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Lynette (Lynette1977)
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United States
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About Me:
Atheist, feminist, GLBT and civil rights activist, progressive and willing to learn anything I can get my hands on.
Gender:
Female
Issues that matter to me:
GLBT rights, ending religious superiority complexes in the US, progressing science and education and finding a new source that gives me the news straight up.

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Bush's Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq

Added a post Sep 28 2007

Now what, what? Who knows what's next. The more I hear about what's going on in Myanmar the more it reeks of exactly the same thing that this administration has tried to do with it's own citizens. ... Read More »

Tagged: freedom, fascism, war, property, iraq

Bush's Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Lynette Sep 28 2007.

If you haven't read this yet, you should. This authorizes the president to take anything that belongs to you if you speak out and therefore "undermine efforts to promote economic reconstruction and... Read More »

Tagged: freedom, fascism, war, property, iraq

US House Passes Bill to Restore Workers’ Rights to Challenge Pay Discrimination Claims

Added a reply Aug 21 2007

If only our legislators could see that giving money back to the corporations never really does work in the long run. I had a professor once ask us what we thought would happen if you gave money to ... Read More »

Tagged: rights, discrimination, court, house, lawsuit

 

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HRC Presidential Forum

As an American who has a little at stake here, I sat appalled that the democratic candidates said some of the things that they did at the HRC/Logo forum yesterday. Clinton said she supports civil unions but not marriage, Obama said the same thing and that what the GLBT community has gone through is nothing like the civil rights movements for blacks in the US (though some things were "similar" he said) and Edwards pulled the same stunt.

So tell me, why do they honestly think that ANY GLB…

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Posted by Lynette on August 10th, 2007 at 6:32pm — 6 Comments (Add)
 

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At 9:08am on December 2nd, 2007, Calvin Leman said…
Lynette,

Until we have Fair Elections, we have to live with this: Not Democrat or Republican; not green or industry...The issue is faultly science and lazy lawmaking. This would not happen if folks, like we are, could communicate with our legislators.

In today's news:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/washington/02lobby.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&th&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1196597094-EEMyA7GmdOc9y7aiHhh8TA



Lobbying

At the Transportation Department, trucking companies are trying to get final approval for a rule increasing the maximum number of hours commercial truck drivers can work.

Automakers are trying to persuade officials to set new standards for the strength of car roofs — standards far less stringent than what consumer advocates say is needed to protect riders in a rollover.

At the Interior Department, coal companies are lobbying for a regulation that would allow them to dump rock and dirt from mountaintop mining operations into nearby streams and valleys.

The National Chicken Council and the U.S. Poultry and Egg Association have petitioned for an exemption from laws and rules that require them to report emissions of ammonia exceeding 100 pounds a day.

On another issue, the Environmental Protection Agency is drafting final rules that would allow utility companies to modify coal-fired power plants and increase their emissions without installing new pollution-control equipment.

All this because Democrats may win in the next election.

Cal

PS
Take a look at http://fp1.centurytel.net/democracy/district_35.htm and scroll down.
I have been collecting facts about our ID state legislators,

If we show what they have been doing, maybe voters will consider an alternative candidate.
 
 

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