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The Barack Obama supporters will be having their first local meeting at Evergreen tomorrow (March 11th) at 4PM in the TESC Library building, Room 4300.

I'll try to be there to see if the "history in the making" is "Gary Hart" history, or "John Kennedy" history.  I have to admit I'm intrigued by Obama, and think that someone with little beltway experience might be just what's needed in our country right now.

Cosmo

Protesting is not for everyone. Citizens who feel the war is illegal and unjust should certainly speak out against it. Appealing to moderate audiences is important, and that means behaving calmly and speaking softly but having forceful arguments. If people like surfing the net, I would suggest engaging in and debating about the issues in forums and blogs. That's where a lot of learning and  personal transformation takes place. It's been my experience.

Citizen’s Injunction and Resolution to Halt the Shipment 

of Military Weapons to Iraq

Whereas:

The occupation of Iraq is contrary to the rule of law inasmuch as:

- It defies agreements that expressly prohibit the belligerent and aggressive invasion of a sovereign nation,

and

Sen. Dan Swecker, R-Rochester, recalled his days as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, dealing with three radios and various guns and rockets, all while under enemy fire.

''None of that was as distracting as talking on a hand-held cell phone on the freeway,'' he said.

What was the Federal Appeals Court thinking!?

Don't they now realize that all of the criminals will start acting violent and killing people now?

Listen to those idiots in black robes:

But the judges in the majority held that the phrase "people" is well understood in constitutional law to refer to individuals -- and that the first clause was an explanation of the major purpose of the second clause, not a limitation on it.

"We ... take it as an expression of the drafters' view that the people possessed a natural right to keep and bear arms, and that the preservation of the militia was the right's most salient political benefit -- and thus the most appropriate to express in a political document," the ruling said.

“It seems passing strange,” Judge Laurence H. Silberman wrote for the majority, “that the able lawyers and statesmen in the First Congress (including James Madison) would have expressed a sole concern for state militias with the language of the Second Amendment. Surely there was a more direct locution, such as ‘Congress shall make no law disarming the state militias’ or ‘states have a right to a well-regulated militia.’ ”

Well I, for one, will not stand for this! Washington DC has worked HARD to only be number 4 on top ten most dangerous cities with populations of 500,000 or more.

It just made me sick to read this:

The case decided yesterday was brought by Dick Heller, a guard at the Federal Judicial Center who was permitted to carry a gun on duty and wanted to keep one at home. His application was denied by officials in the District of Columbia.