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My good friend called me last night, very agitated and shocked and scared.
She was in the Trolley Square Mall during last night’s shooting there. She literally ran for her life.
I had just heard about the shooting prior to her call as I saw it come across the newswire.
This was a horrible event. It’s only blocks from where I teach. I am sitting at my desk where I teach listening to the helicopters circle overhead.
I am thankful my friend is safe. I am anxious to learn more about the casualties and about the motive of the gunman.
Utah News
Mall massacre: Gunman at Trolley Square kills 5, wounds others before he’s slain
Night of terror at Trolley Square: Gunman casually fired as scared shoppers hid
Daily Herald
Gunman Opens Fire at Trolley Square; Six Dead
Witness: ‘We Heard Shot After Shot After Shot’
Six Dead, Including Man Who Sprayed Mall With Gunfire
Posts from Out of State News
Google News
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This is my green sister, Nan Garrett, who was going to run for President in 2008 but had to choose between her job and campaigning. Survival won.
Here is her Green Party respsonse to the State of the Union:
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Tagged corporate corruption, Green Party, healthcare, peace, politics, social justice, war
I am cautiously optimistic after seeing this in today’s news: Abortion bill opposed: 52% don’t support spending millions on Roe challenge
According to a poll conducted by the Deseret News, a little over half of those polled do not want to spend money on this issue. I am optimistic because it means that folks are thinking now about what the government should be spending money on:
Services and Programs, not personal and moral issues. It’s o.k. not to believe in abortion. It’s not o.k. to spend millions of dollars taking away a woman’s right to have one.
If you read the entire article, you will see that there are lawmakers who won’t stop, though and that there are people stepping forward with tons of money to see that the bill goes through and that ensuing litigation is funded.
Where are these people with this money for food for the starving and healthcare for the poor?
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Tagged healthcare, politics, Utah, women's issues, women's rights
While I could list many items in each category (see my previous posts during the 2007 Utah legislative session), I have chosen one in each for this past legislative week:
HIT
Utah House committee unanimously opposes Nevada test
Readers of my blog know my position on the Divine Strake Test. This is a very positive move by our legislators to oppose this test. Even military supporters are opposing the test.
MISS
Stadium plan is Real as it gets: State sets aside $35M for Sandy soccer facility
While Utah citizens continue to not be able to afford healthcare, work for poverty level wages, and our educational system needs continued funding to improve its system, our state legislators devote millions of dollars to recreation that only the rich can afford.
Fourth Substitute HB 236 STUDENT CLUB AMENDMENTS will be heard by the Senate Health & Human Services Committee TOMORROW (2/9/2007).
They will decide what version goes to the Senate Floor for a vote!
Here’s what we need you to do:
1: Get informed. The choice will be between a bill that just requires parental permission to join a club (like 3rd Substitute) or a 16 page list of requirements, regulations, and restrictions on every club (like 4th Substitute).
The Third Substitute was approved by the House of Representatives in a vote of 72 to 3.
2. Contact the Senators on the Health & Human Services Committee. Ask them to support parental consent without burdening students, teachers, and clubs.Ask them to support Third Substitute HB 236 and Oppose Fourth Substitute HB 236.
Sen. Peter C. Knudson pknudson@utahsenate.org 
(435) 723-2035
Sen. Scott D. McCoy smccoy@utahsenate.org (801) 359-2544
Sen. Allen M. Christensen achristensen@utahsenate.org (801) 782-5600
Sen. Brent H. Goodfellow bgoodfellow@utahsenate.org (801) 968-0626
A sample email could be:
Dear Senator Knudson (or McCoy, or Christensen, or Goodfellow),
I am writing to express my support of the Third Substitute to HB236 School Clubs Amendments sponsored by Representative Wyatt and my opposition to the Fourth Substitute sponsored by Senator Buttars.
I believe parents have a right to know what clubs their children are participating in. Third Substitute HB 236 will encourage parental involvement without burdening clubs with extensive application and reporting requirements. The Fourth Substitute to HB 236 was drafted to prevent gay straight alliances but will end up discouraging all students from forming clubs.
Will you please support the Third Substitute to HB236 and pass it out favorably instead of the Fourth Substitute?
Regards,
Your Name
3. Come to the Senate Health & Human Services Committee Meeting. The Senators will meet in the West Office Building in room W020 at 3:00 pm on Friday, February 9. HB 236 is the second item on the agenda.
Orrin Hatch is now claiming that more troops are needed in Iraq because of the “failed” preparation for war in the first place.
Huh?
“I am supporting a strategy for success,” Hatch, R-Utah, said on the Senate floor Wednesday.
Of course he means the strategy for success to gain control all the oil in Iraq.
“So far, President Bush — who has a lot to answer for the mistakes that have been made”
What he is referring to is the mistake of not gaining control of the oil in the first place.
— is offering the only way to try to leave Iraq in better shape than it is now.”
He means that it will be better to have more control of the oil fields.
Strategy for “success”? “Success” will be achieved through the immediate withdrawl of U.S. troops so that Iraq can deal with its own issues and no more troops are killed in this illegal occupation of a country we had no business bombing in the first place.
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Tagged Activism, government corruption, iraq war, military, politics, Utah
BE SURE TO WATCH THIS STUNNING VIDEO and account of delivery of email comments that overloaded the government’s computers so channel 4 decided to deliver them. Watch and listen to the resistance they confronted and the statement by channel 4.
Channel 4, KUDOS!!
Re: Divine Strake
THIS IS PERHAPS THE GUTSIEST, MOST DARING, BRAVE THING ANYONE IN THE MEDIA HAS EVER DONE FOR DIVINE STRAKE.
Go to http://www.abc4.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoID=59263
or http://www.abc4.com and click on the video for the story ‘ ABC 4 hand delivers viewers comments to the Department of Energy in Las Vegas ‘ that includes a moving commentary from Terry Wood, a 40-year veteran journalist.
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PASS THIS ALONG. SEND IT TO YOUR FRIENDS. STOPDIVINESTRAKE.COM IS GETTING HUNDREDS OF HITS PER HOUR FROM SALT LAKE CITIZENS WHO ARE REACTING TO THIS AMAZING PIECE OF JOURNALISM. VIEW THE NEWS SEGMENT IN ENTIRETY AND PASS ALONG WIDELY.
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Andrew at StopDivineStrake.com
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Tagged divine strake, environment, indigenous issues, nuclear issues, Utah
It’s bad enough that the men of our legislature are making decisions regarding women’s reproductive choices for women of our state. Now they are continuing to “put women in their place” by preventing them from other health care needs.
A House Committee killed a bill for healthcare that would potentially prevent a fatal form of cancer in women.
HB358 would have given the Utah Department of Health $1 million to educate females about cervical cancer and immunize girls and young women against it with the new Gardasil vaccine. Bill sponsor Rep. Karen Morgan, D-Cottonwood Heights, said she thought the bill would pass out of the House Health and Human Services Committee.
“Many people are afraid of something new,” she said. “I think these are individuals who are against immunization altogether. But this is the first vaccine to protect against cancer.”
Upon reading the article, it is clear that conservative lobbyists in this state have had influence over the death of this bill because heaven forbid we provide any kind of education on health care to young girls and teenagers.
They might learn something and that would be (gasp!)unthinkable.
So women of Utah remember your place.
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Tagged healthcare, politics, Utah, women's issues, women's rights
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 