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The Black Sea: Volunteers of America
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Friday, November 7, 2008. OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT-ELECT:. When you choose to serve - whether it's your nation, your community or simply your neighborhood - you are connected to that fundamental American ideal that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness not just for ourselves, but for all Americans. That's why it's called the American dream.". 4 Do you not wonder on what grounds, constitutionally, the Federal Government may assume the power to "require" students, or anyone else, to engage in "...
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The Black Sea: May 2009
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Sunday, May 24, 2009. It Was a Million to One Shot, Doc . . . A Million to One. Well, we're all capable of miracles. Thursday, May 7, 2009. Two More Reasons not to Visit Atlanta. Out of the many thousands of reasons not to visit Atlanta, two more. Emerged this week. I would particularly recommend that college students make a point of enrolling elsewhere. My advice: if you've never been to Atlanta, don't bother. Take it from someone who spent forty years of his life there. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The Black Sea: December 2008
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Friday, December 5, 2008. The Naked Light of Sunday. The Atlanta Falcons, who some predicted wouldn't win a game this season, are now 8 - 4 under a new coach, Mike Smith, and led by a new quarterback, Matt Ryan, who has to be the frontrunner for rookie of the year. What a difference one season makes, leaving behind the debacle of Vick, Harrington, and Pettrino. And for those of you old enough to remember the 70s era Pittsburg Steelers, this. May bring back some memories. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The Black Sea: September 2008
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Saturday, September 27, 2008. Red Sky at Morning. Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.". Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.". William Pitt, speech to the House of Commons, [Nov. 18, 1783]. The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered. By its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those. Which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.". If the peo...
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The Black Sea: Idle Hands . .
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Friday, April 3, 2009. Idle Hands . . Spring Break begins today, a Saturday. A blessed relief? May 8, 2010 at 6:23:00 AM PDT. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Arts and Letters Daily. The Social Affairs Unit. The voice of humility. What I Saw in America. Up Next: Exhalation Tax. Idle Hands . . View my complete profile. One more time for the dying man, one more time to be free . . . ".
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The Black Sea: November 2008
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Friday, November 7, 2008. OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT-ELECT:. When you choose to serve - whether it's your nation, your community or simply your neighborhood - you are connected to that fundamental American ideal that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness not just for ourselves, but for all Americans. That's why it's called the American dream.". 4 Do you not wonder on what grounds, constitutionally, the Federal Government may assume the power to "require" students, or anyone else, to engage in "...
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The Black Sea: April 2008
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Saturday, April 12, 2008. Atlanta's a distant memory, Montgomery a recent blur . . .*. Today, around lunchtime, we fly to Chicago (American Airlines, of course) and then on to Istanbul. This will be, I calculated recently, our sixth move over the past six years. Somewhere along the way, two kids appeared. May have pushed me on a little in that direction. You say, after a moment's pause of uneasy confusion,. I haven't written much here lately. There seemed little reason to chronicle the mostly tedious...
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The Black Sea: June 2008
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Sunday, June 8, 2008. Yeah, it's over (for) now . . . The Seattle grunge band,. Used to sing a little ditty, presumably about the hard road of addiction and the struggle to clean up, called "Over Now." I can't access Youtube here in Turkey (don't ask' it's political), but I'm sure you can locate the Unplugged version there. We pay our debt sometime. Yeah, we pay our debt sometime. We pay our debt sometime. Yeah, we pay our debt sometime. Lyrics to "Over Now" here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The Black Sea: March 2008
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008. Preparing to move back to Istanbul, we've been going through all the junk that we've kept in storage the past 5 years. This involves asking repeatedly, ". Why did we save this? When running across old cassette tapes, coffee mugs, and contact lens cases. Probably, we saved them because we were too lazy/disorganized to throw them away 5 years ago. In the meantime, here's something I dug out, from Denis Johnson's. Car Crash While Hitchhiking. It was a big semi, grinding its gears ...
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