Candidate for Maine State Senate attacked over Warcraft character (Updated) The Republican Party of Maine has revealed that Democratic State Senate candidate Colleen Lachowicz has a secret life that she's been hiding from voters. Drug use? A Swiss bank account? No, sadly, even worse: she has a scary-looking World of Warcraft character. "Colleen Lachowicz spends hundreds of hours playing in her online world Azeroth, as an Orc Assassination Rogue named Santiaga," reads a flyer sent to voters in the district. It's identified as funded by the Maine Republican Party. "I love poisoning and stabbing! It is fun," the flyer quotes Lachowicz as saying. "I can kill stuff without going to jail," she wrote in December 2009. Lachowicz uses salty language in some of the comments, but someone needs to sit the Maine GOP down and explain the difference between fantasy and reality. It's worth noting that the average American watches more than 30 hours of television per week.
2012 Presidential Debate LINGO Cards. Take Action | Electronic Frontier Foundation. The Internet blacklist legislation—known as PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House—invites Internet security risks, threatens online speech, and hampers Internet innovation. Urge your members of Congress to reject this Internet blacklist campaign in both its forms! Big media and its allies in Congress are billing the Internet blacklist legislation as a new way to battle online infringement.
But innovation and free speech advocates know that this initiative will do little to stop infringement online. What it will do is compromise Internet security, inhibit online expression, and slow growth in the technology sector. Read More As drafted, the legislation would grant the government and private parties unprecedented power to interfere with the Internet's underlying infrastructure. Colbert Super PAC | Making a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow | ColbertSuperPac.com. This is what you said: This is what I heard: Paid for by Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. www.colbertsuperpac.com Contributions to Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow ("ABTT") are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes.
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Over coming days you'll be hearing from the many businesses, advocacy organizations, and ordinary Americans who oppose this legislation because of the myriad ways in which it will stifle free speech and innovation. We hope you'll take our concerns to heart and oppose this legislation by voting "no" on cloture. The video above discusses the Senate version of the House's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). PIPA would give the government new powers to block Americans' access websites that corporations don't like. OccupyTheComms. Plea For Indian Initiative To Resolve Thai-Cambodian Conflict Over Preah Vihar – Analysis.
By V. Suryanarayan The temple of Preah Vihear, dedicated to Lord Siva, located in the Thai – Cambodia border, has once again got mired into bilateral dispute, unfortunately leading to armed skirmishes and even killing of innocent civilians. Bilateral talks between the two countries and even attempts made by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to broker peace have not succeeded. Preah Vihear is one of the most glorious illustrations of India’s abiding cultural influences in Southeast Asia. What is more, New Delhi has excellent equations with both Bangkok and Phnom Penh. It is high time that the Ministry of External Affairs should take initiative and get the area declared as a non-militarized zone. In order to appreciate the complexities of the subject it is necessary to keep in mind the historical and cultural background of the temple. From the early centuries of the Christian era, there were Indianised/Hinduised kingdoms in the region.
(Dr. SumOfUs. Indecision 2012 - Colbert Super PAC - Coordination Resolution with Jon Stewart - The Colbert Report - 2012-12-01. Occupy Portland Outsmarts Police, Creating Blueprint for Other Occupations. Photo by Paul by Lester Macgurdy The Portland Occupation stumbled upon a tactical innovation regarding occupying public spaces. This evolution in tactics was spontaneous, and went unreported in the media. On December 3rd, we took a park and were driven out of it by riot police; that much made the news. What the media didn’t report is that we re-took the park later that same evening, and the police realized that it would be senseless to attempt to clear it again, so they packed up their military weaponry and left. Occupy Portland has developed a tactic to keep a park when the police decide to enforce an eviction.
The tactical evolution that evolved relies on two military tactics that are thousands of years old- the tactical superiority of light infantry over heavy infantry, and the tactical superiority of the retreat over the advance. Heavy infantry is a group of soldiers marching in a column or a phalanx that are armed with weaponry for hand to hand, close quarters combat.
Photo by Lauriel. ‘Occupy’ protesters interrupt Ron Paul: ‘Why do you hate gays?’ By Stephen C. WebsterThursday, December 29, 2011 8:56 EDT As part of their promise to “go big,” protesters with the 99 Percent movement have been interrupting campaign-related events all over Iowa in the week leading up to the nation’s first major presidential candidate selection contest, and Texas Congressman Ron Paul was not given an exception. During a rally with veterans last night, candidate Paul saw his speech interrupted by a group of about 20 occupiers, who began shouting as Paul was mid-sentence. After a few seconds, the crowd responded with a boisterous chant of the candidate’s name, over and over again. “Why do you hate gays?” “Freedom of speech, ain’t it wonderful?” As the candidate’s supporters pushed them out of the hall, one woman kept audibly insisting that she’s a veteran, as is much of her family.
He’s further said that if the occupiers favor going after “crony capitalism,” he’s all for it. This video is from C-SPAN, broadcast Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011. Stephen C. FreeSoftwareImage (Image PNG, 993x665 pixels) Chick-Fil-A: Just When You Thought The Battle Had Flamed Out… While we here at The New Civil Rights Movement never did an official postmortem look at the whole Chick-Fil-A brouhaha, we certainly have covered the issue more (dozens upon dozens of articles) — and more in-depth — than any other site, including a piece I wrote that went viral over at The Huffington Post. Americans, sadly, have a bothersomely quick habit of forgetting — and fast. So, let me let you know that NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, is not forgetting, and neither are the other anti-gay organizations and hate groups. You see, the right finally found something they think unites them more than “liberty,” “religious freedom,” or even their shared hatred of “Barack Hussein Obama.” No, it’s not racism, although I wouldn’t yet rule that out in the radical right wings.
NOM just moments ago announced they’re extending the Mike Huckabee inspired Support Chick-Fil-A Day into “Chick-Fil-A Wednesdays.” So writes NOM President Brian Brown in his latest fundraising email. Friends: