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Watch live streaming video from globalrevolution at livestream.com

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Suggested mantra while preparing this stew, "Only the strong need survive." Start with putting into a large pot,As much social Darwinian stock that can be got, Add a bit of medieval "free market" hocus-pocus,Throw in big chunks of "Liberty" mumbo-jumbo.Next, dip your 'Dirty Harry' in for thirty seconds,Safely hide it back in your breeches. Beckon all addicts,"Jump in the stew." Dash in gullible

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This just in .... Hendrik Hertzberg: Trumpery (The New Yorker): "Donald Trump said the other day, 'They won't be laughing if I'm elected President'. That they won't; anyway, he won't be. But they are laughing now. As is well known, gallows humor is an excellent way to keep from crying."Donald Trump: Mitt Romney A 'Small Business Guy' (

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Radio Free Kansas Join in the debate on the exact temperature, time and location of Hell on Earth this next Saturday High Noon (Central Standard Time, what else)! Recently "liberated" but still starving You Tube Tunisians are welcome too!It's colder than Hell in Kansas since before the Xmas season, in solid weeks long sub-freezing temperatures, endless snow fields, freezing livestock and the

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Jeremy Scahill | Blackwater's Black Ops Jeremy Scahill, The Nation (15 Sept 2010; 4 Oct 10 print edition) "Over the past several years, entities closely linked to the private security firm Blackwater have provided intelligence, training and security services to US and foreign governments as well as several multinational

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Karl Rove wrote "Courage and Consequences: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight" Anti-war protesters heckled, accused Bush administration of lying about Iraq's threat to U.S. Rove called heckler a "lunatic," told another to "get the heck out of here" Former Bush chief of staff skipped the book-signing portion of event, left Karl Rove Anti-War Protests

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The latest article from retired Senior CIA Analyst Ray McGovern, after he appeared on Radio Free Kansas, Saturday High Noon, March 13, 2010. Click the subject line for the jump.

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　 hile our president is involved in dealing with the many emergencies in which our nation is now foundering, he fails to see the most urgent one. The dead numbered 137,000 per year through the years of 2000 to 2006, according to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science and, as the depression continues to worsen, the Numbers will climb even higher on an annual

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Prosecutors detail defendant's movements before antiabortion slayingLos Angeles TimesJurors see video of Scott Roeder buying a gun, and of him being arrested hours after Dr. George Tiller's fatal shooting at a church in Wichita, Kan. ... See all stories on this topic Kansas City Star Roeder trial: Calls for tougher federal probeKansas City StarBy JUDY L. THOMAS Scott Roeder consults with his

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Ks. Rep. Bill Otto describing the financial problems of the public schools in Kansas.His proposed solutions and he crunches the numbers with "No Bull" temerity.

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Can it Get Worse? You Bet!Cf. Paul Krugman http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/obama-liquidates-himself/ and Bob Herbert http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/opinion/26herbert.html and John Feffer http://www.fpif.org/articles/obamas_avatar_moment

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Political wedgies for fuddie duddies with letters ...Neighboring Leavenworth, Ks. has numerous conservative citizens experiencing an unusual wave of political wedgies, quite a number of fuddie-duddies in the population and on the City Commission had their underwear pulled up from behind by the Kansas Attorney General's office after the high office members of the most imprisoned population of the

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To mark our 300th Episode of Radio Free Kansas on Blogtalkradio, tune in at High Noon, Saturday, 28/Nov/09, and listen in as we talk with the folks who made the movie!One of the most exciting presidential campaigns that was explicitly against military interventions abroad and for economic conservatism domestically.Check it out, today! Here's their web site for the DVD!"For Liberty: How the Ron

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Uncle Academic is back! Click the subject line, sit back and listen to a recent show.

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Blue Barn Music's Country King of Sarcasm Goes Big Time!It's Only Rock and Roll for Eddie Glenn! We, at Radio Free Kansas with our vast publishing empire have our own glitzy glam stars, too.And they're getting famous! Just take Eddie Glenn as an example!His caustic and dripping sarcasm that sometimes grate against the orthodox "folk" singers first came to our attention a couple years ago and

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Blue Barn Music's Country King of Sarcasm Goes Big Time!It's Only Rock and Roll for Eddie Glenn! We, at Radio Free Kansas with our vast publishing empire have our own glitzy glam stars, too.And they're getting famous! Just take Eddie Glenn as an example!His caustic and dripping sarcasm that sometimes grate against the orthodox "folk" singers first came to our attention a couple years ago and

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It is true thatThe Republican Party line (at least yesterday) is that Specter's jump is "a purely Pennsylvania matter."  (A telling exception: Senator Olympia Snow (R, Maine) says the defection is devastating for the Republican Party.)Chris Matthews of CNBC (who toyed with running as a Democrat against Spector for 2010) disparages Spector's character as "disloyal."  [See also here and here.]  (

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If you didn't catch Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night, be sure to make time to catch all of what's at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#30355903Also of interest:  NPR's story this morning Was Critical Note Destroyed By Bush White House?

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Seymour Hersh: Secret US Forces Carried Out Assassinations in "A Lot of" Countrieshttp://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/31/seymour_hersh_secret_us_forces_carriedhttp://www.truthout.org/040109KAmy Goodman, Democracy Now!: "Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh created a stir last month when he said the Bush administration ran an executive assassination ring that reported

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From "faith-based" politics to "hope-based" policies?  (Both, by the way, being "charity-based" -- to the investor class.  And, from another vantage point, it's a brand of hope that motivates gamblers -- from the ones pumping slots at the Seminole casino to the ones who were churning CDSs at AIG.) If you've time for nothing else, take in the first-listed.  The second, by the way, answers the "big

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Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?

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A PROJECT OF THE SUSTAINABILITY ACTION NETWORK, Lawrence Chapter 10 March 2009THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME"The American way of life is not negotiable" - George H.W. Bush, Rio Earth Summit, June 1992 "Our life style is not negotiable, and we will do whatever we have to do to maintain it, PERIOD" - Dick Cheney “We will not apologize for our way of life nor will we waver in

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Think job losses won't get worse? Think againSome forecasters say jobless rate may rise through 2010 to 10 percentBy John W. SchoenSenior producermsnbc.comupdated 7:38 p.m. ET, Fri., March. 6, 2009http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29551848/On the other hand, employment seems to be booming for former loan officers at sub-prime lenders:Beware the Loan-Modification Merry-Go-RoundPosted: Friday, March 6

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Here are two pieces by informed economists who wish Obama well but think the course he's embarked upon with bank stabilization is likely to have bad consequences.  At the very bottom is a link to an article that makes it clear just how toxic the assets the banks are holding may be -- one reason that Galbraith and Stiglitz are worried about the structure of the process by which the banking system

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A few suggestions for getting orienting (i.e., not drowning at the outset):Read the item in Section I.In Section II, read the Wall Street Journal op-ed by Cole and Ohanian (2 Feb 09) and the last item in the section (by Reed).In Section III, read the Salon piece by Sirota and Lilly's "Selective Keynesians."Skim the list of reviews and interviews in Section I and try a few.  If you're feeling

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The next time one hears farmers complaining about those welfare animals in the city ... remind them of this Farm Subsidy Database

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[excerpt] ... While it is awful the Democrats have lost as many seats as they have over the last dozen years, we're not really sure what could have been done to mitigate the loses this year, and, after all, the Democrats did pick up a new seat by replacing ethically challenged Roger Pine with State Rep. Tom Holland (D- Baldwin City) and they managed to get a real Democrat elected in Kelly Kultala

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President-elect Barack Obama announces he has directed his economic team to assemble an Economic Recovery Plan that will save or create 2.5 million more jobs by January of 2011. For more information, visit http://change.gov.

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[excerpt from The Valley Falls Vindicator] Architectural plans for a new school addition, a sales pitch for new football lights, and a bleak financial forecast went before the board of education at Valley Falls Monday night. . Read more at: JeffCountyNews.com

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[excerpt] Jeanne Steffey knows first hand the extent of poverty in Jefferson County and it’s not pretty. “It’s heart wrenching and I can’t say enough about how huge the need is,” she said. Steffey and the 60-member congregation of the Way of the Cross United Methodist Church at Ozawkie sponsor Heaven’s Closet, a food and clothing bank housed in the church. ... Read more at: JeffCountyNews.com

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Don't let our elected officials fool us on this pile of corporate loaded political pork that may be coming to Kansas! [excerpt] ... Over the past 30 years, I have lived in three of the five candidate communities, but I would no more prefer to see the germ lab plopped down near Flora, Miss., or San Antonio than to have it sited close to friends or family in Manhattan, Kan., Athens, Ga., or Raleigh

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[excerpt] It seems to be a widely held myth that World War II was the main agent for moving the United States out of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Cornell University Professor George F. Warren, an important adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt on rural development policy, figured out that it is agriculture that leads countries into and out of depressions. The Roosevelt Administration is the only

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"We meet on the second Thursday of each month at 7:00pm in the Commisioners Chambers in the court house at Oskaloosa. You are invited to attend. ..." Tour our web site: Jefferson County Democrats

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[excerpt] " State tournament trips are becoming a yearly ritual for the Jefferson County North High School volleyball team. ..." Read more at: JEFFCOUNTYNEWS.COM

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[excerpt] "It’s a case of home, sweet home for Holly Brown as she has returned to her native Nortonville to open Front Porch Designs hair salon. ... " Read more at: JEFFCOUNTYNEWS.COM

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Read Well Wishers Comments at Truthout!Click here.

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A reader forwards in the closing hours before the election starts.

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Nikki Place has requested a local benefit for a local McLouth boy who sustained a serious injury during a McLouth - JCN Middle School football game. Serious financial bills have been incurred by the family.She "was hoping that we could show our team spirit and support for a fellow DVL player along with the other side of sportmanship, the compassion of supporting all athletes on and off the field.

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Prairie Writers Circle contributor, Bill Vitek writes: " I am not prone to tirades or radical behavior. I have never participated in a public protest and refuse to sign most petitions. In the classroom I offer both sides of an issue. I have a stable job and hope to someday spend the money collecting in my retirement account. In British America in 1775 I would have been a loyalist. But as an

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LEAVENWORTH - Small business health insurance costs, tax code, retirement programs and tort reform were the topics of debate Thursday among the federal level candidates at Leavenworth City Hall.Featuring debates for three positions - the U.S. Senate, Kansas 2nd District U.S. Representative and a Leavenworth County commissioner position - Rep. Nancy Boyda and opponent Lynn Jenkins' exchange was

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" A county commissioner race, a sales tax question, and a presidential election awaits Jefferson countians at the polls Tuesday, Nov. 4. The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. County Election Officer Linda Buttron reports one polling location change. Rural Township residents will vote at the historic Buck Creek schoolhouse instead of the church in Williamstown. ..." Read more at:

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[excerpt] "Seeing a lack of opportunity but adequate talent in the area, a Nortonville native is taking steps to try to put together two American Legion baseball teams from three county school districts. Branden Olberding had been thinking about the lack of any local summer league action for high school players for a while and decided he would try to take matters into his own hands. ... " Read

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Poet Carl Sandburg described Chicago as a city with "big shoulders."They are slumped a bit today.I will miss Studs.

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Gov. Kathleen Sebelius speaking at a Wichita, Ks rally.

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The Home Stretch! Election News without all the lights and only a few bells and whistles! Today, Saturday, Nov. 1st at High Noon (central, US) Free Speech Radio News 30 min., Featured interviews with candidates for the 3rd District Jefferson county, Ks. commissioners race; incumbent Francis Grollmes and Richard Malm. Local news features gleaned from the county newspapers and a tally on the number

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[excerpt] Rural leaders and friends of sustainable Ag and the family farm have evaluated Jim Slattery’s position on rural Kansas issues and have decided to make personal endorsements for Jim Slattery in his bid for U.S. Senate. ... Read more click here.

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[excerpt] Amid calls yesterday for Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska to resign after being convicted on seven felony corruption charges, Sen. Pat Roberts broke from party leadership, saying that it should be up to Alaskans to decide Stevens´ fate. ... Read more at Kansas Democratic Party

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THE MOVIE THAT "BLEW UP HALF OF MAIN STREET"NORTONVILLE, KS!Bunker Hillthe latest from filmmaker Kevin Willmott! LOCAL EXCLUSIVE!!FOR THE LATEST ACCESSIBILITY INFO CALL 785-749-1972: OPENS at LIBERTY HALL644 Mass. St. - Lawrence, KSSHOW TIMES!Fri May 9: 4:40 7:10 9:40 Sat May 10-Sun May 11: 2:10 4:40 7:10 9:40 Mon May 12-Tue May 13: 4:40 7:10 9:40 Wed May 14: 9:30 ONLY Thu May 14: 4:40 7:10 9:40

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On Obama's recent slip of the lip according to an old timer from the Deep South.Warning graphic language, but you've heard it all before: [Excerpt] "Yet he had no sooner closed his mouth than this media manufactured hell broke loose. "Oh my gawd," they screamed. This guy has the unmitigated gall to suggest that their might be some bitterness out here in the lily white realms of Grant Wood, grange

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Sound familiar? [Excerpt] "I haven’t lived in rural Pennsylvania or in rural Indiana, but I have lived in rural upstate New York, in towns where there are so few Democrats that on some local election ballots, not a single position, from town council to justice of the peace, has a contest. As in China, your option is to vote for the Republican candidate, or to leave that line blank. And many of

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HOW THE FIGHT STARTEDI rear-ended a car this morning.So there we are alongside the road and slowly the driver gets out ofthe car . . . and you know how you just-get-sooo-stressed and life-stuffseems to get funny?Yeah, well, I could NOT believe it . . . he was a DWARF!He storms over to my car, looks up at me and says, "I AM NOT HAPPY!"So, I look down at him and say, "Well, which one are you then?"

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Here you go - the trailer as posted on the Ifilm web site. Watch for the Nortonville scenes!The title link above will take you to the official "Bunker Hill" movie web site.

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The film uses edited clips from Ivan Besse's amateur classic "South Dakota 1938 - 39" at Internet Archive.org featuring in this installment Christmas on Main Street Britton, South Dakota. The clips are edited and timed to two songs by Lawrence, Ks. musician, Bryan Newbury; "Brewster County Breakdown" and "Beatrice" which makes a haunting image of a streetside musician singing of hard

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THE BUNKHOUSE CAFE CREW(Margaret Green l., and Gloria Noll r.)The two ladies and their assistants served from 40 to 120 meals, twice a day to the staff and cast of the feature length film "Bunker Hill" for the last three weeks. Buffet luncheons and a refreshment bar next door in the dining area which doubled as a dressing and make-up room for the actors provided a place to rest between scenes.

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K. U. professor and Nortonville is covered in this article.Here is a quote from it:“We wanted to speak to contemporary circumstances while utilizing old story styles,” Hurd says. “This may be the first post-modern western in history. If you watch this movie, you will have never seen anything like it.”Read the complete article at:Kevin Willmott's Bunker Hill : The University Daily Kansan

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MORE AT STAKE FOR KANSAS MOVIE THAN MEETS THE EYE.Jon Niccum reported in the July 28, 2006, Lawrence Journal World describing Bunker Hill as how two writers: "have concocted a tale about how residents of the town react to an apparent terrorist attack against America."Niccum does get a few questions out of Willmott like, “What happens in this little Kansas town when you lose total communication

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Want to follow the film production crew to “Bunker Hill” since it left Nortonville last night?Check out this web diary (blog) which has great still photos and some behind the scenes talk about what else?“Making the movie” (which is the name of the site) and you can bookmark this site and read of the daily spills, chills and thrills as our brave young independent filmmakers criss cross Kansas!

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Bunker Hill production film scenesFrom Nortonville’s Main StreetHow about some action scenes filmed live behind the camera?You got it here at the Sun.A fast connection is good, but a dail-up will work just wait for the short films to load up and you can play them at our country leisure. You can also write these down and pass them along to your friends, enter into a browser window and play

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A DIFFERENT KIND OF DEER STAND.When Jesse Noll, 28 years old, Nortonville, Ks. paced off the distance from the barricaded target on Main Street to the corner of the building, late afternoon last week, he never thought of actually making the bow shot. It was at least fifty yards and from the roof of a two story building and at night.He was quietly laying sidebets with another local bow hunter

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An archer's eye and the rainbow of his arrow was the contentious point of discussion among those working on the movie "Bunker Hill" being filmed on Nortonville's Main Street last night. Here are some of the views.Click "play" in the picture frame to watch the slideshow.

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Here are some pictures of what was going on last night on the "Bunker Hill" movie set as filmed on Nortonville's Main Street.Click "play" in the picture frame to start the slide show. We'll have more on the movie "Bunker Hill" in the following days (and nights).

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Click "play" in the picture frame below and start your trip. Add to my blogTake a trip down memory lane. Travel down this old logging road to a popular swimming hole and wade down a creek before summer is gone.Name either the property owners name or the creek that this local low water bridge crosses and possibly win a $25 Gift Certificate to a local Nortonville merchant.Email your entry and be

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THIRD ANNUAL NORTONVILLE STREET DANCESATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 2006SCHEDULE OF EVENTSMOTORCYCLE POKER RUNNortonville City Park9:30 a.m. Sign – Up; Departure 10 a.m.$20.00 ENTRY FEE, $5.00 EXTRA HAND1ST, 2ND, 3RD PRIZESAmerican Legion Riders Post #242PIE & ICE CREAM SOCIALBBQ BEEF PICNICPotato Salad, Baked Beans, Nachos, Chips, Cheese & PopBeginning at 6 p.m. St. Joseph’s Altar SocietyLion’s ClubSTREET

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A new extended roof on the concession stand and established trees (with more planted this last Spring) provide shady places to watch the games. The community has over the last few years developed Mauzy Field into an excellent place to play. Ball field #1 sports one of plaques to the community of donors who have made the park what it is today. This plaque stands beneath the flag pole behind

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Pee Wee Baseball at nearby Winchester, Ks.

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City Clerk Barbara Polson on the memorial.“’We’ll keep taking orders and once a year we’ll place new bricks in the memorial,’ Polson said. She encouraged attendees to bring lawn chairs for the ceremony. ‘We want it to be a growing memorial.’” - Valley Falls Vindicator, 25/May/2006, Vol. 142, #38 pg. 1

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Diving for candy after a short talk about corn. Discussing Quarter Horses and grooming.

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Complete with Hollywood Western theme songs.

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INTO A STRANGER'S HANDS.Two older boys were ahead of him before his turn in the big chair. When driving to the barber shop Dad told him that Mr. Domann had raised two daughters so that he had "a gentle hand." When they got to the place and they were sitting watching the other boys get their hair cut he asked Mr. Domann again how many daughter he had. Mr. Domann said, "two." Dad looked at him and

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MORE STORIESHe is still a little nervous but Dad and Mr. Domann tell stories about in "cowboy days" barbers were the doctors and dentists in the small towns and had to help people with all kinds of problems. Dad tells the men that during the summer both of them "go native" and let their hair grow as long as possible because "we're part Indian." Now that it's "back to school" time we had to get

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BLOOD DOES NOT SCARE HIM.He is glaring at his dad after being warned that if his ear gets cut that it wouldn't bleed too bad and Mr. Domann agrees and then talks about "nicking" old John Pantle's ear last week and comments that John's blood medicine made him bleed quite a bit. Dad jokes that if Mr. Domann cuts his ear he better get over the waste basket by the desk or "we'll have to pay extra

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