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Labor in America: Those were the Days

By Ramona on Mon, 09/06/2010 - 2:17pm |
President Obama talked about the needs of workers and the declining middle class in his Weekly Address. If he lets us down this time, I'm going to go out and find me my own bibble-babbling mob and take action.
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What hath Glenn Beck Wrought? Naught but Rot

By Ramona on Sun, 08/29/2010 - 10:53pm |
Fear not, oh, please. Crowds are what we have with Glenn Beck but resonance is what we cherish with the Rev. Martin Luther King. When we quote entire phrases from Dr. King, even now, after nearly a half-century, we're uplifted by their goodness and reminded of his courage and his deeds.
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The Holiness of Burning, Burning Hate

By Ramona on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 6:15pm |
So let me get this straight: A "church" called Dove World Outreach Center, 50 members strong, followers by their own admission of the Christian bible, reaches out to another faith by threatening to burn their sacred book. Is that they way it looks to you, too?
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Shell Shock, Battle Fatigue, PTSD - A Human Heart is Crying Out

By Ramona on Mon, 08/09/2010 - 10:24pm |
I'm thinking now of three men I've known whose lives were changed dramatically by war. Their injuries weren't as much to blood and bones and sinew as they were to the heart and mind. They were each in their own way shell-shocked.
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Follow the Light. Hear the Voices. It's not all Fox and Hounds. It's not even C-Span.

By Ramona on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 2:12pm |
For the past couple of years I've been watching with trepidation and, yes, sadness, as C-Span, that formerly great political  leveler, has been moving farther and farther to the right.  There was a time when they were scrupulous about their...
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Tea Party, Specter of Beck makes USDA and NAACP Cave. Can we get any Lower?

By Ramona on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 11:22pm |
What does it take for us to be fired up? This perversion of American politics has to come to a screeching halt. We're not all blithering idiots--at least not yet. So who's afraid of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann and the All Powerful Tea Party? Not me and not you, but I'm not feeling any better about it. We don't count. When the government and the press kowtow to the likes of those dangerous buffoons, they become nothing more than powerless sidekicks. That's just nuts.
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It's Jobs and then it's Jobs and after that it's Jobs

By Ramona on Sat, 07/10/2010 - 11:49pm |
The consensus, no matter who says it and why, is that American manufacturing industries are no longer of Americans, by Americans, or even for Americans. It's beyond a worrisome rumor, it's an established fact: American manufacturing, compared to manufacturing world-wide, fills a niche no bigger than the size of an ant farm box.
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Independence Day II - I can hardly wait

By Ramona on Sun, 07/04/2010 - 6:51pm |
Not to be a downer on our very favorite day of the year, but I can't shake the feeling that "independence" is one of those words we're starting to look back on with nostalgia.   Does anyone even care that we're not independent anymore?
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Get this straight, Corporate Pimps: There ARE NO JOBS!

By Ramona on Mon, 06/28/2010 - 1:23am |
How many times does this have to be repeated:  There are 15 million unemployed in this country, with 6.8 million chronically unemployed.Most of them spend their days looking for work.  When they hear about the possibility of jobs, they'll stand...

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"Leave safety behind. Put your body on the line. Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes. When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say. Well-aimed slingshots can topple giants. And do your homework." . Maggie Kuhn

 

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.  Dorothy Parker

"Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow ... money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands" - Abraham Lincoln

 

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.-John Steinbeck

 

The moment you limit free speech it's not free speech. -Salman Rushdie

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Ramona used to write nice feature pieces for newspapers and magazines, along with columns that, yes, got testy once in a while (Ronald Reagan was president. What could she do?) but were basically and overall nice.

But then. . .

. . .then came the hanky-panky and subsequent impeachment of Bill Clinton!  Then Bush v. Gore!  Hanging Chads!  Katherine Harris!  Supreme Court busy bodies! 9/11!  War with Iraq! (Iraq??)  The right wing!  The religious right!  The TEA PARTY, for God's sake!

Whatever she is today is the fault of all of the above.  She is not to blame.

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