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    paging julie brown

    Article by missy on April 14th, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    I spent the first 20 years of my life in FL, and being blonde and fair-skinned, it shows. I am freckled from head to toe (at least those parts that have ever seen the sun), and have what is charmingly called “trucker’s arm” — my left arm, in particular, is criss-crossed with little superficial hard spots called actinic keratosis.

    So, like every other [...]

    Category: Dept. of just Sayin' | 1 comment, Click HERE to chime in! | Show Discussion


    New Nationalism Speech – Teddy Roosevelt History Lesson

    Article by John on April 2nd, 2009 at 7:32 am

    Mt. Rushmore, Theodore Roosevelt closeup. Image via Wikipedia

    Since the 1980s (when I worked for Eastern Airlines, which no longer exists due to deregulation fever) we as a people have amnesia when it comes to the lessons that history teaches us.  Regulations did not just magically appear one day.  They were derived from the wisdom that came about from the mistakes of the past.  Reagan [...]

    Category: Corporate control, Dept. of just Sayin', Economic justice, Human rights, Labor | Click HERE to chime in! |


    what do politicians hate more than anything else?

    Article by missy on March 19th, 2009 at 11:01 am

    Doubt. Doubt = weakness, and weakness = electoral failure.

    So it’s a minor miracle when a politician reaches the right conclusion and, despite his doubts, acts on it:

    SANTA FE — The Bill Richardson who announced a repeal of the death penalty in New Mexico on Wednesday was not the same Bill Richardson who usually shows up for face time with the news media.

    The Richardson who [...]

    Category: Constitution, Corporate control, Culture, Death penalty, Economic justice, Obama, President Barack H, War on terror | Click HERE to chime in! |


    art alexakis saved my life

    Article by missy on March 17th, 2009 at 9:12 am

    Well, at least my craptastic week. Loud music with a strong dose of sardonic wit and a liberal sprinkling of profanity is often the only thing that will blow out the waxy plug of incipient depression that gets lodged between my ears about this time every year. (Missing last year’s X concert on March 28th as we flew to FL for L’s spring [...]

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    merit pay ain’t the way

    Article by missy on March 11th, 2009 at 11:04 am

    There is no question that Barack Obama will be a better president for the state of education in this country than George “is our children learning” Bush could ever hope to be, and almost anything would be better than Bush’s odious, expensive, top-heavy and radically stupid No Child Left Behind.

    That being said, merit pay is just another Republican red herring and should be round-filed along [...]

    Category: Bush crime family, Culture, Economic justice, Education, Fiscal policy, Labor, Money Party, Obama, President Barack H, Republicans | Click HERE to chime in! |


    heartbreaking

    Article by missy on March 4th, 2009 at 9:19 am

    As the mother of an only child, a son, this was a heart-wrenching piece to read.

    But every American needs to, because more than 4,000 sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, lovers, brothers and sisters have come home dead from these wars. For what? What have we accomplished?

    How cruel is life when your comfort lies in hugging your loved one’s casket?

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    The Campaign System is Broken and Everyone Knows It

    Article by John on January 27th, 2009 at 7:27 am

    Political fundraising has often been viewed as a corrupting influence in politics. Now it’s increasingly being seen by politicians as a roadblock to doing their jobs well. Republican Senator George Voinovich has had enough. Will stories like his breathe new life into the reform movement?

    It is nice to see a Republican Senator admit that the campaign finance system is broken and is [...]

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    making the world a better place

    Article by missy on December 25th, 2008 at 6:27 pm

    I am an atheist, but I love Christmas. And, since we discovered the Jews hiding in our family tree (and with it the explanation for why our was the only non-Jewish family in the country, as far as we can tell, with my maiden name: Porges), Chanukkah has added to our holiday fun.

    I was about 12, and having real trouble understanding why there is [...]

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