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Friday, January 30, 2009

Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak worries people more than the

previously ignored and uncommented upon (at the time) massacre of people in Ruanda. They must have better lobbyists, like the Sudan does, as we hear of their plight more often than anything happening in Congo, Nigeria, Chad or other suffering places. This world is a funny tragic place and we seem to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Credit card rates at 47%...cancel your cards from these banks...

My sister's blog on Mexican real estate...investigating bank rates. Monday, January 19, 2009 INCREDIBLE!!! LOOK AT THE CREDIT CARD INTEREST RATES IN MEXICO Boy, you think it is bad in the USA!! look at these 2008 rates! The peso is $14.05 pesos to the dollar today! Check this out from CONDUSEF -... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 19, 2009

Old Post, Jan. 2005, on Martin Luther King's speech.

The beginnings of a Speech that I wrote for a Friend to use on MLK Day Here is her speech: When I began to prepare this season’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Show, a child in one of my classes asked me why we celebrated the life of this one black man. "Why", she asked, "did he deserve a holiday to honor... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 11, 2009

Read cripfemme's blog post on AIDS workers arrests in Iran...

Here is the link to her blog post. http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sitting_Position/589552 Please help her by contacting the people as she is doing and making one statement for reason. We cannot do it all, but each time something is pointed out to us, we can take five minutes to do one small... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 5, 2009

Mumbai's Islamic imams refuse to bury the terrorists.

REblogging: A new habit of lazy bloggers. The most interesting unknown news is of the fatwa issued by the clerics, a fatwa that I had never heard of before....it is at the end of the story. Posted by: Tom Heneghan Have you seen this story in your local newspaper? Mumbai’s top Islamic clerics have... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 2, 2009

My friend called all worried that her son may be joining a cultish group.

I worried right along with her. Said that I would come over and try to see what he was believing now about us lesser beings, without attacking nor being disrespectful, just trying to understand how much she should worry. He returns to NYC next week. My cousin lost her child to a Flagstaff cult, now... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Sloppy Investigative Reporting- Results Found

I spent a few minutes or more visiting each category on the Index of Blogit. I tallied up all Active, as far as I could tell from names that I knew to be active, to clicking on blog names to check the last blog entry ever made under that member's name. Did that second part a little haphazardly, I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 28, 2008

Don't they have a menu in English?

I took my hosted grandson, Jeoung Do and his parents, who are visiting from South Korea, to our oldest Mexican restaurant, El Charro, here in downtown Tucson. I showed them the papier mache' skeltons that grace the seating areas and the paintings of old charros and china poblanas and adelitas. I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

I gave money to the Salvation Army, took four angel kid's names off of a

Christmas tree and spent about $60 on 60 family members. If the malls and merchants were waiting for me or depending upon me for their ledger entries to be written with black ink, they will have to wait quite awhile. At least, the whole darned family, but two sweet children of mine and their... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

It has been an interesting cultural lesson, to hear responses from other

nations on t.v., internet and radio and personal conversations about a man throwing a shoe or two at our president and their response to our president's response. I found that the older one is, the more offensive one finds the whole thing. I suppose that this will always be true. Respect is... Sign in to see full entry.

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I wondered if anyone was reporting from the frontlines of American Society, embedded with the poverty stricken and reporting on what happens each day when you live in the greatest country on earth and earn enough to survive and not much else. I wondered if anyone was explaining America to others and thought that, since I was already embedded in this ongoing cultural experiment, I might tell what it's like.

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