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The Smiths – An Estate Sale Family!
Most of us buy from all kind of stores to satisfy our needs and wants – retail, hardware, clothing, accessories, furniture, jewelry, etc. Ever-so-often we come across a family or individuals or groups of unrelated people who live together, who have decided to try another lifestyle and live one step under the radar. They…
Read MoreMy Response! – No Names Please!
Don’t want to lose my job. But if this keeps on the way it has I will be out there on the front lines – dam the job – I will join the homeless if that is necessary to bring about change. I noticed a couple of Marceline’s Facebook posts. One included something – in…
Read MoreIn June 84,437 readers and in August 92,452
We went over the 2,000,000 readers mark in August, 2017. Over two million readers have visited Bettina Network’s Blog. If you are a member of Bettina Network’s Lifestyle Community you may contribute your writings, poems, thoughts, recipes, lifestyle contributions from your life, your research – scientific and otherwise, to reach a fantastic group of elegant…
Read MoreAMERICA: your ethics are showing
From slavery – to Jim Crow – to the immense Black Civil Rights movement – to the painful Feminist movement – to the Peace Movement – to Americans for Respect of the Globe and the Universe – to Donald Trump? The election and ‘service’ of Donald Trump has exposed the United States’ underbelly the way…
Read MoreA New Harvard President!
by: Marceline Donaldson and Harold E. Doley, Jr. Drew Gilpin Faust, the 28th president of Harvard University has resigned her position effective June 30, 2018. A historian and former head of Radcliff Institute, Ms. Faust did an excellent job of continuing to move this private Ivy League institution, founded in 1636 in “New Town” –…
Read MoreWe Are Being Played! Trumped!
The “roll out” of Donald J. Trump’s tax program was amazing. It is the (1%) one percenters dream. If it goes through it create a country without responsibility to anyone except its top ten percent – the bottom nine percent of this top ten percent will be the recipients of this country’s “welfare”. It is the…
Read MoreThe United States President = Pathological Liar
It is amazing to see “Mr. President” referred to every day as a Pathological Liar. I have lived through many presidents and not everyone has been happy with the current president, but all of them – except maybe Richard Nixon – have been respected even when one could not agree with some of their policies…
Read MoreJACK GREENBERG – NAACP Legal Defense Fund
by: Marceline Donaldson I read this morning of the death of Jack Greenberg and it hit me much harder than I would have expected. Jack Greenberg, Percy Julian, Dolores Orey and so many others are among the people who surrounded me at a very dire time of my life. I am so grateful for the fact…
Read MoreA Solution to Police Violence
“When you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind.” That is truth and a quote from some fount of wisdom. Back in the 1970’s when I lived in Minneapolis I was on the board of the Minneapolis Urban Coalition. We worked hard to attempt to establish Civilian Review Boards which would work with the police…
Read MoreYou Claim to Believe in God, but do you, really?
copyright 2016 Bettina Network, inc. If asked, and it did not include a specific denomination or set of religious beliefs, most people would say – yes, they believe in God. They would add that this does not mean the traditional Christian God with the long white beard sitting on a throne, but God – the…
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