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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Congress can't ignore it? You mean the same Congress that chastised the Democrats for even thinking about possibly blocking a Supreme Court nom after successfully stonewalling Obama's pick for months?
Ha, no. Don't make me laugh. Trump is unsinkable - half his followers think every deplorable thing he does is the coolest shit ever.
edited 10th Jan '17 5:53:46 PM by RedSavant
It's been fun.Smithsonian: State Department Apologizes for "Lavender Scare".
According to Camila Domonoske at NPR, the apology was suggested by Maryland Senator Ben Cardin, ranking Democrat on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in a letter in late November. He also suggested that an era known as the “Lavender Scare” be addressed in the State Department’s museum. “Of course, the measures we take today cannot bring back years of anguish or erase decades of institutionalized homophobia, but we can ensure that such injustices levied against the LGBT community are never repeated again,” Cardin said in another statement in December, reports Domonoske.
The Lavender Scare was a time beginning in the late 1940s and continuing through the 1960s when thousands of suspected homosexuals were fired from the State Department, reports Judith Adkins for the National Archives and Records Administration's official magazine, Prologue. It coincided with the Red Scare and Senator Joe Mc Carthy’s lengthy set of hearings trying to expose suspected communists in the government, Hollywood and the military, reports John Fritze at The Baltimore Sun.
According to Susan Donaldson James at ABC News, the scare also extended to the military, government contractors and other agencies. But at the State Department, homosexuals were thought to esecially singled out because they were beleived to be a security risk "on the ostensible grounds that their sexual orientation rendered them vulnerable to blackmail, prone to getting caught in 'honey traps', and made them security risks,” writes Cardin.
In fact, though the height of the Lavender Scare was decades ago, Cardin writes that as late as the 1990s State Department employees were being investigated for homosexuality. While many have applaud Kerry’s apology, David Johnson, history professor at the University of South Florida and author of The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government tells Domonoske it does not go far enough. “The apology made it sound like the State Department was just one of many institutions that was discriminating against gay men and lesbians ... that it was just sort of run-of-the-mill 1950s anti-gay discrimination,” he says. “In fact, the State Department was unique in its level of homophobia.”
Cardin says he will introduce legislation in the Senate for a formal Congressional apology and will also allow those fired during the Lavender Scare to officially to correct their employment records.
I doubt anything solid will come out of this - it's just an leak, albeit an explosive one. He'll continue to be America's number one golden boy, although the transfer of power may be less fluid as a result of this sudden stream of information. One thing's for sure - this story is making a big splash on the Internet. And it indicates that trickle-down economics will be the key, despite the PEEOTUS's refusal to liquidate his assets.
What? Tonight we laugh at pee jokes. Tomorrow we die in a nuclear inferno, but tonight we laugh at pee jokes.
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."Anyone else watching Obama's final speech?
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edited 10th Jan '17 6:22:34 PM by rmctagg09
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
x4 Dude, we already knew most of this beforehand. I don't think learning that Trump likes to take Golden Showers raises the possibility of nuclear armageddon any higher than it is. So you don't need to mention it twice on the same goddamn night like it has.
edited 10th Jan '17 6:25:36 PM by kkhohoho
Should I have potholed that entire post to Joking Mode? I had thought it was obvious enough already.
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."No problem. This is far from the first time I've accidentally failed to communicate tone in my posts, so I think it's something of a recurring problem with me. I just felt like making a bunch of pee jokes right there.
Anyway, I also can't bring myself to watch Obama's farewell speech. Too depressing.
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And stop saying there is going to be a nuclear war. We didn't use nukes when Reagan and Bush were in charge, and several crazier countries than the US *cough*Pakistan*cough*North Korea*cough* have nuclear weapons and haven't used them before, so it's not a very high possibility.
edited 10th Jan '17 6:43:30 PM by Bat178

They're not gonna chance it until his approval ratings go lower.
Disgusted, but not surprised