Last week I received my Utah Voter Information Guide. Have you read this thing? I finally sat down (admittingly on the toilet) and read it. I got a chuckle out of “Superdell’s” piece, was dismayed by Bennion Spencer’s statement that he was both pro-life and believed that marriage should be between a man and woman, [...]

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Visit the Around the Globe Theatre Website for a special discount code that gives you $3 off the regular ticket price.

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A shameless plug for my current show…

“Closet Land,” by Radha Bharadwaj (based on the movie of the same name), is about a woman, living in an unnamed country, who is taken from her home in the middle of the night and interrogated on the grounds that her children’s book is subversive.
Cast members, Josh Richardson and [...]

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Going to Jail for Being a Democrat: How Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman Got Roved
Don Siegelman, a popular Democratic governor of Alabama, a Republican state, was framed in a crooked trial, convicted on June 29, 2006, and sent to Federal prison by the corrupt and immoral Bush administration.
The frame-up of Siegelman and businessman Richard Scrushy [...]

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Yes, that’s right folks, Senator John “Weather Vane” McCain (because he points where ever the wind blows) yesterday voted AGAINST a bill that would ban the CIA from waterboarding.
New York Times Article
… the White House has long said Mr. Bush will veto the bill, saying it “would prevent the president from taking the lawful [...]

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Evidently Neal B. Hendrickson has decided that he’s had enough of us “Wasatch-Front Northerners” and is asking for Utah’s Dixie to secede from our glorious Deseret union!
Yep, that’s right, folks! One of the new bills that will be considered by the state legislature this session calls for exactly that: A separate state whose northern border [...]

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Evidently, congress has finished their investigations into Katrina, the CIA, and has concluded how to best resolve Iraq, now they can move onto “important” issues:
Affirming the rich spiritual and religious history of our Nation’s founding and subsequent history and expressing support for designation of the first week in May as `American Religious History Week’ for [...]

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If anything, gotta love his followers:
(Here’s the link)
I think they should have been carrying torches and pitchforks.

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Again, hitting one of my pet causes, Stop Violence Against Women… this was sent to me by my friends at the much maligned-by-conservatives, but much appreciated-by-me MoveOn.org…
Jamie Leigh Jones was a 20-year-old woman working in Iraq for a subsidiary of Halliburton when she was drugged and brutally gang-raped by several co-workers.
The next day, Halliburton told [...]

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This was in the Washington Post yesterday:
It is absurd that Romney feels compelled to deliver a speech defending his beliefs and that Huckabee does not have to explain how, in this day and age, he does not believe in evolution. But it is singularly appropriate that Romney’s speech be delivered at the Bush library. For [...]

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I reported on this story last month and JM told me about this little development from our Occupier-in-Chief’s Q&A this morning…
From Crook’s and Liars:
CNN’s Ed Henry: On another issue of credibility in the Mid East — At the Annapolis Summit you used your influence to get Saudi Arabia to the table but I wonder whether [...]

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And we thought our judicial system was hard on rape victims…
From Auntie Beeb…
According to the Arab News newspaper, the 19-year-old woman was gang-raped 14 times in an attack in the eastern province a year-and-a-half ago.
The victim and attackers are from Saudi Arabia’s Shia minority.
Seven men from the majority Sunni community were found guilty of the [...]

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BBC News from October 30:

IAEA findings on Iran dismissed
France and the US have dismissed a finding by the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog Mohammed ElBaradei that there is no evidence of Iran building a bomb.
French Defence Minister Herve Morin challenged Iran to allow UN inspectors unlimited access to sites.
The US said Iran’s efforts to [...]

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For the past few months, I’ve been a frequent visitor to a little British website, www.TV-Links.co.uk… don’t bother typing it into your browser, it’s been shut down by British authorities. This site provided links to a large selection of television shows, cartoons, anime and videos. Sadly, the Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact) felt that this [...]

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JM asked me to post this yesterday, and I’ve been woefully neglectful (hey, life-changing events will do that to you)…
This Sunday, SunDAY, SUNDAY! at the First Presbyterian Church in down town Salt Lake City, a delegation of men in kilts (that’s right, ladies, kilts!) will gather to have their clans blessed by the Kirk [...]

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