Unwritten Note
The news is on everyone's lips
like flies gathering on excrement:
President Roosevelt has ordered
our removal. Will we be
taken from our homes like vermin?
I know it must be a misunderstanding,
gossip spread in these
harsh times. I choke
on acrid laughter.
It is not possible.
After all, I served
my chosen country in the Army,
in the Great War. So I go to see
my longtime friend and sheriff
of Monterey County.
It is no joke, Hideo. You'll have to go.
He can't look me in the eyes.
When he finds my body hung
in this rented room, with
my certificate of honorary citizenship
expressing honor and respect
for your loyal and splendid
service to the country,
he will understand why
I could not allow
this noble country to tarnish
its honor, or mine.
- Jodi Hottel poem
- Ansel Adams photo
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(P2) Political
Conceptualizing Million, Billion, and Trillion
A billion seconds is 31 years.
A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.
Barack Obama's 30-game Winning Streak
I recently read Chris Rock's responses to 10 Questions in the June 18th issue of Time. After comparing the country to a ship, Rock astutely answered the following question:
"What kind of a captain do you think Obama has been"
"Pretty good. People are complaining, but it's like complaining about your team winning by one" 'I can't believe we keep winning by one! What the hell's going on? Another close victory?' Meanwhile, it's like a 30-game win streak!"
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Ben Franklin Against the One-Percenters
Reading in Walter Isaacson's fine biography Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, I came across this demonstration that even back in the Philadelphia of 1755, the filthy rich were intent on getting even filthier.Following Braddock's defeat by the French and Indians,
"The Assembly quickly passed a bill (of appropriations) for defense, but again it insisted a tax be placed on all lands, 'those of the proprietors not excepted.' Governor Morris rejected it, demanding that the word 'not' be changed to 'only.'
"Franklin was furious. No longer casting himself as a mediator, he wrote the reply that the Assembly sent to Morris. He called the governor a 'hateful instrument of reducing a free people to the abject state of vassalage'...Franklin became particularly enraged when he learned that Morris was required by a secret clause in his commission as governor to reject any tax on the Proprietary estates."
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(P3) Philosophical
Enjoy the Following Philosophy Sliding Game - press "Philosophy joke Sliding Puzzle" below to begin
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- Ansel Adams photo
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(P2) Political
Conceptualizing Million, Billion, and Trillion
A million seconds is 12 days.
A billion seconds is 31 years.
A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.
Money works the same way!!!
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Barack Obama's 30-game Winning Streak
I recently read Chris Rock's responses to 10 Questions in the June 18th issue of Time. After comparing the country to a ship, Rock astutely answered the following question:"What kind of a captain do you think Obama has been"
"Pretty good. People are complaining, but it's like complaining about your team winning by one" 'I can't believe we keep winning by one! What the hell's going on? Another close victory?' Meanwhile, it's like a 30-game win streak!"
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Reading in Walter Isaacson's fine biography Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, I came across this demonstration that even back in the Philadelphia of 1755, the filthy rich were intent on getting even filthier.Following Braddock's defeat by the French and Indians,
"The Assembly quickly passed a bill (of appropriations) for defense, but again it insisted a tax be placed on all lands, 'those of the proprietors not excepted.' Governor Morris rejected it, demanding that the word 'not' be changed to 'only.'
"Franklin was furious. No longer casting himself as a mediator, he wrote the reply that the Assembly sent to Morris. He called the governor a 'hateful instrument of reducing a free people to the abject state of vassalage'...Franklin became particularly enraged when he learned that Morris was required by a secret clause in his commission as governor to reject any tax on the Proprietary estates."
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(P3) Philosophical
Enjoy the Following Philosophy Sliding Game - press "Philosophy joke Sliding Puzzle" below to begin
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