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Friday, September 7, 2012
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Tricycle Daily Dharma September 7, 2012
Many Ways Up the Mountain
There
are many ways up the mountain, but each of us must choose a practice
that feels true to his own heart. It is not necessary for you to
evaluate the practices chosen by others.
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- Jack Kornfield, "Take the One Seat"
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Via The Pragmatic Progressive FB Page:
"If you reject the notion that this nation’s promise is reserved for the few, your voice must be heard in this election.
If you reject the notion that our government is forever beholden to the highest bidder, you need to stand up in this election.
If you believe that new plants and factories can dot our landscape; that new energy can power our future; that new schools can provide ladders of opportunity to this nation of dreamers; if you believe in a country where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules, then I need you to vote this November." — Barack Obama
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Via JMG: Barney Frank Slams Log Cabin
"Frankly
I’ve been appalled to see the Log Cabin club, in the face of this worse
and worse record on public policy by Republicans on our issues. Mr.
Cooper said, ‘Well at least they’re not saying bad things about us.'
That’s just extraordinary. Again, 30 years ago when we were emerging
from the vice of prejudice, I understood that. But no, we shouldn’t be
accepting a kind of second class citizenship, [and saying], ‘You can
treat us badly as long you don’t yell at us.’"They’re accepted on [the GOP's] terms. They’re willing to be accepted with no rights -- no right to marry, no right to serve in the military, no right to be protected against hate crimes, no right to be protected in employment. I’ll be honest: For 20 years now I’ve heard how the Log Cabins are going to make Republicans better, but they’ve only gotten worse. I now understand why they call themselves Log Cabin: their role model is Uncle Tom." -Rep. Barney Frank, speaking today on Michelangelo Signorile's show at the DNC.
Via AmericaBlog Gay: Why it's a huge deal that Michelle Obama endorsed gay marriage in her convention speech
Last night, during her keynote address at the Democratic Convention, First Lady Michelle Obama, in so many words, endorsed marriage equality:
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Via JMG: Will Prop 8 To Be On SCOTUS Docket?
Scottie Thomaston reports an interesting development at Prop 8 Trial Tracker:
The Supreme Court docket page for Hollingsworth v. Perry, the Prop 8 case, has a new notice that the case has been “DISTRIBUTED for Conference of September 24, 2012.” The September 24 conference is the first time this term that the Justices will meet privately and look at petitions for certiorari to decide which cases they will accept for review.
Usually, the Court announces its orders from conferences on the Monday following the conferences, however if they do take up the Prop 8 case on September 24, they could announce as early as the next day whether the full Court will review the case. It takes four votes to grant review.
If the Court denies the petition, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision stands, and Proposition 8 will be invalidated, though the case won’t set a nationwide precedent. If they decide to review the case, they’ll reach a final decision on the merits at the end of June 2013.
The Court could also potentially ‘relist’ the case for a later conference. This would mean instead of making a decision at the September 24 conference, the case would be held and listed for a subsequent one.
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Tricycle Daily Dharma September 6, 2012
Loving Negativity to Death
Remember
'Divide and Conquer'—if you can divide a negative reaction into its
parts (mental image, mental talk, and emotional body sensation), you can
conquer the sense of being overwhelmed. In other words, eliminate the
negative parts by loving them to death.
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- Shinzen Young, "The Power of Gone"
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Via AmericaBLog Gay:
Michelle Obama references gay marriage in convention keynote
Here's
the second gay reference, the first is more subtle:If farmers and
blacksmiths could win independence from an empire…if immigrants could
leave behind everything they knew for a better life on our shores…if
women could be dragged to jail for seeking the vote…if a generation
could...
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Via JMG: Anti-Gay Whackjob Paul Cameron Repeats "Gays Are Inherently Diseased" Claim
"If
you look across the data sets you see that homosexuals have a host of
mental problems, disproportionate physical problems, they don't live as
long, and they are disproportionately involved in drug abuse and
criminality. That would seem to indicate that that is a lifestyle that
may reasonably be considered mentally disturbed – [a] disorder. Yet, it
isn't. It is surprising that such a wildly defective study, and one that
actually proved the exact opposite of what it claimed to have proved
has survived so long." - Discredited psychologist Paul Cameron, speaking to the Christian Post.Cameron is referring to a 1957 study that was cited when the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in 1973. Cameron's claim that gay men only live to age 42 is still frequently quoted by anti-gay hate groups, even though he came up with that figure by averaging the ages of men he found in AIDS obituaries in the 1980s. Which is like saying that the average child with a brain tumor dies at age eight, therefore all children have a life expectancy of eight years. Earlier this year Cameron called for imprisoning gay people in a statement that also accused President Obama of being secretly gay himself.
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