I Hope Every Adult Missourian Has Seen or Sees This Video

I saw this on social media in the last week and was thrilled the man was out there, testifying for his daughter but ecstatic that he was also from Missouri. Mr. Brandon Boulware was testifying why transgender people should be allowed to be themselves in our state including playing in sports. Kudos, Mr. Boulware and thank you for this, your testimony. You spoke perfectly and very eloquently on the subject. I'm sure it wasn't easy and hasn't been easy. Now here's hoping we can get beyond the narrow and narrow-minded Right Wingers and Republicans and not have anyone put into law that transgender citizens can't be themselves and play sports.

Quote of the day -- on holding and keeping America back

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What's going on

So, yesterday, before breakfast--on our way to breakfast, really--we read in the newspaper (it wasn't on CNN, amazingly enough-- I guess no boobs were involved so it's not news) that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were being "seized" (scary, huh?) by the Federal Government and another bank failed. (see yesterday's entry).

Then, after breakfast, driving to a lesson on tile installation (for the kitchen, if you must know), we drove past one young man, with his car windows down, yelling into his car phone about how--"Oh, yeah?--well, I been cheatin' on your ass for a LONG time!"

Nice.

Then, a very short time later, in that same drive, a big, black SUV pulls up alongside our car at a stoplight, windows also down, radio blaring, so we could hear this person's preacher, at full voice, yelling of some outrage or another.

The point?

It seems that, with all the changes in our society--our falling financial and moral stature in the world (thank you, George W. Bush and everyone who voted Republican in the last 2 elections, along with anyone and everyone else at fault), we're sliding rather precipitously into a real 2nd-class world status, it seems.

With so many people either un- or under-insured, regarding healthcare, so many mortgages defaulting, so many in debt in so many ways--credit cards, more loans, etc., it's a lot to keep up with.

All this change is difficult to track and digest.

And you know how it is with changing societies.

In them, reactionary thoughts and feelings flood in. It's always been that way.

Everyone wants to go back to "the good ol' days".

It was true in Russia and the Soviet Union. Heck, it's still that way over there. They want a strong-armed dictator to tell everyone just how things are--and should be.

Trouble is, most people suffer from "going back".

Formerly for Hillary... now for McCain??

You gotta be kidding me:


Some Clinton Money Edges Toward McCain

Wednesday, July 09, 2008, 8:38:46 AM | Lindsay Renick Mayer

Hillary Clinton's endorsement of Barack Obama last month may not have been enough to win over some of her biggest donors. It seems Obama is struggling to gain favor with Clinton's financial supporters, while Republican John McCain is having some luck with them. In May, when Obama seemed to have his party's nomination in the bag, 115 donors who had given Clinton more than $1,000 donated at least that amount to Obama for the first time, according to CRP data cited in the Wall Street Journal. But an equal number also made their first big contributions to McCain that month. In 37 cases, the former Clinton supporters gave more money to McCain than they had contributed to Clinton, while that was true for only 19 Clinton donors who started giving to Obama. It will be interesting to look for movement by Clinton's donors in June, after she bowed out of the race, but that data won't become available until July 20.

originally from the Center for Responsive Politics web page:
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/atom.xml


What kind of sick, stupid or shallow dumbass could go from wanting Hillary Clinton as their next President, to wanting John "I don't care if they're there 100 years" McCain? Holy cow, people. You cannot possibly be so short-sighted to go from some kind of progressive stance to a reactionary twit. Really. No one can be that out and out stupid or bitter.

Ah, but I forget the intelligence of the American voter.

I give people too much credit, once again.