I am crying, as I read this. For Edie Windsor.
And for the graceful, thoughtful articulate previous President.
What we lost, after November 2016, is incalculable.
But still we rise, because we must*
Register folks to vote, register to vote, if you haven’t, and just fucking vote.
"Maya Angelou, thank you, for your words.
Grace. This is how it’s done. Thank you.
Any tears I have are not from grief. They are the tears of appreciation for a life well lived. We miss their passing, but we have a smile for the good they did. I haven’t felt this way since the night I heard that Audrey Hepburn had died.
I’m kind of wondering if President Obama was throwing a subtle bit of shade at the loudmouth cretin currently in his old office with that “Quiet Heroes” comment.
So subtle that we will notice, but the short-fingered vulgarian never will.
The difference is one. One has class, the other doesn’t.
You beat me to it … “class” and “Obama” are synonymous.
If you live in a state that does not have full protections against discrimination for everyone, you can honor Edie and all the other quiet heroes by working with your local HRC affiliate - like Kentucky’s Fairness Campaign - to expand non-discrimination laws to apply to sexual orientation and gender identity.
I think they really need to revise tax codes. I know some portion of what churches are given goes out to help folks that really need it but most goes to stuff the members use but don’'t need to survive. I guess as an alternative what folks pay for a non-religious health, rec center, coffee house etc. could be tax deductible.
And no nasty comment from Darcy. Did he get banned again???
We should be careful. You are basically saying that Trump has a biological impairment that exhibits itself as a mental disability. I see two problems with it. First, we would not want to call people with mental disabilities less than human, regardless of the nature of that disability. Second, I do not want to give Trump an escape from responsibility for his behavior: – if he had a mental disability that prevented him from distinguishing right from wrong, he would not be responsible for his actions. He may well have or be developing such a disability. But in the course of his life he had enough intellectual capacity to distinguish right from wrong. He is responsible for his actions. He is an inhumane human and for me this is much worse than being less than fully human.
Fair enough - I see the problems with it and your assessment about his responsibility is correct.
I withdraw the statement.