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on Egypt Revolts
My heart is aching, watching Mubarak's thugs and paid plain clothes cops beat people. This is an attempt to discredit the protestors, THE PEOPLE. US aid is going to these thugs. We need to withdrawl all aid to Egypt. Is freedom only for Americans?
My heart is aching watching this.
posted 2 years, 4 months ago
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on Technology and Child Pornography Laws
There are definitions of child porn. It isn't jut a naked child, it is clearly "sexual" involving genitalia in a sexual manner. That is not art. And if it is, it is illegal child porn, not art.
posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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on Technology and Child Pornography Laws
I think it is ridiculous to tollerate these images. If people find these images "accidentally" they need to report them so they can be removed. You can report them to bing, google, yahoo.
Send them the link. Those are children, and it should absolutely be illegal to view those images.
posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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on The Crossing at a Crossroads
I think a one way toll is an excellent idea.
posted 2 years, 10 months ago
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on The Crossing at a Crossroads
I live in North Portland and DO NOT WANT ANOTHER freeway coming through my bneighborhood so that commuters living in Washington can get home 30 minutes ealier. Pollution, noise, and cost are some of my concerns. These things kill neighborhood, what if we end up on the 'wrong side' of the freeway?
And, I don't want to have to then pay for it-- Washington should pay for it. Not North Portland. If you want to commute, then you can pay in money or time. Why inflict this on other people?
posted 2 years, 10 months ago
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on After the Invisible Man
I read Invisible Man in highschool, and then again after graduating from college-- it continues to be one of my favorite books of all time. It really speaks to the human experience of everyone, it is a universal novel about the human condition. And yes, race is part of that-- but as a caucasian girl growing up in the subburbs, it totally spoke to me. I too am invisible-- I'm not any color (or am I every color--and making myself invisible?).
I'm not really comfortable with folks publishing his stuff posthumously. I'll read it but look-- if you wrote Invisible Man it doesn't matter if you ever write anything else. You've written a masterpiece, and you are off the hook.
My favorite quote if the bit about "
Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."
posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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on The "P" Word and Climate Change
I thought that the purpose of environmentalism was to preserve the world for future generations. This "population policy" makes the future generations the problem-- which is just flawed. We should limit consumption, not people.
This is just a rehash of Malthusian ideas, which have racism at their core--because it is only 'certain' people who 'that many' children, not the 'educated, well off people.' It is the global north putting its problems on the global south.
The management of resources has more to do with policies rather then quantity of people-- food policy that is rediculous, development policies that mandate a certain number of parking spaces per unit rather then land to grow food within the city, etc.
the Pacific Institute has rescently shown that our water consumption is delcining, even though population is increasing--so it doesn't necessarily mean that greater population means greater consumption. This is a very shallow assumption, and I'd like to hear some real figures--not just assumptions. All I've heard so far is just a dressing up of Malthus and not much more...
posted 3 years, 5 months ago
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