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Congratulations California!

nobody@vox.com(Lissette) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:57:40 -0400

Today marks a day where gay couples in California are legally allowed to marry! Read the CNN article on this as well as an article on them over at NOW. My favorite part about this is listed in this quote: Lesbian rights activists Del Martin, 8...

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PETA Using Violence Against Women to Send Message

nobody@vox.com(Lissette) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:38:14 -0400

I am completely horrified by PETA’s latest campaign. Recently PETA grabbed a couple of interns put them in bathing suits, slathered blood all over them and placed them in what appears to be giant shrink wrapped containers like the kind you find...

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Parent/Child Relationships

nobody@vox.com(Lissette) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:40:23 -0400

Father’s day is always an interesting day for me because it’s full of a lot of emotions. The father who raised me is not my biological father, and although I feel as if he tried his best with me, I think there was a lot of room for improvemen...

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Random Thought

nobody@vox.com(Lissette) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:20:21 -0400

I was out with the family today and we decided to stop for lunch at a fast food restaurant. While we where there, there was an elderly couple that was pretty chatty with us. At one point the couple decides to go so the man gets up and starts he...

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Why I’m voting for Obama

nobody@vox.com(Lissette) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:29:12 -0400

These are the top 10 reasons why I’m voting for Obama come November. This is taken directly from MoveOn.org and people need to know that McCain is not who he says he is. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr...

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Tuesday Nights’: Something to think about

nobody@vox.com(Lissette) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:48:04 -0400

While in class tonight, we were talking about violence against women, and one of my classmates brought up the fact that since the economy has taken a downturn, they’ve been noticing crime increasing. I have too. Lately you can’t turn on the new...

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Just for fun

nobody@vox.com(Lissette) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:38:12 -0400

-4 As a 1930s wife, I am Very Poor (Failure) Take the test! I think it’s all the cursing, working, and nagging. Because it gets me through the day…

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Irresponsible Feminism

nobody@vox.com(Lissette) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:34:38 -0400

I’m a bit disturbed by the views some feminists are taking to Hillary conceding. I just read an article where Koryne Horbel, the founder of the DFL Feminist Caucus started passing around a petition to women for them to pledge to write in Hillar...

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Pre Roe vs. Wade

nobody@vox.com(Lissette) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:02:30 -0400

I’ve heard plenty of stories of the use of coat hangers before Roe vs. Wade. I’ve heard stories about the atrocious things that women would put themselves through in order to have an abortion and how unsafe it was. We’ve even seen things like t...

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History in the making

nobody@vox.com(Lissette) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:29:00 -0400

Today, I am proud to be a democrat. I am proud to be a woman. I am proud to be watching history in the making. I sat here and watched Hillary’s concession speech on CNN and I felt proud because for the first time in the history of the United St...

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