ramblings & shenanigans
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According to a CNN.com article, an American woman wrote to President Obama asking for his help in resolving her husband’s immigration problem. The hubby’s bid for political asylum had been denied a decade ago, and the man has been dodging immigration authorities since then, remaining in the country illegally. The guy has not been sitting [...]
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President Barack Obama’s speech on Tuesday night has garnered some negative reviews, not so much due to the message itself – that’s inconsequential, after all – as much as the difficult language used by our Commander-in-Chief. Paul Payack, the president of Global Language Monitor, a Texas-based company that analyzes the cultural impact of word choices, [...]
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The daily influx of emails from some of my more Fox News-oriented friends revealed a couple of real gems. Apparently no one does any fact-checking whatsoever these days; people are happy to forward any politically motivated chain letter so long as it coincides with their own political leanings. First on our list is this picture [...]
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So, you, like so many others, have spent the recent months on the road with a motley crew of Mensa members in 18th century garments, protesting against health care, tax cuts, education, lamp-posts, and shopping carts with one missing wheel. Now, out of the blue, you’re reading from someone’s Facebook update that the bill that [...]
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The layman definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly while expecting different results. That mentality, incidentally, also appears to be the cornerstone of Republican politics. We have seen it many times before: start a war or two, give tax cuts to the rich, and expect the national debt to decrease. If at first [...]
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Blog bloggety blog. I’m sure there are few things more boring than reading a blogger write about blogging (unless you’re a blogger yourself), but here goes anyway. A couple of weeks ago I noticed that a blogger whose blog I like to blog – err, read – had added me to his blogroll. A blogroll [...]
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According to CNN, Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson’s personal physician on the night of his death, is being sought by law enforcement, as the prosecutors in Los Angeles are preparing to file criminal charges against him. It’s not that the good doctor is missing, exactly. According to his lawyer, he is eager to cooperate, much [...]
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Immediately following the recent injury of freshly elected Republican Senator Scott Brown, there has been some speculation that the Massachusetts Senator might not be sworn in this afternoon after all. However, according to a source at the House GOP leadership, such rumors and speculations are not only premature, but entirely baseless. “We don’t expect Senator [...]
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I was around 29 or so when I started taking my very first college classes. The college experience is pronouncedly different, I think, when you start it ten years later than most kids who are fresh out of high school. One thing that I found particularly interesting and delightful about the campus were the many [...]
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Mika Salakka is a Finn living in the United States. He is a nursing assistant, a creative writer, a devoted husband, and an observer of the human condition. His interests range from music and literature to psychology, sociology, medicine, technology, and spirituality.
Mosque Building Plan At 9/11 Site Is Not The Best Of Ideas
July 16, 2010
in Commentary,Equality,Society & Culture
Someone has had a great idea: let’s build a 13-story mosque 600 yards from “Ground Zero” at the World Trade Center in New York City. The keg of worms opened up by this proposal had to have been foreseen, yet the project was launched anyway. I don’t really care to argue or reiterate the points [...]
Tagged as: 9/11, bigotry, injustice, Islam, prejudice, racism, religion, Society, terrorism
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