Thursday, March 10, 2005, 05:30 PM
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Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 05:30 PM - blogFoo
Next time someone refers to Imperialist America, I'll be sure to thank them for the compliment.
Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world. And if it doesn't fit their vision, it is the same to them as if it never happened.
As anti-slavery ideas eventually spread throughout Western civilization, a worldwide struggle pitted the West against Africans, Arabs, Asians and virtually the entire non-Western world, which still saw nothing wrong with slavery. But Western imperialists had gunpowder weapons first and that enabled the West to stamp out slavery in other societies as well as in its own.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2005, 05:30 PM - politiFoo
hmmm....maybe that would have been the headline if someone else had just taken office.
Deficit likely to drop on technicalities
21-Jan-05
By ALAN FRAM
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is likely to estimate Tuesday that shortfalls over the next 10 years will total perhaps $1 trillion less than the $2.3 trillion in red ink it forecast last September, congressional aides say.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2005, 05:30 PM - politiFoo
An important speech on this day -- read it all.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005, 04:30 PM
Sandra Lee Ray
April 5th, 1944 to May 25th, 2005
(UPDATE: Obituary from the Washington Post 6-4-5)
Sandra Ray, 59, a writer of children's literature, died of brain cancer May 25 at her home in Crofton.
Mrs. Ray had a lifelong interest in children's literature, and for the past five years, she contributed short pieces to several magazines.
Last year, a few weeks after undergoing brain surgery, she contributed an article to Odyssey that appeared in a special issue devoted to the physicist Richard Feynman.
At the time of her death, she was working on a nonfiction story about a smallpox outbreak in Colorado in 1880.
She was a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
Mrs. Ray, an Atlanta native, returned to school and received her teaching certificate in 1976 from the Montessori Institute of Atlanta. She later attended Georgia State University and the University of Colorado, majoring in geology.
She taught at Montessori schools in Atlanta and Houston and worked for several geophysical exploration companies in Denver and Houston. For a short period in the 1980s, she operated a bulldozer in a Colorado gold mine.
Mrs. Ray was also an excellent seamstress and made many of her own clothes.
A resident of Crofton for 18 years, she volunteered in the library at Crofton Woods Elementary School.
Her marriage to Joseph Tate ended in divorce.
Survivors include her husband of 22 years, Richard Ray of Crofton; two children from her first marriage, Michael Tate of Atlanta and Kathleen Franklin of Corvallis, Ore., and a son from the second marriage, Nathan Ray of Crofton; and seven grandchildren.
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Friday, May 6, 2005, 04:30 PM
... to Tony Blair upon his re-election. America has had many friends at 10 Downing Street, but none as surprisingly steadfast as PM Blair. Huzzah!| [ 0 trackbacks ] | permalink
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