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12/03/09
AIDS was my issue and it nearly killed me--not the virus itself thankfully, but literally fighting for access to new medicines, watching all the best people I knew die, and feeling so horribly guilty because I was spared. Not a day goes bye that I don't cry for the dead.
Gay marriage seems so light-weight in comparison. My rational mind, of course, knows that that isn't true--it's absolutely vital and Americans are eventually gonna realize it's an irresistible force coming their way, like Gavin said "whether you like it or not!"
I'm going to watch this clip again and then I'm gonna send this woman money for her re-election.
12/03/09
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Frederick Douglass, Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852:
Fellow citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?…
I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! … The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me… This Fourth of July is yours, not mine…
12/02/09
When our government restricts the economic liberties of businesses it is the act of fascists, but when it prevents someone from doing what is essentially for humans the next step up from eating and breathing, then it is somehow preserving the American way of life? Up is down and down is up, and once again the world makes a little less sense.
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So many industries would grind to a halt.
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Today is not that day.
Fuck.
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Don't you blame everyone? The coward politicians and the bigoted constituency that supports them.
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Overall, the spineless Democratic Party has once again championed our cause for the votes and then thrown the LGBT community under the bus. They should be ashamed... and I'm looking at you, too, Obama.
12/02/09
They spend time with various groups, feigning their support. Then when the time comes, the screw them over. Here, the Democrats talked up gay marriage then screwed over the LGBT community [and virtually every other citizens 'cause we all find it offensive that gay citizens don't enjoy equal rights as the rest of society] by not getting the votes. -- sorry for the run-on sentence, I'm pissed.
Look at the Democratic Party track record in the cities of Newark, Detroit, Camden, New Orleans, etc. They get 90% of the vote; yet poverty and crime is increasing. The DP uses people.
BTW, the Republican Party does the same thing -- at least they are upfront and open about it.
Time for Independent politicians with backbones!
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Will there ever be a viable third party?
12/02/09
I'm from fucking Florida and yet Albany manages to constantly redefine my concept of dysfunctional.