Daily Archives: March 13, 2014

Mila Paints On Mt Lemmon

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Last Saturday, Mila and I went out to the woods.  We took along some snacks and some paint.  We went to a mystery location on Mt Lemmon and found a suitable place to leave our treasures behind.  It was a nice little ledge behind a small tree.

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Then we each painted several small rocks and arranged them for future explorers to find and wonder about.

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I somehow neglected to get a photo of her painting, but here is proof that she did.

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Joe Labate

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My friend Joe is head of the photography department at the U of A.  I took a class from him a couple of years ago.  He is making some really beautiful surreal black and white images.  There are hundreds of them at his site.  Here is one of my favorites.

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Paul Ryan Claims Black Men Are Lazy And The Cause Of Poverty In This Country

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Presenting the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. Can you say “President Clinton”?

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I had to take a deep breath on this one…

Paul Ryan has fallen into the Tea Party, KKK, Citizens’ Councils of America now known as the  Council of Conservative Citizens and other racist organization stereotypes of the “Lazy Black Man” which has existed throughout this nation’s racist  history.

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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) was on the conservative radio show ‘Morning In America’, which is hosted by Bill Bennett. Bennett is the former Secretary of Education under President Reagan. He is also known for gambling away millions of dollars while at the same time preaching about living a virtuous life. Anyway, Bennett had Ryan on to discuss Ryan’s recent ‘War on Poverty’ report, where Ryan stated that anti-poverty programs developed under President Lyndon Johnson and after were actually the root cause for the continued existence of poverty in this country.

During the interview, Ryan used thinly-veiled ‘code’ language to claim that black…

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