Melissa Rhiannon
Born and grew up in Miami FL area, moved to Denver area at age 31. Founder and author of The Planetary Bill of Rights Project.
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It's High Time for the Government to Get Out of the Same Sex Marriage Business TooWhy this week's ruling over California's Proposition 8 will lead to the legalization of same sex marriage in the United States
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An Urgent Message to the People of North Korea - Before It's Too LateThose of us in the relatively free parts of the world now appeal to the People of North Korea not to allow this to happen.
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Bret Baier Panel About Rand Paul: "Esoteric Property Rights"Rand Paul's comment that the "Civil Rights Act" was a good thing, but it should only be applied to public property, and that people essentially have a right to use their own private property as they please.
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Restaurant Review: Simms Steakhouse in Lakewood, ColoradoOur experience with, and review of, the Thanksgiving buffet at Simms Steakhouse, formerly Simms Landing Restaurant, in Lakewood, Colorado, November 26, 2009. -
The Difference Between Fame and InfamyIt seems in recent years, with the spate of school shootings and killing sprees, that one of the reasons that people are doing these vile misdeeds is for attention, because they think it makes them "famous".
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Miele S434i White Pearl Vacuum Cleaner: Review (In Retrospect)This was supposed to be the last vacuum we'd ever have to buy...
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Review of the Mag Instrument Heavy-Duty Rechargeable Flashlight System #RX1019The finest flashlight I've ever owned.
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Can TB (Tuberculosis) be a Threat to Democracies?With the TB ( tuberculosis ) scare this week, involving Andrew Speaker and his sneaking back into the U.S. carrying a drug resistant ( possibly impervious ) strain of tuberculosis...
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"Employees Must Wash Hands" - How Effective is It?Oh sure, washing their hands after using the toilet if they're going back to prepare your food, is a great idea, in fact it's the law in most places. But there's a flaw in the whole system.
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Coffee Maker - My Review of the Technivorm KB-741 ClublineAs I've been learning more about coffee making, I found out that even the temperature can affect the flavor. I've been grinding my own beans for years but could never quite get the kind of flavor from them, even though they were Starbucks beans... -
Drug Companies Are Selling Brand Names to Americans and Generics of the Same Drugs to the Rest of the World!The drug companies are selling only brand name drugs to Americans in the U.S., while selling cheaper generics of the same drugs outside the U.S. -
My Parents and Guns - the Ultimate Validation of an Ancient PrincipleWhen we grew up in the �60's, my liberal pacifist parents were terrified of guns. They wouldn't allow one in their house or on their property.
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Emergency Food SuppliesWe were in Costco Saturday and saw these white 5 gallon sized buckets of emergency food for sale. $109 for something like 270 meals, enough to feed 2 people for about 45 days.
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My Proposed Solution to the Mideast Crisis (Humor)It's a conflict that could very well go on for the next thousand years or so, and might never be resolved to the satisfaction of all parties.
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Flying Naked?The liquid explosives scare. What next?
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The Meaning of "Kung Fu" - It's More Than Just Self DefenseMy first serious exposure to martial arts in the movies was from Bruce Lee years ago, and on TV it was the series "Kung Fu" starring David Carradine that I found very inspiring, all the way back in the �70's. -
On Taxation and the Very Nature of Coercive Collectivist GovernmentSo yes, you are very much a tax slave, whether you agree with that concept or not. Whether you're a willing slave or an unwilling one, a happy slave, a miserable one, or just an apathetic one.
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How the Firearms Industry Might Prevent the Demise of the Small Business SellerI had no idea, before spending about $1500 to get my FFL, state and city business licenses and a gun safe, that selling firearms is no longer a business that I might be able to make a living at in the United States.
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Why Are We Rewarding Lebanon?What were the lebanese people thinking when they embraced Hezbollah and allowed them to build concrete bunkers in homes all over the country with rocket launchers aimed at Israel?
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Israeli "self Defense"?Many people defend Israel by saying that they "have a right to self defense". But hold on a minute. Self defense? Let's "tell it like it is".
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If We Can't Shut Down the United Nations..There are a lot of very good reasons why the UN should be shut down but if we really think about it, their lack of actions shouldn't be one of them.
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MY ALARMING MIDEAST OBSERVATIONS and PREDICTIONSThey are bound and determined that there will be no free states in the mideast, period, and that Iran will develop nuclear weapons.
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The U.N. Should Be RenamedThey have been utterly incapable of even solving problems in the world, with various bickering polarized factions only throwing words at each other and achieving nothing.
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The Denver Phantom Diner Visits Chili's RestaurantWe visited the Lakewood Chili's at 88 Wadsworth Blvd., on July 2nd, 2006 at around 6:30 PM. The experience was additionally interesting because it's the day after Colorado's recently-passed smoking ban went into effect for bars.
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Product Review: DuraPro MegaBRITE 997516 Hand Crank Emergency Light RadiosI don't usually recommend that many products but we were over at Costco today and picked up a very cool little pair of emergency lights ( DuraPro MegaBRITE 997516 ) with AM/FM radios built in.
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Abu Musab Al Zarqawi - a Party is in OrderNo memorials will ever be publicly built to honor him. No schools, bridges, hospitals or Iraqi children will be named for him. If he is remembered, even a decade from now, it will only be with the notoriety due a rabid mass murderer.
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Would a Same Sex Marriage Ban Amendment Cause Harm to U.S. Contract Law?Now we have a situation in this country where there are already legally married same sex couples. Not only the ones who have been allowed to marry recently in Massachussetts and a few scattered cities.
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Educational: You Are Supposed to Sing Our National Anthem, Loudly and with PrideThe last, most poignant memory that I have of Americans proudly and loudly singing our national anthem, was right before the fall of the Soviet Union, when the Moscow Circus came to Denver and we went to see it.
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If the UN Really CaredIraq is now in the state of being a fledgling democracy, the kind that the UN claims to be supportive and encouraging of in the world, over ruthless dictatorships.
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NO, UN Global Taxation is NOT OK!The power to tax is the power to enslave. All these tyrants need is to be able to tap into the pockets of every working person on this planet and their power will grow exponentially!
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"Official English" is Not "English Only"So the votes so far, are coming down right along party lines, with mostly Republicans favoring it, and mostly Democrats opposing. The usual suspects. The more extreme leftist they are, the more they oppose this. And the name calling has begun already too.
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USA Going the Way of the UFK"I've used the Civil Rights Act as an example of the way a well-intentioned government program grows and causes far more problems than it solves. But it is just one example...."
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The Gun Free School Zones Act of 1990"Did you really think we want those laws observed?", said Dr. Ferris. We WANT them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it ...There's no way to rule innocent men.
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Should the United States Remain a Country?A nation can only remain a nation if it has clearly defined borders that are enforced. Without that, it could cease to be a nation.
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O'Reilly the Slightly Conservative SocialistThose of you who have read much of what I've written, have often heard me go on about the "liberal socialists". ... But there are other kinds of socialists too.
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The Solution for IraqSo what's the solution? Keep U.S. troops there for another ten years? There's even talk of dividing Iraq into three separate countries now, which is not acceptable to anyone who doesn't want this effort lost.
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Stop the Illegal Invasion Now!It has now become obvious that most of our "leaders" ( politicians ), from top to bottom, do not have the political will or courage to stop and reverse the illegal invasion of the United States.
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Democracy Exposed #1Democracy is forming a mob and enslaving everyone else to pay for your most frivolous whims.