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member name: Jack E.
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March 29, 2009 03:00 PM EDT --
Over the weekend there was a BEER FESTIVAL in Atlantic City. This event drew thousands from throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey and states east, west, north and south, and in fact (at least I think it's . . .
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June 11, 2009 11:08 PM EDT --
Top 10 Reasons to Snub David Letterman After the Palin Fiasco:
10: He's not funny.
9: His jokes are written by 20 frat boys who have an IQ of 180 - combined.
8. His audience . . .
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November 09, 2009 03:26 PM EST --
The New York Times is still going at it; finding “stress” as the motivation that prompted that man to go on a killing spree against his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood.
Baloney. . . .
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June 03, 2009 01:03 PM EDT --
I'm not perfect either but I've got to say, people are tough to take.
At the diner where I had breakfast this morning, the sign in the Gents room said, "Employees Must Wash Hands." That's a sign we . . .
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June 26, 2009 06:11 PM EDT --
Jonas Salk was never mourned like this - and he cured the world of polio.
No disrespect to Michael Jackson the pop star, pay him whatever tributes you wish, but I wonder how many other . . .
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August 05, 2009 09:11 PM EDT --
The White House is asking us to inform on people who disrespect the current bill on health care, a bill which nobody has read in full – but never mind. According to reports in the news media, Americans . . .
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May 03, 2009 01:37 PM EDT --
A 50 to one shot won the Kentucky Derby, which means that no one, or hardly anyone, expected this to happen. But that's life at the track.
That's life, period. We're all 50 to one shots. . . .
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February 06, 2009 01:31 PM EST --
Is this payback for ingratitude?
As we all know, the hero of the recent Olympics is (was!) Michael Phelps, and he did it all in the water. He won eight gold medals at the 2008 Games, finally surpassing . . .
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April 07, 2009 12:37 PM EDT --
Dramatist and novelist Paddy Chayefsky (who died in 1981) wrote some terrific plays and novels. He wrote the screenplay for the (underrated) movie "The Americanization of Emily," from the novel . . .
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April 15, 2009 09:40 PM EDT --
I don't get to New York that often so I never caught Will Ferrell's Broadway show on George W. Bush - an hour or so of "comedy." But the one-man extravaganza - a big hit during its Broadway . . .
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February 16, 2009 08:44 PM EST --
By Jack Engelhard
Here's another winner from John W. Cassell - his novel "Uncertain Paradise, Part 2," but don't tell the Big Boys and Girls who run our culture because it might ruin . . .
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July 03, 2009 07:41 PM EDT --
Sarah Palin resigned as governor of Alaska pretty much taking the cue from Richard Nixon that we won't have her to kick around anymore. So she's out, though we don't know where she's going. My guess? . . .
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October 15, 2009 02:27 PM EDT --
The Obama administration has found the enemy and it is Fox News. The New York Times and CNN got it straight from the lips of White House communications director Anita Dunn who revealed that, . . .
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February 23, 2009 11:55 AM EST --
F. Scott Fitzgerald's last royalty check came to around $4.85. In the beginning (with the publication of "This Side of Paradise") he was America's literary darling. In the end, practically . . .
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June 07, 2009 04:39 PM EDT --
Indecent Proposal
By Jack Engelhard
Someone has come along with a "sequel" to JD Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye." Salinger is suing to stop publication . . .
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June 10, 2009 01:12 PM EDT --
Salinger can't hear? That's hard to take.
Reports are coming in that JD Salinger "is now totally deaf." That's a quote being attributed to his agent, whose job it is to enforce his privacy. . . .
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July 03, 2009 12:16 PM EDT --
I've never been a fan of Helen Thomas (her rants against Israel, for starters) but this time she's got me on her side. Good for her! While the rest of her colleagues in the press keep fawning over the . . .
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August 06, 2009 11:36 AM EDT --
Hello, I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
Our “cash for clunkers” has proven to be so successful that we’ve decided to extend the program for . . .
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May 05, 2009 01:50 PM EDT --
The Girls of Cincinnati Sometimes it pays to get out of bed in the morning. THIS morning, there it was, Amazon's "Look Inside This Book" feature for "The Girls . . .
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June 21, 2009 08:38 PM EDT --
The trick is to get yourself a good publicist, a publicist, as I was once told, who would kill for you. Well, that's going too far, don't you think? I haven't had a publicist since that one time back . . .
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