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A Pleasant Surprise

Monday, December 31st, 2007

It’s the end of another year, and what a year it was. Just when I thought I wasn’t going to see anything new, the last day of 2007 held a pleasant surprise. The day started off early, as I tried to get down to Dunedin by the Fenway Hotel and the pili…

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Happy New Year, one and all

Monday, December 31st, 2007

To Boltsmag readers, my friends and acquaintances on the Tampa Bay and Hockey blogosphers… I wish you all a safe and happy new year.

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Jon Swift’s Best of the Blogs 2007

Monday, December 31st, 2007

If you haven’t already done so, head over to the brilliant blog of “reasonable conservative” Jon Swift, author of the definitive post on Jonah Goldberg’s magnum ludicrous, Liberal Fascism, and check out his broad offering of Best Posts as submitted by…

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I Think You’re Crazy

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Found this this morning. I love the song, and the parody is highly amusing, and I can post this if I want to and nobody can complain about it. Ha ha ha ha!

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Ron Paul’s Time Machine Mega Money Mania (With Cowbell)

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Another choice bit of campaign comedy from the brilliant Lee Stranahan. Now that I know Ron Paul will be suspended in a time machine over Times Square tonight, I’m wishing I could hop on a plane and join Son One and my brother-in-law, who’ll be in the…

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Easy Out

Monday, December 31st, 2007

The Tournament field is set. The Bucs are probably going to lose Sunday. There, I said it.

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a modest proposal

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Ace Davis, paraphrased:

The NFL draft exists to replenish players. Teams that don’t subject their starters to a full season’s abuse (i.e. teams that, like the Indianapolis Colts, don’t play their starters in the final game and either actively tank or …

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michael palmer, myspace and me

Monday, December 31st, 2007

For the past few weeks, I’ve been drowning in a sea of social networking site requests, spam and a million of those god-awful Facebook requests. (Please go poke, tickle, hug and zing yourself and leave me out of it.) I was actually thinking about quitting the social networking game.
Then something happened.
Someone messaged me […]

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Florida Housing Market More Likely to Change Than ‘Recover’

Monday, December 31st, 2007

The vast majority of new housing planned for Manatee County, Florida, is far away from employment centers. Developers have bought up huge tracts of land in rural areas and hope to cover them with $300,000 to $600,000, 3000 to 4000 square foot detached houses that have no shopping or gathering places within walking distance. Most […]

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Dade Battlefield — Annual Re-Enactment

Monday, December 31st, 2007

This past weekend was the annual re-enactment of Major Dade’s last encounter with the Seminoles. One hundred seventy-two years ago, in December 1835, Major Francis Dade of the U.S. Army led 107 men out of Fort Brooke (now Tampa) to reinforce Fort King…

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Happy New Year!

Monday, December 31st, 2007

 If I tried to sing Auld Lang Syne, I probably break some glass somewhere.  So, thru the power of You Tube, I’ll let Billy Preston and Aretha Franklin do the honors.  Be great in 2008!

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