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Dolores Park in San Francisco, CA has to be one of the most relaxing places I enjoy traveling to every time I travel to that city.  Remember those good o’ childhood memories with your family and friends at a local park, BBQing, running around and playing on the swing set? Well, this is no different because instead of running you’re laying out, and instead [...]
Stonewall discussion topic: the new police auditor  Fresno Stonewall Democrat’s regular monthly meeting is this coming Wed. July 8th at Carrow’s restaurant located on the east side of Blackstone Ave. just north of Ashlan Ave.   Dinner and social hour begins at 6 p.m. and the meeting calls to order at 7 p.m.  The guest speaker is Fresno [...]
Okay so back on July 15, 2003 I was at Universal Studios Hollywood on a family vacation. I was with my husband Miguel & his family: mom, 3 sisters & his godson (His older brother who was a huge MJ fan & his 4 kids opted to stay home, but heard all about it by [...]
Talk about an abdication of responsibility -- the South Carolina GOP just gave a wrist slap to a man who left his post and went AWOL without telling anyone in government where he was going or turning the reins over to the Lieutenant Gov. Let's set aside the matter of the "little Sanford" controlling Mark Sanford's judgment to go chase some tail, there would be a whole lot more than healing going on if the Palmetto State was hit with a natural disaster or some other sort of emergency while the governor was getting his pole attended to by his Argentinian mistress. Do you have any doubt that if this was a Dem governor that the state GOP would be calling for the man's head?South Carolina Republicans have voted to censure the state's governor Mark Sanford over a sex scandal rather than calling for his resignation, easing pressure on their beleaguered colleague to quit.Astounding hypocrisy.The party issued the censure late on Monday to admonish Sanford over his affair with an Argentine woman and said he had "breached the public trust" and demonstrated "repeated failures" but stopped short of recommending further action.
...The chairwoman of the South Carolina Republicans called for an end to the three-week scandal that began when Sanford disappeared for several days. Aides said he was hiking in the Appalachian but it later emerged he had gone to visit his lover in Argentina.
"Now is the time for healing," said chairwoman Karen Floyd.
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* PHB posts on Sanford
I often make a comparison between the gay rights movement and the cannabis legalization movement. There are some parallels - the whole "coming out of the closet" concept, being criminalized for private consensual behavior, private support from pols who wouldn't dare utter it publicly, for examples. There are critical differences of course - the innate characteristic of sexual orientation vs. the choice to consume cannabis (though, not really a choice for many medical users), being "bashed" as a gay person vs. being incarcerated as a cannabis consumer, and so on - so I don't try to paint the comparison as entirely valid.
Now if I can only find a prohibitionist to argue that we're trying bring this country to her knees to force our legalization agenda down America's throat, the rhetorical circle will be complete.
However, when it comes to our opponents' blind hatred of us and beliefs in our secret "agenda", there are a lot of similarities. Today I found a writer (term used loosely) ironically named John English who has discovered that we "potheads" have borrowed a page from the "gay agenda" -- we're recruiting the children!
The most convincing reason why potheads must remain criminals, why marijuana must remain illegal, is their targeting of children. That behavior in and of itself reveals that they suffer from a deep psychological insufficiency, a need to draw children into becoming like them - whether it's a need to justify their own beliefs or some other motivation, it doesn't matter! They're damaging future generations and doing so intentionally.
Now if I can only find a prohibitionist to argue that we're trying bring this country to her knees to force our legalization agenda down America's throat, the rhetorical circle will be complete.
OREGON RESTAURANTS TAKE ACTION FOR GAY RIGHTS Over 60 Establishments to Participate in Tenth Annual Bites for Rights Event on Thursday, June 18th Who: Pro-equality restaurants, cafés and bars around the entire state. What: Bites for Rights: More than 65 establishments statewide will donate 15% of their proceeds from June 18th to Basic Rights Oregon [...]
OREGON LEGISLATURE UNANIMOUS IN SUPPORT OF FEDERAL HATE CRIMES PROTECTIONS FOR GAY AND TRANSGENDER AMERICANS (WEDNESDAY, June 3, 2009 - SALEM, OR) The Oregon Senate today unanimously passed House Joint Memorial 22, calling on Congress to pass and the President to sign expanded federal hate crimes legislation to include the gay and transgender community. The [...]
Samantha Lavin and Lori Brener present: The Blaire Wedding Project Blaire Wedding Project, (a spoof of the indie film sensation Blair Witch Project) recently won The People’s Choice award in a marriage equality video contest. Blaire Wedding was written and directed by Samantha Lavin, who works as an assistant director for the hit show Scrubs, [...]
Tuesday’s headlines include some more religious controversy, some marriage news, updates on murder trials, and a bit of politics. Crime & Court Cases: - In New Zealand an update: Jury retires for night in banjo murder trial - In the U.S. (Brooklyn teen homophobe case) an update: Life Term in Gay Slay Gay Marriage: - Gay Marriages Now Recognized in [...]
Monday’s news updates includes news stories that happend on the weekend — both posted over the weekend and just breaking online today. Some of the stories are updates on news we’ve been following last week. Fort Worth Incident: - The NY Times has finally written about the Fort Worth incident: A Raid at a Club in Texas [...]
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