Many thanks to clintswan for sharing this with me.  It is a powerful reminder of how long the journey has been, and how much is at stake.  In the end, the landmark decision from the Supreme Court today wasn't mostly about a political victory for the Obama administration, though it certainly was that.

The really important thing is that, for millions of ( Read more... )

Just a quick note to let everyone who has been following the saga know that I successfully wrote my Ontario security guard license exam on Wednesday and I have been advised I passed with a mark of 90 ( Read more... )

Now that I am entering the security field, I am more and more conscious of watching other security people do their jobs, and asking myself, "Could I do that any better?"

Now, I am sure that Justin Bieber's bodyguard, Moshe Benabou, doesn't have an easy job, and it may be that "The Beebs" doesn't really take direction from the hired help.

But in ( Read more... )

Here's a statement from one of the General Mills corporate blogs, regarding the company's position on the proposed amendment to the Minnesota constitution to ban same-sex marriage:

http://blog.generalmills.com/2012/06/there-is-something-we-need-to-discuss-%E2%80%A6/

June 14th, 2012
There is something we need to discuss

by Ken Charles

In the past 48 ( Read more... )

I am so grateful for the non-partisan dedication of the 67 county voter registrars like Republican Ann McFall of Volusia County, who, through their association, are standing firm and refusing to carry out the deeply flawed voter roll purges being demanded by Florida governor Rick Scott. All 67 registrars in Florida are refusing to make the ( Read more... )

Well, I have now completed my training and passed my course exam in the first phase of the training and licensing process to become a private investigator and security guard in Ontario ( Read more... )

GOTV

Get Out The Vote

Everyone in politics knows that GOTV is THE most important thing in winning a campaign.  Everything else leads to that.

In the recall elections in Wisconsin, that is especially true.  All recent polling shows that the state is pretty evenly divided between supporters of governor Scott Walker and the Republicans who are currently ( Read more... )

The instructor in my security training course this week has used some amusing videos to illustrate various concepts, and this is one of my favourites.  The female officer works up some pretty cool steps with this cowboy during the field sobriety tests.

I think mrdreamjeans might enjoy seeing the dance combination come together.  *grin*

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A Memorial Day Memory On the Streets of Madison: A Reminder of Why We Fight

by Ryan Wherley on Monday, May 28, 2012 at 11:24pm ·

[ This was posted on the Facebook page of Ryan Wherley, and re-posted on several Wisconsin recall blogs I follow.  I don't know Ryan Wherley, but what he wrote was so beautiful and so powerful and moving, I wanted to share ( Read more... )

I'm a loyal American, but not a Wisconsinite, so I can't vote in the recalls.  But I have called in pizza orders for the protesters in Madison in the winter, and made what small contributions I could afford to help fund offices and telephones and pay the expenses of volunteers to get the recalls on the ballot.  Thank you, people of Wisconsin, for ( Read more... )