The UWM Post

Billion dollar presidential races financed by the wealthiest one percent; legislative leaders behind bars for corruption offenses; Wisconsin Supreme Court races marked by scandal and controversy – Damn right we lobbied Governor Jim Doyle to convene a special legislative session on campaign finance reform.

A sergeant called me and asked if I have ever considered joining the National Guard. As we were talking I asked what he thought the Iraqi body count might be. He said he didn’t know and that “the military doesn’t concern itself with numbers,” but pushes on until their goals are fulfilled.

Mitt Romney, a conservative Republican candidate running for president and former governor of Massachusetts, is a Mormon. For many, this is a problem; the Republican Party has, for some time now, been the party of Evangelical Christians, and to many within that category, Mormonism is a cult that has drastically tainted the teachings of the Bible.

It’s about that time again. Every New Year, people around the world make resolutions to improve themselves. Usually, extra time on the treadmill or increased studying doesn’t exactly change society. However, every four years, a few people make resolutions that do dramatically influence the world.

There is no doubt that many of you have read the pro-Cuba article concocted by Erik Sperling; and I am sure the majority of you who haven’t studied a lot about Cuba said to yourself, “Wow I never knew that!” I am all for learning new things, but I take everything I learn with a little grain of salt; and in this case I took the whole shaker. What Sperling managed to spin and spit onto a piece of paper was nothing but a frustrated attempt of Bush bashing. Apparently success in Iraq forces these people to try even less soundly based attacks on a heavily misunderstood administration.

There is nothing good about any person who insists on keeping secrets. Secrets give cause for mistrust, and if there is one thing that all people should strive to be, it is trustworthy.

Let me start off by asking a simple question. Have you ever experienced a flood at home? If not, do you know anyone who has? If so, how was the outcome? I’d be willing to bet that it was probably pretty bad. Most of the time there’s damage to property, and the headache that comes along isn’t any better.

During these miserable winter months, the common cold is not really a new visitor to these parts. But what if some other sickness was right around the corner?

There has been a lot of talk in the last year about pulling out of Iraq. A majority of people want out of Iraq, and many people who want this think that this is somehow the enlightened educated view.

Political parties and the government do not have the option to show religious bias when it comes to decorating for the holiday season; that I understand. But when does a Christmas tree suddenly become a “holiday tree?” One tree, decorated in the Christmas image, does not a holiday tree make.

This editorial should have been written months ago, which happens to support one of the main points I’m trying to make. I haven’t watched an entire newscast in six years yet, not ironically, I usually find out any news worth knowing well before most people, since the corporate media does such a poor job informing, or rather, such a great job dis/misinforming people on issues that really matter.

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