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Richard Carnes: All this and race card, too

Want to see yet another nauseating list of what I am personally thankful for this year? No, I didn't think so. Who cares what I'm thankful for, right? What possible difference does it make to any of you what makes Dick smile? I wholeheartedly agree, ...

From RICHARD CARNES VAIL, CO, COLORADO, Vail Daily,  24 Nov 2009

Carnes: Paying for prayers a delusional alternative

According to the most recent version of the proposed health care bill, American Muslims who pray to Allah five times a day ( in the direction of Mecca) will be eli­gible for “prayer mat” reimbursement up to two times each year, as long as their mat ...

From RICHARD CARNES, Vail Daily,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Phil Davis,  Ann Coulter

Richard Carnes: Vail Valley lost innocence awhile ago

What kind of spin can we possibly put on a gun-toting, repeat offending, raging maniac that opens fire in a bar in an idyllic ski resort mountain community? Considering a man lost his life, I don't think we should even try. My wife and I spent a ...

From RICHARD CARNES VAIL, CO, COLORADO, The Vail Trail,  10 Nov 2009

Richard Carnes: Acquiescing to modernism

I have finally succumbed to my innermost desires. After all these years, I mustered up the courage to follow through with something I have thought about doing since around the time I understood the word: broadband. But it was tough, sort of like ...

From RICHARD CARNES, The Vail Trail,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Falcon Heene,  ESPN

Richard Carnes: Sure ain't last year's elections

Wow, an entire a year since the last election. You remember, of course, way back when we elected the basketball-playing black guy to live in the White House so he could try to fix the world , and then got ourselves a brand new county commissioner so ...

From RICHARD CARNES VAIL, CO, COLORADO, The Vail Trail,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: White House,  Buddy Lazier,  Kevin Foley

Vail Valley: Blowing out the mental closet

Like most Homo sapiens with an IQ higher than the average Glenn Beck home viewer, my synapses can become strained with extraneous mush. Over time the pressure builds, and in order to have a clear head for the upcoming winter, my relief valve needs to ...

From RICHARD CARNES, Vail Daily,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Taliban,  Osama bin Laden,  Glenn Beck,  Barack Obama

Richard Carnes: Who really cares?

I am not sure which is more sadly enter­taining to watch concerning President Oba­ma's Nobel Peace Prize: those insisting the prize has “now” become meaningless or Sean Hannity's head exploding on network TV. Both have such long-term enjoy­ment ...

From RICHARD CARNES, Vail Daily,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Sean Hannity,  Muhammad Yunus,  Al Gore,  Shirin Ebadi,  John Hume

Carnes: What is 'winning'

Who will be the last American soldier to die in the Middle East? Yes, it is an overused question (more of a statement, really) sadly reminiscent of a semi-rhetorical John Kerry, but since President Obama and his hawks are busy attempting to develop a ...

From RICHARD CARNES, Vail Daily,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: John Kerry,  Barack Obama,  Al-Qaeda,  Taliban,  Glenn Beck

Carnes: Not exactly another Kobe

VAIL, Colorado — It is a duty we all share as part of a democracy (and for the hair-splitters, it applies to a republic as well). For whatever reason, I seem to receive an Official Jury Duty Notice about once a year or so, but last week was only the ...

From RICHARD CARNES, The Vail Trail,  29 Sep 2009

Richard Carnes: What's in a number?

No. 3? Three, as in amigos? As in Monty Python, “ Three is the number, the number shall be three?” The num­ber of putts my friend, Christian, averages? The num­ber of times I have to ask a 10- year- old to turn off the Xbox before he actually does ...

From RICHARD CARNES VAIL VALLEY, CO COLORADO, Vail Daily,  24 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Monty Python,  John Stossel

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