Front yard invasion, today's items, and the Carnival

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Don't miss also Ellen Goodman, Helpless Little Girl

The Husband does the gardening (except for the mulching, which was done this week - and trust me, you don't want to smell the mulch much), and a couple of years ago he planted clematis. Well, the clematis love our front yard and now we have a large patch of clematis ready to take over. The ones in the picture are well over 5' tall and seem to be spreading.

Let that be a lesson to all of us.
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SC 2 Linked To Sami Al-Arian Investigation

There's been another strange development regarding the searching of a home in the investigation into Yousseff Samir Megahed and Ahmed Abda Mohamed, arrested for allegedly carrying pipe bombs in their vehicle just miles from a military facility in Goose Creek, South Carolina. According to this report, the home was also searched some years back during the investigation into Sami Al-Arian.

Go read the rest.
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For some reason the comments aren't showing under the posts. I have not a clue as to why or what to do, so my apologies for the inconvenience. Hopefully it will fix itself.
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Don't miss Francis Porretto's excellent post from 2004 following up my post from yesterday.
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Matt has an article from Nate Fick on Afghanistan. Fick's the author of One Bullet Away

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Newsweek Editor Calls Mag's Global Warming 'Deniers' Article 'Highly Contrived', debunking itself.
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The Carnival of the Insanities is on!