tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15940389.post5458553947066625655..comments2024-03-28T19:34:19.507-04:00Comments on Howard-Empowered People: An online community of Dean-inspired activists: Veterans DayRenee in Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741974339127525003noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15940389.post-37928691677878529862016-11-12T00:46:41.198-05:002016-11-12T00:46:41.198-05:00Lib Dems 'will vote against article 50 if ther...<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/11/lib-dems-will-vote-against-article-50-tim-farron" rel="nofollow">Lib Dems 'will vote against article 50 if there is no new referendum</a> - ClickCatreonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15959115298646880631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15940389.post-7063020950968887322016-11-12T00:33:37.677-05:002016-11-12T00:33:37.677-05:00Privacy experts fear Donald Trump running global s...<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/11/trump-surveillance-network-nsa-privacy" rel="nofollow"> Privacy experts fear Donald Trump running global surveillance network </a> - ClickCatreonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15959115298646880631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15940389.post-70442803597302855462016-11-11T23:51:15.045-05:002016-11-11T23:51:15.045-05:00Absolutely! :)Absolutely! :)Catreonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15959115298646880631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15940389.post-82657698844184688602016-11-11T23:24:48.993-05:002016-11-11T23:24:48.993-05:00Robert Reich on what happened [Click] Largely rig...<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/10/democrats-working-class-americans-us-election" rel="nofollow">Robert Reich on what happened</a> [Click] Largely right, I'd say. <br /><br />I have a premonition that DT won't cause any extra snow to fall in the western mountains, nor will he open up any coal mines in West Virginia or Eastern Kentucky.<br /><br />Air quality not good here, between smog and mold, held in place by an unusually low inversion layer. But a cold front is supposed to come through, maybe bringing rain, by Wednesday--and this afternoon the clouds were starting to look like rain--mackerel sky and mares' tails.<br /><br />--Alan<br /><br />P.S.: I like the idea of an Elizabeth Warren-Raul Grijalva ticket in 2020...nothing like getting ahead, eh?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15940389.post-56482890600521363522016-11-11T23:21:23.214-05:002016-11-11T23:21:23.214-05:00No argument there. What with it being Armistice D...No argument there. What with it being Armistice Day, I wondered if any of my Canadian cousins were lost in the Great War; I have old photo albums with pictures of men in WWI-era uniforms, but my branch of the family had become geographically separated by then, and I never heard anything about it. I sent an e-mail to my second cousin in BC, who found and made contact with me some years ago, to ask if she knows. She has done a fair amount of genealogical research, and organized it better than mine (which complements hers in several particulars). I found the draft exemption for my grandfather (her grandfather's brother)--he had a broken leg as a boy that was badly set, which would have made marching impossible. He also had TB of the hip (later cured by his second wife's ministrations and his immune system--that was before antibiotics for TB). His first wife, my grandmother, was carried off by the Spanish Flu. One of her brothers-in-law was a doctor (by the standards of the day) and I gather he tried to save her with hydrotherapy, to no avail. At least hydrotherapy would have done no harm.<br /><br />AlanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15940389.post-29189371578490503622016-11-11T22:19:29.623-05:002016-11-11T22:19:29.623-05:00Those who put life and limb where their mouth is a...Those who put life and limb where their mouth is are first!Catreonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15959115298646880631noreply@blogger.com