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Bloggers Unite: Freedom for Iranians

I want to tell the oppressed Iranian people that I am sympathetic to their desire for freedom and a say in how their lives are governed. Bless you all.

June 21, 2009 · 16 Comments

The Beauty Pageant Disease

Beauty contestants are victims of a need for fantasy made flesh. What supports the image of attractiveness is our willingness to have them perform as masturbatory props.

May 4, 2009 · 13 Comments

US support for sexual and reproductive rights

On April 1st, 2009 the U.S. government decisively broke from its recent past [under the Bush Administration] by reaffirming its “deep commitment” to “universal access to sexual and reproductive health and the protection and promotion of reproductive rights” at the 42nd Session of the Commission on Population and Development, at UN headquarters in New York.

April 7, 2009 · 10 Comments

Curing Poverty: New Tribalism

I believe we are capable of addressing and solving the poverty created by the class structure, self-interest, individual and corporate greed, conquests and wars and, the inappropriate distribution of resources including water and food that lead to starvation and death all over the planet. However, we may have to become tribal to achieve that.

April 3, 2009 · 22 Comments

Political correctness: What's your position?

What I have a problem with is those people who are double minded. One on hand, they say they uphold the Constitution and Bill of Rights. On the other they are determined to keep discrimination alive in both their language and their behaviors in public spaces and places, while huddling under the banner of freedom of speech, seemly unable to comprehend that the constraint is on government and only applies to public places and spaces.

January 20, 2009 · 25 Comments

Proposition 8 Challenged

Proposition 8 results The American Constitution does not deal with the issuance of marriage licenses. Legal marriage is a state CREATED institution. Legal marriage doesn’t EXIST except as state law … Continue reading

November 6, 2008 · 9 Comments

America: Change begins within

The last barrier to African Americans actually achieving the American dream has been broken. Barrack Obama has been elected president of the United States of America in a landslide win. … Continue reading

November 6, 2008 · 3 Comments
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