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Imagine an approaching bountiful harvest, fields teeming with crops, branches hanging low with fruit... winter comes, but the harvest never comes... no one is left alive bring in the harvest; all the farmers have starved to death.
In the Ukraine no imagination is necessary and November 22nd is kept in remembrance of the dark tragedies of 1932-1933. It's called the Holodomor or, roughly translated, "murder by hunger".
This was one of those "excesses" in Soviet policy that your liberal public school teachers glossed over while praising the "concept of communism" if it could only be practices as envisioned by Marx. But, only the Godless perversions of socialist thought could take the "breadbasket of Europe" and starve to death 7-14 million of its inhabitants.
That's just what the communists did, confiscated all food from the farmers to feed their powerbase in the cities. Anyone who withheld food to feed their own family was summarily executed. Then, with the excess of their ill gotten gain, the murdering dictators exported grain to gain hard foreign currency and to prove to the world that no famine existed in the great communist experiment... while the enslaved multitudes of Ukraine starved to death.
Some believe these policies were intentional acts of genocide to suppress Ukrainian nationalism. And, if history shows us anything, it is that collectivists will stop at nothing, including genocide, to retain their power.
With the darkest days of communism hidden or forgotten in the west, a new wave of socialism is sweeping over us -- aided, not unwittingly, by leftist politicians, liberal advocacy groups, extremist environmentalists, abortionists, homosexuals, and hitherto "conservatives" who have signed on to the newest round of nationalizing our economy.
Holodomor is the natural result of collectivism. Homeschooling is the inverse of collectivism and something to truly be thankful for this Thanksgiving Day.
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The National Book Awards were announced this past week. The winners are:
For Fiction, Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen. A reworking of the author’s trilogy that chronicles the legacy of E.J. Watson, a notorious desperado gunned down by his neighbors along the lawless nineteenth-century frontier of the Florida Everglades.
For Young People’s Literature, What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell. In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.
Call your library to reserve a copy or place holds on copies of these books in LINKcat, the library’s online catalog. (Source: What's New)
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Sisters and Los Altos residents, Lauren and Julia Burns, were chosen to introduce the 2008 California Young Reader Medal winner, Neal Shusterman, at a recent luncheon at the California Library Association's 110th Annual Conference held in San Jose. Shusterman was named the winner by middle school children for his book, The Schwa was Here.
The California Young Reader Medal program encourages recreational reading of popular literature among the young people of our state. Since its inception in 1974, millions of California children have nominated, read, and voted for the winners of the California Young Reader Medal. Hundreds of schools and libraries participate every year.
"The whole idea of the 'Schwa Effect' is so creative and elusive," commented 6th grader, Julia. She continued, "I think everyone can relate to the Schwa Effect." Her sister, Lauren, 7th grader, exclaimed, "My favorite part about The Schwa was Here is the characters...They're so believable and three-dimensional they could jump out of the pages!" (Source: Santa Clara County Library - The Latest SCCoop)
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Van de lolcats tot All Your Base: van internethumor krijg je niet snel genoeg.Mislukkingen in het algemeen werden op het web jarenlang gepresenteerd onder de noemer Pricesless, als parodie op de reclamespotjes van Eurocard Mastercard. Nu weet ik niet precies hoe lang het alternatief FAIL al populair is, maar in het afgelopen jaar ben ik die aanduiding vaker tegengekomen dan voorheen. Het wordt ook gebruikt op Nederlandse weblogs maar het zijn toch vooral de sites die zich er volledig op richten die je doen lachen. Failblog is misschien wel de bekendste. Zij hebben een hilarische mislukkingenverzameling. Shipment of Fail heeft het kunstje afgekeken, zo lijkt het.Wat maakt het allemaal uit? Het is gewoon leuk om even te grijnzen. Met Google Afbeeldingen kom je ook al een heel eind. Van een ritsige eland tot een minder handige string. Een tikje plat misschien, maar hee: dat doet het nu eenmaal goed, on- en offline.@ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek)
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Two Library BranchesMain Library145 Washington Ave.505-955-6780Southside Library6599 Jaguar Dr.505-955-2810Saturday, December 610 am - 4 pmOpen to the PublicOne Day OnlyGift Quality ItemsAll Books Individually PricedThe Friends cull all the best donated books all year to fill the sale tables at this special one day book sale. From art books to children’s books to cookbooks to stocking stuffers, this is the sale of the year!Sponsored by the Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library.All proceeds from the sale of these donated books go to support the Santa Fe Public Library. (Source: ICARUS... the Santa Fe Public Library Blog)
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“When I think of Queen I remember my whole life” writes Mike Dawson towards the beginning of his rather lengthy semi-autobiographical graphic novel, Freddie & Me : A Coming-of-Age (Bohemian) Rhapsody. And while Mike’s fascination with the band and it’s music flows through the book, it’s clearly in the background while Mike’s life takes center stage. There’s Mike at a young age, watching a video on TV of Freddie Mercury vacuuming in drag while singing “I want to break free,” Mike listening to a cassette with a friend who wonders if there are any more songs with “swear words”, Mike arguing with his younger sister Sarah about the relative merits of Queen versus Wham! (and, eventually, just George Michael), and, of course, young Mike’s solo performance of “Bohemian Rhapsody” during a talent night while the family was on holiday in Wales with his bemused and mortified parents watching from the audience–guaranteed to make you smile. (Check out that cover image for a preview.)
There’s an opening sequence to set up the story, but then the action moves back in time to Mike’s childhood and follows a pretty straight-forward chronological narrative path, with the occasional omniscient cartoonist/narrator breaking through to comment on the subjectivity of the action. The art is all black-and-white which serves the story pretty well since the narrative takes a fairly leisurely pace (some might say it drags a bit, but I’m trying to be charitable). Dawson’s style borders on caricature with some of the images of children, where features seem to be larger than normal, but that’s probably a decent approximation of the disproportion of youth and the coltishness of adolescence. ...
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Hier flip ik knetterhard van: Soulseek bestaat al vele jaren en is al die tijd mijn favoriete bron voor obscure muziek geweest. Alleen daar vond ik de demo's van Frites Modern en Lärm in digitale vorm, alleen daar verkreeg ik, weliswaar na maanden geduld, de complete discografie van Cancerous Growth.Het zijn zomaar drie voorbeelden waarmee ik duidelijk wil maken dat Soulseek vooral sterk is in minder populaire muziek die nergens meer verkrijgbaar is. Begin deze week verwees ik nog een Belg door naar de Zielzoeker. Hij mailde mij omdat hij op zoek was naar de cd's van The God Machine.Maar wat ik altijd al vreesde wordt nu werkelijkheid: Soulseek is de incrowd dan toch ontstegen en daardoor in het vizier van de muziekindustrie gekomen. Het is het einde van een tijdperk...Het doet zeer. Ik krijg de kramp van hun kanis. Maar toch zeg ik: "ze doen maar". Voor elke achterbuurt die ze slopen bouwen wij tien nieuwe. Aan het eind zullen zij degenen zijn die de strijd staken. (vrij naar Ho Chi Minh: "You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.")@Gelukkig biedt YouTube ook veel slecht verkrijgbare muziek. Afsluitnummers uit de barmantijd bijvoorbeeld :-) (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek)
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Last Friday, 14 teens came out to our after-school vampire party! We made vampire lollipops and fake blood, played a crazy trivia race game, watched a video clip of Bram Stoker's Dracula, and, of course, ate food. Our best snack was sandwich cookies decorated with fanged smiley faces! Genni and Max won mini-vampire plushies as prizes for their costumes, and the team that won the trivia game got vampire-mouth lollipops. They were like ring pops, only on a fanged mouth instead of a ring. I wish I had pictures. I do have pictures of us making crafts, so here they are: Making fake blood. Making lollipop vampires.They look awfully happy to be holding bags of blood! More finished bags of fake blood. (Source: Sellers Library Teens)
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