Hull House
This is very sad. We need more places like this, not less.
This is very sad. We need more places like this, not less.
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Catholic leaders to Santorum and Gingrich: Catholic leaders issued a letter Friday to GOP presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, themselves Catholics, urging them “to stop perpetuating ugly racial stereotypes on the campaign trail.” The letter, signed by 45 Catholic leaders says: Mr. Gingrich has frequently attacked President Obama as a “food stamp president” and claimed that African Americans are content to collect welfare benefits rather than pursue employment. Campaigning in Iowa, Mr. Santorumremarked: “I don’t want to make black people’s [...]
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Looks like the White House has decided it’s time to start making the base happy if they want to get reelected. Bookmark It
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The surgeon tells me I can start alternating the Percocet with Motrin, since it sounds like most of the pain is muscular, anyway. This seems sensible to me, since I don’t like taking all that Tylenol (bad for the liver). He reiterates that I have no dietary restrictions. Hmm. Bookmark It
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Would have been Janis Joplin’s 69th birthday. I’m kind of glad she’s not still around; she probably would have ended up doing some makeover show for money, and the indignity of that would have been too much to bear. Bookmark It
Read more →This was on PBS: The U.S. government was in the process of stealing the Black Hills area of South Dakota from the Indians, but George Custer got too cocky and picked a fight in the wrong place, separated from other units of his 700-man battalion. To hell with Custer. I was rooting for Sitting Bull, who told his people, “The whites may get me at last, as you say, but I will have good times till then. You are fools [...]
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Etta James, 73. Bookmark It
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9:52 am
Afer 123 years — brought down under an ostensible Democratic administration, in both DC and Chicago. Sheesh.
2:48 pm
Since they are not part of any government, maybe Sheldon Adelson can give them some of his $32 billion, like he’s doing with Mr. Gingrich.