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November 06, 2009 11:52 PM EST
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Dexter S. posted an article on "Yesterday's Gold" re the Andy Griffith Show that made me think of another old TV show, Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone."
There were so many good actors on that show . . .
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November 06, 2009 06:18 PM EST
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Back on August 1st we were headed up to the Brainerd Lakes area to visit my inlaws, but we couldn't help but check out a "neighborhood" sale taking place the full length of 50th St. in the Nokomis . . .
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November 06, 2009 02:00 AM EST
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Far palmed his hair down and squinted at the camera box. "Wexler Photography", said his brother, "use Wexler and he'll give you a deal." But no deal had yet emerged. Far . . .
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November 05, 2009 07:21 PM EST
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Despite writing in June that “quality health coverage must exist for every American, regardless of pre-existing health conditions,” Republican Leader John Boehner introduced a substitute amendment . . .
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November 05, 2009 06:39 PM EST
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This morning, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) joined the AARP and the AMA and announced support for the Affordable Health Care for America Act saying:
The House bill . . .
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November 05, 2009 04:09 PM EST
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The Affordable Health Care for America Act: Short Summary The Affordable Health Care for America Act provides quality affordable health care for all Americans and controls health care cost growth. CBO . . .
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November 05, 2009 08:31 AM EST
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"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. "
~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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November 04, 2009 05:46 PM EST
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This has occurred to me a few times. You know how you have a sort of personal favorite version of a pop song, Old Mr. Broadway, here, is thinking in terms of the 'great American songbook', but it . . .
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November 04, 2009 01:49 AM EST
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We are writers, but we like numbers. Statistics, odds, lottery numbers, top-ten, best of twenty, and if you would, may I have your phone number? . . .
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November 04, 2009 12:53 AM EST
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“But I didn’t take them,” Frank protested, “honest, Mr. Wrobleski.” The grocer shook his head. “Franklin, you know as well as I that the gloves . . .
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September 13, 2008 05:59 PM EDT
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It's been pouring all afternoon, rain so heavy it drops vertical lines from heaven to earth. Ground level is saturated and steamy, and the roads hiss and plash from cars rolling home from the . . .
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November 03, 2009 03:10 PM EST
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In the last few elections, Minnesota has had one of the highest, if not the highest, voting turnouts in the country. There's a feeling in that that makes me proud to live here.
I went to vote . . .
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November 03, 2009 01:08 PM EST
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Not Counted
I am not on the list of names Mournfully read each September eleventh Won’t someone weep for me?
Hunched in a bundle of rags, that was me Sleeping off the vodka, forgetting . . .
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November 03, 2009 11:38 AM EST
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Here in Minnesota we have a State Fair Princess, the Princess Kay of the Milky Way!
The young woman who serves as Minnesota's state dairy princess wears the title of Princess Kay of the Milky Way, a . . .
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November 03, 2009 11:15 AM EST
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What were the results in your local races?
This is an open opinion-based discussion, so you're welcome to link to your related Gather articles or . . .
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November 02, 2009 03:41 PM EST
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That was a bright and bitter day The phone rang She called, for the last time, simply to say, "I love you" and nothing more.
It took me a moment to grasp her message the way her breath caught like snowflakes . . .
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November 08, 2008 06:40 PM EST
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I paced the down the boardwalk in Stillwater this afternoon, a solitary splash of hot pink and denim against damp concrete, heavy water, and grass made translucent and brittle with repeated freezing. . . .
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November 02, 2009 12:03 AM EST
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Friday evening at diner, my wife looked up from her plate and said, “Honey, let's go to IKEA tomorrow.”
Her suggestion landed like a bomb just south of the salad bowl, one that ticked while . . .
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November 01, 2009 03:11 PM EST
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From your perspective, does preschool work?
The program description from Early Lessons caught my eye:
The Perry Preschool Project is one of the most famous education experiments of the last . . .
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November 01, 2009 10:40 AM EST
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I can ask all my questions
And my Abuela answers
While we get ready for When the day comes.
We must work to get ready, Much to do, she always says, For god will leave the door unlocked . . .
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