those who forget history are doomed to relive it

Business Schools Rocked by Economic Crisis

Sarah Palin

Why does the Democratic party attack th governor of AK and why are they so successful in using her as a fund raising point of darkness?

First she is a woman and a Republican. Teh Democrats think they are the party of and for women and resent any poaching in their preserve. This is a mirror image of the Democrat response to the existance of a black Republican, or even a Republican who is a person of color. How dare the Republican Party try to be as broad as the Democratic Party?

Second she is a woman and a mother. She has a career. She is successful. How dare she! The tisking directed at her daughter's pregnancy was criticism of mothering skills. Assuming this is fair game, when has this ever been done against the Democrats? Was Rose Kennedy criticised for the philandering of one son or the questionable lack of taking responsibility by another?

Third and least evident but most important is the First Gentleman of AK. No one has talked much about the fact that he is a blue-collar worker -- and a union member. A successful career woman with a blue-collar husband -- outrageous. That is not a model the Party of Women want to catch on. Next thing you know there will be Republican candidates who are blue collar workers -- or horror of horrors -- union members. Not only will union members be voting for Republican candidates which is bad enough, the candidate will be one of them.

In the interest of full disclosure, I am a life-long Republican and white collar worker with advanced degrees. My children are a Sgt in the Infantry, and a techer of disadvantaged children with two children of her own. Their spouses are a white collar government worker with two children of her own, and a former blue collar worker in construction now doing whatever can be done to run a construction site without having a degree.

shocked, simply shocked

all God's children

why does fruit start to rot while still hard?

In this case large, dark plums.

And why does fruit no start to rot from the inside out?

particularly pears

Election Loophole Allows Non Citizens to Vote

And in Chicago this is news how? The dead have traditionally voted. I suspect both Mayor Daleys still vote. The current one and his father.

I would be interested in seeeing a definition of excessive recycling

WORLD WIDE WORDS ISSUE 611 Saturday 1 November 2008

2. Turns of Phrase: Carborexia
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To exhibit "carborexia" is to have an extreme "dark green" attitude to environmental issues. This can show itself in several ways, such as excessive recycling, but in particular it refers to an obsessive desire to reduce one's personal carbon footprint. The term first appeared in an article in the NYTimes on Oct17. The adjective is "carborexic".

richard the (apparently) dark green pup
Kennesaw GA

and I thought that smell was from the beans at lunch

All substances are either growing or decaying at any one point in time. Human beings are no exception. If we are not growing, then we are decaying. - Thomas D. Willhite _Quotes_

[typical oversimplification - complex organisms have parts that are doing both - we are all in some sense "dying"]