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• Third Annual Ciara Durkin Toy Drive is December 5!

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  The 3rd annual Ciara Durkin Toy Drive will take place on Saturday, December 5 from 12-2pm at the Kennedy Senior Center, 440 East Squantum St Quincy, MA to benefit Toys for Tots.
  
  Special guests will be in attendance for pictures and autographs.
  
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 1:30pm EST
  by Nomi

• A Rhode Islander Blogs From California...

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  Thanks to facebook, I have rediscovered my friend Karen from Cranston who moved to California many years ago. She has a wonderful blog, Tour de Farce.
  
  Another site I recommend is Left Take
  "Leftake is dedicated to showcasing the creativity, humor, and viewpoints of the progressive" [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 6:18pm EST
  by Nomi

• Vigil Against the War: December 2

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  Yesterday, I received from the local chapter of the American Friends Service Committee the email below...
  
  
  
  Action Alert: AFSC and many other groups have mobilized thousands of calls to the White House to
  plead for no escalation and for an end to the occupation of Afghanistan. It [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 11:30am EST
  by Nomi

• Providence College Hockey Alum Finds His Gay Pride

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  It has been a long time since this blog touched on Providence College, but this story is deserving.
  
  This is by John Buccigross of ESPN:
  
  "I hope the day comes, and soon, when this is not a story." -- Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke
  
  Imagine this.
  [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 4:53pm EST
  by Nomi

• Happy Thanksgiving from Sarah Palin via Jesus' General

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  Happy Thanksgiving from Sarah
  
  Thursday, November 26, 2009
  Happy Thanksgiving from Sarah
  
  
  We just finished a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner with family in Washington State. It's strange being in a foreign country on such a very American holiday, but we made the best of it by setting [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 5:14pm EST
  by Nomi

• Stone Soup Coffehouse Releases the Winter 2010 Calendar

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  For some time I was on the Board of the Stone Soup Coffeehouse .
  
  I cannot recall when or why I left, but it is a wonderful group of people sharing music and community in every sense.
  
  There is a facebook group.
  
  The [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:52pm EST
  by Nomi

• This One Should Close: The "School" Of the Americas

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  The School of the Americas (SOA) has been training people to commit unmentionable crimes since 1946. It has a new name, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation with new acronyms, and the curriculum now includes 8 (eight!) hours of human rights instruction. The wikipedia entry is worth visiting.
  
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:14pm EST
  by Nomi

• Rhode Island Gets Good Press

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  The powerful blog, GRACE PALEY: Pressing The Limits of Action has posted the text of the Providence Journal article from yesterday, and the accompanying photo.
  
  This blog is followed and discovered by readers of Grace Paley's poetry and fiction, and by her many students and friends and family [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:31pm EST
  by Nomi

• Providence RI Will Screen Rosenberg Documentary Sunday November 22!

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  I do not know if I will be able to attend, but I sure hope so. Here is an excerpt from the website of the Rosenberg Fund For Children.
  
  
  Date:
  Sunday, 22 November 2009
  
  Southern New England premiere of the new French documentary (English language [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:47pm EST
  by Nomi

• Vigil And Funeral Procession Against gov. Carcieri's Veto

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  Update:
  
  Here's a blog with a photo from last night.
  
  
  As has been widely acknowledged outside of our fair state:
  
  
  On Tuesday November 10, 2009, Governor Donald Carcieri
  killed a bill that would allow non-married couples the right
  to plan the funerals of their' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:02pm EST
  by Nomi

• Two Speakers at Brown on Friday Nov. 20th

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  oh I am sorry this image is so tiny and illegible...
  
  Here is the text from the email I received:
  
  You are invited to an evening of two lectures:
  
  
  
  Critical Thought and the Humanities Today
  
  
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:18pm EST
  by Nomi

• Rhode Island's Buy Nothing Day Approaches!

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  This text I lift from the Green Party website:
  
  13th Annual Buy Nothing Day
  Winter Coat Exchange
  Friday, November 27th, 2009 10:00am - 2:00pm
  Buy Nothing Day logo
  If you have a coat to give, please drop it off.
  If you need a coat, please pick one up.
  [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 4:05pm EST
  by Nomi

• My General JC Christian's Review: Still Standing by Carrie Prejean

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  Amazon Review: Still Standing by Carrie Prejean [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 3:28pm EST
  by Nomi

• Spam Spam Spam Spam Oy Vey

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  Alas, this blog has been receiving increasing robotic sales and porn pitches. This would bother me less if the readership was also growing significantly.
  
  Ironically, the spam seems to be drawn to one of Democommie's posts...
  
  Once last year there was a spam comment that was so brief' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 12:12pm EST
  by Nomi

• Rhode Islander, John McDaid, Celebrates Birthday at Blogging Conference

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  Belated Happy Birthday to Portsmouth's John McDaid!
  
  Yesterday was his birthday, and he went to an event in New York...
  
  Did they sing Happy Birthday to him?
  
  His blog:
  hard deadlines
  localblogging Portsmouth
  
  is just a wonderful place to visit whether or not you' [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 1:02pm EST
  by Nomi

• How To Use The Past

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  Here is a quote which I received in my email and have never seen. If anyone knows its origins, I will gladly give that person(s) credit:
  
  
  "El pasado te podrá servir como trampolín, nunca como sofá."
  Anónimo (Personaje desconocido)
  
  My translation is:
  
  "The past" [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:40pm EST
  by Nomi

• A good cop

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  Notice: My blog's timestamp is screwed up. This is actually being posted at 9:43 PM (EST) on Wednesday, 11/04/09.
  
  Update: Nome says she will fix the problem with the way I put the links in here. Thanks, Nomi!
  
  A good Cop
  
  I have mentioned to a few' [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 8:52pm EST
  by democommie

• Lucy, the Dog from Iraq, Seeks a Permanent Home

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  This week, Tatiana Pina of the Providence Journal wrote about a dog in Rhode Island who had been rescued from Iraq.
  
  I know the vast majority of this blog's visitors are not in RI, so I thought the story would be of interest.
  
  On Friday I spoke' [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 4:16pm EST
  by Nomi

• Let's Wait And See: About Ft. Hood

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  I have read and heard conflicting accounts about the terrible events of yesterday leading to deaths and injuries.
  
  The commentary below was written by a blogger who posted on Americablog.
  
  
  Some American military installations are in areas which have a lot of violent crime. As a [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 11:48am EST
  by Nomi

• It's Diana Abu-Jaber's Birthday!

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  Happy Birthday, Diana Abu-Jaber!
  
  A few years ago. pure serendipity led me to the fiction of Diana. First I read Crescent and then I read Origins.
  
  They are two very distinct novels.
  
  I would recommend the former to anyone who loves books with food, the Middle [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:56am EST
  by Nomi

• Providence Celebrates the Hudson Street Delicatessen

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  I blogged a few months ago about the departure of the famed Hudson Street Market and the hope that something good would be born in its place (space?)...
  
  And Yes, we have a Friendly Neighborhood Delicatessen:
  
  The Hudson Street Delicatessen already has a [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 11:22am EST
  by Nomi

• Thank You Ninja Nurse, Democommie And Patient Friends

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  I have been a deeply dormant blogger, but the encouragement of the NinjaNurse, and Democommie and the famous bloggers of Newport and Other Mysterious Settings is waking me from the slumber.
  
  This past Saturday at a wonderful Halloween event in my neighborhood, I had the great fortune to see [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 3:25pm EST
  by Nomi

• Recycling an old joke & the prescience of good Science Fiction

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  This is from my place.
  The "birfers" and "deafers" are beginning to become the blackhole of batshit KKKrazy in our nation. The pull of teh Stoopid is so great that no light--of either scholarship or humor--may escape.
  
  To recycle an old joke:
  
  So, Satan takes a meeting [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 9:20am EDT
  by democommie

• Enough of this shit!

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  This is cross posted at polrant.blogspot.com
  
  According to recent news reports on Yahoo! There have been more confrontations at "Town Meetings" on the proposed healthcare bill. One congressman apparently had a swaztika painted on his door. I assume the painting was done by one of the zealots who are [...]
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  Posted: August 11, 2009, 10:19pm EDT
  by democommie

• Rhode Island TeaBaggers' Lifetime Ban Is History

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  This blog is ( to borrow the phrase from Johnny Pez) a stranger to cynicism.
  
  I have never attended the big Fourth of July parade in Bristol, Rhode Island. But it is beyond famous in this little state.
  
  The RI Tea Party organization had a float this [...]
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  Posted: July 17, 2009, 8:23pm EDT
  by Nomi

• Rhode Islander, John Hovan Is Honored With Spanish Citizenship | WSAV

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  American War Vet Honored With Spanish Citizenship | WSAV
  
  Shared via AddThis [...]
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  Posted: July 09, 2009, 1:54pm EDT
  by Nomi

• Them pesky furriners

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  This is a comment that I posted over here: http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/07/stalking_dr_isis.php#comments
  
  ____________________________________________________
  
  Adrienne:
  
  You live in a housing development with lots of foreclosures, rundown properties and roach infestations. This is the fault of immigrants, legal or otherwise, who got mortgages from banks that they should not have been [...]
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  Posted: July 07, 2009, 8:50am EDT
  by democommie

• Lou Gehrig's Wisdom

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  "Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.[...]
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  Posted: July 04, 2009, 4:27pm EDT
  by Nomi

• Hurray for the Providence Community Library!

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  Independence has reached the nine neighborhood branches of Providence, Rhode Island.
  
  Two days ago, Providence Community Library was officially launched with rainstorms and parties, and many celebrations.
  
  
  The Providence Public Library (PPL) is now solely responsible for the Main (downtown) building and all of its [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 7:11pm EDT
  by Nomi

• Jesus' General: On the Seventh Day, He Repented

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  Jesus' General: On the Seventh Day, He Repented [...]
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  Posted: June 24, 2009, 10:15pm EDT
  by Nomi

• Stopping Military Bulldozers Is A Good Thing: Support Ezra Nawi

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  Grace Paley, Harold, Rhett Jones and Marsha Z. West would all be supporting this man.
  
  And my Bubbe, whose birthday is next week, would too.
  
  Here's a short piece about Ezra Nawi.
  
  And here's the Free Ezra site from Jewish Voice [...]
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  Posted: June 19, 2009, 1:38pm EDT
  by Nomi

• Speaking English a Requirement for Motherhood? Reunite Cirila Baltazar Cruz with her Baby

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  Speaking English a Requirement for Motherhood? Reunite Cirila Baltazar Cruz with her Baby [...]
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  Posted: June 16, 2009, 12:47pm EDT
  by Nomi

• WTF. Oy Vey. Providence Plans To Register Protesters

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  Good grief.
  
  From the Providence Journal
  
  Here's one response from Seth Yurdin.' [...]
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  Posted: June 10, 2009, 12:06pm EDT
  by Nomi

• Supporting Marriage Equality in Rhode Island

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  We've been invited by Representative Frank Ferri and his husband, Tony:
  
  Host: REP FERRI & COALITION OF SUPPORTERS
  
  Date: Saturday, June 6, 2009
  
  Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  
  Location: RI STATEHOUSE STEPS Providence, RI
  
  Rhode Islanders who support Marriage Equality will meet on the steps of' [...]
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  Posted: June 04, 2009, 12:55pm EDT
  by Nomi

• Rhode Island's Very Own Drug Dealing Military Recruiter

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  This is rich.
  
  
  Here's an excerpt from Amanda Milkovits' article in The Providence Journal:
  
  
  CRANSTON, R.I. -- A top recruiter for the Air National Guard is being held on numerous drug charges after state police and Air Force investigators seized illegal drugs and about $40,000 worth [...]
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  Posted: June 02, 2009, 4:20pm EDT
  by Nomi

• Reflecting on George Tiller

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  I never met George Tiller, but I am grateful to him for his immeasurable service as a doctor.
  
  My heart is with his whole family.
  
  The guest book on line has many incredibly moving comments.
  
  One way to honor him is to contribute to WRAP [...]
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  Posted: June 01, 2009, 12:52pm EDT
  by Nomi

• Richard Walton's 80th Birthday, Part II

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  Ok, the actual birthday has passed, but the celebration is always at the end of May and this year is no exception...
  
  If you haven't met Richard, don't let that stop you from celebrating...
  
  Here's the email (only very slightly edited) he sends out:
  
  Hi, Just a' [...]
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  Posted: May 26, 2009, 12:11pm EDT
  by Nomi

• Not About the Buildings (Library) News

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  Save The Date! And The Other Date! And One More Date After That!
  
  (This just appeared in my email)
  
  Not About The Buildings has had a pretty quiet spring, but that's because we're about to have a very, very busy summer!
  
  First off, we're doing a new' [...]
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  Posted: May 20, 2009, 5:39pm EDT
  by Nomi

• "Authentic Rabbis": A Photo by David McReynolds

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  My friend, David McReynolds
  sends me more valuable articles, links, announcements than I can possible comprehend, and I won't claim to understand fully the significance of this photo.
  
  We have the inalienable right to misspell.
  
  That spelling of heresy just jumps' [...]
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  Posted: May 18, 2009, 1:47pm EDT
  by Nomi

• How I predicted the false torture confessions

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  Last month, we found out that the real reason the Bush administration tortured prisoners was the same reason that evil people always torture prisoners -- to extract false confessions. In particular, as we learned from Col. Lawrence Wilkerson today, Vice President Richard "Dick" Cheney was looking for an [...]
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  Posted: May 14, 2009, 11:29pm EDT
  by Thomas Kalinowski

• No Whammy Bar or Effects Pedals

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  Monday, May 11, 2009
  
  Another in a haphazard series of non-inflammatory posts.
  
  Gentle Reader:
  
  I journeyed to Johnson City, NY on Sunday. The purpose of the trip was to meet a person I'd met on the blogs, William Yelverton, who was playing in a concert at' [...]
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  Posted: May 11, 2009, 8:00am EDT
  by democommie

• Three cheers for Judy Blume!

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  Judy Blume has written many books, and my favorites will always be the Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing series.
  
  I have just learned that she wrote a fundraising letter for Planned Parenthood which led to death threats from "pro--life" supporters.
  
  Thankfully, [...]
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  Posted: May 08, 2009, 1:09pm EDT
  by Nomi

• Amelia Grace was "...always ready to hug..."

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  Amelia Grace Young
  is someone I never met; I am very fortunate, however, to know some of her family members.
  
  There is an amazing playground in her name, the Amelia Grace Place. [...]
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  Posted: April 29, 2009, 1:34pm EDT
  by Nomi

• The Providence Public Library Is Returning The Branches To The People

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  Finally!
  
  I am enormously grateful to Patricia Raub and many other community members for persistent advocacy...
  
  There remain the important logistics, legalities and now concerns over how many workers will be sacrificed by the PPL in order to maintain their administrative budget.
  
  The current Providence Phoenix'' [...]
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  Posted: April 24, 2009, 11:54am EDT
  by Nomi

• Thank You, Southern Poverty Law Center

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  The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a federal class action lawsuit to stop the inhumane treatment of children at a juvenile detention center in Mississippi and to force officials to provide sanitary facilities and mental health treatment to young people confined there.
  
  Help us send a message to officials [...]
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  Posted: April 21, 2009, 12:25pm EDT
  by Nomi

• Thank You, Jackie Robinson!

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  I have only 10 minutes to type, so please do not consider this little post a fair representation of my respect for Mr. Robinson and his family.
  
  I found a local blog, Monkey Mind, with a youtube video...
  
  And here's a link to The Official Site' [...]
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  Posted: April 15, 2009, 5:35pm EDT
  by Nomi

• Teabagging the Independent Man

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  Yes, those rumors you've heard are true -- conservatives are planning to teabag the Statehouse on Wednesday, April 15. The teabagging is due to take place between three and six in the afternoon, when conservative protestors will put their mouths where their money is and teabag state legislators, passers-by,' [...]
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  Posted: April 12, 2009, 2:59am EDT
  by Thomas Kalinowski

• "Planet of No Return" by Howard Browne

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  "Planet of No Return", a 30,000-word novella, appeared in the May 1951 issue of the venerable Amazing Stories. The novella was written by the magazine's editor, Howard Browne, and appeared under the Amazing house name Lawrence Chandler.
  
  Imagine, if you will, that Edgar Rice Burroughs had decided to write' [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2009, 5:11pm EDT
  by Thomas Kalinowski

• No Giant Pandas Awarded At The Shooting Gallery

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  Nomi:
  
  Per your request (Sorry I didn't see your note sooner):
  
  ______________________________________________________________
  
  No giant panda winners at the shooting gallery.
  
  
  Good morning:
  
  I think I like to type that because, that way, I can at least SEEM to be starting on a positive' [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2009, 3:22pm EDT
  by democommie

• Henry Shelton: “I’m not saying you hit people over the head. But you have to get people involved.”

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  The Providence Journal has a wonderful profile of Henry.
  
  People like Henry give Christianity a good name. [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2009, 1:04pm EDT
  by Nomi