Bigots Fight Against Family Across Borders

ShareFrom Brian Leubitz at Prop Eight Trial Tracker:
Love Across Borders
by Brian Leubitz
One of the more important of the 1,000+ rights of marriage under federal law is the right to bring your spouse into the country. In fact, marrying an American is even grounds for citizenship. Yet for same-sex partners, there is no right to stay [...]

GORDON DUFF: RABBI WEISS AMBUSHES FOX NEWS

ShareRABBI YISROEL WEISS from Jews United Against Zionism
“WHY ISRAEL SHOULD’T EXIST”
EDITOR’S NOTE:  (Gordon Duff)  Rabbi Weiss presents a compassionate view on the Israeli role in causing world conflict and bringing hatred and disrepute to Jews around the world.  Worth the time to watch.
 
 
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N.C. woman gets $9M in alienation of affection suit

ShareN.C. woman gets $9M in alienation of affection suit
A woman sues her husband’s lover for ruining their marriage
By Associated Press
A jury has awarded a North Carolina woman $9 million from her husband’s lover after ruling the other woman ruined their marriage.
The News & Record of Greensboro reports the jury ruled this week in 60-year-old Cynthia [...]

The battle over “cry it out” sleep training

ShareFor what’s it’s worth, I say hold your babies close often—they’re baby primates, not Marines.
The battle over “cry it out” sleep training
Common-sense parenting or child abuse? The dilemma that plagued our family — and many others
By Ada Calhoun

I turned up the volume on the TCM movie to drown out the sound of my baby crying [...]

St. Patrick’s Day controversy: Is corned beef and cabbage Irish?

Corned beef was made popular in New York bars at lunchtime. The bars offered a ‘free lunch’ to the Irish construction workers who were building NYC in the early part of the 20th century. But there’s no such thing as a free lunch. You had to buy a couple of beers or shots of whiskey to get that free lunch. And that’s how corned beef became known as an ‘Irish’ food.

5 Ways to Value a Tree

Share* By Mickey Z. Planet Green *
When you live in a corporate-dominated culture, everything is potentially a “commodity.” We “spend” time, we “invest” in relationships, and some of us view trees as nothing more than potential lumber and/or paper.
1. Commodity
According to the Wisconsin Paper Council, an “interesting rule of thumb is that an acre of [...]

Military Families Speak Out against the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan War

ShareThe Military Family Peace group Military Families Speak Out is asking all Military Families, Veterans, and supporters who question or oppose the continued occupation of Iraq and escalation of war in SW Asia to add your voice and SPEAK OUT!
Robert L. Hanafin, Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired, Veterans Today News

Dave Barry’s Oscar experience

It’s a few days before the Academy Awards, and I’m deep in the bowels of the Kodak Theater (which has miles of bowels) in a cramped space temporarily named the Writers Room. The show writers, of whom I am one this year, are sitting around a conference table strewn with papers, Starbucks cups and the wrappers of long-deceased snacks. Also at the table are the co-hosts we’re writing for, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.

Global Warming Might Spur Earthquakes and Volcanoes

Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and landslides are some of the additional catastrophes that climate change and its rising sea levels and melting glaciers could bring, a geologist says.

Donna Teresa: And the Oscar goes to … the troops

I haven’t met a war veteran yet who has told me he or she has seen a war movie numerous times. Instead, the common response is: “I don’t need a war movie to tell me war is hell. I was lucky to have lived through it and come home.”

TOLEDO, OHIO: MAY 16 VET BIKER EVENT CANCELLED

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TOLEDO VETERANS MEMORIAL MOTORCYCLE EVENT CANCELLED

By Nick Hauptricht for Veterans Today
The event planned for May 16, 2010 welcoming the WW2 memorial stones given to Rep. Marcy Kaptur for the new memorial garden at the proposed VAMC has run into a few snags.  We will be rescheduling as soon as possible.
It is important to get the [...]

Equality and the Good Life, Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better

We live in a world of deep inequality, and the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. We in the rich world generally agree that this is a problem we ought to help fix—but that the real beneficiaries will be the billions of people living in poverty. After all, inequality has little impact on the lives of those who find themselves on top of the pile.

Evolution by the Grassroots

We live in the age of grass. Indeed, from our point of view, the evolution of grasses was one of the most momentous events in the history of the Earth. Which is why I’m nominating them for Life-form of the Month: March.

Facts About Animal Abuse and Domestic Violence

ShareIn association with the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
I promised a companion article to Dogs for Vets: a great idea, but screening Vets for Pets is also important that would stress the importance of ensuring anyone, not only combat Veterans, who is considering getting such a trained animal must be screened.
It has taken a while [...]

17 Ridiculous Laws Still On The Books In The U.S.

In Missouri, It is Illegal To Drive With An Uncaged Bear (Caged Bears Are OK)

Not exactly razor-sharp

We continue to see evidence of an alarming decline in the quality of our nation’s criminals.
Consider the man who attempted to rob a mini-mart in the town of Vernon, Conn., as reported in a Journal Inquirer story sent in by alert reader Dan Thompson. The robber elected to wear a disguise, which was a good idea, since he was a regular customer of the store. The problem was the particular disguise he picked.

The Chilean Earthquake and God’s Wrath

According to religious prognosticators, sinners will suffer the wrath of god in the form of earthquakes as biblical punishment for their errant ways. The declarations and explanations of such divine calamities always come after the fact, but let us not have such annoying details get in our way. Nobody is more out front in decoding god’s will than Robertson; he declared that the devastating earthquake in Haiti was a consequence of Haitians making a pact with the devil.

DoD debates lifting ban on Women in Combat but not Gays

ShareEven as the Pentagon, Congress, and the Obama administration spar with one another in a debate over gays serving openly in combat, the DoD has shifted the debate trying to focus on lifting the ban on women in combat.
The continuing occupation of Iraq and escalation of war in Afghanistan is putting so much pressure on [...]

Zionism a terrifying nightmare

What is a Zionist today? Short answer: One, not necessarily a Jew, who (to quote Balfour) supports the Zionist state of Israel “right or wrong” and who cannot or will not admit that a terrible wrong was done to the Palestinians by Zionism — a wrong that must be acknowledged and then corrected on terms acceptable to the Palestinians if there is ever to be peace and the countdown to catastrophe for all is to be stopped. The Arab word for the catastrophe of the original dispossession of the Palestinians is Nakba. In my view, Zionism’s Nakba denial is as obscene and as evil as denial of the Nazi holocaust.

SEVERE CLEAR / Screeners Available (Opens March 12th) NYC

ShareThis is a follow-up to my review of the film Severe Clear being released in March.
Shot by First Lieutenant Mike Scotti on his Mini-DV camera, and told through his own journal entries, Kristian Fraga’s “Severe Clear” is a first person account of the Marines who were on the front lines of Operation Iraqi Freedom. This [...]

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