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23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

Ha-Joon Chang


    sexuality

    Chasing Amy's Heart

    Today I watched “An Evening With Kevin Smith.” Kevin wrote and directed such movies as “Clerks,” “Dogma,” and “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.” One of movies he made was “Chasing Amy.” When …

    my best (writing)

    marriage rights

    Gay Swedish Fiction By John Q Republican

    This entry is a favorite of mine from my LiveJournal

    Below is an article was in our local newspaper, “The Indianapolis Star.”

    Lori Borgman Marriage: It’s for kids' sake March 14, 2004

    If you want to peer into the crystal ball to see …

    My Big Mouth

    Why I Want To Be A Canadian

    Very few times in life have I heard something so moving, so honest, and so historically relevant that it moved me to tears….

    To my Canadian friends, I envy you… if all goes well, when I die, it shall be on Canadian soil.

    I can’t …

    war, what is it good for?

    Simple Solution, Water and Oil

    Christ, are we too busy robbing Iraq of its riches that we cannot help the people LIVE? From Hnk’s blog:

    "'Day after day the situation in Iraq is getting better,' that's what one high ranking military official said. Reality shows the opposite. …

    Uncategorized

    Holy Water of Jesus!

    US Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld, said recently “That [the] insurgency could go on for any number of years. Insurgencies tend to go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years. Coalition forces, foreign forces are not going to repress that …

    Neocons are funny

    DON'T YOU DARE CALL ME A NAZI, YOU NAZI!

    Because the whole system [is] like going to a concentration camp and picking out which people go to the death chamber." - Bob Novak 5/14/05

    “I mean, imagine, the rule has been in place for 214 years that this is the way we confirm judges. …

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    Neocons are funny

    Please Bring Our Soldiers Home...

    Help Jesus' General in the effort to recruit college Republicans into the armed forces.

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    politics

    TRUTH IS BAD!

    A youth opinion writer for the Indianapolis star wrote recently that

    "Howard Dean’s recent comment generalizing the GOP as 'pretty much a white, Christian party' was both untimely and ill-advised." and that "The greatest prospect for the Democratic …

    Neocons are funny

    Terri Schiavo

    I told you so….

    From the Florida’s medical examiner’s office:

    Reported by BBC

    "'She was incapable of surviving without her feeding tube,' Mr Throgmartin said, adding that she was blind and incapable of thinking, feeling or …

    Christianity

    Conservativism

    Fundamentalism

    They Fired Me Because I Hate Queers

    Two former members of the Indianapolis Star’s editorial board, James Patterson and Lisa Coffey, have claiming the Star discriminated against them based on their religious views. James Patterson said “This is America. We have the right, …

    a must see

    One of The Best Documentaries I've Ever Seen

    The Corporation

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    My Big Mouth

    Addressing Homelessness: A Call for Community Action

    Today I read an article by Rishawn Biddle of the Indianapolis Star’s Editorial staff concerning the need for action by our Mayor, Bart Peterson.

    He said:

    “Then a walk up Delaware Street reminded me that the gathering of ne’er do wells …

    Monument

    So Long...Yet I Still Have Hope

    So long between enteries… Danielle and Tyler, I’ve not had contact with either of you in quite some time. I wish you could understand the road blocks I face, and the hurdles I seem to come up against in my fight to see you. Part of it is …

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    Christianity

    Conservativism

    Fundamentalism

    Thomas Jefferson

    Jefferson Vs The Religious Right

    Dr Albert Mohler Jr.

    “In the case Lawrence V. Texas, the Supreme Court of the United States of America struck down every sodomy law in this country. You see, they found the Constitutional right to sodomy. Does anyone believe that the framers of …

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    For The Love of Christ

    It was brought to my attention yesterday that a few members of the GLBT community had emailed the fifth district city council member Ginny Cain, concerning Prop 68 (the Indianapolis Human Rights ordinance). She said:

    "I will always discriminate …
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    Christianity

    Conservativism

    Fundamentalism

    Welcome to Jesusland

    As a child, I used to be afraid that one day soon Armageddon would come and destroy my world. In those days I feared the rapture, yet now I welcome it.

    "I'm a radical! I'm a real extremist. I don't want to impeach judges. I want to impale them!" - …

    Indiana

    lgbt

    Hate In Constitution One Step Closer

    Tuesday evening the Indiana House of Representatives passed Senate Joint Resolution 7 by a vote of 76 to 23. The measure was passed by the Senate earlier in the month and now must be passed by a separately elected legislature before it can be put on …

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    photos

    New York/Boston

    I had an awesome time in New York and Boston. This pic was taken with a very good friend of mine Ethan St. Pierre Me and Ethan

    This is Karen, Ethan’s wife. Karen and I

    This is me looking wierd…. :) I was hurrying so I could make it to NYC in time. My hair was …

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    photos

    activism

    Today's Protest...AMAZING!

    writing

    Writers Block

    Ug. I have writers block and it sucks ass. I’ve been trying to write a piece since Tuesday and it just alludes me. I can’t even put together a good intro. This happens when I am asked to write something, not something that comes up out of …

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    My So Called Life

    photos

    trans moments

    childhood

    sexuality

    Robin Hood

    As I was getting ready for work, I sat at my PC and talked with one of my favorite LJ'ers, angiewarhol, about "The Justice League", and it somehow fired a synapse that triggered a memory about my childhood.

    I get very few crystal clear glimpses of …

    My So Called Life

    writers that moved me

    The Loss of Innocence

    Coming back from Kentucky, Lisa gave me a GLSO Newspaper to read on the way back. Its a queer organization in Kentucky. Anywho, an article in it hit me like a ton of bricks, and I wanted to share it….

    The Loss of Innocence aftermath of the …

    favorite quotes

    I May Be A Queer, But I Love Thomas Jefferson

    The error seems not sufficiently eradicated that the operations of the mind as well as the acts of the body are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The …

    writing

    Blog Issues Be Gone!

    Well, I think I’ve solved my blogging issue. For the longest time I have wanted to be able to blog/post to my website but it’s a pain in the ass to then go over to LJ and reformat the post…then put in any LJ coding and then finally …

    My So Called Life

    activism

    Nervous....

    Well, I went in the Indiana Statehouse for the first time in my life. And who stepped through those doors? Marti. It’s wierd to be in a space as a female that I have never been in as a male.

    I was nervous as hell at first because it was a press …