Tag: politics
member name: Peter Joseph Swanson
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May 11, 2007 10:58 AM EDT --
This happened a while ago. I still think about it and it bothers me. Maybe I'm just unfair because I'm a liberal who thinks Iraq is a stupid mess, so it colors my thinking about . . .
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December 12, 2007 12:12 PM EST --
From time to time we see Muslims protesting in their countries when they think they have been insulted by the West.
Isn't how those same Muslims treat gays, women and . . .
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June 12, 2008 04:04 PM EDT --
My 5th district (Minneapolis and a bunch of surrounding suburbs) Representative in Washington D.C. is Keith Ellison, and one unusual thing about him (other than he doesn't have perfect teeth - how . . .
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June 30, 2008 03:40 PM EDT --
It can be hard communicating in little orange bubbles, especially when the people you're trying to make a point to (or are complaining about) aren't really going to give you the benefit of the . . .
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April 24, 2007 01:22 PM EDT --
Hey, I saw a headline about the Wicca symbol now being allowed in national cemeteries. I didn't see anything about it here at Gather, though. What do you think? Don't you think . . .
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June 18, 2007 10:25 AM EDT --
Everything changes. Will the public library go away - or will it change into something that's very different from what we enjoy today (lots of free stuff - for your taxes)
Are public . . .
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June 22, 2007 11:05 AM EDT --
A while ago a young woman on Gather told me feminists were as evil as Communists, and came out of Communism. I didn't agree. This is what the Columbia University Encyclopedia . . .
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June 27, 2007 11:25 AM EDT --
And men used to be rude but used to be nice.
Or so it has been claimed. Join the conversation about how feminism has made everybody rude - or has it. Are YOU RUDE?
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June 30, 2007 06:24 PM EDT --
To have it would make help make American companies competitive in the world since they wouldn't have that expense anymore.
But would everybody just run to the doctor for every splinter, . . .
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November 28, 2007 11:35 AM EST --
A rise to SUPER POWER:
General Electric is the largest corporation in the world and has an unparalleled role in twentieth-century history. GE electrified the . . .
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June 07, 2007 11:05 AM EDT --
PICK TO BONES, CASUAL
a right wing poem is self-congratulatory
a left wing poem is self-depreciating
if you meet in the middle you get
something a little exotic, but not unfamiliar
like fast food . . .
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June 04, 2007 10:52 AM EDT --
My parents and older brother taught me a lot of prejudice. They were just the whitest superior right-wing Lutherans you can imagine.
I learned tolerance from TV (ironic, huh, since it's . . .
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April 26, 2007 05:10 PM EDT --
Today I won a contest at my publishing company, Stone Garden Publishers! And so 5 copies of my novel Hollywood Sinners are being sent to the wounded army people from the Iraq war at some hospital . . .
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May 27, 2007 12:22 PM EDT --
Tinch wrote a SUPER GREAT review for my novel Hollywood Sinners! I am reposting it for it to go through MY Gather channels, but first sing along with me,
Tinch is a jolly good felloooooooo . . .
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June 25, 2007 03:10 PM EDT --
I posted an article about what people thought about feminism and of course the responses are far more interesting than the article. You gotta read them - you just gotta:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977036441 . . .
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May 06, 2007 08:28 AM EDT --
Big government grows fastest under Republican administrations (even Reagan, regardless of what he always said about it). It is well known what Republicans say about taxes. So how . . .
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January 28, 2008 10:43 AM EST --
"Politics is the art of the possible."
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April 17, 2007 11:36 AM EDT --
Peter Swanson's Hollywood Sinners is a loopy "Wizard of Oz" where
assorted down-at-heel characters, all of them of questionable virtue,
cross paths in 1930's Hollywood -- specifically . . .
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April 15, 2007 01:32 PM EDT --
My 30s gangster novel Hollywood Sinners is out now from Stone Garden Publishers (in general fiction). You can also find it at Amazon. Go both places and read the good reviews!
Peter . . .
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