Tag: social studies
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The World of Discontented Dissident Dick and Jane and Friends
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I vote we tie Rove in a chair, force him to watch "Oliver" 40 times in a row, and see what truths of soul commence to happen
I am drinking the worst coffee in the world. That came out of my very own French press. Hours ago. It was this bad hours ago. It was this bad when fresh. Tasted like the proverbial 20 year old Converse sneakers that climbed up on the counter and said look I’ve got holes in my…
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A world of Jonestowns
Hasih Hussain was 18. It’s said he had a “troubled adolesence” before becoming devoutly religious at the age of 16. A friend of Hasih’s was Shehzad Tanweer was 22, had studied for a sports science degree at univeristy, was said by friends to be non-political and from a very strong family. “Shezad is a very…
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More Sensenbrenner prison love
Wandering about at Skippy the Bush Kangaroo’s place I see that Jamess Sensenbrenner wants to stick it to the judicial system and be both judge and jury. In an extraordinary move, the chairman of the house judiciary committee privately demanded last month that the 7th u.s. circuit court of appeals in chicago change its decision…
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What does the corporate monster look like?
“What does the corporate monster look like?” H.o.p. says and hands me a piece of paper from his 3 inch high stack and a pen. “Draw it for me?” H.o.p. has recently discovered Neopets and he wants a Neopet toy and of course at the Neopet website they have all the toys and where you…
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Blood and words
Scotland Yard warned Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just previous the London blasts that they’d received warnings and so he stayed at this hotel instead of heading down to the hotel where the economic conference was taking place, which is over the subway stop where one of the blasts occurred. No news on how long…
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Duplicitous agreements
At Lewis News is an article by columnist, Greg Szymanksi, Mom, Who Lost Son In Iraq, Talks About ‘Disgusting’ White House Private Meeting With Bush. The mom is Cindy Sheehan, who testified June 16th at the Downing Street Memo Hearing called by John Conyers. Ms Sheehan also spoke about the same meeting with Bush with…
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Another happy July 4th posting – courtesy of the "objective" Ayn Rand Institute
The Ayn Rand Institute bills itself as “the center for the advancement of objectivism”, seeking to advance the principles of reason, rational self-interest, individual rights and free-market capitalism, spearheading a “cultural renaissance” that will reverse the anti-reason, anti-individualism, anti-freedom, anti-capitalist trends in today’s culture. The major battleground in this fight for reason and capitalism is…
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The rest of the story of our July 4th freedom happy holiday
Paul Harvey. “Not dead yet!” No, not Paul Harvey, who has a 10 year, $100 million contract with Disney/ABC Radio Networks, syndicated to 1000 radio stations, with listeners of about 18,000,000. “Not dead yet!” Paul Harvey, who my guess is would be all for capital punishment for flag burners, but has probably a few times…
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No surprise, Justice O’Connor resigns, everyone sets out lawn chairs from which to examine the horizon
And now Justice O’Connor has stepped down, which is a day we’ve been dreading for the past 5 years. A not a day. Is a huge chasm instead opening in the earth, from which could crawl what monster from the deep. I’d say no there was the cleft and the woman was the swing vote…
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The Ultra Macho Freedom Tower
Get a grip on it. The Freedom Tower. A sacred subject. Right? No. The Freedom Tower. Honors those who perished there and the whatever for which the new urban warriors fought daily. Right? Wrong.
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The justice of Karl Rove
He suddenly saw the difference between them as sharp as ice and nails and the awesome holy obligation of his shrub to drive past the normal bounds of justice into that fearsome place of godly daring do which was the property of prophets, a territory untroubled by moderate and righteous men nursed on the milk…