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(Community Matters) YES WE CAN!

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(Community Matters) The school superintendent allowed him to bring his boyfriend to the prom – but his parents kicked him out of his home.

Gay Teen in Georgia Kicked Out by Parents Over Bringing Boyfriend to Prom

http://www.bilerico.com

(Community Matters) Can’t describe how proud I am to be married to Steven Tomlinson, to be together, work together in this life.

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(Community Matters) I’m not sure what’s up with this – I know a really smart, successful, fit and good looking 45-year old professional woman who ought to be booked on dates every night. Today she told me she hasn’t been on a date in a while. Totally overlooked. 35 – 55 eligible bachelors interested? email me.

My facebook posting about this suggests it’s not an anomaly in Austin.  What’s with that?  is there a gender inbalance?

(Community Matters) Quick trip to Houston yesterday for a couple of meetings with DNC Chair, former Virginian Governor Tim Kaine.  A cocktail event hosted at one home where I enjoyed chats with many including former Gov. Mark White – especially his fond stories of Lowell Lebermann.  After, a much more intimate dinner at a good friend’s.  Casual, candid and lively chat with Gov Kaine and good friends.  We’re all in agreement that Texas is in play and that Mayor White is a very promising candidate.  Kirk Rudy and I drove back last night – it’d been too long since we’d had such a block of time together.

(Community Matters) A friend sent today:

(From my favorite blog this morning. There’s already too much inflammatory shit out there, and I didn’t want to add to it by just posting this willy nilly. But this is sort of how I feel, because I’m so seriously puzzled by some of this reaction.)

You didn’t get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.

You didn’t get mad when Cheney allowed Energy companies to dictate energy policy.

You didn’t get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.

You didn’t get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.

You didn’t get mad when we spent over 600 billion (and counting) on said illegal war.

You didn’t get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq.

You didn’t get mad when you saw the Abu Grahib photos.

You didn’t get mad when you found out we were torturing people.

You didn’t get mad when you found out the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.

You didn’t get mad when we didn’t catch Bin Laden.

You didn’t get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.

You didn’t get mad when we let a major U.S. city drown.

You didn’t get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.

You finally got mad when… when… wait for it… when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick and not lose their homes or life savings.

Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all OK with you, but helping other Americans… well fuck that.

That about right?

(Community Matters) http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/03/23/whats-health-care-bill

(Community Matters) Per USA Today: By 49%-40% those surveyed say it was “a good thing” rather than a bad one that Congress passed the bill. The findings are encouraging for the White House and congressional Democrats, who get higher ratings than congressional Republicans for their work on the issue.

(Community Matters) The Economist – a titillating article of Senator Cantwell’s proposal for Cap & Dividend green house gas control.

(Community Matters) Overlook the flowery language and get to the metrics – an informative and potentially helpful document.  thanks, CAN

(Community Matters) Conservative columnist David Frum

We followed the most radical voices in the party and the movement, and they led us to abject and irreversible defeat. So today’s defeat for free-market economics and Republican values is a huge win for the conservative entertainment industry. Their listeners and viewers will now be even more enraged, even more frustrated, even more disappointed in everybody except the responsibility-free talkers on television and radio. For them, it’s mission accomplished. For the cause they purport to represent, it’s Waterloo all right: ours.

(Community Matters) Laurel Tomlinson.

I’d given Laurel (7yo) and her sister, Cadence, (9yo) Livestrong bracelets as they left Austin last weekend