Trump is no joke

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Saturday August 22, 2015 · 9:15 AM PDT

2015/08/22 · 09:15

He only toyed with running for President in 2012, undoubtedly to get more publicity for his name.

When he hinted at a run this year, no one believed him. Then he did the unthinkable, he entered the race.

First he called Mexicans rapists - his polls went up
Then he said John McCain was not a war hero - his polls went up.
Then he implied Megan Kelly was on the rag - his polls went up.

Yesterday he drew 20,000 in Alabama, the highest of any Republican candidate, and almost reaching Bernie Sanders' high.

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As of today, who do you think will be the 2016 Republican nominee

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As of today, who do you think will be the 2016 Republican nominee

Bush

26 votes

Carson

1 vote

Rubio

11 votes

Cruz

2 votes

Trump

52 votes

Kasich

7 votes

Fiorina

2 votes

Santorum

0 votes

Christie

0 votes

Huckabee

1 vote

Walker

5 votes

Other

2 votes

Where the Hell Is Hillary Clinton On This?

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Saturday February 28, 2015 · 7:29 AM PST

2015/02/28 · 07:29

Have I been out to lunch and missed the press release? Where the hell is the presumed Democratic nominee for President in 2016, Hillary Clinton, on the recently passed Arkansas law SB 202 that forces cities to strip any anti-discrimination protections locally that are not a protected class state wide?

Our dear Hillary, like Barack Obama (who I voted for twice) were cowards on marriage equality until the polls showed them they could champion it. Hillary's husband, of course, signed the Don't Ask Don't Tell and federal DOMA laws as a pander to more conservative Democrats and independents.

I suppose if you are not a member of a minority with historical discrimination, you may not care about this. What I know is I am. I am gay, openly gay.

Con't

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Tuesday February 17, 2015 · 10:24 AM PST

2015/02/17 · 10:24

There was a time many gay people viewed marriage as an irrelevant institution. They celebrated sexual freedom and the right to live their lives as they pleased. Why should we limit ourselves as straights have for millennium? Why join an institution with a 50% failure rate?

Was this attitude sincere, or just a hostile reaction to an exclusive heterosexual right? To be sure, many gays did sincerely feel that way and many do today, still. Hell, many straights feel the same way about marriage!

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Friday February 13, 2015 · 8:00 AM PST

2015/02/13 · 08:00

Very soon the US Supreme Court will make a momentous ruling regarding the rights of LGBT people to marry another person of the same gender. This will be a redefinition of marriage, but not the first redefinition. This forthcoming change in national policy and belief is based on the growing acceptance that gay people do not choose their sexual orientation, they only choose what to do with it.

I was raised as a conservative Christian where homosexuality was considered such a taboo subject it was never mentioned in polite company and only obliquely referred to in sermons. Meanwhile, since puberty, I knew I had a dirty little secret. I was attracted to my own gender, it was a conscious attraction. But like a good Christian, I married a woman.

As a conservative Baptist, and as my Baptist forefathers in colonial America, I am a staunch defender of the 1st amendment, both the Free Speech and Separation of Church and State clauses.

Cont.

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Friday February 06, 2015 · 5:08 PM PST

2015/02/06 · 17:08

I was a conservative Christian once, a Baptist, before I became a gay agnostic. As a Baptist and rational American, I strongly supported and still strongly support the First Amendment to the US Constitution, both the Free Speech provision and the Separation of Church and State provision.

The Baptists of the late 18th century were fervent supporters of the religious liberty provision. They did not want the government to tell them how and who to worship.

Many conservative Christians (not all) today are up in arms about giving equal rights to LGBT folks. They sincerely believe LGBT folks are engaged in sexual sin and they cannot support it. I respect, but do not agree with that position.

Con't

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Monday November 10, 2014 · 6:40 PM PST

2014/11/10 · 18:40

A month ago I dared to weigh in on the Affleck/Maher/Harris debate. Unfortunately I added an inflammatory poll and I learned my lesson on that!

In that diary last month I started by saying I abhor prejudice of any kind and that I was sensitive to the rabid Islamophobia subsequent to 9/11. My liberal partner became very hostile toward Muslims and Islam and that drove me nuts. After all, on 9/11, my job's manager was a Pakistani Muslim who immigrated to the U.S. and one of my colleagues was a devout Muslim woman who wore a Hijab and even invited me to her Islamic wedding. I opposed then and oppose today a blanket condemnation of Islam or Muslims because some Muslims promote or support violent prescriptions from the Qur'an and their Hadith.

Probably more because of my inflammatory poll, than my diary, I got quite a bit of criticism from Daily Kos readers for raising the valid question - Is Islam, and more importantly how it is practiced and believed by wide swaths of the Muslim world, a religion that violates common human rights, including the right to life?

Cont. below the fold

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Friday October 10, 2014 · 11:04 AM PDT

2014/10/10 · 11:04

Ever since September 11, 2001 there has been a real angst among Westerners on how to view Muslims and their religion Islam. The right generally has condemned Islam and it's adherents, Muslims, regardless of what any one individual Muslim did. The left generally took a more tolerant view, that we cannot blame every Muslim because of what SOME other Muslims do, violent acts.

I remember even President George W. Bush going out of his way to try and make sure every Muslim was not held accountable for the acts of violent Muslims and he said Islam is generally a religion of peace.

More recently we had the October 3 conversation between Bill Maher, Sam Harris and Ben Affleck on Bill Maher's Real Time HBO show.

Ben Affleck vs. Bill Maher

It demonstrated that even on the left there is not uniformity in belief toward how we should view Muslims and their religion Islam.

Continued after the fold...

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Is Islam an evil philosophy without merit?

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Is Islam an evil philosophy without merit?

Yes

15 votes

27 votes

Islam, yes, Muslims in general, no

17 votes

All Muslims are bad

4 votes

June 20, 2009 - Will Green Be Red in Iran?

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Friday June 19, 2009 · 2:25 PM PDT

2009/06/19 · 14:25

Now that the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iran has said last week's election was correct and that any further protests will be punished, he has setup a situation where the increase in bloodshed is now much more likely.

We know about 15 have already been killed during this past week's peaceful demonstrations that grew by the day numbering about one million across the country Thursday during a "day of mourning" for those early martyrs.

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Thursday June 18, 2009 · 2:14 PM PDT

2009/06/18 · 14:14

In the United States, despite the fact we have millions of Muslims living here, Islam is a little understood religion. I would be the last person to say I understand the faith. I do know I tried to learn more about it and it's history after September 11, 2001.

But unfortunately September 11, 2001 was a turning point in outright bigotry toward Islamic people in the United States and the western world. Because of the actions inspired by the 19 madmen who flew those jets that day and their supposed pychopath leader Osama bin Ladin, a frenzy of hatred was whipped up against Muslims.

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Monday April 06, 2009 · 11:49 AM PDT

2009/04/06 · 11:49

The one thing that bothered me the most during George Bush's presidency was the abrogation of US Constitutional rights in the name of fighting terrorism. That includes both the right to habeas corbis as well as privacy and due process.

To be sure, we all want the government to be aggressive in fighting and stopping those extremists (DOMESTIC and foreign) from harming US citizens. But I do not want a police state or dictatorship. If we as Americans decide our personal safety trumps all including our precious civil rights, then we are no longer Americans as envisioned by our founders.

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Are you concerned about President Obama's NSA policy?

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Are you concerned about President Obama's NSA policy?

Yes I am

45 votes

No I am not, I trust President Obama

14 votes

No I am not, such a policy is critical to national security

5 votes

Economic Meltdown and 401Ks

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Thursday October 09, 2008 · 9:08 AM PDT

2008/10/09 · 09:08

I apologize if this diary is inappropriate but I cannot help myself.

I tend to be melodramatic, more than I probably should. Like most of you, I have been watching the stock market crash. As you all know, what is happening today is more serious the at any time since the early 1930s.

The problems may or may not be similiar, and I am not an economic expert (despite my MBA), but even though our governments have the lessons of the 1930s to guide their actions to help prevent a total economic collapse, I fear we may have a much larger problem than the 1930s due to how closely linked our economies are globally and how the real-time computer links can allow panic to spread even quicker than the 1930s.

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Wednesday May 07, 2008 · 6:46 AM PDT

2008/05/07 · 06:46

OUR party has had an extraordinary battle for the presidential nomination. Two amazing historical candidates.

OUR great country (yes it is great, indeed) has seen a woman and an African American stand as serious viable candidates for the most powerful office on the planet – President of the United States.

Think that through folks, how amazing that is. You are living through history your great grandchildren will study in school.

Because of the strength and greatness of these two amazing people, passions are great on both sides, the passions of their respective supporters.

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Islam and Common Humanity - Iran

Obama - Big Brother?

Economic Meltdown and 401Ks

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