“A nobody angling for a knockout” plus 3 more |
- A nobody angling for a knockout
- Letter to "Anchor Mom" #2
- Smokiam Days draws crowd of thousands
- Interview: Kailin Gow, Author of Rise of the Fire Tamer
| A nobody angling for a knockout Posted: 05 Jul 2010 09:15 PM PDT Sometimes provocative people become that way because they were provoked. Sharron Angle, 60, could be enjoying the 10 grandchildren she loves even more than her .44 magnum. Instead, she is the Republican nominee against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's quest for a fifth term. Her campaign began, in a sense, three decades ago, when a judge annoyed her. When her son was depressed about having to repeat kindergarten -- "He was a 6-year-old dropout" -- she decided on homeschooling, which Nevada law permitted. But a judge construed the law to require that parents who homeschool must live at least 50 miles from a public school. She and many kindred spirits descended on Carson City to get the Legislature to correct this. One legislator, irritated by such grassroots impertinence, said, "If I'd known there would be 500 people here instead of 50 and it would take five hours instead of 30 minutes, I would have thrown it (the legislation) in my drawer and it would never have seen the light of day." Angle asked a cowboy standing next to her, "Can he do that?" The cowboy said yep. She has been politically incandescent ever since. Even when asked where she was born, she is on message: "I was conceived in Lovelock (Nevada) but -- if you're not pro-life -- I was born in Klamath Falls (Oregon)." During her four terms in Nevada's 42-seat assembly, many votes were "41-to-Angle." She wears as a badge of honor having been voted Nevada's worst legislator, a disparagement she says is always bestowed on a conservative because the voters are members of the press and the political class (the legislators and their staff). Her favorite legislators? U.S. Sens. Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann. They are coming to Las Vegas to help her. She says she will be 73 at the end of two Senate terms, but notes that her 103-year-old aunt lives in Arizona with her two sons, both in their 80s. The Democrats' Senate leader before Reid was from another thinly populated state: South Dakota's Tom Daschle was defeated in 2004. Such is the constant flood of new voters into Nevada -- only 24 percent of residents were born in the state -- Reid's national stature matters less than it might in a place where the electorate has more local memories. Perhaps 200,000 Nevadans -- in an electorate of 2 million -- have never seen Reid's name on a ballot. He argues that Nevada now needs his Washington potency more than ever. Angle, who laughs easily and often, does so about that: Nevada, she says, has the nation's highest bankruptcy and home foreclosure rates, and now, for the first time since April 2006, Michigan does not have the nation's highest unemployment rate. Nevada does: 14 percent. Nevada candidates buy television time in Las Vegas, in Reno and -- to cover eastern Nevada -- in Salt Lake City. Reid supporters spent substantial sums trying to ensure Angle's nomination by attacking her principal opponent in the primary. Reid has $9 million on hand with more coming. Angle will have ample money from conservatives nationwide. It remains to be seen whether these resources will be squandered by a campaign organization unready for prime time. If the election becomes a referendum on him, she wins. If he makes it about some of her injudicious statements -- e.g., "transition out" of Social Security; using Yucca Mountain north of Las Vegas not for storing nuclear waste but for reprocessing such waste -- he might survive. Nevada is a swing state. Bill Clinton carried it twice, as did George W. Bush before Barack Obama won with 55 percent. Reid, who entered politics in Richard Nixon's first term, is a canny realist. Although his approval ratings are steadily in the 30s, he might get, say, 43 percent of the November vote. This might be enough because in addition to Angle, there will be seven other Senate candidates siphoning away dissatisfied voters, and people will vote "none of the above," which is Nevada's catharsis for the disgusted. Before Chicagoan Abner Mikva, now retired from the federal judiciary, was a congressman, he was a young man who dropped by a political clubhouse where a member of the city's machine asked who sent him. He said, "Nobody." The machine man said, "We don't want nobody nobody sent." Angle is somebody nobody sent. Nobody in the upper reaches of national or even Nevada politics, that is. But voters may not be finished sending her places. . George Will's e-mail address is georgewillWwashpost.com. 
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| Posted: 05 Jul 2010 05:38 PM PDT Dear Sue, I have an 11 yr old daughter with several disabilities as well as a brain malformation. She is beautiful :) , high functioning and only appears different socially and that she spends part of her day in the resource room. She just completed 5th grade and has attended 4 schools. We have tried different schools both public and private to see what would work best for her both academically and socially, hoping that each new school would live up to it's promise of a no tolerance policy for bullying. At 3 of the 4 schools, she was bullied repeatedly. Because in third grade her disabilities became more apparent, my daughter and I addressed her class and gave a little presentation about what my daughter was dealing with, in hopes that the kids and teachers would be more understanding. It made things worse. My daughter was taunted, name called and cornered by older siblings of kids in her class as she would walk down the halls. This year was the worst. She was repeatedly threatened, teased, taunted, kicked in the shin leaving a large bruise, grabbed by the back of the shirt, thrown to the ground and had rocks thrown at her. Each incident at each school was brought to the attention of the administration, either by my daughter, myself, a teacher or resource room teacher. Each time, we were promised that something would be done about it, but because of privacy laws to protect the offender, we were never told how it would be resolved. We've never had closure because of the repeat of offenses that continued even through the last week of school. In one instance this past year, the assistant principal helped convince my daughter that the girl who grabbed her by the back of the shirt and threw her to the ground was innocent and it was all an accident. After school, this girl apologized to my daughter (an extreme rarity) and told her she was upset with family and took it out on my daughter. She said she lied to the assistant principal so she wouldn't end up grounded by her parents. Toward the end of the school year, I filed a police report with school police concerning incidents with one particular student. This student will be attending the same Junior High as my daughter next year. I've already talked to that school to let them know there have been problems and they promised they would make sure that my daughter would not be in any or this student's classes. Because one of my daughter's disabilities deals with anxiety and depression, the bullying intensified this to the point that I had to keep her home from school for almost a week this last school year. In fact, she almost had to be hospitalized. My husband and I have an advocate at Nevada PEP (Parents Encouraging Parents) and have attended every class they have to offer, including ones on bullying. We have brought home videos to help teach my daughter how to stick up for herself and on weekends, she attends Camp Make Believe, which is group therapy and a social skills class for kids. One of the subjects they cover is bullying. I feel my husband and I have done everything humanly possible to help our daughter concerning bullies and in the long run, we've been made to feel as if we are the ones that are the problem. It is an emotional rollercoaster for our whole family and I am considering homeschooling my daughter next year to avoid her being bullied. It breaks my heart that my daughter may have to miss out on Junior High. She is an exceptional, honest, smart girl who has so much to offer and has such a desire to learn and befriend others. I hope this helps. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Smokiam Days draws crowd of thousands Posted: 05 Jul 2010 04:16 PM PDT SOAP LAKE - The annual Smokiam Days celebration in Soap Lake attracted between 5,000 and 7,500 people during the weekend. The two-day long event featured a parade, vendor booths and soap box car display. But the big draw is the fireworks show at night, said Chuck Fogerson, a director of the Soap Lake Chamber of Commerce. People line the hillside overlooking Soap Lake and fill East Beach Park to watch the show, he explained. Some people even come from as far away as Canada. Weekend fireworks shows were also held in Coulee Dam, Wenatchee, Moses Lake and George. This makes it difficult to know an exact number of people attending Soap Lake's event, he said. The event was going "very smoothly," he said Saturday. "My favorite motto is that we're adaptable." There were about 30 entries in Saturday's parade and 40 participants. "We even got a motorcycle in the parade that definitely wasn't planned," Fogerson commented. Awards were given to the following entries, Moses Lake Round-up, best royalty; Don Ren, best parade car; Columbia Basin Carriage Club, best auto club; Soap Lake Businessmen's Club, community spirit award for Fourth of July chariot; Royal City royalty float, mayor's choice/most traveled award; Boy Scout Troop No. 44, parade director's choice, American Legion Art Semro Post, best military unit, Ape over Soap Lake entry, most out of this world, and Dingo the dog, miracle pet award. Dorothy Downing, of Soap Lake, was one of the parade's grand marshals. She was involved with the effort to bring the sun dial sculpture to the community. A 1947 Willys Jeep was driven through the parade in honor of another grand marshal, Yancy Goodwin, a 2007 Almira/Coulee Hartline graduate. He died in 2008 during a training accident while serving in the Army National Guard. Another parade participant was Jennifer Peterson, of Soap Lake. She walked through the parade with her four children to publicize their homeschooling group, Lifelearners United. "This is our first year doing it," Peterson said. "My kids begged, so I said OK. We watched the parade last year. I think it's going to be a good turnout." Eileen Beckwith, of Soap Lake, was standing in front of a blue pick-up holding a costumed ape on a rocket, which was awarded "Most Out of This World." The ape was her husband Burr Beckwith. Julius Lidbetter, 10, of Soap Lake, was along riding along. After the parade, Mel Neal and wife Maxine Hansen were eating lunch at East Beach Park. The couple came to Smokiam Days to see what they could find with their metal detectors and look at vendor booths. They used to work as vendors at community events. Neal found about 75 cents in change during the weekend. In the past, he's found a man's gold wedding ring and a silver ring with black diamonds, but declined to say where he found the items. "You never know what you're going to find," he said. Reference LinksFive Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Interview: Kailin Gow, Author of Rise of the Fire Tamer Posted: 05 Jul 2010 06:18 AM PDT I am extremely thrilled to bring another interview, to readers, with the lovely and incredibly talented Kailin Gow! Ms. Gow is the author of over 30 books, ranging in all generations and genres. Her specialty, however, lies within the tales she creates and weaves for the young adult and teen age groups. Recent works include Bitter Frost and The Phantom Diaries. Catch my reviews of both, by clicking the titles. Kailin Gow's books have been recommended by PBS Kids, the PTA, homeschooling organizations, and on the Best Teens Books list. In addition, she is a mentor for young women, has founded 3A for Autism (Actors, Artists, and Authors for Autism), and runs a publishing and production company known as Sparklesoup, a mid-size publisher and production company. In addition to Sparklesoup, you can also keep up with Kailin Gow on Facebook! Please join me in getting to know a bit more about Ms. Gow and her newest release, Rise of the Fire Tamer: The Wordwick Games, Book One! Please tell us a bit Rise of the Fire Tamer is the first book in "The Wordwick Games", an epic fantasy about five teens who wins the Wordwick Games contest to meet Henry Word, the inventor of the Games and to stay at Word Castle. Little do they know, this castle is a portal to other worlds. In the Wordwick Games, words are powerful and can be used as commodity, weapons, and communication.
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