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Where Ms Dancer Rants About Year-Round School

by Karoli on May 10, 2011 · 0 comments

Her father had the audacity to link up this post on Facebook with the admonition not to let her see it. LOL. Here is her response: “Why are we still giving them the summer off?” Perhaps because our mental and emotional well being has a higher priority than our test scores? But apparently our intellect [...]

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CNN’s Ben Wedeman Translates Egyptian Government-Speak

by Karoli on February 9, 2011 · 1 comment

CNN’s Senior Middle East correspondent Ben Wedeman sorts out the Middle East Government lexicon so we know what they really mean when they say “stable transition”, “negotiation”, and “freedom of assembly”. It’s quite a good list and handy for reference should you happen to hear one of the unending government statements urging protesters to go [...]

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How Politico stole the mosque narrative

by Karoli on August 15, 2010 · 8 comments

Just in case you weren’t aware that most news flurries aren’t news, have absolutely no basis in fact, and are intentionally spun to create dissent or criticism (but mostly division) among varying factions, walk through the past 36 hours with me.

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