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We Don't Need No Sequestration

We don't want no sequestration. We don't want no harmful goals. Close the chasm 'tween rich and poor. Leaders leave our net alone. Hey! Leaders! Leave that net alone! All in all it's just another trick. We're appalled. All in all you're just another brick in the wall. These lines play off Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall." © 2013 Nordette Adams
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President Obama Harnesses the Sun

I saw this photo of President Obama in a Huffington Post slide show of best political pictures. It's captioned as:A light shines behind President Barack Obama as he speaks during a campaign event at Bayliss Park, Monday, Aug. 13, 2012, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, during a three day campaign bus tour through Iowa. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Knowing that the president has been promoting solar energy,
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McCain, President Obama, and the Republican Base: Impeachment and Voter Fraud Again? (video)

The video above shows Senator and former presidential candidate John McCain in a pickle again, having to defend President Obama to the fringier folks of the Republican base. The first clip is from a 2008 neeting when a McCain supporter says then-candidate Obama is an Arab. The second clip comes from footage of a McCain Town Hall meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, held this year, 2013.First a
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This Is What It Means to Get Better with Age: John B. Williams and Nancy Wilson (audio)

" type="audio/mpeg" /> " Amber Holcomb's rendition of "My Funny Valentine" reminded me how much I love the song, and despite already having multiple copies of the classic by different artists, I went in search of other versions. As a result, I discovered bassist John B. Williams's cut of "You'll See/My Funny Valentine" with the incomparable Nancy Wilson on vocals. You'll find the track
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Evolution Of Mom Dancing (w/ Jimmy Fallon & Michelle Obama) Video

So cute and funny! Jimmy Fallon in drag with the FLOTUS in "The Evolution Of Mom Dancing." A friend shared it on Facebook, and I needed this healthy laugh.
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Amber Holcomb Sang My Funny Valentine For Real, Like a Natural Born Star (Video). But See Also Melinda Doolittle

Amber Holcomb - Vegas Singoff - American Idol 12 by IdolxMuzic I would buy Amber Holcomb's rendition of "My Funny Valentine" right this minute if it were for sale. The young Texan performed the jazz classic on tonight's sudden death round of American Idol, proving that she deserves to be on the show and in the music business. I enjoyed Kree Harrison and singer/songwriter Angela Miller as well.
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If Russia's Meteor Had Hit the American South, People Would Have Thought It Was the End of the World (video)

Some students in a physics class in Chelyabinsk, Russia, thought war had broken out when this week's blasts from a meteor broke windows at their school. If such a cosmic event had happened here in the American South, I think our Fundamentalist Christians would have thought not war but the end of the world. Read more at CNN where a "witness says flash shone 'like 10 suns,' felt shock wave pass
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