Saturday, May 12, 2012
Two stories dominating the news this week have been setting a major tone for the upcoming presidential election. First, Barack Obama became the first sitting president ever to acknowledge that gays and lesbians should be allowed to marry each other. This was closely followed by the revelation that in his high school days, Mitt Romney was a gay-bashing bully in high school. Just when I think I couldn’t be any prouder of this fine young man (I get to call him that, since he is the first President in history to be younger than me) he goes and does something like this. Kudos to the greatest President the United States has ever known.
Mutt Romney, on the …
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
A couple of things on my mind today. First of all, as I’m being reminded by about a bazillion Facebook posts, today is Veterans’ Day. Now anyone who knows me or reads my ’blog knows that I am extremely anti-war. At least, I am against the pointless and unwinnable wars we are fighting today. But I do salute the brave troops out there risking their lives, as well as those who risked and gave their lives in the past, especially one: Sgt. William H. Butts of the U.S. Army, who served in the Pacific Theater during World War II and was awarded the Bronze Star for heroism. So far as I was told, he got it for crawling through …
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