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MacPokeronline....... A review

long term trading | Nebraska | ONLINE GAMES | poker | thunderstorm | Wyoming

Macpokeronline is a well-designed website providing information about online poker for Macintosh. If you have a macintosh computer and you like casino games, you can save a lot of time searching simply by visiting this website.

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The Drive East. Part 5: Nebraska Radio and Monkey Porn.

Cheyenne | Nebraska | O Ceallaigh's Observations | radio programming | rhesus monkeys | The Drive East

Anybody out there who lingers under the impression that America speaks with one voice in the world has not crossed the country in an aging Subaru listening to local radio stations. A few hours cruising the AM and FM bands in a moving car reveals the unique preferences, concerns, and tastes of each one of the cities, towns and rural communities of the Republic. And no two are alike.

To be sure, the voices are less unique now than they once were. In the early 80s, when I would drive fairly frequently between Massachusetts and Ohio, I would listen in as the radio powerhouses in Philadelphia and Scranton (westbound), or Pittsburgh and Wheeling (eastbound), faded into the static, leaving a no-station’s-land in the center of Pennsylvania. There, high among the Appalachian ridges and villages with names like DuBois and Clearview, the airwaves were filled by a single down-home speaker, nattering away at his listeners as if he were propped up on a chair near the pot-bellied stove at the general store, his feet on the counter.

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The Drive East. Part 4: Big Sky.

big sky | Nebraska | O Ceallaigh's Observations | The Drive East | thunderstorm | travel | Wyoming

I first encountered the Big Sky country of the United States in 1975. When, with a starting point south of Boston, Massachusetts, I drove an old, dubious Ford Econoline van, with most of my worldly goods in it (a small load), across Montana on its way to a parking lot at the Anacortes terminal of Washington State Ferries, its battery dead, its alternator junk.

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