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A well-known street mantra of community organizing warns that" if you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything." Demonstrations by the disaffected working and middle class are sprouting like mushrooms in all American cities.
Posted 26 Dec 2011 09:30
Disasters and bad news came in three's this year. 2011 Earthquake here in Washington DC, Hurricane Irene and former VP Dick Chaney's tell-all book. I haven't read his book and probably never will. VP Chaney's book is a classic example of trying to rewrite history before he ends up on the wrong side of grass.
Posted 19 Nov 2011 09:30
Due to a family tragedy I haven't written or contributed to my blog for several months. I've always looked at grief simply as a bystander and when it came knocking at my door I realized how difficult it can be to deal with.
Posted 8 Nov 2011 09:30
Into Africa : Tweets, earthquakes and a bus-driving hitman?
Gavin and Bronwen Ryalls left Dunfermline in 2009 to take up voluntary charity work in Rwanda. The country is modernising and internet speeds are increasing but it's not just earthquakes that are causing shockwaves.
Posted 1 Jul 2011 04:30
Into Africa : A wedding, a funeral and a witch doctor?
Gavin and Bronwen Ryalls left Dunfermline in 2009 to take up voluntary charity work in Rwanda. The Royal Wedding is big news but amidst humbling generosity, what's the truth of the 'magic' powder and the witch doctor?
Posted 2 Jun 2011 09:30
Into Africa : Anniversary, grenades and Libya.
Gavin and Bronwen Ryalls left Dunfermline in 2009 to take up voluntary charity work in Rwanda. With the 17th anniversary of the genocide approaching, there are hopes for a peaceful future - although the trouble in Libya may have an effect.
Posted 18 Mar 2011 09:30
Governor Walker of Wisconsin has adopted a reverse 'Robin Hood' approach to economic policy. Take from the poor and give to the rich. Wealthy corporations have been given huge tax cuts which are to be paid for by concessions from the Public Employee Unions.
Posted 11 Mar 2011 09:30
If Missouri State Senator Jane Cunningham has her way, children will now be back in the work force. Eliminating her State's Child Labour Laws will offer some serious competition to factories in Indonesia and China....
Posted 25 Feb 2011 09:30
Into Africa : The kids who are desperate to go to school
Gavin and Bronwen Ryalls left Dunfermline to take up voluntary charity work in Rwanda. Life is tough and they tell of the smart child sneaking INTO school, another who survived life on the streets selling peanuts and the mums who make banana juice.
Posted 18 Feb 2011 09:30
There's two classes of people in Egypt. The wealthy upper class, and then everyone else. President Obama made the right move and now supports the revolutionary movement. In a revolution "you are either part of the solution, or part of the problem" (Eldridge Cleaver). There is no neutral ground in politics...
Posted 13 Feb 2011 09:30
Three bottles of whisky abandoned in the Antarctic ice by British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton more than a century ago returned home to Scotland. Such a tragic waste. I mean the whisky, not Shackleton's fate....
Posted 30 Jan 2011 09:30
There was a whole bunch of them. You know the type, white shirts, black ties and poorly fitting blazers. Knocking on my door on a Sunday afternoon. Interrupting my weekend nap time. Who are they, and what do they want? Missionaries who are targeting me...
Posted 18 Jan 2011 18:30
EIGHT weeks of snow, ice and freezing temperatures have turned the majority of part-time players into footballers who don't play football.
Posted 18 Jan 2011 09:30
Champagne corks are popping up and down Wall Street as Republicans assumed leadership of the House Jan 3rd. An economic Iron Curtain has descended across America now the Republicans have taken control of the House of Representatives....
Posted 9 Jan 2011 09:30
Dunfermline Press Poll
Were the Pars right to sack Jim McIntyre?
This Poll is now closed.
Yes (72.9%)
No (27.1%)
