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Trying to get a job done and ending up with a useless right arm
It was all that pounding that put the strain on an aging elbow that wasn’t up to the work it once did decades earlier. Read more
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Evidence of a Corporate Reformer Pretending to be something he isn’t, and how the wealthy are buying the U.S. one election at a time
UPDATE 4/30/15 There are two previous updates that may be found at the bottom of this post. In the 13 days since the last update, NINE more poster sized flyers poured into our mailbox, and it is obvious that Steve Glazer’s wealthy and corporate supporters are outspending Susan Bonilla at least $8 to $1 if Read more
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The cultural war in the United States is being financed by billionaire oligarchs and corporations
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: In 1965, China’s Mao Zedong launched a cultural war against the excesses of capitalism, and this was led by the people, the workers and their children, and the capitalists in China and anyone who was accused of supporting the lifestyle of the rich and famous was… Read more
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A Tweet about the greed based insanity of Standardized Testing I Want to see go Viral
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: Watch the video and read the Op-Ed in The Washington Post. Here’s the lead paragraph of The Washington Post piece by Valerie Strauss: “Imagine that you are a doctor and your evaluation is based on patients you didn’t have. Or a car dealer, and you are… Read more
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Salon: How the Rich Blame the Poor for Being Poor
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Paul Rosenberg, writing at Salon, is outraged that many super-wealthy people–and their apologists at the NY Times–blame poverty on the lifestyles of the poor. He writes: “There they go again. Conservatives are back again with their “war on poverty,” which is to say, their war on poor people… Read more
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Discovering Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs with my ears
Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: I can’t remember when I paid $3 at Half Price Books for an audio book of Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear. You see, I enjoy reading. That’s why I buy books—audio and the old fashioned kind on paper—and DVD’s of films and TV series faster than I… Read more