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Dalai Lama Recovering

Recovering Dalai Lama to leave India hospital soon: aide

Sat Oct 11, 4:24 PM ET

NEW DELHI (AFP) – Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama is in a stable condition after surgery in India to remove gallstones and is likely to be discharged early next week, hospital officials and an aide said Saturday.

The Buddhist leader, 73, had the keyhole procedure in New Delhi on Friday, a day after he was hospitalised for medical tests after suffering abdominal pain.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081011/en_afp/indiatibetdalaihealth_081011202427

Arlington and Nacogdoches Meetings on TDP Primary/Caucus System Oct 17 and 18

October 12, 2008 by End the Texas Two Step   
Filed under Blog

 Democrats in the Dallas-Fort Worth area will have the opportunity to participate in an Advisory Committee Hearing on the Primary/Caucus system this Friday in Arlington at the Maverick Activities Center (MAC) at UT Arlington on October 17, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. The address is 500 W. Nedderman Street
Arlington, TX 76013.

A second meeting is scheduled for Nacogdoches on Saturday, October 18, at 9 am at Stephen F. Austin State University Twilight Ball Room in the Baker Patillo Student Center. The address is 1936 North St in
Nacogdoches.

The meeting in Houston that was canceled because of Hurricane Ike has not yet been rescheduled.

Additional hearings will be held in the following cities:

October 17, 2008

Arlington, TX

Maverick Activities Center (MAC) at UT Arlington (500 W. Nedderman Street

Arlington, TX 76013)

9 a.m.

October 18, 2008

Nacogdoches, TX

Stephen F. Austin State University Twilight Ball Room in the Baker Patillo Student Center. (at 1936 North St

Nacogdoches, TX)

9 a.m.

November 8, 2008

Lubbock, TX

 

9 a.m.

November 14, 2008

Austin, TX

 

9 a.m.

Locations and times will be featured on this page as more information becomes available.

http://changethecaucus.org

I Own My Vote, PUMA, The Denver Group, Just Say No Deal

SD’s Native American Day

It was just May 30th, 2008, that 22 SD tribal leaders endorsed Senator Clinton. The Argus argreed with that sentiment. Obama was elsewhere, inferring that Clinton was somehow promulgating his assassination, when she discussed RFK’s death. Continue Reading »

Monday Ketchup 081013

An interesting article on the equal pay issue. The diagrams show clearly just how much our overall wages haven’t changed, and women still make less: Continue Reading »

The IHT philosophizes on what brought on the melamine scandal. Continue Reading »

What the DNC Created:

What Sugar said:

John Lewis Should Be ASHAMED of Himself

I’m pretty much at a loss for words regarding the news that Georgia Congressman, and civil rights icon John Lewis said this about John McCain:

http://sugarnspice.typepad.com/sugar_n_spicea_meeting_pl/2008/10/john-lewis-shou.html?cid=134399899#comment-134399899

Those of you who are old enough have been through this before. I say to you it’s time again. We must do it!

If we want to immediately slow climate change, if we want to reduce cost, if we want to know how we can impact the War on Terror (ism) if we want more control over our economy, we must do it! In my daily life, I see some that have already personally made this commitment. I acknowledge and applaud those efforts! However, we now need a national approach!

WE NEED A NATIONAL MANDATE TO REDUCE DRIVING SPEED!

Representative Jackie Speier (CA, D) introduced a speed limit law as her first sponsored bill, upon her arrival to Congress this year. Continue Reading »

Hong Kong – Melamine

Hong Kong has now reported six children ill: Continue Reading »

We are half way through “Domestic Violence Awareness Month”. Give a thought to how our current economic crisis will affect fragile and dangerous conditions for battered humans. Donate a phone or car, get involved. Continue Reading »

The Branchflower report is completed and released. It’s a PDF, at around 2 MB, 263 pages, and it takes around 5 minutes download on dial up. See the link below for the scoop and lots of other supporting links. Continue Reading »