Truth

Written by me in 2005 to sum up how I felt at a deposition in my case against L.B Memorial Hospital and Dr. Kooshian:

The truth.
Where is the truth?
How does one find it?
People sit and swear to tell it.
They affirm to deities to defend it.
They profess their love of it.
And then evade it…
coat it…
dodge it…
colour it…
Lawyers jockey [...]

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Morning Edit Video

A quick read thru of the HuffPost article on video.

Morning Edit-We’re All Human from Karelchannel [...]

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Time For A Little Humanity

If We Stand Back And Take A Breath, We’ll Choke Up
By Charles Karel Bouley II

We’re so many things, each of us. We’re male, female, gay, straight, we’re progressive or conservative, we’re black, white, Latino, we’re husband, wife, son, daughter, we’re American, we’re immigrant, we’re blue or red or purple, we’re so many adjectives these days, so [...]

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Stop the Gayhunt on Massa

Stop the GayHunt And Refocus on the War
By Charles Karel Bouley

Rep . Patrick Kennedy got all fired up on the floor of the Congress Thursday, March 11, 2010, veins bulging, spittle flying….why? He was angry that while the Congress debates Afghanistan and the $3 Billion dollar a year escalation there are two members of the press [...]

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Dear President Obama

Dear Mr. President:

Greetings. I would like to speak to you today about your permeating theme of bipartisanship, particularly in regards to healthcare, but also on a  broader scale and also the populist anger that many keep referring to in the country today; you see, they both are related.

Like you, I talk to many people for a [...]

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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Bother Me With Fringe

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Bother With Fringe Benefits

by Charles Karel Bouley

According to estimates from the Census Bureau somewhere between 2.8 and 3.5 percent of the active military and reserves are members of the GLBT community, or out of 1.5 million active duty, about 75,000-80,000.

Three percent. Now, according to the Gallup polling organization there is no [...]

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Karel on Facebook

OK, I have a facebook account for me and my friends. Don’t take this wrong, many of you are my extended friends and family but extended, not someone who I call weekly or even have the numbers. So, for Facebook, please sign up to this group:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=59874721829

I will be announcing through it My live appearance Thursday, Feb [...]

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Mr. Cooper, Bigotry Lives On

The lead defense attorney in the Prop8 case, Charles Cooper, the lawyer that actually knows that this violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution but still defends inequality, has asked the judge in the case to destroy the video tapes of the proceedings so far. The U.S. Supreme, signaling how they will vote when [...]

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In Afghanistan, the Way Forward is the Way Home

The Only Way Forward is the Way Home
by Charles Karel Bouley

December 1, 2009, World AIDS Day, President Barack Obama came forward in front of shiny new cadets at Westpoint to make his case for not only the continued war in Afghanistan but for an escalation, a surge. The speech was to be decisive, it was to [...]

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It’s Not Maine’s Fault, It’s the Country’s

It’s Not Maine, It’s All of Us
by Charles Karel Bouley

People are bigots. Yes, most believe that their opinion is the right one and often refuse to bend on many issues. Maine’s repeal of the their same sex marriage law is proof of that. But it’s not the bigots in Maine, in California or any other state [...]

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