Tag: independence
group name: noncorformists
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March 18, 2006 12:33 PM EST --
You might be a nonconformist if:
1) You don't own a suit, baseball cap or nylons.
2) You don't comb your hair, mow a lawn or deduct mortgage interest on your taxes.
3) The last 10 times you . . .
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March 20, 2006 01:54 PM EST --
After my quick click to accept the invitation to join the nonconformist group, I questioned my qualifications. Would the television remote, . . .
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July 04, 2006 12:04 PM EDT --
MY KIND OF FREEDOM
by Cat Givens
photography by Pops Dickerson
Children laugh and twirl
Musicians smile while playing
Hippie festival
Engine above trees
Skydivers target the beach
Grateful . . .
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May 06, 2007 08:03 AM EDT --
I can't talk right now.
My mind is full
with indistinct hope
and fear
and disappointment.
The weight of the world spread out
like a blanket on the beach
sun baked, dark colors burn me
from the light . . .
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December 05, 2006 06:29 PM EST --
Recently there has been a lot of talk about free will, sparked in part by advances in our “understanding” of particle physics. If by “free will” we mean some impulse out of . . .
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December 02, 2008 08:20 PM EST --
I could spend $60 on a pair of pants, or I could buy that same pair of pants for a dollar. I'm assigning arbitrary distinctions to these two monetary transactions, but for me the difference . . .
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September 05, 2007 08:38 PM EDT --
I spent the first week of August on Ogunquit, Maine with the women members of my family - my Mom, my sister Fran and two of Fran's granddaughters Alyssa and Faith. While I was there I chanced . . .
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July 04, 2007 02:42 AM EDT --
As a child, July 4th meant getting up early and driving an hour to the home of my Dad's best friend and his wife, Charlie and Edie. Dad and Charlie never had fireworks as kids during the Depression, . . .
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July 05, 2007 03:32 AM EDT --
Well, at least everything we bought at the fireworks stand earlier today. *wink*
Happy Birthday America!
Here's hoping we can keep what freedoms we have left, and regain the ones we have lost! . . .
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March 06, 2008 10:07 PM EST --
It's our six month anniversary today!!!
Our marriage made the news, today. Check out this article that was just published.
Lisa Cupido of the Columbia news service interviewed me last week . . .
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November 02, 2007 11:04 PM EDT --
1st off, thank you to everyone who gave me suggestions for things to do with my parents while they're in town. After class this morning, I headed out to pick them up and we got BBQ at Arthur Bryant's . . .
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July 21, 2007 12:56 PM EDT --
"I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on Washington; they would not wait for an election....It . . .
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February 03, 2007 08:49 AM EST --
It becomes increasingly obvious with each passing day that the Democrats will not do the people's will, either. Nancy Pelosi for one has banned smoking on Capitol Hill...I guess this little bit of . . .
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February 24, 2008 07:02 PM EST --
Kosovo declared independence on February 17, 2008, after a number of talks between the Serbian and Kosovo's governments failed to bring any agreement on the status of the Serbian province.
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April 10, 2007 06:43 PM EDT --
Funny how after a few weeks of vacation we almost always want to get back home to the things that are familliar to us, During the summer holidays children eventually want to go back to school, even. I'm . . .
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August 31, 2007 07:58 AM EDT --
" Woman, bent upon her freedom and seeking to make a better world, will not permit the forces of reaction to maks themselves forever behind the plea that it is necessary to keep her ignorance to preserve . . .
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April 10, 2007 09:07 AM EDT --
I snuck out my window
with my backpack
on my shoulder,
and disappeared again
into the black and starlit night
I cut through the back yard,
through the neighbor's yard,
to the . . .
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May 23, 2008 11:12 AM EDT --
Did you know American Oil Companies are not allowed to drill on American soil freely?
I encourage my fellow Americans to educate yourselves on all the ways we are preventing the drilling and refinement . . .
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August 22, 2007 12:52 PM EDT --
The Other Slaves – Part 1
On August 23, 2007, we remember the horrors of the Atlantic Slave Trade. The City of Liverpool, no more than forty miles from here, will have special reason to look back . . .
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July 03, 2007 10:51 PM EDT --
This Independence Day, don't just blindly follow the human herd of "mallwalking gomers" to your area's "official" fireworks display -- like the media . . .
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