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Mom, Grandmother, and race.

A story my mom told me about her childhood, about her mother, my Grandmother, that relates to racial problems. Both are gone, now, but still well loved, but what mom had to say was very powerful.

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Father Tom

I was prompted to write this after reading a story about some peace activists being arrested over at Counterpunch, link here,http://www.counterpunch.com/...entitled "Fracturing the Peace to End the...

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Operation Massive Stupidity

I just read Jeff Huber's post over at My Left Wing, and also here about Iraq, linky here,http://www.dailykos.com/...and thoroughly enjoyed it, but I was caught by one portion of a sentence. The Basara...

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How Obama could win PA

I ran into an interesting essay at Counterpunch today that I thought I'd comment on, link here,http://www.counterpunch.com/entitled         How Obama Could Seize Pennsylvania The Clintons and Their...

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Rogue nation, US?

Are we a rogue nation? Paul Craig Roberts seems to have that impression, and I tend to agree with him. He has written a good article about it that I found first on the Information Clearinghouse blog,...

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Heroes and "fools for Christ"

One of the favorite things I learned while in an Eastern Orthodox Christian monastery was the term "fool for Christ." These "fools" were simply, and often simple, spiritual people who had truly found...

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Admiral Fallon for VP?

Although I posted this earlier on a VP open thread, it scrolled off before I could finish so I thought I'd repost the comment as a diary, especially since the post was titled "5 p.m. PDT Daily Open...

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"An Epidemic of Extinctions: Decimation of life

on Earth" is the title to article I read today at CommonDreams website. This is the link to the original article.http://www.commondreams.org/...The article deals with very rapid extinction of species...

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Of birds and bugs, something strange

I do love to do bird and bug watching. I live in a wonderful place to enjoy my favorite pastimes , a mixture of old-growth forest, savannah, upland and wetland and have quite a variety of birds, bugs...

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"That damned cat!"

That was a quote from my departed Mother, bless her, and was the only time I ever heard her curse. She was born in 1907, was a schoolteacher in the days when they weren't legally allowed to be married,...

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Inherent knowledge of future events?

I enjoy watching animals of all kinds, because I feel I can glean a bit of knowledge about myself from doing so (and because I just enjoy it). I was watching a jumping spider today, and a mud-dauber...

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Movies that have a spiritual view

Before I begin, I'll admit that I'm a spiritual person. I do believe in God, I do think God works actively in our lives, and after having lived as an unhappy but devoted atheist for 40 years I'm much...

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"Ventastega curonica," evolution, and faith.

I hesitate to wade into these waters, but I'll do it anyway. I'm a person of faith, I think God is here and interacts with us, and the world around us. If we're perceptive enough (maybe "receptive"...

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Life's a bitch... (with poll)

Life's a bitch...And then you die. That was one of my favorite sayings back in the day, more than ten years ago, to my professional peers, and it was very much how I felt then. Loads of bad memories...

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For those who value constitutional purity,

to you I write this diary. Do you seriously think we live in a democratic republic? Do you think ours is a good government that fell off the bus when Bush came along? Do you think that the old FISA...

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What other cartoonists thought about the controverial cover

I found some good links to other cartoonists sites at Hullabaloo today, and since this is a time-sensitive thing (meaning that the cartoons will roll off soon) I thought I'd provide the links to the...

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A thought on the recent Edwards trolls

This is just a simple observation, but I've seen two diaries posted in the past few days that attack John Edwards for infidelity, based on some right-wing smear. The first diary I saw stated that...

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frugal Sunday thread

I live cheaply because I have to. I don't have much money to spend for frivilous items, so I don't buy them. Probably the best thing I've learned from my frugal times, going past ten years now, is how...

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Horror movie

I like to read blogs and visit many of them daily. It's about my only form of entertainment, other than birdwatching on a pleasant afternoon. I find myself most attracted to blogs that have something...

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The art and practice of FNB politics

I ran into this today over at Digby's Hullabaloo website, and followed the link to the post at Blog for Our Future. The original essay was written by Rick Perlstein in an original essay in March of '07...

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