Month: July 2005
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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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Good Start!
Here’s something I did up a few years ago and am giving it a rerun here: Every so often in the mailbox in our former neighborhood would appear one of those booklets that’s 60 or so pages of “Send me your dollars and god will send you dollars/make you well” etc. A prayer cloth (1…
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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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Green Acres comes to the city
Ha! You nature bloggers with your enviably scenic backyards chock full of wild flowers and exotic birds (any bird is exotic if not a pigeon) and the occasional wandering deer don’t have anything over us urban apartment dwellers any longer. Kind of. Well, ok, you do, but you go with what you’ve got. And what…
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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…