My First Gay Bar -- Susie Bright

I learned from Honey that Molly wasn't "Molly" among her peers, she was Sean. Sean Halloran. She moved out to the Bay Area in the 1940s, after the war. In Minneapolis, in the Phillips neighborhood, where she grew up, the stores had signs in the windows that said,"No Dogs No Indians No Irish." You could certainly add "Queers" to that list. Link

As long as we're all giving something up, right?

Originally posted by dwer at As long as we're all giving something up, right?

Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday

• Blowing up the U.S. economy is preferable to raising taxes a little bit on the richest Americans to help stabilize the U.S. economy.


• Spending taxpayer money to help the poor and elderly is bad, but spending taxpayer money on subsidies for mega-profitable industries that don’t need them is good.


• "All men are equated equal" means all men. Except the gay ones.


• "Our #1 priority is jobs jobs jobs" means "Our #1 priority is anything but jobs jobs jobs."


• The fact that voter fraud is not a problem means voter fraud is a huge problem.


• The fact that climate change and oil dependence are huge problems means climate change and oil dependence are not problems.


• George Bush wasn't president for eight years---we went straight from America-destroyer Bill Clinton to America-destroyer Barack Obama.


• If Republicans in the House and Senate vote to end Medicare in favor of health care by coupons, and it turns out to be a blunder of epic proportions, it never happened.


• Rupert Murdoch is the de facto Minister of Information


• Talk of secession is taken seriously.


• Everything you need to know about science is in the Bible.


• Suffering builds character, which is why we need more of it.


• The prime directive is the destruction of one citizen---the guy in the White House---even if it comes at the expense of the other 311,747,129 citizens.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/12/993469/-Cheers-and-Jeers:-Tuesday