If you’re in Thailand, better stand up when you’re supposed to!
Thai student accused of king insult
from AL JAZEERA
Failure to stand for king’s anthem could land student with 15 year jail term.
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Laura sent me a link to this blog, and I think it’s amazing.
Days of My Life
Talk about daily life of a teenage girl in Iraq, and days of suffering and success. My nick name will be Sunshine.
The author is my age, but lives in Mosul in Iraq. She talks about school and friends […]
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Filed under: Education, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Iraq War, Politics, U.S. Military, Useful Links, War on Iraq, Young Adult Issues, kids, news, teens
Nope, this is not a post about Iraq, or even about King Georgie. It’s about 8 kids my age who don’t have the sense God gave a turnip! According to the L.A. Times,
Eight teenagers have been arrested on charges alleging they beat another teen in an “animalistic attack” so they could make a videotape to […]
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The kids I know have a lot of opinions about race, but I’d say that in my HS, only about 30% of the kids care at all about politics, and most of them don’t know a lot about the issues. Most opinions are no more complicated that “Dude, that ain’t right.” or “Well he’s a […]
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Filed under: Barack Obama, Election 2008, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Opinion, Young Adult Issues, kids, news, race, racism, schools
Sorry for the light posting during my vacation. Been having way too much fun to pay a lot of attention to politics. Good thing that people sometimes send me links like this one!
New Poll: 12 Year Olds Know Congress Could Cut War Money, Adults Believe Congress Powerless to End Iraq Occupation
from AfterDowningStreet.org - Impeach Bush […]
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In the past 8 (almost) years, we have had quite a bad taste of a”Republican Rule,” and I use the term “Rule” strictly. I think you can all understand where I am coming from if you have seen anything in the
news over the past years. Bush and his administration is nothing but corruption.
That being said…
In […]
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Filed under: Barack Obama, Brendon Schweers, Corruption, Democrats, Dick Cheney, Election 2008, Featured Stories, George W. Bush, Government, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Media, Politics, Republicans, news
I’ve written before about prison camps for teenagers and the abuse that happens there, but this one’s the worst I have seen described INSIDE the U.S. Nothing, NOTHING these girls did could justify this. Never!
AP: 13,000 abuse claims in juvie centers (AP)
from Yahoo! News
AP - The Columbia Training School […]
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Would someone please tell me why the story about Huckabee wanting to change the Constitution and start a theocracy here is NOT in regular newspapers? I am not allowed to use AlterNet or TPM or the blogs as sources for weekly “current events in politics” assignments. And if it isn’t even news for a high […]
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Well THIS is hardly fair!
ER docs give whites narcotics more often
from Yahoo! News
AP - Emergency room doctors are prescribing strong narcotics more often to patients who complain of pain, but minorities are less likely to get them than whites, a new study finds. Even for the severe pain of kidney stones, minorities were prescribed […]
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Filed under: FrecklesCassie, Health, Medical News, Secondary Featured Stories, discrimination, equality, news
Victoria Jaramillo, 40, holding her 3-month-old daughter, Frida, at Santa Martha Acatitla, a women’s prison in Mexico City. (Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times)
My mom is in prison and has been for more than four years. I have thought a lot about what it would be like if she had […]
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