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From Andrew Sullivan’s blog:

An Iraqi man weeps next to the body of a dead child killed in an explosion at the morgue of the general hospital in the northeastern town of Baquba some 60 kms from Baghdad on November 16, 2008. A suicide car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint in Iraq’s volatile Diyala province [...]

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This picture has been around for a few days or so but I think about it at least a few times a day.  The only word that comes to mind when I see it or think of it is…hope.  I know, I know, it’s become a cliche.  But these kids are witnessing something that our parents always [...]

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I just got word that my sister, Brandi, is having her baby at about 6pm tonight.  Her blood pressure is high and they have to take the baby early.  She’s a bit nervous but ready to get the baby O-U-T!  She’s having a boy, which will make two boys for her and two girls for [...]

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Our second August birthday here on the Cafe!  This post is sticky – scroll down for fresh content.

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Will as his version of “Mad Eye Moody”

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A visitor peeks into the window of the newly-inaugurated memorial to homosexual victims of the Nazis on May 27, 2008 in Berlin, Germany. The memorial, a large stone with a window that looks onto an image of two men kissing, commemorates the tens of thousands of gays imprisoned by the Nazis, including the estimated 15,000 [...]

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God Damn America.

Two-year-old Ali Hussein is pulled from the rubble of his family’s home in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, April 29, 2008. The child, who later died at the hospital, was in one of four homes destroyed by U.S. missiles. More than two dozen people were killed when [...]

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While in Virginia Beach I got to see my sister’s litter of Boston Terrier pups. 
This is Yahtzee (already spoken for) asleep on Amber, who is also asleep.
So cute!
She still has several pups if anybody is interested ($$$).  It’s a 3.5 hour drive to Va Beach, fyi.

This is Jade and Deuce and Amber and Yahtzee.

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It’s looking like it’s going to be a big day for Barack in the “Potomac Primaries.” Anyone here think that Hillary will be gone within 48 hours?
Hmmmm…

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8 Questions the Potomac Primary Could Answer
Dan Balz | Washington Post
1) Will a Sweep by Obama Make Him the Front-Runner?
Victories in Maryland, Virginia and the District would give Barack [...]

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I have tons of photos and I have been wanting to start galleries here on the Cafe.  I ran into some snags today, so I have to wait for Robert to get home to fix them tonight.
To kick us off here are some photos we snapped in lovely little Ellicott City.  If there is litter and rusty chain-link [...]

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