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February 9th, 2009
 | 12:05 pm
Who spent money to support Proposition 8? You could look it up.
As you might expect, the Republicans are turning their backs on the people who have played by the rules. If things go true to form, the Republicans will now complain that Social Security, unemployment and Medicare are funded only by the wealthy (them) and thus those who use our social safety net are "stealing from the rich." Lies, all lies. You and I pay for the social safety net through our taxes, and in fact those of us who don't make as much pay a far higher proportion than those who can light their cigars with rolled-up hundred-dollar bills.
Department of righting past wrongs:
-- The DOJ has rehired an attorney fired for allegedly "being a lesbian".
-- Our new Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, has cancelled scores of oil and gas leases that the Bush Adminstration okayed for drilling in Utah's Red Rock country. Get this: the leases would have brought in $6 million. That's chump change. Congress goes to lunch for more than that. Instead, the matchless beauty of that countryside is preserved for a while longer, near near Arches and Canyonlands national parks, Dinosaur National Monument and Nine Mile Canyon.
Budapest and Washington are talking about where the Guantanamo prisoners can go.
Cracking the case of the poisoned processed peanuts. This reminds me of the process that was used decades ago to find who was poisoning Tylenol, which is the case that brought about tamper-proof and individualized packaging for certain kinds of medicines.
The rise and fall of handwriting: a review.
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