BloggeRhythms

A major news story reports that yesterday  Arizona’s Governor, Jan Brewer, vetoed a controversial bill that would have allowed religious beliefs as a defense for denying service to gays and others.

 

After spending several days considering the bill, she decided “it had the potential to create more problems than it purports to solve. It could divide Arizona in ways we cannot even imagine and no one would ever want."

 

From my point of view, I never understood the controversy in the first place whereas, unless they had some kind of purposeful agenda, no rational people would patronize a place making them uncomfortable at all. There are thousands of other alternatives available.

 

I also don’t really understand why others preferences matter to people. As long as they mind their own business and leave me alone, I couldn’t care less if people made love to fire plugs, tree stumps or Martians. And in many cases, perhaps for a lot of bow-wows, same sex partnerships are the best they can do for themselves. From what I see, not  a lot of gay guys are going to make it with Maxim cover girls.

 

But then the whole subject got me to thinking about how large the gay population really is to make such an impact, so I looked it up and found in Wikipedia that:

 

“According to a Williams Institute review conducted in April 2011, approximately 3.8% of American adults identify themselves either as lesbian or gay (1.70%), bisexual (1.80%), or transgender (0.30%); which would correspond to approximately 9 million of adult Americans as of the 2010 Census. However, a measurable higher percentage acknowledge having same-sex attraction, or experience, without identifying as LGB. This makes it difficult to accurately record the demographics of LGBT people in the U.S. Though, studies from various nations, including the U.S., covering varying time periods and age groupings have produced a consistent range 1.20–5.60% of the adult population.”

 

Therefore, if you take the higher number, 5.6% of the population, that means that 94.4% of people have absolutely nothing to do with the subject at all, yet it makes national headlines and leads in much of the news. So, I guess in conclusion you can say that for a small group focused solely on self-interest, they make one hell of a lot of noise.

 

And then there was an update on Bill Clinton's wife.

 

“Politico reported this week that records from the Clinton White House held at the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Ark., are still being kept hidden from the public despite their processed status and the expiration more than a year ago of the legal reasoning for withholding the documents.

 

Politico reports that about 33,000 pages of documents have not been released, citing the National Archives, which runs the library.”

 

However, “In 2004, then-Sen. Hillary Clinton said that records at the Clinton Library would actually be available earlier than legally required. Clinton said the library would be about “openness” where people can “come and really study,” adding “everything’s going to be available.”

 

But now that she’s almost certainly running for president, the boss’s wife apparently has second thoughts about the record’s contents indicated by her strong desire to keep them secret. Which means that if old age doesn’t get her, perhaps her shady history will.

 

A short interview with Larry King provides more details. Here’s a link from Drudge: FLASHBACK- Hillary promised open library

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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