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Justice Delayed is Justice Denied

At this hour marriage equality has arrived in California. Attorney General Kamala Harris has asked the 8th Circuit Court to skip the 25 day delay in restoring human rights after the overturning of Prop 8 and they did.

With a single sentence.

Kristin Perry and Sandra Stien have been married by Ms. Harris. Paul Katami and Jeffrey Zarrillo are about to be married live on the Rachel Maddow Show.

I am going to edit this up as I put this together.

:~)

My Ambivalent Birthday & What You Can Do

Today is my birthday.  47 years ago, in a small college town in the Midwest, a young married couple had their first child.  Dad was in between his sophomore and junior years.  Mom was a secretary.  They had their 2nd anniversary earlier that spring.  

Please consider giving $10 to Heifer International.

I have been rather iffy on my birthday since my parents died.  My life is kind of crazy right now (yes, still), and I wanted to try to do something a little positive.  So I am going to ask here, and on Twitter, and Facebook, to raise money for Heifer.  My goal is $480.  

I am not tracking anything, so unless you tell me in comments or private message, I won’t know.  

Oh, let’s make this sweeter.  Every $10 gets you a ticket, and I will draw for a prize winnter and knit a hat for them.  Deal?  I am also really good at knitting baby socks right now.  

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My small plans today include a stop by the yarn store (sock yarn for my son, consulting on legwarmers for my daughter), the pet food store (so the kitties don’t eat me alive), and taking the kids to their dad’s for the afternoon/evening.  I am trying to take a break from politics for a couple days.  These plans are much bigger than I have had the last couple of years.  So it’s a start.  

The Picture Worth a Thousand Words

President Barack Obama looks out a window as he and First Lady Michelle Obama tour the Maison des Esclaves (House of Slaves) Museum on Gorée Island, Senegal, June 27, 2013.

(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

The Picture Worth a Thousand Words

President Barack Obama looks out a window as he and First Lady Michelle Obama tour the Maison des Esclaves (House of Slaves) Museum on Gorée Island, Senegal, June 27, 2013.

(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

The Daily F Bomb, Friday 6/28/13

Interrogatories

It’s Henry VIII’s birthday. Which of his wives is your favorite? What movie/TV/book version led to that choice?

Do you love or hate tapioca?

Gay or straight, when did your activism/standing up for gay rights begin?

What’s the better human invention: words or music?

The Twitter Emitter

The Naked City retrospective

A look at a celebrated TV show: born of a book title, movie and earlier TV show of the same name, after the jump ……  

“Every Life Matters”

Says the governor of the state that just executed its 500th inmate.  Says the man whose state is on course to execute up to fifteen people this year.

Protecting “this most basic right”

On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Democrat, signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.



Handing the Pen to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The new law of the land:


SEC. 2. No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State or political subdivision to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.