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The Daily Tweets, 2009-08-13
RT: @adndotcom: Facebook pulls plug on screenwriter's bogus Sarah Palin page that fooled hundreds of Palin fans. http://bit.ly/G7sWu # Jesse heading back to Denali. Didn't realize he'd driven his scooter all the way down! – he just got his motorcycle … Continue reading
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"There's no sign of discrimination" — uh, yes there is
This is a slightly revised version of a page I just put up to give Identity Reports and One in Ten a permanent front page presence on my blog. In the 1980s, the nonprofit organization Identity, Inc. conducted two major … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska politics, Ordinance
Tagged Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Identity Inc., Identity Reports, lgbtq, One in 10, willful ignorance
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Third time in 35 years: Anchorage's equal rights ordinance
An account of the meeting at which the Anchorage Assembly passed the S-2 version of the Anchorage equal rights ordinance, AO 2009-64, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. It passed by a vote of 7–4.
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Tagged Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Debbie Ossiander, lgbtq
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The Daily Tweets, 2009-08-12
To bed after dinner w/ @celticdiva & hubby & reading ordinance blogs/news stories. My livetweets up @ Henkimaa.com, more later. Now: sleep! # RT: @tonei: It's official. I'm interning at the National Center for Transgender Equality this semester. Yay! <Adding … Continue reading
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The Daily Tweets, 2009-08-11: Anchorage equal rights ordinance passes 7-4
@MermaidSocks Ewww! # Will be livetweeting from Anch Assembly tonight. Tweets update my FB status, so it’ll get busy ~500 PM – hide me if it’s too much. #anclgbt # About those death panels: videos from Daily Show, Colbert Report, … Continue reading
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Tagged Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, lgbtq
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What's on the table: Anchorage equal rights ordinance
It’s been a long hard haul: six long nights of public testimony. Now finally tonight there may be some decisions made. Here’s the Assembly’s agenda tonight. The equal rights-related items are item 9.B.2, which is Dan Coffey’s resolution for a … Continue reading
About those death panels: The funny and the not-so-funny
These people kept me sane all the way through the presidential election season. Now as more & more insanity spreads by means of the nonsensical pronouncements of former (thank goodness!) Gov. Sarah Palin, and lots of other dishonest, unthinking, & … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska politics
Tagged crazies, deathers, health care reform, humor, Sarah Palin, tea, teabaggers
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The Daily Tweets, 2009-08-10
Daniel Radcliffe donates to LGBT youth anti-suicide helpline. http://bit.ly/VJRyr # Froomkin! RT: @whitehousewatch: My first (Huffington) post is live! Our Fuzzy President About To Come Into Focus, http://tinyurl.com/lep8xp # Mudflats reports on Alaska “#deathers shouting down sick people at Anchorage … Continue reading
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Righty-tighty mobocracy
I’ve read two reports now of anti-health care reform protesters at Senator Mark Begich’s health care press conference heckling and shouting down a lung cancer patient on oxygen tanks who was attempting to testify. The first report came via a … Continue reading
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Tagged birthers, deathers, Eddie Burke, health care reform, Sarah Palin, teabaggers
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The Daily Tweets, 2009-08-09
RT @UnPCSarahPalin: Hey media, stop making shit up, that's my gig. # Powered by Twitter Tools
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