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Well, yeah! Now I get it.

Ramona — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:47:38 +0000

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Well, yeah! Now I get it. 1913 was also the year of a terrible mine strike in the U.P. I've been working off and on on a book about it, and, fascinating as the subject is, I am not doing it justice.

Maybe in my next life. . .

It just did not hit me that

Richard Day — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:47:40 +0000

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It just did not hit me that 2013 took us into the 'teens'. ha

How can not one metaphorically see a century as a potential human life?

And here we are; in the teens.

I read this thought nowhere else!

Coming from the mid twentieth century; I guess I missed it.

hahhahahahah

Just so that no one shoots the Archduke Ferdinand next year; there is a lot to look forward to!

Thanks, Michael. The picture

Ramona — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:35:53 +0000

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Thanks, Michael. The picture is of my grandmother's old house--or what's left of it. It's in the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan's U.P and I spent many happy days there as a kid. I always wanted to save that house but it wasn't mine to save. Still, this image, sad as it is, somehow reminds me our joyful, raggedy times there.

Thanks, Trking. I think you

Ramona — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:25:58 +0000

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Thanks, Trking. I think you might be mixing me up with someone else, however. Yes, I've been writing books but haven't had any published--yet. My background is in newspaper and magazine writing.

I've been looking into Wordpress and I'm finding it more complicated and not nearly as user-friendly as Blogger. I could probably clean up my Blogger site to make it look cleaner and more like Wordpress, and maybe I should. But I keep hearing from people who tell me I'll never get anywhere unless I switch to Wordpress or something more professional. I really don't know what I'm doing, and can use all the advice I can get.

I know my pages are too busy for people with slower access and I want to work on that, but it seems to me I might get more Google traffic with Blogger since Google owns it.

Lots to think about. Thanks again.

You're probably right that

Ramona — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:20:56 +0000

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You're probably right that it's silly to give up a name I've used for four years but I have to disagree that constant commoner suggests resignation. I'm proud to be a commoner. I've been one all my life and I'll die one. Nothing wrong with that.

Agreed, Michael. And, with

Ramona — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:19:06 +0000

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Agreed, Michael. And, with 2014 looming, they're not going to stop now. It'll only get worse. They can make up anything as a reason to hate and it'll fly. We can't change the leaders but we might be able to change the attitudes of the electorate. It's worth a try. 2014 is looming for us, too.

Notice how the Right uses the term "gun control" as if it means "gun banning." They know exactly what they're doing. If they can get enough people to see them in the same light they know they'll win. Gun control is an obvious remedy to most of our gun problems, but we won't get anywhere as long as half the country believes we really want to take all guns away. Statistics don't mean anything to them. We can tell them until we're blue in the face that our nation ranks highest in the world in gun violence but as long as the loony Right keeps equating it to government takeover we're getting nowhere.

We need a different angle. I don't know offhand what that would be.

Thanks, Aunt Sam. I'll add

Ramona — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:11:02 +0000

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Thanks, Aunt Sam. I'll add your vote to my tally. It means a lot, by the way.

Thanks, Richard. I haven't

Ramona — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:10:10 +0000

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Thanks, Richard. I haven't had one of those Dayly thought awards for a while now. Feels pretty good. I personally thought my phrase "under-privatizing America" was much more worthy but what do I know?

I'll take it however I can get it. Makes me feel pretty darned special.

BTW, nice masthead and blog

Michael Maiello — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:49:23 +0000

In reply to An already belligerent 21st Century enters its Teens

BTW, nice masthead and blog title.

I like your masthead and new

trkingmomoe — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:15:25 +0000

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I like your masthead and new name. But I liked you when you were writing books. You will like the wordpress community. You will do really well there no matter what you title your page. Just keep the page design clean and simple so it don't take a long time to load. I had readers tell me they liked that about my page. Some of us have slow access to the internet. I am expecting the far right to keep doing what they did the last 4 years. It won't get them any farther then the last 4 years. Their nonsense is very tiring.