Silverton, Oregon, elects nation's first openly-transgender mayor

This is such a wonderful story.  MSNBC has a great interview with Mayor Rasmussen at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30...

It will make you laugh along and maybe get a little teary at the same time.

Does anyone still honestly think that this country is salvageable?

and an email I got about how the wrath of god is going to befall this country because we have Obama as our president-elect.

If they are so angry about the way this country is heading (equality, fairness, and respect) then why don't they just pack up and leave? Or as I responded to the email, "Flee God's wrath and not look back lest you turn to a pillar of salt."

Congratulations, Mayor Rasmussen.

watashi no yomeiri wa doko desu ka

 And that also reminds me, didn't the religious right say that if Obama is elected, than god is weaker than alah and the other gods.

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.

At what point does that site become a caricature of itself?

# Duty, duty -- honor is, is --
Honor, Creideiki -- alertly
# Shared, is -- Honor #

Sure, that's not awkward.  ;-)

It was just a joke.  I'm not that uptight.

"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson

I just look at the photo though, and tell myself, no big deal.  It's a guy.  He has some pretty wild hair.  So do I.
And he's got boobs.  Well, I've seen plenty of guys who have some rather large ones, unintentionally, so why does it matter if this guy has some intentionally, and maybe they are a bit larger than the unintentional ones.  So what?

He has different taste in clothes than I do.  So do a lot of people.  When I break it down like this, it's really no big deal.

But what really fascinates me are the relationships which I never seem to read much about...and that's probably because their private, but I'd love to get a perspective from his girlfriend, just to round out the picture.

My first thought was, I wonder if she considers herself a leasbian, and then I caught myself about a second later thinking, that's stupid... she's with a guy who is male and identifies as male.

I don't think the freepi like to think very much.  They just like to react harshly to anything that doesn't fit their mold.

I'm a little turned off by a mayor releasing headshots of herself in undergarments - but it does make me want to know about the town that elected her (is it an Oregon nudest colony?).

I have a dream today!

MLK


Question:  What does an atheist do when they fall to the floor and start "speaking in tongues"?

Answer: Get a CAT scan.

A severe country whuppin' from the Almighty is what we REALLY need!

I think that's what we've been getting for the past eight years.  The election of one trans mayor, even if you're benighted enough to think of it as evil, hardly counterbalances the apocalyptic evil we've all been living with.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.  -Archbishop Desmond Tutu