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 | Dan Savage says it all: My mother had pulmonary fibrosis, a degenerative lung condition, and we knew enough about the disease to know that dramatic turns for the worse were a possibility… But eight weeks before she wound up in a sprawling, dung-colored hospital in sprawling, dung-colored Tucson, my mother’s doctors had given her two to five years to live. … [I]t fell [...] My mother used this expression, and in the thirty-seven years since she died and in the nearly fifty-nine years I’ve lived in this marvelous Capitalist wonderland and paid my taxes and been screwed by insurance companies and given numerous banks their per centages and worked as many jobs as required to close the hole and hold firm the door against the wolf of [...] A 25-year Special Forces veteran, who allegedly was rejected from a job after they learned she was transgender, gets her day in court. “It’s been a bumpy road,” said Schroer after the trial, “but I’m glad I’m on it.” Diane Schroer stepped foot in court Tuesday in a discrimination lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on her behalf. The ACLU says [...] You set the table for this one, Dummy. And the Georgians are reaping what you have sown: Good morning. I’ve just received an update from my national security team on the situation in Georgia. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Tbilisi. She’s conferring with President Saakashvili and expressing America’s wholehearted support for Georgia’s democracy. … The United States and our allies stand [...] Or bin Laden’s? Or maybe Ahmadinejad’s? FALLUJAH, Iraq — At the western entrance to the Iraqi city of Fallujah Tuesday, Muamar Anad handed his residence badge to the U.S. Marines guarding the city. They checked to be sure that he was a city resident, and when they were done, Anad said, a Marine slipped a coin out of his pocket and put it [...] |      | ||||
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