Thank you for sharing the story of Bruce Morris and the HDC, their work is appreciated and will not doubt continue “the evolution” toward less separation and more respect for all people.

– Wendy Boyer

The only thing that pisses me off more than the capital gains tax rate is the fact that Nickelback can re record the same song every 4 years with different words and make millions off it!!!

– Travis Ehrenstrom

So there’s $536MM of federal funds and another $550MM in “non-federal funds.”  Why do you hoist the canard that this only costs $536MM?  What are the other non-federal funds?  Where does this other money come from?  Who pays that price tag?  I can guess and I know I’ll be right.

So for a total of about $1.1 Billion, we get 4,600 jobs.  That’s only $239,000 per job.  Another great lib idea. Sounds like the good deal we got from Solyndra and the other bogus green energy jobs.

It was Thatcher (I think)that said, “the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of someone else’s money.”

– Bill R

“...remarkable example of widely divergent interests coming together to compromise for the common good.”

Exactly why it most likely will not make it through Congress.”

– Joe

The Occupy Movement is all about economic justice without which we will not have social justice.

We are challenging an economic system built on the greed of banksters, corporados and the wealthy ruling elites emboldened and empowered by politicians, government officials and the legal system enforced by the police state whose duty is to protect and serve the 1 percent.

We are the 99 percent committed to changing this system of injustice based on exploitation, oppression, financial devastation and environmental degradation.  We are determined to Occupy our minds with truth, occupy our streets, our parks, our towns and cities, our states and our country in solidarity with the 99percent throughout the world.  We engage in civil disobedience, direct action and non-violent activities as we Occupy Wall St., Occupy Main St., Occupy Everywhere to achieve economic justice.

Thank you to the Source and Mike Bookey for writing about the important issue of marriage equality last week. I am the “big bearded dude” in the photos, writing to comment on my being the “unlikely face” of the marriage equality movement in Central Oregon.  My positions with Basic Rights Oregon and now Human Dignity Coalition may make me the most visible local advocate on this issue.  However, the true faces of marriage inequality in Oregon are the thousands of loving, committed same-sex couples and their families being denied the freedom to marry by the Oregon Constitution.

Same-sex couples want to get married for the same reason I did, and most couples do, namely to make that vast and courageous expression of love and commitment to their beloved. Take a moment to imagine the pain of knowing it would be illegal—illegal!—to make that expression to the person you are so deeply in love with.  Now take one more step and imagine the suffering of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people who remain stigmatized for simply being who they really are or for openly loving who they really love; the bewildered despair of teenagers whose parents reject and punish them and whose schoolmates bully them just for being their authentic selves.