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Monday, January 14th, 2008
I recently listened to an outstanding interview of Jean Vanier by Krista Tippett on the radio program “Speaking of Faith.” Jean Vanier has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and has been considered a “Living Saint” by many people in the Roman Catholic Church. Jean Vanier is mostly known ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
I recently read a Mallard Fillmore comic strip that bothered me. If you don’t know Mallard Fillmore, he is a conservative duck that makes Rush Limbaugh type outrageous remarks on the comic pages of many newspapers. I sometimes wonder if Bruce Tinsley the author listens to Rush Limbaugh and puts ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
As Yogi Berra said, “It’s déjà vu all over again.”
I got a little freaked out this weekend. But, the story actually starts a couple of years ago.
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Tags: General, BIO, Nature vs. Nurture
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
Four years ago it was clear to me that I needed change. I was fat and out of shape. I wasn’t doing what I always thought that I wanted to do. We had an idiot as a president. And, it seemed like America was going in the wrong direction in ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
I read that Mike Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister and one-time governor of Arkansas, asserted that Mitt Romney wasn’t a viable presidential candidate because he believed that Jesus and the Devil were brothers. Why else would he make such a statement if he wasn’t trying to allude to this “crazy” ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
My personal experience with the our local Schools fluctuates from extremely good to extremely bad. We have lived in our town since 1998 and my four children have attended the public schools since we moved here. Over those nine years we have had the opportunity to work with some outstanding ...
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
The enemy of Corporate Capitalists is regulation. The freedom to do whatever needs to be done to make a buck is the most efficient way to make that buck. Regulations, by the very nature, put a roadblock into that process. On the other hand, the goal of regulation is to ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
The current administrati on position is that waterboardin g is not torture. Waterboardin g is merely a method for extracting information from a terrorist. Am I the only person confused here?
Waterboardin g is a method of making a suspect believe that he is about to die by drowning. The panic ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
I was listening to a lecture yesterday by an expert on teenagers. He concentrated on the dangers that teenagers face as the mature. He was telling the audience about the dangers of drugs and alcohol when he took a moment to explain why some people become addicted to drugs and ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
I was listening to a talk by John Dean the other day. John Dean is a Goldwater Republican and a member of the Nixon administrati on. He was also the person who helped to bring down the Nixon administrati on by his truthful testimony about the abuse of power in ...
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