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some light reading....
IT'S TRUE!!!
Please Keep in Mind
If you're not drinking, you're not paying attention.
Reagan's '80s
(some of us remember)
Pol-ly-an-na
The Literate Electorate
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Adventures in home canning - So I made this the other day: It's ketchup. Yes, ketchup. If you've ever canned tomatoes, made tomato sauce, or salsa, you can make great tasting ketchup...
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FOX buddies, and border hate. - Loved the following response from someone calling themselves *"Mean Girl"* to Bill O'Reilly's question about the right hating president Obama too much to g...9 hours ago
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A Timely Lesson from the Great War? - Adam Hochschild, in an op-ed piece in the New York Times, argues that one of the reasons why the First World War was as bloody as it turned out to be was b...10 hours ago
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As Keystone XL Dominoes Fall, Time to Arrest Tar Sands Industry - We’ve got this. Thanks to the courageous and indefatigable efforts of pipeline fighters everywhere, the tide has finally turned on Keystone XL. As it becom...11 hours ago
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The Healing Fountain of Richard Pryor and Renewing My Embargo Against the Word "Nigger" - Nigger is the ugliest word in the English language. In writing about the Republican Party's white supremacist fueled hatred towards Barack Obama, I had n...14 hours ago
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5 comments:
no
you've put too much thought into this.
Who's John and what did he do. I must know. I'm an Enquiring mind.
SH - it's that galiano fellow
wonder if he'll have to give back his Legion of Honor?
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