Palin: I don’t need an education or an intellect. I have God and my religion!
Photo: Wired Magazine

Well, probably with everyone else, I heard that Palin made a policy speech a couple of days ago about special needs children. I had the reaction of, (a) “What the hell does she know about special needs children other than dragging hers around?” and (b) “Out of all the policies to discuss, she chooses special needs … fantastic!” I don’t know how McCain is going to handle our economy, our foreign policy or regulation of corporate conglomerates, but at least I will know how they handle special needs children, right?

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“I shot the sheriff and…” …and just how does that song from the ‘70’s go? …or was it from the ‘60’s? …and why years later, even today, it makes drug addicts, especially, nervous whenever they hear its lyrics?

There’s a new refrain going around these United States, not a song yet, and I hope it never becomes a song.

“Oh, they was just dissin’, those two skinhead guys.”

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Snipped from CNN.com.

Well, it looks like Palin has turned into a diva, and is becoming increasingly harder to control and keep on script with the McCain campaign. Some say she is preparing for her 2012 presidential campaign. God help us if she does go for it.

Yet, if this doesn’t scare people, I don’t know what will. Sarah Palin, the most under-educated and under-experienced of any presidential or vice presidential candidates in my time is already becoming so pious and arrogant, that she is breaking rank and acting on her own.

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Snipped from EarthLink - News.

It ain’t true about newspapers dying — Newspaper investigative reporting is alive and well, despite the reductions in their staffs. A major investigation is underway to vet Sarah Palin by Associated News. These investigative stories will be, most likely, as big, as important as Watergate!

Listen with me and imagine: “Oh Sarah, Oh Sarah, honey, we’re in deep shit. Somehow they recorded your pillow talk. They know all about you now.”

Yes, indeed. The Associated Press (Justin Pritchard and Garance Burke with Brett J. Blackledge contributing) are not telling Palin’s background story in 10 words or less as Palin would like but with a first news story of about 2,160 words.

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Early onset of depression causing
physical abnormalities within brain.

I find the discourse about attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder interesting and, unfortunately, saddening. What is not coming to light is the causation of ADD/ADHD. I too find it overly diagnosed and medicated, and without first looking into why we are seeing this marked increase of children with ADD/ADHD symptoms, we will continue to see this superficial, and disastrous, medical policy continue.

In my casual readings in Scientific American Mind and New Scientist (as well as many others), I have come across many clinical trials and neuroscientific research that postulates behavioral abnormalities, such as ADD/ADHD, to be a symptom/effect from a early onset of a psychological pathology, mainly depression. We forget how much our brains are shaped by not only genetics, and our external environment, but our internal environment as well.

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On my way to Timbuktu, I stopped to beer-up at a place where I overheard (translated): “There was no way past Homeland Security. Ben assigned me and Arturo to find a way in, and we did!”

His friend finger-indicated me. I could see these two guys in the mirror behind the row of reflected bottles. I was drinking this town’s home brew of beer. They were drinking strong coffee at the bar. The guy next to me at the bar turned to me away from his friend seated on his left. We sat on twisty barstools. The guy asked me the time in the same language they were just using. I didn’t respond, just kept a straight stare at my image in the bar’s mirror.

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National Coupon Economy?!

Just announced was the proposed coming of more government money for you and you and you to spend. Welcome, Postman/woman! Welcome, more debt for taxpayers! Welcome, the plus-interest due, Welcome, oh! our taxpayers! to the “free” money! Yes, the second rebate is coming. Just what is this windfall?

It’s an economy booster shot in the arm //really for their benefit, not yours// that is coming soon, in order to bolster consumer spending. That will come from the taxpayers’ money, of course. And this will be round two for rebate checks.

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My New Robot, Herm!

William’s Diary Entries

–William’s Diary Entry for Tuesday 23 June 2020
Grandma died last month and today Dad bought our first worker robot. The cost for the worker robot was Big Wow Bucks. For the down payment it took my Grandmother’s inheritance, loans from Aunt Gayte (Mom’s sister) and from our local bank, and, of course, all of my parents’ savings. Dad had me write a robot resume to find it a good paying job via the Internet. This first worker robot would now be my family’s breadwinner.

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On October 31st, years ago, I took up my father’s best trousers and his only sports coat, his for-summer hat and a pair of scissors and a knife. Snip, snip, snip, poke, poke and I was all set to go trickin’ or treatin’ dressed as Charlie Chaplin the Tramp. Instead of turned-up Chaplin banana shoes, I used the kitchen knife to cut off about three inches of leather from the toe ends of my father’s best go-to-Sunday-church shoes. I wadded up extra socks of his for the shoes for a tight fit.

With that happy rush of “it’s here at last!” feeling, on the eve of that Halloween, I merged with three of my classmates to make the neighborhood rounds. Ray, Joey, and Ralph. Each of us carried an empty pillowcase to hold the goodies.

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UPDATE: Snipped from HuffingtonPost.com.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you long ago. A woman just got punched in the face by a man that was “ranting about ACORN.” Wow, just wow!

Snipped from RightWingWatch.org.

More vitriol spilling over from McCain’s fear mongering rhetoric. Why McCain is not being held partially accountable for the verbal assaults and threats of harm to Obama, and his real or imagined associates is beyond me. I may have a biased perspective, but I don’t think the alleged abuse that McCain takes from the left is anything like this coming from the right.

ACORN, “the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is a community-based organization that advocates for low- and moderate-income families by working on neighborhood safety, health care and other social issues,” [1] is now receiving all kinds of threats and violent rhetoric coming from extreme right wing citizens. This is from the alleged voter fraud voter registration fraud that has come to light. If you are in the dark about this, it is from young people trying to make money by signing up as many people as possible, so they fake a registration for Mickey Mouse or Bugs Bunny. They have also registered dead people as well. What the right-wing party is afraid of is how these fictitious characters (or dead people) are going to vote for Obama.

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