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How About A Mosque In Palo Alto?
I am totally repulsed by the objections to the buidling of mosques in varioous places around the United States being reported recently in the national press.
There are nume... |
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on Jun 20, 2012 at 2:34 pm by John, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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High Speed Rail: What a Boondoggle, Volume 1
I have learned in my professional life is to ask what are the objectives a certain concept or idea is meeting. It is important to get some agreement about objectives before c... |
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on Jun 13, 2009 at 7:27 pm by Sharon, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Irresponsible Israel
This has nothing to do with being Jewish or Muslim. It has to do with sovereign states acting responsibly.
The State of Israel is a bully. It treats the Palestinians like... |
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on Mar 22, 2010 at 12:53 am by casey, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Debacle in the Gulf Of Mexico
There are no heroes in this debacle.
I am trying to picture myself as the head of BP, Sec'y of Interior Salazar, and as what I perceived to be an exhausted POTUS yesterday ... |
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on Aug 14, 2010 at 8:04 am by Perspective, a resident of the Meadow Park neighborhood |
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Incredibly Flawed Senate and Governor Candidates
I am increasingly disgusted with the character of candidates for State office in California, to whit:
I really have no clue what Senator Barbara Boxer has to show for all h... |
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on Oct 11, 2010 at 3:05 pm by Kerry, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Iran Election Debacle
This is very problematic.
I had some hope that the current Iranian President, whose name I can neither spell or pronounce, would get drummed out of office, or at least get ... |
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on Jul 6, 2009 at 2:35 am by Sharon, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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National Health Care Policy
This clearly is a complex, contentious, and at times confusing subject facing the country right now.
One thing I have not heard or read a great deal about is whether there ... |
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on Aug 14, 2009 at 12:22 pm by Keith, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Calif. GOP Politics At This Point
I want to make it clear that I think all the people running for Governor and US Senator on the GOP side are actually fine people, to be admired for what they have done in thei... |
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on May 3, 2010 at 7:29 pm by Sharon, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Catholic Church, Priests and Pedophelia
I was raised Catholic. I attended Catholic schools with scary nuns as teachers until 7th grade, and did a one year stint my high school freshman year at an all boys Jesuit C... |
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on Apr 1, 2010 at 2:32 pm by Not a catholic either, a resident of the Charleston Gardens neighborhood |
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Bob Dylan and 9/11
This is a tough day. 10 years.
I am trying to get some perspective, thinking about where I was when the Space Shuttle exploded, Reagan was shot, Nixon resigned, Kennedy wa... |
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on Sep 15, 2011 at 7:48 am by Sharon, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Tragedy in Boston
I was a student in Cambridge, MA in the winter of 1978. Eastern Massachusetts had a huricane level snow storm that shut down the City of Boston and the surrounding environs f... |
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on Apr 29, 2013 at 12:25 pm by homeless , a resident of the Community Center neighborhood |
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Grass Roots Obama
Full disclosure: I am an Obama supporter. Despite some character flaws that make him less effective than I would like to see in a President, I am glad he is in the White Hou... |
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on Aug 7, 2012 at 8:06 am by Really, Sharon, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Sarah Palin at CSU Stanlislaus
I find Ms. Palin to be cut out of the same cloth of Huey Long, George Wallace, and other such populists who presently call themselves "Tea Partiers." Which means I do not hol... |
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on Jul 27, 2010 at 10:47 am by a real perspective, a resident of another community |
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Apple and Taxes
Let's face it, none of us wants to pay taxes.
And the taxes that we do pay cover things like infrastructure, schools, among other things.
So, I am troubled that our loca... |
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on May 26, 2013 at 12:11 pm by Hmmm, a resident of East Palo Alto |
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The Politics of Health Care Reform
A sea change took place this past weekend when Congress passed by a whisker the way health care will work in the country going forward.
As an American person, I found it ti... |
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on Aug 6, 2010 at 6:59 am by Perspective, a resident of the Meadow Park neighborhood |
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Make University Avenue a Pedestrian Mall
I have written about this idea before, and it is worth bringing up again.
Driving home after a long Parks and Recreation Commission meeting, I thought about the Pearl Stree... |
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on Jan 4, 2013 at 1:13 am by Anon., a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
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Dealing With Doctors
I am divorced from a Stanford trained MD. While I am not in the medical "biz," I got to participate as a spouse for many years socially and otherwise with her many peers.
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on May 12, 2013 at 3:53 pm by Paul Losch, a resident of the Community Center neighborhood |
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Tea Party at PA Post Office?
I was taking care of some company business this afternoon with Wells Fargo and the downtown PA post office at the corners of Waverley and Hamilton.
Maybe it was the time of... |
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on Jul 20, 2010 at 11:52 am by Perspective, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Airport Security When You Have Not Cleared Security
Tuesday morning, December 28, was an absolute zoo at SF Airport. Understandable, given all the closures of airports on the US east coast due to snow conditions in prior days.... |
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on Dec 31, 2010 at 12:36 pm by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto |
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Obama, GW Bush, FDR and Presidential Leadership
Some of my thinking here is based upon some opinions by national columnists and other readings of late, so it is not entitely original.
I have learned in recent readings th... |
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on Sep 10, 2009 at 10:48 pm by mystery solved, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Immigration Reform
Several generations ago, Irish people on my mother’s side of the family left a potato famine and ended up in Pennsylvania, working in the coal mines.
Germans from my dad... |
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on Feb 4, 2013 at 11:28 am by LEGAL immigrant, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Gas--North of 4, Heading Toward 5
I tanked up my Prius the other day. $4.25/gallon. Glad I get 40+MPG.
I recall a few years ago when gas prices for a time went over $4. "W" was President at the time, and... |
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on Mar 6, 2012 at 6:56 pm by Oil Sam, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Afghanistan, Taliban, Al Qaeda
If I were sitting in that egg shaped office along PA Avenue, I think I would be telling our folks that we are going to shut down the current effort after the November election... |
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on Aug 13, 2010 at 5:37 am by Perspective, a resident of the Meadow Park neighborhood |
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Glenn Beck's DC Rally
Many pundits have and will weigh in on this event.
What I find disingenuous about it is that it took place on the same day of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech.
Beck made ex... |
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on Sep 1, 2010 at 1:40 pm by FullCircle, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
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National Anthem at SuperBowl
I really have no clue who the woman is who “sung” the Star Spangled Banner prior to the start of the game today.
I do suspect that she was making more than minimum wage to ... |
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on Feb 11, 2011 at 8:32 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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