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More on Pine Ridge and Planned Parenthood.

My take on it is that it's probably not a scam, I suspect Ms. Fire Thunder spoke hastily and it got publicized well before any sort of concrete plans to do anything of the sort could be made -- kathrynt's post seemed to indicate that she was surprised at how quickly word had spread. Note that they don't say they're not going to build a clinic, they just didn't currently have any plans to do so at the time the letter was written. Since I mentioned the original article, I thought I'd include this as well so that people who were interested in donating for a clinic could have a more complete view of the situation before deciding whether to write a check.

Edit: vvalkyri points out a piece by cos on Daily Kos with more information. Check the comments as well.

that turned out less annoying than it could've

I just registered for php|tek in Orlando the week of April 24; unfortunately talking to a coworker about his Joe Satriani tickets reminded me that the Great Big Sea show I have good tickets for is around that time, which I had totally forgotten about. Luckily for me, it turns out to be that Friday night the 28th and the conference ends around mid-day on Friday. Now I just have to remember that when I try to book my flights and avoid tickets that will get me back in town after 7 PM.

Speaking of GBS, winterbadger, I assume this means I get to meet the fabulous A.? ;) I have the tickets in hand, by the way; they changed their mind about wil-call apparently.