com         Having just dealt with what Microsoft laughingly calls customer support, I have an idea.  How about a computer company that treats you honestly?         "Hello, this is ...

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<![CDATA[A Naysayer]]> http://rantsandrayguns.us.splinder.com/post/803759/A+Naysayer 2009-10-14T09:35:29+00:00 2009-10-14T09:35:29+00:00 saintonge http://rantsandrayguns.us.splinder.com         It seems a heretic mocked Our New Messiah™ three years ago.         Among ...

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<![CDATA[A Brief Note For the History Books]]> http://rantsandrayguns.us.splinder.com/post/803746/A+Brief+Note+For+the+History+Books 2009-10-14T08:34:00+00:00 2009-10-14T08:34:00+00:00 saintonge http://rantsandrayguns.us.splinder.com         I hadn't intended to comment on the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the President of the United States, but I find there is something about the event worth saying after all.         The cut off for nominations for the ...

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<![CDATA[More Schadenfreude]]> http://rantsandrayguns.us.splinder.com/post/801886/More+Schadenfreude 2009-09-30T02:30:24+00:00 2009-09-30T02:30:24+00:00 saintonge http://rantsandrayguns.us.splinder.com         Poor Danny Rather. CBS was so mean to him.  Oh, after they kicked him off the Evening News, they did continue to pay him his annual salary of $6,000,000.00 (Six Million Dollars), but they didn't use him on the air enough, and as a ...

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<![CDATA[Another Book Recommendation]]> http://rantsandrayguns.us.splinder.com/post/794762/Another+Book+Recommendation 2009-09-05T07:32:09+00:00 2009-09-05T07:32:09+00:00 saintonge http://rantsandrayguns.us.splinder.com         Monster Hunter International, by Larry Coriea. Just go buy it and read it.  It's awesome.       ...

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<![CDATA[One of the Advantages of Not Being a Paid Commentator]]> http://rantsandrayguns.us.splinder.com/post/793987/One+of+the+Advantages+of+Not+Being+a+Paid+Commentator 2009-09-01T05:53:43+00:00 2009-09-01T05:53:43+00:00 saintonge http://rantsandrayguns.us.splinder.com         I don't have to say anything about the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.  Which is peculiarly appropriate, because he never did anything worth mentioning.         But I will share with you one quote from 1969, when ...

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<![CDATA[A Book Recommendation]]> http://rantsandrayguns.us.splinder.com/post/792308/A+Book+Recommendation 2009-08-21T18:38:57+00:00 2009-08-21T18:38:57+00:00 saintonge http://rantsandrayguns.us.splinder.com         Spies, The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev.  Vassiliev cowrote The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America--The Stalin Era, a task for which he was uniquely qualified — for ...

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<![CDATA[The Germans Have a Word For It.]]> http://rantsandrayguns.us.splinder.com/post/792301/The+Germans+Have+a+Word+For+It. 2009-08-21T17:54:47+00:00 2009-08-21T17:54:47+00:00 saintonge http://rantsandrayguns.us.splinder.com         And the word in question is "schadenfreude".  It's the joy taken in someone else's misfortune.         I shouldn't indulge in it, but sometimes I just can't help myself.  And this is one ...

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<![CDATA[Too Good to be True, but It Is]]> http://rantsandrayguns.us.splinder.com/post/790184/Too+Good+to+be+True%2C+but+It+Is 2009-08-11T03:01:00+00:00 2009-08-11T03:01:00+00:00 saintonge http://rantsandrayguns.us.splinder.com         Dan Rather wants a presidential commission to meet, to consider how to "save" the news business, or the "truly free and independent press",

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