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“This Page Does Not Exist.”

Do you need help deciding which candidate is better for LGBT and marriage equality? Let me assist you. Click here: http://www.mittromney.com/lgbt/ or here: http://www.barackobama.com/lgbt I hope this little exercise convinces everyone who either is LGBT or who loves someone who is LGBT to vote Obama/Biden. When you click on…

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October 18, 2012

Country / Current Events / Editorials / Politics / Theater

A Poem to Mitt, the Twit

By OcJim A twit they do say, your Romney’s a twit, One day with the Britts, and they’re roiled to fits. His manner distasteful, his lies do offend, He appears robotic, since his body won’t bend. He must lie faster, than you can fact-check the truth, Getting any true…

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October 17, 2012

Editorials / Media / Prejudice / Relationships / Society

Amanda Todd: Cyberbullying Out-of-Control

This is the one. If ever there was one event that got a little too deep under my skin, this is it. If ever there was one teen suicide that illustrated as clearly as the day is long that it is beyond time for us to stop talking about…

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October 14, 2012

Gender / Prejudice / Sexuality / Society

Matthew Shepard’s Legacy

Follow more from Faith McLay --> here. Fourteen years ago today, 21-year-old Matthew Wayne Shepard succumbed to the injuries inflicted upon him a few days earlier by two men he had met in a bar. Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson later both received two consecutive life sentences for their crime.…

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October 11, 2012

Politics / Prejudice / Rachel Hockett - Articles / Relationships / Sexuality / Society

Honor Their Memory: Re-elect Obama

October 7, 1998: Cyclist Aaron Kreifels spots what he takes for a scarecrow as he rides through a Wyoming field. When he sees the glistening blood, he realizes this is no scarecrow, and the brutally beaten University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard is rushed to a hospital, where five…

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October 11, 2012

Britain/England/UK / Culture / Gender / Sexuality / Society

Irish Survey Reveals Shockingly High Risk of Suicide Among Trans* People

Follow more from this author on Facebook here: Faith McLay A recent survey by the Transgender Equality Network of Ireland revealed rather horrifying numbers: 78 percent of respondents said they had considered suicide; 63 percent within the past year. Nearly 40 percent had attempted suicide at some point in…

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October 9, 2012

Corporate Elite Put us on this Path of Doom / Culture / Current Events / Editorials / Education / Media / Politics

Carpal Tunnel Brain Syndrome

By OcJim Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is a common ailment that causes swelling of the nine tendons in your carpal tunnel, causing pain, numbness, and discomfort in your hand and fingers. Carpal Tunnel Brain Syndrome involves repetitious attacks on your frontal lobe, inducing emotional and ill-advised decision-making. We have been…

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October 9, 2012

Current Events / Editorials / Media / Prejudice / Sexuality / Society

Why We’re Losing Ground in Bullying Prevention

I’ve been writing this blog article for about a week now, in my mind. Each time I thought I was ready move it from my mind to my fingers and onto my keyboard, that voice inside me would say “wait! not yet”. Normally, I hate when that happens. That…

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October 6, 2012

Alternative Healing/ Holistic Medicine / Body / Paranormal / Physics / Spirituality

Spiritual Saboteurs

At our core, we are all beings of energy. This means that there is a constant flow of energy within us. It also means there is a constant flow of energy around, through, and connecting us – and it affects you, even if you are not conscious of it.

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October 5, 2012

Country / Culture / Current Events / Gender / Government / Politics / Rachel Hockett - Articles / Society / Women's issues

Women!

It wasn’t until 1920 (the year of my 92-year-old mother’s birth) that we even had the right to vote. Certainly this is no time for us to squander that hard-won power. Did you see Gloria Steinem’s recent email (October 2, 2012), laying it out flat why women not only…

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October 4, 2012