Event Reminders:  DEMCCO Monthly Meeting
Saturday, 10/23/2010
The next meeting is this Saturday, October 23rd, 10 a.m., Woman’s Club of Carlsbad. You’ll want to hear Atty. Michael Aguirre speak on Wall Street Reform. Aguirre is the founder of the National Center for Regulatory Reform and has become a national media expert on the subject. His law firm has brought fraud suits against AIG and other corporations responsible for the 2008 Stock Market crash. In any event, Mike is a good speaker on most any subject. Dems to celebrate election victory in Fallbrook
Thursday, 11/04/2010
Democrats will gather to party and celebrate election victories in Fallbrook two days after the election. One of our most prominent California Democratic leaders, Fiona Ma of San Francisco, who will fly down to celebrate with us. Fiona is the Speaker Pro Tem in the Assembly in Sacramento. A woman of vision and keen legislative skill, she can share with us the magnitude of our victories and of our future in California. You are cordially invited: Bring a cake or bring your favorite pastry; bring your healthy nibbly or crunchy. Bring some small bottles of water or juice. Bring a balloon or party decoration. And prepare your own toast to victory! The Biological Significance of Flower Color
Tuesday, 10/19/2010
Lecture: The Biological Significance of Flower Color, by Steven R Kutcher.
This presentation is sponsored by the North County Coastal Group of the Sierra Club, and is free and open to the public. Steven Kutcher M.A. is an entomologist, environmentalist, and artist and teaches biology part-time at West Los Angeles College. Read & Critique Writers Group
Wednesday, 10/20/2010
The Fallbrook Read and Critique Writers Group has a couple of opening in its weekly workshop series, for short stories, novellas, novels -- or creative nonfiction. Meets eight Wed. mornings through Dec. 15. List of Democratic events in San Diego County
Friday, 10/22/2010
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Picket @ The Manchester Grand Hyatt
Friday, 10/22/2010
Picket at the anti worker and anti gay Manchester Grand Hyatt. Bring signs, noise-makers, pride flags, energy and your friends & family to this important event. Volunteers sought for Escondido tree planting
Saturday, 10/23/2010
Volunteers are needed to help plant 315 trees in Escondido as part of a statewide tree planting effort. You don't need to have a green thumb to volunteer...just a desire to make Escondido a healthier community. United Nations Day Celebration 2010
Saturday, 10/23/2010
Our Planet, Our Responsibility: 65 Years of the United Nations, a charity luncheon celebrating the 65th anniversary of the United Nations, aims to inspire action on critical environmental issues. 3rd Annual Autumn at Anstine Festival
Saturday, 10/23/2010
This year’s theme is Bugs, Bats, Birds, and Beasts and continues the emphasis on our sometimes unappreciated wildlife. Festival admission is free. Hike the Dawson/Los Monos Reserve in Vista
Sunday, 10/24/2010
This is a special two part hike into two areas of the Dawson-Los Monos Reserve. Join us for one part or both. The Dawson-Los Monos Canyon Reserve protects a 240-acre remnant of natural habitat diversity in north-coastal San Diego County, including coast live oak-sycamore riparian woodland along the Agua Hedionda Creek. NC Film Club Screens The Secret in Their Eyes
Sunday, 10/24/2010
The North County Film Club presents The Secret in Their Eyes, the last of six terrific creative movies for the Summer & Fall season. It will make you cry, shout "BRAVO!" -- but most of all it will make you think and understand our world. Iraq and Afghan Memorial to Life
Monday, 10/25/2010
From October 25-28, 2010 a memorial to people who have been killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will be displayed across the campus of California State University San Marcos. These wars have taken an enormous toll on our country, as well as on the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. 10 Tactics-Free Film Screening
Monday, 10/25/2010
Want to improve the quality of your activism? 10 tactics for turning information into action is a film that includes stories from 25 rights advocates around the world who have successfully used information and digital technologies to create positive change. View the film 'The 800 Mile Wall'
Friday, 10/29/2010
Friday, Oct. 29 at 7:00PM in Vista. Free and open to the public.
This documentary film highlights the construction of the new border walls along the U.S. – Mexico border and its effect on migrants trying to cross into the U.S. Since border walls have been built, the bodies of well over 5,000 migrant men, women and children have been recovered in U.S. deserts, mountains, and canals. Awakening the Dreamer Symposium
Saturday, 10/30/2010
The purpose of this symposium is to bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on Planet Earth. Sponsored by The Unity Center in San Diego. TV Watch Party: Rally to Restore Sanity in SD
Saturday, 10/30/2010
Jon Stewart - Rally to Restore Sanity on CNN in San Diego. Looking for a location where San Diegans could gather to watch the live broadcast of the Jon Stewart October 30 Rally to Restore Sanity together. Dia de Los Muertos at Mission San Luis Rey
Sunday, 10/31/2010
FREE Family Friendly Dia de los Muertos Festival at Mission San Luis Rey! This celebratation is the largest and most authentic Dia de los Muertos festival in California!
List of Democratic events in San Diego County
Thursday, 11/04/2010
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This 'N ThatThe longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
- Barbara DemingPeace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
- Jawaharlal Nehru The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
- Hannah Arendt, 20th-century German political philosopher and author Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.
- Frank Kent We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.
- Bayard Rustin Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.
- Pope John Paul II Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
- Henri Nouwen The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins
- Oliver Wendell Holmes There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.
- Marianne Moore Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.
- Harold MacMillan The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
- Dante In the struggle rewards are few. In the fact, I know of only two, loving friends and living dreams. These rewards are not so few it seems.
- Anonymous 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 It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence . . . and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.
- Manitonquat To save one life, it is as if you had saved the world.
- Talmud Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
- E. F. Schumacher Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.
- Sam Keen 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 Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller People have power when other people think they have power.
- Wyche Fowler 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 No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.
- Croesus, King of Lydia, in Herodotus' The Persian Wars 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 Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.
- Cesar Chavez Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals.
- Ammon Hennacy, US Labor leader 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 It is only by feeling your love that the poor will forgive you for the gifts of bread.
- St. Vincent de Paul While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
- St. Francis of Assisi I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war.
- Ammon Hennacy, US Labor leader You save your soul by saving someone else's body.
- Arthur Hertzberg The soul of our country needs to be awakened . . .When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.
- Veterans Fast for Life Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.
- Pablo Neruda, Memoirs (Confieso Que He Vivido: Memorias) (1974) A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
- H.G. Wells What good is a house, if you haven't got a decent planet to put it on?
- Henry David Thoreau 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 Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.
- African Proverb In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands of seeds, and when they look at the bare hills, they may be able to see the sunflowers already. The sunflowers are there. They lack only the conditions of sun, heat, rain and July. Just because we cannot see them does not mean that they do not exist.
- Thich Nhat Hanh What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
- Robert E. Lee, in a letter to his wife, 1864 It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
- Publius Syrus |
Articles & News: Reasons not to vote for Bilbray
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Brian Bilbray serves up abuse to our citizens time after time, but it is only when the worst of his abuses are stacked up in front of us in one smelly heap that we realize just how abusive he is. Betty Ball of Lake San Marcos, in her brilliant letter to the editor, does just that! Bravo, Betty! Bilbray emits only vacuous hot air on immigration
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"Congressman Brian Bilbray never misses an opportunity to air his illegal immigration rhetoric on local and national news." And its hot, vacuous air - lacking ideas or substance. He is a shallow and emotional man. "Bilbray is simply wrong. An earned pathway to citizenship as proposed by the comprehensive immigration reform bill (HR 4321) is not amnesty." By Tracy Emblem of Escondido. Los Angeles Times endorses Jerry Brown for Gov.
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Why the LOS ANGELES TIMES endorses Jerry Brown -- "To a state desperate for leadership, he brings the seen-it-all-before wisdom of a political veteran Californians must choose. One candidate is a stranger to the political and governmental landscape; the other knows every superhighway, back road and dead-end. We opt for real-world experience, know-how and creativity. The Times urges a vote for Brown." Tennessee community rallies for lesbian couple
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Amid all the terrible stories of criminal bulling of gays, suicides, and assaults, come a story from Tennessee with community love and support of a lesbian couple, arson victims. A seeming act of hate has been followed by an outpouring of love that has overwhelmed the lesbian couple. BALLOT: One judge voted against marriage equality
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On all CA ballots are the names of two associate judges of the CA Supreme Court. Judge Ming W. Chin
voted against marriage equality, and Judge Carlos R. Moreno voted for marriage equality. Now it is our opportunity to vote for Moreno and against Chin. TEA Party candidate poses in Nazi uniform
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An explosive picture of Ohio GOP congressional candidate Rich Iott, posing in a Nazi uniform surfaced online this weekend. Iott, a Tea Party favorite who is running for a seat in Ohio's ninth district, says he is not a Nazi sympathizer but a history buff who liked participating in historical re-enactments. Historians respond: "The multimillion Jewish population of Eastern Europe was going to be exterminated altogether…It sends a shiver up my spine to think that people want to dress up and play SS on the weekend." Iott is opposed by Democrat Marcy Kaptur. Which judges to vote for and many more ...
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The ProgressivePost promotes progressive ideas and progressive candidates. We do not always agree with the Democratic Party. Here is our list of recommendations, which are identical to those of progressive activist and researcher, Douglas Dunn, of Escondido.
Joe Howard Crews - editor Preserve Calavera says a big NO to Prop 23!
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Preserve Calavera has taken its first ever political stand by opposing Prop. 23. Preserve Calavera has never done this before but Proposition 23 will be so damaging to our state that they decided to take a formal position in opposition to it. The Progressive Post joins both the Sierra Club and Preserve Calavera in urging and endorsing a NO vote on 23. Please see the following website on the plan for Texas oil companies to gut our state climate action law: http://www.stopdirtyenergyprop.com/get-the-facts.php Politicians' intolerance fuels hate against gays
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EDITORIAL - Washington Post -THE NEWS out of New York City this past weekend was horrifying. In what is being called the worst anti-gay violence in recent memory, two 17-year-old boys and a 30-year-old man were kidnapped and sexually tortured in the Bronx because they are gay. The nine [now 10] thugs allegedly responsible for this atrocity are in custody. Gay rights center demands proof from Pentagon
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The Pentagon and Justice Dept. claim the injunction against DADT by federal judge Phillips creates "enormous consequences" in chaos and hardship. The Palm Center today submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request asking the Department of Defense for reports and data which show the "enormous consequences" from the two-day injunction of Federal District Court Judge Virginia Phillips.
California Native Plant Society Monthly Meeting
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Regular monthly meetings of the CA Native Plant Society are now starting with a special session on NATIVES FOR NOVICES. Obama stiffs Gays in military again
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Barack Obama, running for president, vowed to end the ludicrous Pentagon policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," which, since it was established in 1993 by President Clinton has required gay and lesbian members of the uniformed services to hide their sexual orientation or be drummed out of the service. Obama has been unwilling to put an end to the overt discrimination of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". Even when the opportunity was handed to him on a silver platter by federal judge Phillips. Legal tradition trumps constitutional rights. Angry Schwarzenegger fighting Big Oil on Prop 23
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Tom Friedman - "What has Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California incensed is the fact that two Texas oil companies with two refineries each in California are financing a campaign to roll back California' landmark laws to slow global warming and promote clean energy innovation, because it would require the refiners to install new emission-control tools. At a time when President Obama and Congress have failed to pass a clean energy bill, California's laws are the best thing we have going to stimulate clean-tech in America. We don't want them gutted." No on the Big Oil initiative (Prop 23)
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Two out-of-state Texas oil companies have contributed $4.5 million to date to promote Prop 23, which would overturn California's clean air law. Both oil corporations would substantially benefit by "suspension" of AB 32, because according to information released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, they are two of the biggest air polluters in California. By Tracy Emblem A much better choice than Bill HORN
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By Andy Cohen of Ocean Beach - Independent Steve Gronke could knock longtime County Supervisor Bill Horn off. The 10 year veteran of the Vista City Council has changed course and mounted a thus far successful challenge to 16 year incumbent, Bill Horn, for the 5th District seat on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors. Fed Judge orders military to stop discharging gays
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SF Chronicle:"A federal judge ordered an immediate halt Tuesday to discharges of openly gay and lesbian soldiers under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, rejecting the Obama administration's request to wait until Congress acts on the issue. U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips of Riverside ruled the 1993 law unconstitutional Sept. 9, saying it intrudes on service members' personal lives and freedom of expression and reduces military effectiveness by needlessly excluding qualified personnel." Foundation warns FOX advertisers about Glenn Beck
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In an extraordinary move to nip the inflammatory commentary coming from Glenn Beck, the founder and CEO of the Tides Foundation (a frequent Beck target) has written advertisers asking them to remove their sponsorship of the Fox News program or risk having "blood on their hands."
Drummond Pike, who along with his organization was recently targeted by an assassin inspired by Beck's program, penned a letter on Friday to the Chairmen of the Boards of JP Morgan Chase, GEICO, Zurich Financial, Chrysler, Direct Holdings Americas, GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Lilly Corporate Center, BP, and The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
2010: The year of politicking insanely
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"When has there been an election with so many looney tunes running under the banner of one of our major parties? It's not that they are ultraconservative, or even that some of them believe their psychic powers let them know what the Founding Fathers would have thought about, say, stem-cell research. It's just that there is a difference between being smart but wrong and being Christine O'Donnell. The "I'm not a witch" woman, Christine O'Donnell, says she would like to serve on the Foreign Relations Committee.By Eugene Robinson of Washington Post. Legal analysis - What's next for DADT & DOMA?
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On Oct. 12, 2010, U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips issued her worldwide injunction against "Don't Ask, Don’t Tell". Further, the Department of Justice announced its intention to appeal the July 8, 2010 rulings of U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro that declared DOMA's federal definition of marriage as only between one man and one woman as a violation of equal protection and due process guarantees. Now come the tedious appeals process. SD legal expert, Ari Ezra Waldman advises "But do not despair. An appeal is not necessarily a bad thing." Erase Hate Day
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Did you know that every 7 minutes a child is bullied? October is National Bullying Prevention Month. In recognition of and in an attempt to stop the spread of this destructive and growing activity, students at El Camino High School in Oceanside are holding Erase Hate Day, when they will sign an anti-bullying pledge and wear purple to show support. Other events may also be held on this day, so go to Facebook for more details. Bullying is appalling and must be put to a stop. John Lennon would have been 70 on Oct.. 8
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In memory of former Beatle composer, lyricist, singer, guitar player and consumate peace advocate John Lennon's 70th birthday, the Progressive Post borrows a quote from ASD that sheds light on his boundless intellect. Charity violates tax law, campaigns for Fiorina
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Human Rights Campaign has charged charitable group National Organization for Marriage with violating its tax-exempt status by campaigning for Carly Fiorina in California. NOM fights against gay marriage equality, and is registered as a charitable organization. by SDGLN Staff CA Tea Party Activists Work to Pass Prop. 23
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The Tea Party is joining with Texas Oil companies to back the dirty energy proposition, Prop 23. This is a huge development in this campaign. It's us vs. the Tea Party, and if we're going to save our landmark global warming law AB 32, progressives need to step up right now, in a big way.
Read article highlights below and please forward the news to at least five friends. By Becky Bond, Political Director, CREDO Action
Howard Katz for Congress
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MoveOn members in California's 49th District have voted to endorse Howard Katz for Congress. It's up to all of us to stop the corporate takeover of Congress—you can volunteer with the campaign here:
http://www.hkatzforcongress.com.
LCV and Sierra Club Endorsements
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The League of Conservation Voters and the Sierra Club have made their election endorsements. Please read the full details for futher information. Ramona activists launch 'War on Fear'
Pres. Roosevelt cautioned our nation not to become seized with FEAR, but the nation has succumbed. In the small city of Ramona, a group of citizen leaders in the Ramona Forum has launched a "WAR against FEAR". The response to this demonstration was overwhelmingly exuberant. They will be expanding the "War On Fear" footprint soon. Gay Texas councilman makes plea to gay youth
Fort Worth, Texas Councilman Joel Burns has become a hero and role model by his speech promoting hope for gay teens who feel depressed and threatened because of their sexuality. Burns gave a 13 minute emotional speech which went viral on You Tube, in which he described his own struggle to come to grips with his sexual orientation years ago.
He implored desperate teens not to lose faith and hope in a future, and wept over the spate of suicides of teens as young as 11 and as late teen as 18 in recent weeks, due to constant bullying on the internet, and rejection by churches and parents who claim to be "religious", but are committing the greatest sin imaginable--the repudiation of children! BILL MOYERS: Plutocracy destroying our democracy
"Plutocracy and Democracy don't mix", states Bill Moyers. It is the rule of the rich, which is anathema to democracy. It is buying up and enslaving the political and spiritual soul of America. It greatest threat is controlling the minds of the weak and vulnerable segment of the populace though media propaganda. It uses the sacred tools of democracy to destroy democracy from within. Paladino calls gays 'perverts' and 'pornographers'
Darling of the TEA Party, Carl Paladino, GOP candidate for governor of NY, calls gays perverts and pornographers, yet adds "don't quote me in any way as wanting to hurt homosexuals." Is it inconsistent for Nazis to dehumanize Jews, then profess they are not hurting them? Those who dehumanize and criminalize other people in the name of religion are the perverts and criminals.
Maggie Gallagher imposing her kind of marriage
A clever cartoon spoof on Maggie Gallagher explaining to St. Peter why he should let her through the Pearly Gates. St. Peter subjects her to a tough grilling on same-sex marriage. Quite clever, indeed! Glenn Beck's heart full of hate and evil
The South Fulton, Tennessee fire department stood by and allowed the Cranick house to burn to the ground, destroying everything and killing the family's dogs and cats. All because the Cranicks failed to pay a $75 fee. While a raging brush fire neared his home, Cranick begged the fire chief to stop the fire before it engulfed his house.
Glenn Beck not only defended the fire department's refusal to save the Cranick's house, but also accused Cranick of "sponging" off his neighbors -- all the while mocking and ridiculing Cranick's rural accent. After losing everything they owned, including their home, their pets, family photographs -- everything, Gene Cranick and his family were excoriated, scolded and teased by multimillionaire celebrity televangelist Glenn Beck in front of a radio audience estimated at upwards of 10 million listeners.
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. |
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