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Meet Your Congress

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Wanna put a face to Congress? Check this out:

http://www.opencongress.org/roll_call/all

And for some quick insight into the diversity represented in our political hot seats, scroll through the Senators list until you get to the only non-Caucasian person in the mix, Republican Senator Tim Scott from South Carolina.

Yes, that’s right. There is only 1 person in our US Senate right now that ISN’T white.

Welcome to the land of freedom and equality.

I Want MORE, Uncle Sam

I Want MORE, Uncle Sam (Photo credit: KAZVorpal)

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Rabbits to You!

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The Museum of Jurassic Technology

The Museum of Jurassic Technology (Photo credit: ellenm1)

Tired of making shadow puppets on the wall all by yourself? You could always try poetry:

Look, they are there, pinned to the wall

The only way out is to say Rabbits to you

Hare hare hare

This is an excerpt from fantasy blogger Lauren’s poem based on her experience visiting the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City.

You can check our her blog at: http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2478672/1/Rabbits_to_You_Exhibit

And if you haven’t been to the Museum of Jurassic Technology, then best get to it. Be sure to enjoy the Russian Tea Room.

Corruption Around the World

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Corruption is everywhere.

Turkish Protests

In Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkish protestors are being attacked by police authorities in much the same fashion as those involved in the recent Occupy protests. What began as a small and peaceful stand against the tearing down of a community park to put in a shopping mall, has turned into a violent police crack down.

Why is it that those very agencies supposedly committed to protecting its citizens are instead dousing them with tear gas, water bombs and general brute force?

Check out the Hollywood Fringe Festival’s show “A Letter from a Dying Soldier” for further insights into the current state of global hypocrisy. Tickets and info:

http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/1393

 

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Tomas Young

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I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives. I am one of those gravely wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care.

I write this letter on behalf of husbands and wives who have lost spouses, on behalf of children who have lost a parent, on behalf of the fathers and mothers who have lost sons and daughters and on behalf of those who care for the many thousands of my fellow veterans who have brain injuries. I write this letter on behalf of those veterans whose trauma and self-revulsion for what they have witnessed, endured and done in Iraq have led to suicide and on behalf of the active-duty soldiers and Marines who commit, on average, a suicide a day. I write this letter on behalf of the some one million Iraqi dead and on behalf of the countless Iraqi wounded. I write this letter on behalf of us all – the human detritus your war has left behind, those who will spend their lives in unending pain and grief.

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Letter from a Dying Soldier

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Rabbits 2 U Productions proudly presents “A Message from a Dying Soldier,” a solo performance by Brian Allman. This piece is inspired by Tomas Young’s final letter to George Bush and Dick Cheney on the 10th Anniversary of the Iraq War.

Tickets and info: http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/1393

Fringe Festival

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