Posted in February 11th, 2012
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It is written in oh so politically correct language, but it should set off alarm bells. A US government appointed ethicist at the National Institutes of Health just wrote an article in the British Medical Journal proposing the handicapped should be killed for organ donations.
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What makes an act of killing morally wrong is not […]
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Posted in February 8th, 2012
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It’s hard to follow American politics from ten thousand miles away (I live in the rural Philippines, and we get the news a day late), but as a Democrat, I was bemused to read in today’s papers that Rick Santorum just won in the Republican primaries of Minnesota and Missouri.
Santorum? I wasn’t aware he […]
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Posted in January 26th, 2012
On New Year’s Eve, Jessica Munday watched helplessly as her close friends, Matt and Melanie Capobianco were forced to hand over their adopted little girl, Veronica, to her birth father. Now Munday and Stephanie Brinkley (a Charleston adoption attorney) are on a mission to “save Veronica.”
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Posted in January 24th, 2012
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Here in the Philippines, thanks to Wikileaks, we know that not only American money is behind our “Reproductive Health Bill”, but that the American State Department is pressuring our president to pass the bill.
Heaven knows that the Philippines does need access to cheaper Birth control, but it’s not as if it’s not available: they sell […]
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Posted in January 9th, 2012
As a Canadian who spends a great deal of time in the U.S. I am always amazed at the differences between our two countries. I live in Montreal and most of my extended visits are to New York City. This again exaggerates things as the flight is but an hour. One would expect two international […]
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Posted in November 22nd, 2011
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“Traumatic grief, with its unanswered questions, its numbing shock, its horror, its ability to sear disturbing images into our souls that cannot be erased by sleep or by time–this process follows the same general path both for persons and groups.”
When 12:30 struck, none of us fourth graders knew that our young president was being […]
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Posted in November 21st, 2011
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I read a name from the past in today’s news: Medgar Evers.
The name takes me back to the days of when as a child we visited our aunt who lived in the deep south, and I was astonished that there “colored only” restaurants and water fountains.
Evers was one of the heroes who fought for the […]
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Posted in November 21st, 2011
One Minneapolis social worker once told me that the only reason my husband’s grandchildren weren’t removed from their parents sooner was because of the Indian Child Welfare Act. He said that had they been of any other heritage, they would have been protected much sooner.
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Posted in October 19th, 2011
It’s been 8 months since Arab Spring revolution swept Egypt and led to the end of Mubarak’s regime.
The uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak in February has hammered the economy and sparked a wave of sectarian and other violence that the ruling army and its interim cabinet has struggled to control.
Fearing the radical Islamic movement of […]
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Posted in September 9th, 2011
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The latest “Western” movie from Hollywood, about aliens and starring a petulant British actor, was a bomb, and that led many “experts” to again predict the demise of the Western as a film genre. Of course, the real reason for the problem is the nihilism of Hollywood, not the lack of stories.
So could I suggest […]
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Posted in July 12th, 2011
“What would you do if you found out at age 16 that you didn’t have the right papers?”
I would do just as I did in Canada when the visa’s for my entire family ran out and we were denied new visa’s in Calgary. We left the country and did not re-enter until we had valid visa’s again.
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Posted in June 29th, 2011
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Los Alamos, with it’s nuclear facility, has been evacuated again. The NMNational Guard is busy helping with the fires near Alamagordo, as is the California, Colorado and North Carolina Air National Guard. From the BBC:
The town outside Los Alamos National Laboratory was evacuated on Monday.
On Wednesday, there were expected to be between 600 to 800 […]
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Posted in April 12th, 2011
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Back in the “good old days”, a lot of states had “literacy tests” for voters. If you didn’t pass them, you couldn’t vote.
Of course, it was a scam: the real reason for the testing was to eliminate black voters, and the fight to remove the laws was part of the civil rights movement to allow […]
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Posted in April 2nd, 2011
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Thirty years ago, I helped arrange an outpatient dialysis program on a remote Indian reservation.
Tell you the truth, the hospital was substandard, the staffing was short, and the administration pressured the docs not to transfer patients out to better facilities because our “contract health” funds were limited.
But the tribe saw dialysis, which could be arranged […]
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Posted in March 2nd, 2011
The temporary shutdown in Egypt of Internet and other telecommunication services, as well as similar interruptions in other Middle East countries experiencing large-scale protests and rebellions, has galvanized hackers and human rights activists as well as U.S. foreign policy makers. The consequences may be not be what anyone expected.
The technologies for secure, private, fault tolerant […]
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Posted in March 1st, 2011
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Remember the late great Tea Party? The grass roots movement that made the political establishment quake? For one glorious moment it seemed as if a truly independent, average Joe/Joan movement might be gathering steam. A memory from that halcyon time: assorted TV pundits telling Republican leaders that Tea Party people “don’t like you guys either”. […]
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Posted in December 16th, 2010
I’m not going to diplomatically dance around so as not to step on toes. Kids are dying. Beautiful Michelle hanged herself in a simple closet, where all she had to do was stand up to save herself.
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Posted in November 19th, 2010
What has to be acknowledged is that we live in a migratory, multi-cultural society. This means that many children who fall under the jurisdiction of the Indian Child Welfare Act have more than one heritage, and many times are predominantly of another heritage, and/or have family who not only haven’t any connection to the Indian Reservation, but have specifically chosen not to participate in the reservation system.
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Posted in November 10th, 2010
Need a close-to-home example of how socialist policies within our government currently affect U.S. citizens? Read Roland Morris’ story. Read about his family: A beautiful 16-year-old niece who hanged herself in a closet, another dying of a drug overdose in a public bathroom. A brother was stabbed to death on the reservation, a 4-yr-old was left alone for a whole night at a dangerous inner city park while her Dad drank, and a 2-yr old was beaten to death by her mother. Those examples are just starters. Find out why this tribal elder traveled to DC over and over again to fight tribal jurisdiction over his family – as well as the well-compensated Congressmen who support it.
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Posted in November 4th, 2010
Across America, children that have never been near a reservation - nor ever involved in tribal customs - are routinely removed from homes they love and placed with strangers - sometimes unsafe - chosen by tribal Gov’t.
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Posted in October 23rd, 2010
“If you read it and you were not Christian, would you not feel welcome to rent there?”
Seriously? Is this Haynes woman any relation to Nancy Pelosi? She sure sounds just as light-headed.
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Posted in September 23rd, 2010
This was supposed to be a “post” racial presidency. Why is our leadership fanning these flames?
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Posted in September 19th, 2010
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I am bemused when the elites of both parties are horrified at a woman candidate who overturned their chosen candidate in the primaries.
No surprise about this, after all the Press promises to promote the propaganda, never mind the truth of the matter. From the Atlantic:
Chuck Todd said it first…
“There will be an all out effort […]
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Posted in August 29th, 2010
I just finished watching the “Restore Honor” rally at the Washington Monument, and the message from the rally moved me greatly. First, for those who do not know me, I am a Christian, and believe in the rapture, and of all that is spoken of in the book of Revelation.
I say that because I realized […]
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Posted in August 6th, 2010
Mrs. Obama, like so many in her small circle, appears to be completely blind to the rest of America. Does she honestly believe that the ‘African American’ community is hit harder by the economic downturn than, say…the ‘Native American’ community?
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Posted in July 21st, 2010
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In April, 2008, the press was hailing the brilliance of Barack Obama, and dissing the much more experienced Hillary Clinton for not dropping out of the race, even though the race was close and several primaries were still due to be held.
So, when in early April, stories started percolating on right wing blogs and YOUTUBE […]
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Posted in June 17th, 2010
This is a country full of varied individuals. Our family refuses to even answer the questions about ‘race’ posed by the census, school documents, and the like. Race doesn’t matter!! It’s liberals who keep trying to make it an issue.
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Posted in June 7th, 2010
Time and again I have seen children placed by their tribe into violent, verbally, physically, and even sexually abusive, drug infested homes. I have seen little or no attention given to the emotional and mental health issues these children have had.
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Posted in May 27th, 2010
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Even Eric Holder and his crew have been unable to justify a reason to fight it. That’s why they are sitting on it, claiming that they are going to go slowly in order to mull it over. As near as many of us can tell, they are sitting on it until the law takes effect in the hopes of catching an Arizona police officer attempting to use it to commit a crime.
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Posted in May 26th, 2010
Everyday we are reading and watching the news. Recently, it has focused on the problem of Bullying and how far it is going. Phoebe Prince took her life following a copy cat case in New Hampshire. Next, we hear of a couple of 11-year-olds who are taking their lives. It is sad and everyone says […]
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