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Article by John on September 6th, 2009 at 10:35 pm Obama’s speech is over here. How come few complain about this which IS indoctrination? Back to School: Military Recruiters Increasingly Targeting High School Teens Transcript of the above is here. var wordpress_toolbar_urls = ["http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gDqQJuGAC0Xb5hUlwfuOZ-0hr5_gD9AIL5680","http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2009\/9\/4\/back_to_school_military_recruiters_increasingly"];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “oinw”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL3d3dy5kZW1vY3JhY3lmb3J2YW5jb3V2ZXIub3JnL2VkdWNhdGlvbi9vYmFtYXMtc3R1ZGVudC1hZGRyZXNzLWluZG9jdHJpbmF0aW9uLzx3cHRiPk9iYW1hJiM4MjE3O3MgU3R1ZGVudCBBZGRyZXNzICYjODIxMTsgJiM4MjE2O05vdCBJbmRvY3RyaW5hdGlvbiYjODIxNzs8d3B0Yj5odHRwOi8vd3d3LmRlbW9jcmFjeWZvcnZhbmNvdXZlci5vcmc8d3B0Yj5EZW1vY3JhY3kgZm9yIFZhbmNvdXZlcg%3D%3D”;
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Article by John on February 15th, 2009 at 8:37 pm This is the most succinct explanation I have come across of where we are at and of what to do with regard to the financial crisis affecting our country. I hope Obama and Congress are listening. From Bill Moyers Journal (you can watch the video here): February 13, 2009 BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the Journal. The battle is joined as they say — and here’s the [...]
Article by missy on October 27th, 2008 at 3:46 pm And Sarah Palin is their poster girl: Federal agents have broken up a plot by two neo-Nazi skinheads to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives said Monday. In court records unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Tenn., federal agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target [...] | |
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