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Jan Brewer

This woman can barely speak English. Has anyone check to see if she is legal?

What Religion Should You Follow?

2010 Outstanding Young Democrat

Tenth Fremont-Moroney Memorial Breakfast, April 11, 2010, Grafton Massachusetts. Aaron giving his speech Receiving citation from Michael O. Moore, Massachusetts State Senate Receiving Citation from the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office. Receiving citation from the Massachusetts House of Representatives Aaron and US Congressman Richard E. Neal Award winners Linda Casey:  John F. Sullivan Citizen Activist Award [...]

Easter

Atheists cite resurgence as they gather on Easter weekend “Bush’s polarizing presidency showed people how bad things could turn “if religion was in charge,” he said. The Internet showed atheists that they weren’t alone, as they sought out and encouraged one another.” Very true for me; when Bush was elected to a second term, that [...]

Health Care Reform

Everyone is buzzing about the new health care bill. Most people know very little about our health care system and the people who are really pissed probably get their ‘news’ from Fox. There is so much I’d like to say, but I don’t have the time right now to write the post that this topic [...]

Gee, time to re-think this celibacy thing?

Brazilian priest allegedly taped having sex with teen March 18, 2010 Irish priest committed abuse, destroyed family March 17, 2010 Will these stories never end? What is really inexcusable is the catholic church trying to hide these problem priests. Imagine knowingly sending a pedophile from one church to another? This is disgraceful. One of many [...]

‘Snail Mail’ to Senator Brown

March 17, 2010 Dear Senator Brown, Is this really your official website: http://scottbrown.senate.gov/public/? “Welcome to my temporary website”. I can understand not having much information online, since you are new to the Senate, but there is no excuse for not having an email address under ‘contact’. That is unacceptable for a US Senator in the [...]

Grafton Democratic Caucus

Aaron’s Letter to the Editor, Grafton News February 17, 2010. To the Editor, I was excited to be invited to the Democratic meeting that was held at the Historical Society in Grafton on Saturday. I have been interested in politics for quite a few years and volunteered on both John F. Kerry’s and Barrack Obama’s [...]

Creation

Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam” is a famous section of the Sistine Chapel ceiling painted in 1511. It illustrates the biblical story from the Book of Genesis in which God breathes life into Adam, the first man. But was Michelangelo hinting at a different story? Take a closer look at this painting. First, Adam is very [...]

Haiti quake death toll surpasses 111,000

First official death toll release by the Haitian government on Friday following the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010. Deadliest Earthquakes arranged by Death Toll, Event, Location and Date: 830,000 1556 Shaanxi earthquake China 1556 250,000 526 Antioch earthquake Antioch, Byzantine Empire (now Turkey) 526 242,000 1976 Tangshan earthquake China 1976 [...]