"Prejudice is always dangerous. (Sister Wendy Beckett)"
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One more person up here in snow country, trying to make the world a better place.
Diaries published: 18 (5654 days since last diary on Mon Oct 27, 2008 at 08:19 AM PDT)
Comments posted: 891 (5035 days since last comment on Thu Jul 08, 2010 at 08:41 AM PDT)
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Total Recommends: 370
Total Comment Ratings: 4883
Most Recommended Diary: Breaking! My Mom's cat is a Republican (w/ funny kitty poll), 141 comments, 49 recommends
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A friend linked me to an editorial by Charisma Magazine founder Steve Strang because of it's ridiculous title-
by SnowCountry
 14 comments
on Mon Oct 27, 2008 at 08:19 AM PDT
with 5 Recommends
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We in Minneapolis/Saint Paul have a grand tradition of meeting adversity with art and that's exactly what happened today at the Liberty Parade.
Behind ...
by SnowCountry
21 comments
on Sun Aug 31, 2008 at 05:27 PM PDT
with 15 Recommends
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Like many children of the 1980’s, I was raised on the folk music of the 1960’s. Car trips were spent singing Amazing Grace, Union Maid, and the John Birch Society in three-part harmony. (...
by SnowCountry
26 comments
on Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 10:28 AM PDT
with 4 Recommends
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Today I took the coward’s route out and did not defend a young Muslim woman. I am ashamed.
I am a fairly average looking Caucasian woman who uses public transportation in Minneapolis/Saint ...
by SnowCountry
51 comments
on Sat Feb 02, 2008 at 06:36 PM PST
with 35 Recommends
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...when their airbrushed publicity photos are compared to to unflattering candid photos and screen captures.
I'm sure that everyone has ...
by SnowCountry
112 comments
on Mon Oct 22, 2007 at 01:06 PM PDT
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Where is my JetPack? Where is my Flying Car? All the technology of Al Gore and our new century has brought me is a collection of renditions of Celine Dion songs done on harmonica. Some are sort of ...
by SnowCountry
7 comments
on Fri Oct 12, 2007 at 07:06 PM PDT
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- I used to hate admitting this happened to my family: My precious cousin, Laura, was murdered, her life taken before she ever really had the chance to live it -- at only 19 years old. To be truthful, ...1432 comments 271 Recs
- Doesn’t sound very appetizing, does it? Why would you eat raw slices of a warm-blooded, pack hunting predator that is on the top of the food chain and whose numbers are critically threatened ...46 comments 34 Recs
- It has been a rough day I am sure we all agree. But at 10 this morning my daughter called me up with some news- the Big Butter Jesus on highway 75 between Cincinatti and Dayton had been struck by ...35 comments 16 Recs
- “Coal pays the bills.” My paycheck is cut from the state of West Virginia, and for me and many others in the state, we ...68 comments 31 Recs
- She has courage. She has guts. She has a spine. She has tenacity. She has fortitude. BUT, she does NOT have balls. The inner feminist in me, long hidden in my workaday world, has been getting ...884 comments 740 Recs
- Chilean Earthquake has resulted in tsunami warnings for Hawaii and the general Pacific coast. CNN reports that they will be evacuating coastal areas beginning 6 AM with the 10-15 ft. waves to come ...48 comments 20 Recs
- Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas. The conservative Chicago Tribune is reporting that attack ads are being run accusing Representative Mark Kirk, candidate for US Senate in the upcoming ...35 comments 5 Recs
- Maureen Dowd comes from an Irish Catholic family, with a policeman as a father and a homemaker as a mother. The Dowds were law abiding folks, and deeply religious and law abiding. Dowd's family ...36 comments 12 Recs
- The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) road show has pulled into San Diego. Over the next few days they’re planning sharing their message of hate at thirty locations around the city. Several ...353 comments 563 Recs
- "Insurance executives don't do this because they're bad people; they do it because it's profitable." President Obama - 9/9/09 With all due ...377 comments 492 Recs
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