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Once upon a time various bleeding hearts tried to promote the idea that prisons weren't really merely punitive, or shouldn't be at any rate, nor mere retribution. Oh no, they expounded, they should be (and some of the more deluded claimed they actually were) rehabilitative. For a while there were efforts made to actually infuse a tiny slice of rehabilitative endeavors into our jails and prisons.

Sexual Rights? Suuuure. Once again the US is going to jump out into the global arena telling everybody else to adopt policies that it has no intention whatsoever of ever adopting itself.

Per this article: America's small change on 'sexual rights' could have big impact - CSMonitor.com we're now going to champion “sexual rights” in discussions of human rights and global development. Bwahahahaha.
For what we are telling others to do as we say and not as we do, see below.

In February 1899, British poet Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem entitled “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands."

The 2015 US Conference on AIDS was held September 10-13 in Washington, DC. On the opening day dozens of transgender and gender-nonconforming people seized the stage at the lunchtime plenary session to draw attention to HIV+ gender-variant people.

The group was chanting, We are not gay men! to protest the inclusion of trans women in gay male research and statistics.

Hey! Good Evening!

This evening's music features The Godfather of Soul, James Brown. Enjoy!

At some point, every campaign needs a song or two to fire up their supporters and those they would influence. Here are a few suggestions to get the point across. Feel free to add your own suggestions.

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Hey! Good Evening!

This evening's music features blues steel guitar player Freddie Roulette and r&b singer Tyrone Davis. Enjoy!

On Tuesday Judge Susan Webber Wright of the Eastern District of Arkansas has denied a request for summary judgment in the case of Dawson v H&H Electric.

Patricia Dawson of White County claims that she was fired by H & H Electric of Hot Springs because of her sex and because of her failure to conform to expected sex stereotypes.

What sort of "recovery" is this?

Janette Tovar was a 43-year-old transgender woman. She was said to be a popular nightclub promoter.

Tovar had been in a relationship with Jonathan Stuart Kenney, 29, for over a year and were living together in October of 2012. From all reports, however, it was a "very turbulent relationship." According to the apartment manager, who dived on the floor below their apartment, the couple were always fighting and were at it again between 8am and 9am on October 15, when he heard Tovar yell, "Get off me." The couple left the apartment at that time...still fighting.

Kenney now admits to slamming Tovar's head into the pavement before they returned to the apartment. Kenney then beat Tovar again.

Around 4pm Kenney called 911 to report that Tovar was unconscious and unresponsive...but not before he posted the following on the Book of Face:

I love you my baby Janette, your my love my everything and I will miss you so much. Your the best thing that ever happened to me girl kisses!!!!!! I hope you can see me down here even though I can’t see you I feel your spirit still living in me. Rest in peace mi amor mi vida.

Tovar was determined to have died from blunt force trauma.