Lazy8 wrote: 
that's probably true in my voting  lifetime (1978 to today - see below)

and asking people to use logic, reason and evidence in politics to displace fear and ignorance years of political conditioning, manipulation and rhetoric is a tall order

however it is worthy and we've got to start somewhere

just remember that trailblazers and pioneers often suffer the slings and arrows of the faithful

 

Op-ed: Libertarians Have Long Led the Way on Marriage

Libertarian leader David Boaz says his party endorsed marriage equality — and full rights for gays and lesbians — way before Barack and Hillary.

By David Boaz

June 25 2015 4:30 AM EDT

As the Supreme Court prepares for a possibly historic ruling, most of the country now supports gay marriage. Libertarians were there first. Indeed John Podesta, a top adviser to Bill Clinton,  Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton and founder of the Center for American Progress, noted in 2011 that you probably had to have been a libertarian to have supported gay marriage 15 years earlier.

Just seven years ago, in the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton all opposed gay marriage. The Libertarian Party endorsed gay rights with its first platform in 1972 — the same year the Democratic nominee for vice president referred to “queers” in a Chicago speech. In 1976 the Libertarian Party issued a pamphlet calling for an end to antigay laws and endorsing full marriage rights.

That’s no surprise, of course. Libertarians believe in individual rights for all people and equality before the law. Of course they recognized the rights of gay people before socialists, conservatives, or big-government liberals.

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 rhahl wrote: 
Idi Amin, but wasn't he also the last King of Scotland?

*edit* nah, he wasn't born rich...

Which president was this?

1. Born rich
2. Succeeded a president who grossly mishandled an economic crisis
3. Posed as a traitor to his class
4. Inspired fear and loathing among the establishment and welcomed their hatred
5. Survived multiple coup attempts, protected by a few army generals
6. Appeared to possess a second-class mind but somehow got his way
7. Main purpose was to save capitalism through imperialism, or perhaps the other way around

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
It's logical that they wouldn't leave up pages featuring Obama's time there, what was odd was that temporary redirect, but maybe that was some sort of default setting.

Great mix tonight, Bill, on the night of the Trump inauguration .  Knew you would come through.

I Scare Myself
Into the Fire
Amazing Grace
The Loner
Sour Times
Acid Tongue
Driven to Tears
Still a Freak
Excitable  Boy
End of Days
Speed the Collapse
Don't Wanna Know About Evil
I Close My Eyes
Baby Did a Bad Thing (Feel like crying)
If There's a Rocket Tie Me To It
and the best.....Tweeter and the Monkey Man (..and the walls came down, all the way to hell)

Helping me make signs for the protests tomorrow in San Diego.  Daughter protesting in SF.

Ready, fire, aim!

Trump Issues Executive Order Scaling Back Parts of Obamacare

...

The one-page order, which Mr. Trump signed in a hastily arranged Oval Office ceremony shortly before departing for the inaugural balls, gave no specifics about which aspects of the law he wanted to target. But its broad language gave federal agencies wide latitude to change, delay or waive provisions of the law that they deemed overly costly for insurers, drug makers, doctors, states or patients, suggesting that it could have wide-ranging impact, and essentially allowing the dismantling of the law to begin even before Congress moves to repeal it.

The order states what Mr. Trump made clear during his campaign: that it is his administration’s policy to seek the “prompt repeal” of the health insurance law, which has come to be known as Obamacare. But he and Republicans on Capitol Hill have not yet devised a replacement, making such action unlikely in the immediate term.

And he's just getting started! 

Internal List Shows President Trump Was Sworn In Next To His VIP Donors

When Donald J. Trump took office today, he declared that “we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the American People.” (...)

The documents, which come from the inauguration’s organizing committee, paint a markedly different picture than the one Trump presented during the campaign, that of a swashbuckling populist who would overturn “the rigged system” and drain Washington’s corrupt “swamp” of money-driven influence.

If these documents are any indication, Trump’s inner circle is shaping up to be even more plutocratic and insular than that of previous presidents. (...)

The dangerous anti-police atmosphere in America is wrong. The Trump administration will end it.
 
Wir brauchen Recht und Ordnung!

 Red_Dragon wrote: 

Here in DC it's been drizzly, overcast and in the high 40s for much of today. No visible sun, and no need to be as heavily bundled as the folks in the picture are. When Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, it was about 18 degrees on the Mall at the time of the ceremony. Don't know the weather when he was sworn in in January 2013.

So yes: Trump is a fraud and a—hole. Interesting that his administration had time to wipe out mention of climate change and LGBT  issues from the whitehouse.gov page before his first day in office ended. Meanwhile...how's that health care plan coming along, Donnie?

Too bad Ringling Brothers is shutting down:



cartoon by Leonardo Rodriguez, Illustration artist

http://www.leonardorodriguez.net/p/caricatures.html

 Proclivities wrote: 
Snopes

As of this writing, Whitehouse.gov is sparsely populated. Its blog currently hosts one post (about the inaugural address), while pages for Press Briefings, Statements, Nominations, and Presidential Actions are all blank:
In short, the previous content of WhiteHouse.gov was transferred to ObamaWhiteHouse.gov on Inauguration Day, while President Trump's team is in the process of repopulating WhiteHouse.gov with content specific to his administration.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Yes, I checked the WH page earlier The URL http://whitehouse.gov/lgbt  was redirecting to a different sign up/splash page, now it just goes to a "not found" page.  More info here.

 Steely_D wrote: 
I checked here.

The white house's LGBT page has been removed.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Yes. Yes I do.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Took me a few beats but you have the Chrome extension that turns all pix of trump into a pic of a kitten?

All mention of climate change has been removed from the white house web site.

A fraud from Day One.

Slacker...

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
beautiful

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Oh, snap.

Nice filtered picture of kittens, by the way.