Bruce Jenner is a Republican. Are you Conservative bigots going to serve him Pizza?

When Sawyer asked if Jenner cheered when Obama became the first president to even say the word "transgender" in a State of the Union address, the 65-year-old replied that he "would certainly give him credit for that."

"But not to get political," Jenner continued, "I've never been a big fan, I'm kind of more on the conservative side."

"Are your a Republican?" Sawyer asked in response, to which Jenner replied, "Yeah! Is that a bad thing? I believe in the constitution."

"Do you think that would be an unsettling thing for some people in the conservative wing of the party?" Sawyer asked.

"I've thought about that," says Jenner, adding that neither political party has a monopoly on understanding.



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/bruce-jenner-transgender-conservative-republican-2015-4#ixzz3YKLLAuKF

Newly Elected Black Mayor Locked Out Of City Hall By Police

Earlier this week, news surfaced that the election of an African-American mayor had had prompted police officers in Parma, Missouri to resign in protest.

Today's news from Kinloch, Missouri is much, much more disturbing.

A Letter of Apology to My Grandson: 'It’s Not the World I Wanted to Leave You'

NEWS & POLITICS
A Letter of Apology to My Grandson: 'It’s Not the World I Wanted to Leave You'
Our world is a far more screwed up, degraded place.
By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch April 23, 2015


Dear Grandson,

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The Future Foreseen

Back in 2001, before I even imagined a grandson in my life, I had one of those moments (and wish I hadn’t). It was sometime just after the 9/11 attacks when, nationwide, Americans were still engaged in endless rites in which we repeatedly elevated ourselves to the status of the foremost victims on the planet, the only ones that mattered. In those months, you might say, we made ourselves into Earth’s indispensible or exceptional victims.

In that extended moment of national mourning (combined with fear bordering on hysteria), the Bush administration geared up to launch its revenge-fueled global wars, while money started pouring into the national security state in a historically unprecedented way. It was a time when the previously un-American word “homeland” was being attached to what would become a second defense department, secrecy was descending like a blanket on the government, torture was morphing into the enhancement of the week in the White House, assassination was about to become a focus (later an obsession) of the executive branch -- and surveillance? Don’t even get me started on the massively redundant domestic and global surveillance state that would soon be built on outright illegalities and rubber-stamp legalities of every sort.

In October 2001, I had no way of grasping most of that, but it didn't matter. I peered into the future and just knew -- and what I knew chilled me to the bone. I had mobilized decades earlier as part of the antiwar movement of the Vietnam era, which was in its own way a terrible time, but when I looked at where our country seemed to be heading, as the president promised to kick some ass globally and American bombs began to fall on Afghanistan, I had no doubt that this was going to be the worst era of my life.

I wasn’t, of course, thinking about you that October and November. You were then minus 11 years old, so to speak. I was, however, thinking about your mother and your uncle, my children. I was thinking about the world that I and my cohorts and George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and George Tenet and Donald Rumsfeld and the rest of that crew were going to leave them.


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......if this country of mine, and someday yours, could be put on the couch, I suspect it would, in layman’s terms, be diagnosed as “disturbed” (on an increasingly disturbed planet). Worst of all, we can evidently no longer see what actually threatens us most, which isn’t a bunch of jihadis, but what we are doing to our ourselves and our world.

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the rest
really well written (especially since i am a gamma):
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/letter-apology-my-grandson-its-not-world-i-wanted-leave-you

"Must Hate Hillary"

"Try Holding Your Breath While You Count Your Money"

Need a smile out there anyone?

Actual line from a story about Jeb Bush and weight loss:

The rigid abstemiousness runs the risk of putting him at a dietary distance from an American electorate that still binges on carbohydrates and, after eight years of a tea-sipping president, craves a relatable eater-in-chief.

Dog The Bounty Hunter Goes Rogue On Fox News, Defends The Clintons - "Dynamic Duo"

Of the five panelists sitting on the "Outnumbered" couch on Friday, the only one defending Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was the show's grizzled guest, celebrity bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman.

Asked what he thought of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Dog, clad in all black, left the rest on the sofa shocked.

"I don't think he could beat the dynamic duo," he said calmly.

"Who's the dynamic duo?" co-host Andrea Tantaros asked, excitedly.

"The Clintons," Dog said, with a smile. The hosts groaned and asked him why he would support Hillary for President.

How Men Value Independence in Wives — and Daughters

Junk Food For Kids: It’s not about French fries; it’s about freedom.”

Bonus Quote of the Day
— Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, in a letter to the Houston Chronicle.
April 24, 2015

“I have proposed a new rule to allow school districts to install deep fat fryers and sell beverages like diet soda. I believe each school district – not the state or federal government – should decide what foods are offered to students… If a school district doesn’t agree with any of these changes, then the district doesn’t have to implement them. That’s the beauty here."