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Aerial Hunting of Wolves

Aerial Hunting of Wolves

Sarah Palin enthusiastically defends the cruel practice of shooting wolves from the air. Palin has proposed legislation – and even cash incentives – to encourage this practice. She offered aerial hunters a state payment of $150 for every wolf killed before it was defeated by the state superior court as an illegal use of bounty payments. Back in 2007, she had already approved spending $400,000 of state money to counter a citizens’ initiative at halting the killing of animals from…

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Democratic Party and Democrat, not Democrat Party

Democratic Party and Democrat, not Democrat Party

I’ve been noticing an upsurge lately in the frequency of some Republicans referring to the Democratic Party as the “Democrat Party.” It’s not the Democrat Party. It’s the Democratic Party. A member of the Democratic Party is a Democrat. I don’t know what the right-wing imagines might be gained by referring to the Democratic Party as the Democrat Party. The far right seems to think that this terminology works as a pejorative. It doesn’t. It just makes you sound a…

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Weekend plans

Weekend plans

In my new daily planner, I made a list yesterday of the things I need to do. They are roughly in order of priority: Get a present for my nephew Go to my nephew’s birthday party Learn how to use Gantt Project Create a master plan with timeline, resources, and subtasks for work Take down the Christmas tree – yes, really Get an oil change for my car Do laundry Call Mom and Gramma Pack away the clothes I’m not…

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Obama is President

Obama is President

The audience wanted to celebrate but it was a stern – and brilliant – inaugural speech. I watched it in my office break room. It wasn’t my first choice for a location, but at least I got to see it with other people. Aretha Franklin! Yo-Yo Ma! And that rascal Roberts trying to get him to flub! He even skipped the part about protecting us from enemies, both foreign and domestic! But – wiping a tear and sighing happily –…

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