Here's an interesting and powerful video. In particular, it's on the 7,600 hog feedlot near the Yankton Sioux reservation in southeast South Dakota but it...
just heard a great line: "Americans don?t deserve bad government, we demand it." I see gW has made history by the highest DISapproval ratings of all presidents...
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May 5, 2008 6:43 pm
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I've been teaching a class at Cal, Deviance and Social Control. For the last class, I gave a talk about applied sociology. As I always do, I asked "What's a...
i disagree with Deflem; he was against the position that the ASA took against the war. as the Republicans say (HAS to be a marketing too, because it sure aint...
These comments are largely influenced by disciplinary fundamentalism. Sounds like the work of the same people who claim that the surge is working in Iraq. Del...
Del Thomas Ph D
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May 10, 2008 2:58 am
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LOL I just texted that joke to all of my friends....
Speaking of Bush, here's a classic: Sent ... George Bush is visiting an elementary school today and he visits one of the classes (4th grade). They are in the...
hi, Percival heard the same one but was about Jesse Jackson, not Dubya -- guess it depends on what side of the political aisle one is on as to whom it is...
Hello John, Thanks for the reply :-). You wrote : " heard the same one but was about Jesse Jackson, not Dubya -- guess it depends on what side of the political...
Hi: In re: your point about how humans take some things: "filtching it lock stock and barrell, presents it as its own creation, pretends the original never...
Kathy Stolley
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May 17, 2008 11:54 am
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hi, Percival OUR PREVIOUS EXCHANGE: "God, when will this end????!! " When The Most Honourable XXI century Homo Sapiens - thinking- voter- citizens stop falling...
The crucial task is public education. The greatest number of voters in history have a college degree. Yet politics has all the sopistication of hazing by...
Part of this is a comment on college education and the concentration on teacher/preacher get the grades approach. The media may be a notch above the "peoples"...
Del Thomas Ph D
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May 17, 2008 6:28 pm
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The thoughts below come from a friend who has been following this, albeit without having joined -yet, - quote : The old conflict of Pragmaticism ( no ref. to...
The thoughts below come from a friend who has been following this, albeit without having joined us -yet, - quote : The old conflict of Pragmaticism ( no ref....
The thoughts below come from a friend who has been following this, albeit without having joined -yet, - quote : The old conflict of Pragmaticism ( no ref. to...
The strength and value of a nation/society may be found in the NGO's. The anti-TV bias not withstanding, there are a host community organizations that we ...
Del Thomas Ph D
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May 18, 2008 1:51 am
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why do people want to live under it? because it is better than the alternatives -- which isn't necessarily saying that much. i have a student from Zimbabwe who...
The reason the media is so bad is the powers that be that run the country want to keep the people out of it. As long as they can keep us distracted (and not...
reading this text: <http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780465021550-1> fasinating. Ewen documents how gov't and industry turned a frugal, 19th century, pragmatic...
the question that i think we should attempt to answer is, why is this not happening here? why has it not happened? what is preventing this from happening? and...
This report is not detailed. It provides little in the way of details, for example, about the views that are in negotiation and conflict. It notes, merely...
Hi, Ken you mention only two solutions to resolve the conflict: "...changing jobs or lifestyles" there are others that are not mentioned and are in fact the...
John, Your response is not exactly on target. Let me explain. First, changing the way energy is used and for what it is used and how people consider energy...
hi, Ken really, my overall point was the use of the strategy by the truckers to block the hwys with their trucks. this would not happen in the U.S. my question...
John, Sorry, I missed the rhetorical and why didn't this happen in the US part. In point of fact it did happen in the US. US protests were just a little...