Ten thousand men of Harvard want victory today, for they know over old Eli, Fair Harvard holds way…
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Actually, as much as I try to avoid Microsoft products, I feel that this is actually a positive sign from Microsoft that they refuse to release what would have been a lackluster, half baked product line like their UMPC/UMD’s.
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Hilton Head has some amazing golf courses, but even more striking are the number and size of the alligators. I grew up in Florida, and it was a rare sight to see a gator on the course that wasn’t wearing blue and orange, but in HH, the alligator density is remarkable. Every course I went to had a resident monster or two. This one decided to interrupt our round, and we let it play through.

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If life is metaphor for golf, then surgery is the closest metaphor. Some operations are short par threes on flat farmland municipals, others are 600 yard par fives alongside seaside cliffs. Some operations are best done with good company -OR times are halved and the hours spent on your feet feel like a nice walk on the course. Two or three heads and four or six hands are much better than being alone. It’s a good thing that I’m a scratch surgeon, but I still dream about scratch golf.

I was asked to go on a golf outing to Scottsdale. I will not go. I have black hair and brown skin, and driving a rental car, it would make me highly suspicious appearing under this statute. I would not be able to contain my anger and it would likely result in a resisting-arrest arrest or worse. Arizona is off my travel plans for a long time.

I am a real American. I love this country. I would die for this country and its principles. Arizona should be ashamed of this law and any positive feelings I had for Senator John McCain stemming from his 2000 run are over. I am switching parties for good. Better to be a moderate Democrat than an unwelcome token presence in a party that panders to the worst humanity’s worst instinct -the desire to subjugate, subordinate, and ultimately annihilate the other.
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As an Asian-American and an immigrant, there would be ample reason to pull me over and check my papers based on how the AZ law reads. I may go all Henry Louis Gates on said law enforcement and end up in jail for my troubles -no thanks. I was actually thinking a golf outing to the Phoenician would have been fun. That said, I feel great sympathy for the rancher who got shot and killed. It speaks to a need to militarize the border, not the country, and establish a guest worker program with a path to citizenship because immigration is the fuel of America’s greatness. What this law accomplishes is that it makes it easier to exploit undocumented laborers and creates a class of serfs.
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While everyone is entitled to their opinion, here is mine. This type of fearmongering takes its beats from Mein Kampf and the concept of the big lie. It’s cynical and appeals to the worst instincts of the electorate. Rome transitioned from Republic to Empire and dictatorship with the agitations of cynical politicians and the degeneration of the Roman public. America is being challenged on multiple fronts and change is being targeted as the number one challenge. This should be a struggle resolved in the voting booth and in the forum of ideas, not suicide bombs and sniper attacks. Maybe in the end, we will balkanize and break off a theocratic red zone where it will be a perpetual tailgate party inside a NASCAR ring, where ostensibly family friendly teen pop stars are encouraged to unironically pole dance and splay their thighs for popular consumption, where home schooling will substitute religion for science, where the jumbo supersized sweet tea will soothe the hypoglycemia of the morbidly obese, where home prices rise forever, and the new, brown slaves stripped of rights can do all the heavy lifting.

I will take my fight to the voting booth this fall. God bless America.
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The golf course at the Wakonda Club is in absolutely perfect condition completing a 3 year journey. The old lady underwent a complete resurfacing of the greens and fairways. Last year, the greens were in shape, but the fairways had large areas of nongrowth and was thin and patchy where the grass was growing in. Walking holes #1-3 today after work, I was truly happy.

Ironic that Mrs. Palin fails to understand the irony in blathering about this. Why is she opposed now?
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