Canned response from my congresswoman to my email about SOPA

January 19, 2012 By 2 Comments
Is this Mic on? -- #SOPA

I wanted to share this with you, my friends. I emailed Kay Hagen through her website earlier today hoping she would address some of the concerns her constituency has expressed. I am part of her constituency. I tried to be polite but firm. Unfortunately I forgot to save what I had written. Kay Hagen’s response [...]

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The President came to Greensboro, it cost Greensboro a lot of money to have him…

December 2, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Bush came to Greensboro to honor a local volunteer and mentoring program today. Which was very nice of him to do. However, I couldn’t help but notice how many police had to be involved for Bush’s visit. That’s a lot of tax payer dollars at work. Wouldn’t it have been cheaper to fly a group [...]

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Sarah Palin’s Wikipedia Entry Gets A Facelift in Time for VP Announcement

August 29, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Palin‘s Wikipedia page was edited shortly before John McCain announced her as his VP. The Wikipedia results were a much more favorable perspective on the candidate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin Infectious Greed has an article on this, but I first heard of it from NPR earlier today on the radio (Palin’s Wikipedia Entry Gets Overhaul, by NPR). This [...]

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McCain’s Vice President selection a Win Win for Equality

August 29, 2008 By Leave a Comment

We achieve greater awareness of possible leaders by having a white woman in the race and a black man on the ticket. Regardless of outcome, and I refer to what either party will do with the presidency (be he Democrat or Republican), our society now sees (in a VERY public theater) minority people stepping into [...]

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