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Monday, January 15, 2018

People Whom I Can't Understand Vote Republican



Herewith, a short list of people who I cannot, for the life of me, understand why they would be or call themselves or, God forbid, vote Republican.

  • Gays
  • Transgendered
  • Black Americans
  • Middle Class Americans
  • Lower Class Americans
  • Elderly (unless they're already wealthy, of course)
  • Women
  • People in the military
  • Veterans
  • Anyone with an education
  • Anyone who considers themselves to be Christian

I just don't get it.

God knows they're out there but...

Wow.

Links:



How Voter ID Laws Discriminate Against Racial Minorities




AARP warns senators against supporting GOP healthcare bill














Friday, September 9, 2016

Missouri In the News


Yes sir, Missouri is in the news today. These are both from The New York Times.

First this, on our own Senator Claire McCaskill's in put on Hillary Clinton and her race for the White House.

Did Hillary Clinton Have to Be First?


Senator Claire McCaskill and the Times columnist Gail Collins talk about gender, politics and the presidency in our latest podcast.

Then this, on Missouri's Miss America pageant entry presently.


I would never have seen that coming. I would have thought this would be out of New York or Florida or California or nearly any other state but not us, not here.

Enjoy your weekend, y'all.


Friday, July 22, 2016

Question for the Republican Party


How on Earth do you have a presidential candidate, on the last night of your big, once every four years political convention, go on for over an hour, promising the sun and the moon and the stars and balanced budgets and a wall between us and Mexico and equality to the LGBTQ community (who saw that coming?) and who knows what else and then, at the very end, once he's finally, finally finished, how is it you play "Can't Always Get What You Want" by the Rolling Stones?


How do you do that?

Was that code for "Suckers! You're no way getting all I just promised you!"?

What the heck was that?

It's not even the first time this was a thing for The Donald.

'You can't always get what you want,' 

Stones tell Trump


It must be his way of telling the Stones, "up yours."

Hopefully.

That or he just told the American public that all he just promised was nonsense.

Not that that wouldn't make some twisted, Trump-sense.


Monday, May 9, 2016

Think the Bible Is Against Same Sex Attraction?


Sure, some do think the Christian Bible is against same sex couples, against homosexuals and homosexuality.

It's because of this one little line--one--from Leviticus 18:22:

"You shall not lie with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination."
Know what else Leviticus says?  Too many don't.


The Christian Left's photo.

And this is just part of what the book from the "Good Book" says. There's more, besides.

Do you know what Jesus said about gays?

Nada.

Nothing.

Not one thing.


Tuesday, July 14, 2015

These Are the Days, My Friends


It's actually a pretty incredible time to be alive.

Millions more Americans recently came much closer to having full equality here in their own nation.

Greece just got yet one more cash bailout from it's Eurozone members yesterday.

It was announced today, Tuesday, that a nuclear agreement between Iran and 6 other nations to keep them from getting nuclear weapons was reached, taking off economic sanctions.

And there's a flyby of our satellite near Pluto today.

Big times. These are incredible times, indeed.


We take things so for granted.


Monday, July 13, 2015

Missourians, Lamenting Equality in America


Sadly, shamefully, really, Dent County, Missouri, Southeast of Fort Leonard Wood, is mixing their religion and opinions with government just now, it seems.



That these people would, as I said above, laament or protest further equality busting out in our country is not just sad but wrong and unjust. It's not completely surprising but it is unfortunate, certainly.


Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Right Wing, "Conservative", Religious, Supposedly "Christian", Republican Springfield Repeals Equality


There's a shocker, huh?


The bigots from the pews won.

This one, this time.

The thing is, what they don't recognize is that we all want equality.

This is America, right?

Didn't we always say, haven't we always been told, from grade school? that "...all men are created equal"?

What too many don't recognize is that the opposite of equality id discrimination.


Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Quote of the day -- On True Small Government


The guy who was, at the time, the ultimate, utmost Conservative and Republican, Barry Goldwater (Google him or check him out on Wikipedia or something, if you must). He was the Convervative's Conservative. He was Conservative long before Conservative was the "cool" it is today:

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Kansas, in the news. Again. Some more.


And as usual of late, it ain't pretty:


A bit from the article:

Here's more of that slippery slope analysts have been talking about in the wake of the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision. If you can now legally discriminate against women in the workplace, Kansas religious conservatives are thinking, you can legally discriminate against the gays.

The Associated Press reported this weekend that social conservatives believe they have an opening to bring the state's religious freedom bill back in 2015. The legislation failed this spring; it passed the House, but stalled in the Senate after significant backlash from business groups. It would have prevented businesses from being sued if they refused to serve LGBT people for religious reasons.
"We are not going to let it die. We are very committed," Rev. Terry Fox, a leading Southern Baptist minister, told the AP. "The Body of Christ is a powerful movement when it comes together."
There's a cheery thought, huh?
It begs the question, though.  I can see the bumper sticker now:  WWJH?
Who WOULD Jesus hate?


Friday, April 11, 2014

Senate Republicans turn American history on its head


I don't know if you were paying attention two days ago but, as the title above says, Senate Republicans just further turned American history on its head.

I think all of us were taught, in grade school and middle and high school, all, that America was about equality and fairness.

Right?

Well, nuts to all that, say those Senate Republicans, yet one more time with their vote Wednesday this week:


Despite weeks of heavy messaging, Democrats failed to get a single GOP vote as the third attempt in recent years to pass the wage equality legislation fell six votes short.
“The promise of equal pay for equal work should not be a partisan issue — it should be a matter of common sense and fairness, an essential step for the security of our families, the growth of our economy, and the strength of our middle class,” Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement after the vote.
“Unfortunately, Senate Republicans disagree,” she added.
I say again, why any woman--any woman--in this nation would vote Republican, for this political party or for anyone in it is beyond me.
Now that I'm at it, why would black Americans vote for them? Republicans have come out against renewing the Civil Rights Act. 
Gays? Republicans are famously, famously against equality here, too, for gay Americans.
The elderly? Unless their wealthy, of course?  Republicans are for dismantling Social Security.
Hispanics? Republicans are notoriously against immigration reform of virtually any sort.
It truly seems the only people left to vote Republican are white, wealthy men.
Well, and any middle- and lower-class American the Republicans are able to dupe.

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Republicans against equal pay for women


With this result yesterday:


What woman, what working woman would vote Republican?

What woman, Hispanic, black, gay or elderly person would vote for this political party, for that matter?

I just don't get it.

Saturday, June 1, 2013

Local basketball player makes waves nationally


A local basketball player made big headlines and national news this week and was on MSN Fox Sports:

 
 
College hoopster opens up about coming out
 
 
Benedictine College's Jallen Messersmith adjusting to becoming a national story

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — With each passing day, the closet becomes a little less crowded, a little less scary, a little less dark and sheltered. Jallen Messersmith isn’t doing this for applause or a shoe deal or a reality show or martyrdom. This isn’t about being the wrecking ball; it’s about being another link in the chain that swings it. It’s about a cycle in which the news isn’t news anymore.

“I think it’s just inevitable for it to happen everywhere,” says Messersmith, a 6-foot-7 sophomore forward at Benedictine (Kan.) College, believed to be the first active openly gay player in U.S. men’s college basketball.

“At this point, it’s just going to happen (where) it slowly becomes less and less of a (newsworthy) thing, and people are becoming more and more comfortable with it. And I think it’s just a matter of time before it happens in every sport.”

Messersmith, a native of the Kansas City suburb of Blue Springs, Mo., came out to his teammates last fall, and then to the rest of the world on Tuesday, via Outsports.com, a story that has since gone national. To Jallen, the point wasn’t the trailblazing, but the trail itself. After all, what good is carving a path that nobody else has the stones to follow?

And good--no, great, for him.

Are we Americans or not? Are we about equality or not? Isn't that who we're supposed to be and what we're supposed to be about?

And the thing is, if you're under, say, 30? 35 years old?  maybe even older--it's not even an issue.  Not remotely.