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• 03:31 Having a hypo...not pleasant at 3:30 am. Drank some OJ, ate a banana...still a bit shaky tho. Has my pancreas started to work again? #
• 03:32 You mean "Gordon Brown"! RT @scorpiojerm: interesting word of the day "Cockalorum" means a little man with an unduly high opinion of himself #
• 03:35 @DanielJUK thanks...i'm feeling a bit better already. will take 1/2 hour or so to be certain, then back to bed. #
• 08:45 @besskeloid deleting cookies? I eat them...too many of them... :-( #
• 09:32 @soveren i suppose i should listen to him once just for the sake of it. i always listen to radio 4's Today. #
• 09:38 @soveren i need news and talk in the mornings, not music. and Wogan just makes me think of drunken presenter of the Eurovision Song Contest. #
• 22:26 @MartinFaulks nice to meet you this evening. i had a diet ginger ale when i got home. no tea because of caffeine... #
• 22:29 @DanielJUK the real charge was "driving while black" i think...sorry to hear about your friend's experience. #

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From Twitter 09-07-2009

• 03:31:10: Having a hypo...not pleasant at 3:30 am. Drank some OJ, ate a banana...still a bit shaky tho. Has my pancreas started to work again?
  
• 03:32:32: You mean "Gordon Brown"! RT @scorpiojerm: interesting word of the day "Cockalorum" means a little man with an unduly high opinion of himself
  
• 03:35:33: @DanielJUK thanks...i'm feeling a bit better already. will take 1/2 hour or so to be certain, then back to bed.
  
• 08:45:18: @besskeloid deleting cookies? I eat them...too many of them... :-(
  
• 09:32:16: @soveren i suppose i should listen to him once just for the sake of it. i always listen to radio 4's Today.
  
• 09:38:20: @soveren i need news and talk in the mornings, not music. and Wogan just makes me think of drunken presenter of the Eurovision Song Contest.
  
• 22:26:49: @MartinFaulks nice to meet you this evening. i had a diet ginger ale when i got home. no tea because of caffeine...
  
• 22:29:19: @DanielJUK the real charge was "driving while black" i think...sorry to hear about your friend's experience.
  

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The speech that caused controversy even before it was given

For those who are reading this who are not Americans or not aware of the news from America, here's the background.

A few weeks ago President Obama arranged to have a speech to schoolchildren televised to every school across America. He was going to talk about their experience, and encourage them to strive to do their best in their studies. This from a guy who was in a single-parent family for much of his early life and, overcoming that experience, went to to become a successful lawyer, academic, community organiser, legislator, and President of the United States.

Well. Republicans and Neanderthals all over the country were up in arms. The President was out to indoctrinate their children. Perhaps he'd be encouraging them to urge their parents to support health-care reform. This belied the fact that Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush the First had also made similar televised addresses to schoolchildren.

Some schools decided to record the speech and, after reviewing it, would decide whether to show it to the children or not. I suppose that most home-schooled children didn't see it. But, after reading it, I can't see anything in it that is in any way indoctrinating children, unless urging children to do their best in school to prepare for a better life is indoctrinating them. I don't believe that even George Bush the Second could object to any of it. You can judge. Here it is, behind a cut.

( PRESIDENT OBAMA'S BACK TO SCHOOL SPEECH TO AMERICA'S CHILDREN )

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