Born 1958: Father, improving Husband, carpenter, workaholic, pacifist, jig maker, photographer. CAD draftsman. FORMER: hitchhiker, apple picker, furniture mover, faculty brat, non-driver, self employed, vegetarian, pot smoker. I AM A: Tree hugger who makes piles of sawdust. Luddite with a huge carbon footprint. Conservative radical, liberal libertarian, with a reactionary view to current policies. Non-practicing Quaker and Third order Franciscan. I THINK THAT: Prisons are an expensive way to deal with poverty. There should be diversity in the ecosystem of politics. The common resources of this nation are being given away too freely. Too much treasure is wasted on the machines of war and courage is not defined by killing an enemy.
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News – Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow attacked the Republican Bush administration's energy policy and tax breaks for the oil industry, urging investment in alternative energy.
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Voted for on May 11, 2008 03:42pm
Science – Could it be that because solar energy is "free" we humans have rejected it because less profit can be made? Could it be that we are that greedy and that foolish? Could it be?
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Voted for on May 11, 2008 03:38pm
News – Myanmar held a rare election on Saturday to approve a new army-drafted constitution, ignoring calls from the outside world to postpone the vote amid the devastation wreaked by Cyclone Nargis.
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Voted for on May 11, 2008 03:23pm
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Humor – A little humor from Cheech and Chong about Vietnam. Always had me laughing and there is some truth in the humor. Bring your own waterpipe. LOL
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Voted for on May 11, 2008 09:41am
Politics – ...The primary has been exceptionally good for party building. Obama has created a number of significant infrastructure pieces through his campaign, displacing traditional groups the way he promised he would by signaling the end of the old politics of division and partisanship....
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(huffingtonpost.com)
Voted for on May 11, 2008 06:18am
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Family – On this 100th anniversary of Mother's Day, the woman credited with creating one of the world's most celebrated holidays probably wouldn't be pleased with all the flowers, candy or gifts.
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(ap.google.com)
Voted for on May 10, 2008 09:32pm
Politics – Foreclosure package approved yesterday, despite presidential veto threat.
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Voted for on May 09, 2008 08:59pm
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Politics – Bush says he will veto the foreclosure relief legislation, despite criticizing congress for not passing him bills.
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(foreclosureconnections.com)
Voted for on May 09, 2008 09:36am
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Science – Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person's tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities.
Politics – "I'm extremely proud of the Operation Chaos volunteers. I never doubted they would triumph in Indiana and I think it is a hoot the Obama campaign is crediting Op Chaos for giving Hillary a 7-point bump. It sounds like they are jealous I out-organized them."
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Politics – He has publicly urged Republicans to vote for Hillary Clinton to keep the divisive Democratic nomination fight alive, but talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday it's Barack Obama who he really wants to be the party's nominee.
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(politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com)
Voted for on May 08, 2008 12:07pm
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Do No Evil – late-night court filing by the White House on Monday revealed that official administration emails about the run up to the invasion of Iraq and the initial occupation may never be recovered.
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(truthout.org)
Voted for on May 08, 2008 11:53am
Do No Evil – On Tuesday, Ira Waltrip, an employee for Iraq contractor KBR, was formally charged with possession of child pornography. Waltrip was first caught with pornographic materials in 2006 and fired from KBR. However, KBR rehired Waltrip before the year ended, and he returned to Baghdad, where he returned to his past behavior.
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(thinkprogress.org)
Voted for on May 08, 2008 11:50am
Gay & Lesbian – The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled that governments and state universities can't offer health insurance to the partners of gay workers.
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(breitbart.com)
Voted for on May 08, 2008 10:56am
Politics – 14% of the people who voted for Hillary yesterday in Indiana said that if Hillary became the nominee they would vote for John McCain in the Fall.
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Voted for on May 08, 2008 08:27am
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