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Erin.  From Boston.  Living in Austin, and loving it.


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</description><title>The Crisis</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @thecrisis)</generator><link>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m17fgjwa7a1qazvf5o1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/19763248469</link><guid>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/19763248469</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:50:23 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>I’m willing to accept Jesus Christ as your lord and...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz26giM7wr1qz9rdxo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’m willing to accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior, but only if you are.  &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/17252056063</link><guid>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/17252056063</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:12:17 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>"If you wished to trim $30 million off of the budget, that works out to about $6.91 per Wisconsin..."</title><description>“If you wished to trim $30 million off of the budget, that works out to about $6.91 per Wisconsin taxpayer. So I must ask: Is it fair that you ask $3000 of me, but you fail to ask $6.91 of everyone?”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a title="A Letter to Scott Walker from a Wisconsin Schoolteacher - MotherJones." target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/contributor/2011/03/letter-scott-walker-wisconsin-teacher"&gt;A Letter To Scott Walker from a Wisconsin Schoolteacher.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/3860192727</link><guid>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/3860192727</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:02:37 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>from FOX "Rabid Leftists Storm Wisconsin Capitol After Vote"  </title><description>&lt;a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/09/rabid-leftists-storm-wisconsin-capitol-after-vote"&gt;from FOX "Rabid Leftists Storm Wisconsin Capitol After Vote"  &lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Because attempting to protect a hard-fought and proven way of life makes you a Rabid Leftist.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jackasses. &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/3757589757</link><guid>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/3757589757</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:15:56 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>PBS costs $1.35 per person in taxes. It's worth it!  Join the Muppet Lobby! </title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.wgbh.org/impactcommunity/federal_funding_for_public_broadcasting.cfm#contactsenate"&gt;PBS costs $1.35 per person in taxes. It's worth it!  Join the Muppet Lobby! &lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/3707382404</link><guid>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/3707382404</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:50:53 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Texas Education, National Ranking</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.window.state.tx.us/comptrol/wwstand/wws0512ed/"&gt;Texas Education, National Ranking&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;“Ranking” is a bad word, as if somehow Texas is even competing at that National level.  It is not.  Our failing students are about to lose nearly 100,000 teachers.  Before you start imagining that we have enough to cut that many, we have 333,000 teachers.  Rick Perry wants to cut one third of our public school teachers.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From the Link:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Texas is #49 in verbal SAT scores in the nation (493) and #46 in average math SAT scores (502).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Texas is #36 in the nation in high school graduation rates (68%).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Texas is #33 in the nation in teacher salaries. Teacher salaries in Texas are not keeping pace with the national average. The gains realized from the last state-funded across-the-board pay raise authorized in 1999, which moved the ranking from 33 to as high as 26th in the nation, have disappeared over the last five years.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Texas was the only state in the nation to cut average per pupil expenditures in fiscal year 2005, resulting in a ranking of #40 nationally; down from #25 in fiscal year 1999.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Texas is #6 in the nation in student growth. The general student population in Texas public schools grew by 11.1% between school years 1999 and 2005, with the largest percent of growth seen among low income and minority children.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Between school years 1999 and 2005, the number of central administrators employed by Texas public schools grew by 32.5%, overall staffing in public schools grew by 15.6%, while the number of teachers grew only 13.3%.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So you know, give incentives for people to make movies here, because all these dumb kids are going to need jobs in Hollywood.  &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/3703577081</link><guid>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/3703577081</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:46:59 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>‘America Is NOT Broke’: Michael Moore Speaks in...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="323" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wgNuSEZ8CDw?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgNuSEZ8CDw&amp;feature=share" target="_blank"&gt;‘America Is NOT Broke’: Michael Moore Speaks in Madison, WI — March 5, 2011&lt;/a&gt; (via &lt;a href="http://youtube.com/user/mmflint" target="_blank"&gt;mmflint&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/3703150628</link><guid>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/3703150628</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:14:03 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>"‘This is beyond liberal, this is, I guess you have to use the C-word, which is the communist word,’..."</title><description>“‘This is beyond liberal, this is, I guess you have to use the C-word, which is the communist word,’ he told Fox News last Thursday. &lt;br/&gt;
‘This is like in other words: “Everybody’s cash is everybody’s cash”. It’s sort of interesting. Castro in the good old days used to say the exact same thing, right?’”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Donald Trump.  (who should lose all his viewers now.) commenting on Michael Moore’s Wisconsin speech.  Obviously Moore struck a chord and The Donald is a little worried. &lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/3703118780</link><guid>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/3703118780</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:11:23 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Supporting the Labor Fuel that Drives the Nation = Communism.</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1363801/Michael-Moore-wades-Wisconsin-row-gets-labelled-communist.html"&gt;Supporting the Labor Fuel that Drives the Nation = Communism.&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/3703096918</link><guid>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/3703096918</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:09:34 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kr0bf0ZGm41qz9rdxo1_250.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/204453281</link><guid>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/204453281</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:25:49 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>"The Arlington Independent School District, which passed on airing President Barack Obama’s..."</title><description>“The Arlington Independent School District, which passed on airing President Barack Obama’s live classroom address, has announced that some students will be bussed off campus to hear a message from former President George W. Bush on Sept. 21.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" title="Stacy Morrow, via MSNBC" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32747095/"&gt;Stacy Morrow, via MSNBC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/183410771</link><guid>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/183410771</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:42:41 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>"We’ve made no decision at this point as to when it will be shown. We just made the decision to..."</title><description>““We’ve made no decision at this point as to when it will be shown. We just made the decision to not show it today. We have a lot going on with Back to School night tonight. After staff and parents have had the chance to view it, we will make a decision as to who will show it and when. At that time, parents will be notified. Check with your child’s teacher for more information.””&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;My daughters’ school principal.&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/182997460</link><guid>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/182997460</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:44:30 -0500</pubDate><category>obama education speech</category><category>bullshit</category><category>cowardice</category><category>deflection</category><category>avoidance</category><category>censorship</category></item><item><title>Easy Steps to Excommunication.</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au/articles/easy-steps-excommunication"&gt;Easy Steps to Excommunication.&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;“As a principled and rational person, it pains me that someone, somewhere may be counting me as an adherent of an irrational superstition which has done and is doing irreparable harm to humanity and with which I profoundly disagree.”  - Greg Erwin.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/177920289</link><guid>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/177920289</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:44:28 -0500</pubDate><category>roman catholic,</category><category>atheism</category><category>religion</category><category>abortion</category><category>blasphemy</category><category>excommunication</category></item><item><title>Glenn Beck explains the Secret Obama Agenda with a nifty visual...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/P_lgTIZ22jE?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Glenn Beck explains the Secret Obama Agenda with a nifty visual aid.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;OLIGARH&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;don’t worry.  he knows one letter is missing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;it’s the second letter that tricked him.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/176731691</link><guid>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/176731691</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:07:44 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>have some water so’s you don’t get dehydrated, glenn...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp8xuhQKyP1qz9rdxo1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;have some water so’s you don’t get dehydrated, glenn beck.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;did you lose 10 more advertisers?  (bringing your number to 46 as of Friday?)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;did Applebee’s, Bank of America, Bell &amp; Howell, DirecTv, General Mills, Kraft, Regions Financial Corporation, SAM (Store and Move), Travelers Insurance and Vonage tell you to stuff it?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;do you have a Klan meeting to tell us about?  any “White Culture” you want to impart to us today?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Later on I’ll post the list of who still IS advertising on Glenn Beck, I think that will be an interesting one.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/176291234</link><guid>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/176291234</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:03:53 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>I started a project 11 days ago for which I create one special...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp8w3kbiFQ1qz9rdxo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I started a project 11 days ago for which I create one special piece of jewelry each day.  The photo links to the blog where I display the pieces and comment on the progress.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/176268537</link><guid>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/176268537</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:26:08 -0500</pubDate><category>jewelry</category><category>yearlong project</category><category>challenge</category><category>wearable art</category></item><item><title>Why is Glenn Beck crying again?  Don’t cry Glenn Beck....</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_koynhlPKO41qz9rdxo1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why is Glenn Beck crying again?  Don’t cry Glenn Beck.  There are still millions of people in the United States who are too poor for Insurance but too dumb to know they get government coverage who will listen to you.  They think Obama is a racist, too!  Take heart, your fans have the best shine.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately your fans will not have access to the advertising stylings of “Ancestry.com, AT&amp;T, Blaine Labs Inc., Campbell Soup Company, Clorox, Ditech, The Elations Company, Experian (creator of FreeCreditReport.com), Farmers Insurance Group, Johnson &amp; Johnson (makers of Tylenol), Lowe’s, NutriSystem, Sprint, The UPS Store and Verizon Wireless.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Total- 36 advertisers lost by Glenn Beck’s screed accusing Obama of racism and hatred of “white culture”.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;(thank you Media Matters for keeping the list updated!)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/171735759</link><guid>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/171735759</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:44:09 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>"In my view the mistake that the Obama administration made was that they didn’t have a policy..."</title><description>“In my view the mistake that the Obama administration made was that they didn’t have a policy as to how to put these people on trial.  They are enemy combatants, some of them, we can not bring to trial but we can not release, and there’s no overall policy yet associated with it.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;John McCain, at 1:55 pm this afternoon…  Blaming the Obama Administration for the torture disaster that is Gitmo.  Because, you know, Obama set that up years ago.&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/171479856</link><guid>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/171479856</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:05:25 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Dear Tom Ridge,</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Where were you when your Department of Homeland Security was raising the threat levels for Bush&amp;#8217;s political gain?  Why come out now?  Do you expect to be considered a hero?  Heroism would have been saying &amp;#8220;NO, not on my watch&amp;#8221;, and then publicly announcing what the Administration was doing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell you lacked a backbone until you got a book deal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That makes you weak and greedy.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Thanks for nothing,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Me.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/167592376</link><guid>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/167592376</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:06:58 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Glenn Beck is crying.  It’s hard to say goodbye to...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kok5f9jsWq1qz9rdxo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Glenn Beck is crying.  It’s hard to say goodbye to sponsors, Geico, Con-Agra, Progressive, Procter and Gamble, Radio Shack, CVS, Farmers Insurance, GMAC Financial Services, Lawyers.com, Sargento, SC Johnson, Travelocity, Roche, ReBath, Wal-mart (!!!!), Best Buy, Broadview Security, Allergen, Sanofi Aventis.  oh Men’s Warehouse makes 20.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/165484389</link><guid>http://thecrisis.tumblr.com/post/165484389</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:47:33 -0500</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
