A4 Part 2 What I learned

Blogging is fun and really useful. I was already somewhat familiar with blogging although not on one topic. It had been years since I tried blogging. Blogging is a great way to express yourself in long form. These days everything is on social media and really short. Tweets are a sentence or two and facebook posts can be longer but that tends to get few readers and not be shared. Blogs are an excellent way to tell a story with your audience's undivided attention.

Incorporating video and photos just adds to that. You can inform people about something or teach a lesson. I got familiar again with the blogging format and html. I will definitely be blogging more in the future. I just wish blogging hadn't fallen out of favor.

Bernie won three states yesterday!

Like I said, the calendar looks good for him. Bernie Sanders Seizes 3 States, Sweeping Democratic Contests He didn't just win. He trounced. In Alaska he won with 82% of the vote, Washington state with 73% of the vote and Hawaii with 71% of the vote. These are "YUGE", (as Bernie would say), victories.

My favorite place to get detailed election results is The Guardian. Saturday, March 26th caucus results You get a little cartoon Bernie that rolls around. If Hillary had won any of the districts there would be one of her. They have similar cartoons for the GOP candidates. It is nice to ad some humor into the waiting game for results which can be really stressful.

I should point out yesterday's races were caucuses, not primaries. A primary is when you have an assigned polling location and a set number of hours to vote in. Say between 7am and 7pm. You can go to your poll anytime during those hours, they give you a ballot and you go into the voting booth and vote anonymous. In states like Georgia, with electronic voting, they give you an access card which you take into the voting booth and stick into the machine before casting your vote. No campaigning is allowed in or around the polls.

In a caucus, all the people of that district gather in one spot like the gymnasium of a school. Campaigning is allowed. Traditionally everyone supporting one candidate sits on one side of the room while those supporting another candidate sit on the other side. There is vigorous debate and everyone is counted several times. It is raucous and very public.

Some non-traditional campaigning for Bernie

CNN was not giving Bernie fair coverage so we projected his logo on the side of their building. CNN security was not impressed and threatened to arrest us. I took all of the photos in this post.







The campaign encouraged people to make these light up signs and hold them up in high traffic places


There have also been marches for Bernie in places like Seattle, which drew 400 people, hundreds in Salt Lake City, 1,000 people in Pittsburgh and over 1,000 people in New York City. There have been over 50 marches in support of Bernie Sanders so far and more are planned.

A bird crashed Bernie Sander's speech

on youtube

or embedded, I hope.



The National Audubon Society identified the bird as a female house finch

Deal must veto HB 707, the so called "religious liberty" bill

You can read the bill here. It would allow businesses to deny services to people if they had a religious objection. So they could deny service to gays and lesbians and those whose religions they disagree with.

If this bill sounds familiar it is because they have been trying to pass it for three years. This bill is ridiculous and shameful. Many companies have threatened to leave the state if this bill is signed into law including Salesforce, Disney and Marval and the production of The Walking Dead. A list of tweets is available here.

As a queer woman, this bill makes me sick. No one has the right to discriminate against anyone else. It also scares me. I should have just as much right as anyone else to a product or service. I shouldn't have to worry I won't get a job or will be fired because of my sexual orientation. This bill is legitimized bigotry. I protested this thing last year and the year before. My friend was arrested in Josh McKoon's, (Senate sponsor) office last year.

There will be a Protest on Tuesday, April 5th at the Capitol to encourage Governor Deal to veto this bill. It is bad for the economy and it is just plain wrong.

Pictures from protests past

I was going through some photos and I thought I would share a few from some past protests. I have hundreds of photos from the last 5 years that I will get around to sharing at some point. I took all of these photos myself.

Senator Vincent Fort speaking at a women's health rally








Die In at the Fox Theater

March 15th primaries aka It's not over

Stay calm Bernie supporters. Yes, he didn't win any of the primaries but he still had a good showing.

Bernie Sanders Had a Phenomenal Night — Here’s Why

The calandar looks much beter from here on out. He is projected to win all three caucuses on Saturday.

Something else to keep in mind is the massive voter disenfranchisement in Arizona. Maricopa County had 200 poll locations in 2008. This year they had 60. Hillary Clinton Wins Arizona, Some Bernie Sanders Supporters Claim Potential Voter Suppression

UPDATED: What the Hell Happened in the Arizona Primary Yesterday?

There were alot of stories from people in Arizona of waiting in line for hours to find out they would not be allowed to vote. I'm not a conspiracy theorist. Actually, I hate them with passion. However this needs to be thoroughly investigated. The cutting down of available polling places is a blatant attempt at voter suppression.

One possible explanation for why voters had the wrong or no party affiliation. MVD error might have kicked Arizona voters out of parties