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Archive for October, 2005

A Fitting Tribute

( news and politics )

Rosa Parks to lie in honor at the Capitol.
Rosa Parks, the African American seamstress who refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., 50 years ago and lent a spark to the beginnings of the modern civil rights movement, will make history again as the first woman ever […]

FBI Inches Closer to Sanity on Drugs

( drugs and politics )

FBI Considers Relaxing Drug-Use Policy.
“The integrity of the FBI is a known national treasure that must be protected,” said retired Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, who used to head the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. “But there should be no hard and fast rule that suggests you can’t ever have used drugs.”
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“What people […]

Cloneburger, anyone?

( food and politics and vegan )

It’s things like this that make me glad I went vegan. Cloned food. No thanks!

“We Can Manage Better”

This from the party who said they could manage the government better. Ha.

Intolerant

( politics and queer )

Enough with tolerance, I want to be intolerant.
I don’t want to tolerate those who would discriminate against me. I don’t want to tolerate those who would harm me and mine through word or deed. I don’t want to tolerate people who spend every waking moment trying to think of ways to hold us […]