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06-29-2015, 06:15 PM
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...oundation.html
An amazing story. I love reading stuff like this...its almost like brief but fascinating stop in a small town on a road trip. You don't expect much, and find an unforgettable place.
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06-29-2015, 07:41 PM
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Glad to know that political grandstanding aside, people exhibit the ability to do the right thing..
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/despite-g...-all-50-states
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln
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06-29-2015, 09:30 PM
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deep down conservatives are thinking..."be careful what you wish for"
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06-29-2015, 10:01 PM
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just saw this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_7691172.html how ironic, since it's the Cleburne county clerk. Cleburne county is named for Patrick Cleburne, an irish immigrant who lived in Helena, AR. he signed up to fight for the south. he was killed late in the war, battle of franklin i believe . I went to Helena a few months back, first time I'd ever been there. pre-war, it was the largest city in Arkansas. not any more, it never really recovered. went up into the confederate cemetery, where Cleburne and others are buried. fixed a couple of the poor soldiers tomb stones that had fallen over. every time I go to a battlefield, or a cemetery, I think..what a damn waste.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln
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06-30-2015, 11:48 AM
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I keep telling myself..."we are a free country, we have freedom" over and over, maybe I will be convinced that this is true one of these days
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say, fools talk because they have to say something" - Plato
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06-30-2015, 04:03 PM
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07-01-2015, 09:23 AM
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http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/george-ta...es-our-dignity
i found thomas' comments about slaves and dignity/humanity absolutely appalling. and now this, from george takei, interred during ww2. i've driven by that spot in arkansas many times where he and his family were forced to live. there's a marker explaining what was there, another part of history some wish to ignore or pretend never happened. holy crap, the comment about thomas' wife made me loo her up. she's lobbied against the aca, and accepted money from the kochs...and he 'inadvertently' left her earnings out of an income report.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln
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