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* "Parents protest as disabled childrens’ school faces closure :" http://minivannews.com/society/parents-protest-as-disabled-childrens-school-faces-closure-66060

* Melissa Harris-Perry on the Racism involved in how we see shootings of PoC vs. Whites:

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* Melissa Harris-Perry calls out Eric Cantor on his plan to starve children:

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* Breaking the Stigma around Mental Health:

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* "A Town Without Poverty?:" http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4100

* "All Hail Queen Cassidy!:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/09/all-hail-queen-cassidy.html

* " I Repeat: DADT Still Hasn't Died For Trans People:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/09/i-repeat-dadt-still-hasnt-died-for.html

* "Prop. 8 backers behind effort to repeal transgender law:" http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-prop-8-transgender-20130920,0,1385482.story

* "The Mormon mean streak isn't a bug, it's a feature:" http://americablog.com/2013/09/mormons-still-hateful-hawaii-gay-marriage.html

* I haven't said anything about Pope Francis' speech because that's all it is: speech with no change in doctrine attached. I don't hand out cookies for pretty speeches that change nothing. Apparently, I'm not the only one who feels that way. "Pope Frances has another PR Coup:" http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2013/09/pope-frances-has-another-pr-coup.html

* The Clutch:

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* There was an Al Shabaab attack on a Mall in Kenya Saturday, followed by a hostage situation that continued as I wrote this (Monday in Kenya, Sunday evening here). The Somali terrorists used guns and grenades. At least 68 were dead and 175 wounded as far as I can tell. Among the dead are members of the Kenyan President's family. The latest report I could find showed 10-15 terrorists still holding some hostages. As it was still ongoing as I wrote this, it may be out of date when you read it. Apologies.

* We have cut capital gains tax three times in six years but have only raised minimum eage three times in twenty years as part of our government's long term policy of making sure those born rich don't need to pay their share, those who work the hardest job be denied a living wage, and in hopes of raising wealth inequality to 19th century level in the hopes of permanently stratifying the class system. After all, the more wealth we suck out of the economy and into overseas bank accounts, the worse the economy will be for people who work for a living and the further the middle class will shrink, all major goals of Republican and moderate democratic economic policy.

* 1%ers vote to starve children and the working poor:

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* Dismantling the Philadelphia School System:

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* Slavery: Teaching it Wrong:

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* RP: Sailing to Byzantium:

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Note: We are too early for the Ascension War, so Tradition mages and Technocracy mages are still just mages. Factions do exist though. Similarly, we are pre-Sabbat vs. Camarilla. Oh, do factions exist amoung the vampires even within clans.

* The Clutch: