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At our very well-attended #HandsOff manifestation in Harrisonburg, VA (250 registered/600 attended), the news coverage seemed to be mainly from student publications (JMU)
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Yes! And very earthy too, you know
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Ah, ok. Sautéed onion and garlic added to a blend of Italian cheeses and fresh oregano, olive oil. Spread over the dough. Top with thinly sliced potatoes (use mandoline), salt, olive oil, Kalamata olives and rosemary. 15 minutes at 500°. Parmesan sprinkled over for last 5 minutes
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I’d be glad to write it up - do you want the whole thing- sourdough crust etc?
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Beautiful! Here is our Sunday Dinner pizza - potato pizza with sourdough crust
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This week in chocolate filled brioche
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Thank you!
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I read long articles posted on several major media websites, covering the massive storm that engulfed the middle of the country last week - no mention of the role climate change undoubtedly played
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You’re doing a good job
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You are privileging a colonial power, particularly the British Empire, as civilized. Indians prior to Gandhi might have a different view. Blacks in the US when lynching was common might disagree with you too.
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Your are historically and objectively wrong. I fact, it is violence that re-inscribes a tragic repeating loop
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I can’t affirm using the violent right’s own tactics. I try to remember the steps used in the Civil Rights movement to plan nonviolent actions, especially this step: purify our own motives
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Your post is terrible, in the deepest meaning and sense of that word. What we need is not more violence but an evolution of nonviolent methods of resistance and social change, based in genuine community.
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In my opinion you are completely correct. The shining example of this is the almost complete lack of coverage that MSNBC gives to climate change, the existential crisis of all crises. (Note: the other media sources are worse on climate change coverage)
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Thank you for the “also” in this post.
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Yet another, rarely performed verse likens us to the Magi, gathered around the cradle, whose lives are transformed by this birth (and really, by Jesus’ life and teachings). May we be so transformed.
Thanks for reading this longish post chain :)
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“Truly he taught us to love one another, his law is love and his Gospel is peace.
Chains shall he break, for the slave is our brother, and in his name all oppression shall cease.”
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The narrative line of the hymn is meant to pique our curiosity: what is the cause of the “thrill of hope?” Why is the world weary? What sin and error cover the world like storm clouds? The answer comes in a verse not included in most performances:
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O Holy Night was written in France in the 19th century, as a movement was underway to end the slave trade in the French empire. O Holy Night seeks to use the beauty of music and the power of the story of Christ to aid the anti-slave trade movement.
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Thank you. It does indeed help. Beauty exists at every scale of size, too. I’m reading Jarod Anderson’s memoir, Something in the Woods Loves You, in which he writes about how nature helped heal him.
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Let me be clear - Biden didn’t do enough on climate change, and it was a woefully muted topic in Harris’ campaign, but their overall accomplishments in this area have helped bend the curve on global warming downward.
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And to take just one of these policy areas - climate change - the Biden administration accomplished more through legislation and executive orders than anyone previously, and the contrast to President-elect Trump could hardly be greater.
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What you say about Gaza is unarguable - a crime. Your laundry list of failed promises, though is short-sighted and reductionist. It takes all the branches of government to effect changes, and Biden was opposed on every one of those policy areas.
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This over the top anger doesn’t fit the reality; it comes from some other source, perhaps inside yourself. The Vice President ran a campaign of affirmation, the lifting up of people on all sides, even love. And just how did the Democratic Party do what you said it did?
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Sustainability