Bayou Renaissance Man

The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!

Thursday, October 27, 2011

More amazing pumpkin carving

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We've met Ray Villafane in these pages before. He's probably the foremost pumpkin sculptor (to coin a phrase) in the USA today. ...

The European financial 'bailout' and its implications for the USA

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I'm sure readers have been following the news of the just-agreed 'bailout' for Greece , and the promise of 'stability' i...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Teh cuteness!

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All right, this one's for animal-lovers. A rare white baby wombat has been rescued in South Australia . Inevitably, he's been nam...
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Doofus Of The Day #540

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Today's winner is from Northern Ireland . A Northern Ireland man who tried to turn his own faeces into gold by putting it on an electric...

It's enough to make anyone an environmentalist . . .

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The Daily Mail has published an article containing many aerial photographs of the effects of pollution on the North American landscape. He...
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This condom's from the government, and it's here to help you!

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Or . . . not so much. GlobalPost reports : Julie Peroni liked everything about her new boyfriend and she couldn’t wait for the first time h...
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Sticking it to America, one more time

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I'm furious to read about President Obama's latest education 'initiative' - one that's likely to cost the already overb...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Gambling cat!

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This made me giggle. Peter
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Is the US government giving ITSELF permission to lie to us?

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Via Dustbury , we learn of a very disturbing development concerning the freedom of official information. Pro Publica reports : A proposed ...
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Art Nouveau in stunning detail

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The good people at Dark Roasted Blend have produced another wonderful article , this time a treasure-trove of pictures of Art Nouveau prod...
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Auctioning a tooth???

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I was somewhat taken aback to read today that the late John Lennon's tooth is to be auctioned . A molar from the Beatle legend's mou...
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The last Cold War monster warhead?

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It seems the last survivor of the United States' Cold War arsenal of monster thermonuclear warheads met its end today - destructively, y...
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Monday, October 24, 2011

Meanwhile, in Russia . . .

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. . . as one of the contributors to this video's comments thread pointed out, "In Russia, truck always fits under bridge!" Pe...
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The real reason we have a government problem?

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Via Melody Byrne , we find this explanation . That does rather put it in a nutshell, doesn't it? Speaking of problems with government, C...
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Some commenters are just plain weird

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I apologize for having to terminate comments on the post I put up last night about the latest scandal in the Catholic Church . I'm afra...
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Doofus Of The Day #539

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Today's winner is from Vallejo in California. At about 6 a.m., a groundskeeper of Blue Rock Springs Park heard a man screaming when he ...
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More old-time carnage on wheels

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Following my embedding last Saturday of a video clip about old-time car racing crashes , I found two articles over at Retronaut with pictu...

Buying parts from the orbital scrapyard?

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That's what the latest project from the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sounds like. They call it the Phoenix Progra...
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Sunday, October 23, 2011

A prayer for mercy

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After my post below , about the latest scandal to strike the Catholic Church, I simply can't find it in myself to be light-hearted tonig...
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A new scandal strikes the Catholic Church

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I wish I had words to describe the ghastly, sick feeling in my stomach when, a few days ago, I read of a new scandal affecting the Catholic ...
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