Remember way back. Long before ISIS was created in American prison camps in Iraq. Remember the guys who lived in caves in Afghanistan and killed roughly 3,000 Americans?
Remember how we were going to crush them?
First a little background to explain the purpose of this diary.
It’s less in the spirit of a Joe Namath-style guarantee than as a call to arms to ramp up your engagement right now.
Yesterday Samer asked, Does Ted Cruz recognize transgender as an identity?.
Samer was concerned about a statement Cruz made:
The Education Department is suing a school to force them to let a teenage boy shower with teenage girls.
It appears to me that Sen. Cruz believes that transgender people are, effectively, confused people in drag or people with a mental illness.
I left a comment:
Of course he doesn’t. None of the religious right does. That’s why they want to legislate us out of existence.
In writing that I violated one of my own guiding principles: avoid speaking or thinking in universals. In reality, I know that there definitely are people from the religious right who are themselves transgender.
Yes, this is a New York specific story, so everyone who does not live in my wonderful state, please bear with me. I know this post may not apply to you, but perhaps it will encourage everyone in states with upcoming primaries to check their voting status.
Gov. Charlie Baker was mysteriously chosen as the keynote speaker at a networking event hosted by Boston Spirit Magazine last night in Boston.
Yet when the Republican took the stage, he was confronted by signs and chants from demonstrators urging him to support a transgender anti-discrimination bill, which has been a hot topic of late for the Massachusetts governor.
Despite pleas from his audience, Gov. Charlie remained steadfast:
I will make sure I talk to all parties involved before we make any decision.
Presumably that includes Massachusetts Family Institute, which promotes hatred against transgender people.
Yesterday, by pure happenstance, while checking to see that my county had not changed my registration information from Democrat to Independent (yeah, since Arizona I've been paranoid about such stuff) I discovered something that shocked me. The polls where I live will only be open from 12 Noon until 9 PM, making it difficult for many people who work swing shifts to vote.
