The biggest story of the day yesterday of course was the selection of a new pope for the Catholic church. Approximately one hour after the white smoke rose from the chimney, Pope Francis I (nee Jorge Mario Bergoglio) appeared before a cheering crowd. It was a bit of a surprise on a couple accounts: He is a Jesuit and he is from South America.
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Kathleen Hoy Foley was 16, alone and pregnant from a rape in 1964 when she decided to put the baby up for adoption, intending to forever close that chapter of her life.
“The day I walked out of that hospital, it was the day it ended for me,” Foley, now 65, told the Daily News. “I was emancipated. I truly believed I was free.”
She wasn’t.
More than 30 years later, the child defied the odds and found her, shattering the life Foley had created and forcing her to reveal a dark piece of her past that she had wanted to keep hidden from her grown daughters and husband. )
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Ask a Vet
Author: TriSec
Date: 03/12/2013 10:31:29
Good Morning. Today is our 4,174th day in Afghanistan. We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing war, courtesy of antiwar.com: US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 2,178 Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,080 We find this morning's cost of war passing through: $ 1, 431, 933, 750, 000 .00 While our focus here has always been Iraq and Afghanistan, from time to time we veer into the historical. Today is going to be one of those days.
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Droning On...
Author: BobR
Date: 03/11/2013 13:01:03
There is something about drones that is dominating the American psyche. Everywhere I look I see people discussing them, with emotions ranging anywhere from concern to mouth-foaming outrage. I don't understand why the fixation is on the drone itself. When America first got into war in the Middle East (the most recent ones - Afghanistan and Iraq), and we started learning about soldiers dying and being maimed, we thought "this is not the proper approach". This was like trying to hit a fly with a baseball bat. Instead of a full-scale invasion of a sovereign country, we should be using covert operations and targeted strikes. That would mean less cost, less soldiers dying, and less money and power flowing to private contractors that were profiteering from the wars.
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Sundee blogee
Author: velveeta jones
Date: 03/10/2013 14:21:04
Open blog this morning as I stayed up way too late for a person of my....wisdom. And it seems we lost an hour of time. But I will comment on THIS story: I think it's a bad idea. Ashley Judd is a wonderful person I'm sure, a great spokesperson and activist, but she has too many skeletons in her closet and she reeks of "Hollywood elitist" that will be used against her. To be honest, I also worry that after a year in the Senate, she'll start missing making movies and that will reflect on her work ethic.
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Good Morning. It's something we all must ponder from time to time as mortal beings. At the end of our existence on this world, what will happen to us as we reach the end? The Hollywood version of a graceful exit, in our own bed, surrounded by family is a nice picture, but it rarely happens in the real world.
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Impeach!
Author: BobR
Date: 03/08/2013 13:42:35
Impeachment is a concept codified in our Constitution as a mechanism for the federal government to police itself. Lately it seems we hear cries of "impeach!" on a regular basis, but of course very little ever comes of it. There were cries for impeaching president Obama almost before he even took office. In all of U.S. history, only two presidents (Johnson, Clinton) and one Supreme Court Justice (Chase) have ever been impeached. None were successfully convicted of any of the charges.
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Rand Paul is a hypocrite. I won't celebrate his filibuster becuase it is built on a false premise. What is that premise? Basically, drones impact American Civil liberties. (H)is remarks focused primarily on civil liberties issues, offering a scathing critique of the Obama's administration's use of unmanned drones, and refusal to rule out military strikes against American citizens on U.S. soil.
“When I asked the president, can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It’s an easy question. It should have been a resounding an unequivocal, ‘No,'" Paul said. "The president’s response? He hasn’t killed anyone yet. We’re supposed to be comforted by that." Here is the interesting thing: while Senator Paul was filibustering, Eric Holder was testifying about that very issue. Continue reading...
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He had been in office for a year. Popular with the electorate, he promised to help the poor, something that left the business community aghast. With cries of socialism and wealth redistribution, he was immediately set upon in an attempt to bring down his presidency and ensure the moneyed business community were the ones truly in charge. Sound familiar? The year was 1934 and Franklin D. Roosevelt was president. Continue reading...
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Ask a Vet
Author: TriSec
Date: 03/05/2013 11:22:30
Good Morning. Today is our 4,167th day in Afghanistan. We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty report from our ongoing war, courtesy of Antiwar.com: US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 2,178 Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,080 We find this morning's cost of war passing through: $ 1, 429, 628, 675, 000. 00
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