I'll be on Todd Feinburg's WRKO (AM 680) show tomorrow at 8am. Give me your best, sure-fire talking points so that I can at least seem smarter than Scott Brown.
p>What’s on the docket for discussion? Might I suggest you bring up the items in my latest post I just did?
hubspokesays
The pending Transgender Rights Bill will protect a long-persecuted, easy to ridicule and little-understood minority group. Where there ARE such transgender anti-discrimination laws, there has little if any incidence of the “bathroom problems” that Charlie Baker and right-wing panderers apparently fear. Here is some info on restrooms. And here:
“The transgender population has been using the appropriate bathroom for decades and no one has noticed,” Sager said.
hubspokesays
Excerpt from GLAD’s Jennifer Levi’s excellent testimony last July:
Everyone deserves to use restrooms in safety and with privacy. Transgender people pose no special safety risk to others who are using a restroom. In fact, transgender people are more likely to be the subject of harassment and safety threats in bathrooms, which is why explicit protections in the Massachusetts anti-discrimination law are all the more necessary.
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p>And if there are instances of harassment or inappropriate use of bathrooms by any person – whether or not they are transgender – there are already civil and criminal laws to ensure people’s safety in restrooms. Employers and public accommodations will continue to have an obligation to make restroom facilities safe and accessible for all people.
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p>We should not allow safety concerns to become a proxy for prejudice against transgender people. A full 37% of the American population, in 13 states, live in an area covered by a transgender-inclusive anti-discrimination law, and there have been no reported incidents involving a transgender person threatening the safety of anyone else in a restroom facility.
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p>The Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Organization for Women, along with the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women have supported this bill and denounced opponents’ arguments about bathrooms as meritless. It is time to ignore these frivolous and disrespectful attacks and focus on the real and pressing issue of discrimination and violence against a vulnerable sector of our community.
dcsurfersays
for far larger issues about transgenderism and what it means to be a man or a woman. But I think framing the issue around the bathroom aspect is also being used as a proxy by people that are in favor of transgenderism and eliminating gender, because they want to obscure the larger implications of what it means to have equal rights as either gender.
elstongunnsays
Might I suggest that you point out that Virginia Governor’s Bob (Ronald) McDonnell’s ill-advised tribute to the Confederacy is a ‘learning’ moment for Massachusetts.
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p>Virginia can have the Confederacy, we here in the Bay State will take our rightful place at the head of class for Revolutionary War-era tourism.
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p>Instead of eliminating our Bunker Hlll Day and Evacuation Day holiday’s let’s burnish these gems. We should make a bigger deal out of them, not downplay them.
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p>Massachusetts could be the Disneyland for Americans who want to learn more about our fight for independence, and it was a fight, and it did start here.
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p>I’ve always thought that we foolishly minimize our history here or certainly take it for granted. It’s like keeping paintings by the Masters in the attic, just content to know that they’re there.
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p>If we marketed them right, seriously, we wouldn’t need to build casinos.
dcsurfersays
We may as well celebrate McVeigh Day as Bunker Hill Day, they were both treasonous and selfish acts against rightful authority.
dcsurfersays
Everyone should be vegan
Raise the gas tax
Internet Federal Sales Tax
Free Basic Health Care
Peace with the Taliban
p>- our schools are demonstrably the best in the country, among the best in the world
– our state taxes are at a below-average rate
– we have health care for almost everyone
– we have a high standard of living, high life expectancy
– low crime rate (hell, my own far-left burg of Newton is often named as the safest city in the US)
– lowest divorce rate in the US
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p>Puzzling evidence!
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p>So, the following questions come to mind:
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p>1. Why do left-leaning states have better outcomes on virtually all measures, compared to Feinburg-esque states?
2. Why doesn’t Feinburg move to some lovely red state where he won’t be tormented by us moonbats?
Even for you!
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p>(Kidding!)
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p>What’s on the docket for discussion? Might I suggest you bring up the items in my latest post I just did?
The pending Transgender Rights Bill will protect a long-persecuted, easy to ridicule and little-understood minority group. Where there ARE such transgender anti-discrimination laws, there has little if any incidence of the “bathroom problems” that Charlie Baker and right-wing panderers apparently fear. Here is some info on restrooms. And here:
Excerpt from GLAD’s Jennifer Levi’s excellent testimony last July:
Everyone deserves to use restrooms in safety and with privacy. Transgender people pose no special safety risk to others who are using a restroom. In fact, transgender people are more likely to be the subject of harassment and safety threats in bathrooms, which is why explicit protections in the Massachusetts anti-discrimination law are all the more necessary.
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p>And if there are instances of harassment or inappropriate use of bathrooms by any person – whether or not they are transgender – there are already civil and criminal laws to ensure people’s safety in restrooms. Employers and public accommodations will continue to have an obligation to make restroom facilities safe and accessible for all people.
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p>We should not allow safety concerns to become a proxy for prejudice against transgender people. A full 37% of the American population, in 13 states, live in an area covered by a transgender-inclusive anti-discrimination law, and there have been no reported incidents involving a transgender person threatening the safety of anyone else in a restroom facility.
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p>The Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Organization for Women, along with the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women have supported this bill and denounced opponents’ arguments about bathrooms as meritless. It is time to ignore these frivolous and disrespectful attacks and focus on the real and pressing issue of discrimination and violence against a vulnerable sector of our community.
for far larger issues about transgenderism and what it means to be a man or a woman. But I think framing the issue around the bathroom aspect is also being used as a proxy by people that are in favor of transgenderism and eliminating gender, because they want to obscure the larger implications of what it means to have equal rights as either gender.
Might I suggest that you point out that Virginia Governor’s Bob (Ronald) McDonnell’s ill-advised tribute to the Confederacy is a ‘learning’ moment for Massachusetts.
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p>Virginia can have the Confederacy, we here in the Bay State will take our rightful place at the head of class for Revolutionary War-era tourism.
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p>Instead of eliminating our Bunker Hlll Day and Evacuation Day holiday’s let’s burnish these gems. We should make a bigger deal out of them, not downplay them.
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p>Massachusetts could be the Disneyland for Americans who want to learn more about our fight for independence, and it was a fight, and it did start here.
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p>I’ve always thought that we foolishly minimize our history here or certainly take it for granted. It’s like keeping paintings by the Masters in the attic, just content to know that they’re there.
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p>If we marketed them right, seriously, we wouldn’t need to build casinos.
We may as well celebrate McVeigh Day as Bunker Hill Day, they were both treasonous and selfish acts against rightful authority.
Everyone should be vegan
Raise the gas tax
Internet Federal Sales Tax
Free Basic Health Care
Peace with the Taliban
But, oddly enough:
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p>- our schools are demonstrably the best in the country, among the best in the world
– our state taxes are at a below-average rate
– we have health care for almost everyone
– we have a high standard of living, high life expectancy
– low crime rate (hell, my own far-left burg of Newton is often named as the safest city in the US)
– lowest divorce rate in the US
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p>Puzzling evidence!
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p>So, the following questions come to mind:
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p>1. Why do left-leaning states have better outcomes on virtually all measures, compared to Feinburg-esque states?
2. Why doesn’t Feinburg move to some lovely red state where he won’t be tormented by us moonbats?
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luv it.
Take that, Pat Robertson! (And Todd Feinburg.)