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Alan Grayson’s New Congressional Ad

September 27, 2010August 10, 2015 365 Views 0 Comments Kathy Castor, Alan Grayson, talibangelist, republicans, american taliban, Democrats, Orlando, Tea Baggers

Unfortunately Alan Grayson is not my representative in Congress, but I sure wish he was. I don’t have anything against Cathy Kastor, my current representative, except that she’s the typical milquetoast Democrat. Alan Grayson doesn’t mind speaking truth to power, and he calls out the talibangelist views of his tea bagger opponent in this ad. And this guy has tried to pass some of his extreme religious views into law in Tallahassee. Democrats should take note, this is how the game has to be played for now.

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Alan Grayson's New Congressional Ad

September 27, 2010 B. John 365 Views 0 Comments Kathy Castor, Alan Grayson, talibangelist, republicans, american taliban, Democrats, Orlando, Tea Baggers

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Jan Brewer-Governor of Arizona-Just Wow

September 4, 2010August 10, 2015 339 Views 1 Comment Arizona, Debate, Governor, Jan Brewer

OK, so things are a little crazy in Arizona lately. I know they’re so concerned about the hordes of illegal aliens running over the boarder and destroying our economy (which the good bankers on Wall Street spent so much time creating for us), that they have to a pass a law that flies in the face of the Constitution. But I think opening statement in a recent gubanatorial debate for Arizona Governor explains a lot. It doesn’t get much freakier than this. I thought it might be a Saturday Night Live skit at first. As the title says, “Just Wow!”

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Tim Curtis Gets My Vote for U.S. House

August 4, 2010 B. John 371 Views 1 Comment Cathy Castor, Tim Curtis, 11th congressional district

OK, I admit I’d not given much thought to the Democratic Primary for 11th Congressional District. I’m not overly impressed with Cathy Castor, but she’s generally socially progressive, so I expected to vote for her. I frankly didn’t even know she had an opponent. That changed tonight, and Tim Curtis has earned my vote.

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Man Sues for Being Fired for Voting for Obama

October 14, 2009August 10, 2015 391 Views 0 Comments Politics, Litigation, Workplace, termination, Kansas, lawsuit

Wired.com has a story out of Kansas about a copier salesman who is Suing his former employer for wrongful termination. His claim is that his boss sent out e-mail telling employees they would be fired for voting for Obama. I’m not convinced on this one. What do you think about bringing electoral politics into the workplace?

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It Would Be Funny If It Weren’t So Scary

September 15, 2009August 10, 2015 500 Views 3 Comments Glenn Beck, Socialism, facism, Fox News, Communists, Tea Bagging, Tea Baggers

These are interviews with the 60,00 to 70,000 people who turned out for the big Tea Bagger March in Washington. Apparently, you don’t have to really know anything about what you’re protesting. It’s all just bad because it is Obama, and some industry or media flak like Glenn Beck told you to be mad and scared.

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Diebold in Deal With Wal-Mart?

February 24, 2009September 29, 2018 B. John 358 Views 0 Comments Wal-mart, Diebold, Sam's Club, Premier Election Solutions

The Raw Story is reporting that some bloggers have been checking out the telephone and address listings for the many offices Diebold is claiming to have around the country. It turns out that most of them have phones numbers that go unanswered and the listed addresses turn out to be Wal-Mart or Sam’s club addresses.

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LDS Prophets Experience Sudden Revelations

January 31, 2009 B. John 303 Views 0 Comments California, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, LDS, Proposition 8

Jim Burroway at Box Turtle Bulletin seems to have found out why the Proposition 8 people were so hell bent in trying to prohibit the release of the names of donors to their campaign to take away the rights of Gay people in California. It seems the LDS had way more to do with this than they were claiming. (And by the Church, I mean the church corporate…not just “members.”) Burroway reports they had 190,000 reasons to prevent the disclosure. Seems the LDS provided lots of official corporate support and in-kind services.

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Rick Warren and The Obama Inauguration

December 29, 2008September 29, 2018 B. John 483 Views 1 Comment Rick Warren, Saddleback Church, Inaugration, bigotry, hate, Obama

For those of you living under a rock, President Elect Obama has invited Rick Warren, from the Saddleback Mega-Church, to deliver the invocation at Obama’s inauguration. Gay rights and other activists groups have strenuously objected, and Obama and his aides have made any number of statements defending the choice with the tired old line of how the Obama campaign has always been about “uniting people” and showing how “we can disagree without being disagreeable.” So let me be clear in my response. In the case of claims by the Warren supporters (including you Obama), they are correct. I am being intolerant and am applying the standard applied by Warren and his supporters to love the sinner and hate the sin. I believe that the sin of hate and bigotry, most especially when used for monetary gain, should never ever be tolerated. I guess that fits the definition of intolerance, so I am guilty as charged.

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Enough is Enough – The Fallout From The Gay Marriage Vote

November 17, 2008 B. John 391 Views 0 Comments Linda Saul-Sena, Marriage, Civil Rights, Amendment 2, Proposition 8, Stop the H8, Undo 2, HRC, Equality Florida, Kevin Beckner

Maybe, finally gay people have decided that enough is enough when it comes to having second-class citizenship foisted upon us by krazy kristian kooks. Across the country Saturday were a series of rallies decrying the enactment of three marriage amendments on election day which enshrine discrimination in the Constitutions of Florida, Arizona and California. As angry as we may all be, we should not be surprised at the outcome. There is no leadership within the gay community, and practically no community left anyways. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has become a parody, and while I respect the work done by Equality Florida, they too have been totally ineffective. So let’s take a look at what happened, and think about what comes next.

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2008 Election Wrap-up

November 10, 2008September 29, 2018 B. John 377 Views 0 Comments republicans, mccain, Democrats, Democracy, Obama, Palin, Right Wingnuts, voting, voters, Campaigns

Last Tuesday night/Wednesday morning was certainly a bittersweet time. As I’ve said before, I’m not one of the millions of Obama-maniacs, but I was glad he won. I think America will soon be in far better hands than she is now. I was even more pleased to see a good number of hateful and bigoted Republicans kicked to curb, and their nasty campaign rhetoric repudiated. Obviously though, the passage of the three anti-marriage amendments was a great disappointment. In this post, I’ll provide my observations on where we are now relative to the election.