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Sunday, February 24, 2013
Another milestone for full equality in America
From the Kansas City Star yesterday:
The Obama Administration on Friday called for the US Supreme Court to declare the federal government's 1996 ban on same-sex marriage benefits unconstitutional, saying that "gay and lesbian people have been subject to a significant history of discrimination in this country."
The brief marked the first time a president has endorsed same-sex marriage rights in the Supreme Court.
After all, we all remember that "All men are created equal..." part of our Constitution, right?
Right?
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Missouri's state-sponsored inequality
The Kansas City Star has an excellent page in the op/ed section this morning, showing the winners and losers of the past week in the state capitols of Missouri and Kansas.
It's a terrific idea on their part.
It gives a pretty concise, if brief and encapsulated overview of what our legislators worked on and did or didn't do the past week.
It also tells, like 3 of my posts earlier this week, how they wasted their and so, our, time and money with their "work."
They pointed out that, nearly unbelievably, the Missouri legislature worked to make it illegal to discriminate against gun owners but that--wait for it--it's still legal to fire someone in the workplace if someone finds out they are same-sex attracted. Read: gay or homosexual.
And here you thought we were all equal in the United States.
As my brother will occasionally, for humor, say to me, quoting an old, favorite Doonesbury comic I love so much:
"Dream on you fascists."
(Click on comic for larger, better viewing)
These two legislatures seem to want to make us more and more like the worst attributes of the Right Wing, red-neck Southern states.
Pitiful.
Link: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627515/the-stars-editorial-lawmakers.html
It's a terrific idea on their part.
It gives a pretty concise, if brief and encapsulated overview of what our legislators worked on and did or didn't do the past week.
It also tells, like 3 of my posts earlier this week, how they wasted their and so, our, time and money with their "work."
They pointed out that, nearly unbelievably, the Missouri legislature worked to make it illegal to discriminate against gun owners but that--wait for it--it's still legal to fire someone in the workplace if someone finds out they are same-sex attracted. Read: gay or homosexual.
And here you thought we were all equal in the United States.
As my brother will occasionally, for humor, say to me, quoting an old, favorite Doonesbury comic I love so much:
"Dream on you fascists."
(Click on comic for larger, better viewing)
These two legislatures seem to want to make us more and more like the worst attributes of the Right Wing, red-neck Southern states.
Pitiful.
Link: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627515/the-stars-editorial-lawmakers.html
Monday, February 20, 2012
The "agenda" is merely equal rights
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Thursday, December 15, 2011
On this day in history: The First Amendment. Remember that?
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
First Amendment in the Bill of Rights created September 25, 1789 and ratified December 15, 1791.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Scary, shallow stuff
Yesterday, I took a moment to read some letters to the editor in the local paper, The Kansas City Star, and got reintroduced to some pretty brutal ignorance.
One man wrote rather heatedly about how horrible the "Liberal Agenda" is:
Sick of the liberal agenda
"I would have to agree with Noelle Moll (6/29, Letters) that those pushing for government health care are playing with the numbers. But what are a few embellishments or downright lies when it comes to getting your agenda rammed down the throats of the American people? That’s business as usual for this administration and this Congress, whether it’s the bailout, global warming, the auto industry, funding for ACORN, health care, Big Oil — it goes on and on.
They lie to get elected, they lie to hang on to the power they receive once they get elected, and then they abuse it at the expense of the American taxpayer. And we’re supposed to respect them because they are elected officials, yet they have no respect for us. The government has no interest in facts if they get in the way of the agenda, and the media have no interest in the truth if it doesn’t sell."
Mark Haskell, Olathe
Big Oil? He's complaining about Big Oil now, when George W. Bush--Mr. Big Oil himself--already left the White House? That's rich.
I have news for Mr. Haskell--unless he's wealthy, that health care fix the President, Democrats and all us "Liberals" want is because, as most any doctor will tell you, the system is horribly broken, expensive and in need of repair and replacement and it's for all Americans. Mr. Haskell is, at minimum, middle class with health care coverage and, predictably, healthy up to this point and without any history of medical problems of his own.
Then there's the people from Central Missouri on Highway 13 who wrote "Obama is America's Hitler Goodbye Freedom" on the road.
Ai-yi-yi.
The last President we had--and that for all 8 years--took away all kinds of personal Constitutional rights and these people were fine with it. Apparently, if the guy doing it is white, it's all okay because, hey, he's "one of us", right?
But if the next President faces the same problems and he's from the "other party" and, worst of all, African-American, well, surely, then, he's coming to take our guns and put Socialism deeply into our government.
???
I don't know how you go from that first logic to the second but a lot of people both in this area and country, think just this way.
They're uninformed, they're angry, they're armed and they're convinced they're absolutely well-informed and correct, both.
A dangerous, dangerous situation.
Links to stories:
http://blog.showmeprogress.com/diary/3136/a-right-wingnut-interpretation-of-missouris-adopt-a-highway-program
One man wrote rather heatedly about how horrible the "Liberal Agenda" is:
Sick of the liberal agenda
"I would have to agree with Noelle Moll (6/29, Letters) that those pushing for government health care are playing with the numbers. But what are a few embellishments or downright lies when it comes to getting your agenda rammed down the throats of the American people? That’s business as usual for this administration and this Congress, whether it’s the bailout, global warming, the auto industry, funding for ACORN, health care, Big Oil — it goes on and on.
They lie to get elected, they lie to hang on to the power they receive once they get elected, and then they abuse it at the expense of the American taxpayer. And we’re supposed to respect them because they are elected officials, yet they have no respect for us. The government has no interest in facts if they get in the way of the agenda, and the media have no interest in the truth if it doesn’t sell."
Mark Haskell, Olathe
Big Oil? He's complaining about Big Oil now, when George W. Bush--Mr. Big Oil himself--already left the White House? That's rich.
I have news for Mr. Haskell--unless he's wealthy, that health care fix the President, Democrats and all us "Liberals" want is because, as most any doctor will tell you, the system is horribly broken, expensive and in need of repair and replacement and it's for all Americans. Mr. Haskell is, at minimum, middle class with health care coverage and, predictably, healthy up to this point and without any history of medical problems of his own.
Then there's the people from Central Missouri on Highway 13 who wrote "Obama is America's Hitler Goodbye Freedom" on the road.
Ai-yi-yi.
The last President we had--and that for all 8 years--took away all kinds of personal Constitutional rights and these people were fine with it. Apparently, if the guy doing it is white, it's all okay because, hey, he's "one of us", right?
But if the next President faces the same problems and he's from the "other party" and, worst of all, African-American, well, surely, then, he's coming to take our guns and put Socialism deeply into our government.
???
I don't know how you go from that first logic to the second but a lot of people both in this area and country, think just this way.
They're uninformed, they're angry, they're armed and they're convinced they're absolutely well-informed and correct, both.
A dangerous, dangerous situation.
Links to stories:
http://blog.showmeprogress.com/diary/3136/a-right-wingnut-interpretation-of-missouris-adopt-a-highway-program
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