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The Google Doodle today honors Will Rogers' 140th birthday. He is the person who said my favorite quote.
"I am not a member of any organized party. I am a Democrat."
Also,

"Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.”
“You’ve got to be optimist to be a Democrat, and you’ve got to be a humorist to stay one.”
You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickled down. Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the dryest little spot....cont.
But he didn't know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.
Giuliani should have listened to him

"When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you’ve got to have been looking for it"
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My first real social media platform was Plurk. It's sort of like Twitter, but horizontal and really, that makes it so much easier to follow threads. It's a great platform, but is much more heavily used in Asia and it's owned by a Taiwanese company. Anyway, it is is SL-friendly
You can choose Second Life as the place you come from for example. Anyway, on plurk I have a habit of describing the wonderful outfits I see people wearing out and about. Fashionista on the bus, fashionista at the clinic, fashionista at the symphony. I thought I might share here
Fashionista at the opera: A fiftyish woman with BAZOOMS decided that if you've got it flaunt it and wore a dress that did not expose flesh, but certainly maximized the volume dramatically. It was black with white insets.
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While it is true, a Rep. Clymer conceded, older Black voters are uncomfortable with gay rights, gay marriage, etc. It is racist to claim it is because they are Black. Older white voters are more likely to be homophobic, too. Being an evangelical is even more predictive.
So, if older Black voters are more likely to feel homophobic, it is a matter of age and religion, not of race. It is racist to make it about race as Boy George and other Buttigieg supporters are. After all, who is really voting for Trump/Pence and the antigay GOP agenda?
Damn, Rep Clyburn not Clymer and I knew better since I write about his 10-20-30 plan a lot. Damn predictive typing.
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When Prop 8 passed, the immediate analysis was that Prop 8 passed because Obama was on the ballot and there were all these new Black voters and they voted for it. This is untrue. In fact, the new voters voted 62% against Prop 8, but the smear of Black voters lived on.
The real difference was generational. Older voters voted for Prop 8 and older voters vote more reliably. In addition, Oregon gay rights activists who were experienced in fighting anti-gay ballot measures reported the No on 8 campaign relied far too heavily on TV over field
Most damningly, they did not focus on outreach to people of color organizations, churches, and newspapers until the last weeks of the campaign. This is a failure of outreach, another result of not valuing field enough. But it's easier to say Black people are homophobic
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