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Mar. 20th, 2009 12:40 pmHappy birthday Staceyface (= (
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***Edit: My letter to the editor was published (most suprisingly, infull almost full*!)
* I note they did edit out my reference to him showing up on newsbusters.
***Edit 2: The letter above ours is about the same author (Gustavo Arellano) accidentally using a racial slur on Poles, calling them "Polacks" instead of "Poles", oops!
And the letter after ours is some crazy person who "read on the internet" that the disappearance of bees is due to a nazi pesticide plant in the US that blew up in 2008 ...!!
***Edit: My letter to the editor was published (most suprisingly, in
* I note they did edit out my reference to him showing up on newsbusters.
***Edit 2: The letter above ours is about the same author (Gustavo Arellano) accidentally using a racial slur on Poles, calling them "Polacks" instead of "Poles", oops!
And the letter after ours is some crazy person who "read on the internet" that the disappearance of bees is due to a nazi pesticide plant in the US that blew up in 2008 ...!!
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Date: 2009-03-21 05:51 am (UTC)I'm just surprised that they didn't mention that
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Date: 2009-03-21 06:26 am (UTC)And hello, fellow Pole! My maternal grandfather was a second-generation Pole, but he anglicized his name and wouldn't teach us anything about his culture. "I'm an American," he always said. Still, he made great potato pancakes.
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Date: 2009-03-23 02:37 am (UTC)And no, the name wasn't changed at all.
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Date: 2009-03-23 02:54 am (UTC)