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    "I pray every single second of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me. I know there is no God of the universe made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great.'" -Susan B. Anthony
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    Just when I thought I was safe…

    Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

    I had to go and read the news. Ether this morning’s splitting head ache and dry heaving, the ever worsening weather, or today’s news worked me into an ever worsening basket case of frothing fear. Actually my headache has dampened and I’m not really that scared but seriously today’s news strangely fear filled. For [...]

    That’s it, we’re moving to France!

    Friday, October 12th, 2007

    No more freedom fries for us. I have been coveting nationalized healthcare in a BIG way lately. I have had a sorethroat/fever/general illness since Tuesday. I am insured by Aetna who has a contract with the Federal Government to provide healthcare insurance for Americorps members. Despite the fact that they have not sent me a [...]

    Mexicanica, Canamerico or Americanixco?

    Sunday, October 7th, 2007

    Tear down the wall, pack up the minutemen, and get ready to expand! Immigration has just taken a turn for the better. The solution to our current immigration problems is to unify Canada, the US and Mexico into one nation state.
    Kate has posed a question for the Republican YOUTUBE debate in November.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sWn8Ad8zwk

    This question has ilicited [...]

    SLC Refugee Relocation

    Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

    Until last week, when I got a job with the International Rescue Committee as a refugee case manager, I had not idea Salt Lake City was a major refugee relocation center. Each year around 400 refugees are relocated to the Salt Lake Valley in Utah to start new lives as future American citizens. Many [...]

    Garden Ethics

    Saturday, August 11th, 2007

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    Lets start with an evolutionarily postulate quoted from Wikipedia.org. “Natural selection is a process that causes heritable traits that are helpful for survival and reproduction to become more common and harmful traits to become rarer.” And a definition of ethics which according to Answers.com from the Philosophy Dictionary by Oxford Press is “The [...]

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