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Mid-holiday catch-all; Gerald Ford – RIP; James Brown – RIP; Hussein to Swing before Sunday

Posted by liaison on December 28, 2006

WHEW! What a week for news:

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr., 93, who became the 38th president of the United States as a result of some of the most extraordinary events in U.S. history… R.I.P.

Soul Singer James Brown dies

U.S.: Saddam Likely To Die By Sunday

Saddam to be hanged by Sunday

Most anyone with a crystal ball, Ouija Board, or a full deck of Tarot Cards anticipates some sort of heightened violence in response from the Sunnis and the Baathhist Party if and when the execution happens.

The Bush administration has decided to propose listing the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, putting the U.S. government on record as saying that global warming could drive one of the world’s most recognizable animals out of existence.

Head-banging Chinese snakes can predict earthquakes days in advance, say scientists Thanks to THE HUFFINGTON POST for the heads up on this story.

To all of my many, many loyal readers. Okay, well, there’s a small handfull of regulars, and I thought I would let you know that two events will thin out the number of posts i’ll be adding for the next month or so. One, the workload of my day job is changing, and won’t allow me to spend quite as much time blogging for the next month. Two, after several months of small successes and experience gained in the blogospere, I am dropping back to give the matter a brief re-think.

I’ve experimented at two other blogsites and finally settled on WordPress as my choice of sites for this blog. For one, the search engines readily find WordPress blogs, which cannot be said of Blogger/Blogspot. So WordPress it is.

Also, in the next month I’ll be upgrading this site to allow more control over the template, the visual appearance, so the reader has a better time here and will stay longer, and hopefully will click on some ad links so’s I can make enough jingle to let me spend more time here.

So thanks to everyone who educated me here, this year. I wish you all a Merry Christmas, a Happy Kwaanza, a Wonderfully Happy Hannakuh, and/or a Drunken New Year’s Eve and Happy New Year. (Season’s Greetings if you don’t believe in any of the foregoing.)

Thanks,
Denny

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