Cigar Store Indian on East Seventh Street.

Decoration for General Custer’s bachelor pad?

More tasteful home decorations. Delancey and Chrystie Streets.

Cigar Store, Park Avenue.

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Caryatids on St. Mark’s Place. I must have passed these beauties a thousand times and never noticed them.

St. Mark’s Place is always bustling with distractions and if you are walking on south side of the street they are pretty much hidden from view by the vendor stalls and awnings. “St. Mark’s Place” or “St Marks Pl”?

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Memorial Day/Praise bravery, seek forgiveness

“In exchange for our uniformed young people’s willingness to offer the gift of their lives, civilian Americans owe them something important: It is our duty to ensure that they never are called to make that sacrifice unless it is truly necessary for the security of the country. In the case of Iraq, the American public has failed them; we did not prevent the Bush administration from spending their blood in an unnecessary war based on contrived concerns about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. President Bush and those around him lied, and the rest of us let them. Harsh? Yes. True? Also yes. Perhaps it happened because Americans, understandably, don’t expect untruths from those in power. But that works better as an explanation than as an excuse.

The “smoking gun,” as some call it, surfaced on May 1 in the London Times. It is a highly classified document containing the minutes of a July 23, 2002, meeting at 10 Downing Street in which Sir Richard Dearlove, head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, reported to Prime Minister Tony Blair on talks he’d just held in Washington….”

Editorial in the Minneapolis – St. Paul Star Tribune

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