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My Voting Guide for May 2016 - Part 1, Federal Seats

Once again, it's time to write about our upcoming races! Long list of candidates to look over, let's get this show on the road! Federal Seats For United States Senate Mary Kay Bacallo http://lionsandeagles.blogspot.com/2012/10/my-voting-guide-for-november-2012-part-2.html http://www.marykaybacallao.com Served on Fayette County school board. Also ran for State School Superintendent. Has spoken out often against Federal over-regulation particularly in Education. Has been particularly outspoken against Isakson. Derrick Grayson http://www.grayson2016.com Don't see much on his website about his background Has several issue positions I like, but I am worried about his opposition to Citizens United. Johnny Isakson (Incumbent) Basic party guy In this race, Mary Kay Bacallo gets my vote. I see where she’s coming from, why she’s running, and I approve. She is a local/state education person going to Washington, to get Washington out ...

About bathrooms

I am shaking my head that this is even an issue. The world really is going downhill. In a sensible world, people would be free to set sensible boundaries for whatever bathrooms are within their control, and decide for themselves how strictly to enforce those boundaries. If you have a shop, and you want to designate a single bathroom as "employees only", but you're willing to make an exception for the parent whose kid is doing the potty dance, that's cool. If you have a couple of single-stall bathrooms, and you put a "man-ish-shaped" sign on one and a "woman-ish-shaped" sign on the other, but you don't really care as long as people are being mature, that's cool too. Even if the signs aren't "enforced", I as a customer am generally going to follow them just because I think that's the sensible and courteous thing to do. And if a shop owner is going to be a jerk about it, well, I don't like to buy from jerks anyway. For ...