(h/t commentor NancyDarling)
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A last-minute reminder from the Rev. Doc. William J. Barber for Balloon Juice readers in North Carolina: Don’t forget to vote tomorrow!
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DougJ, Head of Infidelity
Scaled it back to 480…640!
Mnemosyne
So, funny story, I went across to the company cafeteria to get lunch today and a message came up on the cash register that I had to call my bank to get the transaction approved. I went back to my office and called and it turned out that someone had tried to use my card for two large transactions in Seattle, which my bank found suspicious since I then tried to buy lunch in Los Angeles at the same time.
Fortunately, I had forgotten to do my timecard last week and didn’t get paid this week, so the charges that the thieves tried to make got declined since I only had about $100 in my account and they were trying to charge over $700 of stuff.
Is it wrong that I’m really enjoying the picture of these credit card thieves standing at the Macys counter being told, “Sorry, ma’am, but your card has been declined for insufficient funds”? But they probably had a backup card on some other poor sucker’s account anyway.
Short version: my financial irresponsibility finally paid off!
goblue72
That would be the Right Reverend Sho Nuff.
asiangrrlMN
Preach it, brother! NC denizens – vote for love and for the constitution tomorrow. Vote AGAINST Amendment One.
MikeJ
@Mnemosyne: Sorry, Yutsy and I were on a spree today.
Redleg
Amen to that!
psycholinguist
Just when you are ready to write off an entire state as nothing but dumb ass backwards crackers, along comes a person like this. That dude is badazz.
boss bitch
Fantastic!
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@psycholinguist: And here’s the thing – EVERY state has people like that, and as such are worth fighting for. The Right Rev makes me proud. No on 1!
gloryb
Wow, he was all kinds of awesome!!
Grover Gardner
I want to go to that man’s church!
Ruckus
@Grover Gardner:
I don’t care to go to his church, but I really, really do like what he said. I really like the way he said it. I like that he called out the assholes who support and wrote crap like this.
@psycholinguist:
I get the ready to write off entire states but as you can see that would be wrong. We need more people like this gentleman who will speak up reasonably, truthful. And we need them everywhere. Dr. King was right, the only way to win is to be better than those who oppress, not to be equal to them.
asiangrrlMN
I have more hope that Amendment One will be defeated in NC than it will be in my own state in November. I have heard from my NC peeps that NC is more progressive than it gets credit for, and if Amendment One gets defeated tomorrow, I will readily believe it.
Merp
Gotdamn that guy makes me proud to be an American. At the same time the necessity of his speech makes me ashamed to be same.
BillinGlendaleCA
@asiangrrlMN:
Having lived through, drinking helped alot, the prop H8 ad blitz here in Ca; I do feel for y’all this year up in MN. It was truely the most sleezy political ad campaign I’ve ever seen. This includes Nixon’s re-election, I’m old.
gumbo
Unfortunately, it looks like Amendment 1 is going to pass here, despite valiant efforts to get out the vote in the liberal enclaves of the state. The conservative churches have been doing all kinds of hate-mongering to get their members out en masse, and there are still more of them than us at this point in time. In fact, one of the co-sponsors of the amendment will tell you that – we’re putting this on the ballot now because we know it won’t be passable 10 years from now. Creeps.
The really sad thing is, as the Reverend mentioned, when people understand the true scope of the law, they reject it by good margins. The right wing (with an assist from the clueless media) has done a good job of clouding the issue and making it seem like a vote for or against traditional marriage. And what good North Carolinian could be against marriage, amirite?
Ohio_Cane
That gave me goosebumps.
Why can’t the Rev get on national TV? His gravitas is palpable.
NancyDarling
@Ohio_Cane: I just read on another blog that he is on CNN or was. It is today, but I’m not sure of the time.
NancyDarling
@Ohio_Cane: The video was on O’Donnell’s The Last Word yesterday.