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For years Non-Indians living or working on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington State have been beyond the reach of The Tribal Law Enforcement Agency- that has changed and for some reason it’s created a problem with Non-Tribal Members.
I wonder why?
Published: Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Tribal police to gain power to arrest non-Indians
By Diana Hefly Herald Writer
 
TULALIP — Tulalip [...]

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“I think it is criminal that we ( writers ) are not permitted to make dramatic note of social evils that exist, of controversial themes as they are inherent in our society.”
Rod Serling
Last year I was faced with a decision- post a Press Release on my blog about I.C.E. Agents making an appearance in Lynnwood, Washington or use the Press Release as the [...]

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The men who attached the picture at the bottom of this post to an e-mail as a joke are not sitting in a basement lined with tin foil -
they don’t visit sites like:
CTRL Forums where nobody knows your name
and
they don’t listen to The Conspiracy Channel On Line.
No, the people who passed this picture along via the Internet are NOT sitting [...]

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Barack Obama Speech
As Prepared for Delivery…
Philadelphia 
3-18-08 

“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.” 
Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy.  Farmers and scholars; statesmen [...]

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The Girl With The Man’s Name
and her son
Who Could Be Our Next President
 from the Seattle Times, Seattle Washington:

 
Stanley Dunham, in a Mercer Island High annual.

Memories of Obama’s mother
By Nicole Brodeur
Seattle Times staff columnist
This is going to sound strange, Maxine Box says, but 50 years later, she can’t forget it:
Barack Obama’s mother used to crack her [...]

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  It’s a fine speech and worth reading.
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama: The Great Need of the Hour
Atlanta, GA | January 20, 2008

http://my.barackobama.com/KingChurch
The Scripture tells us that when Joshua and the Israelites arrived at the gates of Jericho, they could not enter. The walls of the city were too steep for any one person to climb; [...]

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It’s been one of those weeks,
you know
one of those weeks.
Here’s the deal-
This guy puts up a billboard and spews hate filled bile from it
every chance he gets.
What he does has been called
” thought Provoking “
The only thing that billboard provokes in me is the urge to do some serious
Projectile Vomiting.
And in case your curious- yes [...]

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Not only do I write, I can bake a mean enchilada and fry a sinfully good lumpia on top of that I can do other things like work on Human Rights Issues.
This news article is from the Everett Herald here in Washington state and this story is about an Ordinance that I’m proud to say I’m helping [...]

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Lynnwood Activists Gather In Support the LGBT Community As
Hate-Group Holds Conference in Lynnwood, Washington

The Watchmen on the Wall are an international anti-gay extremist group who are meeting October 19-21 at the Lynnwood Convention Center. The Watchmen are popular among Christian fundamentalists and Russian-speaking evangelicals from the former Soviet Union. Members have been increasingly active in several West-coast [...]

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Hi God,
Something Strange and Mysterious has happened
and I’m
chalking it up to  your
Godly Powers.
Either that or you’re drinking again….
but we’ll get to that later.
Anyway, here’s the skinny: 
Over the last few weeks Irregular Bones has gone from an
on-line
 journal
where I write about my cats and my friends and family and head hunters and civil rights and
homeless people and what my [...]

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