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Shaking The Tree Formerly on MySpace as BlackRose (NativeAtheist)

English - Life, Religion, Politics
http://blackroseheart.wordpress.com
Shaking The Tree · 17h ago

Lil taking Milt to the Draft Board

Letter written on 11 Nov 1972, by my Grandmother Lil, to her children.
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Shaking The Tree · 2W ago

WWII Draft Cards

While scanning pictures and other items found in a family album, I came across some documents that I wasn't sure of what they were. At the top, they said "Notice of Classification", and it was obvious they were military of some sort, but I was absolutely clueless about what they could be.
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Shaking The Tree · 1M ago

Greetings, Earthlings!

Imagine for a moment that you go to your dentist on Monday morning, and he greets you with, "Hi! How did you spend your Easter?"
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Shaking The Tree · 2M ago

What’s your reason?

I wonder how many people ever really think about their reason for bringing a child into this world.
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Shaking The Tree · 4M ago

Blackout your WordPress.com blog to support STOP SOPA

So, you want to blackout your WordPress.com blog in support of STOP SOPA day on January 18, 2012? It's actually pretty easy.
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Shaking The Tree · 4M ago

You’re a militant atheist!

All an atheist has to do is say "I'm atheist" and we're "offending the religious". All an atheist has to do is say "you're forcing your beliefs on others, and I won't stand for it anymore" and we're labeled as "militant atheists". The term is laughable. When we start blowing up their places of worsh
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Shaking The Tree · 5M ago

Two Americas

Vanguard's "Two Americas" takes a ground-level survey of the growing economic disparity in America, profiling a month in the lives of two families in very different income brackets.
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Shaking The Tree · 5M ago

Free Markets and Captive Market Labor

Capitalism is not the problem, corporate capitalism and its influence on government is the entire problem.
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Shaking The Tree · 7M ago

Corporatism puts us all in the poorhouse

I’ve been a supporter of the Occupation Wall Street movement since its inception a few short weeks ago. I’ve been to my local Occupy movement, stood on the sidewalk holding my sign, and have tried to educate people about what the movement is about. While standing out on the sidewalk, more than a few
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Shaking The Tree · 8M ago

Facebook changes – the TICKER problem

At around 1am EST on September 21, 2011 Facebook made a drastic change to your newsfeed. One of the most noticeable changes is a "ticker" at the top right side of your screen. This "ticker" shows you what your friends are doing in real time. As if anyone really needed to see all that. :-\
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