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14th report of session 2006-07: drawing special attention to: draft Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007; draft Parliamentary Constituencies ... Information Pack (Redress Scheme) Order 2007
Author: Merits of Statutory Instruments Committee
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Company: TSO (The Stationery Office) (2007-03-15)
ISBN: 0104851546
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Race Equality Scheme and Action Plan
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Company: The Healthcare Commission (2007-11)
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Equality in occupational pensions: TUC discussion document on equal treatment for men and women in occupational pension schemes
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Resolved Question: Do you realize how lucky we are?
If you look back on the history of the world, there has never been a better time for people to live, than the last 50 years in America. And for that matter, some of the other countries around the world. Sure, there are many problems and we had all of the equality issues, but thats very small in the scheme of things. People are treated fairly and everyone has an equal shot at properity. There is no caste system, and noboy is regarded as useless in our society. On a cold winter day like today, remember that a mere 2000 years ago, people had to travel by foot or animal, live outside, and shoot their food. If you went hungry, you just went hungry. Today, we have automobiles, grocery stores, and the government is willing to help anyone in need. At a time when everyone and everything seems so bad, reflect back on those poor souls 2000 years ago that had to sleep outside and raise a family through bitterly cold winters with no guaranteed food supply. We are so lucky to live at this time in world history. Any thoughts or comments?
isn't that what I said borked?
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Resolved Question: Do you realize how lucky we are?
If you look back on the history of the world, there has never been a better time for people to live, than the last 50 years in America. And for that matter, some of the other countries around the world. Sure, there are many problems and we had all of the equality issues, but thats very small in the scheme of things. People are treated fairly and everyone has an equal shot at properity. There is no caste system, and noboy is regarded as useless in our society. On a cold winter day like today, remember that a mere 2000 years ago, people had to travel by foot or animal, live outside, and shoot their food. If you went hungry, you just went hungry. Today, we have automobiles, grocery stores, and the government is willing to help anyone in need. At a time when everyone and everything seems so bad, reflect back on those poor souls 2000 years ago that had to sleep outside and raise a family through bitterly cold winters with no guaranteed food supply. We are so lucky to live at this time in world history. Any thoughts or comments?
yes, I am....and you know what, there is no reason anyone goes hungry accept by their own doing. There are programs for everyone, ESPECIALLY children.
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Resolved Question: How do my words make you feel?
I posted this on my myspace and facebook to hopefully help up the spirits of my friends and everyone else who is fighting for equality for all. Tell me your general impression of what I wrote. (I obviously have a certain view about the presidential election, but that's in no way a blanket statement about all prop 8 opponents.
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Dear friends, as you all may have heard by now, the projection has finally been made that prop 8 has passed by a margin of 52% to 48%. That news puts forth a sobering reality to many, a reality so harsh that it numbs the fact that our country overwhelmingly elected the country?s first African-American President. Yesterday was a monumental day, yet today, I cannot shake off the overwhelming solemn mood lingering around. Voters in California decided to ban same-sex marriage, an issue that has been so hotly contested, yet at the same time, so simple. The right to marry was taken away from thousands of people, people who are just like you and I. The Yes on 8 campaign was run using fear tactics, instilling fear into voters by telling them their children will be taught about gay marriage. Quite the tangent from the issue, wasn?t it? I saw an interview with someone who voted yes on 8 (yes, I actually stomached it.). She said her reasoning, was that she didn?t want schools teaching her children about gay marriage, she wanted to teach it to him. The No on 8 campaign clarified that this has nothing to do with schools, but apparently the message fell upon deaf ears.
In the greater scheme of things, I think this was bigger than just gay marriage. In some ways, I don?t even think the reason the proposition passed was because it was a ban on same-sex marriage. I believe this was a strong indication of the attitudes of the voters towards homosexuality. I?m not saying everyone who voted no on 8 was 100% approving of homosexuality. But with tolerance comes a greater understanding of ?the other side,? and helps people understand that regardless of how you vote, homosexuality is here to stay. The Yes on 8 campaign effectively targeted parents of children, who are no small part of the electorate. It?s possible they thought that if schools began to teach gay marriage in schools, then perhaps their child would want to become homosexual. As absurd as it sounds, there are people who actually still believe being gay is a choice. With the lingering stigma of homosexuality still apparent, it became: No, my child will not be gay. After coming out to my parents, they became more conscious of the issues that the LGBT community faces, and more aware that the people of the LGBT community are fundamentally no different than you or I. (Both voted against 8, as well as my 84 year old grandfather, who has been religious his entire life.) It?s a matter of asymmetric information; people are afraid of the unfamiliar, and since they are afraid, then surely they won?t want their kids exposed. It?s the basic instinct of protecting one?s young.
Although Prop 8 passed, I have a feeling this isn?t the end of the debate on same-sex marriage in California. I?ve already gotten word of 2 lawsuits going to the California Supreme Court regarding the ballot measure. What does this mean? This means that there?s still hope. What if the lawsuits are dismissed? This means there?s still hope. In just the span of 8 years, the opponents of gay marriage have lost 10%. As homosexuality becomes more main stream and more people are exposed to it, there is no doubt in my mind that equality for all will once again reign supreme in California and across the United States.
As much as it hurts to see rights being taken away, we mustn?t forget, America has voted for changed. Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States. With his candidacy, we have been promised fundamental change. We, the people, overwhelmingly embraced that hope for change last night. However, as President-elect Obama stated in his acceptance speech: ?This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were.? Today, with the passing of Prop 8, we see how things were and have always been. We mustn?t see this as the end of the movement of equality for all. We must see this as another setback that we will over come. We must see this as an opportunity for us to galvanize and further fight for our cause.
Lastly, I?d like to encourage my fellow No on 8 supporters. It is not over, my friends, our cause is just and we shall persevere. However, despite the aching of our hearts, we must never resort to hate and anger to express our feelings. I?m deeply hurt by the passing of 8, but I see it as an opportunity to usher in even more support to equality for all. I completely understand the desire to accuse groups as a whole for contributing to this abhorrent proposition. However, kno
However, know that there are people in every group who support our cause. Christians, Mormons, certain minority groups, and all other groups do not unilaterally exhibit one belief or another towards same-sex marriage. So please, don?t harbor animosity toward any group of people, besides, isn?t that what?s happening in prop 8? Equal rights never come easily. You may be disheartened today, but the fight isn?t over. If you are prepared to carry on the battle, then let?s go ahead and win this war.
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Resolved Question: Plz help me find juxtaposition in this poem!!!!!!!!!!!?
In class we have to find juxtaposition in Let America be America Again by Langston Hughes....if you dont know what juxtaposition is...it is like a contrast between two things but i dont understand in this poem plz help
Here is the poem:
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
(It never was America to me.)
O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.
(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")
Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek--
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one's own greed!
I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean--
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today--O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.
Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That's made America the land it has become.
O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home--
For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,
And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa's strand I came
To build a "homeland of the free."
The free?
Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we've dreamed
And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held
And all the flags we've hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay--
Except the dream that's almost dead today.
O, let America be America again--
The land that never has been yet--
And yet must be--the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine--the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME--
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.
Sure, call me any ugly name you choose--
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath--
America will be!
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain--
All, all the stretch of these great green states--
And make America again!
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Resolved Question: Are you aware Andrew Jackson vetoed renewal of a Central Bank?
For the same thing that is happening right now?
Renewal of the Second Bank was vetoed on November 24, 1832 by Andrew Jackson, and it slowly declined until the expiration of its charter in 1836
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bank_of_the_United_States#Background
The Second Bank of the United States was authorized for a twenty year period during James Madison's tenure in 1816. As President, Jackson worked to rescind the bank's federal charter. In Jackson's veto message (written by George Bancroft), the bank needed to be abolished because:
It concentrated the nation's financial strength in a single institution.
It exposed the government to control by foreign interests.
It served mainly to make the rich richer.
It exercised too much control over members of Congress.
It favored northeastern states over southern and western states.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_jackson#Opposition_to_the_National_Bank
Andrew Jacksons Bank Veto Message, exerpt:
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society the farmers, mechanics, and laborers who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their Government. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. In the act before me there seems to be a wide and unnecessary departure from these just principles.
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/P/aj7/writings/veto.htm
Do you feel the premise of this message is relevant today? There was also The First Bank of the United States, which was abolished for similar reasons. We have switched back and forth from a gold standard on three different occasions.
In most cases, a fiat monetary system comes into existence as a result of excessive public debt. When the government is unable to repay all its debt in gold or silver, the temptation to remove physical backing rather than to default becomes irresistible. This was the case in 18th century France during the Law scheme, as well as in the 70s in the US, when Nixon removed the last link between the dollar and gold which is still in effect today.
Hyper-inflation is the terminal stage of any fiat currency. In hyper-inflation, money looses most of its value practically overnight. Hyper-inflation is often the result of increasing regular inflation to the point where all confidence in money is lost. In a fiat monetary system, the value of money is based on confidence, and once that confidence is gone, money irreversibly becomes worthless, regardless of its scarcity. Gold has replaced every fiat currency for the past 3000 years.
The United States has so far avoided hyper-inflation by shifting between a fiat and gold standard over the past 200 years.
http://www.kwaves.com/fiat.html
Didn't figure I'd get many answers to this. It actually has relevance to our little economic problem. Back to arguing about McCain's age and Obama's terrorist ties, I guess......
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Resolved Question: lesbian or straight, flurting or ?
a girl Made eye contact by looking at me from a distance of a few meters and kept looking at me alot and made eye contact when I looked at her too. She did this many times, fiddled with her hair and kept moving it back etc. And kept looking at me. And kept looking straight at me like making eye conact by looking straight at eachothers eyes when we could.
I'm a guy and I'm starting to like her. But then I found out she supports gay, lesbian and bisexuals and took part in a few consultation papers like the city council equality schemes like gender equality and gay lesbian and bi rights scheme.
She always looks at me and touches her hair.
I just worry because of those consultations and stuff.
But then I think she looks at me and fliers a little so she is straight.
I'm a guy and I like her. I just worry and I don't want to make a fool out of my self by asking her.
What do you think. Does she like me and am I worrying for nothing or what.
Please your answers mean alot. I hope I'm just worrying for nothing. She seems to like me alot.
Just the consultation papers worry me. And I like her. And I don't want things to go wrong.
Do you think she's straight and likes me.
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Resolved Question: Is McBush trying to prevent Americans from purchasing regulated prescriptive drugs from Canada?
The McCain-Snowe-Dorgan S. 2328, Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act of 2004.: This is a scheme cooked up by McCain and two other liberals to permit US drugs exported to Canada to be reimported to the US at the controlled prices Canadians pay for those drugs.
Indeed, the sponsors of this bill have issued statements that indicate that they really do want to force prices toward equality?but equality at levels set by socialized medical systems abroad. Sen. Dorgan writes, for example, ?The Pharmaceutical Market Access Act would create a competitive marketplace so that Americans can purchase FDA-approved drugs at the much lower prices available in other countries.?69 Sen. Edward Kennedy, a bill sponsor, echoes that view: ?Bipartisan legislation introduced by Senators Dorgan, Snowe, McCain, Daschle, myself, and others will, at long last, give American patients a fair deal. . . . It will enable U.S. consumers to buy FDAapproved drugs at the same fair prices as they are sold.
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Resolved Question: Is this racist housing policy?
being reintroduced simply to benefit the Bangladeshi community?
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/content/towerhamlets/advertiser/news/story.aspx?brand=ELAOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsela&itemid=WeED15%20May%202008%2013%3A27%3A06%3A710
A HOUSING strategy dumped for being "racist" in the 1990s could be brought back to prevent the break up of a new generation of families in London's East End.
The Sons and Daughters scheme, which was scrapped almost 20 years ago after a ruling by the Commission for Racial Equality, could return to tackle the growing need for housing in Tower Hamlets.
But it caused uproar after Labour politicians classed it as racist, saying it discriminated against new arrivals from the Bangladeshi community.
But almost two decades on, with a dramatically changed population demographic, a 20,000-plus housing waiting list, and, according to the Town Hall, Bangladeshi offspring particularly unable to find homes near their parents
Thingy:
your comments are idiotic- the council has made clear that the policy is being instigated to help the Bangladeshi community-
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Resolved Question: on, Let America be America Again, what do you think are the issues in America from his poem?
et America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
(It never was America to me.)
O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.
(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")
Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the ***** bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek--
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one's own greed!
I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the *****, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean--
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today--O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.
Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That's made America the land it has become.
O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home--
For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,
And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa's strand I came
To build a "homeland of the free."
The free?
Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we've dreamed
And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held
And all the flags we've hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay--
Except the dream that's almost dead today.
O, let America be America again--
The land that never has been yet--
And yet must be--the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine--the poor man's, Indian's, *****'s, ME--
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.
Sure, call me any ugly name you choose--
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath--
America will be!
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain--
All, all the stretch of these great green states--
And make America again!
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Resolved Question: Is feminist a sexist term?
Just making a mountain out of a molehill.....or am I..... Also, I noticed that this question sems to have been asked frequently...but not in the same context that I'm posting this..
I'm asking this because I was thinking about the meanings that people have given about feminism. Comments like "Oh, feminism is all about equality for everyone!" While I do agree with that meaning behind the general scheme of feminism (Mostly Liberal), I'm still a little confused. You see...its about the word itself. Why is it called "Feminism" instead of "Equalism" or something along those lines...? Doesn't the word "Feminism" show a little bit of sexism this way?
(Dictionary.com)
1. the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
According to this, would it be right to make the assumption that women, in today's society, still feel like men have tons of rights socially, politically, etc just because of our gender?
I can totally agree with that Rio.
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