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During the season of peace, Dose the 'War on Christmas' battles rage?
In Santa Monica, Calif., temperatures average from the mid-60s to the lower 70s in a city on the coast of the Pacific Ocean that's a popular spot for surfing ... not exactly a winter wonderland. It's now the Westernmost front in the "War on Christmas." According to the Los Angeles Times, for nearly six decades the Christian churches in Santa Monica have put up Nativity displays in the city's Palisades Park. Atheists groups objected to the use of public property for religious displays and applied to the city for their own spaces. The city decided to hold a lottery for the 21 spaces available in the park, and atheists groups won 18 of them. The Nativity story, which once used 14 displays, is limited to three this season, and the Christian community is not happy

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Bush was warned, way before the war that removing Sunni Saddam would create a Shiite superstate between Iran?
...and Iraq. There were major articles about it in many publications like the New Yorker and Los Angeles times. Why were these people were called "traitors" and unpatriotic for saying so on Fox News and AM radio? smith "Saddam is running Iraq?" Learn something everyday. As far as Saudi Arabia and 911 - that I absolutely agree with - we should have invaded them, not Iraq.

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Are traffic tickets issued by Red-Light Cameras Voluntary in Los Angeles?
I read the Los Angeles Times article stating that red-light tickets are voluntary back in June 2011. I just received one in the mail. If the system is flawed why are they still being issued? I need advice from someone that has not paid one, were there any consequences?

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Does anyone else find this news to be troubling that Immigration issues could be behind those car fires in LA?
The man arrested by Los Angeles police in connection with a string of arson fires may be a native of Germany who had been driving a van with British Columbia plates, reports say. The Los Angeles Times, citing police sources, reports that the man appears to have been battling the U.S. government over the immigration status of a relative. ABC News reports the man may have been angry about a deportation hearing against his mother that took place about a week and a half ago. The man was stopped by police near the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue early Monday morning, Los Angeles fire Capt. Jamie Moore told reporters. Sources tell the Times that the minivan the man was driving had B.C. licence plates. The same sources say detectives found materials inside the van that could have been used to set fires. Car with B.C. plates linked to L.A. arson probe: reports http://winnipeg.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20120102/loa-angeles-arson-investigation-video-120102/20120102/?hub=WinnipegHome

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how can i imporive this? huckleberry finn essay?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain tell the story of how a young boy learns how to overcome the idea that colored folks are less equal then white folk. Regardless of the positive lessons portrayed throughout this book, it has been miss represented even from the very day that it was published. In fact, it has been said that this "book has been controversial since it was published it 1885" in a Los Angeles Times article written by Henry Weinstein in 1998. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classical story which was written for enjoyment and future education. This book was not written to encourage any derogatory slurs to any ethnic groups. Even though Jim, the colored friend of Huckleberry Finn, felt that every white person though of color people as less equal, his friendship with Huck should be an inspiration to everyone to overcome differences. America has become a country that has given every one of its citizens an awesome privilege to be equal. Along with this privilege to be equal, America citizens have the opportunity to learn and become educated. The schools that provide this education should had the right to teach people how this country has evolved into a great nation. This right should include an ability to examine both the good and the bad and it should include a proper response to both. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn provides an excellence chance for teachers to explain to young people how America has now treats everyone equal. Many times in the friendship of Huck and Jim, Jim's idea that all white people treat colored peopleas less equal then white people show up. Jim, who is a run-a-way slave, was always trying to avoid any contact with white people of town. One specific example of how Jim thought about white people was when he stumbled across a dead man on the river in a house. Jim did not what to tell anyone, not even Huck. He thought that if anyone found out they would blame him for murdering the fellow. Jim was always in hiding. He thought that if a white person saw him, he would be sent back to his owner and punished. Jim only really came in contact with on the Mississippi, as Russell Backer wrote, were "drunkards, murderers, bullies, swindlers, lynchers, thieves, liars, frauds, child abusers, numskulls, hypocrites, windbags, and traders in human flesh." Because of the people that he meet, he formed an idea of what all white people might thing of all colored people. Jim should not have stereotyped white people like this. At the same time schools should not stereotype Huckleberry Finn as a derogatory book because of the thoughts of early southern Americans. The friendship of Huck and Jim in The Adventures of Huckleberry not only is a good example of how people of different ethnic background should treat each other, but it is also a good encouragement to readers to have loyalty to friends. Huck was feeling guilty for not telling on his run-a-way slave. He even wrote a note that would get Jim in trouble. After some time, Huck decided that his friendship was important to him. Huck ripped the note and never told on Jim. If examined improperly, this classic story includes an offensive word. People must consider many other situations in history that could include offensive literature. In history, Semitic peoples were treated terribly by Adolf Hitler. If schools in America do not have the right to discuss, explain and read about history, how will young people learn what is good and what is bad. Should every history book be banned from schools because Hitler was anti-Semitic? No! Rather people need to learn how to "think critical about offensive ideas" as Reinhardt once said in a Los Angeles Times article in 1998. Also, how will young people know why or how they now have the privilege to be a citizen of a county that gives all ethic group equal rights.

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