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Actually Ronald Reagan didn’t say ketchup was a vegetable. And it wasn’t Reagan that didn’t say ketchup was a vegetable, anyway. It was his Department of Agriculture that didn’t say it. The ketchup bit was a sarcastic comment in I believe a Newsweek op ed that then did the 1981 ...
Monday, March 14, 2022–“What’s Happening in Washington, D.C.” with Chris Eyler, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Monday, April 11, 2022–“Education in Douglas County” with UCC President Rachel Pokrandt & RPS Superintendent Jared Cordon Monday, May 16, 2022–“The Changing Landscape of Healt...
If this were a genocide we had nothing to do with, the moral calculus would be different. But every one of us bears some responsibility for what’s happening in Gaza. Our dollars fund it and our bombs blow entire families to smithereens. To demand a change is the only moral, sane, hum...
“Such a bounce in popularity is not happening with this president. It went up four percent, then went down 4 percent,” Thurber said. “The meager gains during this COVID-19 crisis is truly stunning. Usually there is a rallying effect with other leaders in times of crisis.” Asked what...
“He endured great hardship juggling his family responsibilities with his commitment to telling the world what was happening in Gaza. “He didn’t even know where he would sleep that night on what would be his last day. Eventually, he decided to check on his sister, who also displaced, and...
Differential productivity growth: Productivity has historically grown fastest in agriculture, followed by manufacturing, and then services. Income elasticities of demand (YED): YED is < 1 for agriculture which makes it a normal necessity good. For manufacturing it is > 1 for manufacturing which makes...
I believe that in my fiction it is not a device. The tale announces that it shall tell itself. You are right that it can be traced since Mai, my first novel. Except that I did not then quite realise what was happening. Influences behind this metafictionality? Many. From the Mahabharata...
One dictator less is good, the mission has been accomplished and whatever else is happening in Libya is just mundane Congo: North Kivu Displaced Need More Help Humanitarians are struggling to meet the basic needs of over 200,000 people recently displaced by clashes in North Kivu Province, ...
While Christians are busy judging others they’re overlooking the fact that there is a lot of sin happening that they’re not protesting. I could list all of the sins that the Bible talks about but that’s not the point. If Christians put just a fraction of the energy and efforts being...