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Cultural Learnings of Holland for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of America

08-Nov-06

One foggy evening in San Francisco, some 6 years ago on election night, I was sitting around having wine with some friends, watching election night results come in on MSNBCNNABCFOX and the ominous beginnings of the Al Gore Florida recount kerfuffle taking shape.

I got a phone call around 11pm from one of my friends in New York. “Are you okay?” he asked, frantically, “I heard Bush had sent rail cars to San Francisco and they were going to start transporting gays to concentration camps.”

Perhaps a bit over the top, but the past 6 years have been retarded. The “us and them” debate explodes onto a global level, with Iraq and stem cell and gay marriage marriage equality and civil liberties and and and…

The Democrats are certainly the lesser of two evils, and I’m glad to see a potential triple-whammy of House, Senate and Guberatorial majorities. Word.

We still have a long way to go, of course, before we can flip on Sesame Street and see:

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  • matt

    great song, lots of courage. sort of heartwarming when it comes down to kids singing about it.

    being the kind of person who plainly desires function, i don't know whether i'd just let them called it 'civil unions,' as long as it incorporates all the rights of marriage, or actually want to fight all the way to get title of 'marriage'. (yes, it would be nice to get the title, but if it comes down to whether the word 'marriage' is a 'religious' icon, eh.)

  • Tom

    The Democrats are going to screw this nation up. They want to open the borders and let everyone from around the world to come here. That will in turn prolong gay equality because the overwhelming majority are anti-gay. Even if they weren't anti-gay I still would be against open borders. It's not Americans responsibility to give foreigners jobs. Secondly, Democrats/liberals don't believe terrorism exists. Everything terrorists want, Democrats support. Lastly, the Democrats only mildly support gay rights overall. Howard Dean had a chance to pass marraige for gay people in Vermont but instead chose civil unions because it might hurt his presidential hopes in 04. If it wasn't for gay people's money we wouldn't even be in the game. They think of gay rights as a drag on winning political office that's why many of the new democrats are anti-gay.

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