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Stateside With Rosalea: Feedback
Wednesday, 28 June 2006, 11:22 am | Rosalea Barker
Every now and then people write to me about the opinions I express in Stateside. Here is some recent feedback. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: A Sporting Chance
Monday, 19 June 2006, 11:23 am | Rosalea Barker
I don't quite know who I made the deal with on Saturday afternoon as I set off for my exercise just after the USA-Italy football game began on ABC: "If I swim three widths of the pool without stopping, USA will beat Italy in the World Cup". I suspect ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: What Can I Say?
Tuesday, 13 June 2006, 2:40 pm | Rosalea Barker
So what if the only technical rugby terms I know are "whip" and "arse"? They're all anyone needed to do a commentary for the Barclay's Churchill Cup match on Wednesday evening at Santa Clara University, down in the Silicon Valley. I will spare you the ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Down In The Dumps
Tuesday, 6 June 2006, 5:29 pm | Rosalea Barker
Ha! See, I'm not the only idiot. What *was* I thinking when I wrote last week that gerrymandered districts are one of the causes of US Senators getting the equivalent of a life peerage? There are two US Senators for every state, no matter how populous ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Cowboys and Indians
Monday, 29 May 2006, 10:33 am | Rosalea Barker
... to improve US politics. First, I'd set term limits for US Senators. Because of gerrymandered districts and the likelihood that the longer a senator is in office they will remain in office, they are the US equivalent of the British peerage, only ... More >>
Movie Preview: An Inconvenient Truth (aka MI 4.5?)
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 11:17 am | Rosalea Barker
Al Gore has a lot of friends. Some of them have famous names, but others are anonymous as in, "A friend brought me back this photo of..." And he has an Apple notebook computer. But most of all, he has a slideshow. More >>
Stateside: Barry And Doug And Al And Babs
Monday, 22 May 2006, 1:47 pm | Rosalea Barker
Who'd have thunk, five years ago, that I'd likely remember for the rest of my life exactly where I was when a certain baseball player hit a milestone home run in 2006? I've been to one baseball game in my entire life and, while it was a tad more entertaining ... More >>
Stateside: Banana Sunday With A Sprinkling Of Nuts
Monday, 15 May 2006, 12:21 am | Rosalea Barker
Besides our beloved Kiwi Scoop, here's a couple more that have caught my attention this week. One of my fellow bloggers on another website--now defunct--has moved on to http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/ , which is powered by software called Scoop. ... More >>
Stateside: A Postcard and Flowers for Mothers Day
Monday, 15 May 2006, 12:19 am | Rosalea Barker
I have only a cheap internet camera so these pix aren’t all that good, but hopefully you’ll get some idea of how the recent months of rain and the subsequent warm, sunny weather of the last two weeks have brought out the best in the Bay Area. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Who Goes There?
Monday, 8 May 2006, 11:55 am | Rosalea Barker
This weekend's SF Chronicle features as article about how politicians are turning more and more to the Web to court voters. The gubernatorial candidate endorsed by the Democratic Party--Phil Angelides--is reported in the article to have said in ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: May Be Almost Here!
Tuesday, 2 May 2006, 2:59 pm | Rosalea Barker
Well, my little puddings, the weather here in the Bay Area has certainly taken a turn for the better this last weekend in April. She's a cooker out there this Sunday arvo, and all plans to start a tiny vege garden out back are on hold until the sun ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: A State Of Electioncy
Monday, 24 April 2006, 2:10 pm | Rosalea Barker
...the Oakland trees, it's been two long years and teachers still don't have a contract with the Oakland Unified School District. So they went out on strike one day last week. Many parents support the teachers' action, and have been tying lime green ribbons ... More >>
Stateside: Yul-Brynner-in-a-Tin-Skirt Weekend
Tuesday, 18 April 2006, 12:42 am | Rosalea Barker
"If I was in Boston I wouldn't have forgotten it was Easter," a workmate said on Friday. He was relating how he'd parked his usual three blocks from the BART commuter train station thinking that he was too late to get a parking space, but in fact the ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Crikey Dick!
Monday, 10 April 2006, 1:03 pm | Rosalea Barker
What a week it's been. First, ABC's Primetime sets off alarums with its preview of National Geographic's special about the Gospel of Judas. I mean to say! Judas is now a saint and Jesus a shyster? Give me a break. More >>
Stateside: Something EEV-Al This Way Comes
Monday, 3 April 2006, 12:41 am | Rosalea Barker
You learn quickly in American politics that where there's smoke there's something rotten in the state of Denmark. For all the fiery rhetoric that has been surrounding the immigration debate this past week, the real nub of the issue has been completely ... More >>
Stateside: Update On Last Monday's March
Monday, 3 April 2006, 12:39 am | Rosalea Barker
Below are links to some great photos and a short video by Jeff Patterson of the NorCal highlights of the Latino March For Peace. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Peregranacion Por La Paz
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 12:40 am | Rosalea Barker
I went on the Peace March this morning. The audio file (click above) is part of the blessing we were given by a local Native American leader, one of the Vietnam War conscientious objectors who got a health clinic and a law clinic established in the ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: It's Not Over Yet
Monday, 27 March 2006, 12:10 am | Rosalea Barker
For the past week, media pundits have been pondering why so few people turned out to the anti-war marches last weekend. Commentator after commentator trotted out the same old lines about how there is no draft so it doesn't affect college students ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Untethered
Monday, 13 March 2006, 1:35 pm | Rosalea Barker
At the risk of having you wander out into cyberspace never to return to our beloved mothership, Scoop, I'm going to pepper this post with hyperlinks to interesting video on the Net. If you want to cut to the chase, go to the last one. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: All Reads Lead To Home
Monday, 6 March 2006, 2:25 pm | Rosalea Barker
A combination of several small but sharply felt earthquakes and showery weather have made me feel like I'm back in Taranaki this week. The clouds in the sky, rain-washed streets, daffodils, fruit tree blossoms and green hills all contributed to the feeling. ... More >>
