A View From The Rubble
Congress Raids Ancestral Native American Lands With Defense Bill
I guess we're not done taking shit from you. I know you guys were here for like 15,000+ years before we arrived, but sorry.
10 Quotes From a Sioux Indian Chief That Will Make You Question Everything About Our Society
Image ~ J.C. Leyendecker
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THAT'S what it is to lead...
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Maybe I'll really piss them off.
And move there.
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Wedding Day Arrives for Kevin Keller
A much-anticipated event in the comics world is upon us — the wedding of Kevin Keller, gay pal of Archie Andrews.
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This is SO WELL DONE.
Bravo. BRAVO!!
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The end of ‘don’t ask’
Tolerance of open service by gays continues to rise in latest poll
Marine Corps Times September 20, 2011
*** Proudly Served Without Giving Handjobs, Blowjobs Or Getting It Up The Butt
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AIDS-Afflicted U.S. Citizen Urges Obama Admin to Reverse Deportation of Australian Husband The Obama administration’s enforcement of the Defense of Marriage Act is threatening to tear apart the seven-year marriage of a binational gay couple in San Francisco. Bradford Wells, a U.S. citizen, and Anthony John Makk, an Australian national, have lived together for 19 years and were among the first same-sex couples to legally marry in Massachusetts. Anthony is also the primary caretaker for his husband, who has HIV/AIDS. Makk is facing deportation this month after the Obama administration denied them the same immigration benefits routinely given to opposite-sex couples. The decision is based on the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law known as DOMA, which denies federal benefits to same-sex couples. The Obama administration has said it would no longer defend DOMA in the courts, but the law still remains in effect.
And these fucking politicians have the nerve to ever bring "god" into anything they have to say. What they actually do is a different story. They couldn't be farther from grace. "God Bless"...? Fuck you. Stick that god bless clean up your ass, "mr. president".
I know, I know... He's a "politician". But, it doesn't mean we should sit still for the redundancy. Maybe we should start with altering our expectations... We should expect MORE. We should DEMAND MORE. Because we deserve more. And at the very least, we should expect decency...
Am I angry?
Absolutely.
If you'd like to sign a petition speaking out on behalf of Anthony Makk and Bradford Wells, you may do so here.
Silence is compliance.
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Pioneering Comedian Roseanne Barr on Her Life on Screen as a “Working-Class Domestic Goddess” The writer Barbara Ehrenreich once praised Roseanne Barr for representing "the hopeless underclass of the female sex: polyester-clad, overweight occupants of the slow track; fast-food waitresses, factory workers, housewives, members of the invisible pink-collar army; the despised, the jilted, the underpaid."
Because I haven't really watched television very much in the last 25 years, and I probably only saw "Roseanne" a couple of times if that, I wasn't aware of any of this...
A little knowledge for a little perspective.
And Brava, Roseanne, brava!
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This hysterical (and very true) contribution comes to us from our gorgeous, hottie-pa-tottie correspondent in the field, Nahnie. Her name really isn't "Nahnie", but her name does remind me of one of my beloved nieces, who used to call herself "Nahnie" when she was just a little shit.
If someone took her blanket, she'd yell at the top of her lungs, "NAHNIE'S!!"
And we'd be all like, "Umm... Okay, Satan, here's your blanket back."
And if someone was holding her Puffalump Kitty, she'd contort that sweet, cherub face and bare her three teeth and yell, "Nahnie's! NAHNIE'S MISTER KITTY!!!"
And we'd be all like, "Jesus Christ, here's your fucking kitty." Which she would promptly choke, taking out her frustrations that her little sister had been born.
And if someone pulled in their driveway just to turn around, her little ass would be standing at the door grasping onto her blanket, clutching onto Mister Kitty by the throat, glaring out at the perpetrators yelling, "NAHNIE'S!! NAHNIE'S DRIVEWAY!!"
And they'd speed away with fear in their eyes, frightened that the two foot bride of Chuckie was going to unleash her wrath.
So, Nahnie, thank you for this contribution. Everyone? It's Nahnie's contribution. NAHNIE'S!!!
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
~ Margaret Mead
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Thank you for this, Lissy.
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Discovering that America has a Constitution that guarantees equal rights to all Americans, the new House leadership was so impressed, they're holding a special ceremony to read the sacred document to the entire gathering of the Congress. It is hoped the new leaders will understand all of the Bill of Rights, not just those they find useful for personal gain.
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“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Imagine... Trying to ensure the happiness of one another. And thus, we'd all be better off.
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Allan Nairn, award-winning journalist and activist, making more sense than I've heard in a very, very long time...
"And if you look realistically at the world, most of what people have comes from what they inherit, not from what they earn themselves.
"Take this country. You grow up in the suburbs. You grow up in, you know, a nice neighborhood of New York City. You have good food. You have clean water. You won’t be sickened by your own excrement. You live in a building that’s warm in the winter and cool in the summer. The roads outside are solid and safe. You can go to school for free. You have all these things and more. And you have all this before you have lifted a finger in labor, in work, in earning, in initiative, in free enterprise. You have all this while you’re just a kid sitting there watching cartoons on television. So, obviously, you have a vast inheritance, some of it from your own family, but most of it from the society as a whole, from the rich society.
"You know, in this country and in a lot of the rich world, when we talk about issues of equality, there’s always a standard debate goes on, a very sterile debate, between equality of opportunity and equality of result. The right says, "Oh, we can only have—we shouldn’t have equality of result: everybody ends up at the same place. We should only have equality of opportunity: people start from the same place, and then you have a fair race." I tell you, the poor of the world would be thrilled to settle for just equality of opportunity. Forget equality of result. If you really had a regime of equality of opportunity, that would mean all children start from the same place. They all start with nutritious food, with clean water, with free schooling, with a safe home, etc., and then, let the chips fall where they may, run the race. But that is so far from what we have now in the world. It’s obvious. It’s obvious to everyone."
Unfortunately, it's NOT obvious to "everyone"...
(Excerpt taken from: Allan Nairn: As U.S. Loses Its Global Economic Edge, Its "One Clear Comparative Advantage is in Killing, and It’s Using It") - This whole interview is well worth reading or watching. ****************************
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