Pollution: 1. bad for everyone or 2. a myth perpetrated by goofy liberals who want sissy things like clean air, clean water and something other than subdivisions to pass onto our children?
Work with me here … according to the fundie nutjobs that talk to God three or four times a day (do you think God [...]

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I for one am well aware that our founding fathers were, for the most part, uncomfortable yet non-apologetic Deists. They knew the importance of separating church, any church, and the government because they had observed history and seen that when a church is in charge of a government, that government is doomed.
A lot of modern [...]

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Congress is in deliberation, for some unfathomable reason, to pass a resolution declaring the murder of at least hundreds of thousands of Armenians, in 1915, a genocide. The President says no, don’t call it that, call it an unfortunate accident.
From the International Herald Tribune:
“We all deeply regret the tragic suffering of the Armenian [...]

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WHAT: The Salt Lake Film Society is holding a special screening of “The
Devil Came on Horseback,” a documentary exposing the tragedy in Darfur,
as seen through the eyes of a former U.S. Marine Captain, Briahn
Steidle. The documentary takes the viewer on an emotionally charged
journey into the Heart of Darfur, Sudan, where an Arab-run government is
systematically executing [...]

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So, I was pleased to see Matheson’s name as one of the co-sponsors and totally not surprised to find Cannon and Bishop’s names missing.
H.CON.RES.7
Title: Calling on the League of Arab States and each Member State individually to acknowledge the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan and to step up their efforts to stop the [...]

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I’m hearing a rumor that Fidelity Investments may be bending to pressure to divest their interests in the companies that support the genocide in Darfur. Biggest of all is PetroChina, a Chinese petroleum company that supplies abound 70% of the funding for the Sudanese regime committing the genocide.
I’m looking around for proof, but, I think [...]

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