Event Reminders:  Vets for peace: A Journey for Peace
Tuesday, 03/02/2010
The SD Vets for Peace have a great presentation at our upcoming monthly meeting, Tuesday, March 2, "A Journey for Peace from San Diego to Gaza." Three speakers will tell the story of the 200-vehicle, 500-person peace convoy they joined in order to deliver to the Palestinian people of Gaza ambulances, trucks and vans filled with medical aid and humanitarian supplies. Giant Demonstration - 7th Anniversary of Iraq War
Saturday, 03/20/2010
The San Diego Veterans for Peace and SDCPJ are sponsoring an all-day event in San Diego on March 20 to mark the 7th anniversary of the Iraq War. SDVFP has set a goal of 1,000 participants for the 6,000 candlelight vigil, from 6:30 to 8:00 PM. VFP will supply candles. Please mark your calendars to participate in part or all of this event. By Dave Patterson, SDVFP. Phyllis Bennis speaker at SDSU March 2
Tuesday, 03/02/2010
Noted activist, author and speaker Phyllis Bennis will be the featured speaker at SD State University March 2 as part of the Palestine Awareness Week. At 6:30 pm. Bennis works closely with the United for Peace and Justice anti-war coalition, co-chairs the UN-based International Coordinating Network on Palestine, and since 2002 has played an active role in the growing global peace movement. She continues to serve as an adviser to several top UN officials on Middle East and UN democratization issues. DAY of ACTION: Stop the destruction of California
Thursday, 03/04/2010
A DAY OF ACTION to demand A halt to layoffs and pay cuts and restoration of full funding to education with a guarantee of free access to all citizens and non-citizens, k-12 up to graduate level.
Stop the privatization of education and increase public participation in decision-making processes through the democratic election of teachers, parents, and students to run institutions in the interests of society as a whole. Progressive taxation on corporations and the wealthy to fully fund social services that sustain community, including the right to health care and living wages for California's workers.
* Tax payer money for education, not for prisons, wars, and corporate bailouts. Grassroots Campaign Training: Learn To Win!
Friday, 03/05/2010
The California Democratic Party's "Learn to Win 2010" campaign training is coming to San Diego! Intended primarily for grassroots Democratic activists, the free program will cover campaign messaging, field skills, online strategy, voter registration, and more.
Bill Moyer's guests OLSON & BOISES on video
Friday, 03/05/2010
In case you missed the Bill Moyers Journal about Marriage Equality on Friday, Feb. 27, you can view it here at this website:
http://www.marriagetrial.com/ Douglas Dunn: Letter Writer of the Year
Saturday, 03/06/2010
Douglas Dunn of Escondido was selected as the "Letter Writer of the Year" to the NC Times, by the North County Forum. This the highest award given by the Forum. His letters are meticulously researched for accuracy, rational in presentation, and often witty. He is particularly well versed in economic theory and history and in climate change.
Here are some of his letters: Madoff attacked in prison yard by senior citizen
Sunday, 03/07/2010
Madoff's projected release date is November 14, 2139. On October 13, 2009, it was reported he experienced his first prison yard fight with another senior citizen inmate. March 20, 7th Anniversary of the Iraq War
Sunday, 03/07/2010
The San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice joins hands with the San Diego Veterans For Peace. All-day demonstration to honor the 6,000 American soldiers sacrificed in the war. More than one million excess deaths from the Bush War, started March 20, 2003. Arlington West with 6,000 candles by the Midway Museum in San Diego. NC Film Club Series Offers Ocar Nominee TBA
Sunday, 03/07/2010
North County film Club is promoting a series of 10 independent, limited release and foreign films at UltraStar Cinemas Mission Market 13 for a season pass price of $40 (popcorn included), five films for $25 (no popcorn), or individual films for (tentatively) $7 each (no popcorn). Each showing begins at 4pm. International Women's Day Celebration
Monday, 03/08/2010
The Women’s Equity Council celebrates International Women’s Day. Please join us for an evening of cross-generational conversation and hear the tales of women from around the world. Fallbrook's Writers features Escondido author
Thursday, 03/11/2010
Fallbrook's Writers Read, a free monthly gathering of writers and readers, will feature Escondido-based author and prose poet Terry Spohn on March 11 at 6 p.m. Spohn will read a selection of short fiction, poetry and prose poems. His reading will be followed by open mic for members of the public to share their original poetry and prose. Grassroots Campaign Training: Learn To Win!
Saturday, 03/13/2010
The California Democratic Party's "Learn to Win 2010" campaign training is coming to San Diego! Intended primarily for grassroots Democratic activists, the free program will cover campaign messaging, field skills, online strategy, voter registration, and more.
Escondido Democratic Club meets
Saturday, 03/13/2010
At the next meeting of the Escondido Democratic Club, City Council members Diaz and Daniels will discuss budget challenges. Admission is free and open to everyone. Light refreshments will be served. Free parking is available on site. Grassroots Campaign Training: Learn To Win!
Sunday, 03/14/2010
The California Democratic Party's "Learn to Win 2010" campaign training is coming to San Diego! Intended primarily for grassroots Democratic activists, the free program will cover campaign messaging, field skills, online strategy, voter registration, and more.
SD County Democratic Central Committee Meets
Saturday, 03/20/2010
North Area Meeting of the San Diego County Democratic Central Committee. This will be the first official 2010 meeting of the North Area Members and Associate Members of the SDCC. Vote on recommendations to the full Central Committee at its March 23rd meeting for several endorsements for the June Ballot. By Martha Sullivan. NC Film Club Series Offers The Kite Runner
Sunday, 03/21/2010
North County film Club is promoting a series of 10 independent, limited release and foreign films at UltraStar Cinemas Mission Market 13 for a season pass price of $40 (popcorn included), five films for $25 (no popcorn), or individual films for (tentatively) $7 each (no popcorn). Each showing begins at 4pm. NC Film Club Series Offers Big Fish
Sunday, 03/28/2010
North County film Club is promoting a series of 10 independent, limited release and foreign films at UltraStar Cinemas Mission Market 13 for a season pass price of $40 (popcorn included), five films for $25 (no popcorn), or individual films for (tentatively) $7 each (no popcorn). Each showing begins at 4pm. NC Film Club Series Offers The Visitor
Sunday, 04/11/2010
North County film Club is promoting a series of 10 independent, limited release and foreign films at UltraStar Cinemas Mission Market 13 for a season pass price of $40 (popcorn included), five films for $25 (no popcorn), or individual films for (tentatively) $7 each (no popcorn). Each showing begins at 4pm. Earth Hour 2010: Join the Global Movement!
Saturday, 03/27/2010
Make a difference on Saturday, March 27, 2010, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., local time. Unite with millions of people around the world by turning off your lights during Earth Hour to raise awareness and fight climate change. This 'N ThatPeace begins when the hungry are fed.
- AnonymousPeace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
- Dorothy Thompson The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.
- Hildegarde Goss-Mayr If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
- Joan Baez The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm.
- Bertrand Russell The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.
- Daniel Berrigan Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
- Leonardo Da Vinci Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible- not to have to run away.
- Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)Former UN General Secretary The first question which the priest and the Levite asked [on the Jericho Road] was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'
- Martin Luther King If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.
- George Bernard Shaw There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden Everything, everything in war is barbaric . . . But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
- Ellen Key, 1916 Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of humans as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
- Isaiah 11:6 I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
- Elie Weisel God looks unjust but is not. God asks more from those who more is given. They are not greater or better; they have greater responsibility. They must give more service. Live to serve.
- Dom Helder Camara Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
- Friedrich Nietzche Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does.
- Madge Michaels-Cyrus War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost limits.
- Major General Carl von Clausewitz, 1832 If you oppress poor people, you insult the God who makes them; but kindness shown to the poor is an act of worship.
- Proverbs 14:31 The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.
- Charles de Foucauld The peace process we all aim for will not necessarily be a result of the mere signing of a treaty or agreement. It must become a matter of our everyday lives, so that peace settles and lasts and becomes supported by everybody. We therefore have to give peace all the required care and preserve it and promote it.
- King Hassan II of Morocco (1929-1999) I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed there would be no more war.
- Abbie Hoffman I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
- Florence Nightingale, 1856 Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
- Goethe If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering. That is the secret. Start right now.
- Sister Chän Khöng Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.
- Noam Chomsky Do your work as though you had a thousand years to live, & as if you were to die tomorrow.
- Mother Anna Lee, founder of the Shakers None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
- Johan W. von Goethe A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
- Johann Christoph Schiller It is only by feeling your love that the poor will forgive you for the gifts of bread.
- St. Vincent de Paul If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
- Bishop Desmond Tutu Truly you have formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother's womb. I give you thanks that I am fearfully, wonderfully made; wonderful are your works.
- Psalm 13:9 America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
- Abraham Lincoln Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
- Alice Walker Not to hurt our humble brethren (the animals) is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission--to be of service to them whenever they require it... If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
- St. Francis of Assisi We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.... We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common.
- Buckminster Fuller A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same. All of us occupied the same space, the men behind the desk no less than those about to be questioned. What distinguished each of us was only our inner attitude.
- Etty Hillesum (concentration camp victim) He who can control his rising anger as a coachman controls his carriage at full speed, this man I call a good driver; others merely hold the reins.
- Gautama Buddha I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
- Helen Keller Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. The Christian fight for peace is not to be confused with defeatism.
- Thomas Merton Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
- Oscar Wilde The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
- David Friedman Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
- J. Krishnamurti Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?
- Leo Tolstoy Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.
- Graham Greene, 1981 Let all bear in mind that a society is judged not so much by the standards attained by its more affluent and privileged members as by the quality of life which it is able to assure for its weakest members.
- H.E. Javier Perez de Cuellar, Secretary General of the United Nations Every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
- Isaiah 40:4-5 The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.
- Aristide Briand, French statesman, Nobel Peace Prize, 1926 The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and errors, its successes and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
- Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)Former UN General Secretary If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.
- Martin Luther King Jr. It is not your obligation to complete your work, but you are not at liberty to quit.
- Talmud No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.
- Marian Anderson Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation?
- Barbara Deming Instead of tug o' war, let's play hug o' war.
- Shel Silverstein Those things of real worth in life are worth going to any length in love and respect to safeguard.
- Julia Butterfly Hill What is man?
- Hope turned to dust. Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.
- King Baudouin I, King of Belgium When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.
- John Wesley Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.
- Oscar Wilde Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength.
- St. Francis de Sales In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.
- Walter Wink If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
- Anita Koddick Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see. This is the secret discipline. It is a refusal to let the creative act be dissolved away in immediate sense experience, and a stubborn commitment to the future of our grandchildren. Such disciplined love is what has given prophets, revolutionaries, and saints the courage to die for the future they envisaged. They make their own bodies the seed of their highest hope.
- Ruben Alves, Tomorrow’s Child The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
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Articles & News: Health Summit ignored the fundamental realities
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By Dr. Zoltan Lucas: "The problem with the President’s Plan, an amalgam of House and Senate bills, is that it is insurance reform, not health care reform. It addresses the problem of the uninsured, but fails to recognize that high costs are related to the quality of medical practice. Instead, in a rare moment of bi-partisanship, the Summit perpetuated the myth that American medicine is the best in the world." Tracy Emblem asks Bilbray tough, central question
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Thirty-four deaths have been attributed to the Toyata vehicle defect in nine years, but Rep. Brian Bilbray ignores the immensely greater problem of 45,000 deaths each year in the U.S. because people lack health care. Read this commentary by Tracy Emblem: Art Film Movie Theatre opening in North County
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A new art film movie theater us opening in Oceanside. The 2nd showing in the series is Tuesday, March 2, "The Kite Runner", a powerful drama set in Afghanistan and San Francisco. This and eight more art-drama movies will be shown at the Ultra Star Cinemas in Oceanside and College Blvd.
Glenn Beck's Fascist Demagoguery exposed
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"We owe this talk-show-host-turned-political-leader gratitude for using his televised keynote address to the Conservative Political Action Conference to so frankly outline what the conservative movement has become – and why it repulses so many Americans. Beck taught us that a once-principled conservative movement of reasoned activists has turned into a mob – one that does not engage in civilized battles of ideas." By David Sirota Majority tramples rights of minorities, says judge
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Ballot initiatives have been used to mislead the public and trample on the rights of minorities, says Carlos Moreno, the only California Supreme Court justice who voted to overturn the state's ban on same-sex marriage. "Majority rule is nice in concept, but I think there has to be some kind of restraint on that to fulfill the larger purpose of our democracy." A Fond Farewell: JoAnne J. Pritten, Peace warrior
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We just received word of the passing of North County's Peace Matriarch, Joanne Pritten, who died at the age of 83. We remember her from those first years of the founding of the North County Coalition for Peace and Justice back in 2003 . She was gentle and soft spoken, but adamant in her opposition to the Bush Wars and was an ardent support of peace and justice. We remember her husband, Lew, who came with her to our peace rallies and meetings. Joe Crews - Editor
Howard Katz, Democrat, running against Issa
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Bob Hamilton makes strong endorsement of Howard Katz, running as a Democratic candidate against incumbent Darrel Issa in the 49th District. "Darrell Issa and many of his Republican colleagues think they can buy elections. Issa is the richest man in congress; he used his money to finance the recall of Governor Gray Davis and to buy a seat in the House of Representatives." DOJ rules President may 'exterminate' civilians
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Former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo argued that President George W. Bush’s commander-in-chief powers were so sweeping that he could willfully order the massacre of civilians, yet Yoo’s culpability in Bush administration abuses was deemed mere "poor judgment," not a violation of "professional standards."
That downgrading of criticism by the Justice Department means that the department will not refer Yoo and Jay Bybee to state bar associations for possible disbarment as lawyers. Vets for Peace join in feeding SD homeless
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Gil Field, SD Vet for Peace describes a cruel reality, the burgeoning hungry and homeless people in San Diego. He relates his experience when he joined the AME Bethel Church group that takes food to the homeless. Dems can pass their health bill -- but for what?
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Congress can still pass a health care bill using the process of "reconciliation" which requires only a 51 vote majority. A North County liberal asks "If the Democrats are willing to resort to this maneuver just to pass the hollowed out shell fo health care reform that's leftover now (after stripping all the worthwhile stuff they could have put in the bill simply to appease Republicans who were never going to support it anyway), why didn't the Dems simply use it to ram through a real reform bill last year with a "robust Public Option", a Medicare opt-in, provisions for drug price negotiation." DOE announces mammoth Mojave solar project
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DOE Announces Nearly $1.4 billion in Conditional Loan Guarantees for BrightSource. Innovative solar energy projects expected to create more than 1,000 jobs. The three-plant Ivanpah Solar Complex will be located on federally-owned land in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California, near the Nevada border, and will be the world's largest operational concentrated solar power complex. What Are We Bid for American Justice?
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That famous definition of "a cynic as someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" has come to define this present moment of American politics. The power of money drives cynicism deep into the heart of every level of government. Last month, the Supreme Court carried cynicism to new heights with its decision in the "Citizens United" case to unleash unlimited corporate money into judicial elections. By Bill Moyers Iraq orders Blackwater expelled, weapons seized
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Iraq will seize heavy weapons from foreign security firms and expel within days ex-Blackwater contractors still in the country, Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani said on Wednesday(REUTERS - Feb. 17) Wave of violence against gays in Africa
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Media and leaders around the world alarmed at the wave of violence and Draconian laws sweeping across Africa, particularly in Uganda and Malawi. Here are serveral articles (links) Obama moving steadily ahead on gay issues
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"In only one year in office, the Obama administration has extended benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees; signed into law the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which expanded the existing U.S. federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or disability; lifted the HIV entry ban; extended the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act" ... and many other accomplishments. by a gay black man, Earl Fowlkes Jr A federal court legal victory for gay parents
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NEW ORLEANS -- The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday [Feb. 19] that the Louisiana Registrar of Vital Statistics must respect a New York adoption by a same-sex couple of a Louisiana-born baby boy. A gay couple who adopted their Louisiana-born son in 2006 in New York, where a judge issued an adoption decree. When the couple attempted to get a new birth certificate for their child, in part so Smith could add his son to his health insurance, the registrar’s office had told him that Louisiana does not recognize adoption by unmarried parents and so could not issue it. Revolutionary development in alternative energy
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"Bloom Energy Corp., one of Silicon Valley's most secretive startups, unveiled on Wednesday its long-awaited "power plant in a box," a collection of fuel cells that the company says can provide clean electricity to homes, office buildings - even whole villages in the developing world. Unlike solar panels and wind turbines, each server can produce the same amount of energy day and night for years on end, according to the company. The process is twice as efficient as burning natural gas." San Francisco Chronicle LETTER: "A Biblical definition of marriage"
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Some of the best (and very worst) letters to the editor of the NC Times appear in the separate Faith & Values, Friday edition. Here are two: One of the best (Davis Danizier of Oceanside), and one of the worst. Darrell Issa uncovers fraud at Goldman Sachs?
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This is one of the biggest Wall Street Frauds ever, and these "facts all came to light because of research done by the office of Darrell Issa, the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform." These "new documents will certainly lead to a full investigation of the Goldman-AIG dealings and the subsequent $180 billion bailout led by the New York Federal Reserve." By Porter Stansberry Senate Bill 969 Seeks to Stabilize College Tuition
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Senate Majority Leader Dean Florez, D-Shafter, who spoke out strongly against the recent 32% fee spike at UC campuses, introduced legislation to help stabilize student tuition fees for future generations of California students.
List of Democratic events in San Diego County
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This is a list of Democratic and progressive events in San Diego County:
CLICK HERE Save Rapidly Vanishing Open Space In Carlsbad!
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Help Preserve Calavera save what little remains of the rapidly vanishing open space in Carlsbad! During the Have a Heart Event on February 13th, Diane Nygaard of Preserve Calavera got $13,000 in pledges so she can make an offer to buy Village H at the next meeting of the Carlsbad City Council. Please join this effort and email or mail your pledge donation today! Earth Hour 2010: Join the Global Movement!
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Make a difference on Saturday, March 27, 2010, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., local time. Unite with millions of people around the world by turning off your lights during Earth Hour to raise awareness and fight climate change. Breaking news - After our newsletter deadline:
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News that came after our deadline: Print your own gay marriage iniative petition
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The petition drive to restore GAY marriage will be conducted primarily online, the first in California history. You can print out your own copy, sign yourself, friends and family and mail it it. You need Adobe Reader (download it for free). Read the language of the short initiative and get instructions and tutorial here. There are no moral standards for marriage license
Kitty Lambert of Buffalo went with her betrothed to the marriage bureau in Buffalo, NY to apply for a marriage license. They had the $40. They live in the community. They are employed. They already have 5 upstanding children, some have served in the military. They have 12 grandchildren. They are voters, own property, have no criminal records. And they are committed and love each other. But they are denied a license. WHY? They are a lesbian couple. Kitty turns around and asks if there is a male there who would like to marry her. A nice looking gay man volunteers. So a woman can marry a total stranger -- even a reprobate, a criminal, a terrorist, a violent abuser of women, even a bigot and a non-believer -- but not the woman she loves. There are no moral standards for marriage.
In an exclusive interview with Jonathan Karl of ABC News'(Feb. 14) Cheney proclaimed his love of torture, derided the Obama administration for outlawing the practice, and admitted that the Bush administration ordered Justice Department attorneys to fix the law around his policies.
"I was a big supporter of waterboarding," Cheney told Karl, as if he were proud of his war crimes. "I was a big supporter of the enhanced interrogation techniques..." Help save California parks
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A November 2010 ballot proposition would create the State Parks and Wildlife Conservation Trust Fund. The fund would provide a stable, reliable and adequate source of funding for the state park system, which has been hit by recent budget cuts. It would also fund wildlife conservation and increased and equitable access for all Californians.
In The Last Man, Roy Zimmerman brings a sobering message about the troup surge in Afghanistan CA Democratic Convention, LA April 17-18
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This great party convention will be in Los Angeles this year, at the LA Convention Center. It is open to the public. Great speakers, the place where new ideas are born, friendships and alliance begin. WEBSITE HERE Giant Demonstration - 7th Anniversary of Iraq War
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The San Diego Veterans for Peace and SDCPJ are sponsoring an all-day event in San Diego on March 20 to mark the 7th anniversary of the Iraq War. SDVFP has set a goal of 1,000 participants for the 6,000 candlelight vigil, from 6:30 to 8:00 PM. VFP will supply candles. Please mark your calendars to participate in part or all of this event. By Dave Patterson, SDVFP. Help save California parks
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A November 2010 ballot proposition would create the State Parks and Wildlife Conservation Trust Fund. The fund would provide a stable, reliable and adequate source of funding for the state park system, which has been hit by recent budget cuts. It would also fund wildlife conservation and increased and equitable access for all Californians.
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