Doesn’t Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) realize that the first shots fired in a revolution will be at her?
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As spring tries to bloom across the country the nation is seeing cold, wet, snowy weather cling to the new season and cold river waters spilling over into the streets. The winter does not want to leave us.
Republicans don’t want to leave either. The new President can’t get a word in before GOP spokesman are on television telling us what he just said is the wrong. Don’t let Spring in, they tell us …keep the Winter with us.
Well that is not how nature works. Spring brings hope. We can go outside and breath fresh air. It is time for Republicans to let go. Their time is over. The damage is done and now the repairing and the rebirth begins.
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It seems that starting in the 1980s, Americans began to forget if they were poor or not. Credit cards arrived in our mailboxes like holiday greeting cards in December. The old idea of saving for that rainy day or even not spending beyond your means was lost to us.
We didn’t notice that our cost of living increases at work didn’t keep up with the cost of living, because it was supplemented with credit cards.
Now, new credit is nowhere to be found and old credit is a mean series of phone calls and threatening letters and over 30% interest rates. That was the Reagan revolution folks.
So when a Republican gets on TV and say the President Obama is passing a debt onto future generations, just haul off and slap them across the face.
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-Anthony Minghella died last year. He was one of my favorite modern directors. This Sunday, March 29th, one of his last creations airs in America on HBO. The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
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Paul MCCartney and Wings... Why are you laughing? I have revisited Band On The
Run and Venus And Mars and I must say, I am enjoying them. Neither album packs the punch of The Beatles, but these two records are probably as good as McCartney gets. They are very infectious and he is one hell of a singer.
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Book of the Week: John Steinbeck’s The Log from the Sea of Cortez. John Steinbeck is a novelist in the midst of a Mickey Rourke-like comeback of sorts. This book is a different take on the man’s writings. It is a travel log of a scientific journey along the coast of California and down into Mexico with biologist Edward F. Ricketts.
When I transplanted myself to Los Angeles, California 10 years ago, I went into the ocean once, up to my knees, and then got lost living and working in L.A. I now live just two blocks from the sea and it is a mesmerizing experience. As I drive off to work each morning, I head straight for the ocean and turn right. Everyday, every single day the first sight of the ocean takes my breath away. The Log from the Sea of Cortez is an important and fascinating look at the ocean that connects America and Mexico as well as a look at Steinbeck’s work through the prism of non-fiction. We see why he is such an important American writer and more relevant to our times than some of his contemporaries.
