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Stormy,

do you have an account at Daily Kos? If so would you be willing to crosspost?

To my knowledge this has not been covered there, which of course is unfortunate.  This is an issue that needs to be raised.

Or if you don't mind, would it be ok if I take some of what you've written here and post it there?


And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Thu Feb 8th, 2007 at 08:09:53 AM EST
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Hey, be my guest.  The more people know about this, the better.

I have a DKos account but haven't used it in over a year.   Everything I ever wrote over there (not that it was much) just sank like a stone, so since you probably get a lot more traction there than me, it's probably better if you post it.  We need this to get noticed.

by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Thu Feb 8th, 2007 at 09:53:13 AM EST
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I just posted on this over at Kos.

I put my own touch on it.  

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Thu Feb 8th, 2007 at 10:14:00 AM EST
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Nicely done, angling it to the US & Kos audience.  I thought of that song too.  I think everybody probably does when this issue comes up...
by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Thu Feb 8th, 2007 at 11:23:59 AM EST
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Sting has aged tastefully, others have not and he's got a great collection of songs.

I was looking at your user page over at Kos, and it said your an American living elsewhere.  I thought you were from South Africa?

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Thu Feb 8th, 2007 at 12:46:36 PM EST
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Nope, I'm American, but I used to live in SA.  I haven't lived in the States since the Clinton administration.  When Bush was first (s)elected, I made these jokes with my family that I wouldn't move back till we got a better president.  But then they stopped really being jokes....
by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Thu Feb 8th, 2007 at 01:00:43 PM EST
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It looks like it needs to be raised in Canada too. :(

I did a quick scan of the local newspapers. The big headline is how we have about 4,400 handicaped parking permits issued to people 100 years old and over, but only 1,100 people 100 years old or older in Ontario. Didn't see any mention of the treaty on the front page. I mean - really we got far more important things to worry about! [/snark]

That includes:

Toronto Star
Globe and Mail
Toronto Sun

and didn't see anything at www.cbc.ca.


aspiring to genteel poverty

by edwin (eeeeeeee222222rrrrreeeeeaaaaadddddd@@@@yyyyaaaaaaa) on Thu Feb 8th, 2007 at 04:04:03 PM EST
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