Carter Vs. Obama on Racism
Not much of a diary just some excerpts from clips on what President Carter said about President Obama and racism. I have been deeply troubled by the media response and others that try to minimize...
View ArticleThe problem with this story is...
that you have to get sick to get well.http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/science/12psychedelics.html?hpw.If you did not yet read the article in the Times today about how doctors are using hallucinogens...
View ArticleI feel the need to apologize...
for much of the stupidity that surrounds us today. You see in the spring of 1970, I was just finishing my freshman year in college after spending a few years in the Air Force, and the country was in...
View ArticleIs it possible that our President....
knows more than we do? I'm not sure anymore when I read a great many of the postings here. I like the guy, he seems real, but I would have liked more of a fighter. Dose our President want to be a...
View ArticleMyth #1, Democrats control the Congress...
If Democrats lose control of Congress this November, is that something that will work against Progressive values?We know that we have not been in control the past many months, so having the crazies...
View ArticleDivest News Corp.
When people of conscience wanted to end apartheid in South Africa, they launched a campaign to force American institutions to divest their stock in companies that did business with companies that...
View ArticleEugene McCarthy 2011
In 1968, I was a Connecticut Yankee defending our country in North Dakota. The middle class and the under class were having their boys killed in Vietnam, a war we as a country were against. LBJ a great...
View ArticleTenure: the Myth
Now many of you have been lead to believe that once a teacher or a professor receives tenure they have that position for life.That is not true. All tenure gets you is a level of due process that you...
View ArticleSo, you want to rattle their cages?
I will tell you one way that could be very powerful without much effort. You know how sometimes when you go to a sporting event, someone starts a wave? Do you remember the fun that it is, and the sense...
View ArticleCT Gov. Malloy like Gov. Walker
In forty years, since public employees won the right to collectively bargain, NO Connecticut governor has ever proposed banning collective bargaining for a group of public employees. No Democrat or...
View ArticleInspirational
If you have not seen Gov. Granholm's thank to our President for his actions as they related to they young people in our country that are afraid that we might send them to a country that they do not...
View ArticleMusic diversion
Thinking that it is not healthy to think too much about one thing, I had a thought that we could bring music to Kos. So I propose a contest, a musical contest. Oh, no we can't have fun here! Well...
View ArticleToday's Outrageous Lie
Last Friday night I was reading Professor Krugman's blog and he had a post entitled "Niallism" and one of the responders was a woman named Jane III 42nd Parallel. She put forth a interesting idea about...
View ArticleMusic Diversion again
Thinking that it is not healthy to think too much about one thing, I had a thought that we could bring music to Kos. So I propose another contest, a musical contest. Oh, no we can't have fun here...
View ArticleAnother Music Diverison
Thinking that it is not healthy to think too much about one thing, I had a thought that we could bring music to Kos. So I propose another contest, a musical contest. Oh, no we can't have fun here...
View ArticleUS Gun Buy Back program
We spend $600 to $700 billion a year of DOD, why not spend $500 million a year on a Gun Buy Back program?
View ArticleCharlotte's Web, its time...
that this community to lend our support to parents all across this country that have children that would greatly benefit from Charlotte's Web. If you have not heard of it, please Google it, and read of...
View ArticleAge with Poll.
I'm 69 and will be 70 in the Spring. For the past 10 years I've been a farmer of a small horsefarm but before that I was a HS teacher. I've had very little stress in my life and have been lucky to have...
View ArticleIris Dement, Wasteland of the Free
and she wrote this in the 90's. Enjoy.https://www.youtube.com/...
View Article"The Most Dangerous Woman in America"
Chris Hedges has written a piece on Kshama Sawant of Seatle in another blog, and has described her as the “The Most Dangerous Woman in America” because she wants a $15 p/hr minimum wage, and she has...
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