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Last login: 9 hours agoAnitra: Anitra is a 58 year old married woman from Seattle, Washington, USA.; Likes 3,478 pages, 134 videos, 161 photos • 277 fans • Received 83 reviews; Member since Jul 07, 2005

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Plutocracy Reborn: Jun 30, 8:51am 4 reviews economics, politics, homelessness •http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080630...; The Republicans have set us up for another Great Depression. The crash will be held off until a Democrat is in the White House. Then they will blame the Democrats for it. The Democrats will end the Depression with another New Deal, and rebuild the Middle Class. The Republicans will then decades undoing the New New Deal, tearing down the Middle Class, and setting us up for the next Great Depression, so they can blame the Democrats for it.

The top .01% will stay rich, all the way through.

uweek.org | UW architecture students win first prize for homeless memorial | Uni…: Jun 30, 8:42am 0 review architecture, seattle, homelessness, anitra •http://uwnews.org/uweek/uweekarticle....

Design Hope* - &The role of the artist / craftsperson is to make beauty necessar…: Jun 29, 9:45pm 3 reviews humanitarianism, homelessness •http://www.designhope.ca/; Thank you, Tigana, for another great find; one right "up my alley." It's good to know this effort exists, even if their website is out of date.

It would be even better, however, when a site addresses low-income issues, to have a low-tech alternative available for visitors. Yes, Virginia, there still are people using modems.

Jon Henke: George Allen's Netroots Coordinator | Netroots Rising: Jun 29, 3:05pm 1 review internet, politics •http://www.netrootsrising.com/2008/06...; A conservative political campaigner's analysis of the success of the liberal netroots. Encouraging. :)

Anonymous Is A Woman: Politics and Religion and Culture: What Are the Limits of …: Jun 29, 3:00pm 1 review politics, religion, blogs, liberties-rights •http://anonymousisawoman.blogspot.com...; From the blog "Anonymous Is A Woman: Politics and Religion and Culture"

This cannot be repeated often enough: quoting from the Koran to justify treating all Islam as terrorist is only as valid as quoting from the Bible to justify treating all Christianity as terrorist. You get to condemn both religions, or neither one. You either protect the rights of everyone, or lose your own.

Younger Than McCain: Jun 29, 2:32pm 3 reviews politics, satire, blogs •http://www.youngerthanmccain.com/; You can add to the growing list of Things That Are Younger Than John McCain! (Includes "the day the music died.")

An Examination of Republican Talking Points: Jun 29, 11:40am 1 review conservative-politics, politics •http://truthsite.org/politics/Present...; A list of Republican talking points with examples of what they really mean. Flash.

Credit crunch forcing US middle classes to live in their cars | World news | The…: Jun 28, 6:39pm 2 reviews economics, homelessness, car-camping •http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/...; I've been seeing middleclass-people-becoming-homeless for ten years. Now it's big enough to catch media attention. Do you know how many people are still in denial? Our (Democratic) Seattle Mayor, for one!

Yes, the Republicans have done the worst damage -- but Democrats have been running the middle class into the ground, too. The wealth gap has been widening, and the real wage of the majority of the country has been going down, for forty years -- under Democrats AND Republicans.