White House ‘dirty tricks’ torpedo Palin
I have a wedding to plan, a wife to murder, and Guilder to Blame. I am just booked.

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I'm aware that Hiragana and Katakana used to be simply Chinese characters. I don't know how far back Kanji became the Kana, but does this mean that the sentence 魚は白いです (The fish is white) used to be written 魚波白以天"寸? When did the Kanji become Hiragana and Katakana?
 

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A comic about why we will never have a cure for cancer.

Episode three of Christopher Andrews' Duet is up.

See for yourself why I've never had a speaking role before, and likely never will again.

I know that the word 耳新しい has both the meanings of novel/unfamiliar and something heard for the first time, but I'm unclear as to the usage of it in the first meaning. Can it be used idiomatically and refer to something unfamiliar in a sense not related to hearing, or is it strictly an auditory reference?

Thanks!

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Robert Korda--father of Noah Korda, the brains behind Bats Day in the Fun Park--has mysteriously vanished.



Please keep an eye out for him if you're in the Los Angeles area, or anywhere within a few days drive.

Information from Noah is below, including his contact info. You can keep up to date with the search at his blog: dirtnap13

Thanks for your help.

My father has gone missing and I need help.

My father left Thursday morning (7/9/09) at 7:45am to go to a job [he is a professional violinist]. The job called the person who had booked him and said that he never showed up.

He left from the Van Nuys area. Major cross streets Woodman and Victory. His destination was to be in Hollywood at the Gower Studios at Sunset and Gower.

My father is the type of person that is right to the point so he would have just taken the most obvious route. Victory to the 170 to the 101 to Gower. But at this point who knows. He is also the type of person that wouldn't really go somewhere with out telling someone. Its like he just disappeared into thin air.

Name: Robert Korda
Age: 69
Height: 5'5"
He is in good health.
He was driving a white 1993 Geo Metro convertible, California license plate 3GPJ453.

Any info would be great since we are at a total loss. We have contacted all the hospitals and police stations and there has been no one with his description at all. This is why I am now going to cyberspace since it seems that normal channels are not helping.

Any info can be emailed to me @ findrobertk@aol.com
Noah's Cell: 818-404-2914

As much as I would love emails that say I'm sorry for your loss, please do not send this kind of email to the email account. Thank you for your understanding.

Any info that can help would be greatly appreciated. My family is a mess right now and we don't know what else to do. You can repost this to other groups if you need to.

Thank you.

Noah Korda

Hi there! This is the greatest community! Anyway, I was wondering if anyone knew the original characters for Never Forget by Kobayashi Issa; it's a wonderful poem, but all I've been able to find are English translations. I thought that if anyone knew, it would have to be you guys! Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

"Never forget:
we walk on hell,
gazing at flowers."
— Kobayashi Issa

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Current Location: work
Current Mood: cold

Musings on how to survive the cold from a few million years back.

Sure, adapt-and-survive sounds like a simple teaching method. But I'm sitting in a house my genes didn't tell me to inhabit.

Did dinos learn tricks from their peers, or only from the harsh gene and its minions? Complex systems answering complex systems without the interference of "free will." Some lessons are given; others are taken. Learning which is which may be a checkbox on the Big Gun Club entry form.

If dinos ever taught dinos, what does it mean for you to say you are human?

All I can say is: three cheers for atmosphere. I don't think genes could learn so quickly if our nice fluffy blanket were pulled away.

Since U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White ruled late Friday in San Francisco that former “enemy combatant” Jose Padilla can proceed with his lawsuit against “torture memo” author John Yoo, the decision has been interpreted by many in the media as a broad vindication of detainees’ rights to sue former Bush administration officials.

In fact, the ruling’s implications are narrower than that, and could also be appealed. But, still, the opinion has heartened some civil rights lawyers because it rejects many of the claims made by former Bush officials that they’re not liable for their actions formulating policy in the “war on terror.” That could persuade judges hearing other claims against former officials as well. The ruling also allows the civil case to move forward against John Yoo, and could in the process reveal significant new information not only about Yoo, but about his interaction with the White House, and exactly how he reached the legal conclusions that he did. That information could, in turn, be used against him in future criminal or congressional proceedings.
[ cf Decision Allowing Yoo Lawsuit to Continue Carries Narrow Implications: Civil Rights Lawyers Hopeful District Court Ruling Could Be Persuasive ]

More Secularist LawFare against MiniTrue?

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