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  - Sunflowers
    07/26/07
    
    I was going to use this post to make some comments about Mr. Hypocritical but I decided against it because all Americans should educate themselves on his inconvenient reality. These sunflowers are American Giants and the package said they can grow to be 8-14 feet. The tallest one there c
  - Money Laundering
    07/22/07
    To launder money basically means to conceal the source of it. Sometimes people have no choice but to disclose what path their money has taken.
    
    Dog chews and eats nearly $750; most recovered
    
    From the story:
    
    "After finding out what happened, the family collected t
  - Canada Trip
    07/15/07
    Here is another picture I took along Kings Highway 15 near Seeleys Bay, Ontario two days ago. If I do the math right, that works out to about US$3.77 gallon.
    
    I didn't hear a lot of griping about gas prices when I was there but things in general are more expensive. The gas
  - Canadians Support Their Troops Too
    07/14/07
    Picture taken by me at a coffee shop on Kings Highway 15 near Seeleys Bay, Ontario. The sign has a McDonald's logo on it but the nearest McDonalds was about 20 Km down the road.
    
    Locally, the biggest story was that a soldier from Kingston was killed in Afghanistan on July 4 and the fu
  - On Holidays
    07/13/07
    ...well not anymore. I returned to the good ol' USA today after a few days in Canada. I came home to no phone service in my house. The storm on Tuesday must have knocked it out. Of course, this being Friday evening, the earliest the phone company can come out is Tuesday. Luckily, it appears not
  - University of Pittsburgh Dogs?
    07/07/07
    
    For some odd reason, my alma mater decided to change their secondary logo, pictured above, and they must have used some art-school dropout (excuse the redundancy) to design the Panther logo pictured above. Below is the most recent panther. I never thought it was great either but at least
  - Hiatus
    07/02/07
    I'll probably be taking holiday from blogging for the first half of July. Stay tuned, though, as I may sneak a post or two in depending on my mood.
    
    Remember to fly your flags and read the Declaration of Independence on the 4th.
    
    Here's the link to the post that expla
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