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BigOleDummy

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1. While Ray Moore.....
Thu Sep 28, 2017, 09:01 AM
Sep 2017

.....is in the headlines at the moment, his brand of religious intolerance is on the rise everywhere. I live across the river from Kentucky and practically my whole family lives there. I work there. I spent a big chunk of my life there and am as dismayed by the clowns who rule the state as any thinking person. Louisville's west end is seeing record violence levels (yes it's predominately black), and the Governor's solution? Prayer patrols on the blocks!!! Yes seriously. This is doubly sad because, believe it or not, I can remember a time when Kentucky was a fairly progressive State. Prison reform? Yes, Kentucky was in the forefront. Environmental legislation, yes again. They/we used to know for Henry Clay , Louis Brandeis. Abraham Lincoln was born there. (but so was Jefferson Davis)

Now......Kentucky brings to the world trumpinistas , county clerks who will not follow the law of the land, college student's who go on facebook to denounce their classmates to ICE. The list is too long and too sad to keep going, but McConnell and Rand Paul must be added before I go.

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