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All 16 and 17 year
olds to have vote on
Scottish independence
Telegraph [UK], by Patrick Hennessy
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 10/20/2012 8:02:42 PM
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| Scotland’s First Minister unveiled the plan at his party’s annual conference in Perth. Although he struck a deal with David Cameron last week to allow all over-16s to vote, there was confusion as to how many would actually be able to cast their ballots because most 16-year-olds are not listed on the current electoral register. Mr Salmond’s move will mean complex changes to the registering process. Most Tory MPs in England do not want 16 and 17 year olds to have a vote in the referendum, scheduled for autumn 2014, because they believe it would then be impossible
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Comments:
The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men
Gang aft agley,
An'lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!
Rabbie Burns
What a dreadful thing to do!
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Scribelus, 10/20/2012 8:27:06 PM (No. 8948958)
Age is not the best measure of judgement.
Make the voter prove that he or she has spawned. That should increase the responsible population, especially in sections of Glasgow.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Teleologicus, 10/20/2012 8:39:32 PM (No. 8948974)
That the opinions of teenagers about important national issues(or, really, anything else) should be registered and regarded with respect is an act of deliberate self-mystification that is perhaps without parallel in human history. It is the reductio ad absurdum of the idea of democracy - and it is the manifestation of a confusion so deep as to cast a shadow on the future of the West itself.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
synchronicity, 10/20/2012 9:14:16 PM (No. 8949019)
Agree #2 - they and we have decided a foundation of sand (uneducated concepts of fairness & equality and the elevation of feelings over reason) trumps stone (personal responsibility and logic founded on reproducible observations). The first ill wind will blow both Scotland and the West in general no good. Those in waiting will know it is their time to reacquaint the world to a reality that fools thought they could ignore with immunity. The wolves are gathering for feeding time while their prey thinks they are safe behind walls (institutions) they have destroyed.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
fireman28, 10/20/2012 11:05:33 PM (No. 8949178)
If they are old enough to vote, the kids will ask for all the other "adult" freedoms.
And I bet they have a ton of barristers willing to work on it.
(No mommy, you can't tell me who cannot sleep in my bedroom)
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BBC News [UK], by Rebecca Morelle
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/6/2013 6:38:12 AM
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The world´s first gun made with 3D printer technology has been successfully fired in the US. The controversial group which created the firearm, Defense Distributed, plans to make the blueprints available online. The group has spent a year trying to create the firearm, which was successfully tested on Saturday at a firing range south of Austin, Texas. Anti-gun campaigners have criticised the project. Europe´s law enforcement agency said it was monitoring developments. Victoria Baines, from Europol´s cybercrime centre, said that at present criminals were more likely to pursue traditional routes to obtain firearms. She added, however: "But as time goes
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The first important conservative thinker
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Telegraph [UK], by Charles Moore
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/6/2013 6:29:48 AM
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Charles Moore reviews Edmund Burke by Jesse Norman (William Collins). Since politics is, inevitably, a rough old trade, its theorists are often uneasy practitioners. The intellectual in politics finds it much harder than most to admit that he seeks fame, office and power: he cannot be content unless he also feels he is in the right. This greatly annoys his colleagues. The self-righteousness can be unbearable. As someone said of Gladstone: "I don’t mind it when he has the ace of clubs up his sleeve; but I wish he wouldn’t pretend that the Almighty put it there." Edmund Burke
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Prince Harry’s lifelong devotion
to injured comrades ´he
knows he could join’
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Telegraph [UK], by Gordon Rayner
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/6/2013 6:27:28 AM
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The 28-year-old has become increasingly involved in charities helping the wounded because “he knows it could happen to him”, according to those who have discussed the matter with him. Prince Harry has already announced he will try to ski to the South Pole later this year with four amputees raising money for the Walking With The Wounded charity, of which he is patron, and later this week he will spend two days cheering on a British team at the Warrior Games, a Paralympics-style event in the US for members of the Armed Forces. The Prince decided to make the Warrior
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Analysis: Israel enforcing
red lines on Syria
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Jerusalem Post [Israel], by Yaakov Lappin
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/5/2013 10:48:32 PM
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The two aerial strikes on Damascus in the past 48 hours, carried out by the Israel Air Force according to foreign media reports, are likely the result of classified intelligence indicating an imminent attempt to transfer strategic weapons from Syria to Hezbollah. With Hezbollah deploying up to half of its fighting force to Syria to help the regime of dictator Bashar Assad fight for its survival, the Lebanese Shi’ite organization will be seeking “rewards” for its actions. Hezbollah and its patron Iran may have asked Assad to make the advanced weapons available. It would seem that Assad cannot have been
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Israel closes northern civilian
airspace amid Syria tension
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Jerusalem Post [Israel], by Yaakov Lappin
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/5/2013 2:20:11 PM
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Israel decided Sunday afternoon to close its airspace in the North to civilian air traffic following alleged Israeli air strikes on Syria in the past 48 hours. Israeli airline Arkia stated that "due to IDF instructions on the closure of airspace in the North until May 9, Arkia is forced to announce the cancellation of interior flights from Haifa to Eilat." The closure of Israel´s airspace in the North came after the IDF deployed two Iron Dome batteries in northern cities due to tensions with Syria following the alleged IAF air strikes. The IDF stated that the northern civilian airspace
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Iran is stepping up its
preparations for war
with Israel
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Telegraph [UK], by Con Coughlin
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/5/2013 2:14:41 PM
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Confirmation that Israeli warplanes have carried out a series of air strikes in Syria against consignments of missiles being shipped to Hizbollah in southern Lebanon has highlighted Iran´s attempts to reinforce its regional allies in anticipation of military conflict with Israel. As I revealed last month, recent intelligence reports indicate that Iran has revived its efforts to ship weapons to the radical Hamas movement in Gaza. Following negotiations between members of the Quds force from Iran´s Revolutionary Guards, Sudanese government officials and Hamas leaders earlier this year, Iran has chartered a number of Boeing 747 cargo planes to smuggle weapons
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How a Scottish farmer became
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Telegraph [UK], by Tom Rowley
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/5/2013 8:09:49 AM
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James Oswald is talking about his success as a crime writer when he suddenly becomes distracted and turns to the computer on his battered desk. His “lamb cam” shows a live feed from the shed some 500 yards across the fields. [Snip] Oswald’s days are about to get even busier. On Thursday, his debut novel, Natural Causes, will be published, and two more are expected to hit bookshelves by next spring. He will have to juggle writing and farming with interviews and book-signings. The 45-year-old already has experience of such success, however. In fact, he has become a self-publishing
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I´m off for three weeks. I shall
leave you all in the capable
hands of Mr Nigel Farage
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Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/5/2013 7:58:45 AM
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Al Qaeda magazine found on laptop
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Tsarnaev´s wife grows after radical
Islamist files found along with traces of
explosive residue throughout her home
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Daily Mail [UK], by Lydia Warren, Snejana Farberov
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/5/2013 6:48:26 AM
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Federal officials investigating the Boston bombings have discovered radical Islamist materials on a computer belonging to the widow of the deceased suspect, it has been revealed. Katherine Russell, 24, has repeatedly claimed through her attorney that she knew nothing about the deadly April 15 bombings allegedly set off by her late husband, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar. However, the discovery of al Qaeda’s Inspire magazine on Russell’s computer, along with the presence of explosive residue throughout their home, have raised new questions about Russell´s possible involvement in the act of terror. According to a government document
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Bolly good news! Three
glasses of bubbly a week
will boost your memory
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Daily Mail [UK], by Valerie Elliott
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/5/2013 6:34:54 AM
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It´s a perfect reason to crack open the champagne--new research suggests three glasses of bubbly a week can improve your memory. [Snip] Connoisseurs have long argued its benefits. Barrister and crime writer Sir John Mortimer drank a glass of champagne every morning and said it was the secret to a long life. He died aged 85. But the study at Reading University is the first time scientists have identified health benefits in champagne. In Britain--where one in three over-65s develops dementia--it could be revolutionary. The compound that helps stave off forgetfulness has been found in the black grapes
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Firms rush to relocate
in low-tax Britain
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Telegraph [UK], by Kamal Ahmed, James Quinn
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/5/2013 6:17:48 AM
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Steve Varley, the UK chairman of Ernst & Young, revealed that the accountancy firm knew of the significant number of firms seeking to relocate from countries such as the USA, as well as from the Netherlands, Switzerland and Ireland. The high figure will be a boost to George Osborne, the Chancellor, who has made Britain´s lower rates of corporation tax a centrepiece of Government policy. The advertising giant, WPP, recently announced that it would move back to the UK from its present headquarters in Dublin. "I know of more than 40 multinational companies that have been looking to undertake global
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´Israel rockets´ hit Jamraya
facility in Damascus
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BBC News [UK], by Staff
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/5/2013 1:31:38 AM
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Syrian state TV says Israeli rockets have hit a research centre on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. Huge explosions have been heard near the Jamraya facility, which Western officials have in the past suggested is involved in chemical weapons research. The site was the target of an Israeli strike in January. Earlier, Israeli officials speaking on condition of anonymity said that on Friday Israeli aircraft had attacked a shipment of missiles inside Syria. The missiles were believed to be destined for Hezbollah militants in neighbouring Lebanon. The latest attacks come amid reports of massacres in a campaign
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BENGHAZI: Names of ‘whistleblower’
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/4/2013 1:06:01 PM
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Their identities have been a well-guarded secret, known only to their high-powered lawyers and a handful of House lawmakers and staff. But now Fox News has learned the names of the self-described Benghazi “whistleblowers” who are set to testify before a widely anticipated congressional hearing on Wednesday. Appearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will be three career State Department officials: Gregory N. Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya at the time of the Benghazi terrorist attacks; Mark I. Thompson, a former Marine and now the deputy coordinator for Operations
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Natalie Maines releases
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Star-Telegram [Ft. Worth, TX], by Preston Jones
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There was no way around it: The room was half-empty. The 2013 edition of South by Southwest was just getting underway as Natalie Maines stood onstage at Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater, sporting a brunette faux-hawk and holding an acoustic guitar. Whole sections of the 2,750-capacity space sat devoid of bodies.(Snip) “Just so you know, we’re on the good side with y’all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas.”
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First Lady: Some Kids Don´t Know
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Cybercast News Service, by Craig Bannister
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/4/2013 4:43:04 PM
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"Some kids have never seen what a real tomato looks like," and some "don´t know where a cucumber comes from," First Lady Michelle Obama said today. Addressing a gathering at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Mrs. Obama said that´s one reason she planted her garden at the White House: "And the nutrition issue, as Tom mentioned, as you all know, is something near and dear to my heart not just as First Lady, but as a mother. In fact, one of the first things that I did, as you know, as First Lady, was to plant the garden
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Americans Are Ready for a
Female President. Finally
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Daily Beast, by Eleanor Clift
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/4/2013 9:35:41 PM
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A new poll from Emily’s List shows an overwhelming number of voters now support the idea. It’s a movement the group hopes someone in the sisterhood is about to inherit. With polls showing Hillary Clinton holding a formidable lead over all other potential candidates for president in 2016, a press conference to promote the idea of a woman president seems a little behind the news, a treasured dream catching up with a new reality, or perhaps a stalking horse for Clinton.
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The Complete Benghazi
Timeline in Spreadsheet Format
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/4/2013 3:51:03 PM
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The evidence of a cover-up is becoming clear, thanks to information recently released about what happened at Benghazi. Doug Ross of Director Blue has pulled together information from Stephen Hayes and the House Oversight Committee that leads to, in his words, "four inescapable conclusions": a) Hillary Clinton lied under oath to Congress. b) Barack Obama went to sleep knowing that a U.S. Ambassador and other Americans were under terrorist attack. c) Barack Obama awoke refreshed the next day to begin fundraising. d) The entire Executive Branch lied repeatedly to the American people to
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Benghazi Boils Over
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Washington Free Beacon, by Alana Goodman
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/5/2013 5:48:20 AM
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Damaging new revelations continue to undermine the Obama administration as Congress prepares to resume hearings examining the response to the September 11, 2012, attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead including the U.S. ambassador. There are new details that administration officials misled the public in its initial public assessments of the attack, withheld relevant information that may have been politically damaging, waged “subtle intimidation” campaigns against multiple government employees who sought to testify about the attack, and neglected evidence in its own internal investigation of the attack and its aftermath.
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Hoopster Collins to appear with
FLOTUS at DNC fundraiser
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Politico, by Reid J. Epstein
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Posted By: earlybird- 5/5/2013 3:39:42 PM
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Jason Collins, the pro basketball player who outed himself as gay this week, will appear alongside First Lady Michelle Obama at a New York fundraiser, according to a source familiar with the event. Collins will appear with Obama at the May 29 Democratic National Committee LGBT gala, the source said. The event is Obama´s first fundraising stop since President Barack Obama won re-election. Collins, who played last season for the Washington Wizards, came out in a Sports Illustrated story Monday. He is the first active male athlete in major North American sports to reveal himself as gay.
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Obama heads out on new jobs
tour - first stop: Austin, Texas
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Reuters, by Roberta Rampton
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/5/2013 4:33:36 PM
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WASHINGTON- President Barack Obama will travel on Thursday to Austin, Texas, the first stop in a new series of day trips designed to draw attention to policies and programs that help spur the economy, and build support for his economic policies, the White House said on Sunday. In Austin, Obama will visit a high school and a technology company, and will talk with entrepreneurs and workers about proposals he made earlier this year to boost jobs and training. Despite often saying that his top priority is creating more jobs, Obama´s proposals have been overshadowed by debates over
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Agent: I was ordered to
let U.S. guns into Mexico
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CBS News, by Sharyl Attkisson
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/4/2013 10:48:26 PM
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WASHINGTON - Federal agent John Dodson says what he was asked to do was beyond belief. He was intentionally letting guns go to Mexico? "Yes ma´am," Dodson told CBS News. "The agency was." An Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms senior agent assigned to the Phoenix office in 2010, Dodson´s job is to stop gun trafficking across the border. Instead, he says he was ordered to sit by and watch it happen. Investigators call the tactic letting guns "walk." In this case, walking into the hands of criminals who would use them in Mexico and the United States.
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Obama to launch series of
trips on economic plans
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Associated Press, by Josh Lederman
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/5/2013 7:55:54 PM
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WASHINGTON — Immigration, guns and national security are dominating the discussion on Capitol Hill, but Americans by and large are still focused on their bottom line. So President Barack Obama is launching a series of quick jaunts around the country to remind Americans he´s still got jobs and the economy on his mind. Obama will kick off the effort Thursday with a trip to Austin, Texas, (Snip) The trips come as Obama, less than four months into his second term, is facing increasing skepticism from political allies and foes alike that he still has the clout
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The NRA just met its match
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Boston Herald, by Margery Egan
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Posted By: John c- 5/5/2013 9:32:44 PM
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She survived a 9 mm, point-blank, shot through her brain. But former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is partially blind. Her right hand is paralyzed. She limps badly. A woman who made her living convincing, cajoling and persuading now struggles to speak, one or two slow words at a time. “Sandy Brook,” she said a while back talking about the Christmastime massacre at the Newtown school. “Sandy Hook,” her husband corrected. “Sandy … Brook,” she said again, her lips refusing to go where she wanted them to. After all this, no one would begrudge Gabrielle Giffords retreating to a quiet life
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A day in the strawberry fields
seems like forever
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Los Angeles Times, by Hector Becerra
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/4/2013 6:59:57 AM
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About 30 minutes into my job as a picker, the strawberry fairy left her first gift. On one of the beds of berries that seemed to stretch forever into the Santa Maria marine layer, Elvia Lopez had laid a little bundle of picked fruit. She and the other three dozen Mexican immigrants in the field were bent at an almost 90-degree angle, using two hands to pack strawberries into plastic containers that they pushed along on ungainly one-wheeled carts. They moved forward, relentlessly, ever bent, following a hulking machine with a conveyor belt that spirited away their fruit.
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