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There are many ways to help the homeless.

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Posted on August 27, 2008 - 8:56am at Stone Soup Station
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Many of these things have been addressed singularly here previously, but it is nice to see a brief outline of each.

"...City of Denver seems to be breaking convention, and is going so far to involve (the homeless) in the political process."

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Posted on August 27, 2008 - 7:24am at Stone Soup Station
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Now that it's actually happening, we can find out how Denver has actually been treating her Homeless as the DNC unfolds....

(Audio here)

"Oh yea? Well, you just called your son retarded..."

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Posted on August 24, 2008 - 10:58am at Matthew Hurtt
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The recent theatrical release of "Tropic Thunder" has rekindled the uniquely American debate over free speech. Advocacy groups have spoken out against the use of the word "retard" and its variations, coupled with Ben Stiller's portrayal of a retarded character in one of the movies within the movie.

Illegal Immigrants' Cost.....$26.3 billion annually!

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Posted on August 12, 2008 - 8:00am at Truman's Take
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Illegal Immigrants' Cost to Government Studied

"My situation is going to make me want to vote even more,"

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Posted on July 23, 2008 - 5:22am at Stone Soup Station
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A growing army of pissed off peeps who've been victimized by terrible economic policies, a needless war, the ripple effects of oil-gouging and the long-since disproven "trickle-down" economic theory are gearing up to change the way the government does things.

"Nagin recently suggested a way to reduce this city’s post-Katrina homeless population: give them one-way bus tickets out of tow

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Posted on June 4, 2008 - 6:24am at Stone Soup Station
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Looks like we may have just discovered where many of the new faces might be coming from....

With Resources Scarce, Homelessness Persists in New Orleans SHAILA DEWAN Published: Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Samantha Power: Outlining the Disadvantages of Living in Web 2.0 World

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Posted on May 25, 2008 - 3:25pm at Compassion in Politics
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Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0:

Samantha Power, in the most recent issue of Time Magazine suggests criticism of web 2.0 trends in “Technologies’ power to narrow our view.” Power highlights the ongoing trend in technology, politics, and social movements:

Senate Education Committee approves pre K-12 budget

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Posted on March 20, 2008 - 10:55am at SB District 6
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Bredesen Comes Around to GOP Position on Home-Based Care

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Posted on February 14, 2008 - 12:28pm at Bill Hobbs
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Gov. Phil Bredesen addressed the Tennessee Press Association winter convention in Nashville this morning and announced that he would be proposing legislation, the "Long Term Care Community Choices Act," that would begin to shift TennCare nursing home dollars to home-based care for elderly and disabled people on TennCare who would prefer it.

The governor talked about how home-based care is less costly, and more preferable for most elderly people.

Is This Better Than Beacon?

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Posted on January 23, 2008 - 2:44am at The Relationship Economy
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When Facebook launched Beacon it created a stir through main stream media relative to privacy concerns.
Amy Tiemann of CNET wrote: “The bad news about Facebook’s Beacon program, user tracking, and privacy concerns just keeps piling up. Now Facebook is under fire from consumers, journalists, activist and advocacy groups, and even [...]

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