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		<title>Does your God know you?</title>
		<link>http://www.wethepeeps.net/2010/07/does-your-god-know-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TJCIII</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Funny to see all these people judging other people and preaching fire and brimstone on these blogs.  They range from the very old to the very young.  What’s rather interesting about these same people is how many will deny science and what many others state just because 1 book written over 4000 years ago states its wrong.

Now lets compare that mindset of religious belief to the mindset of the education of our children.  If your child went to school and brought home a text book published in 1960, would you not say that the book is outdated and we have learned much since then?  I would hope you would, but many here just don’t see it that way.  Nope that book is law and I will deny anything that proves it wrong and outdated.]]></description>
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		<title>Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, just for some &#8211; The United States of Bigotry</title>
		<link>http://www.wethepeeps.net/2009/11/life-liberty-pursuit-happiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TJCIII</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wethepeeps.net/?p=647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With Maine being the 31st state to make gay marriage illegal it makes you wonder if Americans truly love freedom and if they even believe in the words “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”.   You would think that after 233 years of existence, the people of this country would have moved on from age old hate, but nope, you got it, the people are just as ignorant today as they were 4000 years ago holding on to discrimination to oppress a minority because they are just different.  Now that Americans are showing their true colors, whose rights should we go after next?  Should we start voting on who can and cannot have children?  Should your fellow American trample on your private relationship because they do not approve of it?  There are many things I alone can come up with to take away the liberties of another, but when do we say enough is enough and start living by the standards this country is supposed to stand for – Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? We are not the United States of America, but the United States of Bigots.  How dare anyone vote to write discrimination into our constitution?  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do you hate freedom?     Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, for some!</title>
		<link>http://www.wethepeeps.net/2009/10/freedom-life-liberty-pursuit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wethepeeps.net/2009/10/freedom-life-liberty-pursuit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TJCIII</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Health Care Debate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Definitions Life: the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body Liberty:  the power to do as one pleases; freedom from arbitrary or despotic control Happiness: a pleasurable or satisfying experience The Declaration of Independence was written to explain why the colonists had the right to revolt against England and seek its independence.  The colonists had no representation and their voices were not heard in their government. Many believe that health care should not be a right, but a privilege or a luxury, I think much differently.  If you look at the standard definition above, it states that life is a vital and functional being.  Without proper health care for many, they would in turn be dead!  Simple isn’t it?  Well maybe for some, but for others they need a little more clarification.  Here are 2 more definitions on why health care is not a privilege. Vital:  critical; urgently needed; absolutely necessary Functional:  fit or ready for use or service Now many state that if health insurance was a right it would have been written into the constitution.  I beg to differ.  Health insurance was first created in the 1920’s at a hospital in Dallas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is a Hate Crime?</title>
		<link>http://www.wethepeeps.net/2009/10/crime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>margot707</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race relations in America]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people have commented about the recent incident in Florida where five boys set fire to another. They expressed their "outrage" about why isn't it called a hate crime when the victim is white. Details revealed that this was not a "hate crime" and that race had nothing to do with the incident. According to the FBI: "Crimes of hatred and prejudice-from lynchings to cross burnings to vandalism of synagogues...  the term "hate crime" did not enter the nation's vocabulary until the 1980s, when emerging hate groups like the Skinheads launched a wave of bias-related crime. The FBI began investigating what we now call hate crimes as far back as the early 1920s, when we opened our first Ku Klux Klan case]]></description>
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		<title>DADT &#8211; For Whom the Bell Tolls?</title>
		<link>http://www.wethepeeps.net/2009/10/tolls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>margot707</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama's speech at the HRC fundraiser on Saturday evening, October 10th was met with much cheering, applause and standing ovations, especially after his statement that "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" WILL be repealed. The discharges, however, continue at the rate of TWO PER DAY. Rachel Maddow interviewed Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach, a decorated U.S]]></description>
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		<title>Community Action</title>
		<link>http://www.wethepeeps.net/2009/10/community-action/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wethepeeps.net/2009/10/community-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>margot707</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[My City]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From: Well, it’s been said, “it takes a village”, and the village of Humboldt came together and moved a mountain. We were able to reach Carol Bruno from People Productions this morning and had a nice conversation with her about our concerns. She had met with Gil Miracle, the owner of Nocturnum, and they decided to cancel the Buju Banton performance scheduled for this Sunday night, October 11, 2009 due to all the negative feedback they have received. We want to thank everyone who took the time to email and call Carol and Gil with their concerns. We received many copies of emails that were so well written, coming from the hearts of our community members]]></description>
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		<title>Homophobic Singer Boycotted in California</title>
		<link>http://www.wethepeeps.net/2009/10/homophobic-singer-boycotted-california/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wethepeeps.net/2009/10/homophobic-singer-boycotted-california/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>margot707</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wethepeeps.net/?p=534</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here's an email I recently received. Apparently this character has gotten the boot before. SPEAK UP ON TUESDAY AND BEFORE (To read the original open letter, click here or at the link on the left.) Jimmy Smith, jrsmith@co.humboldt.ca.us , 707 476 2391 Clif Clendenen, cclendenen@co.humboldt.ca.us , 707 476 2392 Mark Lovelace, mlovelace@co.humboldt.ca.us , 707 476 2393 Bonnie Neely, bonnie.neely@co.humboldt.ca.us , 707 476 2394 Jill Duffy, jduffy@co.humboldt.ca.us , 707 476 2395 Friday, October 2, 2009 AN OPEN LETTER TO HUMBOLDT On June 9 2004, Brian Williamson was found murdered at his home. Williamson was the public face of the gay rights movement in Jamaica, one of the most homophobic places on the planet. Rebecca Schleifer of Human Rights Watch arrived at Williamson's house to find a crowd singing and dancing]]></description>
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		<title>Courage of Our Convictions</title>
		<link>http://www.wethepeeps.net/2009/09/courage-convictions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wethepeeps.net/2009/09/courage-convictions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>margot707</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[bubblecast id=284482] National Coming Out Day is observed on October-11 by members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities and their allies. Participants wear identifying symbols, such as the pink triangle and the rainbows flag  to demonstrate their presence in all walks of life, all ages and all ethnic groups. The pink triangle, possibly the most popular gay pride symbol, was originally used as a Nazi concentration camp badge to denote homosexual men. The rainbow flag  appeared  in the first Gay Pride March in San Francisco after the Stonewall Riots. National Coming Out Day was founded in 1988, in celebration of the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights one year earlier, in which over 500,000 people marched on Washington for gay and lesbian equality]]></description>
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		<title>Lady Liberty, we failed you</title>
		<link>http://www.wethepeeps.net/2009/07/lady-liberty-we-failed-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wethepeeps.net/2009/07/lady-liberty-we-failed-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TJCIII</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats, Republicans, and Independents - OH MY!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  You gave us a place to hide from those who persecuted us; and we turned around and persecuted others. You gave us a land where we could be equal; and we chose to deny it to others because they were different. You gave us freedom, and the pursuit of happiness; and we enslaved nations and impoverished them all in the name of greed. You gave us a home for the brave; and we have forgotten them and let them become homeless. You gave us miles of wilderness, lakes, and wildlife; and we poisoned it with our pollutions]]></description>
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		<title>Are we really the leader of the free world?</title>
		<link>http://www.wethepeeps.net/2009/06/are-we-really-the-leader-of-the-free-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wethepeeps.net/2009/06/are-we-really-the-leader-of-the-free-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TJCIII</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wethepeeps.net/?p=179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  Ever wonder where the United States stands in comparison to the rest of the world in regard to economic and personal liberties freedom?   The United States stands in 19th place for individual freedoms and 6th for economic freedoms.   Countries Listed By Individual Freedoms Rank RANK COUNTRY CONTINENT REGION ECONOMIC FREEDOM AVG EF RANK GOVT AND TAX AVG G&#38;T RANK INDIV FREEDOM AVG IF RANK FINAL WEIGHTED AVERAGE 6 Bahamas North America Caribbean 67.75 31 81.17 2 100.00 1 82.12 11 Luxembourg Europe 81.50 4 61.63 36 100.00 1 80.09 30 Malta Europe 69.00 29 58.24 55 100.00 1 74.54 42 Barbados North America Caribbean 64.88 37 51.82 88 100.00 1 70.84 2 Ireland Europe 82.25 3 67.81 16 99.95 2 83.34 4 Switzerland Europe 79.88 7 67.16 18 99.95 2 82.33 5 Iceland Europe 79.25 10 67.61 17 99.95 2 82.27 15 Finland Europe 77.38 13 59.56 49 99.95 2 78.96 19 Netherlands Europe 77.25 14 52.96 82 99.95 2 76.72 22 Denmark Europe 78.75 11 50.75 94 99.95 2 76.48 31 Norway Europe 70.38 22 51.78 89 99.95 2 74.04 27 Slovak Rep., The Europe 66.13 33 60.60 42 99.93 3 75.55 23 Czech Rep., The [...]]]></description>
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