Event Reminders:  Stop I-5 Expansion-Town Hall Meeting
Monday, 09/13/2010
LA is coming to North County. Unless we stop it. Come to the I-5 Expansion Town Hall Meeting and voice your objections! Progressive Dems present speaker Tues, in Vista
Tuesday, 09/07/2010
The Progressive Democrats of North County invite the public to hear guest Dr. Robert Bowman, noted speaker, in a special program. At 7:00 pm at Palomar Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Vista. Subject: "We the People Must Take Back America." List of Democratic events in San Diego County
Friday, 09/10/2010
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Free Film Nights at Leo Carrillo Ranch
Friday, 09/10/2010
2010 Film Nights at Leo Carrillo Ranch Historic Park in Carlsbad. Free admission! Film on Sep. 10 is Sin Town, 1942. All films begin at sunset and star Leo Carrillo, an actor most famous for his role as Pancho in the TV show "Cisco Kid" during the 1960s. Carillo was also politically active and an environmentalist way ahead of his time. Phonebanking for victory in Palm Springs area
Saturday, 09/11/2010
Organizing for America message: We have less less than 9 weeks until the midterm elections. Your help and time are appreciated as we watch what the extreme right is trying to pull off, a governmental paralysis under a party of no.
You can help by joining our phonebanks to support the very progressive Steve Pougnet, mayor of Palm Springs, in his bid for Congress against Mary Bono Mack.
Steve Gronke speaker at Fallbrook Dem. Picinic
Saturday, 09/11/2010
The Fallbrook Democratic Club will hold its sixth Annual Fall Picnic on Saturday, Sept. 11 from 1:00pm to 5:00pm. Great food, speakers, a silent auction and live music by local guitarist and singer Larry Robinson will entertain guests in an outdoor patio setting at 1815 S. Stagecoach Lane. Keynote speaker will be Jess Durfee, Chairman of the San Diego Democratic Party. Featured speaker will be STEVE GRONKE, candidate for SD Supervisor. BV Creek Valley Work Session/Celebration
Saturday, 09/11/2010
This month's work session will include a special celebration of the end of our 2 year grant to restore the first 1.8 acres of the Buena Vista Creek Valley. We would love to see all of the volunteers who have helped these last two years, and everyone else who cares about preserving this special area. Come and join us! Escondido Democratic Club Meets
Saturday, 09/11/2010
TIME CHANGE TO 1 p.m.! Meet the candidates for Mayor, Council. A candidate forum with four candidates for Mayor and seven candidates for Council will be held, and endorsement votes taken.
Fundraiser for Steve Gronke for Supervisor
Saturday, 09/11/2010
Please join the Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters for a fundraiser to elect Steve Gronke for Supervisor. Wine and Cheese...food and drink-no dollar amount is specified, it may be by donation.
Chalice Unitarian Concert/ Party Fundraiser
Saturday, 09/11/2010
You are invited to the Chalice concert and Party Pundraiser on Sept. 11 in Poway. The band Speed of Sound will play. Begins at 6:00 pm. Tickets $10. NC Film Club Screens Live Action Shorts
Sunday, 09/12/2010
The North County Film Club presents Academy Award Nominated “Live Action” Shorts from 2009.
Hummingbirds: More Than Just Eye-Candy
Tuesday, 09/14/2010
Singing feathers, streamlined genomes, and continent spanning migrations are some of the latest mind boggling discoveries that rank hummingbirds among the world's most amazing birds. Free Film Nights at Leo Carrillo Ranch
Friday, 09/17/2010
2010 Film Nights at Leo Carrillo Ranch Historic Park in Carlsbad. Free admission! Film on Sep. 17 is Lillian Russell, 1940. All films begin at sunset and star Leo Carrillo, an actor most famous for his role as Pancho in the TV show "Cisco Kid" during the 1960s. Carillo was also politically active and an environmentalist way ahead of his time. Free Bradley Manning demo in SD on Sep. 19th
Sunday, 09/19/2010
A FREE BRADLEY MANNING demonstration will be conducted at Horton Plaza in downtown San Diego on Sun., Sep. 19th at noon. Dozens of local organizations have joined to demand release of Manning from a military brig. Manning released proof of US military war crimes, lies and coverups of of crimes in the the US wars. San Diego County Children and Nature Workshop
Thursday, 09/23/2010
The San Diego Children and Nature (SDCaN) is a regional
collaborative of organizations, individuals and companies whose
mission is to inspire communities to nurture, empower and engage youth
in cultivating their relationship with nature. One way this is achieved is through a highly intriguing workshop for adults. Workshop admission is free. Free Film Nights at Leo Carrillo Ranch
Friday, 09/24/2010
2010 Film Nights at Leo Carrillo Ranch Historic Park in Carlsbad. Free admission! Film on Sep. 24 is Honolulu Lu, 1941. All films begin at sunset and star Leo Carrillo, an actor most famous for his role as Pancho in the TV show "Cisco Kid" during the 1960s. Carillo was also politically active and an environmentalist way ahead of his time. Buena Vista Creek and Coastal Clean-up Day
Saturday, 09/25/2010
Join Coastkeeper, I Love a Clean San Diego and City of Oceanside in this special 10th annual clean-up event. We can't keep our coastal waters clean unless we clean up the creeks leading to them. Here's your chance to make a difference at this annual event that now includes Buena Vista Creek. Demcco Meeting
Saturday, 09/25/2010
All regular meetings start at 10 a.m. at the Carlsbad Woman’s Club, 3320 Monroe St., Carlsbad. Carlsbad Music Festival
Sunday, 09/26/2010
Mark your calendars! The Carlsbad Music Festival will take place on September 24 - 26, 2010. Information regarding artist line-up, times and ticket prices will be forthcoming. Stay tuned!
Sunset Poets Reading Celebrates Recovery Month
Sunday, 09/26/2010
Sunset Poets and the Addictions Ministry at Palomar Unitarian Universalist Fellowship will hold a poetry reading to celebrate Recovery Month at Palomar UU Fellowship in Vista. Everyone whose life has been touched by addiction should attend. Bring your non-poet friends (if you have any). There will be a featured segment focusing on addiction and recovery, and an open mike. In coming months we'll ask for your help in distributing flyers and spreading the word. By Dick Eiden.
Katz for Congress Golf Tournament
Friday, 10/01/2010
Drive Katz into Congress-join your friends for a 4-person best ball golf tournament to benefit the Howard Katz For Congress campaign! He is running against Darrell Issa in California’s 49th Congressional District.
Environmental Health Coalition's 30th Anniversary!
Saturday, 10/02/2010
30th Anniversary Celebration For Environmental Health Coalition! Special performance by Teatro Izcalli. Progressive Post Movie Night - Silent Running
Wednesday, 10/06/2010
Join us for a night of fun with local progressives and see a great film for our time. The pro-environment message in this movie is clear: We are on a course to screw up our planet and someday soon, all the beauty will be gone unless mankind changes its ways. List of Democratic events in San Diego County
Thursday, 10/07/2010
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Gay Pride at the Beach in Oceanside
Saturday, 10/09/2010
Gay Pride at the Beach is returning, on Sat. Oct. 9. This is the biggest gay event in North County, with entertainment, food, vendors, fun and the beautiful beach. Global Work Party Sponsored by 350.org
Sunday, 10/10/2010
Your efforts are building a powerful movement for climate solutions--a movement strong enough to last us through these tough times.
We've still got a steep mountain to climb, and with politicians trying to back away from strong climate action your work is needed now, more than ever before. If you're not yet involved, please join thousands of people across the planet by Finding or Starting an event for 10/10/10-Jamie Henn for the 350.org Team
NC Film Club Shows The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Sunday, 10/10/2010
North County Film Club Presents The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Amnesty's 22nd Candlelight Walk for Human Rights
Sunday, 10/17/2010
Amnesty International's theme this year, "Human Trafficking is Modern-Day Slavery" will give the 800+ participants an opportunity to learn about this horrific issue that affects 27 million people around the world with about 15,000 mostly young women and children being kidnapped and exploited in the USA every year for slave labor and/or commercial sex.
Carlsbad Music Festival
Friday, 09/24/2010
Mark your calendars! The Carlsbad Music Festival will take place on September 24 - 26, 2010. Information regarding artist line-up, times and ticket prices will be forthcoming. Stay tuned!
Carlsbad Music Festival
Saturday, 09/25/2010
Mark your calendars! The Carlsbad Music Festival will take place on September 24 - 26, 2010. Information regarding artist line-up, times and ticket prices will be forthcoming. Stay tuned!
This 'N ThatThe earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
- Baha'ullahPeace is an environment where conflicts are resolved without violence, where people are free, not exploited, living so they can grow to their full potential.
- Gerard Vanderhaar There are three truths: my truth, your truth and the truth.
- Chinese Proverb If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
- Moshe Dayan By logic and reason we die hourly. By imagination we live.
- John Butler Yeats None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
- Johan W. von Goethe The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
- Heda Bejar Nobody realizes that some people expend a tremendous amount of energy merely to be normal.
- Albert Camus Dust turned to hope.
- Elie Weisel Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
- Indira Gandhi, 1966 It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
- Andre Gide Abba Poeman said about Abba Prior that every single day he made a fresh beginning.
- Desert Fathers and Mothers If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God.
- Leon Bloy We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate --- thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
- Maya Angelou If you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment then you will seek to do compassion. Compassion means that if I see my friend and my enemy in equal need, I shall help them both equally. Justice demands that we seek and find the stranger, the broken, the prisoner and comfort them and offer them our help. Here lies the holy compassion of God that causes the devils much distress.
- Mechtild of Magdeburg There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
- Thomas Edison 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 At some ideas you stand perplexed, especially at the sight of human sins, uncertain whether to combat it by force or by human love. Always decide, "I will combat it with human love." If you make up your mind about that once and for all, you can conquer the whole world. Loving humility is a terrible force; it is the strongest of all things and there is nothing like it.
- Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazo The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where one stands in times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
- Gersonides 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 But the wisdom from above is pure, first of all; it is also peaceful, gentle and friendly; it is full of compassion and produces a harvest of good deals,; it is free from prejudice and hypocrisy.
- James 3:17 We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
- Dorothy Day If you want peace, work for justice.
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Articles & News: No. County Democrats to open HQ in Carlsbad mall
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From Martha Sullivan: - "we are in final stages of securing a temporary storefront in the large, Regional "Plaza Camino Real" mall operated by Westfield in northeast Carlsbad, just south of Hwy 78, between El Camino Real and Jefferson (2525 El Camino Real, Carlsbad. We need a core group of volunteers who will "anchor" our staffing during, say 6-hr shifts during M-F (open and close), and to cover Saturday and Sunday (either full day or partial)." Ten things I know about the Mosque
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"If there is to be a memorial, let it not be of stone and steel. Fly no flag above it, for it is not the possession of a nation but a sorrow shared with the world.
Let it be a green field, with trees and flowers. Let there be paths that wind through the shade. Put out park benches where old people can sun in the springtime, and a pond where children can skate in the winter. " By Roger Ebert From Women’s Equality Day to Vagina Spray
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Fallbrook writer, Kit-Backon Gressitt writes on Women's Equality Day, and upends some deeply grating primitive attitudes resurfacing: "we now have the likes of Sarah Palin, with the wit of a nit, pretending to be feminists yet advocating for our male-dominated Congress to make personal decisions for us; and young women, the likes of my own kiddo, bobbing to iPods in the wake of the women’s civil rights movement as those rights are rippling away; and senatorial wannabes, the likes of Carly Fiorina, sniping at her opponent’s hair among other targets — her hair, not economic recovery or Pacific Rim business alliances or the state of California’s schools, but sniping at Senator Barbara Boxer’s hair, her hair! Ye gods!" STASI and KGB spying have come to America
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TIME MAGAZINE - "Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway — and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements." End the Silent Segregation in the U.S. Military
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By Tracy Emblem - "In 1948 President Harry Truman issued Executive Order 9981 proclaiming that "there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin."
Compare President Truman's proclamation of equal opportunity and treatment in the military to today's efforts to repeal the 1993 "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy imposed by Congress. This discriminatory practice is tantamount to silent segregation of gay and lesbian personnel and puts them at continued risk to lose their jobs and all of their benefits." Separation of Church and Hate: The NY Mosque
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Separation of Church and Hate: The Mosque Solution. Since everyone seems to have an opinion about the mosque near Ground Zero (and President Obama has two), I'd like to ask you all a couple of questions... Senior Republican Ken Mehlman comes out as gay
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Aug. 26 - One of the key architects of the Bush-era Republican election machine that exploited anti-gay prejudices to motivate its conservative base has disclosed that he is gay and is lobbying to legalise same-sex marriage.
"It's taken me 43 years to get comfortable with this part of my life," said Ken Mehlman, a former chairman of the Republican national committee and the manager of George Bush's 2004 presidential campaign, in an interview published on the Atlantic's website. GOP tax cuts for the powerfully rich
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By Paul Krugman - "it’s hard to think of a less cost-effective way to help the economy than giving money to people who already have plenty, and aren’t likely to spend a windfall.
No, this has nothing to do with sound economic policy. ...it’s about a dysfunctional and corrupt political culture, in which Congress won’t take action to revive the economy, pleads poverty when it comes to protecting the jobs of schoolteachers and firefighters, but declares cost no object when it comes to sparing the already wealthy even the slightest financial inconvenience." 'Obama too much like GW Bush' - The fringe left ?
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Glenn Greenwald: "You may think that the reason you're dissatisfied with the Obama administration is because of substantive objections to their policies: that they've done so little about crisis-level unemployment, foreclosures and widespread economic misery. Or because of the White House's apparently endless devotion to Wall Street. Or because the President has escalated a miserable, pointless and unwinnable war that is entering its ninth year. Or because he has claimed the power to imprison people for life with no charges and to assassinate American citizens without due process, intensified the secrecy weapons and immunity instruments abused by his predecessor... " But if so, you are part of the lunatic fringe left and need to be drug tested. There Are No Heroes in Illegal and Immoral Wars
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U.S. officials' claims that the invasions were necessary to protect us from terrorism or locate weapons of mass destruction were never plausible and have been exposed as lies. The world is a more dangerous place today than it was in 2001, when sensible changes in U.S. foreign policy and vigorous law enforcement in collaboration with other nations could have made us safer. By Robert Jensen Confession of sloppy journalist: My Iraq Mistake
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By Matt Miller - "I supported the war in 2003 because I thought Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Along with Ken Pollack, the former Clinton national security council staffer, whose 2002 book, "The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq," was influential at the time, I believed a nuclear-armed Hussein was both inevitable and intolerable... Except, of course, that their premise was utterly wrong." Evangelist Glenn Beck's Beckapalooza
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By Kathleen Parker - Washington Post : "Beck's "Restoring Honor" gathering on the Mall was right out of the Alcoholics Anonymous playbook. It was a 12-step program distilled to a few key words, all lifted from a prayer delivered from the Lincoln Memorial: healing, recovery and restoration." Oh no! Teabaggers! Now attacking Soc. Security
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Democracy for America: - The Teabaggers are at it again and this time they're going after Social Security. Teabagger candidates for office like Kentucky's Rand Paul and Nevada's Sharron Angle are working to destroy Social Security as we know it. Teabaggers across the country are backing them up and Corporate Democrats are running scared.
But we're not going to let them win. TOP SECRET AMERICA: New investigative website
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"Top Secret America" is a project nearly two years in the making that describes the huge national security buildup in the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001. More than a dozen Washington Post journalists spent two years developing Top Secret America Mayor Bloomberg: 'Islam did not attack WTC'
Aug. 25 - New York City Mayor Bloomberg re-upped his support last night for the right of Muslims to build the Cordoba House Islamic center near Ground Zero. Speaking to Muslims celebrating the end of Ramadan with an Iftar dinner, Bloomberg reiterated that "we are not at war with Islam. We are at war with Al Qaeda."
He added that the debate over the proposed site must be "civil and respectful."
Watch a clip from the speech: POLL: 52% Americans now support gay marriage
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For the first time a national poll showed majority support for same-sex marriage. A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll shows the gap widens dramatically when age is taken into account. Nearly six in ten Americans under the age of 50 say gay rights are protected under the Constitution. Only 38 percent of Americans over the age of 50 say the same thing. [Perhaps the GOP should start supporing Medicare so their voting base lives longer?] Who is Joe Miller from Alaska?
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"Joe" Miller is an attorney and the GOP candidate for election to a seat in the United States Senate from the state of Alaska in the November 2010 general election. He has upended the Republican establishment in Alaska. A bright young radical who proposes:
# Abolish the Department of Education
# Abolish the National Endowment for the Arts
# Cut off American funding for the United Nations
# Cut American foreign aid
# Repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
And he may have won the election.
Obama’s increasingly absurd gay marriage position.
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The first lesson is that history does not look kindly on timid presidential conduct on matters of civil and constitutional rights. "Woodrow Wilson is today remembered as a near-great president, but his indifference on questions of gender and race is more than a bit unflattering in retrospect. Second, like Wilson, Obama is running out of time to stay ahead of history." By Richard Just - The New Republic Wealthy Right-Wingers Finance Anti-Dem Effort
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For so many of us who worked to get Obama elected, it is difficult to watch his enemies tearing at all his programs and initiatives and creating divsiveness and hatred at every turn. This article from the New Yorker is a must read!
Council unanimously approves Lowe's project
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CARLSBAD: Council unanimously approves Lowe's project.
Dozens speak out on development plans. By Barbara Henry, reprinted from the North County Times.
Olga Diaz Closes the Blue Mug
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ESCONDIDO: Olga Diaz's popular downtown coffeehouse closing Sunday (Aug.28).
Councilwoman says eight years was enough for Blue Mug. By David Garrick, reprinted from the North County Times.
-The staff of the Progressive Post mourns the loss of the Blue Mug, an Escondido treasure.
LATE BREAKING NEWS
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New developments that did not meet our deadline: Want to vote by mail? It is so easy ...
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Want to vote by mail in the comfort of your home? That’s easy too! Click on THIS LINK to the mail ballot application. Print the application, fill it out and sign it. Fax it back to the fax number on the form and you’re done! Beginning October 4, they will mail your mail ballot materials. All you do is fill them out and mail/drop them off. A real fighter against oil steps up in the Senate
Senator Robert Menendez is now the first Senator to commit to ending the Big Oil bailout. As a member of the committees on Banking, Finance and the Environment -- not to mention chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee -- Menendez is the perfect guy to help us win.
Here he is on MSNBC's Morning Joe talking about his effort to stop the Big Oil Bailouts that will help put us on road to a clean energy economy. In Honor of Glenn Beck at the Lincoln Memorial
From the great musical "South Pacific"
"You've got to be taught - To hate and fear,- You've got to be taught
From year to year,- It's got to be drummed - In your dear little ear - You've got to be carefully taught.
"You've got to be taught to be afraid - Of people whose eyes are oddly made,- And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,- You've got to be carefully taught. - You've got to be taught before it's too late,- Before you are six or seven or eight,- To hate all the people your relatives hate,- You've got to be carefully taught!"
[Music at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHKzn8aHyXg]
Escondido Dem Office to Open in September
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Great news! Arrangements for an Escondido office for the 2010 campaign are coming together. A location has been identified at 128 E. Grand Avenue in downtown Escondido. Move in is tentatively scheduled for September 14. Fiorina pulls Barbara Boxer's hair - so to speak
BORING-G-G-G!
Carly Fiorina, the Republican nominee for Senator, the former chief of Hewlett-Packard, was caught on an open mic trashing the hair of Democratic incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer. "God? What is that hair," Fiorina asked with the sarcastic shock we've heard conceited chic women use against their competitors. "It's so yesterday," Fiorina added, lingering on the "so" for full dramatic effect. And male politicians are criticized for ogling boobs?? Can we take six years of this?
No arms, no legs, no worries --
After watching this young man, take a spiritual look at yourself in the cosmic mirror. We have only one life to live, but it is our choice whether to really live it. Viewed by over 10 million viewers. To watch more YouTube videos of this remarkable fellow, CLICK HERE. Ted Olson: Why Prop 8 is a loser's position
Constitutional lawyer, Ted Olson, in his victory over Prop 8 speech, calls this a great victory for individual and civil rights under the U.S. Constitution. A short, but great speech. The Jan Brewer Train Wreck in Arizona
An awesome train wreck of an opening statement from Jan Brewer, in Arizona’s gubernatorial debate. One of the most embarrassing political performances ever captured on video. She is even more inarticulate than GW Bush. Thu, Sept. 2, 2010 BREAKING: Oil rig in Gulf of Mexico explodes
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Another oil rig 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana exploded. As I write this, the rig continues to burn and Coast Guard helicopters are rescuing thirteen oil rig workers. How many more explosions will it take before we pull the plug on offshore oil drilling?-by Japhet, TrueMajority / USAction
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