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Month: December 2009
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No, I won’t make a New Year’s Resolution this year. Over the last few years, I’ve vowed to cure my addiction to reruns of “Law and Order,” the original and all of its offsprings, but alas, I seem to violate it on the very next “Law and Order” marathon day. I’ve concluded I can’t be…
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Take time this holiday season to enjoy memories of friends, Some old and some new, fondly remembered for moments Of joy and of enlightenment and of caring and of sweetness, And let those memories brighten and freshen your spirit. Oh the sadness that has permeated these years of the 21st, The unnecessary wars, the loss…
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Praise must go to Wisconsin State AFL-CIO President David Newby for braving the “Fair and Balanced” segment of Fox News on Thursday, Dec. 17. Governor Jim Doyle’s signing of the bill to call for the state’s education standards to include labor history and collective bargaining has gathered some national attention; it may indeed be the…
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As a teenager during World War II, I recall vividly how the entire population was involved in the War: my uncle who lived with us was drafted in 1940, my dad was air raid warden on our block, we contributed valuable pennies and dimes to War Stamps and Bonds. There was no escape from the…
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