Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres
P.O. Box 2247
New York, NY 10116-2247
(888) 392-0392
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org
Or, just go to the Apple website at http://www.apple.com/give/ and donate through one of the Charities they have linked to – or, you can even donate through the Itunes Music Store!
Revised Jan 4th, 2005 by Heather
the problem I reported Dec 29th with Domain Routing for Doctors Without Borders has apparently been fixed!
I have recently turned off UNREGISTERED comments to this site due to abuse by Comment Spammers.
Many weblogs have been hit by a plague of spammers trying to post “Spam comments”, that is, comments that are mostly links to sites offering goods and services that no one here is interested in. Comments to this website do not get seen by the public until I approve them, and frankly, I’m never going to approve so-called comments that are just full of links to casinos, poker-sites and various “medical” vendors.
Copied from RuPaul’s weblog
These remarks were made by Bill Moyers on receiving an award at the
7th Annual Walter Cronkite Faith & Freedom Award Gala,
October 20, 2004 at the Palace Hotel in New York city.
Dec 1st is traditionally World Aids Day. May I make a gentle suggestion that today would be a great day to make a donation to AmFAR
(the American Foundation for AIDS Research – a non-profit). Or make a donation to AEGIS – the AIDS Education Global Information System. Sister Mary Elizabeth has been doing this good work for many years and can always use a bit of help!
What a great night!
Last week Emma noticed that the California Guitar Trio were scheduled to play at Jammin’ Java, a local coffeehouse (in Vienna, VA) on Nov 10th. We don’t usually do weeknight concerts as I get up for work at 5am, but with the Veterans Day holiday on Nov 11th, it was very possible. I bought tickets online, and we were in a short line at 7PM.
The show started around 7:40 with Bert Lam playing a number of classical pieces (I believe Bach – but I ccouldn’t tell you the names). Gorgeous stuff beautifully played.
Next up was Tom Griesgraber, an amazing artist, playing a 12 string Chapman Stick. Follow the link for more info about Tom and his music, or about the Chapman stick in general. Tom put on a fine show, moving the hammered string style of the stick with a number of live loopings a la Frippertronics – great stuff! We bought his CD afterwards
But the real joy was the CGT. I’ve been a fan of their stuff since I heard “Train from Lamy Suite” on a DGM sampler in the 90s … but I’ve missed them for one reason or another everytime they’ve been in town.
But we had great seats, and they played fantastic! Some old stuff (even “Lamy Suite”!), and some new stuff off their new Whitewater CD.
They played for 2 hours without a break, even an accoutic number, then came back for a 2 song encore including Bohemian Rhapsody with the audience doing a sing-a-long as they played.
At the end, Hideyo took pictures of the audience for the “RoadCam” part of his diary. Emma and I are center of the picture (with Mark and JD) at the table 1 row back from the front. A real fun night!
After the final debate last week, Gina writes of the 1049 Rights afforded to straight married couples that are denied to Gay and lesbian couples who would seek to marry, if only it were “allowed”.
http://scribbling.net/1049-federal-rights-depend-on-marital-status
She mentions the Government Accounting Office Jan 1997 Letter from Henry Hyde listing the specific rights that marriage brings. http://www.gao.gov/archive/1997/og97016.pdf
Her story is so close to home! Emma and I moved in together over the Thanksgiving weekend, 8 years ago. We bought a home together August 1, 2000. We would share insurance, car registrations and all the rest, if it wasn’t denied to us. We have gotten our wills done, had all kinds of external legal documents done, just in case one of us has an accident or dies. Yet we still won’t be able to share social security benefits and many of the other “priviledges” granted to couples that are “approved by the state”.
Here is a state-by-state list of irregularities
http://www.votersunite.org/electionproblems.asp?offset=0&catid=&showall=&sort=
PST! There is more than just a few stories digging into the rumours of Election Fraud. Here is a huge list of Election Vote Irregularities courtesy of Shaula Evans She says:
I just fell into a goldmine. Here are more links for whoever wants them:
are you getting the picture yet…
And finally, from the “We told you so” files, A technical look at how they can steal it
Evidence mounts that the recent US Presidential Election was hacked (Thanks, Grant!)
All the time the Diebold machines were being moved into position for the eVote initiative – to "help" avoid the issues of the 2000 Presidential election, and these machines have no internal printer, there is no paper trail, no way to check if the vote you think you entered was actually recorded that way. Check the " eVoting Fraud" link in the links sidebar for more info.
Now another source arises with specifics on questionable number from the 2004 voting … see
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4175
Also see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/ 2004/11/05/politics1149EST0515.DTL
Here are some charts that compare voter registrations with votes received in Florida.
There are ways to have accountability.
You can have voting machines that when you vote they printout a receipt card that is human and machine readable – you can read it visually to confirm it recorded what you voted, then you slip it
into a scanner device that reads it and does the tallying. The receipt cards never leave the poll, so they are there if a recount is needed.