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* RM found, how you can help with the disaster in New Zealand: http://phaetonschariot.livejournal.com/162743.html

* Just after the US evacuated the trapped citizens, we announced sanctions and are freezing Gadhafi and family's assets. There is talk about a crimes against humanity trial at the Hague. Libya's UN delegation has resigned.

* Wisconsin state Assembly opened the Union stripping bill to vote in the middle of the night for a few seconds and only let enough people vote to pass it, closing the vote before a third of the people could cast their vote. Apparently this is legal. Wow, the Wisconsin Republicans really hate Democracy. It seems to me all elected representatives present shot get a chance to vote for or against a bill, instead of only taking the votes from one party. I guuess that's old fashioned of me.

* A Fox poll shows 51% against stripping the unions of their collective bargaining rights. That's the right wing pool. The non-partisan Gallup poll shows 61%.

* The right wing in Kansas wants covenant marriage, because apparently small government means the state forcing people to stay married when they don't want to be.

* In Nebraska they are trying to legalize the murder of abortion providers as "justifiable homicide." "Pro-Life" is a lie. That looks very pro-death to me. If you are in favour of making hunting people legal you are not "pro-life."

* tulaq found, "Ga. Law Could Give Death Penalty for Miscarriages:" http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/02/miscarriage-death-penalty-georgia

* I do not understand why we as a supposedly civilized 21st century nation can't agree that women are fully human, alive, and should not be killed for having heterosexual sex. Why is this even still a debate?