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Friday February 28, 2014 · 5:46 PM PST

2014/02/28 · 17:46

Just as AZ begins to dust the shame off of itself after the anti LGBT bill SB1062 (thankfully vetoed) I discovered that the desire to discriminate is alive and well in the retirement community of Sun City West, Arizona.

With approximately 40 people in attendance, the board gave everyone an opportunity to speak. Seventeen spoke with the majority in favor of getting rid of the domestic partners policy. Because the issue was not on the agenda, board members could not respond.

You can read more about it here if you like. . .

http://m.yourwestvalley.com/...

In October of last year our firefighters and EMT's were granted Domestic Partner's benefits. Being that we are not civilized enough to grant gay couples the right to marry this seemed to be the right thing to do. . .

Gilmore

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Saturday November 24, 2012 · 6:58 AM PST

2012/11/24 · 06:58

The Black Friday job actions were successful in that they drew attention to the plight of Walmart workers. The sad new is Walmart booked record sales with the expanded hours on Thursday night.

Destroy a family gathering or make a few extra sales does not even rise to the level of a serious questions to the Barons of Bentonville Arkansas. The Walton family have ammassed wealth equal to 48% of the US population (oh so close to Mittens magic 47%) yet they strive for more and more.

How you can help the plight of the common man below the Squiggle.

Gilmore

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Wednesday November 21, 2012 · 4:42 AM PST

2012/11/21 · 04:42

Mother Jones, known to many as the name of a magazine. Her real name was Mary Harris Jones and she was an Irish American labor activist. I leave her life for you to investigate dear reader. I could do the work for you, but alas you really need to know the struggles she went through so that you, yes YOU may feel obligated to change your life in some very small ways to make the progressive movement stronger.

And now, the rest of the story,

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64 votes Show Results

Are you going to make a worker leave their family and work so that you can get a good deal on something Thursday night?

64 votes Vote Now!

Are you going to make a worker leave their family and work so that you can get a good deal on something Thursday night?

No, I'm for the worker

60 votes

Yes, I want a good deal

4 votes

Sheriff Crazy in AZ - Round 2

Gilmore

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Monday March 26, 2012 · 6:21 AM PDT

2012/03/26 · 06:21

Arizona:
Great weather
Spring Training Baseball
Crazy

But not necessarily in that order. . .

Gilmore

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Thursday February 16, 2012 · 5:57 PM PST

2012/02/16 · 17:57

Dkos for the Cure ?

My first inclination was this was bad. Very bad. Sticking our nose into Republicans business.

Bad in a way that would ruin Dkos, like Komen for the Cure will fail to weather the storm they created. I wanted to sleep on it. I’m glad I did.

“Don’t go to a pistol fight with knife” is the euphemism that I end up returning to.

Gilmore

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Tuesday November 15, 2011 · 6:45 PM PST

2011/11/15 · 18:45

I work in the nuclear power field. Cornerstones of both worker and public safety are that a utility requires that all workers be fit for duty. Many diverse regulations, all of which have a singular focus on one's ability to work safely. Have you had enough sleep? Have you consumed any alcohol in the 5 hours prior to your shift starting? Are you taking any prescription or over the counter meds that would impair / affect you judgment?

No laughing matter here if you working in the bowels of a nuclear reactor when it is being re-fueled. Now consider if you were the leader of the free world... or the ominous "Phone call at 2am"...

Would you want Herman Cain to stumble through it???

Gilmore

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Sunday September 11, 2011 · 8:14 PM PDT

2011/09/11 · 20:14

It's a Black Thang. You wouldn't understand.

That's from a diary by Robinswing http://www.dailykos.com/...

and I don't understand. And I don't have to. I grew up in the Lilly white suburbs of Chicago. I never met or shook the hand of a black man until my first apprentice class down at my union hall at age 18.

The only thing I knew about blacks was that the had run my folks (and almost all our neighbors) out of the Southside of Chicago and taken over the area. It wasn't until much later that I learned that it was the white real estate agents and their companies that were behind the systemic 100% turnover of all area homes.

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If you are white are you going to boycott?

42 votes Vote Now!

If you are white are you going to boycott?

Yes

21 votes

18 votes

I'm considering

3 votes

Nuclear Update

Gilmore

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Wednesday June 29, 2011 · 12:28 PM PDT

2011/06/29 · 12:28

Below is an update on whats going on in the nuclear world. It is provided to give you information about the problems we are having nuclear “stuff”.

Included is a correction of a misstatement of fact I made a few times yesterday about the core not being loaded at Fort Calhoun.

Gilmore

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Tuesday June 07, 2011 · 10:07 AM PDT

2011/06/07 · 10:07

I've never been one for "opposing diaries" but now I see the point in them. . .

It's been a DK tradition that Front Pager's don't edit out their mistakes, the insert the correct information and "strike a line thru" the bum info.

Gilmore for Japan Nuclear Incident Liveblogs

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Wednesday May 18, 2011 · 10:21 AM PDT

2011/05/18 · 10:21

Updated: 5/18

This is another clearinghouse diary for the posting of additional news (with links to their source) and intelligent commentary about the ongoing nuclear disaster(s) in Japan.

FULL STOP
If you think this is about your views on nuclear power industry, the viability of solar or wind power please:

PUT THE KEYBOARD DOWN and let your finger guide the scroll wheel while you are forcibly asked to lurk.

Credible news stories with hyperlinks to them, along with factual, (reasonably) well presented discussion by you, the reader, community member and Brother or Sister Kossack. . . You knowingly wouldn't put a defenseless Pootie in a Woozle diary would you? And hey, this isn't a Bakers Square, so leave the pie at home (French Silk exception stated). Now is that asking too much???

And now back to our regularly scheduled conversation

For older information on news and a timeline of the events following the March 11 Japanese Earthquake, visit the Mothership . provides a more extensive list of news and data sources, social media, crisis mapping and other relevant information.

If you would like to recommend this diary feel free to do so. All previous liveblogs published to the Japan Nuclear Incident group can be found here.

(For ongoing 24/7 breaking news use this is a resource by reading below the fold, community member posts and adding newsworthy posts yourself)

Gilmore

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Tuesday October 13, 2009 · 9:16 AM PDT

2009/10/13 · 09:16

This is the text of I speech I would love Alan Grayson to give. What do you think?

Gilmore

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Tuesday November 11, 2008 · 11:34 AM PST

2008/11/11 · 11:34

Those who claim their religious beliefs can trump the individual rights of American citizens should at least have the intestinal fortitude to stand behind their words and their vote.

I cannot so eloquently express myself as Keith Olbermann did last night, but it is he who has brought me to the keyboard to vent my frustrations, as best I can. . . Thank you K.O.

As a youth I explored my Irish heritage. Along with an appreciation of Guinness beer, I also discovered and adopted the philosophy of the Emerald Isles sanctity of marriage. No divorce. Never. . . or for them, at least until 1995, when the voters ended the "live with your mistakes" legislation. I none the less believed in the sanctity of marriage and waited until I had found the love of my life. It took forty years, but I know that I have found my (opposite sex) soul mate and that we are forever linked. From the drive-thru chapel in Las Vegas, there has been no looking back, only forward.

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