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All Students Need A Safe Space

All schools need a 'safe space kit'. To get one for your school see link below:
LINK: http://www.safespacekit.com/

Seth Walsh 1997-2010

The mother of a 13-year-old boy who committed suicide after being taunted and teased for being gay has taken to YouTube to plead for schools to stop antigay bullying.

Ellen Talks To Inspiring 14-Year-Old Graeme Taylor

Al Franken: Safe Schools for LGBT Students Is A Right

At a press conference on November 18 U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-MN) introduced the Student Non-Discrimination Act (SNDA), which protects students from harassment, bullying, and violence based on actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. The SNDA has 29 Senate cosponsors. Its companion bill authored by Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo) also enjoys broad support. Franken was joined at the conference by Minnesotan Tammy Aaberg. In July 2010 her 15-year-old son Justin committed suicide after prolonged bullying at school about his being gay. Aaberg told the audience that she had never realized the torment Justin had experienced until his friends told her. She discovered the Anoka-Hennepin School District provided no definitions of LGBT bullying or guidelines for intervention.

Open-Mindedness

We all strive to be 'open-minded' but some of us may need help on how to recognize what it truely is. Some 'open-minded' people are actually 'close-minded' as this video shows. True open-mindedness is the path to real knowledge and wisdom.

Evolution: Addressing Falsehoods, Explaing Basics

LGBT Youth Suicide - In Memoriam

The Cost Of War vs The Cost Of Education And Goodwill

Links:
Costofwar.com
The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11
Afghan war costs now outpace Iraq's
National Priorities Project: Cost of War
The Iraq War Will Cost Us $3 Trillion, and Much More
Wikipedia: Financial cost of the Iraq War

Outrageous Spending, Debts, Unemployment, Poor Education, Crumbling Bridges, Can We Afford War?

With the Wikileaks articles in the news lately, some old news is back in the news: U.S. can't account for $8.7 billion in Iraqi cash.  This cash came up missing between 2003 and 2007.  Many who follow the war in the news knew about this outrage of waste!  Not to mention the fact that every 48 hours we fight over there it cost $1 Billion. 
I am sick to think of how we could have spent all the $1 Trillion we have spent so far on those Middle-East wars.  Instead of making those palaces of Saddam into US forts, we should have made them into schools for women and girls.  By educating the women, and empowering them, this is how we would truley win the hearts and minds of the people over time, rather than come in there blazing guns and bombs and destroying bridges, we should have used much of that money to build them American made solar power plants, and given the country what Saddam could never deliver: Electricity.  Today, they still don't have it.  And those solar panels could employ Americans in solar manufacturing plants.  We could have bought all new government vehicles that run on some non-oil based products, and employed people in the auto plants.  This would lessen polution here in America, and make us less dependent upon oil.  We could have placed a couple of solar panels on every house in the US with that money!  Many complain about the cost of 'social programs' and fail to see how much money is dumped into 'anti-social' programs like wars and such, oftentimes making those war profiteers rich off the blood of war.  Disgusting!  But somebody's got to buy all those military stocks, I suppose.  It just doesn't look good when it's the military generals who profit.
And the scary thought about it is this: What could just that 'missing money' buy?  Three times the amount to purchase all the global black market firearms!  Let's hope they didn't use it for that, though, right?

Meanwhile, the chance that any one of us reading this article will be hit by a terrorist attack is highly unlikely.  More unlikely than getting hit by lightning actually.  See link: Your real chances of being harmed by a terrorist attack.  So, is it really worth the cost?  If our country goes bankrupt, do the terrorists win?  Could we do better if we used the money at home?  Leave comments below...

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COSTOFWAR.COM

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