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Thursday, July 31, 2008

My favorite bumper sticker this week was a computer screen capture...

Someone made a file called The Entire Bush Administration and then tried to delete it. The bumper sticker, a screen capture showed that little window that opens to ask you, YES or NO, "Are you sure that you want to delete The Entire Bush Administration?" Yes No I giggled all the way home Americans... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 27, 2008

Laptops can be seized and copied at the borders of the USA

Legal Technology - At the Border, Your Laptop Is Wide-Open At the Border, Your Laptop Is Wide-Open By David E. Brodsky, Timothy M. Haggerty and Tamara J. Britt The National Law Journal July 22, 2008 After two of its executives had their laptops and other electronic devices seized and searched at... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 20, 2008

Sonoyta, Sonora and Arizona crossing will be blocked on August 1st.

San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora— El próximo 1 de agosto el Frente Cívico Sanluisino participará en el bloqueo de la garita internacional de Sonoyta, población que se une a la lucha en pro de tarifas eléctricas justas, así lo anunció Alberto Becerril, líder de la agrupación civil. Electric rates are... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 18, 2008

Email from my 85 yr. old mother, protesting Bush's visit in Tucson, today.

Here is what she wrote, after I cleaned up grammar, etc. as best I could....she uses no paragraphs anymore, and she was an English teacher for decades. "Penny (my head shaved in a friend's cancer solidarity, sister) and I went off early this morning, up by the turn off to Pima Canyon where we waved... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 14, 2008

She made this song for her mom's country, Zimbabwe.

Some songs just need to be exposed to more people, and Leesha Harvey writes lovely songs and sings them well, too. This song is called PEACE.... in Shona. President Mugabe should be ashamed of himself. Her lyrics here, below. Runyararo (means "peace" in Shona*): Hold your hand out, child, hold your... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 13, 2008

Talkin' the talk, but not walkin' the walk. Please help by writing...

Dear Friend: I know that you care about people, equality and social justice. I am writing to ask you to take a moment to appeal to President Robert Shelton at the University of Arizona to retain Dr. Julian Kunnie as Director of Africana Studies and to renew and expand the University's commitment to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 12, 2008

I bought cloth and Mexican shopping bags years ago. You???

If you click on the following link, you will be schooled in plastic bag usage and taught about how the world's need to give it up.... http://www.poconore cord.com/ apps/pbcs. dll/article? AID=/20080506/ MULTIMEDIA02/ 80505016 We decorate our bags with small toys, broken jewelry, and odds and ends... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 6, 2008

Hey! My old pueblo's economy is suffering. Please come visit and spend.

Visit this website and find the fabulous bargains being offered in Tucson this summer. Yes, it is hot, but air conditioning was invented and we use it too much and you'll probably need a sweater, it's so cold in some places!!! Just, not around the zillions of pools nor on the golf course, though you... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 3, 2008

BBC News about Vaicom suing Youtube over video clips posting.

Though this is happening in England, it will surely come to change youtube here in the US and I am a great user of youtube. LOVE their videos and feel that Viacom is failing to make proper use of their position in this constantly changing world. Story is as follows....BBC, dit di dit di dit dit... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

This should be our American foreign policy.

This fellow, Matt Harding is, was a video game maker and now he travels the world doing what we should do more of overseas.... Click HERE and if you don't watch the whole thing, you won't understand why I chose it. And, please, make a joy filled moment and dance with someone today. Sign in to see full entry.

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I wondered if anyone was reporting from the frontlines of American Society, embedded with the poverty stricken and reporting on what happens each day when you live in the greatest country on earth and earn enough to survive and not much else. I wondered if anyone was explaining America to others and thought that, since I was already embedded in this ongoing cultural experiment, I might tell what it's like.

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