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Beryl John-Knudson

Duluth, MN
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Posted on 10/13/09 at 02:54 pm in response to Is the cross a Christian symbol?

"Is it mine?" she asked of no one in particular.

I was waiting for a bus on main street one summer day and a woman turning towards me shielding her eyes from the sun, was obviosly looking for a bus coming down the street.

You could say too, she was amply endowed all over; which is okay. No problem. But resting almost outside her sleeveless t-shirt that had sufficiently lost its neckline that much of her upper endowments were exposed was a piece of jewelry...at least I assumed...

Posted on 10/13/09 at 07:40 am in response to Good health may have less to do with our health-care system than you think

"The times they are a changing"...?

John Kozol's book "Savage Inequalities" was published in 1991. The conditions described, reflect that time period. But pulling the book out again this morning (surprised I found it so quickly in our library of some 11,000 books) and doing a quick scan of the chapters...stories reflected 'then, pretty much reflect 'now'.

Kozol's book - one of many on the subject - could easily bear the publishing date, 2009. Nothing appears to have changed...

Posted on 10/10/09 at 11:07 am in response to Obama Nobel Peace Prize: an award for vision if not accomplishment

Dr Saad Eskander, libraian of the National Library of Baghdad would have been an excellant candidate for the Peace Prize.

In April of '03 US protected the "oil stations' in Baghdad from bombs and burning while nobody protected the National Baghdad Library from bombings and burning and looting...many literary and historical treasures were looted and sold to U.S. collectors.

Eskander kept a diary blog of his continuing efforts to save and restore and keep functioning as a library...

Posted on 10/09/09 at 10:42 pm in response to Obama's prize, what think?

Then again...

Why blame Obama? Blame the bloodless Norwegians on the Nobel Peace Prize Committee who suffered an uffda-moment probably, and activated this bloody war of words on this side of the Atlantic?

So much for peace in our time, eh? All I can say is, keep the fate, folks. Maybe there will be a few nuclear-sustainable earth movers arriving in North Dakota soon...energizing White House peace policy - digging up and deactivating how many hundred vintage warheads as Obama...

Posted on 10/09/09 at 03:13 pm in response to Obama's prize, what think?

I do believe I did carelessly retype a couple of lines;a paragraph actually; repeating, like a malfuntioning mantra...sorry about that. But my thoughts have honorable motives?

Posted on 10/09/09 at 03:02 pm in response to Obama's prize, what think?

President Obama noted this morning, that he had been reminded by his daughter that it was White House dog, Bo's birthday also.

Not exactly an ice-breaker intro but...consider also, that the dog Bo has been given another minor headline in the news lately...that Bo is not yet paper-trained; much to the chagrin of the cleaner-uppers on Air force One.

Think of it this way...maybe Bo is not paper-trained...so, what about his 'master' who is? Where are the fulfillments; or even...

Posted on 10/08/09 at 07:49 am in response to Franken tops Pawlenty in approval rating

Just another poll?

Do you believe all polls are valid, some polls are valid or no polls are valid?

Do you believe all statistics are valid, some statistics are valid, all or some or no stats can be invalidated by alternative valid or invalid statistics?

Do you believe all pollsters or some or no pollsters are fact seekers, partisan opinion collectors; or garbage collectors?

Do believe there is a Poll-God out there who knows what's valid and what's invalid among...

Posted on 10/07/09 at 03:58 pm in response to Bonhoeffer lectures will examine political violence and cycles of 'never again'

A better-late-than-never lecture series from one most dedicated and honorable voice...but am wondering also, will Romeo Dallaire be adressing genocide-in-process as being actuated on the Palestinians by Israel and those who condone it?

Then too, the villagers of Afghanistan under drone-warfare that targets the masses of innocents in an attempt to kill one designated terrorist?

Call it the'not-so-proud' acts of war against the 'few' that too often target the 'many'.

The...

Posted on 10/05/09 at 04:03 pm in response to Duluth News Tribune's Viking-Packer marketing stunt

Reminds me a little of a "stunt" done for one highschool newspaper some years ago where the class was given free range use of an old print shop every week to put out our school paper.

Print shop was one of those basement establishments off main steet where the office shelves were overstuffed with old catalogues and file cabinet had loose file papers protruding ...a jammed-in place that reeked of the wonderful smell of printers ink.

If I recall correctly, Pica Pete may have...

Posted on 10/05/09 at 08:24 am in response to Website of the Day: 10/5/09

But they missed one, Number 11...the desk chair in the Oval office.