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Posted tonight 11/30 >>WE ARE GOING TO WIN THIS, I GUARANTEE YOU.... Kerry will be in the White House as long as we keep up the pace we have been at the last few weeks. We need to keep the emails going, keep the protests going...as long as we do this more and more leaders will fall in line as they see the movement grow. I can't say this enough: 1) Protest, Protest, Protest If you have time to attend any protest in your area, DO IT. Get out there. Especially in Ohio and Florida. We did one in CO...

Florida gay couples file suit seeking the right to marry 11:38 AM CST on Wednesday, February 25, 2004Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - More than 170 gay men and women filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the Florida law prohibiting them from obtaining marriage licenses. The suit, filed in Broward County court, is believed to be the first formal legal challenge to the state law specifying that marriage licenses be issued only to parties consisting of one male and one female. "An idea whose time has come can never be stopped," said attorney Ellis Rubin, who represents the 175 plaintiffs. "This...

PETA to cannibals: 'Don't let them eat steak' - Wesley J. Smith Sunday, December 21, 2003 When Ingrid Newkirk, the founder of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals infamously asserted in 1986, "There is no rational basis for asserting that a human being has special rights: A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy," few believed that she meant it literally. Surely, people thought, Newkirk and PETA understand that humans have far greater moral worth than animals. Actually, they don't. In fact, it now appears that PETA's moral views have become so distorted and misanthropic...

Hey, I'm just the messenger. ROFL! Trip Description: Voyage to Our Hollow Earth - 24 Day Trip Would you be interested in a once-in-a-life-time chance to discover Our Hollow Earth first hand? We invite you to join us now on an expedition to Our Hollow Earth! Steve Currey is one of the leading river explorers in the world, having made first descents on the upper Yangtze River in China, Brahmaputra and Upper Ganges rivers in India, Futaleufu River in Chile, Katun River in Siberia and Tsangpo River in Tibet through the world's deepest canyon featured in National Geographic Adventure magazine....

Not even fruitcakes are welcome as carry-on baggage: security official Tue Dec 9, 4:15 PM ET MONTREAL (CP) - Holiday travellers are being advised to forget the fruitcake as carry-on luggage if they want to avoid delays when boarding planes over the holiday season. The head of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority said Tuesday about 500,000 prohibited items have been intercepted at Canada's 89 airports during the past six months. Jacques Duchesneau said the public still isn't aware of what is allowed on board. He said a lot of scissors and Swiss Army knives are still being confiscated along...

I turned up and found myself amongst 12 high-school students verses a fairly sizeable crowd of folks mostly ignorant of the news and history (go figure). The High-schoolers were great. The kids impressed me in terms of how well read/informed they were. The appeasenick protesters kept trying to argue with us about how we couldn't go to war because Saddam hadn't done anything specific to us. We attempted to explain the WMD, how Sept. 11 changed things and brought history into play re: if people wouldn't have had let Hitler get away with treaty violations in 1933...as well as the...

Council passes anti-war resolution Boulder reverses earlier decision to avoid Iraq statement By Greg Avery, Camera Staff Writer January 22, 2003 Boulder's City Council on Tuesday formally expressed opposition to a United States-led war with Iraq, reversing its skepticism about such a declaration last fall. Responding to a growing push by hundreds of people around the city — peace activists, students, business owners, religious leaders, elementary school teachers and others — the council voted 7-2 in support of a resolution urging diplomacy instead of war. Boulder joined a growing list of at least 42 cities around the country that have...

ICONOCLAST DAILY NOTEBOOK.... Latest Peace Protests Are Unbarable.... January 16, 2003: If war is hell, then anti-war agitprop is sheer torture. Take the latest flavor of the month in peace protests, protesting for peace in the buff. For example, as many a leering news report has informed us lately, a group of 105 cerebally-challenged California women -- many of them grandmothers -- are taking it it all off and using their naked bodies to spell out such imaginative slogans as "Peace" and "No War." Referring to themselves as the "Baring Witness" movement, they say they are "baring all" to...

McGreevey expected to support same-sex benefits bill Sunday October 20, 2002 NEWARK, N.J. (AP) A bill expected to be introduced this month that would grant legal benefits to same-sex couples is likely to have the backing of Gov. James E. McGreevey. ``Governor McGreevey supports legislation that would provide domestic partner benefits and protections,'' McGreevey spokeswoman Jo Glading told The Sunday Star-Ledger of Newark. The bill sponsored by Assemblywoman Loretta Weinberg, D-Bergen, would not recognize gay marriages, but would ensure that people living together, including same-sex couples, receive the same legal benefits as married couples. The measure would require unmarried couples...

Dallas -- Texas Rangers pitcher John Rocker issued a written apology Monday for anti-gay remarks he made toward patrons of a popular eatery. Rocker said he was with his girlfriend on Sunday at Breadwinners Cafe & Bakery when some customers began badgering and pestering him. "It seemed as if they were trying to bait me with suggestive comments," Rocker said in the statement. Richard Garcia, who waited on Rocker and his girlfriend, said the ballplayer was not provoked. Garcia said Rocker called a male couple sitting at a nearby table "fruitcakes" as he got up and left. "That's nothing someone...