Truth Retried, Not Retired
Paul Sjordal
- Location
- Naperville, Illinois,
- Birthday
- July 20
- Bio
- I am a 68 year old father of three sons with two grandsons produced through a marriage to a Japanese American wife for 41 years of far from married bliss due to the vast differences in our cultures and childhoods. I was a career military Air Force public affairs officer for 28 years including as a member of the US Central Command when it was created in 1983. I retired in 1991 and after an eight-month stint as paid staff for a US congressional campaign, I entered the teaching profession through practical experience and subsequent educational courses. I served as the director of youth development at the South-East Asia Center in the Uptown community of Chicago for 14 years, teaching children and doing parenting workshops primarily for immigrant and refugee parents as well as mothers in battered women shelters. I fully retired in the fall of 2006. From spending considerable time on the Internet, especially Greenwald’s UT, where my screen name is Retired Military Patriot, I have become actively involved in local and national politics.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Why is Up Down and Down Up?
September 12, 2008 12:23PM - Undisputed Champion of
Flip-Flopping
September 09, 2008 08:23PM - Don't blame people, blame
systems
August 25, 2008 11:46AM - It’s Barack’s fault
Hillary’s a woman
August 25, 2008 08:51AM - Joe, don’t fear
McShameful’s hero status
August 23, 2008 07:14AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “You have to think that
as hard as the pilots may try,
when
you are only minutes
f…”
November 01, 2009 03:51PM - “Great and moving
article. Somehow, many who are
opposed to
reform or are dupes
of…”
October 01, 2009 01:24PM - “W0nderful to read you
again after far too long. July
20, 1969
was a far
different…”
August 18, 2009 03:31AM - “I was very proud of my
senator Dick Durbin saying
that the
banks own congress.
He…”
May 04, 2009 02:02PM - “Arianna Huffington is as
upset as you are Karen. In
her
article, she says the
ban…”
May 01, 2009 05:39PM
Paul Sjordal's Links
Why is Up Down and Down Up?
When Repubs are interviewed by the media, like Sarah Palin last night, whether they are candidates or surrogates, they throw truth and ethics to the wind and say whatever will work to meet their goal. What was up to them yesterday can be down today and they do it without a… Read full post »
With the help of fellow Greenwald devotee Jim Montague, we have put together a list of flip-flops to honor the Undisputed US Champion of Flip-Flopping, John S. McCain. This stubborn veteran has become so skilled at this most dangerous endeavor that he only took an amazing eleven minutes for one flip… Read full post »
Don't blame people, blame systems
The short answer to the question, "What can be done to put America back on top of the education world?" is to stress the love of learning and dump grades.
No Child Left Behind is a disaster because it is leaving many more children behind now than… Read full post »
It’s Barack’s fault Hillary’s a woman
The excuse I most frequently hear from Hillary supporters who can’t get over the fact they lost because Obama ran a better campaign than Clinton, is that we lost because it is a misogynist and sexist world. And Oh, that’s Barack’s fault. Somehow it is also Barack’s fault… Read full post »
Joe, don’t fear McShameful’s hero status
I was delighted with Obama’s VP pick of Joe Biden for many reasons, but one in particular- Biden’s attack dog skills. I am a Glenn Greenwald devotee and strongly urge that the Obama campaign through Biden be fearless in attacking McShameful and his non-vision for America’s fut… Read full post »
The excellent Open Salon article “Safe Kids, Fat Kids,” by Joanne Jacobs has stimulated me to write about a form of child abuse that is not considered such by anyone that I know of. I spent 14 years at a social service agency working primarily with Chinese and Vietnamese immigrant f… Read full post »
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