FINALLY! We can actually tell Bernie, "YOU LOSE!"

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Monday June 06, 2016 · 7:17 PM PDT

2016/06/06 · 19:17

I’ve been saving this one up since April, when it became clear to anyone who wasn’t indoctrinated into the “Feel the Bern” cult that there was no way Bernie Sanders was going to get the Democrat nomination. See, unlike my fellow Hill-bots (or shills, or vagina voters, or whores, or whatever the Berners are calling us this week) I didn’t jump on the #DropOutBernie bandwagon. I figured that if he needed the entire country to vote before he realized he was done, so be it. Well, now we can officially mark our calendars. On this date, June 6, 2016 Hillary Clinton became the first woman to clinch a major party nomination for President of the United States. And with that Liberal America has effectively told Bernie in one very loud voice, “We’re just not into you.”

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Saturday February 06, 2016 · 4:48 PM PST

2016/02/06 · 16:48

This may very well be the last entry I make here at emo-central (aka Daily Kos). It appears that according to Bernie Sanders I really don’t belong here, and judging from the comments pages of any diary that is even remotely pro-Hillary (which seems to be quite rare around here), or anti-Bernie I’m inclined to agree.

You can be a moderate. You can be a progressive. But you cannot be a moderate and a progressive.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 3, 2016

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Wednesday December 30, 2015 · 6:49 AM PST

2015/12/30 · 06:49

Hi, folks. Here once again with my list of resolutions and wishes for the coming year. Needless to say that 2015 has been an interesting year in almost every aspect. And while I can spend an entire year coming up with stuff to put here, I figure I'll just limit it list to the top whatever pops into my head. Enjoy.

Can we please stop being shocked, surprised, or otherwise outraged by ANYTHING that Donald Trump says? Here's how this always works out. Trump says something stupid about Muslims, Blacks, Women, Immigrants, etc., folks get outraged, Trump gets free media coverage, his poll numbers go up. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
It's time to finally DUMP MSNBC. I've been making this resolution for 3 years now, and if an entire hour being devoted to Donald Trump isn't enough to convince you that this is no longer a "liberal" network, then there's not much more that will. Judging from my Twitter timeline, many of you must be sadists who enjoy hate-watching Joe Scarborough every morning.
If you're thinking "I'm not going to vote if MY candidate doesn't get the nomination", then you DON'T get to call yourself "liberal", or "progressive", or even a Democrat. What you are is a selfish, self-entitled, whiny little bitch-baby who is willing to make the rest of the country suffer because you didn't get your way. You know, like you did in 2010...and 2014.
You're not going to get people to support your candidate by trashing everyone else's (and their supporters). I'm not saying one side is worse than the other, but as a Hillary supporter I'm frankly "Bern'd Out" by folks who think that screeching negativity at me in ALL CAPS is going to get me to come over to their side. I respect the fact that you support a guy who's only running as a Democrat out of political expediency, but bullying and name calling isn't going to get me or anyone else to do likewise. Want proof, take a look at the latest poll numbers.
Don't delude yourself into thinking that these so-called "Republicans for Bernie" are actually going to vote for him in 2016. This time I am talking to the Bernie Sanders folks. Think about this. These are the folks who called Obama a "Socialist" (not to mention Communist, Fascist, Nazi, Muslim, Arab, and stoned Gay man) because they didn't like his policies (and because they were to chicken-shit to use the word they REALLY want to use). Do you honestly think that they're going to turn around and vote for someone who proudly admits to being an actual Socialist? Seriously? I mean...SERIOUSLY?!
White Genocide...NOT a thing.
White Privilege...IS a thing.
Black Lives Matter. Do I even need to go into detail? Didn't think so.
To my fellow LGBTQ folks, like the song says "IT'S NOT OVAH". Yeah, we got the big one - legalized same-sex marriage in every state. But now you have a whole cadre of Kim Davis homophobes -- many of whom suddenly became born-again Christians on June 26, 2015 -- claiming "religious liberty" as their right to discriminate, and pretty much every current GOP presidential candidate willing to support them. Not to mention there's still housing discrimination, job discrimination, and just plain discrimination. There's still plenty of work to do for true equality.
Fellas, can we PLEASE do away with the "man-bun". I get it. You want to explore your androgynous side, your metro-sexual side, or whatever. But seriously, it looks like you're carrying a big hairy turd on top of your head. This thing needs to be thrown into the same appalling dung-heap as "meggings" and "guy-liner". And speaking thusly...
Forget "deflate-gate" and "concussion-gate". The Roger Goodell needs to come up with a solution for what I think will be the next big NFL controversy..."WEAVE-GATE". Lately we've been seeing a lot of long-haired receivers being tackled by their weaves sticking out the back of their helmets. This is something that I think needs to be addressed quickly, or else we're going to have receivers coming out of games with bloody scalps while their opponents go over to the sidelines with fistfuls of hair in their hands.
To Philadelphia EAGLES owner Jeffry Lurie. Next time how about hiring a coach who doesn't see the team as part of his own fantasy football league. Bringing in a bunch of big names with big numbers may look good on paper, but then they actually have to PLAY together. And it's worse when your guy totally dismantles a winning team that was 10-6 for the previous two seasons to do it. Maybe for the next coach you'll want to wait until he actually WINS a playoff game before letting him make personnel decisions, 'kay?
Finally, can we all PLEASE just lighten up for 2016. It seems as if a lot of you, particularly those of you reading this on Dkos, subscribe to the ridiculous notion that being an "activist" means that you must be in a perpetual state of pissed-off, and you must always be on the lookout for something new to be angry about. I'm as much for political correctness as the next liberal, but just because someone says the word "Gay" (or Black, or Woman, etc.) with a bit of a titter in their voice, doesn't mean they're making some kind of derogatory joke that you should take personally. I think some folks have no real idea what they actually SHOULD be angry about, so they just decide easier to be angry about EVERYTHING. This is what I call "lazy activism". How about developing a sense of humor for the new year, and saving your anger for the stuff you should really be angry about.

And with that, I wish you all of God's blessings and prosperity for the New Year! All the best!

GOP Debate Drinking-Game for Teetotalers

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Thursday August 06, 2015 · 2:23 PM PDT

2015/08/06 · 14:23

Tonight's FOX News sponsored GOP debate is sure to produce plenty of shot-guzzling moments for all of the drinking games that will surely be going on tonight. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if emergency rooms have been placed on full alert for increased calls stemming from alcohol poisoning. On the plus side, the pluming industry should see an increase in business stemming from plugged toilets of folks who clearly just couldn't hold their liquor.

However, there is a population of folks that may be unfairly left out of all of tonight's fun...teetotalers. These are the folks who don't imbibe, and will be forced to sit on the sidelines while the rest of liberal-nation gets stinking, pissy drunk. Plus there are those of us who have to work in the morning who'd rather not show up with a raging hangover. Well fear not. For those of us who are abstaining this evening, I've come up with our very own drinking game. Needless to say, if the debate goes as it probably will, it will involve very little drinking (unless you just want to drink for the fun of it).

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Tuesday June 02, 2015 · 4:50 PM PDT

2015/06/02 · 16:50

One day after former Olympian Bruce Jenner announced that she would now like to be known as Caitlyn Jenner, right-wing tabloid site World Net Daily released a video taken back in February featuring Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee joking about how he wished he'd pretended to be transgendered in High School.

From The Hill...

“Now, I wish that someone told me that when I was in high school that I could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers [after gym class],” Huckabee said in the video.
“I’m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, ‘Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today,’ ” he joked. “You’re laughing because it sounds so ridiculous, doesn’t it?"

Huckabee made the comments while speaking to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention about the notion of transgendered people using showers and restrooms for the gender with which they identify. Of course, his commentary comes with the requisite amount of right-wing self-victimization and fear-mongering.

“For those who do not think that we are under threat, simply recognize that the fact that we are now in city after city watching ordinances say that your 7-year-old daughter, if she goes into the restroom cannot be offended, and you can’t be offended if she’s greeted there by a 42-year-old man who feels more like a woman than he does a man,” Huckabee said.

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Thursday May 28, 2015 · 8:48 AM PDT

2015/05/28 · 08:48

Speaking to Fake Noise Crapper's Greta Van Susteren, Donald Trump reveals that he and his hair have come up with a foolproof, can't miss plan to defeat ISIS, which he'll put into place if he is elected President. And here's your first look at it...

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Friday May 15, 2015 · 11:28 AM PDT

2015/05/15 · 11:28

LIBERAL MEDIA MY ASS!

This morning on ABC's Good Morning America, anchor George Stephanopoulos (G-Step for short, simply because typing his name is just to damn many keystrokes) apologized to viewers for failing to disclosed $50k in donations he made to the Clinton Foundation over the course of 2013 and 2014. Revelations about the donations came out in Peter Schweizer's book "Clinton Cash". The book is supposed to be an expose of organizations who've donated to the foundation set up by former President Bill Clinton -- husband of Hillary Clinton who is running for the 2016 Presidential nomination -- but has had to recently make several "factual corrections" because of its reliance on a fake press release.

From the AP (via msn.com)...

Stephanopoulos, co-host of "Good Morning America" and host of the Sunday morning public affairs program "This Week," has reported on Peter Schweizer's book, "Clinton Cash," which traces the public involvement of organizations that have donated to the foundation set up by former President Bill Clinton, whose wife Hillary is the former secretary of state running for the 2016 presidential nomination. Stephanopoulos interviewed Schweizer on "This Week."
The news anchor said that he believed his contributions were a matter of public record.

"However, in hindsight, I should have taken the extra step of personally disclosing my donations to my employer and to the viewers on the air during the recent news stories about the foundation," he said. "I apologize."

ABC News, in a statement, agreed that Stephanopoulos was wrong not to notify his bosses and viewers but called it an honest mistake.

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Wednesday May 06, 2015 · 4:22 AM PDT

2015/05/06 · 04:22

BWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

From the Huffington Post (emphasis mine)...

An outbreak of chlamydia at a high school in Texas has forced administrators there to send a warning note home to parents.
District officials confirmed to CBS7 last Friday that the Crane Independent School District has seen 20 cases of the sexually transmitted disease in its high school, adding that letters have also been sent to the district's junior high school as a precaution.

The station estimates 1 in 15 students at the school has contracted chlamydia.

The high school offers a three-day sexual education course once a year that emphasizes abstinence.

This is the kind of backwards thinking that the so-called "family values" conservatives like to push. That by somehow "outlawing" any kind of sexual contact outside of marriage will stop people from doing it (which also explains why they're so dead set against same-sex marriage). They teach "abstinence only" sex-ed, keep kids from being able to purchase contraceptives, and then wonder why their kids are winding up with STDs, or pregnant. It's pretty much a known statistic that the areas that have the highest rates of teen pregnancy and STDs are those that labor under the laughable impression that you can somehow keep teenagers from having sex by telling them that its "really really icky". Unfortunately, it would seem that some folks will just never learn.

In a conversation with the San Antonio Express-News on Monday, school superintendent Jim Rumage defended the abstinence-heavy course.
"That's not a bad thing," said Rumage, "because if kids are not having any sexual activity, they can't get this disease. That's not a bad program."

Yeah. Um...good luck with that.

This Is What REAL Christianity Looks Like (A Mother's Day Commentary)

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Wednesday May 06, 2015 · 3:59 AM PDT

2015/05/06 · 03:59

This is not really a political entry. It's simply that this is one of those entries that have been sitting on my brain for the better part of a year now, mostly because I found it difficult to put into words something that I felt was truly wonderful. Earlier this year it seemed even more important to put this down, but given the circumstances I was, frankly, in no condition to make any kind of entry. Now that we are coming up on Mother's Day, I think that I should make some kind of effort to show just what kind of person my mother, Alexis Jean Davis, was. My mother passed away this past January, and while the incidents I'm writing about happened last summer, I think now would be as good a time as any to pay tribute to the woman who throughout her life showed me what REAL Christianity looks like.

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Friday May 01, 2015 · 2:13 PM PDT

2015/05/01 · 14:13

You know, nothing gives my Gay ego a big-fat ol' stiffy like reading how right-wing fake Christians have given the LGBT community the power over weather, the earth, volcanoes, and terrorism. And now, right-wing radio broadcaster Rick Wiles has endowed us with another power - the power to call fireballs from space.

Speaking on his radio program "TruNews" Thursday, Wiles gives yet another dire prediction of what will happen to the United States if bans against same-sex marriage are overturned by the Supreme Court.

“I believe I am speaking under the unction of the Holy Spirit,” he continued. “I’m telling you there will be swift, sudden and devastating consequences for the United States of America. America will be brought to its knees, there will be pain and suffering at a level we’ve never seen in this country. The word that I hear in my spirit is ‘fire.’ I do not know if it refers to riots or looting or war on American soil or a fireball from space. I simply know that a sweeping, consuming fire will come across the United States of America and this country will be charred and burned.”

Yes, my LGBT brothers and sisters. We now truly poses the power of the cosmos. To reign fire down upon our enemies, and to smite them with the unholy fire of our...uh...Gayness? Read More

MD Republican Suggest Taking Away Food Stamps From Rioters' Parents

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Friday May 01, 2015 · 4:20 AM PDT

2015/05/01 · 04:20

And now for the latest entry from the never ending GOP stupid parade.

From the Huffington Post...

A Republican lawmaker in the Maryland General Assembly said it might be a good idea to take food stamps away from parents if their kids are involved in riots.
"I think that you could make the case that if there is a failure to do proper parenting and allowing this stuff to happen, is there an opportunity for a month to take away your food stamps," Maryland state Del. Pat McDonough said Wednesday during a radio broadcast clipped by The Intercept.

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Wednesday April 29, 2015 · 6:30 PM PDT

2015/04/29 · 18:30

Just over a week ago I posted a story about a group of PA high school students who held an "Anti-Gay" day at their school as a counter to the National Day of Silence. I caught quite a bit of flack from some of the more sensitive readers for my implication that the students' (all male) homophobia may be compensating for some latent homosexual urgings. "You're insulting the Gays" was what most of these comments boiled down to. The truth is (as anyone who has read my diaries should have figured out) that my speculation was not meant as an insult, but an observation that has come to fruition time and again. And now we have more proof of how blatant homophobia can often be an indicator of someone dealing with deeper issues of their own sexuality.

From the Fargo-Morehead Forum...

Rep. Randy Boehning, a 52-year-old Republican legislator from Fargo [North Dakota], says a Capitol employee told him a fellow lawmaker vowed to out him as gay if he continued to vote against bills granting gays legal protections against discrimination.
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The exchange came to light when Dustin Smith, a 21-year-old Bismarck man with no known connections to the Capitol, contacted The Forum earlier this month, saying he recognized Boehning from a gay dating smartphone app called Grindr. Chatting under the user name Top Man!, Boehning sent Smith sexually suggestive messages and, in the early morning hours of March 12, an unsolicited photo of his penis, according to exchanges reviewed by The Forum.

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FINALLY! We can actually tell Bernie, "YOU LOSE!"

I Am NOT a PROGRESSIVE (and I'm damn proud of it)

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Resolutions and Wishes for 2016.

GOP Debate Drinking-Game for Teetotalers

Huckabee Wishes He Were Trans In High School...So Do I

Donald Trump's "Foolproof" Plan to Defeat ISIS

George Stephanopoulos Apologizes for Donations to Clinton Charity. (Meanwhile, over at FOX News...)

Abstinence-Only TX High School Hit With Chlamydia

This Is What REAL Christianity Looks Like (A Mother's Day Commentary)

Right-Wing Broadcaster Warns of "Fireballs From Space" Because of Same-Sex Marriage

MD Republican Suggest Taking Away Food Stamps From Rioters' Parents

(Yet another) Anti-Gay GOP Lawmaker Caught Being Gay