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Subject: Support the EPA's Stand Against Big Oil and Coal

Dear SG Friends,

Last month, CREDO had a big victory on carbon regulation: On April 17, EPA formally declared carbon dioxide and five other heat-trapping gases to be pollutants that endanger public health and welfare, setting in motion a process that will lead to the regulation of the gases for the first time in the...
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Subject: Tell Chevron: Fire the lawyer behind Bush torture.

Dear SG Friends,

President Obama says it's up to Attorney General Holder whether to prosecute the individuals responsible for the Bush administration's torture policies. One of the top names on Holder's list should be William J. Haynes II.

As General Counsel for the Pentagon under Donald Rumsfeld, Haynes authored the legal strategy for some of the...
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Subject: Whose side are we on in Afghanistan?

Dear SG Friends,

In March, the elected government of Afghanistan, including its nominally more culturally liberal president, passed a law that gives Shiite men the right to demand sex from their wives once every four days -- essentially legalizing the marital rape of Shiite women.

On April 15, a few hundred Shiite women bravely gathered to protest...
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Subject: Tell Pesticide Peddlers: We support Michelle Obama's organic garden.



Hello friends and family who like delicious foods and healthy gardens! Guess what:



The Mid America Crop Life Association (MACA) has a bone to pick with Michelle Obama. MACA represents chemical companies that produce pesticides, and they are angry that - wait for it - Michelle Obama isn't using chemicals in her organic garden at...
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Will Kerlikowske help get U.S. a rational drug policy?
By JOEL CONNELLY
SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF

A fragrance may be in the air when the U.S. Senate takes up nomination of Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske to become the Obama administration's drug czar.

It won't be the bad odor of scandal or tax problems, but the sweet smell of Seattle Hempfest, which draws more than 75,000 people...
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Who's the "Nattering Nabobs Now?"

Current mood: disgusted

Category: News and Politics

Hey, all I want to say is, "Get on the bus, Gus..." You were given the last Eight Years to show us what you could do, and it's time for the Republican Minority and their negative-leaning Blue Dog Democrats to get behind President Obama in one of the most important, history-defining moments of...
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"Heaven".

An old man and his dog were walking along a country road, enjoying the scenery, when it suddenly occurred to the man that he had died. He remembered dying, and realized, too, that the dog had been dead for many years. He wondered where the road would lead them, and continued onward.

After a while, they came to a high, white stone wall along...
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revelation = Barack Obama is the realization of Rev Martin Luther King Jr's "DREAM"!!!!
wow! this is truly the BEST MLK Jr Day since the HORRIBLE Day he was offed by the wicked forces of hatred!

" Champagne for my real friends,
Real pain for my sham friends. "
...Tom Waits.