Category Archives: Homosexual Rights

ON THIS DAY: June 30, 2016

Posted on June 30, 2016 by wordcloud9

June 30th is: Meteor Watch Day Social Media Day National Hand Shake Day National Organization for Women Day Leap Second Time Adjustment Day National Holidays Around the World Congo Democratic Republic – Independence Day Central African Republic – National Payer … Continue reading →

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FLASHPOINT: The Stonewall Rebellion

Posted on June 28, 2016 by wordcloud9

On June 24, 2016, President Obama announced that the Stonewall Inn and the surrounding area is now the Stonewall National Monument, the first U.S. national monument honoring the gay-rights movement. It’s hard to believe in 2016 the conditions in 1969 that … Continue reading →

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Hate gets a pass…racial profiling as political correctness

Posted on June 19, 2016 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers Because of a “mouth-feel” like styrofoam peanuts, I hate baked Cheetos or their generic imitators even as I definitely like fried Cheetos. So much for common sense about what is healthy snack food—  fortunately it probably isn’t … Continue reading →

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Memes of a feather: ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ and ‘radical Christian terrorism’

Posted on June 14, 2016 by ann li-summers

Immanuel Kant — ‘Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.’   By ann summers Home-grown extremism still intersects and is intersectional, so expressing “radical islamic terrorism” like “radical Christian terrorism” are as PBO indicated today about political talking points, there’s no … Continue reading →

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Public Safety in the post-Pulse era

Posted on June 13, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers    Orlando’s horrific domestic extremist attack demonstrates that with the constant, cyclical negation of private and public rights there cannot be win-win solutions in a modern democracy that has foundationally resisted the notion of a theocratic state. An … Continue reading →

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Orlando Massacre: Pulse One = Stonewall too

Posted on June 12, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers The framing of that meme of “the worst act of mass shooting in US history” comes not only as an “act of terror and an act of hate” but also raises some other peripheral issues in the early … Continue reading →

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Under tRump, cockroaches will have unenumerated, unimpeachable rights and envy the dead

Posted on June 6, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers If we thought the End of the Republic happened when Monica Lewinsky got a TED talk, surprise -— Donald Trump could become POTUS, just as he states that Latino or Muslim judges could be unfair to him. Sonia Sotomayor will … Continue reading →

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Hillary must resist the temptation to Triangulate

Posted on May 19, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers More surprising is that there is a literature going back to 2010 urging that the Democratic party move past the linear model of political triangulation as a strategic messaging option. There are serious reasons why Hillary’s triangulating her … Continue reading →

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Trump Nationalism on the Links where pivots are divots

Posted on May 12, 2016 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers Gonna be winning for The Donald, regardless of the 8 November outcome.   The Trump brand will benefit, and his global legacy has already been assured, even in its vulgarity. All Trump golf courses are branded … Continue reading →

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Morning Open Thread – Drones, the new UFOs

Posted on April 28, 2016 by Chuck Stanley

Morning Open Thread is an open discussion forum for human interest news of the day. It would be hard to guess if one tries to follow TV news, but other things actually occur in the world besides election primaries. British … Continue reading →

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