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Bad day for Frankenstein, Inc, good day for the rest of us. A lower court ruling allowing the patent on human genes was just thrown out. If these people could find a way, they would charge us for the air we breathe.
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Perhaps it is his search for human rights in other nations that has awaken Jimmy Carter to his own co-operation with oppression in his own.

“At its most repugnant, the belief that women must be subjugated to the wishes of men excuses slavery, violence, forced prostitution, genital mutilation and national laws that omit rape as a crime. But it also costs many millions of girls and women control over their own bodies and lives, and continues to deny them fair access to education, health, employment and influence within their own communities.” -Jimmy Carter

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Everybody knows that the price of power is silence about certain issues. For most women to gain power in the United States they must not make sexist men feel uncomfortable. For a person of color to succeed in a national election, he or she must serve the illusion that our nation is “post-racial”. It is understandable that any candidate like Obama, hoping to break the color barrier for the first time, would claim his mere election proves that the U.S. is no longer racist. It seems to me that the murder of Treyvon Martin cries out for more. There will never be a better time for the President to help Americans realize that being uncomfortable about race is not a bad thing. In fact, talking together about our racist history might be the beginning of actually healing that three hundred year old wound. Unfortunately, any leader who speaks the truth about gender or race in the United States instantly loses credibility as a real leader. They are seen as either opportunists (like Sharpton and Jackson) or revered figureheads (like MLK), neither of which gets to sit at the head of the table. So, it might be a mistake after all. I’m terrible at understanding the dirty reality of politics. I just know this president has already shattered a symbolic wall, this might be a chance for our highest leader to remind us that we have yet to dismantle the real thing.

I met this reporter at the rally for teachers Saturday. Abby used to work at the Texas Observer and now writes for the American Prospect. I’ve noticed her writing before. She is quite good.
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Sorry everyone. I’m late getting started on the blog today. Wifi was down at the restaurant where I work early in the morning. I’ll be up and posting soon.

     “Motherliness must be that which does not remain within the narrow circle of blood relations or of personal friends; but in accordance with the model of the Mother of Mercy, it must have its root in universal divine love for all who are there, belabored and burdened.” ~ Edith Stein  (source: wikiquotes)

I love this kind of thing. This is a graphic trying to help grasp the size of the solar system. The scales are truly mind boggling.
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“Think about that: if you expose to the world previously unknown evidence of widespread wanton killing of civilians (as Manning allegedly did), then you will end up in the same place as someone who actually engages in the mass wanton killing of civilians (as Bales allegedly did), except that the one who committed atrocities will receive better treatment than the one who exposed them. That’s a nice reflection of our government’s value system (similar to the way that high government officials who commit egregious crimes are immunized, while those who expose them are aggressively prosecuted). If the chat logs are to be believed, Manning decided to leak those documents because they revealed heinous war crimes that he could no longer in good conscience allow to be concealed, and he will now find himself next to a soldier who is accused of committing heinous war crimes.” Glenn Greenwald (as quoted in truthdig.com)
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