The global energy bust has largely gone unnoticed by the American public, but it means more than just low gas prices.
In energy producing states it means recession.
A new report from the Human Rights Campaign reveals that 44 bills targeting transgender people have been brought forward across 16 states. Twenty-three of those bills target transgender children.
The onslaught compares to the twenty-one anti-transgender bills which were filed last year.
This evening's music features soul singer Joe Simon. Enjoy!
Joe Simon - The Chokin' Kind
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Thursday February 22, 1906
From The Minneapolis Journal: Moyer, Haywood, and Pettibone Will Die!
Charles Moyer and Big Bill Haywood, President and Secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, along with the Denver business man who is an ex-miner and now friend of the organization, George Pettibone, have been tried, convicted, and declared "doomed to die" in the pages of The Minneapolis Journal of February 20th:
WESTERN DYNAMITERS RIVAL MOLLY MAGUIRES
OF THE EAST
-----COLORADO JUDGES MARKED FOR DEATH
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Orchard's Confession Reveals Plots to
Kill Supreme Court Justices.
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SIX MEN DOOMED, SAYS A DETECTIVE
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Man Who Broke Up Molly Maguires Says
Labor Leaders Will Die.
-----Journal Special Service.
The Day of the Rope, Black Thursday, June 21, 1877.
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On Friday, President Obama opened a fourth front in the war against ISIS.
You probably didn't notice because neither the news media nor Congress cared. Bombing countries is simply what this administration does.
It seems amazing that such a disliked candidate can be dominating the polls.
By winning South Carolina and New Hampshire, and leading in all Super Tuesday states, it appears that Trump will be the GOP nominee.
Since the repeal of Human Rights Commission rules covering transgender people's use of sex-segregated facilities failed by a 24-25 vole in Washington's Republican-controlled Senate earlier this month a man named Joseph Backholm has launched a group called Just Want Privacy with the purpose of filing an initiative to force transgender people out of public facilities.
The takeaway line on its webpage is
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Wednesday February 21, 1906
Denver, Colorado - Haywood, Moyer, and Pettibone Kidnapped by State of Idaho
The San Francisco Call of February 19th reported on the arrest, in Denver, of Big Bill Haywood and Charles Moyer, officers of the Western Federation of Miners. George Pettibone, whom The Call describes as a former member of the W. F. of M., was also arrested. The next morning, the men were transported by special train from Denver to Boise, apparently without extradition hearings, nor an opportunity to challenge extradition. The three men will be charged in connection with the murder of ex-Governor Steunenberg of Idaho.
The Call appears to approve of what amounts to a kidnapping, arranged by the authorities of Colorado and Idaho:
PRISONERS RUSHED TO BOISE CITY
-----Taken on Special Train From Denver.
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Miners' Union Officials Involved in
Steunenberg Murder Case.
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Three Men Spirited Away Under Guard
in the Early Morning.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Counseling Association, the American School Counselor Association, the Child Welfare League of America, the National Association of School Psychologists, the National Association of Social Workers and the National Education Association have joined together to write an open letter to the nation's governors stating their opposition to bills which target transgender students such as the one awaiting the signature of Governor Daugaard in South Dakota.
