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Nov 21 · One evening this semester, in a criminal justice class, another student was talking about an incident he had recently been involved with, as part of his job. He is a state trooper, who is working on continuing his education. It was interesting to me, because the class gives a lot of different perspectives. He told about some of the problems that result from "holes in the net" between the justice system and human services.
An older woman in the class took the opportunity to engage in a rant ab
Nov 21 · Not only are they growing their numbers in Ft. Wayne, they just got 11 million dollars from Arne Duncan's Department of Education. It seems there are no consequences as long as states grow charter schools.
In a series of articles and editorials this week, the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette newspaper has accused the operator of charter schools in Indianapolis and Fort Wayne of not adhering to state laws governing charter schools. In the articles, the Journal Gazette reports that instead of th
Nov 21 ·
After months of silent, closed door negotiations between the holy trinity (the executive branch, the congress, & the health care industry), we stand on the brink of health insurance reform.
Health insurance reform. Do not confuse this with health care reform as that was never the intent of this legislation. This is not a minor point. Health care reform would have addressed the central problem of our current health care system and confronted the reality that in order to provide universal
Nov 21 · Divide and Conquer
Divide and Conquer is the way the elite keep power in a democracy. If you ask a man to cast a vote that denies his family the basic necessities of life, he will laugh you out of office. If you ask that same man to cast a vote that will deny his neighbor those necessities, he will think about it. Suggest that he vote to keep some folks on the other side of town uneducated and unvaccinated, and he just might do it. Tell him that the folks on the other side of town ar
Nov 21 · "...At the time, I was having such different and opposing feelings, but PFLAG affirmed that being gay is a gift. I never forgot that."
-- Quote from A PFLAG member from Saginaw, Michigan
PFLAG promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons, their families and friends through: support, to cope with an adverse society; education, to enlighten an ill-informed public; and advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights. Parents, Famili
Nov 20 · The purpose of “Half the Sky – Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide”, by Pulitzer Prize Winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, is pretty much self-evident from the subtitle. The authors say in the introduction to that their primary areas of emphasis are: sex trafficking and the forced prostitution that accompanies it; gender-based violence against women; and maternal mortality (mortality associated with pregnancy or childbirth).
The United Nations’ Interna
Nov 20 · Guess who is not satisfied with the Senate Health care bill. The Catholic Bishops group is calling it not just a bad bill but one of the worst they have seen.
Guess they will be stepping in to make it better, just like did when they aided in getting the Stupak amendment passed at the last minute.
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A pro-life spokesman for the nation's Catholic bishops doesn't mince words today an interview about the new Harry Reid health care bill in the Senate that co
Nov 20 · Our illustrious (cough, cough) White House press corps showed it could get to the bottom of a story with impressively journalistic and probative skills this week. The story that so obviously required multiple questions to President Obama on his trip to Asia? Whether he's eating enough, and whether he's losing weight. Oh, and his gray hair.
Seriously, you can't make this stuff up. Somebody, obviously bored on the excruciatingly long plane ride, decided they'd float the rumor that Obama was
Nov 20 · I had to read a lot of books about the current war and occupation in Iraq before I found one that's laugh out-loud hilarious. It's a book about a U.S. military hospital in Iraq, a journal kept for a 10-month tour of duty by an operating room medic. The story never leaves the hospital, and it focuses in large part on the relationships among the characters working there, including pranks and hijinks aplenty. One almost inevitably thinks of MASH and its fictional Army hospital in Korea, but ther
Nov 20 · I'm deeply concerned that the 'public option' is too weak in the House bill and even more tainted in the Senate with their 'opt-out provision. I posted some analysis here which highlighted my objections () and the non-response to my thread was typical of a community which (in the majority) isn't in any mood to lose on this one.
Given the nature of the opposition in Congress (which is basically nothing but industry whores looking to derail the legislation by hook or crook), there really isn't
Nov 19 · This is an email forward that I could not let go uncontested. So, here it is broken up, and my response underneath.
The Letter Everyone Is Talking About
This has to be the email forward of the year! Please take a few minutes to read and absorb just what this woman had to say, and then hopefully everyone will pass it to their entire mailing list, and theirs to theirs until it circles the nation! Time is short and arrogance, stupidity and ignorance abound..............
The followin
Nov 19 · Maybe it is a good thing this happened, this idiotic religion-based amendment that was pushed by the Catholic Bishops and allowed by our Democratic majority.
I remember pre-Roe times all too clearly. There was not only a deep shame to getting pregnant pre-marriage....there was no legal way to do anything about it. Oh, and there were not the effective means of birth control, either.
So pardon me if I wonder why women are so compliant as our party is willing to take away their rights.
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