Confessions of a Would-Be Teenage Clinic Bomber, part IV-finis

...re waiting!-- (I didn't vote at all, in 2000; which was Voting Prolife, for me, at that point, as close as I could get ..., listening to the then-Secretary of State sharpening our national saber against Iraq on the radio, wasn't my problem until I knew exactly how badly... we use pens here, but there is a symbolism in the lever voting metaphor that doesn't come with 'filling in the bubble,' quite.) ...

Burn Brightly: Guy Fawkes' Night

... 'politicised' when the Government announced the introduction of Identity Cards (though I suspect my opposition to the Iraq War may also have had a hand in that process), and when engaging in discussions about the issue .../ We need change in our society and we must learn from the lesson of North America: that voting someone in on a programme of 'change' won't necessarily work in our favour, if it ...

Voting! Challenge 026

... Sunday. My brother's in town from Iraq so I have been doing a lot of...m behind pretty much everywhere. He was in Iraq for one year and leaves in two weeks... did a great job with these photos. Voting will be tough! Same rules apply, but ...your top three choices in order of preference. Voting is WEIGHTED. (ex: 1, 2, 3) ... one icon that is the BEST CROP --Voting will last until MONDAY evening. 1 2...

... father would be killed in Iraq. The setting for Jones' searing ... of "listening to God" and voting against the House resolution in ... those treating the wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, he said. "The ... care of those veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan with traumatic brain ...Jones' tangles with Bush over Iraq have prompted House Democratic leaders...already served there or in Iraq? How many are being held...

The Off Season Election

...many of my classes for not voting to just up and skip voting...with some sort of electronic super voting machine. Always the production, coming in...Then it was found by the voting attendant that was half asleep. ...full of excitement... Upon approaching the voting hall, I noticed the slogan "...ever seen or that while the Iraq war wasn't started under ... way in hell I was voting for Clinton. So this election ...

Republican Women Senators Vote in Support of Al Franken’s Anti-Rape Amendment by Alison

... this amendment is absolutely horrific. In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones, a young American woman working in Iraq, was drugged and gang raped by her coworkers at KBR. KBR is a defense contractor and at ... bring their case to court. It passed by a 68-30 margin with nine Republicans joining each voting Democrat. All four Republican women crossed party lines and voted in favor of the amendment: Susan Collins...

SPN/Dark Angel AU crossover: Prodigal

...and Sammy screaming in his crib and this smell in the air – Dad was a Marine, did two tours in Iraq, said the smell was chemical, and he knew the place was going up. I don’t know how he ... of which was that Normal was some kind of grand guru in Malia Obama’s grassroots movement to restore voting rights. Dean said he kind of thought Normal just went around telling everyone to get back to work. When ...

New York politics: vote no on Ballot Measure 2

...that requires voter assent.) I'm voting yes unless someone gives me a...For mayor, I think I'm voting for Thompson, but that's mostly voting against Bloomberg; he's gotten a little too sure he... of withdrawing all troops from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and "elsewhere"; abortion ... for. I will probably be voting for the Democrat for comptroller (... Jackson, so I'll be voting for him for reelection The ...

The Obamas' Marriage

...mostly skipped public events. When Barack spoke at the 2002 rally protesting the impending invasion of Iraq, now considered a pivotal moment of his career, his wife was not present. “I’...many people might aspire to; Hillary did not. As the campaign accelerated after the first voting contests, Michelle Obama went from headlining intimate campaign events to enormous ones. Television cameras appeared,...

News Clips

... of political and policy decisions, ranging from advising President Obama on Iraq and his Supreme Court pick to helping devise strategy on the ... remake, with only one Republican, Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, voting for the bill. He asked Sen. Grassley about her vote. "I ... for several reasons, and I don't know her reason for voting," Grassley responded. "But you want to remember one thing: She's ...