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To Hell with Hunger, Palin's got a book out

By Ramona on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:54pm |
When millions of able-bodied workers with practical skills and functioning brains are reduced to fighting for menial jobs that pay peanuts, under circumstances that not a one of us could have foreseen even 10 years ago, we have to finally admit that for most of us, life in America is not the recurring pleasant dream but the absolute nightmare.
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Now, About Those Jobs. . .

By Ramona on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 7:02pm |
We can't go on like this. Unemployment has surpassed that magic number--a national average of over 10 percent. All hell was supposed to break loose if that ever happened, but of course it only affects the unemployed, so watching the stock market go up, even in the face of it, shouldn't surprise us. But could it at least infuriate us?
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Islands of Good in a Sea of Hate

By Ramona on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 4:26pm |
The Coral Ridge Hour is the brainchild of Dr D. James Kennedy, a "minister" in name only. Dr. Kennedy has been dead for more than two years, but you wouldn't know if from his website or telecasts. The faithful are carrying on his message of hate and intolerance in a fashion that would make their founder proud. It was enough to make me sick.
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Death to Traffickers in Children - and Nothing Less

By Ramona on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 10:56pm |
We owe it to the children rescued and to the pitiful children still lost to the child sex trade to become warriors in their name. We watch animals in the wild protecting their young and think nothing of it. It's the way of nature, after all. But where in the wild is exploitation? What other species of animal creates an environment where helpless, defenseless young are served up to the baser instincts of the most dangerous elements of their kind? None but humans.
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No More Wind Energy Drying Devices for You!

By Ramona on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 8:53pm |
Homeowner's Associations across the country are warning residents that clotheslines and all the attendant paraphernalia, like clothespins and clothespin bags and laundry baskets and actual laundry will not be tolerated in plain sight of other humans.
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Americans At War over the Peace Prize: Go Figure

By Ramona on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 12:46pm |
We've been looking for a way to salvage our history, our heritage, our worldview and, maybe especially, our dignity. We may just have found it in the Nobel Peace Prize. So can we please let's work at keeping the shine on that medal?
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This Wretched, Reckless Approach to Health Care: It's Killing Us

By Ramona on Sun, 10/04/2009 - 11:30pm |
What matters is this: We, the citizens and taxpayers, may win a skirmish or two, but in the end Big Business will win the battle. They owned us yesterday, they own us today, and unless we finally get wise and get tough, they'll own us tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.
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The Danger in Underestimating the Right Wing

By Ramona on Sat, 09/19/2009 - 2:03pm |
I'm not about to carry a gun to get my message across. All I have are words, and in this present atmosphere, they're pretty puny. But I see what's happening--this all-out hatred, this increasing call to violence--as wholly un-American. This is NOT who we are. This is NOT who we were meant to be. Generations of Americans didn't work their asses off to bring us to this. This is not a vast Right Wing conspiracy, it's Right Wingers out in the open, advocating anarchy, threatening to "take back" a country they've never understood, never nurtured, never respected.
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Who Loves Ya, Labor?

By Ramona on Wed, 09/16/2009 - 10:37pm |
On Tuesday two emails appeared in my box, one after the other, both asking me for help in doing something about the sorry state of labor in this country.  One was from John Sweeney, the outgoing AFL-CIO president.  This is...
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For Labor: A Pat on the Back, a Hail and Farewell

By Ramona on Mon, 09/07/2009 - 12:36pm |
"Less than a century ago the laborer had no rights, little or no respect, and led a life which was socially submerged and barren....American industry organized misery into sweatshops and proclaimed the right of capital to act without restraints and...

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