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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! |


    Vote for Optimism and Change, Not More Horror

    Article by John on October 26th, 2008 at 8:00 am

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    PRIORITIES

    Tax cut for 95% of working Americans

    End tax breaks for “outsourcers”

    Reduce health care costs

    Energy independence

    Better education

    FUNDING

    Stop $10 billion waste in Iraq

    Bailout oversight

    Bush/McCain tax cuts for top 2% expire

    Close corporate loopholes

    Audit spending and eliminate programs that don’t work

    Category: 2008 Election, Obama, President Barack H | Click HERE to chime in! |


    no longer the hero

    Article by missy on October 7th, 2008 at 11:00 am

    if he ever was, McCain has become Richard III, Iago and Macbeth rolled into one.

    He is the scheming, lame and eternally bitter Richard of Gloucester, needing to kill all goodness around him so as to never face that contrast to his black soul, and needing war, too, as peace gives him nowhere to put his rage:

    But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
    Nor made [...]

    Category: 2008 Election, McCain, Sen John, Obama, President Barack H | 8 comments - Click HERE to chime in! | Show Discussion


    on patriotism

    Article by missy on July 7th, 2008 at 5:01 pm

    I know we are 3 days past the Fourth, but since Patriotism is the cheesy plastic hurdle that gets reset in the mud of every election year, I have to get this off my chest.

    First, as an illustration of my larger point, it is typical – but nonetheless ridiculous – that so many on the right are lionizing Jesse Helms and expounding on the “appropriateness” [...]

    Category: Dept. of just Sayin', Fascism, Free speech | Click HERE to chime in! |


    so long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye….

    Article by missy on March 27th, 2008 at 10:33 am

    I’m off tomorrow to my hometown of Bradenton, Florida (which I never thought I’d miss, but snow on March 27th is making it look better every minute) to share the glories of Pittsburg Pirates spring training, baitfishing, and manatee-spotting with our 9 y.o. son…

    I’ll be back in time to preview the Clark County Democratic Convention – and our own Rich has graciously agreed to help [...]

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