American actor and singer, Michael Dunn (born Gary Neil Miller) arrived on this date in 1934 in Shattuck, Oklahoma. When he was four, his family moved to Dearborn, Michigan. Parents Jewell and Fred championed his right to live and develop openly, as part of mainstream life, defying repeated pressures from school authorities to send him to a school for disabled children. An early reader, he was a champion speller, showed an early aptitude for the piano, and developed a lyric baritone and was given to crowd-drawing impromptu public performances even while just waiting for a bus. He ice-skated and swam in childhood, remaining a skilled swimmer throughout his life. He attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, but was seriously injured on a stairwell during a "student rush" and was hospitalized for three months. Transferring to the more forgiving climate and accessible campus of the University of Miami, he seemed to excel more in extracurricular...
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Gotta love stuff taken out of contents, like Rush Limbaugh did with all of those Democratic sound bites he's been playing lately, where Dems sound like they supported the war before the war began.
Mike Leuszler
Also out of context
The key thing here (for me, at least) is the issue of how directed by and tailored-to-fit the White House agenda the intelligence was. Claims that this is a settled, dead issue don't ring true to me. If at a seeming time of crisis Congress looked at what was presented to them as "the facts" and fell in behind the president as a unified nation under siege, I'm not going to damn them too strongly for being duped.
This administration's made one power grab after another against a backdrop of fear, declaring opponents to be unpatriotic, ill-timed opportunists. Hopefully enough people are waking up to how much of a formula this is, and that this "war on terror" is never meant to end. Its primary, political aim is to perpetually make this "the wrong time" for dissent while this administration pushes through as many of the aims of its supporters as possible, from the Religious Right to the oil industry and corporate interests.
I'm just a dirty, dirty girl...
:-)
I mean, honestly, what exactly does the phrase "Superman's Pal" really mean?
If you doubt me on the Supergirl/Comet thing, see http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/docnebula/suprhrse.htm . Swear to God, I couldn't make this stuff up.