The “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrations have endured a couple of months of hardship, and now the ire of communities that are tired of the campsites. What do they ‘really’ want? We hear a lot of gibberish, calls for anarchy and the drum beats of revolution, but what do they really expect?
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The earthquakes and tsunami in Japan have dominated the news and everyone’s hearts go out to the Japanese families that have been effected. With thousands confirmed dead, thousands still missing and many more thousands injured and homeless, the human devastation is massive.
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As thousands of union workers, the majority from the teacher’s union, demonstrate in Wisconsin, our children are still terribly behind the rest of the world in education. We think we are the greatest country in the world. That remains to be seen.
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I have remained mostly silent on the mid-term election campaigns. The rhetoric was highly abusive, the misinformation was rampant, the personal character attacks disingenuous, and rallying humorous. I watched, listened and remembered what I wrote here on Norm’s Corner two years ago.
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For as long as I can remember the big country that was our nemesis was called Russia. But it was really the USSR, or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Maybe it’s time to change our name from USA to USSA; the United Socialist Sates of America.
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I have to give the Democrats some credit. They didn’t quit. And they didn’t change. They got a health care bill passed that no one read and few have any idea what is in it. Now we enter the implementation phase. The Democrats are only talking about the great things coming your way. So lets consider a few examples.
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