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While on a family cruise leaving from Miami – Lisa [Pond] , a healthy 39 year-old, suddenly collapsed [with a brain aneurysm]. She was rushed to Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital with her partner [of nearly 18 years] Janice [Langbehn] and three children following close behind. There, the hospital refused to accept information from Janice about her partner’s medical history. Janice was informed that she was in an antigay city and state, and she could expect to receive no information or acknowledgment as family.

A doctor finally spoke with Janice telling her that there was no chance of recovery. Other than one five minute visit, which was orchestrated by a Catholic priest at Janice’s request to perform last rites, and despite the doctor’s acknowledgement that no medical reason existed to prevent visitation, neither Janice nor her children were allowed to see Lisa until nearly eight hours after their arrival.

Soon after Lisa’s death, Janice tried to get her death certificate in order to get life insurance and Social Security benefits for their children. She was denied both by the State of Florida and the Dade County Medical Examiner.

[Article continues at link. This couple was from Oregon, which recently granted legal recognition to same sex partners. As long as same sex marriage is an issue of state's rights, there are some states that same sex couples should avoid. Florida seems to be one of them. Is there any force under the sun other than mean-spirited superstition enfranchised into law that kept this couple apart in their last possible moments together? - Trevor Blake]

The Boy Scouts and the Mormon church have both been named in a $5 million lawsuit in which the plaintiff claims he was abused for about three years by a scoutmaster.

Sex Abuse Suit Filed Against Mormons, Scouts :: EDGE San Francisco

It happens every day on the streets of Tehran: a police squad grabbed a young woman for dressing immodestly. But this time, the young woman fought back, and a crowd defended her and attacked the police. [...] At approximately 7 pm on Saturday, February 23, the Ershad patrol, or modesty police assigned to enforce clothing regulations, accosted and attempted to arrest a young woman at Goldis Shopping Mall, located in western Tehran, presumably because her dress was not sufficiently modest. In recent weeks, the police squads charged with enforcing modesty have become more rigorous in their enforcement, with thousands of women detained, questioned, and arrested for violating hijab standards.

Instead of meekly submitting to her fate, the woman fought back. A young man – it is unclear whether he was accompanying her – came to her defense and joined her in fighting the police. In an attempt to subdue – and humiliate him – the police grabbed the young man and threw him into the garbage can nearby. That was when the large crowd, predominately made up of young people, rose up against the police and attempted to liberate the young woman themselves. Faced with a full-blown riot – complete with angry crowds with garbage cans being set on fire – the frightened police jumped into the van and fled the scene, except for one unfortunate officer who was left behind. The policeman was reportedly attacked and beaten by the mob. [...]

Among the calls coming from the angry crowd after the police were first driven away: “You have put us on since 1979 until now,” the crowd cheered after repeating the slogan multiple times. Another slogan was chanted repeatedly and accompanied by boos: “We do not want the Islamic regime.”

[Article, with still and video images, continues at link. This is exactly the sort of article I spend many hours searching for on the Internet, usually without success. The Muslim world seems to be full and brimming over with anger and riots and violence. For once, that energy was aimed at those who actually do oppress Muslims instead of imaginary infidels. Keep up the good work! - Trevor Blake]

The starving man is not free from the nature of his own body, nor can he be, even in the welfare state. But the starving man should be free from coercion by other men.

Is the Starving Man Free? – Ben O’Neill – Mises Institute

Instead of supporting freedom, the anti-Communist movement ended up acculturating Republicans to the imperial mindset.

Triumph of the Red-State Fascists – Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. – Mises Institute

The Portland Seven was a group of American Muslims from the Portland, Oregon area arrested in October 2002 as part of an FBI operation attempting to close down a terrorist cell.

Portland Seven – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Download your favorite web packs and web sites and access them from any laptop/desktop.

Webaroo – Download

# Carry your entire Internet communication system on a tiny USB drive. # Contains a complete virtual Linux machine with privacy-enabled Open Source Internet applications.

MetroPipe: Anonymous Internet Services

Carry data files and your applications (such as Outlook, games, IMs) on a USB storage device or iPod. Run them on any PC – at home or at work. Don’t lug your laptop around.

MojoPac | Home

a list of great CMS choices.

50 Content Management Systems

some of the more practical uses and techniques for managing your data on the go with a portable drive.

Geek to Live: Carry your life on a thumb drive (or iPod)

Do you really need that notebook wherever you go? Not always.

Travel Without the Laptop, Carry Your Computer on a USB Drive

But there’s also no doubting the contributions of local heroes such as Buckminster Fuller, whose innovative dome sits on the unbecoming corner of Cherry and Forest Street.

Our Word: A King’s battle – Our Word

The Seven Nastiest Illegal Knockouts of All Time

The book “Scientology: Science of the Constitution and Usefulness of Knowledge” was first published in 1934 by the Publishing House “Ernst Reinhardt” in Munich, Germany.

“Scientology: Science of the Constitution and Usefulness of Knowledge”

A bibliography of literature on the Hollow Earth, subterranean worlds, worlds beyond the poles, the Secret World, the centre of the Earth, the earth’s interior, the hollow globe, Symzonia…

Mundus Subterraneus

An electron rides on a light wave after just having been pulled away from an atom.

LiveScience.com — Electron in Motion

Yockey proceeds in the following chapters to plagiarize word for word in some instances, through paraphrase in others, nearly the entire line of argumentation from The Concept of the Political

Nomos: Francis Yockey and Carl Schmitt

Portland Center Stage will be presenting R. Buckminster Fuller: The History [and Mystery] of the Universe October 14 – December 7, 2008. “An engineer, architect, mathematician, designer, poet, philosopher, motivational speaker, major utopian thinker and inventor of the geodesic dome, Buckminster Fuller was one of the most remarkable minds of the 20th century. Born in 1895, Bucky was way ahead of his time. Refusing to think in conventional ways, he was an innovator, a futurist, and one of the first true global thinkers. This tour-de-force, one-man performance explores Bucky’s life and work through a blend of testimony, lecture, autobiography, poetry, comic antics and video imagery. The play spirals and spins through ideas and experiences as Bucky escorts you on an unforgettable journey.”

I saw this play in Seattle (with a different actor as Fuller) and it is very worth attending. View a commercial from a recent presentation of this play in California.

GREETINGS PROGRAMS

Tron Light Cycles