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08-13-2007, 12:21 PM
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It's extraordinary to me that the United States can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can't find $25 billion dollars to save 25,000 children who die every day from preventable diseases.~ Bono |
08-13-2007, 12:37 PM
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Go directly to Jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. |
08-13-2007, 12:39 PM
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"Thanks for playing! and as you go, you won't be empty-handed, we have some very nice pardon gifts ---oops, I mean 'parting gifts' for you to take with you..."
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It's extraordinary to me that the United States can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can't find $25 billion dollars to save 25,000 children who die every day from preventable diseases.~ Bono |
08-13-2007, 02:39 PM
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Can you pardon someone before they've been indicted? |
08-13-2007, 03:56 PM
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It's really odd that Rove is leaving now. I should think that there is plenty more damage he can do.
Maybe he wants to do it from a distance. Or maybe for the next generation. |
08-13-2007, 04:07 PM
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Pardon? But...but...but... he's done nothing wrong!  |
08-13-2007, 05:51 PM
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Quote: rmthunter said
 Can you pardon someone before they've been indicted? | Yep. See Nixon's pardon.
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08-14-2007, 12:27 PM
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Quote: | Josh Marshall said
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MEME OF THE DAY
Karl Rove, martyr to Democratic partisanship. | John Edwards said it best: "Goodbye and good riddance."
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08-15-2007, 06:49 AM
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08-15-2007, 09:01 AM
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I :heart: Tom Toles. He started in the Buffalo News and I learned a lot about current events as a teen reading the hard-news articles to figure out what he was saying in his cartoons.
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It's extraordinary to me that the United States can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can't find $25 billion dollars to save 25,000 children who die every day from preventable diseases.~ Bono |
08-15-2007, 12:31 PM
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Quote: mjfrombuffalo said
I :heart: Tom Toles. He started in the Buffalo News and I learned a lot about current events as a teen reading the hard-news articles to figure out what he was saying in his cartoons. | Thanks for the teaching tip!
Next social studies lesson will start on the OpEd page - the cartoon, of course.
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08-15-2007, 07:25 PM
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Quote: jgibson2 said
Thanks for the teaching tip!
Next social studies lesson will start on the OpEd page - the cartoon, of course. | Great teaching tool. My first journalism class teacher (7th grade) used editorial cartoons for a week and then handed out stories she had clipped from a local paper and told us to do a cartoon.
That's where my troubles began.
This was in the mid-seventies, in the lily-white cornfield of the midwest. The only black person I had ever seen with my eyes was a kid from Up With People who stayed at our house for a couple of nights. Everything else I knew about African-Americans came from TV.
I tell you that prologue because my story was about a gentleman who worked for the city of Kalamazoo. His job was revitalizing the downtown district and in this story talked about the struggle of competing against the suburban shopping malls. I only knew he was black because of a picture accompanying the story.
I put two and two together, drawing on the blaxploitation movies I'd seen on TV and the only other black person I knew of besides Gary from Up With People - Muhammad Ali.
The cartoon I came up with was a small black character in boxing trunks and gloves, waving his crudely-drawn fists at an opponent represented by a giant Converse Chuck Taylor shoe with an ankle growing out of the frame. Drawing from the lessons in the class, I substituted "Suburban Malls" for the Chuck Taylor logo. For the piece de resistance, I had a speech bubble with the city planner screaming, "I'm gonna get you sucker!"
My mother had to come in for a conference by the end of the week.
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08-15-2007, 07:53 PM
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Another advantage of homeschooling. NO conferences with the principal.
So did your teacher give up cartoons as a teaching tool?
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08-15-2007, 08:05 PM
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Oh, I don't know, I have conferences all the time.
At least, that's what I tell people when they catch me talking to myself. 
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08-15-2007, 08:23 PM
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That's OK. The teacher at Matt's school is sleeping with the principal - but don't tell anyone.
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08-15-2007, 11:06 PM
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