some advice

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Being new in the town, and having in the past been active when it came to politics, I joined the town’s Democratic Town Committee to both meet like minded people, and continue my involvement in politics.

The Committee met each month, and was involved in such actions as stand-outs, canvassing, fund raising, and phone banks.

Before the scheduled and advertised day of the caucus to choose delegates to the state convention, those of us who were committee members and regular attendees were assigned tasks to make the proceedings go smoothly. Two were to help people sign in, two were to count the ballots, two were to hand out blank paper to use as secret ballots at the beginning of each round of voting, and one was to list the potential delegates on a chalk board as the nominations were made.

All the registered Democrats in the town who had done so before the cut-off date were able to attend the caucus, and each was listed by street address on the forms that we had, and as the people entered they merely had to tell us their street address, and we would find their names and check them off.

However, upon entering, a group of about 6 people who had arrived together, one of whom had only recently registered and after the cut of date making her ineligible to participate in the caucus, grabbed the address lists off the table and rifled though them to find their names, handing the papers back out of alphabetical order which greatly interfered with the smooth sign in procedure.

After the confusion caused by this was rectified and the caucus began, the committee chair read the steps that would be followed for nominations and voting, and nominations were then opened for female delegates.

Once the ballots were collected and given to the two people who were to count them, one of the people who had caused the confusion with the address lists as people entered rushed to the counting table and, grabbing the ballots, announced that she would supervise the count to insure we were not making a false count.

Those of us assigned the job of counting ballots had decided to count them three times to help eliminate any mistakes, but when this person who kept the ballots away from us only telling us who had gotten how many votes  finished her tally, she was happy to announce that she had been elected.

However, when she then relinquished the ballots and they could be counted two more times, she fell far short of winning.

This did not go well with her, and while she was ranting about voter fraud, nominations and the vote on the male delegates were held.

Although she stopped ranting long enough for the nominations so she could nominate her husband, she returned to it during the actual voting.

The male ballots were collected and turned into the counters, and as we began the count, she realized she had not voted, even though the collection of ballots had been announced twice, and it was obvious members of the committee had been going around the room collecting them. She also got very upset to find that the two official counters had taken the time to vote.

Her new rant about her not knowing we were voting on the male nominees kept her away from the ballots so the counting process went smoother the second time.

When her husband fell short of selection she began complaining that the voting had been a fraud as she had not voted, and she demanded a second vote. But the process was not fraudulent; she had just not been paying attention because of her ranting.

Her husband also began making accusations of voter fraud because it was obvious to him that people had voted for people they knew.

He also objected because, in violation of the rules at the time and according to him, one person who had been nominated and elected was not even present. That person, however, was me, and I was sitting at the vote counting table right behind him, and, had he attended meetings and been an active member of the committee, he would have known me and that I was the committee’s sergeant at arms and a member of its executive board.

While his wife continued her demand for a second vote, her husband announced he was going to write a letter to the state committee reporting what he and his wife considered a fraudulent procedure.

It was explained to them that results not being what they had hoped for was not a reason for a second vote as the lack of her casting a ballot was his wife’s fault, not that of the caucus, and her claim that it was never made clear that we were casting our ballot for the male delegate was provably false as the people sitting near her had voted.

What had happened, clearly, was that from the moment they had entered and caused confusion at the sign in table and then attempted to influence the ballot count, they were hoping to bully their way into running the meeting according to their own design and guaranteeing that they would be elected, but when that did not happen, they decided to file a complaint they thought would result in the state committee giving into them and nullifying the vote.

Other people in attendance were surprised at the husband and wife’s reaction to their not getting elected, and when one woman pointed out the process had been fair, clear, and open, the husband ran at her with his fist raised, stopping just short of striking her.

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In response to his repeatedly announcing he would file a complaint, the committee chair informed him that he would be within his rights to do so, but part of the process would be for others to respond to it.

Either these two people and their friends who acted as they did as far as the complaining went, were unaware that caucuses have procedures that must be followed, and not only had they been read by the chair, but the husband had actually attempted to stop his reading  of them, or they were hoping to steamroll over the proceedings to get what they wanted.

Twice as the committee chair was reading the procedures, something he was required to do, much like a teacher is required to read the directions to standardized tests aloud,  the husband had yelled at the committee chair to be quiet and just get to the voting, and once at least demanded he approach things a different way.

The confusion they caused at the sign in table and the wife’s attempt to interfere with the ballot count may have also been either through crass ignorance of procedures or a conscious attempt at control.

Their response to not getting what they wanted may have not only been the result of not getting elected, but could have been caused by their frustration with having failed at controlling the meeting and the people in attendance in spite of their best efforts.

This took place during a gubernatorial election year.

There were four Democrats vying for nomination with three holding or having held public office with the fourth being a classic “outsider”.

I attended as many candidate forums as I could so that I could to get an idea of where and for what each stood, and I found the fourth person to be a little refreshing as his ideas were not party line ideas. He was articulate and very polished. His ideas were sound.

However, what I perceived as a negative in his campaign was that as enthusiastic as his young supporters were, they were also rather rude to anyone who may not be supporting the candidate, and rather than taking the time to explain why he should be supported and what he stood for in comparison to the others, their consistent response to any questions, doubts, or mention of supporting one of the other candidates was to berate the person to whom they were speaking becoming rather insulting toward them.

As a result, they were doing more damage to their candidate than good.

I spoke to one of the candidate’s campaign workers at one gathering about the negative affect the boorish and bullying behavior was actually having, but was informed that they were merely enthusiastic for change, and being myself part of the problem, I had to accept that I was one reason for their approach.

Of course, having never spoken to this person before, and not wearing any hello-my-name-is tag, I had no idea how this person could have dismissed me as merely a part of a problem while having no idea who I was or what my political experience might have been.

As it was to turn out, the people who had attempted to disrupt the caucus meeting were supporters of this candidate, and over time I was to find that the display like the one at my town’s committee meeting had been a common occurrence at others.

I understand the desire to have one’s candidate win, and to do that the supporters need to be in a position to promote him to the largest number of people possible, in this case the state convention, but attempting to do so through disruption was, in this case anyway, not the best approach.

I am not saying that the process is without flaws, but they should be remedied with reason as opposed bullying.

I was not anointed to any political position, but worked for many years from youth to old age to prove myself and gain credibility locally and nationally, and what change I saw that needed to be made I attempted to bring about from within even if it the attempt produced difficulty for me. Persistence and performance produced results.

But to simply decide change was necessary and just plowing my way through others who had worked hard to get to their positions, and leaving bodies in my wake, would have been showy, but counterproductive.

I see that happening now as people demand change within both political parties, but do not take the time to study either one enough to know what really needs to be changed or how it can come about effectively, but merely work on the theory that he who yells loudest is the winner.

I am not saying posterior kissing is the way to go, but crotch kicking definitely isn’t.

You do not win allies with the latter.

She is guilty of what because?

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Hilary has never been arrested, nor has she ever actually been charged with anything.

When her husband was elected president, the GOP spent 8 years trying to tie her to crime and illegal activities, but found nothing.

Being accused of any number of things for 24 years does not make a person a criminal.

Hillary has been a lawyer, a first Lady, a Senator, and the Secretary of State.

But after spending $100 million on investigations that have turned up nothing except some questionable activity on the part of those investigating her, people have assumed she is an untrustworthy person who is nothing more than a criminal based solely on the GOP saying so.

What she has been is a woman who does her job, and does it well, and to the GOP that make her a shrew, and too many people have simply accepted that.

She is woman who does not give into the misogynistic GOP, and they do not like that

Ask anyone to list what she has been accused of, and the list will be long.

Ask the same person what she is guilty of, and after a bit of hesitation, they will simply repeat the first list.
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Every accusation had been leveled through innuendo and guilt-by-association.

No one has ever produced one piece of evidence that Hillary has behaved improperly because of a campaign contribution, or that Wall street has benefited because of her speaking fees.

But those who believed that Obama was coming for everyone’s guns, was going to put the state of Texas under martial law and use empty Wal-marts to gather people who would be sent to FEMA camps, and that Ebola was going to be spread uncontrollably, are the ones who believe this too, and, sadly have found many young people gullible enough to be to convinced of it too.

Hillary’s voting record is as liberal as Elizabeth Warren’s, and in over 98% of her votes she was with Bernie Sanders, yet she is said to not be liberal.

As one person put it, “Hillary is an upstanding, principled leader who has survived the most intrusive, invasive, aggressive and unending vetting process in political history.”

As the Des Moines Register put it, “Clinton has demonstrated that she is a thoughtful, hardworking public servant who has earned the respect of leaders at home and abroad. She stands ready to take on the most demanding job in the world.”

That is why her supporters stay with her, and why those who support Bernie are frustrated by this continued support.

Bernie supporters have simply accepted what they have been told without questioning the source of this supposed information.

I even have a friend who refers to her as “Shillary”, a right wing media nickname, but cannot actually explain why that name applies. besides “Oh come on, wake up.”

Accountability

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As most people know, although some like to ignore the facts, those involved in attacking to World Trade Center and crashed a plane into a Pennsylvania field because of the actions of the passengers, were not Iraqis, but Saudis.

As a matter of fact, Osama bin Laden was also Saudi.

But, apparently, because the Saudis are our friends, after all they allow us to fight their battles in the Middle East for them as only good friends would do, they have never been held accountable for the deaths and destruction on 9/11.

That is until the Senate passed legislation Tuesday allowing any of the nearly 3,000 families of the September 11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia for whatever role it had in the attacks.

According to Senator Schumer of New York, one of the sponsors, it would “bring a small measure of justice” to the victims and their families while holding Saudi Arabia accountable.

But the Obama administration and the Saudi government claim the legislation could expose the United States to an international relations nightmare.

The Los Angeles Times agreed, “The potential exposure such a measure would bring to the U.S. is inestimable.”

They feel that in retaliation for being held accountable, the Saudis will lead the charge in civil claims by victims of collateral damage in [US] military attacks, lawsuits by people caught up in the nation’s post-9/11 detention policies, and challenges over atrocities committed by U.S.-backed Syrian rebels, all of which could jeopardize American assets overseas, or could be used as a tool for political purposes.
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The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act would give Americans the right to bring a lawsuit against any foreign government tied to terror attacks on US soil, more specifically Saudi Arabia because  it supported some of the 19 terrorists.

The legislation aims to amend the 1976 Foreign Services Immunities Act that shields any foreign government from being sued by American citizens.

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir reacted to the Senate’s action.

“What [Congress is] … doing is stripping the principle of sovereign immunities which would turn the world for international law into the law of the jungle. That’s why the administration is opposed to it, and that’s why every country in the world is opposed to it.” 

White House Press Secretary Joshua Earnest said,

 “It could put the United States and our taxpayers and our service members and our diplomats at significant risk if countries were – other countries were to adopt a similar law.” 

The House has not acted on the bill, and President Obama is not expected to sign it if it is passes.

There is one potential amendment being considered for the bill that would minimize its effectiveness as it would give the government the ability to put any lawsuit on hold, especially for national security or diplomacy reasons.

Trump’s ping-pong game

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Donald Trump claims to be a self-made millionaire who made a fortune in real estate, but when it came to his real estate investments he abused the bankruptcy laws to make his fortune.

Basically he made large-scale deals that attracted investors and banks, collected huge profits for the first year, then fired the financial analysts that advised him that the business models were not sustainable, and sued the ones who publicly spoke about the businesses. He followed this by filing bankruptcy for those businesses, and, while voluntarily stepping down as owner, he retained profitable ties to the companies.

While Trump walked away with millions and his good credit score, banks saved their investments by increasing service fees and interest rates, and lowering interest earned payments for individual accounts. He found a legal way to skim dollars from everyone.

“I have used the laws of this country … the [bankruptcy] chapter laws, to do a great job for my company, for myself, for my employees, for my family,” he admitted during the first Republican presidential debate.

And in an interview in 2011with George Stephanopoulos, he explained,

“I’ve used the laws of this country to pare debt. …We’ll have the company. We’ll throw it into a chapter. We’ll negotiate with the banks. We’ll make a fantastic deal. You know, it’s like on ‘The Apprentice’. It’s not personal. It’s just business.”

He is fond of other types of lawsuits to make his money suits like

-Bankruptcies that are part of the bigger real-estate ventures,

-Slander suits initiated whenever anyone speaks against him. Because he licenses his own name as a corporate brand, anyone using his name in a public arena without his consent commits a corporate crime.

In 1987 he was Republican, in 1999 an Independent, in 2001 a Democrat, in 2009 a Republican, in 2011 an Independent, and now he is a Republican again.

Before running for President he was strongly Liberal and supported universal health care, was Pro Choice, donated to the Clinton administration in 2002, 2005, 2006, and 2007, invited Hillary to his wedding, donated over $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation, but now calls Hillary “the worst secretary of state in the history of the United States ” and blames her for international relations problems.

In 1990 he stated “You have to legalize drugs to win that war. You have to take the profit away from these drug czars”, but is now against legalization of Marijuana

In 2000 he wrote, “I support the ban on assault weapons and I support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun”, but now claims he is a strong advocate for the 2nd amendment.

While claiming the United States has made “horrendous and unfair trade deals” with Mexico, his own line of highly profitable suits sold at Macy’s are made in Mexico, and although Trump says he will end trade agreements with China, he also outsources clothing manufacturing to Chinese companies.

Trump talks about a massive wall to keep undocumented workers out of the country because they take jobs away from Americans,yet he hires foreigners to work at his hotels for low wages, taking jobs away from Americans.

He admitted that he pretended to be John Miller, a very star struck publicist, until not long after he claimed he had never heard the tape.

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His adamant statements that Muslims should not be allowed to enter the country have now become a mere suggestion.

After outrage over his assertion that Women should face “some form of punishment” for getting an abortion if the procedure were outlawed, he modified that statement, saying, instead, that those who perform abortions, and not the women who undergo them, should be punished.

Believing that the “Biggest problem, to me, in the world, is nuclear, and proliferation”,  he said that he would like to see South Korea and Japan obtain nuclear weapons, because “We’re better off if Japan protects itself against this maniac in North Korea, we’re better off, frankly, if South Korea is going to start to protect itself. It’s going to happen anyway. I don’t want more nuclear weapons.”

Trump steadfastly insists throughout his campaign that he opposed the Iraq War before it began.

I said, ‘Don’t hit Iraq’ because you’re going to totally destabilize the Middle East. I’m the one that made all of the right predictions about Iraq.”

But in 2002 he responded to a question by Howard Stern about whether or not he favored a possible invasion with, “Yeah, I guess so.  know, I wish the first time it was done correctly”, and after the invasion told Fox News the invasion “looks like a tremendous success from a military standpoint.”

But when questioned about this apparent contradiction, just as with David Duke and the John Miller Tape, he reverted to denial of any knowledge of what he had said with, “I mean, I could have said that. Nobody asked me—I wasn’t a politician. It was probably the first time anybody asked me that question.”

Although, when it came to Israel and the conflict connected to it, he had claimed in December, “I want to be very neutral and see if I can get both sides together”, he recently changed that to “When I become president, the days of treating Israel like a second-class citizen will end on day one.”

He went from declaring that “Torture works” and the military would perform it because “Frankly, when I say they’ll do as I tell them, they’ll do as I tell them” to “I will not order a military officer to disobey the law. It is clear that as president I will be bound by laws just like all Americans and I will meet those responsibilities.”

But he hadn’t quite settled on his stance yet.

 “We’re going to stay within the laws. But you know what we’re going to do? We’re going to have those laws broadened because we’re playing with two sets of rules: their rules and our rules.”

Perhaps he will change those laws after he erases the freedom of the press from the First Amendment so no one will say mean things about him.

And, finally, one last one.

In 2012, Trump called Clinton “a terrific woman” who “really works hard and I think she does a good job.”

But, now that he may be running against her, he claims she was the “worst secretary of state in the history of the United States.”

So all those people who support him have to keep an eye on the calendar and the wind so they will know where he stands on any given issue on any given day before the elections and especially after when they count on him to deliver on his promises.

The new sacrament of religion

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Now this is confusing

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Anne Graham Lotz has stated that God has forsaken the United States because of Transgender people, the teaching of evolution, the gays, secularism, things like evolution, and possibly even things like facts.

She is, by the way, the daughter of Billy Graham.

She hopes that “some of this craziness would settle down” in the U.S., which “seems to be shaking its fist in God’s face and telling him to get out of our politics, get out of our schools, get out of our businesses, get out of our marketplace, get off the streets…”

“The Bible says God abandons us and He backs away and takes His hand of favor, blessing, His hand of protection away from us and He abandons us.”

People need to repent and accept Jesus as their savior, and then God can “reveal the plots of our enemies and terrorists before they are carried out” and “control the weather patterns and protect us from these violent storms that are taking human life.”
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 “God allows bad things to happen to show us that we need Him, you know, we’re desperate without him.”

She claimed that the Justice Department’s lawsuit against North Carolina for its new discriminatory anti-LGBT law is “evidence that God has backed away and he’s removed His hand of blessing, favor, protection, and he’s just turning us over to ourselves.”

All this beggars the question:

If these actions like San Bernadino and 9/11 are the purposeful actions of God, and since, needing someone to bring them about, the perpetrators are merely the instruments of God, should religious fanatics like this not honor them as they are chosen by God to do his work, rather than condemn them?

If their version of God is so powerful, what chance do they have to resist His choice of them to do his work?

The mean spirited happy dance

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In 1989 the conservative group, the Heritage Foundation, beloved of Republicans, came up with a plan for healthcare reform.

When president Obama began talking about the Affordable Care Act, the GOP demanded that it contain what was in that 1989 plan.

He included what they wanted.

But then the GOP told him that they would not support the ACA if it contained some of the very things that they had originally demanded it must.

How’s that for confusion?

It had already been stated by the GOP that their priority was to make President Obama a one term president, so, obviously, the original demand followed by the opposite demand was part of that.

Obama complied, removing what the GOP wanted removed, and the GOP then complained when he did that that thy wanted the original demand met, but since it wasn’t, they would not support the ACA.

But the ACA passed in spite of this childish game playing.

Millions of citizens were now able to have health insurance, and those who always complained that the uninsured brought up their insurance premiums because their using emergency rooms for health care incurred costs that were passed on had something to be happy about.

But from the moment the ACA passed, the GOP attempted to find ways to undo it because their political plan was more important than what was good for the American people.

This past Thursday U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Collyer ruled that the Obama administration unconstitutionally spent money to pay for part of the Affordable Care Act.

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According to the judge the Obama administration appropriated the money without congressional approval which violates the U.S. Constitution.

“None of [HHS] Secretaries’ extra-textual arguments—whether based on economics, ‘unintended’ results, or legislative history—is persuasive,” wrote Collyer, who was appointed by President George W. Bush.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters,“It’s unfortunate that Republicans have resorted to a taxpayer-funded lawsuit to re-fight a political fight that they keep losing. They’ve been losing this fight for six years. And they’ll lose it again.”

Although House Speaker Paul Ryan conveniently claimed the decision was an “historic win for the Constitution and the American people”, he seems to forget those 5.6 million people who are going to be hurt by it.

Judge Collyer’s decision won’t  go into effect until after an appeals court decides on the matter, which could take as long as two years for the case to reach the U.S. Supreme Court, assuming the court would take it up.

That gives at least two years to make any modifications to the ACA, or perhaps have congress decide to appropriate funds to a provision of the act they authorized.

But for now, the ruling does inject some uncertainty into the healthcare environment.

If this ruling is upheld, insurers might raise their premiums if the government stops paying them for the cost-sharing reductions, which, in turn, would trigger an increase in the tax credits the government now pays Americans to help them afford their premiums at a possible cost of $47 billion over 10 years.

Another result could be that Congress, which approved the cost-sharing provisions would have to start appropriating money to cover it.
The judge believed that if the government had  prevailed, it would suggest that every permanently authorized benefit program must also include a permanent appropriation.

But one would think that if Congress approves something that needs funding, it would appropriate the funding.

Why they really do it.

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After the Civil War, the overly protective and rather patronizing men of the South, holding women as weak and powerless, and in need of the protections only the men could supply, put Jim Crow laws into effect in order to protect their women folk from the assumed constant “approaches” of the oversexed Black Man.

Apparently the women were not bothered by this, and were eventually either convinced that was the case and that a necessary step needed to be taken, or became convinced of their own lack of power and self determination.

The men were good at this. After all their whole economy was based on minimizing the worth of a whole race of people they had worked so hard to make docile and dependent.

They merely transferred their opinion of their slaves to their women.

But here we are in 2016, and the ruling men of the South are using that very same rationale to outlaw equality to a whole new class of people, Transgender people.

Their demeaning attitude toward the women of the South has not changed, and that is why they feel their motivation to discriminate is justified.
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Certainly Southern women are not so naive as not to see that this is what is going on.

If the men respected their women more, they would in  no way be justified in their explanations for their present bigoted actions.

Come on Ladies.

Wake up.

The men’s low opinion of you is the reason for their actions.

 

But, it’s important

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We are one Supreme Court Justice short, but the Senate has no time or desire to even talk to the president’s nominee.

Flint, Michigan, is still having water problems, and its children will be living with this problem for life, but the senate has more important things to deal with- things that have a huge influence on the American people.

Senate Republicans are holding hearings on allegations that Facebook keeps conservative news stories out of its Trending Topics section.

U.S. Senator John Thune, chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation announced that he will be holding hearings on Facebook bias.

“Facebook must answer these serious allegations and hold those responsible to account if there has been political bias in the dissemination of trending news. Any attempt by a neutral and inclusive social media platform to censor or manipulate political discussion is an abuse of trust and inconsistent with the values of an open Internet.”

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid’s spokesman, Adam Jentleson, has responded,

“The Republican Senate refuses to hold hearings on Judge Garland, refuses to fund the President’s request for Zika aid and takes the most days off of any Senate since 1956, but thinks Facebook hearings are a matter of urgent national interest. The taxpayers who pay Republican senators’ salaries probably want their money back.”

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It is social media to keep in touch.

Meanwhile Fox News which has the word “news” in its name seems not to bother the conservative senator when it comes to bias passed on as news.

There has been no credible evidence that Facebook has any bias against Republicans, but that is not stopping the senator and his committee.

It is just one more non-issue that will be investigated at a cost to the taxpayers.

Facebook is a private company. You can join or not. You can read, post, respond, or simply skim by anything on your feed.

But such an investigation is useful in that it will distract from dealing with the nomination of Judge Garland for the Supreme Court, funding the President’s request for Zika aid, and doing anything meaningful about the water in Flint and what is sure to be similar problems arising elsewhere.

Votes have consequences, and for those who say that if their presidential nominee is not chosen they just won’t vote, they’re forgetting the importance of all those other “down ballot” office seekers who may make a difference.

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Thursday was a good day at the museum. I finished my revisions and corrections on my section of the Catalpa log, and enjoyed the walk home as the temperature was in the high 60s, low 70s with a nice breeze off the harbor.

Rather than just going home and enjoying the weather through an open window, I took a ride in my car, taking some pictures along the way of some historical buildings in my area, and stopping at the bar I patronize for a beer with friends.

Since you cannot smoke in a bar in Massachusetts, when I entered the establishment most people were outside smoking, so I took a seat that looked like no one was using it, a seat near a woman who seems to harbor a lot of negative attitudes toward a number of people and ethnicities, and did so apparently just after a news report on the bar television set about the state senate’s passing the rest of the Transgender non-discrimination public accommodations bill that should have been passed along with the rest of the original bill a few years ago.

The moment I sat down, she announced that she thought Transgender equality is a thing to be avoided, and that a man should not be allowed to enter a ladies’ restroom.

She spoke to me, or perhaps at me, as if my agreement was a given.

I disabuse her of that assumption by informing her that the bill was not about allowing men to use ladies’ rooms, but, rather, about allowing women to use them.

From someone from an oppressed minority which has only just been getting its own equality through a process that involved battling misconceptions and misinformation, this annoyed me. I wondered if she, like a non-union member, lifted no finger to affect change, but, besides finding fault if she did not agree with approach of  those doing the work, was only too willing to accept the fruits of their labor.

She countered that she did not support allowing men wearing dresses to be in the restroom with her, and I explained that that was not what the law was about as it was actually about allowing women, regardless what they were wearing to enter just as she did.

When I informed her that she probably has been sharing restooms with Transgender women for years, she, again, went back to the men in dresses thing saying that in her 60 plus years she has never seen a man in a dress in a restroom.

She was a little taken aback when I agreed with her on that, but immediately got testy when I repeated that the bill was not about that, but about allowing women to use the restroom without inspection or legal consequences.

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Apparently she believes that there is a magic number that a population of U.S. citizens must meet before they get their Creator endowed equal rights.

She repeated her assertion that a man, who decides to put on a dress, should not just stroll into a ladies’ restroom, and got even testier when I explained to her that it was not even a question of a man becoming a woman, but a woman, aligning her physical traits with the woman she had always been. It was not a man becoming a woman, but a woman becoming a total one.

She could not define Transgender when I asked her, other than irrelevantly describing Drag Queens and Transvestites, and when informed she was totally off base, announced I just refused to learn before going outside for a cigarette herself.

If a person cannot define that upon which they have an opinion, there is no possibility of a real discussion. Rather, it will just be a question of one person constantly repeating their misconceptions after repeating, “yeah, but” at the beginning of each repetition.

We all know those people who will grasp onto the easiest explanation to the most complicated things while refusing to even consider learning.

Had she not walked outside, my next question to her was going to be that, since she referenced her children and grandchildren, at what point did she as a heterosexual woman decide she would become a Lesbian.

Or had she always been, but needed to come to her own self-realization and self-acceptance.

Assuming nothing will be acceptable to her when it comes to new knowledge, I had previously seen her hold tight to an opinion while staunchly refusing to hear any facts, let me attempt to clarify for those who are willing to learn:

When it comes to Transgender people, a woman does not become a man, nor does a man, a woman. In both cases the person is merely taking those steps that align their physical self to their gender identity.

They are not becoming something else, but, rather, they are becoming who they really have been all along.