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You're looking very quitty, too

Last night while enmired in the seemingly endless (yet it ended, yay!) & repetitively nonsensical “Truth is not Hate” untruthful hate speech testimony of equal rights ordinance opponents (happily broken up by a lot of really good ordinance supporter testimony),  … Continue reading

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The Daily Tweets, 2009-07-21: Assembly public hearing #6

Note 7/22/09: Most of the tweets in this collection are from the Anchorage Assembly meeting, the sixth (& last) meeting at which public testimony was taken on the Anchorage equal rights ordinance which will, if passed, add sexual orientation/gender identity … Continue reading

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Waking from the grey

The grey is a term I have for one of my modes of experiencing depression.  I wrote about it three years ago: The grey is like a great grey landscape of bleakness, just dust & stones. Emotionally dead: I can’t … Continue reading

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The Daily Tweets, 2009-07-07 (Assembly public hearing #5)

@alaskacommons Whoa thanks for the good words John! I do okay when my hands aren’t killing me, huh? in reply to alaskacommons # @jansonjones Thanks Janson, nicel words to get the three hours of shuteye left to me on! 😉 … Continue reading

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Happy wedding! (for John & Heather)

Wishing my newfound blogger friends John Aronno & Heather James (of Alaska Commons & SOSAnchorage.net, respectively) a happy wedding.

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No Questions, Questions (poem)

You wouldn’t think Jerry Prevo would inspire poetry, wouldja? But this is the 2nd I’ve written b/c of him. Yikes.

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The Daily Tweets, 2009-06-23 (Assembly public hearing #4)

How’d my work get on the mailing list for this meter reading/utility collection outfit? yoohoo, we’re UAA, not AWWU. # Lynne called from Assembly 345 PM: chambers not yet open, abt 60 people waiting: 2/3 blue. Pack those chambers, blues! … Continue reading

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A word about our friends

Most of the blogging I’ve been doing these past few weeks — most of it, really, since opening up business at Henkimaa.com — has been about the Anchorage equal rights ordinance, which if passed would protect LGBT people from discrimination … Continue reading

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Equality Works optimistic on gaining equal protection (press release)

Despite the Anchorage Daily News doomsaying story that came out earlier today, Equality Works is still optimistic about gaining equal protections for LGBT people in Anchorage.  Here’s the press release they just issued. Contact: Jackie Buckley, (907) 229-6219 Mia Oxley, … Continue reading

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Debbie Ossiander & the Christianist filibuster

Is Debbie Ossiander cooperating intentionally or unintentionally with Prevo & co.’s filibustering techniques? And let’s not forget those Mat-Su witnesses she’s allowing to testify.

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