Omaha, Nebraska - Gateway to the West
The largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States, is Omaha, located on the Missouri river. Omaha is also the county seat of Douglas County. In the 1800, Omaha, because of its central location as a transportation hub, received its nickname “Gateway to the West”. Today, Omaha is regarded as one of the top livable cities in the United States. Omaha is the home to five Fortune 500 companies and is regarded as a hi-tech haven too. If you are planning to visit Omaha, or even if you have be
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Change is what Obama is offering - Change is what Obama is mandating. One of the things that he will mandate is that your time, your personal time, is no longer your own - it now belongs to the State. Now, before the Obamanuts decend upon me in a fury, let me say that I have no problem with volunteering. In fact, during high school, I spent hundreds of hours (I might say a couple thousand but the memory of the actual count has dimmed over the decades) of my own accord, serving as a volunteer
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Funeral etiquette - Take the kids, or leave them home? by Susan Wagner Aug 31st 2008 4:00PM Kids 5-7, Kids 8-11, DevelopmentMy husband's aunt passed away recently, after a long illness. She had lived across the street from us when both of our children were born, and used to send dinner every so often. Her husband would bring the boys Hot Wheels cars and various other toys; they gave my older son his first bicycle. The boys don't really remember any of that, but we did, and we were saddened by he
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Another Friday, another drive up to LMU to rescue my college freshman from a weekend on campus. It’s a beautiful campus, but the town is smaller than our high school. It would have been cruel to leave Tommy up there for a three day weekend. Besides, he is actually starting to make friends during the week, so the weekend of forced interaction with peers is slightly less urgent now. I don’t love driving. In my fantasy world I have a driver and I get to spend my time in the car reading books, work
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Siniša Boljanović had never blogged when he volunteered to report on Serbian blogs for Global Voices in 2007. He read an article about Global Voices in a Serbian online magazine and was so hooked on the idea of contributing, he taught himself to write in English and to use Wordpress for the first time in spite of one additional obstacle: Siniša is blind. Among the topics he has blogged about in the past year are, atrocities of war in his region, the arrest of Radovan Karadžić, human rights, Se
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Pardon the snarky headline, but today I witnessed something which may well have me heading for the fainting couch. Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama actually came out with a decision which was completely in step with the choice made by President George W. Bush and I was nodding my head in agreement with both of them. President Bush announced today that not only would he not be at the convention on Monday as planned, but would not be in New Orleans either. Choosing to stay out of the read
1.) Ta-Nehisi is right- this whole pick is just bait. Speaking of mooseburgers, I have no idea what they taste like, but I just went grocery shopping to pick up some stuff to grill for the holiday, and the price of beef is now so prohibitive that buffalo meat is competitive. Why buy beef when you can eat the better tasting and leaner bison for just a slight bit more? I should probably check the farmers market to see how much locally raised beef is selling for now. 2.) Jindal is on CNN doing a read
I have to admit I first relished this post for the snarky comments in the comments section, but it is asking a real question: what do (the designs of) these images say? There are some savvy responses, including:Looking at these from a perspective as a documentary film maker, these two pictures fall into two very different photo/film traditions. Obama and Biden are staring off into a vista that the viewer [can't] turn to see hemselves; the idea is to project a shared journey into some presumabl read
Lost in Austen News Roundup: Jane Give Us Strength Edition Filed under: Screen — Mags @ 1:22 pm Jane give us strength, because we actually have to do a bally news roundup about this thing. Zero hour approacheth, fellow Janeites, and we feel a disturbance in the Force. Alert Janeite Helen sent us a review from The Times, and it is hard to tell if it is unkind or if the reviewer is just being snarky. It is a truth universally acknowledged that any predictable drivel ever written about Jane A read
Elizabeth Holmes reports from O’Fallon, Mo. on the presidential race. Here’s something you don’t see every day: Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney climbing off the Straight Talk Express. The former rivals of John McCain joined the Republican presidential candidate and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, on the campaign bus that pulled into a rally here Sunday afternoon. Despite being passed over for the place on the GOP ticket, both Romney and Huckabee played the part of good foot soldiers read
