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Why we aren’t unhappy about budget problems

A couple of days ago, an eight-year-old girl’s lemonade stand in Tulare was shut down by a city code enforcement officer because she didn’t have a city business license to hawk her fresh-squeezed drink at a busy intersection.
Daniela Earnest was trying to raise money for a family trip to Disneyland.
In fairness to the code officer [...]

I’M FALLING

Please help me. I’m beginning to think Republican! Real icky.
Granted that the fools did much to get us into this economic mess as well as to shatter our budget because of their misadventure in Iraq and their failing to do the job in Afghanistan when they had the opportunity
That granted, I am concerned about the [...]

Dunking For Democracy

From our friend jorcutt:
On this evening news I watched with great pleasure the Iraqi gentleman throwing his shoes at Georgie Bush. It displeased me that the irate Iraqi missed, but other than that… The gentleman mentioned that he was motivated by the killing of hundreds of thousands of his fellow Iraqis.
The incident brought forth unto [...]

Stina Nygren

For people who have followed the Prosepct and Californian during the time our family owned the newspapers, some of our more seasoned readers will recall letters I sent home during my year as an AFS student in Skellefteå, Sweden. To call it “formative” is to do the term a grave injustice; I still consider it [...]

There’s just too much to see

“It’s my job to be cleaning up this mess and that’s enough reason to go for me; it’s my job to be better than the rest and that makes the day for me.”
My buddy Jonathan wants me to write a blog. When there’s something to say that I haven’t said somewhere else (and when it [...]

Friday Musing

Dear Fellow American Patriot,
I am an American patriot and proud of it. I give my unqualified support to President Bush because I know he is a patriot as is Vice President Cheney and the members of the cabinet. And I support continuing the war in Iraq for however long it takes or how many American [...]

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