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Posts from September 2008

22/365 mr zebac


i had to tell you that i couldn’t afford the trigonometry calculator required for class.  you kindly allowed me to use the book to do my calculations and you turned it into a game, challenging me to outdo the calc users.

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Tagged as: people,x365 September 29, 2008 @ 04:05 pm

how sad that clinton has lost his mind


ya know.  this was really sad to see:

Clinton ... explained what he meant in characterizing McCain as a “great man.”

“I think his greatness is that he keeps trying to come back to service without ever asking people to cut him any slack or feel sorry for him or any of that stuff because he was a POW,” Clinton said of the Republican presidential nominee.

someone help clinton find his way back to reality, plskthx.

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Tagged as: elections2008,mccain,clinton September 29, 2008 @ 11:13 am

study finds blacks are “violent”, “lazy” and “irresponsible”...if you’re white.


an article recently from the associated press stated that,

Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks — many calling them “lazy,” “violent” or responsible for their own troubles.

The poll, conducted with Stanford University, suggests that the percentage of voters who may turn away from Obama because of his race could easily be larger than the final difference between the candidates in 2004 — about 2.5 percentage points.

further findings from the study:

 

 

 

Continue Reading...

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Tagged as: politics,culture,news,racism,elections2008,bigotry,immigration,obama September 29, 2008 @ 05:24 am

21/365 clown mural


daddy’d decorated my birthday present with this clown and i’d kept it in my scrapbook.  deciding to use it for baby bro’s wall, i loved it – daddy had made it and it was something connecting me to the baby boy.


the original clown

Blogged, Personal, Memories,
Tagged as: people,x365 September 25, 2008 @ 10:46 pm

20/365 my namesake


my mother told me stories of growing up in the 50s, raised by her nanny and the inequality the woman faced.  that someone would have treated her unjustly, unfairly, and with prejudice was more than I could grasp.  “why?” was unanswerable.

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Tagged as: people,x365 September 24, 2008 @ 06:48 pm

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arin721 on clearing my bookshelf, one page at a time...: heh.  s’why i read stephen king.  i want to read a book that makes me stay awake all night to finish&hellip

Carol on clearing my bookshelf, one page at a time...: I haven’t read a Stephen King since The Shining.  Scared the sheeeeet out of me. I have Veronika Decides to Die&hellip

Carol on bp's oil spill response plan = one giant LOL: I was looking @ some photographs of the consequences of this awful spill yesterday, absolutely breaks my heart to see the&hellip

arin721 on celebrate the beauty that is YOU!: i cannot *wait* to buy your book.  up to me, everyone would own it, know it, and celebrate it - it’s&hellip

Karen from Chookooloonks on celebrate the beauty that is YOU!: Thank you so much for this kind shout-out!  Judging from your “about me” page, it seems you get the entire concept&hellip

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