links for 2008-10-22

In this live-and-let-live town, where medical marijuana clubs do business next to grocery stores and an annual fair celebrates sadomasochism, prostitutes could soon walk the streets without fear of arrest.

San Francisco would become the first major U.S. city to decriminalize prostitution if voters next month approve Proposition K—a measure that forbids local authorities from investigating, arresting or prosecuting anyone for selling sex.

The ballot question technically would not legalize prostitution since state law still prohibits it, but the measure would eliminate the power of local law enforcement officials to go after prostitutes.

Proponents say the measure will free up $11 million the police spend each year arresting prostitutes and allow them to form collectives.
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Uh No and if passed should be ruled unconstitutional and the city forced to enforce the state law.

The fact is, that one of my personal friends, and others in her neighborhood, also friends – not only had several Vote YES on Prop 8 signs stolen, for a second time; but this time – received identical letters, containing serious death threats.
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Despicable and the perps should be prosecuted.

Today, DailyKos blogger hekebolos is mustering the Kosacks (as they are sometimes known) to hunt down information about Mormons and others who have donated to "Protect Marriage," the non-profit group fighting to pass Proposition 8.

In short, he wants to dig up dirt and expose people as hypocrites. Insane! What’s more, the Kos poster has put up the list for us indicating which people are Mormon. Doubly sick and wrong!

In his own words: "Here’s the bottom line for me: if someone is willing to contribute thousands of dollars to a campaign to take away legal rights from some very dear friends of mine, they had damn well make sure their lives are beyond scrutiny–because I, for one, won’t take it lying down."

That is ugly!
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This is not the first time I have heard the AntiProposition 8 supporters trying to "OUT" the finncial supporters of the Protect Marraige Constitutional amendment

Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.
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Yawn: The LEFT AP trying to smear Palin again……..

In short: Like her or hate her, Palin remains VERY much in the mix as a 2012 candidate.
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Absolutely correct…….

Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin apologized Tuesday for any misunderstanding that resulted when she referred last week to the patriotic values of "the real America" and the "pro-America areas of this great nation."

Democrats and others immediately criticized Palin, alleging she was saying that some part of the country are more patriotic than others.

Palin denied that was her intention in an interview with CNN on Tuesday.

"I don't want that misunderstood," Palin said. "If that's the way it came across, I apologize."

Speaking at a rally in North Carolina, the Alaska governor said: "We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard-working, very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation."
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Ok, so she misspoke……

Oprah Winfrey is offering to "produce" the half-hour Barack Obama advertisement set to air on Oct. 29, a top source tells the DRUDGE REPORT. The Daytime TV dynamo has even offered up her studio space in Chicago.

"She's been begging Obama to let her help," a source explaines.

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It is not clear if the Obama campaign would pay Winfrey for any production services.

Requests for comment from Oprah went un-returned.

The Obama campaign strongly denies Oprah will be involved in the ad: Bill Richardson's former senior adviser, Mark Putnam is producing. Previously, Putnam produced commercials for Democratic campaigns in 44 states.

The TV finale is seen as a high risk move, designed to remove any remaining voter doubts on the first term senator.

CBS, NBC and FOX will air the info-commercial, with the start time of a potential World Series Game 6 being pushed back by eight minutes.
Mystery surrounds the production: Will it simply be Obama sitting at a desk reading TelePrompTer?

But the recent worldwide economic downturn will, predictably, generate a demand that Washington "do something," and Washington will respond with a whole series of programs, laws and expenditures allegedly designed to improve matters. Few, if any, of them will work, but they will have the collective effect of putting government's weight on the scales against the economy's own healthy tendency to right itself. In a few years, we will learn all over again why we acquired our previous deep distrust of government "solutions."

That is why the coming barrage of new government programs will predictably be such a desperately bad idea. We cannot legislate our way out of an economic slump, because an economic slump is simply the economy's way of exhaling, prior to taking a fresh breath. We can take palliative measures, to relieve individual cases of economic discomfort, but we cannot repeal the laws of economics.

No issue in the Proposition 8 campaign has generated as much debate as the contention by supporters that public schools in California will promote same-sex marriage if the ballot measure fails.

The Yes on 8 forces have made it the focus of their campaign strategy in television and radio ads that have been running for weeks. The ads point to Massachusetts, where gay marriage has been legal since 2003 and the issue is being taught in schools.
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It is all about legislating morality = the homosexual agenda.