The history of humanity is certainly a mixed bag. For every hero of human rights, there is a villain. Every time there is a significant advancement in law securing those rights, there is a lawmaker looking for and exploiting loopholes. Slavery required the 15th Amendment. Jim Crow laws required the 24th - and then the Civil Rights Act. Even those have been circumvented via voter ID laws and limiting the number of voting machines in minority districts.

The latest battlefield in the fight for equality is in the LBGT arena. The overturn of DOMA and Don't Ask / Don't Tell, and the victories in the courts against state-instituted measures have turned the haters into creators of anti-LGBT legislation and other initiatives. It's the final frontier in hate.
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37 comments (Latest Comment: 02/27/2014 01:35:08 by clintster)

Watch this:

Now tell me again, why people aren't getting the funds? Governor Christie is blaming the President first, and a little bit of Congress... however.... Could this be part of it? I'm well aware of the source I am using.
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53 comments (Latest Comment: 02/25/2014 04:03:46 by Raine)

Good morning.

February is winding to a close, and with it, hopefully the end of what our friends in the auto business consider their "peak" season. Hell, perhaps you've even bought one.

Most TV commercials are things I can tune out and pretend don't exist. Rare is the one that annoys me or causes me to have some sort of editorial comment. I don't pretend to know the advertising market, but maybe you've seen the trippy dancing avocado singing about toast and breakfast recently? Dear Avocado Guys: this isn't really going to improve my opinion of what is essentially wood putty, but I digress.
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1 comments (Latest Comment: 02/23/2014 02:16:12 by Will in Chicago)

I will truy to get something written today, unless anyone else wants a stab at it.
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42 comments (Latest Comment: 02/20/2014 22:31:00 by livingonli)

Good Morning.

Today is our 4,517th day in Afghanistan.

We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing war, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 2,308
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,111

We find this morning's Cost of War passing through:

$ 1, 514, 734, 625, 000 .00
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32 comments (Latest Comment: 02/18/2014 21:18:04 by wickedpam)