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No more troops in Afghanistan

Working toward a better world includes making our points, something seen a few times on that occasionally rewarding medium, the telly, this week.

While many point fingers at President Obama, calling his decision-making "dithering," there have been many factions fighting for their piece of the Afghan pie, out of sight of the public. No wonder it's taken so long to arrive at this week's decision.

Most of the principal advocates of the War in Vietnam have long ago admitted that their advocacy was based on calculations about domestic politics, but none of them, as far as I know, has expressed any shame about it.

this just keeps getting more and more depraved

Although President Obama won the last presidential election on the key promise of change and reform, his administration has provided neither. It's clear he's just a super salesman for many of the same policies as Bush conducted. On Tuesday, he will sell an escalation of war in Afghanistan to the American people.

62% of teachers report that each week, they see children come to school hungry because there is not enough food at home - one of several findings released in a recent survey of teachers.

Minnesotans got another reminder of the damage wrought by Governor Gutshot (aka Tim Pawlenty, the man who would be president) in last Friday's paper: The state's official economist, Tom Stinson, has just said that the decades-long tax cut binge, heartily indulged in by T-Paw, has caused serious structural problems to Minnesota -- and that the only reason things aren't even worse is because of the Federal stimulus money Obama sent our way.

Take a short break from your Thanksgiving weekend and drop by Food Sunday tomorrow. We've got a ton of great stuff in store.