March 15th, 2005

What's Up with Wisconsin?

Posted At: 7:27pm by Sandra Ostapowich

(from the Milwaukee Sentinel Journal)

First it was the cat thing, then a "church" shooting, now this...is there something in the cheese?

Waukesha - A woman intentionally rammed her car into St. Joseph's Catholic Church on Saturday, saying the deadly Brookfield shootings prove God does not exist, police Sgt. Jeff Fulwiler said

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God Shuffled His Feet musicGod Shuffled His Feet
Crash Test Dummies
Release Date: 26 October, 1993
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It's a Girl! Here's $2,300!

Posted At: 7:10pm by Sandra Ostapowich
State Government of India Gives Cash Incentives to Raise Daughters The southern state of Andhra Pradesh, India is offering to pay families $2,300 when their daughter turns 20 years old as an incentive to encourage families to keep their female babies. The sex ratio of females to males in India is 927 to 1,000, making it one of the lowest female-to-male ratios in the world, reports [ read more ]
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March 13th, 2005

Herstory 101

Posted At: 1:40pm by Sandra Ostapowich

As we move forward in the 21st century, many of these stories have become a vital part of the telling of our history. This was not the case in 1980 when less than 3% of the content of school textbooks mentioned the contributions of women. Women, when included, were usually written in as mere footnotes to history. For most

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March 11th, 2005

Get out the vote

Posted At: 5:33pm by Sandra Ostapowich
 

In the United States, women have had the right to vote since 1920.  Countries where women do not have this right are considered backwards, hyper-traditionalist, oppressive, regimes.  We have taken it for granted that we have this power in our government that there is a missionary zeal to go into all the world and promote that all women everywhere should have the right to vote

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Dead Presidents: Music From The Motion Picture musicDead Presidents: Music From The Motion Picture
Various Artists
Release Date: 26 September, 1995
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Here kitty kitty kitty...

Posted At: 5:26pm by Sandra Ostapowich
 

In this world are two kinds of people.  Dog people and cat people.  It is the stuff of movies.  People either love cats or they hate them.  In LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Mark Smith wants to hunt them.

Now, now, Mr. Smith doesn't want to hunt Fluffy or Mr.

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