I don’t understand.
I don’t understand the hate.
I know I can’t understand the mind of others, especially those who would do something like this. I can’t. How can anyone expect to know the inner workings of someone else’s mind? I was born and raised in Canada, in a nice home, free from hunger, persecution, and other tragedies that would scar my psyche.
I’ve experienced loss. I lost my mother when I was fourteen to ALS. Seven years later I lost my father two days after my twenty-first birthday to lung cancer. I had a birthday cake with no candles because my father was in an oxygen enriched hospital room. I held my father’s hand and told him it was okay to die; he’d suffered enough and we’d be strong without him. That was the most painful, and hardest thing I’ve ever done...
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Dear Dr. Carson,
You were an extremely skilled pediatric neurosurgeon and you’ve saved many lives. In fact, you saved someone who’s very important to me – someone in my immediate family. I’m forever grateful for your gifted hands. No words can fully describe my gratitude, and I will never, ever forget what you did. Additionally, not only did you save one of my family members, you took the time to explain what you did right after the operation by drawing your surgical technique on a napkin to illustrate how you repaired what was wrong in said family member’s brain.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Now you want to be the president of the United States of America.
No.
Operating on brains and being the leader of the free world requires two wildly different skill sets, and it...
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I know how it feels to have everything taken away by a government/country I would give my life for to protect. This same Government that is supposed to protect our rights is really tearing them apart.
The Government has systematically deleted everything I've ever done. The college degrees, the military awards/achievements, deployments and work locations, have all been deleted and/or changed from data bases by the hackers used by the government. The US Government uses hackers to delete things and people that either won’t cooperate or won’t let things go, which in my case, is what they did. I know that the Government uses these people because I worked on Protective Service details guarding them in the early 90’s, while in the Army. The reason, because I wouldn't stop investigating/...
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On October 26, a group of distinguished Indian historians issued a statement of concern about the damage being done in the current political climate to the traditions of tolerance, and freedom of speech, belief and practices, for which India was long applauded. We - historians and social scientists engaged in researching and teaching about the richness of Indian history and society in different locations overseas - write to express our solidarity with their statement. We share the deep concern over recent happenings in India, which are affecting freedom of artistic expression and historical and social science inquiry, and serving to produce a dangerously pervasive atmosphere of narrowness, intolerance and bigotry.
Currently reigning political attitudes and actions have seriously harmed...
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So it goes like this.. Media asked Mr.A what are his thoughts on intolerance. Not coz they wanted his view but just to get sensationalized news from him. He politely explained his Stand or his belief without hurting anyone's belief. Now media got their sensationalized news for what they aimed. It's all over the press. Then they ask other persons say Mr. B, then Mr. C. They asked that Mr. A has said this and that what they think on that particular matter. Might Mr. B has different belief he told he don't believe there is any intolerance. Mr. C might agreed to what Mr. A has said and so on. So, media reported a strong tiff amongst all the persons: Mr.A, B and C. Now, their are reports in press with much twisted answers. Ignoring all the supporting words and focusing on what can create a...
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My dear friends,
Today, I had the pleasure of introducing our team of extraordinary Canadians who will serve as Ministers in your new government. As a Canadian, you expect to see your values and priorities reflected in your government – and we have listened closely. Our strong, diverse, and experienced team will serve all Canadians, and – for the first time in our country’s history – there will be an equal number of women and men around the Cabinet table.
Over the course of the campaign, we promised you a government that will bring real change – in both the things we do and the way we do them. We will immediately start implementing our plan for a strong and growing middle class. On Election Day, you sent a clear message, and you rightly expect us to fulfill our promises.
I am...
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Dear President Obama, Majority Leader Reid, Senator McConnell, Speaker Boehner, and Leader Pelosi:
I write to you as a mother, advocate, and President of National PTA, the nation's oldest and largest volunteer child advocacy organization comprising more than five million members across all fifty states, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, US Virgin Islands, and Department of Defense schools in Europe.
On behalf of millions of parents, teachers, administrators, and community members who fight for all children every day, we urge you to join us in prioritizing education by coming together to reauthorize and fix No Child Left Behind (NCLB). We've waited long enough. The election is now behind us, and as we look toward 2013 and the dawn of a new Congress, PTA calls on you for...
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Honourable Narendra Modi-ji
As I penned this piece, I heard of your words at a rally in Bihar, and instead of deterring me from writing to you, it only strengthened my resolve that this needs to be said.
Over the last week or more we have witnessed what can only be described as the molestation of a human tragedy, the perpetrators of this crime being politicians coloured green, saffron and various other shades, all no less sullied. As individuals, party-men, members of the ruling class and the opposition benches, they have vulgarised the very soul of compassion and empathy. This is for certain not a new phenomenon, and only another sign of who we are.
However, with all due respect Pradhan Mantri-ji, what has astonished me is not just your silence, but the spoken and written words...
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Hi there. You probably remember me. My car was parked on a side street in a fairly “nice” neighborhood in Philadelphia over the weekend. I was the guy who bothered no one and stayed with some friends for a few days. You? All I really know about you is that you don’t know the differences between socialism and communism and that you carry a pen on you for one reason or another. Anyway, I had a great time — I was able to use this weekend for some much-needed relaxation catching up with friends and colleagues and left Sunday morning feeling refreshed and relaxed.
I didn’t notice what you wrote when I packed my suitcase and laptop back into my car, hopped in, and drove off. In fact, it was not until an hour later when I stopped for gas along the Pennsylvania Turnpike that I noticed,...
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