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In response to Wanda's two posts
(This one on the colonies and another about black women being reticent to be feminists--LJ won't let me post such a lengthy reply, but maybe my essay can go here in my own journal...)
I do genealogy. My ancestors came to the Colonies in the early c18th from Scotland and Ireland--places colonized by the power of Britain. Around 1775, my ancestors ( Read more... ) -
Himself
We went shopping for a sweater for Dugal, as it's cold and rainy here, and he feels the weather.
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The US Economy: In the Doghouse
I know that some of my LJ friends have an abiding interest in politics, as do I. When news of this $700 billion fiasco broke, I was outraged, as you were, and I wrote my senators and reps before I learned from the NY Times that the bailout created more correspondence and phone calls to Congressional offices than nearly anything in the modern ( Read more... ) -
Happy Birthday, glarehead!
Happy Birthday, Adam Schmadam!
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Views on bail-out
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Realpolitik
We drove by a trailer park yesterday, one of the Appalachian specials that has regular trailers mixed with campers. Old campers. The kind of old campers that were dragged behind a car and parked there in 1979. And not hooked up to water and sewage until 1989, when the trailer park forced the issue.
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Politics - Forward this link to everyone
http://www.crosscut.com/politics-government/17341
About Sarah Palin: an e-mail from Wasilla
A suburban Anchorage homemaker and activist - who once did battle with the Alaska governor when Palin was mayor - recounts what she knows of Palin's history.
(This letter was written by the purported author, a fact established by Slate.com and the AP.)
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Take my poll, please.
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Orwell
What Orwell wrote, 70 years later to the day:
orwelldiaries.wordpress.com
“The diary isn’t Orwell at his most polemic; it is Orwell at his most steady, most observant,” Professor Seaton said....Orwell's collected writings occupy some 20 volumes, but he died in 1950, never having had the chance to spontaneously publish his thoughts to a waiting -
Lasting relationships
“The act of consciously attending to another person… can become the centre of gravity of the work of love.” --J Needleman, On Love
Rules for lasting intmate relationships
By the Rev Louis A Ewart, Vicar of Earls Barton, Northants
1) Always tell the truth
2) Love, goodwill, wisdom and understanding are absolutely required
3) A sense of humour is ( Read more... )
