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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Good for her, too
Check this out:
"I've got three kids. My sole biological reason for being on this planet is to ensure that they can flourish, and they can't do that in a filthy, degraded environment."
-- Lucy Lawless, actress, speaking from aboard an oil-drilling ship to prevent it from leaving a New Zealand dock; she and five Greenpeace activists were arrested
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"I've got three kids. My sole biological reason for being on this planet is to ensure that they can flourish, and they can't do that in a filthy, degraded environment."
-- Lucy Lawless, actress, speaking from aboard an oil-drilling ship to prevent it from leaving a New Zealand dock; she and five Greenpeace activists were arrested
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Monday, February 27, 2012
Headline of the day
Here you go:
"Rick Santorum On Religious Freedom: What He Has Forgotten Since Law School"
And here's the subtitle:
"A law school peer of Santorum's offers a lesson on what the Constitution says about religious freedom for a wayward classmate and his followers."
It's worth a quick read.
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"Rick Santorum On Religious Freedom: What He Has Forgotten Since Law School"
And here's the subtitle:
"A law school peer of Santorum's offers a lesson on what the Constitution says about religious freedom for a wayward classmate and his followers."
It's worth a quick read.
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Saturday, February 25, 2012
So why isn't this simply obvious?
It's one of the "quotes of the day" over at the Time Magazine website:
"Resorting to religious language that sets people of faith against each other harms political discourse and sows religious discord."
-- J. Brent Walker, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, in a joint statement with the Anti-Defamation League and the Interfaith Alliance, warning Republican presidential candidates to leave religion out of politics
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"Resorting to religious language that sets people of faith against each other harms political discourse and sows religious discord."
-- J. Brent Walker, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, in a joint statement with the Anti-Defamation League and the Interfaith Alliance, warning Republican presidential candidates to leave religion out of politics
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Friday, February 24, 2012
A rather distressing bumper sticker
See what I mean?
“No problem. I wasn’t using my civil liberties anyway.”
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“No problem. I wasn’t using my civil liberties anyway.”
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Good grief. (Deep, deep sigh....)
Um.... there's one F-bomb in here so, if that offends you, don't watch.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Quite unnerving, if you ask me
It's one of the quotes of the day from Time Magazine:
"Forty years ago, you'd watch the same evening-news ad as your Democratic neighbor."
-- Kenneth Goldstein, president of the Campaign and Media Analysis Group at Kantar Media, on how political ads now target potential supporters on the basis of their location, the websites they visit and their voting record
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"Forty years ago, you'd watch the same evening-news ad as your Democratic neighbor."
-- Kenneth Goldstein, president of the Campaign and Media Analysis Group at Kantar Media, on how political ads now target potential supporters on the basis of their location, the websites they visit and their voting record
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
So did his father ever do this sort of thing?
If so, I don't remember it at all.
Take a look at what I'm talking about:
Franklin Graham Calls Obama's Religious Beliefs Into Question
You know, when I was a child in Sunday School, I was taught that questioning someone else's salvation was tantamount to presuming to judge in the way that only God can judge and that it is very wrong.
And I still believe that.
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Take a look at what I'm talking about:
Franklin Graham Calls Obama's Religious Beliefs Into Question
You know, when I was a child in Sunday School, I was taught that questioning someone else's salvation was tantamount to presuming to judge in the way that only God can judge and that it is very wrong.
And I still believe that.
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Monday, February 20, 2012
May Day strike?
Please do take a look at this:
OWS Calls for May Day Strike
Personally, I don't think there's enough support for something like this yet but I wish there were.
Here's one comment that caught my attention:
"Once upon a time Gandhi started this way in India. It was called a day of prayer and meditation. The entire country came to a ‘non-violent’ standstill that day. Do it!"
Yes, I could wish for that approach!!!
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OWS Calls for May Day Strike
Personally, I don't think there's enough support for something like this yet but I wish there were.
Here's one comment that caught my attention:
"Once upon a time Gandhi started this way in India. It was called a day of prayer and meditation. The entire country came to a ‘non-violent’ standstill that day. Do it!"
Yes, I could wish for that approach!!!
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
Wow. What a statement!
This was on my Facebook newsfeed. Just take a look:
"I have born two children. With my second son, I was in labor for six and a half weeks, causing me to be on bed rest and in pain for a month and a half. My arches fell out of my feet, and never returned. In the 18 months I was pregnant, I vomited for every one of them, giving birth weighing less than I had when I got pregnant, loosing my tooth enamel, damaging my esophagus. I have suffered a post birth infection that nearly killed me. I nursed each child for a year, with breasts so large that they literally warp my spine, causing weakness and injury resulting in invasive spinal surgery. I get migraines that hospitalize me once a month, twice or more if I don't get affordable birth control. I cannot have anymore children because I have a medical condition that makes me unable to regulate my spinal fluid pressure and the medications I take would jeopardize my unborn child. I have stayed up nights with vomiting, feverish children. I have done more diapers than you can shake a stick at. I have put off a career in favor of raising decent people. I am a mother of two beautiful souls for whom I would do it all again... But I can tell you one thing GOP: my sons WILL NEVER SILENCE THE VOICES OF WOMEN, OR TAKE THE RIGHT TO CARE FOR THEIR OWN BODIES AWAY. So go ahead, have your little meetings, exclude half the population because we have vaginas, see how far that gets you. But don't forget your mother, your wife, your sisters and daughters.... we are watching you, we are being told what we are worth to you, and we won't forget come voting time. Any woman who is paying attention ought to be angry, and any man worth his salt ought to be too."
-- Sarah Zacharias
Well, spoken, Sarah.
To the men out there: are you listening? Please listen!
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"I have born two children. With my second son, I was in labor for six and a half weeks, causing me to be on bed rest and in pain for a month and a half. My arches fell out of my feet, and never returned. In the 18 months I was pregnant, I vomited for every one of them, giving birth weighing less than I had when I got pregnant, loosing my tooth enamel, damaging my esophagus. I have suffered a post birth infection that nearly killed me. I nursed each child for a year, with breasts so large that they literally warp my spine, causing weakness and injury resulting in invasive spinal surgery. I get migraines that hospitalize me once a month, twice or more if I don't get affordable birth control. I cannot have anymore children because I have a medical condition that makes me unable to regulate my spinal fluid pressure and the medications I take would jeopardize my unborn child. I have stayed up nights with vomiting, feverish children. I have done more diapers than you can shake a stick at. I have put off a career in favor of raising decent people. I am a mother of two beautiful souls for whom I would do it all again... But I can tell you one thing GOP: my sons WILL NEVER SILENCE THE VOICES OF WOMEN, OR TAKE THE RIGHT TO CARE FOR THEIR OWN BODIES AWAY. So go ahead, have your little meetings, exclude half the population because we have vaginas, see how far that gets you. But don't forget your mother, your wife, your sisters and daughters.... we are watching you, we are being told what we are worth to you, and we won't forget come voting time. Any woman who is paying attention ought to be angry, and any man worth his salt ought to be too."
-- Sarah Zacharias
Well, spoken, Sarah.
To the men out there: are you listening? Please listen!
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Simply yes
Here is the Sojourner's quote of the week:
"The Holocaust shows not only how low humanity can go, but also how high it can go. Someone in a camp who shares his last bread with a friend sheds new light on the word friendship."
- Dorit Novak, director of the Yad Vashem Memorial and Museum’s International School for Holocaust Studies in Jerusalem
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"The Holocaust shows not only how low humanity can go, but also how high it can go. Someone in a camp who shares his last bread with a friend sheds new light on the word friendship."
- Dorit Novak, director of the Yad Vashem Memorial and Museum’s International School for Holocaust Studies in Jerusalem
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