Tag: Florida
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Let them show your true colours
It’s OK, I didn’t mind becoming a complete mess, honest. Cyndi Lauper performs True Colors at St Augustine, Florida later on the day of the Orlando shooting which was nearby (well 100 miles, but for the States that’s down the road!). And then she dons the rainbow flag from a fan. It’s nearly a week…
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I Got Knocked Down (But I’ll Get Up)
What can I say about the shitshow that’s been this week? The horror of Orlando, and now the killing of Jo Cox, there just does seem to be some extremist kickback happening, from homophobia, Islamophobia to fascist scaremongering and actual violence. Division and a distinct possibility that UK will vote to leave Europe, leaving us…
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The other big vote (Proposition 8 / 2 /102)
Ok going to try and cool it on that other little voting spree, but you don’t get off lightly. Read this blog post at Rude Pundit for why exactly opposing gay marriage is just screwed up – especially if you create precedence-making rights-restrictions to do it (can anyone saw straw man? Cue that old ‘they…
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Our own Florida?
uh oh – the e-voting part of the Mayoral election bothered me, but with such a close vote is it possible Boris Johnson didn’t win at all? This is the problem with e-voting systems, you cannot easily know as all the votes are counted inside a machine, and the company behind it Indra was involved…