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Just One More Reason Why 'I Love NY!'

2009-06-09T09:09:00.003-04:00

In the wake of the "coup" in the New York Senate we are all left with an uneasy feeling that many of our older generation remembers from the days of the mob and 'real' corrupt politics. In addition many are left wondering what now? What is going to happen with the agenda of the Democratic...

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Where is our Brown vs. Board?

2009-05-28T19:53:00.005-04:00

There is no shortage of people who have drawn the parallel between the separate but equal system of the post Civil War era and the current plight of the gay couples being offered civil union which "hold all the same rights and powers as marriage" while withholding actual marriage from them. ...

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Whining about Wine

2009-03-04T01:17:00.002-05:00

I am usually very supportive of any measure which tries to break down the barriers that the alcohol industry faces. Most of these laws are simply out of date and based on old religious customs and really don't have any place in law. This is not to say that I think it is a good idea to sell...

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To All Those Who Pee a Little at the Word "Change": Prepare to be Dissappointed

2008-12-04T23:32:00.002-05:00

After three years of spitting venom at the shortcomings of the Republican Party, now I get a chance at the other side. And what better place to start than to point out evidence that the Oil companies already have their hands on the controls of the Obama Puppet Show. An article published by...

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A Reciprocating Saw Tearing Through California

2008-11-20T23:58:00.001-05:00

I mentioned before in my Prop 8: Enough Already! entry that prior to this past election day gay marriage had been shifted back and forth in legality six times. Well thanks to a conservative, religious and traditionalist population, the lucky gays in California have been blessed with lucky number...

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Come Rednecks, Join Us...

2008-11-18T23:29:00.001-05:00

In the 21st Century. We on the "liberal" side of American politics have spent the last eight years banging our heads on anything hard we could find trying make sense anything that president George has done. In that time he has wiretapped our calls both home and abroad. Endorsed torture and...

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Uncle Tom

2008-11-05T18:07:00.003-05:00

First of all Obama won. Lati-frickin-da. I guess he's the one that I wanted to win out of the TWO choices, but I voted for Nader. He would make a good president. Second of all gay marriage is now unconstitutional in Florida, Arizona, and California. In Arkansas it is now illegal for a gay...

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Kill a Pundit, Save our Sanity

2008-10-29T20:27:00.005-04:00

Last Friday the New York Times spoiled a delusion I was purposely keeping myself under. The Delusion: That Pundits were just an accident, a quark, God's little joke on us all, and that soon they would fade away. Or maybe all be shot. (This is in no way a threat, I'd like to keep myself happily out...

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Write to Marry Day

2008-10-27T22:12:00.004-04:00

*UPDATE* Contributed posts are up I just wanted to pass along a some information I found at the Caffection blog about Write to Marry Day. This is an organized write-in of anyone interested in blogging against Proposition 8 in California. If you write or have written a blog against prop 8 before...

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Proposition 8: Enough Already!

2008-10-25T02:59:00.007-04:00

The California gay community has some of the strongest legal power in the country over their right to marry, however they have been dragged back and forth through the dirt more times than in any other state. The legal right for them to marry has been given to, and taken back from them, around six...

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Voting isn't for Idiots

2008-10-21T01:04:00.003-04:00

In the world in which we find ourselves under a constant barrage of media from news stations, political satire shows, the blog-o-sphere and any other media outlet you can think of, we have become a culture in which voting is more difficult. Some would argue against this statement,claiming that...

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Reagan's Dead for Good and What That Means for You.

2008-10-07T23:22:00.003-04:00

Sure his mind left us long ago, and his body left us a few years ago, but outlasting both were his treacherous financial plans. Now as we all sit back and watch our investments fall, college graduates unable to find jobs to pay off their student loans, senior laborers calculate the increased...

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Space Race Number Two, Even More Pointless to Me and You

2008-07-01T16:22:00.002-04:00

Forty years after the U.S put a man on the moon it is now extremely important that we invest billions more into our space program in order to beat China there, says Buzz Aldrin the second man to set foot on the moon back in 1969 (article ). He further wishes to put more money into the NASA...

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The Hypocrite's Dilemma

2008-06-18T03:18:00.004-04:00

Starting today, officially 4% of the states in the Union allow a gay couple to legally marry. Bay-bee steps. California's leap onto the official homo-scene of course coincided with a very important Observer Dispatch article which highlights, quite well, why we are going to be pushing for legalized...

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Nuclear Non-Proliferation

2008-06-01T22:39:00.002-04:00

By Timothy Rice The U.S has repeatedly expressed that it doesn't like the idea of Iran gaining nuclear weapons. Iran says it is simply trying to get nuclear-electric power, while the U.S and other U.N. countries think otherwise. To be honest in 2008, with a growing number of countries gaining...

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Paying For Their Grandparents' “Wrongs”

2008-04-21T19:11:00.002-04:00

By Timothy Rice The recent less-than-drastic political shift in Cuba from Fidel to Raul Castro has brought back into the American public light a little fact: In 2008 we still have to drive to Canada to get Cuban cigars. In one of the longest running economic embargoes of modern times,...

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Support Our Troops?

2008-03-31T22:56:00.003-04:00

By Timothy Rice Four years ago the magnets were everywhere, everyone was slapping them on the back of cars, on their front doors, mailboxes, and businesses. Now it is 2008 you really have to wonder how many people are paying attention to them, and to the bigger picture, their namesake, Our...

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Columbia: The U.S' Spoiled Child

2008-03-19T20:09:00.001-04:00

By Timothy RiceThankfully, last week the tensions between Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa and Colombian president Alvaro Uribe ended amicably, calming fears that the area would erupt into war.After the Colombian military crossed Ecuador's border in search of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of...

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Survival of the fattest?

2007-11-13T22:02:00.000-05:00

It was once thought by population experts that by this time the amount of food produceable on earth would be far surpassed by what was needed by the exponentially growing population. It turns out that through the use of science, food production has actually remained in step with the continued...

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Honey I love you, but ooooh that porno!

2007-10-10T15:41:00.000-04:00

I really started to pay attention to this thing a couple months ago when I was watching a special on the life of Reverent Billy Graham, the world renowned televangelist. They were telling the stories of peoples lives he had touched. One such story was about a man, with a problem, an addiction, and...

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Politics.

2007-09-20T21:27:00.000-04:00

It's not supposed to be a bad word, but why is it? A definition of politics is as follows "The art or science of government or governing, especially the governing of a political entity, such as a nation, and the administration and control of its internal and external affairs." That certainly seems...

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Nu-uh! Am not!

2007-04-05T17:17:00.000-04:00

In reaction to a recent comment that I received I feel as though there are some misconceptions of me that I should clear up. Do not take this in any way to mean that I do not want comments, to the contrary I love them and would like to receive many more, I am simply disheartened when I am accused...

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Fascism, Ignorance, and Religion

2007-04-03T01:44:00.000-04:00

In Italy and Germany before WWII there were no questions. What Hitler or Mussolini said was right, duh. People were murdered by the millions, lands were concurred, armies were built up larger than ever seen before, police states were created. There were to be no questions. In religion class I was...

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The pull-out method

2007-03-15T19:23:00.000-04:00

So it’s commonly known that there is an ideological problem with democratizing Iraq. Commonly known to everyone but George Bush, and his millions of followers. It seems safe to say that democracy is a better system in the protection of individual rights than Authoritarianism. Just by the very fact...

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Traditionalists are lower than Gonorrhea discharge

2007-01-05T00:52:00.000-05:00

My intention is for this to be a short essay, about a small subject, that is causing a big aneurysm to form in my brain. We'll see if it ends up that way, can you now see that editing is really not important to me at all? Yeah I don't read these things after I write them, big surprise. Anyways the...

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