Halloween Ideas 4 couples

Oct 31, 2009 - Get ready for your favorite spooky holiday with some romantic Halloween ideas! While one might not think a holiday filled with ghosts and goblins, witches and jack-o-lanterns as a time for romance, there are still many romantic things you can do to celebrate Halloween as a couple. Halloween is a great time to do many things together that you wouldn’t ordinarily do with one another. - 6 Comments

Delta Flight Attendant Serves Up Journals for American Troops

Oct 26, 2009 - In between keeping her passengers safe and comfortable, Delta flight attendant Robin Schmidt tends to another mid-air mission -- passing journals among the rows so passengers can help her thank American troops. Over the last five years, Schmidt has filled hundreds of passenger-written journals and sent them to the troops she "adopts" in Afghanistan and Iraq. Not connected in any way to the military, Schmidt said, "This is just part of who I am. - 2 Comments

Do women have mid-life crises?

Oct 22, 2009 - I think I’m having a midlife crises.  I’m 47, been happily married for 20 years, 1 stepdaughter who is married and has a 10-month-old daughter.  I’ve met a man at work who is 35 and I’m completely smitten! - 9 Comments

on reviewing Jay Leno

Sep 16, 2009 - If Jay Leno Wants Better Reviews He Can Start By Removing the Lapel Flag by John Nolte   Critics love David Letterman. They love him because he’s mean and liberal and does everything they demand: further the leftist agenda through the brutal use of humiliation to target any public figure (or their child) who might derail Leftist causes. And contrary to conventional wisdom, Letterman’s not edgy. - 3 Comments

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Home Michael's Dispatches Precision Voting Precision Voting Next > 31 August 2009Helmand Province, Afghanistan The historical Afghan elections scheduled for 20 August were days away.   While the west mostly continued to vote for Afghanistan, the big question was, “Will Afghanistan vote for itself?” The latest media wave splashed into the main voting centers in places like Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Herat and Lashkar Gah.  The larger cities only account for perhaps 20% of the Afghan population.  Whereas the easy and obvious stories are in the cities, a crucial and larger dimension—the other 80%—would unfold in the boonies.  Most Afghans would have no chance to vote. The election was to be run by Afghans.  In theory and in practice this would be a recipe for disaster.  The strategic thinkers cannot be faulted for this; after nearly eight years of war, if the west were still running the elections, the elections and government would be a failure to begin with.  By comparison, the Iraqi elections on 30 January 2005 (less than two years after invasion) were run mostly by Iraqis.  In the voting of October and December of that same year, Iraqis had two more runs at the ballots, which were increasingly successful.  Afghanistan, however, is different.  This would be only the second election in history. There are no good choices here.  Either we run the elections and the central government and in doing so undermine the same central government we are investing in, or we allow that central government to run the elections and probably watch it undermine itself.  But who knows? - 1 Comment