Friends Report on July 1, 2009

Let the blog know what you're doing or have done for the Independence holiday.

I'll be sending out a question about Obama to the Democrats whom I know who voted for him.

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What Some of You Are Reading and Talking About

LEIGH - (SANDY'S daughter) who lives in "Republican country" somewhere in California, sends a complaint about some Republicans who are trying to organize a boycott of General Motors (which they call "Government Motors") because the company has been receiving bailouts. She hopes "someone on the blog" is responding to this. [Well, so far, she is. Any more comments?]

Read more here: CLICK

and a liberal reaction: CLICK

MIKE C. - sent this reference to a joke about a new math test that's more fair to ghetto kids. If you want to read this racially insensitive joke, go here: CLICK

GIGI - recommends this article from "The Catholic Reporter" which stresses that "Independence Day" should also be interdependence day, especially for Christians. CLICK
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SCOT - this is "Pabst"
this year's winner
of the ugly dog
contest
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SPARTY - recommends a poem by John Updike, called BASEBALL of which this is an excerpt.

It looks easy from a distance,
easy and lazy, even,
until you stand up to the plate
and see the fastball sailing inside,
an inch from your chin,
or circle in the outfield
straining to get a bead
on a small black dot
a city block or more high,
a dark star that could fall
on your head like a leaden meteor.

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Some Snapshots

LEN and CLIFF - MARI and MIKE - STEVE and his Blandings turtle - Goodwill Ambassadors (Mexico)