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Yes, he’s a conservative guy who beats people down for sport. He’s the best and he’s the champ but in a liberal area of LA, and especially in the mid LA area, he’s outnumbered by gays and lesbians. His anti Gay Marriage quotes aren’t helping him at all. It’s said that he quoted a passage from the Bible that allegedly says, “gays should be put to death.” He’s evidently banned from a shopping mall – The Grove. He can’t buy the new IPhone there. As a politician, you’d think he’d know better, but evidently not.
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Norman Mineta to receive Distinguished Medal of Honor for Lifetime Achievement and Public Service – the highest honor by the Japanese American National Museum. Frankly, I didn’t know there was such an honor or that there’s higher honors and lower honors, but this is great. For a lot of you, you have no idea who this man is. He’s not in a sex video. He didn’t make a movie or sculpt a vinyl figure. He’s retired but was once the Secretary of Transportation. The single most known incident, he ordered planes to land during 9.11. Aside from that, he worked his ass off for incarcerated Japanese Americans and the San Jose airport? It’s in his name. Check it out. That’s him at the Giant Robot Biennale 2 with myself, David Choe and Albert Reyes. Norman Mineta likes art. We’ll be doing Biennale 3 coming up in September. Norman, you better be there. (Rafu – Norman Mineta)
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Can’t keep her down. She wins a seat in Parliament. The main quote to know: “Asked where she would place Myanmar’s democracy on a scale of one to 10, Suu Kyi said, “We’re trying to get to one.”” (CNN - Aung San Suu Kyi)
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C’mon, Chinese people! Notebook purchased in the People’s Republic. (Thanks, Bryan Ong!)
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From 60 years ago, you hardly hear of the good in Japanese American concentration camps. Yes, there are pockets of smiles here and there. A way of life had to get established since they were behind fences and guns. Gardens, farming, making crafts, baseball, you hear of it all. The legacy sort of lives via the art and the photographs. This article points out Ralph L Carr, the Governor of Colorado who fought for the Japanese Americans. Yes, they still got imprisoned. He served only one term perhaps for his opinions. (American Thinker – Ralph L Carr) Ralph Carr has a memorial in a spot that look super barren.
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