"The
Democratic Party under the leadership of Barack Obama has dramatically
improved the lives of millions of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual
Americans and at no cost to anyone else. In college, I thought I was
the only guy in the world who liked other guys. Later I found there was
someone else like me, our 26-year-old resident tutor. He and I never
talked about it at the time. No one talked about being gay back then.
People killed themselves over being gay. Tragically, some kids still do.
"Now
we know that when the leftists attempt to push a 'gay fascism bill' in
politically conservative areas, our response must be to create
controversy to draw public attention to the bill so that the people wake
up and realize there’s a problem. Throw out the old playbook of acting
nice and trying to persuade the public officials through reason. They
think they are smarter than you all anyhow and have already made up
their minds. They need to see angry crowds with tar and feathers in hand
coming to run them out of office! Indeed, the Mayor of Springfield
complained to the media that he was extremely bothered by threats of
recall by the citizens.
Dana Loesch is outraged: "Because nothing says 'respect women; like wearing a giant slut button. Respect women, even when they reduce themselves to nothing more than vaginas in a craft project gone horribly wrong and advocate for female genocide. Who's declaring a war on whom?"You just have to laugh.
Great news via press release from Ireland Marriage Equality:Today Marriage Equality welcomes the news that Dublin City Council has passed a motion in support of civil marriage for same sex couples. Two motions in support of marriage equality were put forward - by councillors from Labour and Sinn Féin - and passed at last night's council meeting, having been considered jointly. Dublin City Council joins Cork City Council and Belfast City Council, who passed similar motions in June, as well as Omagh, Down, Moyle and Magherafelt District Councils who passed motions during the summer months.The vote was 38-4!
"This is a wonderful step by Dublin City Council to raise awareness of this important issue at a local level. We'd like to thank the councillors from both Labour and Sinn Féin for their initiative, and our supporters in Dublin who spoke to their councillors over the last few months about raising the issue," said Marriage Equality Director Moninne Griffith. "Marriage equality is not just a national issue, it's a local one. It's about respecting and protecting loving couples and families who are part of our communities and treating them as equal. That is why putting the issue on the agenda at local level is so important."
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Don’t
try to do anything at all except what you’re doing, which will seem
like nothing to most observers. Little do they know! Even if what you’re
doing is being distracted and hating sitting on your cushion
accomplishing nothing—just do that. Don’t try to be anything other than
who and what you are.
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The
idea of naturalness is that no-working is true working. It’s the
understanding that things don’t happen due to your own calculation and
effort. You don’t sit there thinking, 'All right now, if I’m able to
follow the eightfold path and do everything the right way, then I will
attain awakening.' That’s your own deluded, ego-based effort. I did this, I am able to do that—the
moment you start thinking that way, your ego mind comes into play. Yet
when the karmic conditions are right, when your causes and conditions
come together, you can progress along the path.
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We
need to see the primordial potential in all of our experiences in the
same way a doctor sees the health and well-being in his patients. If a
patient didn’t possess a fundamental well-being, what would be the point
of prescribing such antidotes as medicines, exercise, or new diets?
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