WGLB epilogue

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Friday January 02, 2015 · 1:26 PM PST

2015/01/02 · 13:26

Once upon a time; long, long ago; in a very different country, there were a bunch of rabble-rousing GLBT activists who gathered on friday afternoons and took on the establishment, and helped change things.

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Sunday February 20, 2011 · 12:10 PM PST

2011/02/20 · 12:10

Long tough winter got you down? Itching to get out and play in the sunshine and the dirt? Here's a tale on how I spent my last three summer vacations in Boston's lovely and historic South End. First a little background and history-

What are community gardens?

Community gardens are dedicated urban green areas set aside to provide residents access to fresh produce, plants and flowers as well as access to satisfying labor, neighborhood improvement, sense of community and connection to the environment. They are publicly functioning in terms of ownership, access, and management, as well as typically owned in trust by local governments or not for profit associations.

A city’s community gardens can be as diverse as its communities of gardeners. Some choose to solely grow flowers, others are nurtured communally and their bounty shared, some have individual plots for personal use, while others are equipped with raised beds for disabled gardeners. Community gardens improve users’ health and well being through increased fresh fruit and vegetable consumption and providing an outlet for fresh air and exercise. The gardens also combat two forms of alienation that plague modern urban life, by bringing urban gardeners closer in touch with the source of their food, and by breaking down isolation by creating a social community.

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Thursday September 30, 2010 · 11:13 AM PDT

2010/09/30 · 11:13

With just four weeks until the election, Republican Charles D. Baker has pulled even with Governor Deval Patrick in a gubernatorial race shaped by anti-incumbent sentiment and unusually high excitement among Republican voters, according to a new Boston Globe poll.

The poll results also suggest that independent Timothy P. Cahill is pulling voters equally from Baker and Patrick, raising questions about the conventional political thinking that his candidacy is undercutting Baker’s chance to defeat the governor in the Nov. 2 election.

In the Globe poll, taken last week, Patrick, a Democrat, won support from 35 percent of likely voters, compared with 34 percent for Baker, a statistical tie given the poll’s margin of error. Cahill, the state treasurer who left the Democratic Party last year, continued to lag far behind with 11 percent. Green-Rainbow candidate Jill Stein got 4 percent, and 14 percent said they remain undecided.

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Sunday September 26, 2010 · 8:41 AM PDT

2010/09/26 · 08:41

With just five weeks to the election, Republican Charles D. Baker has pulled even with Governor Deval Patrick in a gubernatorial race shaped by anti-incumbent sentiment and unusually high excitement among Republican voters, according to a new Boston Globe poll.

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Tuesday September 07, 2010 · 4:30 PM PDT

2010/09/07 · 16:30

Deval Patrick (born July 31, 1956) is the 71st Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A member of the Democratic Party, Patrick served as United States Assistant Attorney General under President Bill Clinton. He is the first African American to hold the office of Massachusetts governor.
Patrick was born on the South Side of Chicago, where his family resided in a two-bedroom apartment in Robert Taylor Homes housing projects. Patrick had a strained relationship with his father and was raised by his mother, who traces her roots to American slaves in the American South.
While Patrick was in middle school, one of his teachers referred him to A Better Chance, a national non-profit organization for identifying, recruiting and developing leaders among academically gifted students of African American descent, which enabled him to attend Milton Academy. Patrick graduated from Milton Academy in 1974 and from Harvard College in 1978. He then spent a year working with the UN in Africa. In 1979, Patrick returned to the US and enrolled at Harvard Law School. While in law school, Patrick was elected president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, where he first worked defending poor families in Middlesex County, MA.

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Wednesday January 20, 2010 · 12:43 PM PST

2010/01/20 · 12:43

Yes, we got our asses whooped! Progressives worked hard to get the vote out, and pumped money into the election but we still got our butts kicked. Why?

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Friday February 22, 2008 · 2:11 PM PST

2008/02/22 · 14:11

Obama's success has been so inspirational to so many people this election season. I actually started to feel people in this country had turned a corner on racial relations, and then I made the mistake of looking in on the Hidden Comments Tools here at Kos. Damn! I thought I was old enough to no longer allow this stuff to upset me so much. I guess I was wrong. One commenter with a few entries listed there just knocked the wind out of me.

I came to Boston 20 or so years ago from graduate school with quite a few reservations, having seen some of the racial tensions in the city play themselves out on national news a couple of decades earlier regarding school busing/desegregation. I wasn't sure what to expect when I got here in '88. The Clinton years accomplished a great deal in the race relations area with his focus on bringing people together and addressing racial/economic justice issues. (Perhaps his greatest achievement was providing a place at the table for minorities for the first time in more than a decade.)

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Thursday January 24, 2008 · 11:55 AM PST

2008/01/24 · 11:55

An estimated 2700 square miles of forest was cleared between august and december of 2007 by Brazil's cattle and soy industries. AP reports a 30% increase in these numbers over the same period for 2006.

SAO PAULO, Brazil - The rate of Amazon deforestation rose sharply during the last five months of 2007 as land was cleared for soy and cattle, prompting a top-level emergency meeting Thursday by government officials to deal with the problem.

from AP.

Last year Brazil cited a drop in Amazon deforestation, but the new statistics indicate that this trend has been reversed. Most of last year's destruction was concentrated in the three Amazon regions of Mato Grosso, Para and Rondonia. Mato Grosso is the center of Brazil's soy industry, and is second only to the United States for soy production. Jungle is typically cleared in the Amazon to provide pasture for cattle, later soy farmers move in and cultivate their crops. Brazil also has a booming beef export industry, and cattle ranchers have been expanding their operations in the Amazon.

more below.

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Friday January 18, 2008 · 9:31 AM PST

2008/01/18 · 09:31

Are you sick of all the attack diaries by the various primary candidate's surrogates on Daily Kos? Are you sick of the primaries in general yet? You aren't alone.

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Nativity Story vs Jurassic Park

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Wednesday December 20, 2006 · 11:53 AM PST

2006/12/20 · 11:53

Remember that great feminist anthem of the mid-80's "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves" sung by the incomparable Annie Lennox accompanied by the ageless diva Aretha Franklin? Well this story from the London zoo adds a seasonal twist to that self-reliant credo of modern feminism.

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Flora, a pregnant Komodo dragon living in a British zoo, is expecting eight babies in what scientists said on Wednesday could be a Christmas virgin birth. Flora has never mated, or even mixed, with a male dragon, and fertilized all the eggs herself, a process culminating in parthenogenesis, or virgin birth. Other lizards do this, but scientists only recently found that Komodo dragons do too.

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Monday December 11, 2006 · 9:59 PM PST

2006/12/11 · 21:59

Paul Barnes, founding pastor of the 2,100-member Grace Chapel in Englewood CO, a Denver suburb, told his evangelical congregation in a videotaped message he had had sexual relations with other men. What is it with these evangelicals storming out of the closet all of a sudden? Details below the fold...

see- http://news.yahoo.com/...

also see- http://www.theage.com.au/... ----although this article lists his church incorrectly at Englewood CA.

The Denver Post reports that Barnes wasn't active in supporting the CO gay marriage ban...

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Thursday November 09, 2006 · 3:26 PM PST

2006/11/09 · 15:26

Less than 24 hours after being outed on the Larry King Show by Bill Maher, Ken Mehlman has decided to retire from RNC chair position. The Maher segment was later editted out by CNN.

ABC News reports- Two republican sources close to Ken Mehlman tell ABC News that the RNC chairman does not plan to seek another term in january. At this point it is just a banner running on the top of ABC News web page.... http://abcnews.go.com/

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WGLB epilogue

Adventures in Community Gardening in Boston's South End.

WGLB - Even here in MA this BS sells? (MA-Gov)

WGLB asks WTF MA? Even here the BS sells?

WGLB presents a Truly Fierce GLBT Advocate, Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts.

The perspective from a Beantown progressive-

I mistakenly thought we were making progress.

Deforestation of Brazil's Amazon Continues Unabated

Take All 'Primary' Diaries Off the Recommended Diaries List

Nativity Story vs Jurassic Park

Another Evangelical Closet door busted down.

Ken Mehlman leaving RNC chairmanship...