O:9:"magpierss":24:{s:6:"parser";i:0;s:12:"current_item";a:0:{}s:5:"items";a:25:{i:0;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:66:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-273627022030089";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-02-20T16:44:00.000-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-02-20T16:49:56.168-08:00";s:5:"title";s:28:"Chris Buttars and Mr. Rogers";s:12:"atom_content";s:1458:"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R7yp-704PrI/AAAAAAAAAW4/i2eQy30JV5c/s1600-h/Rogers.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R7yp-704PrI/AAAAAAAAAW4/i2eQy30JV5c/s400/Rogers.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169193370990952114" /></a><br /><br />How easy was it to understand the messages of Fred Rogers, AKA Mr. Rogers, for the kids and their parents who watched his shows? It was forty years ago this week that 'Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood' made its debut on public television. Rep. Buttars says he has spent his life working with youth. Too bad he never learned anything from Mr. Rogers. <br /><br />So this is for you Chris Buttars:<br /><br />"As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has—or ever will have—something inside that is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression."<br /><br />Remember Mr. Buttars, not everyone fits into your category of what is normal. Jesus tried to teach the Republicans of his day what a Samaritan was and who are our neighbors. Hope you and your friends can figure it out one day, both for you and the people you have hurt.";s:4:"link";s:79:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/02/chris-buttars-and-mr-rogers.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:159:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=273627022030089http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/273627022030089/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:74:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/273627022030089";s:9:"link_edit";s:78:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/273627022030089";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:1;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-2785200949175095140";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-02-12T15:20:00.001-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-02-12T15:20:30.268-08:00";s:5:"title";s:21:"My Letter to the Trib";s:12:"atom_content";s:1270:"Editors,  <br /><br />I cannot pick up my copy of the Tribune on any morning and not read how our misguided legislature seeks to marginalize, minimalize, and add to the burdens of those who are different but live among us. They may not look exactly like me, though I like salsa better than ketchup and tortillas better than Wonder Bread. They may not share my gender orientation, but their agenda, if there is one, does  not threaten my marriage, my family or my values. I am an old Mormon bishop and I cannot sit still any longer and listen to the garbage coming from the hill from our ethnically challenged and homophobic legislators. They are a threat to me and the tranquility of my life. <br /><br />I ask these erstwhile champions, protectors of our freedom, our race, our morality, wouldn't the world be a better place if you just enjoyed your lobbyist paid for Jazz games and junkets to the Caribbean, and left the rest of us alone? In spite of these legislators of morality as people of Utah, who  are kind, compassionate, and caring, can we not find and share the things we have in common, celebrate our differentness, enjoy that which is unique about us all as children of a loving Heavenly Father rather than marginalizing and criminalizing so many among us?";s:4:"link";s:69:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/02/my-letter-to-trib.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:167:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=2785200949175095140http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/2785200949175095140/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:78:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/2785200949175095140";s:9:"link_edit";s:82:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/2785200949175095140";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:2;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-4277742389156145648";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-02-12T10:38:00.000-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-02-12T10:49:43.432-08:00";s:5:"title";s:23:"My letter to Utah Pride";s:12:"atom_content";s:1207:"Valerie,<br /><br />I regret very much the efforts of our legislature to take away, minimalize, and add to the burdens of people whom I care about, but may not be exactly like me.  I am an old Mormon bishop and I cannot sit still any longer and listen to the garbage coming from the hill and our homophobic legislators. <br /><br />Wouldn't the world be a better place if we could find and share the things we have in common rather than build barriers between any of us because of gender, race, ethnicity or religion?<br /><br />My best wishes to you and your friends and thank Rep. Buttars for the motivation to make a donation to your organization.<br /><br /><br />On Feb 12, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Valerie Larabee wrote:<br /><br />Dear George<br /> <br />Thank you so much for your recent online donation to support our work here at the Utah Pride Center!   Thank you also for being an ally in our fight for acceptance and equality.<br /> <br />Valerie<br /> <br />Valerie A. Larabee<br />Executive Director<br />Utah Pride Center<br />355 N. 300 W.<br />Salt Lake City, UT  84103<br />Work: (801) 539-8800 x 10<br />Mobile: (801) 403-1038<br />Fax:  (801) 521-5215<br />Email:  valerie@utahpridecenter.org";s:4:"link";s:75:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/02/my-letter-to-utah-pride.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:167:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=4277742389156145648http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/4277742389156145648/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:78:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/4277742389156145648";s:9:"link_edit";s:82:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/4277742389156145648";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:3;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-2935640913138330265";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-02-12T10:00:00.000-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-02-12T10:06:12.609-08:00";s:5:"title";s:39:"A letter to Rep. Barrus (R) Centerville";s:12:"atom_content";s:1282:"Dear Roger,<br /><br />I am very disappointed to see your name among the "yeas" on HB 239 denying driving privilege cards to my friends. I hope you can look Paco and Lucy in the face and explain to them your rationale and how they and so many others, any of us for that matter, are benefited by your action in supporting this bigoted measure. The bill is punitive and is based on the politics of racial animosity and fear. I read the bill's sponsor, Rep Donnelson, is an active supporter of the Utah Minutemen Project. <br /><br />What happened to Elder Ballard's advice to legislators to be compassionate in these matters? <br /><br />In two years or less with the Democrats controlling the US House, Senate and with either HRC or Barack in the White House they will undo everything the small minds of your party in the Utah Legislature will have attempted here, should any of it actually pass the state senate. Even the likely R nominee, Senator McCain, will undo what you and others are trying to do here in Utah and Oklahoma. <br /><br />I am very angry and it is difficult for me to not write hateful and mean spirited things. I find this absolutely repugnant and evil. Shame on you Roger and don't tell me again that if I knew all that you did I would have voted the same way.";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/02/letter-to-rep-barrus-r-centerville.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:167:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=2935640913138330265http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/2935640913138330265/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:78:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/2935640913138330265";s:9:"link_edit";s:82:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/2935640913138330265";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:4;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-8682620780271602935";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-02-11T15:27:00.000-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-02-11T15:29:11.482-08:00";s:5:"title";s:38:"Waterboarding, Mitt, Enemas and Eminem";s:12:"atom_content";s:4167:"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R7DX3r04PqI/AAAAAAAAAWw/yTjdPxXkJuo/s1600-h/Shaik.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R7DX3r04PqI/AAAAAAAAAWw/yTjdPxXkJuo/s400/Shaik.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165866124251250338" /></a><br />Among friends and family I hear the phrase, “the rule of law.” This of course is limited in scope to the current discussion of undocumented immigrants in the United States. I grant my friends, and some family members as well, the benefit of the doubt and therefore won’t call them hypocritical. If we extend this seemingly all encompassing ‘rule of law’ to other areas of politics, government, and public debate maybe there are others areas it should apply to. Mitt Romney is one of those, as are a few Mormons, who believes the rule of law applies to the debate on immigration alone. I disagree.<br /><br />Justice Lewis Brandeis, the first Jewish member of the US Supreme Court said: "If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law." There are a number who say the detention of ‘illegal non combatants’ at Gitmo held without due process and contrary to the Geneva Convention is a blatant disregard for the rule of law. We have been the lone beacon in the world for advancement of human rights and dignity. With Abu Ghraib and now Gitmo where do we stand in the world? We have dark sites in Thailand, Uzbekistan, Rumania, and Jordan. Shaikh Khaleed Muhammad impressed his CIA torturers in Jordan for how long he could withstand the waterboarding before he broke. <br /><br />Time magazine has published on the interrogations of one Guantánamo detainee, Mohamed al-Kahtani, a Saudi who may have been 20th hijacker on 9-11. According to Time: “Al-Kahtani was interrogated for as long as 20 hours at a stretch, according to the detailed log. At one point he was put on an intravenous drip and given three and a half bags of fluid. When he asked to urinate, guards told him that he must first answer questions. He answered them. The interrogator, not satisfied with the answers, told him to urinate in his pants, which he did.”<br /> <br />FBI agents, reporting earlier on the treatment of al-Kahtani, said a dog was used "in an aggressive manner to intimidate" him. At one point, according to the log, al-Kahtani's interrogator told him that he needed to learn, like a dog, to show respect: "Began teaching detainee lessons such as stay, come and bark to elevate his social status to that of a dog. Detainee became very agitated."<br /> <br />Experts in the field including candidate McCain have said such treatment is outlawed by three sources for the rule of law.  The United States respected these for decades and called loudly for North Viet Nam to abide by the Geneva conventions. That is until the administration of George W. Bush. Those who have suffered in Viet Nam and other places have called for the US to observe  the Geneva conventions, the UN Convention Against Torture and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.<br /><br />The International Herald Tribune reported that detainee Kahtani was, forcibly given enemas until he hurt but was not allowed to relieve himself being chained.  Officials said it was used because it was uncomfortable and degrading. The Pentagon said the procedure was medically necessary because Mr. Kahtani was dehydrated after an especially difficult interrogation session. <br /><br />Water boarding, ear drum breaking rapper music, forced enemas, violent dogs, sleep deprivation, chaining in uncomfortable positions for 24 hours, and the list goes on. SECDEF Rumsfield outlined 24 of these kinds of things for the illegal enemy combatants at Gitmo. Bush, Cheney and Romney have defended these extreme measures. Where is the respect for the civil rights of others and the ‘rule of law’? Because we have broken international laws and trashed our own high moral values then is it little wonder that the world looks upon us with contempt. Where is the outrage?";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/02/waterboarding-mitt-enemas-and-eminem.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:167:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=8682620780271602935http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/8682620780271602935/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:78:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/8682620780271602935";s:9:"link_edit";s:82:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/8682620780271602935";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:5;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-5601485400418739936";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-02-11T10:42:00.000-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-02-11T10:43:00.672-08:00";s:5:"title";s:33:"The aftermath of Mitt's departure";s:12:"atom_content";s:1941:"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R7CWnr04PpI/AAAAAAAAAWo/_HnzDLtvKZQ/s1600-h/cpac-romney-250x200.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R7CWnr04PpI/AAAAAAAAAWo/_HnzDLtvKZQ/s400/cpac-romney-250x200.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165794381117537938" /></a><br /> "If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win, and in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror."<br /><br />Those were the words last week from Mitt as he announced his withdrawl  before the ultra conservative group CPAC. Does anyone outside of CPAC really believe the Iraq war was about or is about terror? The one thing we know for certain about terror since our invasion of Iraq in '03 is that world wide terrorist acts have increased seven fold. We know too that we have killed and caused the deaths of more Iraqi's than Saddam did in his reign of terror. <br /><br />I am not surprised with Mitt's statement.  It is just like so many others from this man who has claimed to have such executive experience. How could he expect to be the president of the US when his thinking or at least his statements are so flawed? Where are the advisors any good CEO must have to give him sound advice? Who has advised him on foreign policy issues? Dick Cheney? For all of Mitt's executive experience to me he is very flawed. Politically positioning and pandering to the right may be the only explanation for this statement and his odd behavior.<br /><br />To my Mormon friends and family who cannot stomach Gov. Huckabee or Senator McCain pick up Sen Obama's book "The Audacity of Hope". You will be inspired.";s:4:"link";s:80:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/02/aftermath-of-mitts-departure.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:167:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=5601485400418739936http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/5601485400418739936/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:78:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/5601485400418739936";s:9:"link_edit";s:82:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/5601485400418739936";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:6;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-1657909593864236517";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-02-08T15:41:00.000-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-02-08T15:42:15.421-08:00";s:5:"title";s:35:"Mormons DISmayed By Harsh Spotlight";s:12:"atom_content";s:3026:"Nephew H brought me his copy of the Wall Street Journal today and wanted me to read a front page <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120243323721852411.html?mod=todays_us_nonsub_page_one/" />article</a> entitled: "Mormons Dismayed By Harsh Spotlight"  A few excerpts are in order.<br /><br />"Mitt Romney's campaign for the presidency brought more attention to the Mormon Church than it has had in years. What the church discovered was not heartening.<br /><br />A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll in late January revealed that 50% of Americans said they would have reservations or be "very uncomfortable" about a Mormon as president. That same poll found that 81% would be "enthusiastic" or "comfortable" with an African-American and 76% with a woman.<br /><br />"I don't think that any of us had any idea how much anti-Mormon stuff was out there," said Armand Mauss, a Mormon sociologist who has written extensively about church culture, in an interview last week. "The Romney campaign has given the church a wake-up call. There is the equivalent of anti-Semitism still out there."<br /><br />Nevertheless, Mr. Romney's campaign exposed a surprisingly virulent strain of anti-Mormonism that had been largely hidden to the general public. In December, political pundit and actor Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. unleashed a tirade on the "McLaughlin Group" television talk show, tearing into the Mormon Church and Mr. Romney's faith. "Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from that lineage and says, 'I respect this religion fully.'...He's got to answer."<br /><br />Soon, the Mormon Church began posting its videos on YouTube -- 22 so far. One clip, for example, showed Mr. Ballard, the church apostle, answering the question "Are Mormons Christian?" It has drawn 26,000 views. By contrast, a cartoon clip from "The God Makers," a 1980s film that mocks Mormon beliefs, has been viewed 945,000 times.<br /><br />Although Mr. Romney's withdrawal from the race is likely to quiet the controversy for now, many church members believe the turmoil of the past year will have lasting effects.<br /><br />"There will be a long-term consequence in the Mormon church," says Mr. Mauss, the Mormon sociologist. "I think there is going to be a wholesale reconsideration with how Mormons should deal with the latent and overt anti-Mormon propaganda. I don't think the Mormons are ever again going to sorrowfully turn away and close the door and just keep out of the fray."<br /><br />As a few of the bloggers have observed and even KSL's Doug Wright maybe it is time for Mormons to reconsider their party affiliation, maybe find a place under the tent of the Democratic Party, taking their place alongside other persecuted minorities. Think of those agendas...The Gay and Lesbian, the Feminists, the Black and then we would have the Mormon agenda. Think of the impact this coalition would have on the likes of Gov. Huckabee and the evangelical right of the R party.";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/02/mormons-dismayed-by-harsh-spotlight.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:167:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=1657909593864236517http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/1657909593864236517/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:78:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/1657909593864236517";s:9:"link_edit";s:82:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/1657909593864236517";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:7;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-4003204987696250238";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-02-08T10:23:00.001-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-02-08T15:15:47.294-08:00";s:5:"title";s:43:"As a man and a Mormon I can vote for HRC...";s:12:"atom_content";s:7152:"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R6zinEN19-I/AAAAAAAAAWg/Tu-NLabz6NE/s1600-h/Hillary.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R6zinEN19-I/AAAAAAAAAWg/Tu-NLabz6NE/s400/Hillary.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164752033461696482" /></a><br /><br /><br />If Hillary wins I will be happy.  This is the first presidential campaign in a very long time that I have been so enthused and excited.  Daughter M. sent me an email this morning quoting from feminist Robin Morgan. I found the essay, outlining a few reasons why Hillary Rodham Clinton should be our president, to be both powerful and moving.  I found myself agreeing with just about everything Ms. Morgan wrote. I have excerpted several paragraphs about women, the struggle, and HRC.<br /><br />“Women have endured sex/race/ethnic/religious hatred,<br />rape and battery, invasion of spirit and flesh, forced<br />pregnancy; being the majority of the poor, the<br />illiterate, the disabled, of refugees, caregivers, the<br />HIV/AIDS afflicted, the powerless. We have survived<br />invisibility, ridicule, religious fundamentalisms,<br />polygamy, teargas, forced feedings, jails, asylums,<br />sati, purdah, female genital mutilation, witch<br />burnings, stonings, and attempted gynocides. We have<br />tried reason, persuasion, reassurances, and being<br />extra-qualified, only to learn it never was about<br />qualifications after all. We know that at this<br />historical moment women experience the world<br />differently from men-though not all the same as one<br />another-and can govern differently, from Elizabeth<br />Tudor to Michele Bachelet and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf…<br /><br />We are the women who brought this country equal<br />credit, better pay, affirmative action, the concept of<br />a family-focused workplace; the women who established<br />rape-crisis centers and battery shelters, marital-rape<br />and date-rape laws; the women who defended lesbian<br />custody rights, who fought for prison reform, founded<br />the peace and environmental movements; who insisted<br />that medical research include female anatomy; who<br />inspired men to become more nurturing parents; who<br />created women's studies and Title IX so we all could<br />cheer the WNBA stars and Mia Hamm. We are the women<br />who reclaimed sexuality from violent pornography, who<br />put childcare on the national agenda, who transformed<br />demographics, artistic expression, language itself. We<br />are the women who forged a worldwide movement. We are<br />the proud successors of women who, though it took more<br />than 50 years, won us the vote<br /> <br />We are the women who now comprise the majority of U.S.<br />voters…<br /> <br />Hillary said she found her own voice in New Hampshire.<br />There's not a woman alive who, if she's honest,<br />doesn't recognize what she means. Then HRC got drowned<br />out by campaign experts, Bill, and media's obsession<br />with everything Bill.<br /> <br />So listen to her voice:<br /> <br />"For too long, the history of women has been a history<br />of silence. Even today, there are those who are trying<br />to silence our words.<br /> <br />It is a violation of human rights when babies are<br />denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their<br />spines broken, simply because they are born girls. It<br />is a violation of human rights when woman and girls<br />are sold into the slavery of prostitution. It is a<br />violation of human rights when women are doused with<br />gasoline, set on fire and burned to death because<br />their marriage dowries are deemed too small. It is a<br />violation of human rights when individual women are<br />raped in their own communities and when thousands of<br />women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of<br />war. It is a violation of human rights when a leading<br />cause of death worldwide along women ages 14 to 44 is<br />the violence they are subjected to in their own homes.<br />It is a violation of human rights when women are<br />denied the right to plan their own families, and that<br />includes being forced to have abortions or being<br />sterilized against their will.<br /> <br />Women's rights are human rights. Among those rights<br />are the right to speak freely-and the right to be<br />heard."<br /> <br />That was Hillary Rodham Clinton defying the U.S. State<br />Department and the Chinese Government at the 1995 UN<br />World Conference on Women in Beijing (look here for<br />the full, stunning speech).<br /><br />So goodbye to Hillary's second-guessing herself. The<br />real question is deeper than her re-finding her voice.<br />Can we women find ours? Can we do this for ourselves? <br /> <br />"Our President, Ourselves!"<br /> <br />Time is short and the contest tightening. We need to<br />rise in furious energy-as we did when Anita Hill was<br />so vilely treated in the U.S. Senate, as we did when<br />Rosie Jiminez was butchered by an illegal abortion, as<br />we did and do for women globally who are condemned for<br />trying to break through. We need to win, this time.<br />Goodbye to supporting HRC tepidly, with ambivalent<br />caveats and apologetic smiles. Time to volunteer, make<br />phone calls, send emails, donate money, argue, rally,<br />march, shout, vote.<br /> <br />Me? I support Hillary Rodham because she's the best<br />qualified of all candidates running in both parties. I<br />support her because her progressive politics are as<br />strong as her proven ability to withstand what will be<br />a massive right-wing assault in the general election.<br />I support her because she knows how to get us out of<br />Iraq. I support her because she's refreshingly<br />thoughtful, and I'm bloodied from eight years of a<br />jolly "uniter" with ejaculatory politics. I needn't<br />agree with her on every point. I agree with the 97<br />percent of her positions that are identical with<br />Obama's-and the few where hers are both more practical<br />and to the left of his (like health care). I support<br />her because she's already smashed the first-lady<br />stereotype and made history as a fine senator, because<br />I believe she will continue to make history not only<br />as the first US woman president, but as a great US<br />president.<br /><br />As for the "woman thing"?<br /> <br />Me, I'm voting for Hillary not because she's a<br />woman-but because I am.”<br /><br />I will vote for Hillary or Barack. I have donated to both. I am a happy voter for the first time in decades. I note the Republicans are in disarray and who knows even poobah Limbah says he may vote for HRC too. Maybe a few Mormons will realize there isn't a home for them in the R party given the trashing of their 'golden boy' Mitt. <br /><br />The link to Robin Morgan’s <a href="http://www.robinmorgan.us/" />web site</a>.  <br /><br />For HRC go to: <a href="http://www.hillaryclinton.com/">HillaryClinton</a><br /><br />Go Hillary!";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/02/as-man-and-mormon-i-can-vote-for-hrc.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:167:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=4003204987696250238http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/4003204987696250238/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:78:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/4003204987696250238";s:9:"link_edit";s:82:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/4003204987696250238";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:8;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-5805794089289265908";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-02-05T16:20:00.000-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-02-05T16:24:27.559-08:00";s:5:"title";s:40:"As a Mormon I could not vote for Mitt...";s:12:"atom_content";s:2045:"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R6j6skN195I/AAAAAAAAAVw/KWSUVP9WG7w/s1600-h/obama_sc_04_01_2007-731285.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R6j6skN195I/AAAAAAAAAVw/KWSUVP9WG7w/s400/obama_sc_04_01_2007-731285.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163652616323200914" /></a><br /><br />Aside from his altogether too conservative (current) posturing, I have two fundamental problems with Romney as a member of the faith I practice. First of all, he has taken a less than Christian attitude toward many of my friends who are Brown and undocumented. Doing so puts him at odds I believe with the basic tenets of compassion and charity of the LDS Church. I admit though there are more than a few in the pews who fit into the mold of 'let's send them all back to Mexico, etc', including members of our Utah State Legislature.  Secondly, Romney has never disavowed the CIA use of torture including water boarding and other techniques.  He follows too closely Cheney and Bush  on that subject. Even our FBI has on numerous occasions testified information obtained from torture is of very low quality and refuse to partner with their CIA peers in the war on terror.<br /><br />Too bad Mitt does not appreciate what POW's went through in Hanoi during the Viet Nam War and know that torture does not yield good intel. John McCain, when tortured, divulged the names of members of the Green Bay Packers football team as his squadron mates. Lucky Larry Chesley, another downed pilot, POW, and member of the LDS Church, gave his captors the names of his Burley Idaho High School graduating class as members of his squadron. Information obtained from torture is junk. <br /><br />It wasn't hard today at the polls for me today to touch the screen for Senator Barack Obama. It was only hard for my Mormon friends and neighbors to understand why I would not vote for Mitt.";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/02/as-mormon-i-could-not-vote-for-mitt.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:167:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=5805794089289265908http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/5805794089289265908/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:78:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/5805794089289265908";s:9:"link_edit";s:82:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/5805794089289265908";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:9;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-3680104257361731679";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-01-30T11:57:00.001-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-02-08T15:14:46.494-08:00";s:5:"title";s:37:"The  biggest war since WWII is _____?";s:12:"atom_content";s:3042:"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R6ziXkN199I/AAAAAAAAAWY/28UX-KiNCn8/s1600-h/child.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R6ziXkN199I/AAAAAAAAAWY/28UX-KiNCn8/s400/child.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164751767173724114" /></a><br /><br />Answer: The civil war in the Congo. <br /><br />Children shown here in a UN refugee camp have made toys from mud of what they see and have experienced. <br /><br />The emptiness of the Bush administration’s foreign policy is underscored by the total lack of humanitarian effort or involvement in this deadliest war. As Americans we are nearly totally ignorant of this decade long war in the Congo. Wonder why? Is it because Exxon Mobil has no oil fields there? Is it because these folks are Black Africans? Sadly, I have not heard any discussion among the candidates to replace Bush about this human disaster in the Congo. Looking at the web sites of the candidates  I found something on Senator Obama's site, nothing on the other's including Hillary, McCain and Romney. <br /><br />45,000 die every month and who gives a damn about them in  the US? An international rescue group said preventable diseases and starvation aggravated by conflict have claimed 5.4 million lives since 1998. This is the equivalent of the population of Denmark. War officially ended in 2002 but malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia and malnutrition continue to take thousands.   Half of all the fatalities have been children under the age of five. Rebels still control some portions of the country where young girls are kidnapped to become the sex slaves of the militias. Mass rape is altogether too common in the lives of the women in the Congo. The CBS news program ‘60 Minutes’ reported the story of a brother and sister. The young woman was raped multiple times by soldiers while her brother was forced to watch. The soldiers then told him to rape his sister, which he would not do.  They killed him. <br /><br />I am reminded of another time when the founder of Mitt’s church cried out in pain over injustice and plead for the mercies of heaven:<br /><br />"O God, where art thou? And where is the pavilion that covereth thy hiding place? How long shall thy hand be stayed, and thine eye, yea thy pure eye, behold from the eternal heavens the wrongs of thy people and of thy servants, and thine ear be penetrated with their cries?  Yea, O Lord, how long shall they suffer these wrongs and unlawful oppressions, before thine heart shall be softened toward them, and thy bowels be moved with compassion toward those..."<br /><br /> in the Congo?    <br /><br />One must ask how many children must die and women be raped before we do anything? Indeed 'how long shall they suffer'? <br /><br />You can <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/congo/story/0,,2245139,00.html" /> read more </a> at this link from the Guardian in the UK.";s:4:"link";s:77:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/01/biggest-war-since-wwii-is.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:167:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=3680104257361731679http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/3680104257361731679/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:78:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/3680104257361731679";s:9:"link_edit";s:82:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/3680104257361731679";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:10;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-5288199521697705857";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-01-27T21:28:00.001-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-01-27T21:29:22.733-08:00";s:5:"title";s:28:"Gordon B. Hinckley 1910-2008";s:12:"atom_content";s:732:"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R51nbUN193I/AAAAAAAAAVg/1CwIISKD4UM/s1600-h/President+Gordon+B.+Hinckley.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R51nbUN193I/AAAAAAAAAVg/1CwIISKD4UM/s400/President+Gordon+B.+Hinckley.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160394467017357170" /></a><br /><br />"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." <br /><br />Ralph Waldo Emerson";s:4:"link";s:79:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/01/gordon-b-hinckley-1910-2008.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:167:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=5288199521697705857http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/5288199521697705857/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:78:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/5288199521697705857";s:9:"link_edit";s:82:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/5288199521697705857";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:11;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-8572988451780175847";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-01-26T08:50:00.000-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-01-26T08:51:13.645-08:00";s:5:"title";s:39:"The Racism of Republican Rep. Donnelson";s:12:"atom_content";s:1735:"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R5thqkN192I/AAAAAAAAAVY/W6RatB1dDA8/s1600-h/donnega.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R5thqkN192I/AAAAAAAAAVY/W6RatB1dDA8/s400/donnega.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159825181987174242" /></a><br /><br />Our legislature continues to swim in a vacuum it seems. In action yesterday on the hill and reported in today's <a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_8083749" />Trib</a> we have Rep. Donnelson assuring us that police all across the state support his bill to empower local cops to act with ICE authority. Salt Lake's top cop, Chief Chris Burbank, spoke against the bill. Not a single law enforcement representative spoke in favor of the bill. Donnelson told the committee that he's spoken with officers statewide who support his proposal. In an interview with the media Donnelson could not provide the names of any law enforcement groups that back his bill. The bill passed committee on straight party lines, 7 to 3, and now moves to the full House. He told the Trib reporter his bill was not about racism. <br /><br />One has to wonder are there any constituencies in this state who support anything that goes on among House Republicans? It is clear who Representative Donnelson constituency is. There are kudos to him with expressions of gratitude from the Utah Minutemen Project. These are the vigilante nut jobs that get their hunting rifles and  ride their ATV's along the US Mexican border looking for saboteurs, members of al Qaeda, and hungry families looking for a better life in the US.";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/01/racism-of-republican-rep-donnelson.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:167:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=8572988451780175847http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/8572988451780175847/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:78:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/8572988451780175847";s:9:"link_edit";s:82:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/8572988451780175847";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:12;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:69:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-452680625771961329";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-01-25T15:31:00.000-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-01-25T15:46:38.774-08:00";s:5:"title";s:49:"The Godless, Huckabee, and Dissipating Sensuality";s:12:"atom_content";s:2178:"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R5prLEN191I/AAAAAAAAAVQ/9Wdkvrni580/s1600-h/huckabee.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R5prLEN191I/AAAAAAAAAVQ/9Wdkvrni580/s400/huckabee.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159554160960862034" /></a><br /><br />In last night's non debate by the Republican candidates for president the Reverend and former Governor Mike Huckabee said that Americans "ought to be able to respect people who don't have any faith." Yet, in a book he co-wrote in 1998, Huckabee spoke from his heart of hearts when he said this: "Men who have rejected God and do not walk in faith are more often than not immoral, impure, and improvident (Gal. 5:19-21). They are prone to extreme and destructive behavior, indulging in perverse vices and dissipating sensuality (1 Cor. 6:9-10)." <br /><br />Which is it Mike? I find this duplicity to be obnoxious and is right up there with the other religionist candidate Mitt Romney in amplitude of flip flopping. In defense of my friends, who are non believers in any God or in a Christian theology/tradition, I have to say to the former reverend/governor you know not whereof you speak. You are just another tin, tea toting, thin, religious fanatic. I have known all my godless and heathen friends, all of them, to be loyal, highly principled, ethical, respectful and constructive members of our society. In short, way above the average or norm. They are all examples to me in many ways. <br /><br />Perhaps Mike knows only of the godless in Arkansas.  Maybe that's how rednecks behave who lost their faith. We could talk about another man from Arkansas who indulged in perverse vices and dissipating sensual acts while governor of Arkansas and occupying the Oval Office for eight years. It was so bad for a few months that I had to remove front pages of the newspaper  before I could bring it into my house. Did not want to have questions about Monica and the President from the youngest kids at home. <br /><br />Thanks to MoJo News";s:4:"link";s:84:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/01/godless-huckabee-and-dissipating.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:165:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=452680625771961329http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/452680625771961329/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:77:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/452680625771961329";s:9:"link_edit";s:81:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/452680625771961329";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:13;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-3939364550638403883";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-01-24T12:40:00.000-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-01-24T12:41:29.052-08:00";s:5:"title";s:34:"What a difference a state makes...";s:12:"atom_content";s:1650:"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R5j3BUN19xI/AAAAAAAAAUw/4gxpLpM3RmU/s1600-h/farm-worker-near-san-diego.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R5j3BUN19xI/AAAAAAAAAUw/4gxpLpM3RmU/s400/farm-worker-near-san-diego.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159144975131604754" /></a><br />Against the backdrop of our immigration debate in Utah consider this new law that just took effect in California. This was sent to me by #1 daughter in Northern CA, a public interest attorney:<br /><br />"Highlights of New Housing Laws for 2008<br /><br />Here are some noteworthy new housing laws that took effect on January 1st:<br /><br />Immigration status discrimination: Landlords are now specifically prohibited from inquiring about citizenship or immigration status. Localities are also prohibited from requiring a landlord to verify immigration status. AB 976; Civ Code 1940.3.<br />Bill number links are to statutory language. For a complete compilation of all the new laws affecting housing, see our Housing Update, to be emailed later this month.<br /><br />© 2008 Western Center & Law and Poverty, 3701 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 208, Los Angeles CA 90010. 213.487.7211. Permission is granted to copy and share this publication with LSC- and IOLTA-funded organizations, and nonprofit housing organizations."<br /><br />This is just the opposite direction many of our state legislators want to move. How do you explain that? Too many Mormon, Mitt Romney Republicans here?";s:4:"link";s:79:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/01/what-difference-state-makes.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:167:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=3939364550638403883http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/3939364550638403883/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:78:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/3939364550638403883";s:9:"link_edit";s:82:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/3939364550638403883";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:14;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-1328734944726168543";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-01-24T11:14:00.000-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-01-24T11:18:33.883-08:00";s:5:"title";s:30:"Oskar Schindler where are you?";s:12:"atom_content";s:2765:"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R5jeO0N19wI/AAAAAAAAAUk/pp9aKrrjqhE/s1600-h/Oskar.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R5jeO0N19wI/AAAAAAAAAUk/pp9aKrrjqhE/s400/Oskar.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159117719269144322" /></a><br /><br />A fine <a href= "http://www.sltrib.com/Salt%20Lake%20Tribune%20Home%20Page/ci_8062989" />piece</a> in today’s Trib about the discussions between LDS Church leaders and our legislators. I read a number of the online comments in Trib Talk and note the significant amount of anti immigrant feeling. It is a hot button for many here in Utah and the US. <br /><br />It is clear to me that the argument for the rule of law, and how it must be enforced with regard to the undocumented, is nothing more than a masquerade for racial bigotry. America has a long history of ethnic prejudice toward yellow, brown, and black minorities, as it has been manifested in our immigration laws. See my earlier post on that topic. I look at the list of bills being sponsored by various legislators here in Utah and elsewhere and recall from readings of prewar Nazi German history they are much in a similar vein and type as the Nuremburg Laws. These laws deprived Jews within the Third Reich of all their civil rights. Eventually more than 6 million would die in the gas chambers. (Let me remind you we had our own concentration camp here in Utah for Japanese Americans during WWII.) <br /><br /> When Bush was in Israel recently he was asked why it was the allies did not bomb the rails leading to the concentration camps. He could not answer and others have offered only lame excuses to date.  It is time for more voices to be heard urging compassion and decency. We need to have the Oskar Schindlers of our culture stand up and put an end to the legislative efforts by our representatives to marginalize, demonize, and criminalize those that are the least among us. Governor Huntsman why was not this part of your State of the State message, don't you care?<br /><br />For those who cry foul over LDS involvement in this debate I say this is fish.  The LDS Church leadership must continue to speak out on matters of human rights and dignity. If they did not take a stand on this issue would they be any different than how the Vatican behaved during the holocaust? Why were they afraid to step across some artificial line to condemn the atrocities of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis? The National Council of Catholic Bishops has it right this time and we can learn from them. <br /><br />Please step forward Oskar Schindler and thank you Elder Ballard.";s:4:"link";s:81:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/01/oskar-schindler-where-are-you.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:167:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=1328734944726168543http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/1328734944726168543/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:78:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/1328734944726168543";s:9:"link_edit";s:82:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/1328734944726168543";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:15;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:69:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-414062326587084872";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-01-23T16:02:00.000-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-01-25T09:00:04.200-08:00";s:5:"title";s:54:"$800.00 for each American but you can't spend it at...";s:12:"atom_content";s:1997:"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R5oVjEN190I/AAAAAAAAAVI/rx0YrEjAAHw/s1600-h/images-1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R5oVjEN190I/AAAAAAAAAVI/rx0YrEjAAHw/s400/images-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159460015277733698" /></a><br /><br /><br />Lost in the body of recent comments by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was the endorsement of the concept of a short-term economic stimulus package. He cautioned that the money must be spent correctly: "You'd hope that [consumers] would spend it on things that are domestically produced so that the spending power doesn't go elsewhere."<br /><br />That means we must boycott our favorite big box we love to hate and every other made in China product. Our trade imbalance is now over $6 trillion. The Chinese own enough of our treasury bills they could shut us down if they chose to dump them. The Bush regime will be offering $800.00 to each family in America, amounting to $150 million. Chairman Bernanke doesn't want that going to China. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/22/Dobbs.January23/?iref=hpmostpop" />Lou Dobbs</a> has blasted both R's and Dems for squandering away this nation's wealth and suggests those running for president of both parties should address this is a substantive way. <br /><br />I would like an Apple TV so I can download directly my favorite Hollywood USA movies. Apple uses Intel and Micron chips but the TV's come from China or Taiwan. Is there a TV still made in America?  What else I ask could I do with my tax rebate? Someone told me Wigwam socks are still made here. Danner hunting boots are made in Oregon, but I already own a new pair of those. A friend Q, who is pretty savvy about these things, gave me a <a href="http://www.usstuff.com/" />URL</a> for a web site that lists a few things still made in America.";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/01/80000-for-each-american-but-you-cant.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:165:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=414062326587084872http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/414062326587084872/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:77:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/414062326587084872";s:9:"link_edit";s:81:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/414062326587084872";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:16;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-7254661924929492462";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-01-23T10:00:00.000-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-01-23T10:04:25.281-08:00";s:5:"title";s:44:"The Valleys of the Shadow of the Republicans";s:12:"atom_content";s:1305:"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R5d-JEN19uI/AAAAAAAAAUU/mRPvRaJO_pM/s1600-h/23rd+house.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R5d-JEN19uI/AAAAAAAAAUU/mRPvRaJO_pM/s400/23rd+house.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158730592391919330" /></a><br />He maketh me to lie down in green pastures and tall redwood trees:<br /> He leadeth me beside the still waters.<br />He restoreth my soul:<br /> He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness among the tree huggers for his name's sake.<br />Yea, though I drive through the valley of the shadow of Republicans and the State Legislature,<br />  I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.<br />Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of all of the Wal Mart supporters in Centerville, for they ruineth my town:<br /> thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.<br />Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:<br /> and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. If I cannot be there then this place of peace in the Redwoods is my second choice. <br /><br />Adapted from the 23rd Psalm";s:4:"link";s:84:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/01/valleys-of-shadow-of-republicans.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:167:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=7254661924929492462http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/7254661924929492462/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:78:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/7254661924929492462";s:9:"link_edit";s:82:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/7254661924929492462";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:17;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-2996456796558819521";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-01-21T13:04:00.001-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-01-21T13:05:17.333-08:00";s:5:"title";s:39:"Romney, a Washington insider's pedigree";s:12:"atom_content";s:2539:"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R5SJhFQFScI/AAAAAAAAAUA/MACKZGvyIR8/s1600-h/romney-old-headshot.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R5SJhFQFScI/AAAAAAAAAUA/MACKZGvyIR8/s400/romney-old-headshot.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157898674684381634" /></a><br /><br />Seems that Governor Romney is a bit challenged with his truthfulness in addition to his flip flopping on policy positions and statements. The governor has been casting himself as a Washington outsider these days while portraying John McCain as the ‘Washington insider’.  An AP reporter asked Romney during his Nevada primary campaign if he was tied to special interests and beholden to lobbyists. His response according to this fine piece in <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/01/6914_mitt_romneys_lo.html" />Mother Jones</a> said:<br /><br />"My campaign is not based on Washington lobbyists, I haven't been in Washington. I don't have lobbyists at my elbow that are arguing for one industry or another industry and I do not have favors I have to repay to people who have been in Washington for years."<br /><br />According to MoJo News, “The truth is that Romney is tied closely with many lobbyists. The AP reporter Romney exchanged sharp words with later reported that several Romney aides and advisors are lobbyists. Additionally, as the Nation first reported, Romney has accepted the second most money from lobbyists of any Republican presidential candidate, and has received the most endorsements from lobbyists.”<br /><br />The article continues that lobbyists who are supporting Romney have represented, in 2007 alone, nearly every part of the health care and financial services industries, the NRA, members of the tobacco industry, and gambling interests. Yes, Romney takes money from the tobacco and gaming people. He did well in Nevada didn’t he?<br /><br />A vote for Romney is a vote for the status quo in Washington contrary to his self styled image as the outsider. Romney's advisors have also lobbied for the Carlyle Group, Microsoft, American Airlines, the Venetian Casino Resort, the Poker Players Alliance, and TOP Tobacco among others. Bush Senior is an important player in the Carlyle Group along with, James Baker and the House of Saud. It was this Carlyle Group to which Osama bin Ladin’s family invested before 9-11.";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/01/romney-washington-insiders-pedigree.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:167:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=2996456796558819521http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/2996456796558819521/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:78:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/2996456796558819521";s:9:"link_edit";s:82:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/2996456796558819521";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:18;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-6377418725195413181";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-01-20T19:23:00.000-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-01-20T19:24:25.006-08:00";s:5:"title";s:40:"Sith Lords, Democrats and the LDS Church";s:12:"atom_content";s:2766:"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R5QMs1QFSbI/AAAAAAAAAT4/z5_bImm7u6s/s1600-h/sith.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R5QMs1QFSbI/AAAAAAAAAT4/z5_bImm7u6s/s400/sith.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157761437594372530" /></a><br /><br />According to a <a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695245489,00.html" />Deseret News</a> article this past week, leaders of the LDS Church met with Utah State Legislative leaders. Among the topics was immigration. LDS Church leaders explained that “the element of humanity" should be re-introduced to the state's immigration debates.<br /><br />There are a number of bills to be introduced that would deprive employment, deny driving privileges, and  take away in state tuition for those Hispanic students who have graduated from Utah high schools. Punishment would be served up for anyone giving a hitchhiking Latino a ride. Several Darth legislators are seeking to follow and adapt Oklahoma laws that would make it a crime to harbor or transport undocumented immigrants.  <br /><br />It was interesting how the talks were reported by both Republican and Democrat attendees. First the Republican observation,  I quote: “House Majority Leader Dave Clark, R-Santa Clara, a member of the LDS Church himself, said immigration issues did not take up much time in the Republicans' meeting with church leaders. "But they did say we all need to approach this subject with compassion." On the other hand, House Minority Whip David Litvack, D-Salt Lake, said the Democrats' meeting with church officials brought up several issues, but the immigration discussion was the most touching for him personally. "I interpreted what was said as this: 'Take a step back, be calm, and above all remember that we are dealing with human beings here,"' Rep. Litvack, who  is non LDS, but Jewish, has himself called for cooler heads in dealing with the often emotional issue of illegal immigration according to the article.<br /><br />May the force be with the cooler and more compassionate of the lot. And just a warning, as this significant minority becomes marginalized in our society by legislative fiat I believe uncomfortable social consequences may occur making life more difficult for all of us here in this state. Take away hope for a better life in the form of jobs, opportunity and education and you will certainly give rise to anti social behavior, crime and violence. That is not the primary reason for our legislature to follow the direction of the Brethren on this one. It is just the right thing to do because it is right.";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/01/sith-lords-democrats-and-lds-church.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:167:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=6377418725195413181http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/6377418725195413181/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:78:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/6377418725195413181";s:9:"link_edit";s:82:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/6377418725195413181";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:19;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-7153940215963498229";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-01-17T13:03:00.001-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-01-24T12:54:07.124-08:00";s:5:"title";s:38:"American Gold is for Americans, Part 2";s:12:"atom_content";s:2143:"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R5j62UN19zI/AAAAAAAAAVA/ggqmCjpVbWY/s1600-h/topaz.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R5j62UN19zI/AAAAAAAAAVA/ggqmCjpVbWY/s400/topaz.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159149184199554866" /></a><br /><br />During the dark days of the beginning of World War II Americans showed their true colors once again by the forced relocation of any person of Japanese ancestry to prison camps throughout the western United States. We had our own here in Utah, near Delta. Called <a href="http://www.topazmuseum.org/" />Topaz</a>, it was for a period of time the largest ‘city’ in Utah. Those who lived within the barbed wire fences were never convicted or even charged with any crime, yet they were locked up and kept under guard. Sound familiar? During one protest over their loss of civil rights a leader of the Japanese Issei within the camp, James Hatsuki Wakasa, was shot to death. His murder was never investigated. No Senate hearing was held or even an outcry from anyone in Utah.<br /><br />We find a parallel today as citizens and our government are caught up in the hysteria of the war on terror. There is scarce mention of Topaz in Utah history studies. I have not seen it on a map. I have driven past it and not known it was there. There's not much left of Topaz but a few concrete foundations and a monument, which is used mostly for target practice.  As one observer said, “Most people have never heard of it, and many of those that have would like to pretend it never happened.”<br /><br />We cannot undo the past or rewrite history though some try. During these days of the Bush and Cheney regime and given the climate of fear they have nurtured to maintain power, let us not forget  our government can and does violate the Constitution. Decency, compassion, and generosity should be the words that describe the richest of all nations and its people on this planet toward any group within our borders.";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/01/american-gold-is-for-americans-part-2.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:167:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=7153940215963498229http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/7153940215963498229/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:78:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/7153940215963498229";s:9:"link_edit";s:82:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/7153940215963498229";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:20;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-7587587886433996902";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-01-16T13:12:00.001-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-01-16T13:12:50.730-08:00";s:5:"title";s:38:"American Gold is for Americans, Part 1";s:12:"atom_content";s:2894:"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R45usVQFSZI/AAAAAAAAATo/QWbo2qK6_nM/s1600-h/maid.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R45usVQFSZI/AAAAAAAAATo/QWbo2qK6_nM/s400/maid.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5156180331283696018" /></a><br />Anyone familiar with US immigration history, and most Americans are not, have concluded that as a nation of immigrants we have some significant hostility toward immigrants. Mitt Romney’s roots, and many others in the Republican Party, for anti immigrant measures began almost as early as the founding of this country. This was brought to you by the same people, (Thomas Jefferson included), that gave us the Declaration of Independence. The first of these laws was enacted in March of 1790.  It provided the rules for the granting of national citizenship. This law limited naturalization to aliens who were "free white persons". Left out were indentured servants, slaves, free African-Americans, and later Asian Americans.  No opportunity for Barack to be a Senator or run for president then.<br /><br />Nearly every generation has had a crack at solving the ‘immigration issue’. Ours is not immune. During the 1849 gold strike in California, and for a period of time after, Chinese were welcomed into the US to do the heavy lifting and hard labor on the mining claims around Sacramento. When the gold started to run out so did the tolerance of Americans. Labor groups formed with the intent of forcibly removing all Chinese from the gold fields. American gold was for Americans only after all. Those forcibly removed settled in enclaves in cities, mainly San Francisco, where they took up minimum wage jobs at the Wendys and McDonalds of their day. <br /><br />Jump forward one hundred and fifty years and we find former Governor Romney who worked to bar any non-citizen from employment in Massachusetts by wanting to supply everyone with a biometric identification card. Employers would be fined and jailed for hiring 'illegal human beings'. He sought to have the state police enforce immigration laws as well. It seems that Mitt is not unlike many others presently and a number who have gone before to marginalize and criminalize those who are different from the majority and came later to American shores. The only crime they committed, like my ancestors from the coalmines of Wales, was their wanting a better life for their families and themselves. One has to wonder when each night as Mitt is on the campaign trail and staying in those plush Marriott presidential suites who is it that turned down his bed, vacuumed the carpets, and cleaned the bathroom? It wasn't any poor and struggling college students working to pay their way through Harvard or MIT.";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/01/american-gold-is-for-americans-part-1.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:167:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=7587587886433996902http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/7587587886433996902/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:78:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/7587587886433996902";s:9:"link_edit";s:82:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/7587587886433996902";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:21;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-4170078555969835108";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-01-15T21:31:00.000-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-01-15T21:32:33.861-08:00";s:5:"title";s:47:"Is W dumber than a groundhog?  Some think so...";s:12:"atom_content";s:870:"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R42VCFQFSYI/AAAAAAAAATg/NNASpGAjpig/s1600-h/groundhogday.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R42VCFQFSYI/AAAAAAAAATg/NNASpGAjpig/s400/groundhogday.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5155941011410995586" /></a><br />A friend sent this to me today. One of the more erudite observations anyone has shared with me in awhile:<br /><br />"This year, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address fall on the same day.  It is an ironic juxtaposition: one involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence for prognostication, and the other involves a Groundhog."<br /><br />Thanks Walt for sending it along!";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/01/is-w-dumber-than-groundhog-some-think.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:167:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=4170078555969835108http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/4170078555969835108/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:78:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/4170078555969835108";s:9:"link_edit";s:82:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/4170078555969835108";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:22;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-3909615955951938075";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-01-13T17:00:00.000-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-01-13T17:01:31.742-08:00";s:5:"title";s:61:"It wasn't 40 years ago that Sgt. Pepper taught the band......";s:12:"atom_content";s:792:"<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/99CT3wQmiFU&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/99CT3wQmiFU&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><br />It was the Man in Black doing the concert behind the walls at Folsom Penitentiary. His career lasted almost 50 years. I have a couple DVD's of his concerts and most of his music loaded in my IPod. I could not find any video of his concert at Folsom but this YouTube segment of Johnny and Willie doing one of Cash's classics is a delight, just two old friends enjoying performing together.<br /><br />BTW Johnny Cash was a Democrat and a good friend of Jimmy Carter.";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/01/it-wasnt-40-years-ago-that-sgt-pepper.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:167:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=3909615955951938075http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/3909615955951938075/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:78:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/3909615955951938075";s:9:"link_edit";s:82:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/3909615955951938075";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:23;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-7191873068481295113";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-01-11T15:25:00.000-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-01-11T15:29:43.569-08:00";s:5:"title";s:26:"A Simpsonized WP for Obama";s:12:"atom_content";s:618:"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R4f6d1QFSXI/AAAAAAAAATY/vteNLiZUF5E/s1600-h/GeorgeSimpson.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R4f6d1QFSXI/AAAAAAAAATY/vteNLiZUF5E/s400/GeorgeSimpson.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154363688966506866" /></a><br />Thanks to daughter A for helping me with this caricature. It is pretty accurate. I wanted to put a 'CTR" ring on a finger but alas I could not fit it in and make it legible.";s:4:"link";s:76:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/2008/01/simpsonized-wp-for-obama.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:167:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3397375120265447394&postID=7191873068481295113http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/7191873068481295113/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:78:"http://centervillecitizen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/7191873068481295113";s:9:"link_edit";s:82:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3397375120265447394/posts/default/7191873068481295113";s:11:"author_name";s:2:"WP";}i:24;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:69:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397375120265447394.post-712055565521256020";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-01-10T10:17:00.000-08:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-01-10T10:22:40.574-08:00";s:5:"title";s:40:"Utahns perpetuating Obama smear campaign";s:12:"atom_content";s:1672:"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R4ZeQ1QFSWI/AAAAAAAAATM/VVm_bxX_FPE/s1600-h/a+obama.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_OmqTT-SqM-0/R4ZeQ1QFSWI/AAAAAAAAATM/VVm_bxX_FPE/s400/a+obama.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153910466837563746" /></a><br /><br />“Probable U. S. presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu , Hawaii , to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black MUSLIM from Nyangoma-Kogel , Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white ATHIEST from Wichita , Kansas….”so this phony email goes. Additional ridiculous claims and connections are attempted to discredit Senator Obama. <br /><br />It is disappointing that several of my Mormon Republican friends and extended family members have stooped so low to perpetuate this email smear job. These same people feel umbrage over the treatment of their boy Mitt and his religion by evangelical activists yet have no hesitation to perpetuate the slander and lies of these certain hate mongers. 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