Monthly Archives: December 2011
Runaway Spending Cuts
The people who can least afford it are bearing the brunt of Washington’s austerity. By William A. Collins Slash the budget, That’s our plea; Just don’t cut What’s dear to me. Budget cuts are slippery. What happens when your state cuts … Continue reading
Filed under Human Rights, NEWS, Opinion, Politics
PEACE ON EARTH
David Bowie and Bing Crosby. How appropriate in this age of never-ending war. Merry Christmas to everyone who is kind enough to visit KANSAS MEDIOCRITY. The Great Invocation From the point of Light within the Mind of God Let light … Continue reading
Antique Postcards ~ Fatherless Children of France, World War One
This card is dated 1918, and World War 1 had created approximately 3 million widows and 10 million orphans. Europe was in ruins, but the United States homeland remained completely unaffected, with a booming economy and the good times of … Continue reading
Filed under AMERICANA, Charity, History, Human Rights, Kansas, Labette County, Postcards, WAR
Wealth is the Gift that Keeps on Giving
Whether you are religious or secular, make holidays a celebration of family, tradition, and values instead of unsustainable spending and materialism. By Mariko Chang and Dedrick Muhammad The holiday season exerts a lot of pressure to spend what you don’t have and go … Continue reading
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A VERY MEDIOCRE CHRISTMAS
If you will reread it you will notice, yourself, that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that … Continue reading
The Rape of Nanjing Remembered – December 13, 1937
THE RAPE OF NANKING OR NANJING MASSACRE The Japanese invasion of China in 1937. Having already seized and annexed China’s Manchurian region (1931) and Jehol province (1933), the Japanese were waiting for a pretext to invade and occupy the whole … Continue reading
Filed under Classical Music, Crime, History, Human Rights, Music, WAR
After The Wars
And a great John Prine classic-
Filed under AMERICANA, Country Music, History, Music, Short Story, WAR
