Mark Leno

Quite different than being stranded on a train in the middle of the night in the middle of the forest while waiting for delivery of a new locomotive - there is much more room on the train, and one can walk around at least, even in transit. I love trains!

Thank you senator leno for all your heard work.

love the smoking santa...happy gay hoilidaze

Cafe Hairdo! I've always liked it- notice my current profile pic.

I guess he is in good company.

so cool, absolutely MILK needs to be remembered forever!

They could put dozens of unemployed IT people to work by writing a new computer system that can properly cut the unemployment checks...!

A deceptive political strategy of the GOP ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

that is why we elect them

Kind of amazing how all those with 100% are legislators I really like. Mark Leno has some pretty big stuff ahead of him. Congrats and MANY thanks!!!

Average the populations of the 50 states, create more states with approximately the population of the average. Make 3 states of CA, two of TX FL and NY etc! California should never come in as one state!

I would love to see 2/3 off the table. It makes taking the state hostage all to easy. We must always protect the minority interest and its ability to participate in ruling. We are not a winner take all system. However, we have all suffered from the current system. Down with 2/3!!

Couldn't agree more!

Let us know what we need to do Mark.

@Al: I wouldn't blame this all on Republicans, they may be heartless, but is our federal SPINELESS Democratic leadership any better (health care, DOMA, DADT, Afghanistan, Iraq, bailouts, ...)?

Wow! Kinda like Jebus!

American Graffiti. San Rafael High, 4th st; that one belongs in a hall of fame.

umm yaah--i bet prop 8 would not have passed if Harvey and all the other wonderful Gay men we lost were still alive!

Bravo! about time

I was a passenger in veteran medical marijuana activist Ryan Landers' vehicle as we passed the fundamentalists' protests outside of the museum tonight, on the way from a Sacramento City Council meeting to dinner. Needless to say, neither of us were amused.

Outside of the Capitol, Sacramento has sadly witnessed a flurry of anti-gay activity in recent years. As the Southern Poverty Law Center noted in a 2007 report:

A growing and ferocious anti-gay movement in the Sacramento Valley is centered among Russian- and Ukrainian-speaking immigrants. Many of them are members of an international extremist anti-gay movement whose adherents call themselves the Watchmen on the Walls. In Latvia, the Watchmen are popular among Christian fundamentalists and ethnic Russians, and are known for presiding over anti-gay rallies where gays and lesbians are pelted with bags of excrement. In the Western U.S., the Watchmen have a following among Russian-speaking evangelicals from the former Soviet Union. Members are increasingly active in several cities long known as gay-friendly enclaves, including Sacramento, Seattle and Portland, Ore.... See More

Vlad Kusakin, the host of a Russian-language anti-gay radio show in Sacramento and the publisher of a Russian-language newspaper in Seattle, told The Seattle Times in January that God has "made an injection" of high numbers of anti-gay Slavic evangelicals into traditionally liberal West Coast cities. "In those places where the disease is progressing, God made a divine penicillin," Kusakin said.

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1422

As World AIDS
Day ends, and as President Obama finally "clarifies" his escalation
strategy for Afghanistan, I am struck by the horriffic irony:

Since... See More
9-11, the US has officially appropriated over $900 BILLION for the wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan, compared to much less than $250 BILLION
(current federally requested rate ...of... about $25 billion annually) for the fight against HIV/AIDS during the same period.

Riddle
me this: Which global enemy: HIV or Al Queda, is the larger threat and
deserving of the greater funding to fight? Here's a hint; per this
perhaps outdated table, for year 2002 ==> HIV accounted for 4.87% of
all deaths, vs. 0.3% caused by "war". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rate

The 9-11 Twin Towers death toll of 3000 is incomparable to the 2 MILLION annual deaths attributable to AIDS. Where are our priorities???

http://www.avert.org/worldstats.htmhttp://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33110.pdf

http://www.kff.org/hivaids/upload/7029-05.pdf