Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams, American diplomat & politician (1735-1826) in Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials, December 1770.
The 2012 Republican National Convention summarized in one image
People don’t see any way out of what’s going on economically or politically — not just in Russia but all over the world. But artists have recognised there is a way out and it’s that we begin to realise the problem is spiritual, not economical or political. When we recognise that, we can begin to claw our way back to a world as it was intended by its creator to be. Caring and compassionate.
Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor on the jailing of members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot [source]
Missing it already.
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Meanwhile, back at Romney’s evil lair…
Paul Ryan as VP Would Match Mitt Romney on Homophobia
Paul Ryan has voted to ban same-sex marriage and adoption by gay couples, and he voted against repealing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on gays serving openly in the military.
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- Romney supports amending the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. And Ryan twice voted in support of the failed Federal Marriage Amendment in 2004 and 2006.
- As a U.S. representative for Wisconsin’s first congressional district, Ryan was more recently faced with a ballot question in his home state on whether to ban marriage equality. He again lined up against marriage equality when asked about the iniative during a February appearance on Meet the Press.
- In 2003, Ryan voted in favor of the Marriage Protection Act, which would have prevented federal courts from considering and possibly overturning the Defense of Marriage Act. Romney also backs DOMA.
- Ryan voted in 1999 in favor of banning same-sex couples from adopting in the District of Columbia, over which Congress often exerts control.
- Ryan also lined up with Romney on repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” when it came before Congress in 2011.
- When the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act passed through the House in 2009, Ryan voted against it.
- Ryan received a 0 percent rating on gay rights by Human Rights Campaign and 91 percent by the Christian Coalition of America (source)
The cost of taking part in creating history is always staggeringly high for people. But that taking part is the very spice of human life.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot, whose trial on charges of hooliganism concluded in a Moscow courtroom this past week. The closing statement of Tolokonnikova and of her co-defendants is available here.
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