Our thoughts are with those who have to live with the loss of a loved one. With the survivors who whether they were hurt or not will carry the tragedy of this day always.
And to the men and women who ran towards the explosions because their first thoughts were for those who needed help. To the first responders and law enforcement:
Thank You!
Thanks to Samantha Stendal for posting this, and to the cast.
This will now go to a vote by the full senate next week. If it passes there, I believe it goes to the House committee and then the full House. The Governor has already said he will sign it.
Like most parents, the tragedy in Connecticut last Friday made me hug my kids a little bit tighter when I got home that evening. It’s not only that we worry about something like that happening to us, to me it’s also that we feel some of that pain for the parents of the victims. I look at that list of names, at the pictures starting to come out, and I read about them and I feel the pain of losing a child. Of course, my pain doesn’t even come close to what it really feels like, but its close enough. I think about the lives not lived,so much that they had ahead of them.
28 people needlessly lost their lives. The victims and the shooter. All we can do for them now is work towards trying to prevent more tragedies. As a mother of a special needs child I am thankful that I have the help that I need, especially knowing that there are so many that do not. Every parents deserves the right to have the appropriate help for their kids. Every individual deserves to have access to health care, body and mind.
This is the time to put aside politics and get things done.
So it’s now been a couple of days since the election, and people are beyond ready for their FB pages to go back to normal. They want the political updates gone. I get it, really, I do. It’s just that there is so much to celebrate, I can’t stop. President Obama was re-elected! That is huge. Four states, FOUR, had voters go on the side of equality! Nineteen women were elected to the senate! History was made on Tuesday, and it has to be celebrated.
Yes, we still have a lot of work left to do. We need to make sure the Republicans understand why they lost. We need to let them know that they either learn a lesson from this, or face even worse results in the mid-term elections. Hopefully they get their act together up in D.C. and we can get some stuff done.
A big thank you to all the women who got out there and voted to protect their rights. To the minorities that proved that there is nothing minor about us. To the voters in Miami-Dade that stayed in line even after the winner had been declared, because they wanted their vote to be counted!
I promise it will stop soon, and trust me when I say I have zero interest in even thinking about 2016!
Voters in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington are making history today! Three pro-marriage equality measures are winning, and one anti-marriage equality measure is losing!
Voters in Maine have made it the first state ever to approve marriage equality on the ballot! Thank you, Maine! Thank you to voters in all four states!
Congratulations, Mr. President! Four more years, let’s get things done!
I now love this man. This is the best response to ignorance I have ever read. Please be sure to thank Mr. Kluwe, you can do so at his twitter page @chriswarcraft or his facebook page Chris Kluwe. I suggest you “like”/”follow”.
Dear Emmett C. Burns Jr.,
I find it inconceivable that you are an elected official of Maryland’s state government. Your vitriolic hatred and bigotry make me ashamed and disgusted to think that you are in any way responsible for shaping policy at any level. The views you espouse neglect to consider several fundamental key points, which I will outline in great detail (you may want to hire an intern to help you with the longer words):
1. As I suspect you have not read the Constitution, I would like to remind you that the very first, the VERY FIRST Amendment in this founding document deals with the freedom of speech, particularly the abridgment of said freedom. By using your position as an elected official (when referring to your constituents so as to implicitly threaten the Ravens organization) to state that the Ravens should “inhibit such expressions from your employees,” more specifically Brendon Ayanbadejo, not only are you clearly violating the First Amendment, you also come across as a narcissistic fromunda stain. What on earth would possess you to be so mind-boggingly stupid? It baffles me that a man such as yourself, a man who relies on that same First Amendment to pursue your own religious studies without fear of persecution from the state, could somehow justify stifling another person’s right to speech. To call that hypocritical would be to do a disservice to the word. Mindfucking obscenely hypocritical starts to approach it a little bit.2. “Many of your fans are opposed to such a view and feel it has no place in a sport that is strictly for pride, entertainment, and excitement.” Holy fucking shitballs. Did you seriously just say that, as someone who’s “deeply involved in government task forces on the legacy of slavery in Maryland”? Have you not heard of Kenny Washington? Jackie Robinson? As recently as 1962 the NFL still had segregation, which was only done away with by brave athletes and coaches daring to speak their mind and do the right thing, and you’re going to say that political views have “no place in a sport”? I can’t even begin to fathom the cognitive dissonance that must be coursing through your rapidly addled mind right now; the mental gymnastics your brain has to tortuously contort itself through to make such a preposterous statement are surely worthy of an Olympic gold medal (the Russian judge gives you a 10 for “beautiful oppressionism”).
3. This is more a personal quibble of mine, but why do you hate freedom? Why do you hate the fact that other people want a chance to live their lives and be happy, even though they may believe in something different than you, or act different than you? How does gay marriage, in any way shape or form, affect your life? If gay marriage becomes legal, are you worried that all of a sudden you’ll start thinking about penis? “Oh shit. Gay marriage just passed. Gotta get me some of that hot dong action!” Will all of your friends suddenly turn gay and refuse to come to your Sunday Ticket grill-outs? (Unlikely, since gay people enjoy watching football too.)
I can assure you that gay people getting married will have zero effect on your life. They won’t come into your house and steal your children. They won’t magically turn you into a lustful cockmonster. They won’t even overthrow the government in an orgy of hedonistic debauchery because all of a sudden they have the same legal rights as the other 90 percent of our population—rights like Social Security benefits, child care tax credits, Family and Medical Leave to take care of loved ones, and COBRA healthcare for spouses and children. You know what having these rights will make gays? Full-fledged American citizens just like everyone else, with the freedom to pursue happiness and all that entails. Do the civil-rights struggles of the past 200 years mean absolutely nothing to you?
In closing, I would like to say that I hope this letter, in some small way, causes you to reflect upon the magnitude of the colossal foot in mouth clusterfuck you so brazenly unleashed on a man whose only crime was speaking out for something he believed in. Best of luck in the next election; I’m fairly certain you might need it.
Sincerely,
Chris KluweP.S. I’ve also been vocal as hell about the issue of gay marriage so you can take your “I know of no other NFL player who has done what Mr. Ayanbadejo is doing” and shove it in your close-minded, totally lacking in empathy piehole and choke on it. Asshole.
You go India, great step in the right direction. Now let’s see it continue!
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