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Tag: Current Events
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Okay, this is way beyond out of control: A Pakistani Muslim cleric and his followers offered rewards amounting to over $1 million for anyone who killed Danish cartoonists who drew caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad that have enraged Muslims worldwide. The cleric offered the bounty during Friday prayers as Muslim anger against the cartoons flared…
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The kids at my old Alma Mater have got some good ole fighting spirit! Makes me proud to have gone to Rogers High School. Students at Rogers High School in Spokane’s hardscrabble Hillyard neighborhood are upset about being told not to use the community’s name during cheers at sporting events. … Hundreds of students chanted…
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As everyone knows by now, the Steelers won. There are a lot of bummed people in my town right now. I actually watched the game yesterday, and I really enjoyed it! I picked up the gist of the game pretty quickly, and even cheered out loud when, sometime after half-time, the Seahawks intercepted the ball…
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Well, being that my hubby and I don’t watch sports of any kind at all (even if we were watching television) I had no idea what all of the hubbub was about as I was going on my errands. Everyone was updating everyone, everywhere, on some score of some game. Whatever. Well, my mom calls…
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Here’s an interesting article written about students from my Alma Mater, U.C. Santa Cruz (sigh…) being spied on through Bush’s NSA spying program. The group of students are part of a group who call themselves Students Against War, and, apparantly, there was a bit of a scuffle between them and some military recruiters on campus…
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