The Proud Liberal - Latest Comments

Re: A Liberal Asks, “How can gay rights still be an issue?”

walterhpdx — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:27:00 -0000

Sarah, you're still one of our heroes!

Re: A Liberal Asks, “How can gay rights still be an issue?”

Sarah Owen — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:56:26 -0000

Thanks to the ever-reliable Google search, it was great fun to re-read my column from eight years ago! Good times.

(My politics haven't changed one bit, by the way.) :)

Re: If the tables were turned…

Barbaraobrien — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:26:54 -0000

Dear Proud Liberal,

My name is Barbara O’Brien and I am a political blogger. Just had a question about your blog and couldn’t find an email—please get back to me as soon as you can (barbaraobrien(at)maacenter.org)

Thanks,
Barbara

Re: Why marriage is important – gay and straight: A story of elder abuse

DH — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:46:37 -0000

Disgusting story. ...chilling, horrific, without permission, insult added to grave injury, lost a rental and contents for nonpayment... this is SO to laugh at! How dare you speculate this would never have happened to a woman-man couple. Your ignorance of eldercare is the shocker here. Gayness-disenfranchisement agenda blinds you from routines of having SO irresponsibly managed your elderly years. With shock-trauma stories like your's never include stories of responsible folks who avail themselves - regardless of orientation - to the 5 or 10 minutes it takes to phone your local ombudsman or council on aging about housing, call your doctor and tell him you'll send him his copy of both your (free online printable form) Advanced Medical Directives, spoken with your local fire dept about age-exemptions for elderly transport ambulancing, phoned the IRS and your bank to establish Rep Payee status. I'll bet you still don't even know your core document through all of this was your Physician's Report! The half day to handle all these things is far too complex for you. You lost your possessions because you were too 'stricken' to pay the lousy senior discount on a storage unit for your 'memorable possessions'. You and your partner are poster children for all the thousands of sticker-shock folks who want life spoon-fed to them inch-by-govt-benefit-inch. Doing a few hours online research, some phone calls to your doctor, the govts financial and eldercare agencies... far too much work to invest in for your (now not so comfortable) golden years. Instead of chewing your BigBrother paranoia cud, how about a 2 minute toll-free call to the IRS to set up a Rep Payee appt at their office. Once there, 5 minutes will safeguard all your finances, possessions, personal interactions, caregiving issues - resolved exactly to your specs. This article should frighten every US citizen. Not for what happened to you, falling prey to your own flagrant irresponsibilities toward your eldercare needs, but because you'll forego recalling fondly those 20 years - two decades - you shared together in your chosen lifestyle and relationship, with nary a speck of consideration for your future. Scariest of all, you did receive medical care, you did have a shared life, you did have possessions, you only lost those. For those of us who have say 40+ years serving our loved one's eldercare needs, the ease and simplicity of the government's existing system confounds those who discover it. But your lets-go-socialist/I-didn't-get-it-all-done-for-me whining is equal to treason. What in the world did you think happens when you get age. This has NOTHING to do with gender orientation or lifestyle. The County took your stuff and auctioned it because you didn't manage your blended financial picture, your incomes, your pensions, your medical agenda, your next 5 months (let alone 5 years) of living circumstances. Sadly, you are FAR from alone in being victims of yourself. You blame the very govt whose benefits you never (and I bet still haven't) researched. After-the-fact contemptibly spoiled, ranting behavior entering your golden years comfortably. Sorry that aging meant you'd have to get off your behinds to actually use the phonebook, make an office visit, speak to a few agencies. With media so conveniently drooling for your brand of shock-and-trauma fodder. I weep for your true blindness. It's because you are irresponsible, not old, nor gay. If you (and the media) removed your agenda-blinders, this HUGE ratings story would have been on the 123's of easy eldercare mgmt ... responsible late-years life maintenance. I want to pity you. But you don't deserve it, because you're too blind to see, care, resource, discovery, or even try to exercise your anger-shrouded energies and responsibility skill sets, to know your circumstances is still, easily very redeemable.

Re: Palin’s Latest

barbaraobrien — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:17:17 -0000

Dear Proud Liberal,

I just have a quick question for you but couldn't find an email so had to resort to this. I am a progressive blogger. Please email me back at barbaraobrien@maacenter.org when you get a chance. Thanks.

Barbara

Re: Boycotting Arizona – to make it hurt!

Montana — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:34:49 -0000

I saw Jay Leno at Correspondent Dinner his best line was; “That was my favorite story (this year) Republicans and a Lesbian bondage club. It’s ironic, Republicans don’t want lesbian getting married but they do like watching them “tie the knot”. So I thought that was interesting.”

You can say the same about Tea Party, they say they respect the Constitution, Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence but they do not mind passing laws, through weak Governors (no one ever voted for this crazy) who only care about getting reelected on the backs of undocumented workers, that will not pass Constitution muster, just like Arizona’s House Bill 2779 from two years ago, keep passing them Arizona and the rest of us will continue to challenged them in the courts and you will lose again (and yes we will boycott you!). Their phony patriotism is sickening; they are just racists going by another name. We all know you are just itching to put a sheet on their head? Let’s face it the Republicans had eight years to deal with health care, immigration, climate change and financial oversight and governance and they failed. It appears that the Republican Party is only good at starting wars (two in eight years, with fat contracts to friends of Cheney/Bush) but not at winning wars as seen by the continuing line of body bags that keep coming home. The Republicans party will continue turned inward to their old fashion obstructionist party (and their Confederacy appreciation roots) because they continue to allow a small portions (but very loud portion) of their party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” to rule their party. I will admit that this fringe is very good at playing “Follow the Leader” by listening to their dullard leaders, Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush, Savage, Sarah Bailin, Orly Taitz, Victoria Jackson, Michele Bachmann and the rest of the Blowhards and acting as ill programmed robots (they have already acted against doctors that perform abortions). The Birthers and the Tea party crowd think they can scare, intimidate and force others to go along with them by comments like “This time we came unarmed”, let me tell you something not all ex-military join the fringe militia crazies who don’t pay taxes and run around with face paint in the parks playing commando, the majority are mature and understand that the world is more complicated and grey than the black and white that these simpleton make it out to be and that my friend is the point. The world is complicated and people like Hamilton, Lincoln, and Roosevelt believed that we should use government a little to increase social mobility, now it’s about dancing around the claim of government is the problem. The sainted Reagan passed the biggest tax increase in American history and as a result federal employment increased, but facts are lost when mired in mysticism and superstition. For a party that gave us Abraham Lincoln, it is tragic that the ranks are filled with too many empty suits and the crazy Birthers who have not learned that the way our courts work is that you get a competent lawyer, verifiable facts and present them to a judge, if the facts are real and not half baked internet lies, then, and only then, do you proceed to trial. The Birthers seem to be having a problem with their so called “facts”. Let’s face it no one will take the Birthers seriously until they win a case, but until then, you will continue to appear dumb, crazy or racist, or maybe all three. I heard that Orly Taitz now wants to investigate the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC), she wants to re-establish a family values party, that’s like saying that the Catholic Church cares about the welling being of children in their care, too late for that.