We have a lot of stuff that we’ve been saving up for this community recycling event. Village of Hoffman Estates : Growing to Greenness!
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I keep finding interesting little factnuggets at Progressive Punch. After the Dems won control of Congress, my Congresscritter Rep. Melissa Bean (D-IL8, a former Repub district) still sided with the Bush administration on contingency plans for a possible military operation in Iran in in 2007. ProgressivePunch : War & Peace—Relations with Iran / Bean, Melissa WHAT: All issues : War & Peace : Relations with Iran WHO: All members : IL, District 8 : Bean, Melissa Click below to see the vote description. WAR & PEACE—Relations with Iran Roll Call 364. Fiscal 2008 Defense authorization (H.R. 1585); Rep. Robert Andrews…
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Bruce Bartlett’s thoughtful piece has been making the rounds. The GOPs Misplaced Rage – The Daily Beast David Horsey: We Want Our Country Back In my opinion, conservative activists, who seem to believe that the louder they shout the more correct their beliefs must be, are less angry about Obama’s policies than they are about having lost the White House in 2008. They are primarily Republican Party hacks trying to overturn the election results, not representatives of a true grassroots revolt against liberal policies. If that were the case they would have been out demonstrating against the Medicare drug benefit,…
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We are a globeful of dopamine addicts. We endlessly seek and never find the newest new thing. Slate: Seeking Seeking. You can’t stop doing it. Sometimes it feels as if the basic drives for food, sex, and sleep have been overridden by a new need for endless nuggets of electronic information. We are so insatiably curious that we gather data even if it gets us in trouble. Google searches are becoming a cause of mistrials as jurors, after hearing testimony, ignore judges’ instructions and go look up facts for themselves. We search for information we don’t even care about. Nina…
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Interesting and disturbing, my rep voted with the Repub majority on that Schiavo bill. Really, Melissa? You thought that’s what we wanted for Terry? ProgressivePunch : S. 686. Health Care/Vote on Bill to Grant Parents of Theresa Marie Schiavo the Right to Pursue in Federal Court Their Case to Have Her Feeding Tube Re-Inserted (2005 House Roll Call 90) / Bean, Melissa
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Meeting to review SC Episcopal diocese future 081309 – The Augusta Chronicle So yes, Bp Mark Lawrence will probably try to take his diocese out of the Episcopal Church, just as everyone assumed he was the first time his nomination was not affirmed by the rest of the church. (tags: Episcopalian Anglican schism) CAMERA: CAMERA Column: Anglican Priest Disgraces Authentic Christianity The extremely disturbing screen that sent me looking for better, more hopeful news. (tags: Israel Palestinian Peace Intolerance) Palestinian Canon Naim Ateek: “Worse than Hamas†| Tikun Olam-תקון עול×: Make the World a Better Place (tags: Anglican Israel Palestinian…
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Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: What’s For Dinner By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 13 Aug ’09, 5.49pm CDT PST
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Those damn liberals made his life safer, more comfortable, and cleaner than it might have been if upper class Republicans had their way. Thom Hartmann: Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican | Video Cafe Joe is home from work, he plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive to dads; his car is among the safest in the world because some liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. He was the third generation to live in the house financed…
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