“I hate victims who
respect their executioners.” ~Jean-Paul Sartre
Kentucky's total population is 4.4 Million people.
CB Embry Jr, a Morgantown Republican, a
Kentucky State Senator representing District 6, who born in
Louisville, graduated from Duke University, and is a lowdown
despicable deplorable loathsome transgenderphobe cretin... or perhaps, he's one
in hiding, and he's just diverting our attention away from it.
CB Embry Jr. made national headlines
when he introduced his “Bathroom Bully Bill”, which would have
fined transgendered students a $1,000 if they entered the bathroom
opposite of their biological gender.
Happily, this bill was killed in
committee.
But that won't stop CB Embry Jr.
Embry's pushing his transgenderphobic ways by attaching his failed
bill as an Amendment rider on HB 236 (2015) in order to kill it, or
else to get his silly bill passed by piggybacking off of HB 236.
Of course, HB 236 could pop up as an
Amendment rider in some other bill, but that would take a savvy and
caring representative for that to happen.
In this piece of writing, I analyze
these 4 bills:
Passed already:
1- Senate Bill 10 (2015)
2- Senate Bill 28 (2015)
3- Senate Bill 39 (2015)
Hasn't passed yet:
4- HB 236 (2015)
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Senate Bill 28
SB 28/LM/CI (BR 229)
sponsored by
M. Wilson, CB Embry Jr.
(the transgenderphobe, anti-student man)
AN ACT relating to the placement of illegal gambling devices
in business establishments and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 528.010 to include in the definition of "gambling
device" an electronic device used to facilitate Internet
gambling and to define "simulated gambling program";
EMERGENCY.
SB 28 - AMENDMENTS
SCS/LM/CI - Remove duplicative language relating to specific devices.
SFA (1, M. Wilson) - Insert amendment requiring that
authorizations done by the Horse Racing Commission be done only
pursuant to lawful authority; declare an EMERGENCY.
HFA (1, S. Lee) - Delete reference to devices authorized by the
Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
HFA (2/P, J. Greer) - Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158
requiring high schools to include CPR training in the health
education curriculum.
HFA (3/Title, J. Greer) - Make title amendment.
HFA (4, J. DeCesare) - Express legislative intent to remain
neutral in a pending legal dispute regarding historical horse
racing.
HFA (5/P, G. Stumbo) - Retain original provisions, except amend
KRS 525.125 to include the owning, possessing, keeping, breeding,
training, selling, or transferring of four-legged animals for
fighting purposes within the offense of cruelty to animals in the
first degree.
HFA (6/Title, G. Stumbo) - Make title amendment.
HFA (7, J. DeCesare) - Delete previous provisions, create a new
section of KRS Chapter 528 to define "simulated gambling
program," and stipulate that any person offering another person
the opportunity to play a simulated gambling program on a device for
money, or other item of value shall be guilty of a violation; retain
emergency declaration.
HFA (8, S. Lee) - Delete exemption for devices dispensing or
selling combination or French Pools on historical races.
HFA (9/P, M. Marzian) - Amend KRS 241.010 to define "commercial
quadricycle"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to
establish and regulate authorized public consumption (APC)
licenses for use with commercial quadricycles; allow patrons to bring
their own packaged alcoholic beverages in non-glass containers to an
APC licensed premises for personal consumption after boarding a
commercial quadricycle; require all alcoholic beverage consumption in
nondescriptive plastic cups; set qualifications for an APC
license, including a business office and secure storage, general
liability insurance of at least $2,000,000, and a local government
permit; clarify that a local government is only required to adopt
ordinances relating to commercial quadricycles if that local
government has first approved their use; establish the standards for
local ordinances covering commercial quadricycles; name the
qualifications for a commercial quadricycle driver; forbid local APC
fees from exceeding state APC fees; amend KRS 243.030, 243.060, and
243.070 to designate state and local APC license fees; amend KRS
244.085 to allow a person under 21 years of age to remain at a
licensed APC premises; amend KRS 243.034 to conform.
HFA (10/Title, M. Marzian) - Make title amendment.
On March 19, 2015, Steve Beshear signed
this EMERGENCY Senate Bill 28 into law.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB28.htm
Senate Bill 28—another CB Embry Jr.
bill, only this one has passed—makes it illegal for any business in
Kentucky to sell Internet access to play Internet gambling
casino-style games, or a sweepstakes, in which customers can win cash
prizes.
This bill was designated as an
EMERGENCY.
Senate Bill 28 makes it illegal for
businesses to use Internet gambling websites. With Will T. Scott
talking about legalizing gambling in Kentucky, this bill is going the
opposite direction he's going in. This “stop Internet gambling law”
goes against personal liberty, and is a dumb law to begin with. Steve
Beshear was elected on the mandate to legalize gambling in 2008. At
the very least, I figured we the Kentucky people would get a chance
to vote on the matter... but it never materialized into anything.
It seems as if everybody is using
“riders” these days. This bill, while having to deal with
definitions pertaining to gambling online (for some mysterious
reason), also includes several rider Amendments that have nothing to
do with the law:
“HFA (2/P, J. Greer) - Create a
new section of KRS Chapter 158 requiring high schools to include CPR
training in the health education curriculum.”
Adding a section
to KRS Chapter 158 requiring high schools to include CPR training in
the health education curriculum has nothing to do the original intent
on this bill. It makes no sense for this Amendment to be tacked onto
this bill. That should be it's own law, but it's not. Instead, it's
tucked inside another law, which is misleadingly titled, since it's
not just about defining words relating to Internet gambling websites.
This makes me very suspicious of Frankfort. If folks can get their
“bills” passed by adding on “riders”, then introducing a bill
to the General Assembly, and trying to get your “bill” attached
on another bill about to be passed as a “rider”, are two equal
ways to getting the laws changed the way you want them to be changed,
but it's disingenuous.
We heard Mitch
McConnell talk about attaching infinite number of riders on Obama's
bills, to make sure Kentucky is sold down the river to the Koch
Brothers, bankers, the 1%, etc.
Here's a snippet of the 3 page KRS
528.010 law http://www.lrc.ky.gov/Statutes/statute.aspx?id=19969:
“(5) "Lottery and gift enterprise" means: (a) A gambling
scheme in which: 1. The players pay or agree to pay something of
value for chances, represented and differentiated by numbers or by
combinations of numbers or by some other media, one (1) or more of
which are to be designated the winning ones; and 2. The ultimate
winner is to be determined by a drawing or by some other method based
upon the element of chance; and 3. The holders of the winning chances
are to receive something of value. (b) A gift enterprise or referral
sales plan which meets the elements of a lottery listed in paragraph
(a) of this subsection is to be considered a lottery under this
chapter.
(6) "Mutuel" or "the numbers games" means a form
of lottery in which the winning chances or plays are not determined
upon the basis of a drawing or other act on the part of persons
conducting or connected with the scheme, but upon the basis of the
outcome or outcomes of a future contingent event or events otherwise
unrelated to the particular scheme.”
Here's another major Amendment that was
attached to this “Internet gambling definition adjusting” bill
that has nothing to do with “AN
ACT relating to the placement of illegal gambling devices in business
establishments and declaring an emergency”, which is the title of
Senate Bill 28:
HFA (5/P, G. Stumbo) - Retain original provisions, except amend
KRS 525.125 to include the owning, possessing, keeping, breeding,
training, selling, or transferring of four-legged animals for
fighting purposes within the offense of cruelty to animals in the
first degree.
KRS
525.125
“525.125 Cruelty to animals in the first degree.
- The following persons are guilty of cruelty to animals in the first degree whenever a four-legged animal is caused to fight for pleasure or profit: (a) The owner of the animal; (b) The owner of the property on which the fight is conducted if the owner knows of the fight; (c) Anyone who participates in the organization of the fight.
- Activities of animals engaged in hunting, field trials, dog training, and other activities authorized either by a hunting license or by the Department of Fish and Wildlife shall not constitute a violation of this section.
- Cruelty to animals in the first degree is a Class D felony.
Effective: July 14, 1992”
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/statutes/statute.aspx?id=19935
I agree with Greg Stumbo's intent to expand the definition of animal
cruelty, to not only criminalize the owners of the dogs who fight (or
at least, all 4-legged animals... but why only 4-legged animals?
Cockfighting is still going on Kentucky?), but also those who
participate in transporting the dogs, and training, and selling, and
breeding of them.
Stumbo was able to get a good change of KRS into a bill that had
nothing to do with animal cruelty by attaching a “rider”, aka an
Amendment, to the bill. I just doubt the media, or the public's
ability, to sift through all of these laws, and to find out what
secret laws have been pocketed into the Amendment list of other laws
which are completely unrelated. It's hard to tell what laws have
changed, and which ones haven't, unless intentionally pointed out to
the media.
There is also the mysterious rider Amendment about quadricycles, and
alcohol consumption, and a $2 Million Dollar insurance policy
attached onto this “stop Internet gambling” law.
CB Embry Jr didn't just make national headlines because he wanted to
increase discrimination against transgendered students, but he also
made more recent headlines when he added one of these “riders” to
a student-driven bill that aims at getting students more power, and
more of a sayso in their government.
CB Embry is welcoming Kentucky students into the process with a huge
slap across the face. CB Embry says to the students, “If you want
more power in society, then you'll have to accept my transgender
discrimination “rider” amendment” …
Here's the “Student Super Bill”:
HB 236 (BR 1130)
D. Graham, L. Belcher,
C. Howard, D. Schamore
AN ACT relating to superintendent screening committee
membership.
Amend KRS 160.352 to allow a high school student enrolled in
the district to be appointed to the superintendent screening
committee.
HB 236 - AMENDMENTS
SFA (1, C. Embry Jr.) - Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to ensure that student privacy exists in school restrooms, locker rooms, and showers; require students born male to use only those facilities designated to be used by males and students born female to use only those facilities designated to be used by females.
SFA (2/Title, C. Embry Jr.) - Make title amendment.
SFA (3, A. Robinson) - Amend KRS 158.183 to permit students
to voluntarily express religious or political viewpoints in school
assignments free from discrimination; require local boards of
education to ensure that the selection of student speakers is made in
a viewpoint neutral manner; prohibit the student's prepared
remarks from being reviewed, altered, or censured before delivery,
except upon student's request; allow religious and political
organizations equal access to public forums on the same basis as
nonreligious and nonpolitical organizations; prohibit
discrimination against any recognized religious or political student
organization in the ordering of its internal affairs; create a
new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require public postsecondary
education institution governing boards to ensure that students are
permitted to voluntarily express religious or political viewpoints
in assignments free from discrimination; require the selection of
student speakers to be made in a viewpoint-neutral manner; prohibit
the student's prepared remarks from being reviewed, altered, or
censured before delivery; allow religious and political
organizations equal access to public forums on the same basis as
nonreligious and nonpolitical organizations; prohibit discrimination
against any recognized religious or political student organization in
the ordering of its internal affairs; prohibit restrictions on speech
that occurs outdoors on campus and is protected by the first
amendment of the U.S. Constitution, except for restrictions that are
reasonable, justified without reference to speech content, narrowly
tailored to serve governmental interest, and limited to provide
alternative options for the communication of the information.
SFA (4/Title, A. Robinson) - Make title amendment.
SFA (5/Title, A. Kerr) - Make title amendment.
SFA (6, A. Kerr) - Add emergency clause; EMERGENCY.
HB 236 merely adds a single sentence to KRS 160.352, section 3, listed below:
KRS
160.352
KRS
160.352
Screening committee -- Minority representation -- Recommendations
for superintendent.
- For purposes of this section the term "minority" means American Indian; Alaskan native; African-American; Hispanic, including persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Central or South American origin; Pacific islander; or other ethnic group underrepresented in a local school district.(2) Each board of education shall appoint a superintendent of schools after receiving the recommendations of a screening committee. A screening committee shall be established within thirty (30) days of a determination by a board of education that a vacancy has occurred or will occur in the office of superintendent, except that when the board determines a vacancy will not occur before six (6) months from the date of determination, the board shall establish a screening committee at least ninety (90) days before the first date on which the position may be filled.(3) A screening committee shall be composed of:(a) Two (2) teachers, elected by the teachers in the district;(b) One (1) board of education member, appointed by the board chairman;(c) One (1) principal, elected by the principals in the district;(d) One (1) parent, elected by the presidents of the parent-teacher organizations of the schools in the district;(e) One (1) classified employee, elected by the classified employees in the district; and(f) If a minority member is not elected or appointed to a screening committee in districts with a minority population of eight percent (8%) or more, as determined by the enrollment on the preceding October 1, the committee membership shall be increased to include one (1) minority parent. This minority parent member shall be elected by the parents in an election conducted by the local school board. Parents in the district shall be given adequate notice of the date, time, place, and purpose of the election.(4) Prior to appointing a superintendent of schools, the board of education shall consider the recommendations of the screening committee, but the board shall not be required to appoint a superintendent from the committee's recommendations. Effective:July 15, 1998 History: Amended 1998 Ky.
Both Bowling Green Schools and Fayette County are in the midst of
figuring out their next Superintendents in their respective
districts. Right now, those on the screening board are these 6
(possibly 7) folks:
(a) Two (2) teachers, elected by the teachers in the district;
(b) One (1) board of education member, appointed by the board
chairman;
(c) One (1) principal, elected by the principals in the district;
(d) One (1) parent, elected by the presidents of the parent-teacher
organizations of the schools in the district;
(e) One (1) classified employee, elected by the classified employees
in the district; and
(f) If a minority member is not elected or appointed to a screening
committee in districts with a minority population of eight percent
(8%) or more, as determined by the enrollment on the preceding
October 1, the committee membership shall be increased to include
one (1) minority parent. This minorit
HB 236 is calling for amending KRS
160.352 “to allow a high school
student enrolled in the district to be appointed to the
superintendent screening committee”.
HB
236 is a teeny tiny bit of “power”... it's not even real power.
Just influence. Influence for deciding who gets real power as the
school district's Superintendent.
Of
course students should have a say in the governance of their school.
I'd be in favor of throwing out the teachers, and just letting the
students run the school themselves. The adults have failed Kentucky.
We have some of the best and brightest young folks in the nation
while simultaneously having 2 out of 5 adults not even being able to
read.
What's
CB Embry doing about Kentucky's illiteracy? How about the police
brutality? It's poverty? Anything? Does Senate Republican CB Embry Jr
care about us, we the people? He clearly doesn't care about the
students...
For
CB Embry Jr., the choice is: students get a seat at the table only if
they accept discrimination against transgendered students.
Theoretically,
we live in a democratic society, one that abides by the Rule of Law,
and founded upon the notion that we the people consent to those who
govern us.
When
deciding a school's Superintendent, who thought to even ask the
students what they think?
Young
people can be leaders now. While they don't have adult rights, they
do have American student rights, and children's rights, and
therefore, having a seat at the table...
I'm
more skeptical of those who would oppose such an incremental measure.
It's
even optional. Once the law is passed, the School Board may not
select a student to serve on the Superintendent Selection Committee.
1
student on the Superintendent Screening Committee isn't much
influence at all. There's 6 or 7 (if there's no minorities in the 6,
then a minority parent is added to the Committee) members on the
Superintendent Screening Committee as it is, so with just a single
student voice... that's not even close to a majority.
Students
would still represent the overwhelming minority voice at the table...
but at least, they'd have a seat at the table.
Ultimately,
it's the School Board who decides who the Superintendent is going to
be. The Superintendent Screening Committee is only there to recommend
qualified candidates. And the School Board can also not choose a
student to be on the Superintendent Screening Committee, since HB236
allows itself to be optional.
There's
no risks in this bill. It allows the option of allowing School Boards
to choose a student to be on the Superintendent Screening
Committee... if they choose to do so.
It's
not much power. It's an option for a seat at the table, where you're
1 of 6-or-7, and are therefore in the overwhelming minority.
And
with the Amendment Rider, CB Embry Jr is saying that students can
have a seat at the table, as long as they accept that boys bathrooms
are used for boys, and girls bathrooms are used for girls, and
transgendered students will get their own bathrooms.
Louisville
Fairness Alliance is calling CB Embry Jr's bill the “Bathroom Bully
Bill”, which will have those residual consequences. While it may be
nice having your own bathroom, this bill allows one to discriminate
against transgendered students, who have been offing themselves in
droves as of late. A $1,000 fine would be issued for that
transgendered student who goes into the opposite bathroom that's not
consistent with their biology... and being dressed as a girl, we're
hoping that the boys won't bully the biological boy who feels she's a girl trapped in a boy's body?
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A
Short Play
“So
CB... which of Kentucky's problems should we be working on for 2015?
…
Should
we work on not being the #1 State for Pollution?”
“Nah.”
“You
want to work on stopping poverty?”
“Nope.”
“Then...
you want to work on epidemic of police brutality and jailer rapes?”
“Not
even close.”
“Lower
heroin addiction rates?”
“No
way. I've got a better idea.”
“What's
that?”
“Let's
regulate the bathroom use of trannies. Not the adults, but the
transsexual children. I have been thinking a lot about this, and
regulating the bathroom use of tranny kids is the most important item
on my agenda. Children who feel like they are the opposite gender
than their biological gender do not have a right to urinate or expel
their feces in the same piss-and-shit room as my children!”
“Fuck
you CB. You're so fucked up in the head.”
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The Student Voice Team drafted House
Bill 236 (2015) and got it sponsored by Representative Derrick Graham
(D-Frankfort). House Bill 236 amends the Superintendent Selection
Committee law to add an optional peer-elected high school student.
The district Board of Education can choose to add the student but is
not required to. House Bill 236, the “Student Super Bill”, was
passed by the House with a vote of 88 to 5.
On the evening of Monday, March 9th,
Senators CB Embry Jr. (R-Morgantown) and Albert Robinson (R-London)
amended House Bill 236.
Albert Robinson added a “political
and religious freedom” Amendment rider to the bill, which I agree
with.
Robinson's “political and religious
freedom” actually expands student's rights moreso than the “Student
Super Bill”, so I'd sign HB 236 with Robinson's rider on it, but
not CB Embry Jr's.
By adding controversial Amendments
riders unrelated to the enabling students to have a seat at the table
of selecting their Superintendent, they may have killed the bill...
http://www.state-journal.com/opinion/2015/03/22/senate-left-citizens-hanging
Eliza Jane Schaeffer, Jamie Smith and
Andrew Brennen are members of the Prichard Committee Student Voice
Team. On the steps to the Senate, Nicole Fielder and Gentry Fitch
spoke out against the Amendment riders filed by Senators Embry and
Robinson on House Bill 236.
#studentsuperbill
Representative Derrick Graham, D -
Frankfort, is the sponsor of HB 236.
The political arena
leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue. -
Emma Goldman
“Historically, the
most terrible things—war, genocide, and slavery—have resulted not
from disobedience, but from obedience.” ~Howard Zinn
“Reform is for people
who have government connections. Revolution is for the people.”
~Malcolm X
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SB39: M. Wilson
AN ACT relating to school safety.
Amend KRS 158.162 to require public schools to consult with
local and state safety officials and National Weather Service and
Federal Emergency Management Agency guiding principles when
identifying the best available severe weather safe zones.
SB 39 - AMENDMENTS
HFA (1, R. Nelson) - Allow a school district to be open on Primary Election Day 2015, if no school in the district is used as a polling place; EMERGENCY.
HFA (2/Title, R. Nelson) - Make title amendment.
HFA (3, R. Nelson) - For the 2014-2015 school year, require
the commissioner of education to approve a request from a local board
of education to waive up to five days of the student instructional
year if 20 or more instructional days have been missed or up to 10
days of the student instructional year if 30 or more instructional
days have been missed; EMERGENCY.
HFA (4/Title, R. Nelson) - Make title amendment.
HFA (5, J. Greer) - Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158
requiring high schools to include CPR training in the health
education curriculum.
HFA (6/Title, J. Greer) - Make title amendment.
This bill forces
school districts to get in touch with local and state safety
officials and National Weather Service and Federal Emergency
Management folks to find out where the severe weather safe zones are.
That seems
unnecessary. One must be mandated—required--to consult with others
to find out where the safe zones are in their own communities?
I don't get it.
It's a good idea, but for it to be legislated into infinite permanent
law?
One Amendment
rider says that schools can wave 5 to 10 days of the school year
because of snow days.
That's house
cleaning... though, what's 10 days past the original date school was
supposed to end?
In some respects,
students and their parents should feel deprived of their
Constitutionally mandated right to a full year's education... but
it's 5 to 10 days.
Another Amendment
rider allows schools to stay open on primary day, as long it isn't
used as a polling location for the public.
I don't like that
Amendment. Election Days should be sacred in a democracy.
Senate Bill 39 is
actually 3 Bills wrapped into one, and 2 of those Bills are crap.
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Senate Bill 10 (2015)
S. Humphries, D.
Givens, CB Embry Jr.
AN ACT relating to strokes.
Amend KRS 216B.0425 to define the terms "acute stroke ready hospital certification" and "comprehensive stroke center certification"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to maintain a list of acute stroke ready hospitals, comprehensive stroke centers, and primary stroke centers, post the list on its Web site, and provide the list to the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services; require the board to provide the list to local emergency medical services providers; amend KRS 311A.180 to require emergency medical services directors to establish pre-hospital care protocols for the assessment, treatment, and transport of stroke patients; and amend other statutes to correct references to the Joint Commission. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB10.htm
Mar 19-signed by Governor (Acts, Ch. 9)
This is house cleaning it seems, and therefore, I remain neutral
about Senate Bill 10.
Senate Bill 10 is a CB Embry Jr. bill, which doesn't bode well in
it's favor.
xxx
I was very impressed with the “Cap the Co-pay” lobbying effort,
and their website. I signed up, and my detailed letter was sent to my
local representative, and to the House leader, and both of them
responded to me on it (Stumbo, Schamore).
xxx
On the Heroin Bill, Sannie Overly, a lawyer-politician, my Democratic
competition, attached a $10 Million Dollar Amendment rider for
treatment AND for prosecution.
Oh yeah... a lawyer-politician pushing for $10 Million Dollars for
prosecution... of course. That's the point of the harsher penalties
for Heroin. For the drug dealers and the white collar mafia to profit
handsomely off of it.
http://www.centralkynews.com/jessaminejournal/news/local/general-assembly-session-nearing-end/article_57c6f36c-cd9b-11e4-8ebc-7f0dd86e99ec.html
“Frankly, what you've done is direct the Secretary (of the
Justice and Public Safety Cabinet) to find this $10 million in
his budget,” said Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Taylor Mill. Tilley
assured his fellow conferees, “We're told it's hard money,”
meaning it exists and is available in the state budget. He said he
would get details and provide them later.
http://www.kentucky.com/2015/03/19/3755688/kentucky-senate-president-hasnt.html#storylink=cpy
House Democrats are in favor of needle exchanges to help ease those
Heroin addicts off of their addiction, but Senate Republicans are
against it.
Senate Republicans want harsh punishments for low-level heroin users.
If you have a gram of Heroin, then you're committing a Class C Felony
now, instead of just a Class D Felony.
For 1 gram of Heroin, Senate Republicans wants you to spend 10 years
in prison with no possibility of parole until 5 years served.
House Democrats want a “Good
Samaritan” provision put into the law, in case somebody is
overdosing on Heroin, and therefore the person who takes the Heroin
overdosing person to the hospital, or calls the ambulance will be
shielded from prosecution.
Senate Republicans want to punish those
Good Samaritans as well.
Senate Republicans are psychopaths who
have no ability to empathize with others. And they aren't handling
the drug problems as a public health issue, which it is.
http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/ky-legislature/2015/03/19/heroin-compromise-sought-legislators-meet/25023643/
http://www.kentucky.com/2015/03/19/3755688/kentucky-senate-president-hasnt.html#storylink=cpy
27
Kentuckians died of a Heroin overdose in 2014.
xxx
The teachers’ pension fund is 52-percent funded.
The state employees’ pension fund is 21-percent funded.
xxx
“The
revolution is not a moment or a day. The revolution is a way of
life.” ~Tupac
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