June 17, 2008
Help the red cross
“The American Red Cross said yesterday that it has depleted its national disaster relief fund and is taking out loans to pay for shelters, food and other relief services across seven Midwestern states battered by floods.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061601734.html?hpid=topnews
Donating takes about 30 seconds, and I believe CEB will do a matching contribution.
Here is the Red Cross donations page:
http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ggl_main&s_subsrc=DonateToRedCross&s_src=F7FWE001&gclid=CJO6sLSm-pMCFR6gnAodyy4PWg
Feel free to pass this along and/or copy it into your blog...
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June 13, 2008
Seeking freedom from the Right, my peace of mind...
I've been doing a lot of blogging over at my new site: Indignant Desert Birds, and neglecting this one. Sorry about that, ideally, you'd bookmark/RSS both...
Anyway, here's McCain on Social Security:
He doesn't want to "privatize" it, he wants to let "young people" take money out of Social Security (money already spoken for by current benefits) and let them put it into an "account with their name on it". You know, a "private" account. Would it destroy social security to take money away from current retirees and give it to young workers so they could gamble it on the stock market? I should think so! Unless he's also proposing a massive new tax increase to cover the shortfall.
And that's McCain's plan: more volatile retirement funds and massive new taxes to pay for it. Awesome
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June 10, 2008
Cellphones and popcorn...
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June 05, 2008
I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more...
And in 1966, a teenager answering a job ad walked over the border from Chicago into the all-white city of Cicero, and for that sin and no other was beaten to death. That was what Martin Luther King came to fight in Chicago.source
In 2004 a man-- a black man-- walked out of Chicago, went to Boston and gave a speech. That speech about healing the nation's divide and moving beyond the politics of hate propelled him onto the nation's stage, and helped him claim the Democratic nomination.
42 years ago a black man was killed for the crime of applying for work. Next January a black man will be president. The pace of change may seem glacial, but progress is being made...
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June 02, 2008
Good by Chancellor Vanderhoef
For all the cool stuff he seems to have done, the prick wouldn't even once come out to listen to us Halloween carol him.
I think that will always be my image of the man: someone so longing for bourgeoisie respectability that he completely ignored all the cool grass-roots stuff that the students were doing.
Then again: this same criticism was leveled at Clark Kerr. Kerr was one of the greatest Chancellor's in UC history, and helped build the entire system-- including the CACCs. Perhaps in time I'll come to appreciate all that Vanderhoef has done for my now-Alma Mater. In the mean time, I hope we'll be able to get rid of the sports teams he nearly single-handedly built.
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