Tag: social commentary
member name: Bill's Spirit
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May 14, 2007 10:47 AM EDT --
I heard a story the other day of how Mahatma Ghandi picked up a toilet brush and started into scrubbing a bowl after hearing his wife say that she wouldn't do it because it was beneath her caste.
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July 09, 2008 01:42 PM EDT --
The commercial goes something like this:
A mother stands in frustration.
"I don't know what to do with you! We've talked to you, we've grounded you, we took away your game . . .
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June 19, 2008 03:33 PM EDT --
Every now and then, I run across something in our market places that I think is just totally cool. Something with a neat little twist, or variation on a theme that strikes me as well done or very insightful. . . .
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February 23, 2007 02:25 PM EST --
We Americans hail ourselves as a Peace loving society, but we have dictates for acceptable occurrences of killing.
Rules for executing certain types of criminals, the equipping and maintaining of armed . . .
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October 12, 2007 03:41 PM EDT --
Bay County Sheriff's Boot Camp Death Case
Talk about disturbing video. Watching half a dozen officer's of the law, restraining, then pummeling a fourteen year old boy, has me actually quivering . . .
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May 23, 2008 12:00 PM EDT --
Apparently, our nation's high demand for oil, which used to be credited as the reason that we had some of the lowest retail gas prices in the global markets, (because buying in mass quantity means . . .
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March 05, 2008 06:00 PM EST --
They say that proof of dedication to an ideology can be shown by pointing to sacrifices made in the name of that belief.
On March 4, 2008, I again paid the price necessary to maintain my status . . .
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June 06, 2008 07:52 AM EDT --
A Wellfleet, Massachusets lighthouse was recently found on a beach in California. Wellfleet folks had thought the lighthouse destroyed in 1925.
When asked for comment, the lighthouse responded . . .
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December 26, 2007 04:19 PM EST --
I like to make the bed.
It's been a part of my character since I left my parent's home.
I did not like to make the bed when I was living in my parent's house.
I tended then to just . . .
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April 16, 2008 11:17 AM EDT --
His Holiness The Pope is visiting America.
Apparently, this is only the third time that a pope has visited our blessed land.
Father Thomas Williams, CBS News Faith and Religion Analyst, stated . . .
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June 25, 2008 11:58 AM EDT --
The American Family Association ( AFA ) -- a self-proclaimed pro-family organization -- has issued an Action Alert regarding a Heinz company advertisement that supposedly "pushes" gay marriage. . . .
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March 21, 2007 01:57 PM EDT --
Dear Democrats;
As things stand on this date (March 21, 2007), the best hope you have of getting this tax paying, veteran's vote is Al Gore for President and Hillary Clinton for V.P.
Obama doesn't . . .
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October 03, 2006 01:05 PM EDT --
Reports on the recent Nickle Mines (PA) shooting are stating that the shooter (Charles Roberts) may have been suffering emotional instability from the loss of a child some three years previous and may . . .
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October 09, 2006 11:46 AM EDT --
A recent scientific study found that a part of the brain allows individuals to refuse situations that would benefit them, when they see them as grossly unfair.
In the article: "Study Spots the Brain's . . .
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March 29, 2007 08:44 AM EDT --
In case you missed the Discovery Channel's "Lost Tomb of Jesus," Jesus's bones (and those of his family members) may have been found in the Middle East; and a lab has the DNA.
It's . . .
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May 14, 2007 10:18 AM EDT --
I like the History Channel. I spent a good part of Sunday glued to it as they aired shows about Banned Books from the Bible (Parts I & II).
During those shows, previews for an evening program about . . .
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October 26, 2007 12:19 PM EDT --
Once upon a time, there was a game show called Card Sharks produced by the Mark Goodson-Bill Todman company.
Contestants were posed questions such as:
"Out of 100 so-and-sos asked (specific . . .
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November 09, 2007 05:21 PM EST --
I find it morally painful that our government sub-contracts private soldiers at a thousand dollars per day, while dictating cuts in medical care and benefits to our soldiers and veterans.
Capitalism . . .
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November 11, 2007 03:51 PM EST --
I am a veteran.
Among the cadre of my veteran brothers, I am truly one of the least of them.
I fought in no war, and soldiered in no combat zone. Although I qualified with rifle and was expert . . .
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December 18, 2007 11:51 AM EST --
If anyone on your shopping list is locally and culturally active, or an avid NPR listener, or plays it socially conscious, or is a regular Stewart/Colbert watcher, or seems intellectually savvy in one . . .
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