Tag: social studies
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150,000 square feet of asphalt at the foot of Bear Butte
A jackass by the name of Jay Allen has big plans for Bear Butte. He is going to expand his “world’s biggest bikers’ bar” right up to its foot. The first phase of Sturgis County Line will have over 150,000 s.f. of asphalt for semi-tractor trailers, hand-picked vendors, motorcycle stunt riders and one hell-of-a-lot of…
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The atheists not accepted here standard
I was doing a quick glance through of Georgia QCC standards and came up with the below one which will be interesting to atheists. Quality Core Curriculum Standards Character Education Citizenship (all grades) Strand: Citizenchip 10 Topic: Citizenship Standard: Respect for the creator: our most basic freedoms and rights are not granted to us from…
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Who Wal-Mart pays and doesn't pay for its good PR
The New York Times runs a report on Wal-Mart eliciting bloggers to paraphrase spoonfed canned PR for Wal-Mart. After all, if one pro-Wal-Mart blogger was caught writing exactly what another one was writing, the public would get suspicious, wouldn’t it? Brian Pickrell of the Iowa Voice blog is one such individual, using his blog “to…
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Big truck people demoralized by people with Hummers
Obviously, big truck people have been demoralized by people with Hummers, which is the only excuse for this. Which I came across at I Blame the Patriarchy, and have previously observed but forgotten about and observed and forgotten about but after being reminded again of their presence I decided to comment because it occured to…
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Insane people say and do insane things
So South Dakota’s senate makes it the first state to pass an all out abortion ban. And Governor Rounds says he would look favorably on it if it would “save lives”. An argument which doesn’t begin to hold up when one considers the costs of life-sustaining therapies that take them out of reach of the…
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The woman washing cars with a hamburger is funny stuff
H.o.p. right now is excited about any movie that comes out, as long as it’s not frightening. He wants to see that movie “…about mermaids! There’s going to be a movie about a mermaid! I’ve never seen a mermaid!” Then when there was the commercial for the horror film about mutants from the Manhattan Project…
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Pac Men and Global Warming
In one of the memes going around once was, if I remember correctly, the question who would you talk to in history if you had a time machine. My thought was one of my Ioway ancestors. I would have wanted to go back to what they were facing as Anglos encroached. I imagine there were…
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If you buy the "beautiful people don't commit crime, ugly people do" research, you are so easily led around by your nose
So Boingboing points to this Washington Post article that states, according to Georgia State University and University of Colorado research, if you’re ugly you’re gonna commit crime and if you’re cute and have a date to the prom you’re going to earn more money and not break the law (my paraphrasing). Bullshit. Never mind any…
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Fuck Guenter Lewy
George Mason University’s “History News Network” (byline Because the Past is the Present, and the Future too) has published 11-22-04 the article “Were American Indians the Victims of Genocide?” by Guenter Lewy. You can read it yourself. I’m not going to go through it point by point. I will give two brief excerpts: The sorry…
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Paving the road for Democracy
Where are we going? What are we doing where we are? Where have we been? A minor visual aid.
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Go outside in your yard, pick up a handful of earth, and think about it
Maybe I should make a category for “What are we becoming? Yeah, well, where have we been?” Trail of Tears may grow by 2,000 miles if study OK’d By RICHARD POWELSON, powelsonr@shns.com February 17, 2006 WASHINGTON – The National Park Service on Thursday endorsed a study that may add about 2,000 miles of land and…
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What in the world is this country becoming?
People write in response to abuses in Iraq and the death and destruction there, what is this country becoming. And some write that if the media showed pictures on the television of the infants and children being killed, that the citizenry of America would rise up and put an end to the war, demand it.…