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DKos has an impact on Africa (and beyond)

I believe we need to be thoughtful when giving our money to candidates or groups/individuals that need financial help. On the other hand, this site and it's members have had some amazingly positive,...

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Race, the Supreme Court and a kindergardener

There is yet another case before the Supreme Court this week on race. This time it is to decide whether Seattle and Louisville are allowed to use the race of the student in that student's placement in...

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Breaking: Bush can read

This is just too precious. Maybe it's been reported before, but a search didn't bring it up. We all have had our doubts about whether Bush can read or not, and we've heard from him directly that he...

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The Anti-Rant: Thank You Straight Allies.

I'm writing this today as an anti-rant to this rant I wrote 9 months ago and so much more I've written in criticism and lament to all the discrimination, hate and homophobia I and other GLBT people...

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It can't go on. It must stop. Health care is making us sick.

I wrote about last year. We returned to the U.S. and had to get health insurance. There are three of us, myself, my partner and our daughter. We are in our 40's. Our daughter is 4. I have a...

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Episcopal Church: Was it something I said?

Several Episcopal congregations in my homestate of Virginia, including the very congregation that my extended family calls home in Falls Church,  are voting to today to secede from the Episcopal...

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Gay Nigerian Mormons: Definition of Courage

Yep, they exist. Lots of them. Nigeria is one of the places in the world were Mormonism has been growing by leaps and bounds (well from near 0 a couple decades ago to 120,000 today) . Inevitably, there...

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Canadians Brace Yourselves: your marriages might get stronger

We already learned a couple months ago, that same-sex marriage in Europe has made for: "...higher marriage rates for heterosexuals, lower divorce rates, lower rates for out-of-wedlock births, lower STD...

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New NCDC Report: Hottest Winter EVER... again.

The National Climatic Data Center report for this winter came out today and well, U.S. winter temperatures were average this year. Temperatures this winter in San Francisco though have been a bit warm...

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Equality's March (with fancy graphics)

(click image for larger view) After putting the populations of nations that have marriage equality in my blog's entry about Sweden, I began to wonder, what would that look like over time... how has...

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They'll take your child away

It's a phrase that gives me the chills and this is why we live in California and not Georgia and why GLBT people continue to fight for our rights. A judge in Georgia removed a child from the home of...

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Activism (Soulforce!) pays off at BYU

Last year my partner, my daughter and I helpeda very small tidbit on the Soulforce equality ride. They went again this year. The idea of the equality ride (and Soulforce) is to peacefully, in the...

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"parents and family" in times of tragedy

Today on Family Scholar's "blog" (one of those "blogs" that isn't really a blog**), Elizabeth Marquardt talks briefly about her feelings about the tragedy in Blacksburg. Of course, like so many others...

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Yep, I'm now a member of a hate group

Ok, so I was being mischevious. I went to this "poll"on the American Family Association web site. It asks the question: If a corporation supports the homosexual agenda, would you: * Be more likely to...

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This Homosexual's Agenda

Yeah, I've got one. Dang right I do :). I've seen it talked about here occasionally (usually in a positive sense :). It's one of those things you see the anti-gay religious right fear-monger write...

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New Data: Ice-free Arctic earlier than previously predicted (2020?)

The National Center for Atmospheric Research has released a report today suggesting that Arctic sea ice is melting at a rate much faster than the 18 computer models used in the recently released IPCC...

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The Mormons: All Americans should watch, a review

If you want to know what about Mormonism that has intrigued, frustrated, endeared, repulsed and fascinated me over the years, what has made me be a fervent and devout believer and an outcast, then you...

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Climate change before your eyes! Hardiness zones and you

The National Arbor Day Foundation has updated the USDA Hardiness Zone map (last updated in 1990) with data from the last 15 years. What are hardiness zones you ask? A hardiness zone is a...

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Climate Change: Our Family's Pledge

Yesterday I posted about changing hardiness zones due to climate change, a week ago I posted about thefaster-than-first-thought loss of arctic ice, many people have posted many stories about the...

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My cell phone saved a life and more

Ok, just had to post this. Sorry. I have to say, though I at times have had the same rants as this diarist, and there are some things about my cell phone (and others) I hate, in the over all picture......

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Bill O'Reilly and my 2nd grade teacher in 1966

I just had to write this. It's been reported several places here on dailykos and is becoming a MSM story. It will, hopefully, be reported and mentioned in many many more stories in the near future. But...

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How to turn a Republican into a Democrat in 6 easy steps

This is the story of someone very close to me. We've discussed politics all our lives and the last 6 years I've watched his transformation. He's not a Democrat, yet :), but he has switched his party...

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"Every Man for Himself," will I become a heartless conservative?

There are two huge train engines headed down converging tracks towards catastrophic collision. The first engine, Global warming, is much worse than even our earlier worst case scenarios suggested . The...

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Pajamas Media's John Cole Becomes Democrat

Sorry for the short diary. I thought this was interesting considering my conservative libertarian-leaning brother left the Republican Party 3 years ago for similar reasons, and I can't find it in...

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Thanksgiving, why it means something, a repost

Thanksgiving means a lot to me. A lot of that meaning comes from sitting at the feet of my Native American grandmother, who not only loved the holiday, but worshiped it. This year Meteor Blades posted...

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We can't continue on like this: health insurance costs

WHEN WILL IT STOP!?! I've written about this every hear now for three years. In 2005 our health insurance (for two adults and a child) went up 11.3% and I wrote a diary "Health Care is Killing Us" In...

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Inflate this!

For our family of four... In 2006, the grocery bill was about 15% of our take home income. In 2006, our health insurance bill was about 15% of our take home income. In 2006, our gas and electric bill...

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A tree, 375 dollars and a tank of gas

That's what I'm saving every year by making one simple change in my lifestyle. Earlier this year my family made a pledge, cut our carbon emissions by 50% in 5 years. We are going to shoot for 80%. This...

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Our daughter: "A Black Man Can't be President"

That's what my 5-year-old daughter, an African-American, said to me this weekend. It hurt the the core of my heart. I, as the "whitest-man-in-America," and my partner work hard to raise our daughter...

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Mormons for Obama

I've had a strange couple weeks as politics go recently. I've mildly supported Obama the last few months, but over the last month have come to give more of my time and money to his campaign. Yesterday...

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Obama will win California, at least that's my evidence

The polls show Obama virtually tied now with Clinton in California. He has swept the California Newspapers' endorsements He has gotten key endorsements in the state. It all seems like the momentum is...

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They real reason I vote for Obama tomorrow

There are all the substantial reasons. The fact that he supports my family's rights. His understanding that we must fix health care system and stop global warming, and has good proposals to do so. His...

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Your primary finished? You're not!

Over the last month I've been a precinct captain for the OBAMA campaign, called, canvassed, emailed, donated, stood on street corners, went to fund raisers. And yesterday's primary here in California...

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DON'T PLAY to the other's frame on Obama

Ok, the new false meme out there, put out by Clinton supporters or Obama detractors, is that people voting for Obama are doing so with their heart and not their head, or that they are emotional, or...

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Add weather to the list of excuses

The Clinton campaign, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have used a variety of excuses to dismiss Obama's huge wins. It's the black people. It's the caucuses. It's the red states. It's the...

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Our Family's very "Personal Primary"

This primary season has had a much more personal impact on our family than have any before. Impacts that intersect race, gender and sexual orientation. As a family of two fathers raising an African...

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Global Warming News: It's always worse than expected

When will 'we' get it? The news that comes out from scientific studies consistently and relentlessly reports that all indicators of climate change are worse, much worse, than most of our worst case...

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Tammy Baldwin & the absurity of DADT & DOMA

The military has the "DADT" (don't ask, don't tell) policy and state and federal governments have DOMA amendments and laws. Anyway, these have lead to some sad and frustrating inequalities for military...

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Surviving Food Crisis I: what I learned from my 100 moms

We've seen that food prices, especially staples such as corn, wheat and rice, have been skyrocketing to records the last couple years. We've seen that these rising prices have already started causing...

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Breaking :)...Genetic Information NonDiscrimination Act Passes Today: 95-0

Never used breaking before (I don't think), but due to the tireless effort of many of our legislators (Slaughter and Kennedy not least among them), the Genetic Information NonDiscrimination Act passed...

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Read this remarkable, unremarkable article

Read this article and tell me what is both remarkable and at the same time unremarkable about it. More dip early into funds for retirement

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Need help counteracting Malkin

My father sends anti-Obama emails periodically. This one was a link to a post by that great repository of all things stupid, M. Malkin. The post in entitled:Educating the ignorant Kumbaya candidate. As...

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"Don't take it so personally"

That is what a man said to me the other day. He, and what looked like his teenage son, were passing out flyers and wearing t-shirts that declared "one man + one woman = marriage" in front of the...

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I'm doing all I can to keep my marriage intact

So today, I made my first youtube video It all started because of this story... I was phonebanking for NO on Prop 8 here in California and a woman said she was undecided.

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We will have no regrets thanks to a 10 yo boy (No on 8)

My partner, or shall I say husband?!, and I have been together for 12 years. We are raising a most wonderful 6 year old daughter together and about to adopt a second soon. We love our lives. Last...

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Giddy & sobbing, voting with my daughter.

This 49 year old white descendant of the slave holders of Virginia, born into a segregated South, who experienced a painful desegregation of his school at 7 years old... took his 6 year old black...

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Putting your mouth where your money was: A perfect response to the Mormon church

So, Equality Utah has an EXCELLENT response to the LDS church's coordinated, organized and official campaign to end the rights of marriage for tens of thousands of families, including ours. As a...

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Please, Please, Please, Protest the H8!

Join with me Saturday at 10:30am/PT, 11:30am/MT, 12:30pm/CT, 1:30pm/ET. The elimination of our rights last week has been a horrible blow, a punch to the gut. But, and I'm about to write this down in a...

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Obama GLBT-rights scorecard

I haven't written a diary in nearly 3 years. There are several reasons for that from loss of time to a perceived change here. But that's neither here nor there, as they say. As Obama's last year of...

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Standing in Williamsburg with my family

A couple weeks ago my husband and I took our African-American and mixed-race daughters to Williamsburg where we learned much about the American Revolution and our history of striving for independence...

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