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Entries from October 2005

Seattle Monorail Project – When Political Will …Won’t

October 24th, 2005 · No Comments

Seattle monorail is one of the few projects that you can pick out
from the line-up of usual suspects where it is conspicuously failing
to make it off the drawing board despite strong local support.

And the one thing that is acting as the biggest stumbling block is a
fundamental lack of support from the mayor’s office.

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Tags: EnviroTransport

OCT 24th: Seattle brothers, are YOU registered to vote?

October 23rd, 2005 · No Comments

Brothers who love transit over roads

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Tags: EnviroTransport

Picture Time: BOB MARLEY

October 23rd, 2005 · No Comments

Some brothers look really good with long hair (all natural or not). Back in the day, Marley’s look was “Absolute Alternative”. Years later, this picture of Bob Marley in the groove, caught up on the spirit, his hair flying, is still simply beautiful!

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Tags: ManPics

Coming Out and Earning the Right to Complain

October 22nd, 2005 · No Comments

Black same-gender-loving people coming out… I used to preach the “come out” message back in the 1990s. Oh how important I said it was. I was a good black gay boy writing letters, articles, joining organizations doing protests, and of course, came out to my black father, my black stepmother (my own […]

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Tags: Gay/SGL

Delaying/killing advanced transit: Monorail, I-912

October 19th, 2005 · No Comments

What does transportation have to do with being a man of color and gay or with being an “AltBrother” issue? I belive that mobility is a form of liberty and access to opportunity. In the hope of being mobile and connected to opportunity, brothers of color and limited income living in metropolitan […]

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Tags: EnviroTransport

The Liberal Moderates

October 19th, 2005 · No Comments

The Liberal Moderates
Don’t be deceived by the polls: The “median voter” is more of a liberal than you may realize.
By Paul Waldman
Web Exclusive: 10.18.05
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww…articleId=10438
The 2006 elections may be a year away, but already Democrats are working hard not to get cocky. With Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, and the multiple corruption scandals swirling around the Republicans, the […]

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Tags: General

Chavez: World faces major energy crisis

October 19th, 2005 · No Comments

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1310AP_Spain_Chavez_Oil.html
Saturday, October 15, 2005 · Last updated 7:21 p.m. PT
Chavez: World faces major energy crisis
By CIARAN GILES
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
SALAMANCA, Spain — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Saturday that the world faces an energy crisis but there is little chance of his country and other OPEC members increasing production because they are already pumping near […]

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Tags: General