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Comment on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” – A Roadmap to Repeal by Facebook Hacks

Facebook Hacks — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:26:35 +0000

Just had to say how useful your blog is!!
I rarely post messages on the blogs I come across, but just felt I should stop lurking for once to drop a comment to say thank you!

Regards,
~James F

Comment on Meeting with Monsanto by Mildred M. Obrien

Mildred M. Obrien — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:12:32 +0000

Due to over population man is making a huge impact on the planet. Many contributors simply say ‘all fossil fuel is bad’ and that its use must be stopped. This is not a solution that can be immediately implemented. This simpleton version of a cure is ‘stupid’, impractical, and unworkable. Most people would like a means to preserve their food (refrig), drive their auto, and maintain their homes and jobs. A practical solution is to minimize the risks of ‘natural gas’ and use it as a transitional fuel while new ‘clean’ technologies are being developed. Every US citizen must do all they can to minimize their use of energy while this transition is taking place. ‘Ask not what fossil fuels can do for you, but ask what you can do about using less fossil fuels’. Quit blaming oil companies and use less energy. The oil companies are not the problem, you are the problem, you create the demand.

Comment on Tents of Hope for Darfur by ipad utility

ipad utility — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:18:10 +0000

ipad utility…

Keep working ,great job!…

Comment on Organizing for Health Care Reform by Kelly Stell

Kelly Stell — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 09:11:46 +0000

Nice blog keep up the good effort, thanks for the info, I will pass your blog on to my friends.

Comment on It was not my first protest—it was my first arrest by Gene Hunter

Gene Hunter — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:28:22 +0000

I was there for the September 3rd rally and was also arrested.
The reasons mentioned for opposing the pipeline are true environmental concerns, The most important to me is how wrong the choice is to use this method of extracting and processing tar sands with natural gas that has been fracked to obtain oil. In addition to releasing 2.5 times the greenhouse gasses enormous amounts of water will be compromised. Pollution and global chaotic climate change will be a death sentence in the next 25 years for billions of beings planet wide from tar sands and other business as usual practices. We need to move to sustainable energy now !

Comment on It was not my first protest—it was my first arrest by Willian Degreenia

Willian Degreenia — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:51:12 +0000

The Fed. Those guys belong in jail is where they should be.

Comment on NAFTA and Immigration by Guadalupe Desalvatore

Guadalupe Desalvatore — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:04:57 +0000

In one of my other posts I wrote that a good explanation for Peyton not being at the wedding is shes too far along in her second pregnancy and her doctor wont let her travel because of what she went through during her last pregnancy. Im wondering,too, if Taylor will be back to see Quinn and support Haley.Although,if they can get Leyton,or at least Peyton and Sawyer to the wedding I really dont think it would take the focus off the wedding. I think it would add to it because we would get to see Peyton,Haley and Brooke have some girl time again.

Comment on Interfaith Day of National Tar Sands Pipeline Protest Is the Biggest Day Yet by Green Sanctuary » Blog Archive » Tar Sands Actions continue and YOU can still participate - To a greener faith community and world

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:00:12 +0000

[...] Check out the press release from the Tar Sands Action Interfaith Day at the Inspired Faith Effective Action blog. [...]

Comment on Arizona on Our Minds by Dirk1145

Dirk1145 — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:22:05 +0000

Thanks for the great article. I am heading to school in a few days and am going to be back to use some of it for my research if that is ok?

Comment on Interfaith Day of National Tar Sands Pipeline Protest Is the Biggest Day Yet by Elz Curtiss

Elz Curtiss — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:34:56 +0000

It really mystifies me that the denomination has such a detailed position of this secular issue. It is not that I do not believe in global warming, or in our responsibilities to act, but this really seems to set up a right and wrong form of secular political participation.

The primary danger to UU growth is that we have elevated these demonstrations — which tend to be unilateral statements rather than interactive dialogues — into a ritual with hierarchical sanction. I’ve done many a demonstration, including some highly impassioned guerrilla theater against Vietnam, but it was the one-to-one petition signing conversations outside grocery stores and at downtown bus stops that really opened conversations on a basis of mutual respect. And you cannot beat a petition drive for establishing the sacred pathway of listening rather than pronouncing.

I’m not saying these folks did right or wrong with their demonstration’s goals, I’m just saying we do not present this religious community as a covenant for listening and learning — what the Puritans called “mutual edification” — when we speak with giant placards to mass media cameras. We may win the passion of those who agree with us at that time, on that issue, only to later find they had little interest in the UUA as a spiritual and covenantal institution.