Category: politics
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OCCUPY WALL STREET COMES TO MY STREET
Today during my lunch I dropped by my local bank to do some…well, banking. On my way into the bank; at which I’ve been with for over 20 years in one variation or another, I saw something I’ve never seen before. An armed guard. My first thought was that there was a delivery or something…
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AMANDA KNOX AND MICHAEL JACKSON
Americans have always been captivated by high-profile trials and crimes, whether it is the Scopes Monkey Trial, The Al Capone Trial, or the O. J. Simpson trials we have shown ourselves captivated by jurisprudence. Even the trial of Socrates still interests us. Today that thought hit me as I traveled up and down the I-5…
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MSNBC’S REPUBLICAN DEBATE
(DISCLAIMER—PASTOR GREENBEAN IS NOT AN IDEOLOGUE OR A PARTISAN. HE WATCHES POLITICAL DEBATES LIKE ONE WATCHES A SPORTING EVENT IN WHICH NEITHER TEAM IS BELOVED.) This will be a short blog—I promise. The last blog was far too long. Last night I watched, with popcorn in hand, but no Kool-Aid, (Jim Jones reference intended). …
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I STEPPED OUT AND THE WHOLE WORLD FELL APART
As a man who grew up in Tornado Alley and now lives in Northwest Washington—home of slate gray and high winds, I found a lot of interest in the way the media covered the recent earthquake/hurricane situation on the East Coast. For starters, had either of these events occurred anywhere else, neither would have received…