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Immigration Reform in Aurora, CO

September 19, 2009 by johne

This morning there was a forum for immigration reform and the Queen of Peace Church in Aurora.  The common theme was different angles on how the current system for immigration is broken and that we need comprehensive immigration reform now.

Father Lally opened with comments about how our current laws are outdated and do not match the reality of people's lives and that our failure to act actually undermines the security of our borders.  He noted that the Conference of Bishops have called for reform that includes:

   * a path to citizenship
   * protection for all workers in the US
   * a family-based immigration system and reduction in backlogs
   * restoring some due process rights, and

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Francis Schaeffer's Article "Subversives From Within" Reposted

September 19, 2009 by Celtic_Divas_Bl...

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A friend of mine sent this article to me.  Francis Schaeffer is the son of Frank Schaeffer and wrote the book, "Crazy for God".  He was heavily involved, along with his father, in the far Christian right's anti abortion movement.  I am currently reading this book, and I felt the need to share this piece with other readers on this site.  

Glenn Beck and the 9/12 Marchers: Subversives From Within

Who are these people?! Where do they come from?! Ordinary Americans might wonder why anyone would stoop so low as to follow Glenn Beck, Fox News and Dick Armey (and their corporate sponsors masquerading as "FreedomWorks") as they organize their "9/12 March On Washington" to cynically exploit the 9/11 attack.

Patriotic Americans might question the organizer's aim to provide a media forum for dimwitted right wingers to scream "Liar!" "Socialist!" "Antichrist!" "Muslim!" "Death Panels!" "He's not an American!" and so on and on and on about the commander in chief charged with defending us from further attacks. And some people might even cry "shame on you!" to the more mainstream Republicans participating that include Dick Armey of FreedomWorks, as well as GOP Reps. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Mike Pence of Indiana, Tom Price of Georgia, and South Carolina GOP Sen.

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A very short story set in the Old West to wrap up ADHD Awareness Week

September 18, 2009 by hummingbirdminds

"The pursuit of the big sky and the attitude of 'Don't fence me in' may be one of the reasons why Idaho leads the nation in per capita prescriptions of Ritalin for school-age children."
--From "Answers to Distraction" by Edwin M. Hallowell, M.D./John J. Ratey, M.D.

How the West Was Won

Idaho lies just over those mountains. Soon it will become a territory, and someday a state where potatoes will share the soil with concrete burrows of nuclear missiles. Ritalin will serve as handmaiden to its many children.

Our wagons stir the land, cause dust devils to rise. Black serpent cyclones rip the ridgelines. Native nomads, bison, tumbleweeds cross the purple prairie. Movement is religion. We are not destined for one place, but many; many mansions, as The Book says, many wagons filled with children, the amputated pasts of émigré nations.
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